**

08:58 pm - So long, farewell.

Announcement:

This journal is effectively closing, though I won’t be deleting it. It has been fun, but for many reasons I've never quite accomplished what I wanted to here. C’est la vie.

I shall continue knit/crochet/sew/craftblogging at corvustristis, though hopefully it will be a totally different venture. I know I could have just bought a name change token and tried to revive things here but I wanted to start fresh, whilst still keeping the lessons learned from my sporadic play at cheshiretiger in mind and accessible for reference purposes.

Join me at the new blog, if you’d like. I'll even say please. I’ve got a whole new game plan for my approach to craft blogging (the biggest change is my plan to post three or four times a week as versus three or four a year), and it should be interesting and hopefully fun.

Current Mood: thoughtful

02:56 pm - Cluster Necklaces.

I posted the original necklace/earring set in this style quite some time ago, but I'll stick a picture in here for reference. Made of Amythest and something that starts with a C.

Current Mood: happy

06:34 am - Here an earring, there an earring...

Current Mood: sleepy

08:44 pm - More bottle-y goodness.

And again!

Current Mood: bouncy

09:43 pm - More shinies!

I also snapped some better pictures of my bottlecap necklace stash, for to post them to my little store. Unfortunately, Jairo's camera died before I could get more than three shots. Still, it's pretty, no?

Current Mood: chipper

09:27 pm - Misson: Shiny

Current Mood: bouncy

12:39 pm - Status

Okay. So.

Remember that wonderful boyfriend Scott I've mentioned in a few entries? Well, he dumped me in February, and with him went my access to a camera that can do macro shots (indeed, to a camera that works at all- mine is dead in the water). Also, one of my kitties died in December (god I miss her) and some family members kicked the bucket at other points of time this last semester. Basically, times have been bad.

Ergo, no pictures to post, and no other updates for a long time. Boo hoo. I'm contemplating borrowing one of my roomate's cameras to get back into the game, but we'll see.

Until then, I thought I'd let you know that I've been playing with this Wist thing. I've got a personal wist of greed, of course, but that's not all.

I made two other wists that gather togeher the knitting/crochet patterns (both free and for money) that I like and the sewing patterns (including the big companies, but also with lots of small independant stuff) and tutorials that I like. If you're bored and want to find some new patterns on the internet, give it a look. If, after looking through the deluge of links I've got (the knitting wist currently stands at 256), you think I've missed a cool corner of the internet, let me know. If you find something you like then good, and if you think my taste sucks that's fine too.

So, here they are: Knitting/Crochet and Sewing.

Judging by the "latest items" link, there are a bunch of people assembling crafty wists, so that might be cool too. I'm contemplating putting together another one, either jewelry specific or just for all the cool tutorials and crafts I find that don't fall under knitting, crochet or sewing. We'll see.

And fyi, I'm doing fine now. New apartment, summer, and I've still got my big fluffy Tigger cat. Also, my muse has recovered incredibly from a relative slouch the last two years.

ETA: Okay, I'm weak. I've started a crafting Wist too.

Current Mood: calm

07:28 pm - Amythest and Something-Or-Other

( A matching set. )

Current Mood: blah

05:25 pm - A few free minutes with the pen tool...

Current Mood: nerdy

09:28 am - More Bottlecap Necklaces

( Pop n' Fizz. )

Current Mood: calm

10:20 pm - A quick bracelet and the first of a line of bottlecap necklaces.

( SummerBug. )



( I don't drink the stuff, but the vintage caps enthrall me. )

Current Mood: blah

06:31 am - Repost 'cause I like it.

More pictures of this necklace, because I like it and because I needed and still need practice photographing this sort of stuff.

( Play it again. )

Current Mood: sleepy

08:49 am - Scritch scritch scritch.

One of my more irksome lamets about coming to college is how my artistic abilities have slacked off. Whether this is a result of the college workload, of discovering a number of other artistic-type pursuits, or of my own laziness I don't know, but where I used to fill two or three sketchbooks a year and show significant improvement in artistic abilities across each book, it has taken me two and a half years to fill up the last one, and I can't see any notable change in my ability.

Still, I finally filled it, and cracked open a new one. Granted, most everything I've been drawing lately have been my attempts at simple lineart for embroidery patterns (as I've decided to try and put together an embroidery zine over the winter break; I shall post details soon, for I am seeking submissions so that it isn't just me being boring), but it's still drawing.

I'm horrible at simple line art. I can do the stencil-style thing for small pieces (like the picture below), but eventually my muse pulls out a gun, presses it to the back of my skull, and screams "You're killing me with boredom here! Add some fucking detail or you'll never draw again!"

On the topic, here's a piece from that old sketchbook that took two and a half years to fill.

Current Mood: awake

08:37 am - Swarovski Crystal Choker

( Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. )

Current Mood: stressed

07:34 am - The Bacchanal

( ''There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,' said Spider. 'These things are wine, women, and song.'' )

Current Mood: grumpy

07:26 am - Sugarsugarsugar!

Every year, I make Halloween cookies. These are last year's.

( These are this year's. )

Current Mood: discontent

03:26 pm - Knitty's Suki

( Grade A Kitty Holder* )

Current Mood: calm

10:20 am - I want a new camera.

Current Mood: blah

07:39 am - Mini-fans

( Dangles. )

Current Mood: sleepy

08:17 pm - The Earring Dump.

( Baubles. )

Current Mood: lazy