Philosophia

I am in a state of cuteness-overload. Ever since I got into blythes, I convinced myself that was going to be my ONLY toy excess for the rest of my life. Somehow, I stumbled across Pipos this afternoon….

They still strike me as a little creepy, I’ve never been into anthro or anything - but there is something so unique and pretty about them!

Anyway, seeing that the prize tag is about 300, I’m pretty certain this will become one of those things I admire from a distance. (I forgot, did I say that about blythes too?)

Hm. I’m going to have fun tonight on Flickr + Pipos tag.

I should upload some more journal-y entries in the future, yes? I feel like a walking billboard. Actually, about two weeks ago, fairly interesting things happened to me (amongst them, making frontpage news here in Canberra, paying 200% for a cabfare, etc) but now that two weeks have passed, I can hardly write about them, can I?

Tomorrow, I’ll make sure something happens, even if I have to cause controversy and commit crime- just for the sake of preserving readers.

I realised I should update this space more often, before everyone forgets about me and stops checking this altogether. It’s not that nothing interesting has happened, it’s rather that too many interesting things have happened. Here is a sample:

• I had yum-cha on a dirty table
• I couldn’t find where the books were in a library
• I got into netball by dancing
• I ate ham and cheese croissants
• I bought burger erasers
• I have allies in Uno
• I have learnt Uno is all about alliances
• I realised that Uno without morals is like water without hydrogen
• I’m still bloated from Wednesday
• I smell nice
• I got a hair cut
• I feel like a boy from the back
• I may have made a new friend
• I nearly finished a crossword
• I’m not in my room
• I broke my nose
• I have to make a formal complaint against Kinder (or german children in general)
• I need to go shopping for kinder surprises
• I’m in a band called College Room Bondage - we’ve released four albums
• I actually had the beef for dinner
• I rewrote history
• I haven’t had a Golden Gaytime for 173 hours
• I rolled up the Sun
• I’m wearing boy pants
• I’m waiting in anticipation for something that is happening in six days
• I have a vicious streak
• I have white teeth under yellow light
• I have a smaller room than everyone else
• I adore Gregor
• I give joy in a tupperwear container
• I can’t spell words
• I fixed my nose, and made it Grecan
• I have a green ring, it’s not black
• I found a nice hot water bottle that likes science and dancing
• I got hit by a door, a bookshelf and Erin
• I got money from the government for being a good citizen
• I’m using that money to buy a blythe doll
• I stole things from the National Art Gallery
• I researched the wrong alternate universe
• I’m really cool
• I had a nice time in Sydney
• I had a better time in Glasgow
• I set fire to butter
• I have posters that hate me
• I couldn’t find the maths room, so I went home
• I cleaned my room for four hours
• I can’t dance
• I got crushed by an asian girl with pink glasses and boy hair
• I had no art history this week, which made me sad
• I got a message I need to send
• I never got to Oregon
• I have 6 new voicemail messages, which I still can’t access
• I had the breakfast of scholars
• I forgot to commit a crime
• I won a competition
• I started drinking a coffee
• I became a cheat
• I helped a man cross the road
• I found the Ring of Gyges
• I married Dionysos, and he turned me into a dolphin
• I can’t ride a bike
• I keep hanging on
• I forgot to stalk the Tropfest film director
• I forgot to stalk Adrian Deutsch’s family
• I fought a bear, and won

And this is only a sample.

Today I got out the sewing machine from the storage cabinet. I usually hand stitch, which I have been told many times by numerous people is all good for giving whatever I make a “personal” touch but is also a waste of unnecessary time. So, in order to save some time (which now that I think about it isn’t really that precious to me during my holiday period anyway) I decided to make some overalls for Molly using the machine.

It took me about 1 hour to work out how to thread it, and when I finally did I realised to my dismay I had threaded the wrong colour. After coming across numerous mishaps like this, I was finally on my way! (By this time it was already noon).

However, what I hadn’t counted on was the fact that since I was basically making clothes 1/12th the size of adult clothes, it was pretty much impossible for me to use the chunky sewing machine. I probably wasted more time unpicking what I had done and redoing it than I would have normally by hand stitch. In the end I did end up handstitching the majority of it anyway.

Anyway, enough babble about that, here are some pictures:

I really like Molly in overalls, it brings out her farmgirl-ish look. If only I could weave, and make a straw hat to complete the look!

The little bird in the second picture was another one of the patterns I followed from Puchi collective. I finished it about 3 days ago but was waiting for a day with good natural sunlight before I took some pictures:

Once again, for more of these pictures, you can go to my Flickr account . Thanks for looking, and sorry about the excess of craft entries lately!

First off, I hope none of you mind the excessive amounts of large jpegs I have uploaded in the past couple of days. What I intended to be a “life” blog has become a craft blog overnight, so for that I apologise! I’m sure that as soon as I get off to uni, I will become have less time, and you will have more broadband! (or bandwidth, or whatever that technical computer term is).

Anyway, so today I followed a pattern I found on Puchi Collective and made a cat for my Blythe doll, Molly. This one didn’t take me that long, because I worked out that if I used pipe cleaners instead of electrical wires, I can make bendable limbs that much easier! Aaah the things you learn. With a little help, I’ve decided to name her Peta.

Some of you may not have seen Molly yet, so these photos include some of her as well.

I’ve realised that if I continue uploading pictures at this rate, I will fast exceed my limit on WordPress. Therefore I have taken the liberty to establish a Photobucket account for direct links to images, and also a Flickr account for sharing photos. If you go to the Flickr account and go to the plushies set, there are two more pictures of Peta and Molly.

Up next…. an octopus plushie!

I spent today (and most of yesterday night) making a Katamari Prince plushie from scratch. I’ve only played the video game a little bit, but I just adore the character designs and couldn’t resist! I didn’t have a pattern, so it was a lot of experimenting and a lot of frustration. It was also the first plushie I made with WIRE arms, so I can position and bend his legs and arms. YAY! He’s actually very small, because my felt squares don’t come in very large sizes. Nonetheless I still spent about 7 hours in total making him!

I took him out to the garden this afternoon, because it was such a nice day out.

Well that’s all from me for now. Thanks for looking!

Today I went to Yvet’s house to make plushies.

Meet Frankly and Owlnold!

I made the weird looking purple thing on the right. Yvet made the owl on the left which she was nice enough to give me. (Rather, I forced asked her to give it to me because it was so cute). We got the patterns from Softies , this book I got from Kino the other week.

Here’s a closer look at Frankly!

I think he’s feeling a little glum because everyone says he has the measles, or chickenpox, or bad acne.