Cuteness overload!

I do seem to have an obsession with making Firefly/Serenity related things lately. Part of this is probably related to the Big Damn Crafters monthly challenges, all of which are Firefly/Serenity related. Of course, I seem to be focusing on the characters that aren't related to the theme this month. :) The theme is Inara, and I'm making stuff based on the guys. I'm just having trouble thinking of something elegant enough for Inara that I could crochet. :)

Instead, I keep making cute things. Like this Jayne cupcake. Because I like making crocheted cupcakes, and I have this strange obsession with that hat of his. :) I thought about making cupcakes for other characters, but I think Kaylee might be the only other one who works, with two buns/cherries on top. :) Just can't see a Mal-cake or a Simon-cake. :) Seriously, how would you tell those apart, when rendered as a cupcake?!

More cute stuff (in the form of Decapitated Dollies) to appear in the near future. Only one of the cute things is actually kind of morbid. People finally talked me into a blood and guts version of a Decapitated Dollie. It's interesting. :)

Ah, inspiration!

One of the things I think I like best about joining up with street teams on Etsy is the inspiration that other members provide me. In this case, the one I have to thank is Siarh, from the Big Damn Crafters street team. It's a very new street team for Browncoats (fans of Firefly/Serenity, for the uninformed), and we're mostly just a social street team, designed to have some fun. :)

Siarh asked me if I could make her a Jayne hat, but she wanted it to be a bun cover, for a large bun. I gladly agreed, thinking how cute this would be. I also decided that what might be even cuter would be a PAIR of miniature Jayne hats, designed for when you wear your hair in two buns. Siarh didn't want earflaps on her larger one, but I had to put them on the tiny ones. They're totally non-functional, but totally cute. :)

Of course, with how long my hair is getting, I'm not sure that I can even wear the pair that I made for myself. :) But I'll try it one of these days. In the meantime, the pictured pair are available in my shop. And if they sell out, don't despair... I'll be making more of these. They are just too cute to not make more! :)

Whee!

TGIF and all that, though my day isn't over yet. I've got several things that could land on my desk at any moment, and a meeting at 2, and then off to Belltown to set up for the Punk Rock Flea Market. Then back home, to finish getting price tags on stuff, and finishing up one last bottlecap belt.

Last night, while Jerome was frantically scrambling to get a school project done, I was frantically going "do I have enough stuff? Is it gonna be too much to carry?" There's a fine line between the two when you're taking the bus to a show, but I think I'm right on that line, which is a good thing. I'm gonna try to draw up a custom order form tonight (if I have time), and otherwise just try to convince people to go check out my Etsy shop if I don't have what they're looking for. Tomorrow is the last day I'm taking custom orders for holiday gifts, though I'm crossing my fingers that I will get any of those. :)

Gotta start on another Jayne hat though, because the one in my shop sold right after I finished my breakfast this morning. I wanted to take it with me to the show tomorrow, but ah well. I'm happy to have sold another one. (That's 2 this month, and 4 in the past year, just on Etsy. I think I sold 2 more off Etsy. :) )

Sunday is going to be spend taking a LOT of photos of new stuff and retakes of old stuff. I think Nadia is gonna start earning her keep. :) Mostly, I'm just hoping that she's a size 6 1/2 for shoes, because I have a pair of boots that might keep her standing up for me. :)

Holding pattern

Well, I finished the last of my articles last night, and got those submitted. I still have some articles to write for Shop Etsy, but I've been taking a break on those. If all goes well, I might write a couple tomorrow night, but we shall see.

Right now, I'm mostly just settling into a holding pattern. I don't have anything super pressing on my agenda outside of work, so I'm just sort of enjoying the calm before the inevitable storm. Because there's always a storm... sometimes it's just lurking on the horizon. :)

So yeah, I know there's craziness coming, it's just not in my immediate field of vision. I can see it on my calendar, though, and I somehow don't even think that covers everything...


Tonight: helping Jerome with papers and trying to clean the living room (the latter is fairly futile, I think).
Tomorrow: writing, potentially
Thursday: probably crafting and watching movies
Friday: more of the same

If I'm lucky, Saturday will be my day to run over to Bellevue to the big JoAnn's. There are two colors of yarn that I MUST find soon, as I'm almost out of both, and it's the two main colors of my most popular hat. (I've sold 3 on Etsy, and many more off Etsy.) I've got some backup plans in case I can't find it there, but if they do have it, I'm buying like 4 skeins of each color. Maybe more... :)

Any official craziness can wait until Sunday, thankyouverymuch.

No real additional crafting news, other than the facts that a) I have found the yarns I need to buy to make the best version of Jayne's hat yet; b) I made Bryce a hat with flames on it, and it almost looked like flames; and c) I have my next project lined up: a purple Sherlock Holmes hat for Clint.

And Jesi is gonna pay me to make her a comforter for when she moves in with me. We have to go fabric shopping at some point. And then it'll be some work... though maybe I could machine quilt, if I get a good enough machine... hmmm... this is something to ponder...

At any rate, it's nice to be to the point in the year where I can pretty much just make whatever, and no big rush. Of course, this makes me come up with all sorts of ideas. And I also have not a lot of time to do all of these ideas. But that's the way it usually works... get really busy, and you have far more things that you want to be doing than you have time for.

In other news, I think my LaunchCast just locked up. But that wasn't the original other news...

So in other other news, I think I have a plan for tonight. I think this plan is a good one. We'll see how much of the plan gets done. Muhahahah...
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Got one crochet project done last night, and another one started. The finished project is kinda a sekrit surprise, so no details here. The other one I started is the Jayne hat, from Firefly. I'm not 100% pleased with the pattern I'm using, so I'll be looking for a new one, but it is turning out decently well. Of course, the original is a knitted hat with earflaps, and mine will be crocheted, but it'll work out okay, I think. Especially if I can find the right kind of pattern. Or I may be able to work up my own, based on the one I'm using presently.

I need to work on making some more Valentines for the craft fair, which I may do tonight, if I have some time. Supposed to be going to an OWBN workshop at Denny's, but my car wouldn't start this morning. I'm hoping it was just the cold affecting the battery, and that it'll start fine after work today. If not, I guess I'll be trying to find a way to get it over to the dealership in the morning, and let them tell me if it's the battery (my best guess) or the starter (god I hope not). At any rate, thank goodness for being under warranty... :)

Speaking of Valentines, yeah, I'm gonna hafta work on something else for that... I just don't have any good ideas at the moment. What do you give someone for Valentine's Day that is a little bit practical, but still handmade? If I can't come up with something fitting both of those criteria, I'm gonna go with practical but store-bought, because there is a limit to how many ultimately useless handmade objects you can give someone. Yeah, I know, the handmade stuff comes from the heart and all that, but seriously. I know there is a limit. :)

Hmmmm... something to ponder for a bit, I suppose...
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