Day 3: Favourite food!

I got lazy. I admit it. But hey, I do love candy. Yum

Not much else to say about to say about that!

CANDY!

-Ariane

Challenge Day 2: Favourite animal!

This is a cat. Specifically, my boyfriend's cat.

He is morbidly obese and wears a top hat. And no, I am not even joking, here:

OKAY. So MAYBE I had my boyfriend photoshop a top hat on him! But I swear, he is that fat. He's the most cutest piece of kitty happiness I know though! He loves my things. He always sits on my shoes! I don't know what it is with my feet, but he's used to me by now so I'm pretty sure he's not trying to mark his scent on them by rubbing his face. BUT HE LOVES MY SHOES AND OTHER THINGS.

Dangit, Mr Thomas! I need to get home!!!!

So yeah. Boyfriend's cat is awesome. And huuuuuge! KITTY!

-Ariane

30 day drawing challenge! This is day 1: self-portrait! My hair is real short, you see I shaved it off at the Relay for Life. I understand now that being a cancer patient must seriously undermine one's self-esteem if one isn't used to weird stares from angry old ladies (seriously, they're always mad at me!).

I've started it a few days back, but I didn't really think of blogging it! So I guess I will! So I signed my name on this one, but not on the others...because apparently I think this one's worth something and the others aren't? I don't know XD

However, overall I'm pretty happy with this drawing, it actually really looks like me doing that scary face. That face says I munna getchu. I munna getchu, folks. Haha. Okay, no, not really. Please don't sue.

I've been watching a lot of OOG. Double oh gee. Yeah. You know the stuff. I've been ridiculously late on all the Mindcrack things going on. I know everyone playing and I know what they look like, but finding the time to listen to them...oof. Thing is, I am more of a visual person, so it's distracting to not look at the screen, and I don't get what's going on. DANGIT.

Maybe I'll start a let's play too. Have some sort of crazy thing going on. Probably a build world. Heheheheheheheh.

Anyways, I'll let you all know if I do decide to do it!

See y'all

Ariane!

Creeper guy and Enderman!

And then solo:

Tah-dah! Like 'em? Tell me what you think!

New little project of mine.

Hello, everyone! I have started making these pouches for friends, but today I made two random ones. And, I guess I'll share them with you:

Here they all, the little cuties! Tell me what you think about them, and which Pokémon you'd like to see next! (I shoulda made a Charmander too...but I lacked orange :(  )

Sailor Dark Side of the Moon

There she is! I am done with this one! What do ya think? Yeah, I know my shading could use TONS of work...and that it's very immature-looking, but hey good news: I fixed my tablet!

The settings were off, and it was in a really weird place that I wouldn't think of checking. So hopefully my stuff gets better!

But yeah, there she is. I hope y'all like it! I'll create fellow Senshi for her!

Toodles!

-Val

Phone pouch!

Hello all! I haven't been acting on my New Year's resolution at all...Sorry!

Let me make it up to you with my first actual awesome tutorial! Yay!!

Soooo. As mentioned in the title, I will teach you all how to make a pouch for your phone. It's really simple, you'll see. Here's what you will need:

-About a square foot of cotton
-The same amount of felt
-Matching thread
-Basic sewing supplies (scissors, needles, etc.)

First and foremost, measure out your phone. I am making this pouch for someone else, so I'll be using my ID instead.

Her phone was about 1 and 1/2 of my ID's height, and a little bit wider, so I am giving myself a big seam allowance. Also, you want the cotton part to be a little bit bigger, so don't be afraid to cut your pieces about an inch bigger than it needs to be.

Cut this piece x 2.

Afterwards, take one of those pieces and pin it to the fabric about an inch from the edge.

Then, cut a semi-circle. That will be the flap.

Ok. You've got your outside part. Now, pin one of the rectangular pieces to the felt and cut it. Then cut half an inch off of one side like so:

Cut 2 of those.

Afterwards, pin the semicircle onto the felt and make a smaller version of it!

Alright. Now, let's start sewing!

Take one piece of the cotton and one of the felt, pin them together RIGHT sides (aka the side that will be outside) facing each other and start sewing! I'm sewing mine by hand

Leave a significant strip of fabric on one of the short ends. You'll see why.

There we go! Ok, now fold over that little flap and slip stitch (sew into the folded bit) the piece shut!

Do both rectangles, and it will look like this:

Beautiful! Ok, now let's sew our flap on: Pin the cotton and felt together, again RIGHT sides facing each other!

Then let's sew it together (don't worry about the bottom part):

Let's pin those two rectangles together now!

Now sew them together. Please leave about an inch on either side! Then, pin the flap RIGHT sides together and sew like this:

Nearly done! You can either cut a hole for a button into the flap, or you can do what I did. So far, it should look like this:

Ok, what I did is this: I put a knot at the ends of 3 pieces of embroidery floss and sewed them into the flap, then I braided them like so:

Then  I sewed a little piece of fabric I folded in the shape of a marshmallow onto the pouch itself...

And tah-dah! Phone pouch!

The friend I made this for loved it! I tried it on a couple phones, including my tiny LG Rumour and my friend's big Blackberry, so if you keep to my method of using my student ID (any plastic card thing would do I presume), you should be able to fit pretty much any phone into it! Yay!

Let me know what you think :)