25 Ornaments Of Christmas 4

All right, so after a hellish day at work (about 105 pizzas, 25 subs, and lots of short tempers) I come home and colapsed on the couch. The computer decided that it was going to be picky and evil, so for about 2 hours I had to baby it through a few steps of rebuts and try to find where my crafty stuff went. Then I finally realized: I still have to make an ornament! -.- Crafgawker, here I come!

I found this wounferful tutorial on ow to make a woven paper ball. Just yesterday I had run out of work early in order to make it to Pamida to get cardstock and clear bulbs. Still not too sure what to do with the bulbs, but i think I'll figure it out sooner rather than later ;)

Anyway, back to the ball.

Sorry for the bad lighting, I didn't use the good camera because well I'm lazy and I grabbed the nearest one to me. I think I'm going to have to attempt this one again sometime. The Cheese Thief made some amazing videos and a really easy to follow tutorial. My ball, however, is rather deformed because 1. I cut paper that was WAAAAY too wide 2. Its almost 4 am and I'm really tierd and 3. My paitence is running rather thin and I dont feel like trying to figure this out AGAIN.

Anyway, I think I'm going to go colapse into bed. Night all!

So

My New Projects

Tis the season for overspending, undereating, long road trips, and snow. Oh, and decorations. Which is what brings me to this post

I have decided that for this year ( mostly because we're broke) I am going to craft the decorations for my tree. We got the tree itself from a little shop called the Treasure Chest for $4 and the previous tennents left a bunch of lights and decorations in the basement. I have utalized a bunch of them but I refuse to color code my tree in blue. So, as a result, the 25 days of Ornaments has been born.

Days 1, 2, and 3 are all smashed together.  So, without further adu, here we go.

1. My very first Sculpy project, Christmas Kitty. I used a whole block of black clay (well except for like 3 pieces) and got my idea from Youtube. I may attempt the actual tutorial for my next project, but for now I like it. For the most part it turned out well.

2.This was my second attempt with polymer clay, otherwise known as Sculpy. Mostly I just used remanents from the kitty and made a spiral. The white dyed itself pink-ish from my fingers but it turned out ok. This may be one that i might want to attempt later on with the proper tools, but for now it looks nice just where it is.

3. Last but not least, a lazy charm. I call it lazy because all I did was take some of the wool that I had laying around and made a yarn ball. I think it acutally looks really nice because of the color combos. I got the idea from this tutorial, which called for a Styrofoam core. I of course dont have any styrofoam, but I do have lots of yarn that I really dont mind using for a ball or two.

So there we have it, the first of many DIY  holiday ornaments. I'm going to try to post them every day, but if I miss a couple I dont think anyone will mind. Its not like anyone actually reads this thing anyway....(yeah, I'm feeling a bit down)

The End Is NEAR!

Ok, first off, this lady is HALARIOUS! http://blog.nataliedee.com/

Second, I have come out of hiding yet again to inform my readers that my yarny to-do list has been growing to the point where I dont know when i'll ever be able to finally finish these projects. So, I have decided that I am going to make a little 'To Crochet' List and put it up on here, see if anyone gives me any encouragment. Since I mostly spend my time at home sleeping or cleaning or being lazy (ok, a lot of sleeping and being lazy, not so much the cleaning part as of late) I figured I might as well put my time to some constructive use. And make yarn barf.

Working for the MAN!

Yep, its final, official, and awesome. I GOT A JOB! I am now a proud employee of Abby Vans, Inc. I work in the CSR department, taking phone calls from both clients and drivers, and I try to fix problems as they happen. It's only my 2nd week, but I love it and everybody seems to like me. So yeah. I just wanted to let anybody/everybody who reads my blog know that I am not a lozer I swear!

On the crafty side of things, I have been making Roses in the aftermath of Valentines day, on which I turned 20 years old. I have made over 4 dozen, and do you think I have even 1 to keep? Nooo. But thats ok, thats what crafters do :)

On the relationship side, I now have a boyfriend that actually spent valentines day with me, and his name is Tom. We spent the whole weekend before and the day of Valentines day togeather, at least before we had to go to our respective jobs. I care a lot about him and I think he cares a lot about me too, so I hope things work out between us.

As soon as I get a decent picture of my crafts and my boyfriend, I will post them, but for now, back to the grindstone!