some letter beads.

i found a bunch of letter beads in my crafting stuff awhile ago.

i was super into making hemp necklaces and bracelets a few years ago, so i had all sorts of beads to decorate with.  i think i gave mandy the actual beads to use for hair bows or something, but i apparently stashed the letters away for myself.

last time i was at home, mandy made me a hipster string bracelet.  you know the kind.  we all made them when we were little and it was the greatest gift to get from a friend because they took so long to make, and then you tied it on and wore it till it rotted off.

(i haven't taken mine off yet.  it's still strong and it smells like my shampoo.)

so i was going to make me a cool one with a word to wear with it, it's really thin and i just like things a little more chunky.  i was going to go with my name, but i already have a necklace with my name and i don't want to broadcast myself to potential kidnappers any more than i already am.

i decided i wanted to make a pink bracelet that says 'cochina'.

i had to look it up to spell it, and oh the things i found.

my dad calls all of us cochina.  if me, mandy and bug are all in the same room and he yells 'hey, cochina!' we will all hop up to see what he wants.  and it means what i knew it meant, but i didn't know people used it so meanly!

a cochina is a pig, specifically a girl pig.  which i can see how you use it badly, and when we were old enough to ask dad what it meant, we were a little offended.  but cochina is actually a term of endearment for little girls because when they're born they're small and pink just like little piglets.  and i don't mind being called one, but then again, it's only my daddy, so it's cool.

but now i don't know if i should make it, since i do live in a largely mexican community and i don't want them to think i'm really weird!

but while i think it over, here's some cutie cochinas for you.

peace.

easter stuffs blog!

so i freakin' love easter.  especially decorating for easter!

for those of you who don't know, i moved out of my parents house around this time last year, and the first time i went back (which was only a week later) my mom had packed me some of her easter decorations that she didn't use anymore so that i would be able to decorate my own little space for easter.  

decorating has become one of my favorite things to do!  since i don't have a whole lot of room i have a few designated areas that i reuse for decorating (there the same spots i used for christmas), i just take down the usual stuff (a whole bunch of owls!) and put up the nice holiday things.  it's a nice little system for my small collection of decorations.

so here's a look at my lovely hand-me-down easter house!

a handmade easter wreath from my mommy.

this is my stuffed animal stool.  for christmas it's a bear,
for easter it's this big sheep i got from my mommy.

more sheep from various locations, a cadbury bunny that
makes bunny sounds and bunch of little knick knacks my
mom has had forever!

another mommy wreath.

close up of the sheep.  the black on is from chris, the white one from
my mum.

so many bunnies in my little bunny village!

along with some of my cute owls.

my cute owls live with the bunnies in the bunny village.

love this little vase, wish i had something to put in it!

a bunny dish.

bug gave me those little owls.  they can't go in the shop but it's
all good.  giant owl mom and pop guardians.

chick in egg banner.

floppy easter hat banner (she looks like an old lady bunny
and i love it!)

my mommy made this for me this year!  it's full of easter
candy (not for eating, though)!

one more homemade mommy wreath.

a cupcake stand and a bunny in pants.  this stand has never
had cupcakes, usually it has oranges on it!

it's a little mismatched and funky, but i love it!  maybe i'll get some new easter stuff this year to fill it up some more!

peace.

a drama baby blog.

i just had to share this story with you guys, cuz my little bugglette is the biggest drama queen i know.

so, if you happened to read my blog over at bugglette's about bug's episode of craft rage you have a setting for this story.  i mentioned we had to find her some glue to use on her foam polar bear kit.  well, she was looking for her glue stick, which she had loaned to chris the night before when he was gluing some game pieces together.

in bug's exact words:  'chris left the lid off and when i found it it was all dried up so i threw it away!!'

well, while in my room today, next to the game pieces chris was working on, was a perfectly fine, lidded glue stick that wasn't there before (considering i don't own any glue at all, i also borrow bug's school supplies).  the same one bug had let him use.  he had picked it up with all his stuff when he brought it back to my room.  :P

my little drama queen, instead of just saying that she couldn't find it, told a whole story about how chris had ruined her glue stick.

i told mom and we both had a laugh about it.

peace.

finally new buttons blog!

sorry it's taken forever!  but here are three new button bracelets.  :D

a brown and blue.  not a color scheme i would personally wear, but a lot of people do like it.  so yeah.

back side.  

slytherin colors!  hogwarts pride!

i wish i could charge extra for this one just because it pissed me off so much.  D:<

gryffindor colors!  more hogwarts pride!

i think this one is my favorite of the three.

and just so you don't think we are so slow at making these, we have made more than three since the last post,  but i only post the ones that i made to my blog.  i think mandy has made about three, too.

i have another half finished bracelet in the button box.  apparently i was working in very poor lighting, and chris kindly pointed out that some of the buttons i picked out that i thought were black (for my lovely black and gold bracelet) were actually blue.  so i have to pull about four blue buttons off the bracelet, go back over any other buttons that may have been connected to the offending blue button, and replace it with something else.

basically it pissed me off.  so i threw it in the button box and have been ignoring it for about two days.  so yeah.

we have about nine bracelets strictly for our inventory, once we get to twenty we plan to start selling, probably in the fifteen to twenty dollar range.  any opinions?

peace.

more buttons blog!

most of these are for our 'inventory'.  but i thought i'd share some more of my button-y handiwork!

look how tiny!  this one i made for bug today.  the picture is kinda crappy, but it's got a few teddy bears on it.

bug wearin' her new bracelet.

i made bugs little bracelet in the image of this one, which was supposed to go in our 'inventory' (this one was named 'strawberries and cream'), but it was so pretty i decided to keep it!  i'll recreate it later though, i think mandy may even have ordered some actual strawberry buttons today anyway.

for our 'inventory'.  mandy named if 'mocha frappe'.

finished my work in progress from last night.  mandy didn't think it'd be very cool, but i knew it'd be super cute!  it's supposed to be lady bugs in the grass and the yellow buttons are the flowers. . . 

i get it.  and that's all that matters.

peace.

a blog of buttons!

literally spent all day making button bracelets.  i just took a shower about half an hour ago (about 9:00 pm, maybe a little earlier).  just wanted to show you some of them so i don't crowd up my facebook with pictures of buttons.  :3

this bracelet is made out of really old buttons.  they all came from my grandpas shirts and some were even collected by my great grandmother.  i'm glad we finally found a use for them instead of just letting them sit around.  only about 5 buttons on this bracelet are new.

i'm sending this one to a friend who may or may not read this blog so it may or may not be a surprise!  she's having her first baby and the room is done in teal and purple.  it's so awesome!  when i saw how many of these colors we had i couldn't not make one!  

the big teal button!

a cluster of little buttons and two little purple hearts!  i really like this one!  :D

yes, these are really ugly on the inside if you use colored thread.  this is my night sky bracelet to use up the last couple of star beads i had left.

i think it's pretty cool, anyway.

oh and also you can wear them!  i've been so busy sewing them i kinda forgot about them being, ya know, fashion accessories and not just piles and piles of buttons.

also, the word 'button' sounds really funny to me now.  i bet i've said button a million times today.  for realsies.

peace.

a crafty blog.

since i'm still training at spencer's and also waiting to hear back from some other places i put applications in at the mall, i've had a few days of free time (and a few more to come!), so i've been doing a lot of creative crafty things to fill my empty days.

first is the knives scarf i mentioned a few posts back. i had actually made pieces of it that i was going to sew together at the end, and i had made them really wide since i figured i'm a big girl and i need a big scarf. well, those pieces were really heavy and since i wanted this scarf to hit over 100 inches, i figured it wasn't very practical. so i unraveled those pieces and started a skinny scarf. it's about half the width of the first pieces i made and more true to the style in the movie. i'm already at 55 inches, but i ran out of black in the middle of a segment so i had to stop for the night.

i think it looks pretty good, it's already as long as some scarves that i own, but if you've seen scott pilgrim vs. the world (the knives vs. ramona fight, specifically), her scarf is WAY LONG. 100 inches still might not be the exact length of hers, but i think if i go any longer it'll just be annoying to wear.

trying to show the length. it's laid out over the armchair in my room. my hook is still attached to the end so i don't lose it. :P

i've also started a new painting. it actually happened by accident. i was actually painting on a pink and purple striped background i had made, and i thought i could freehand a cartoon kitty in that blue color. and guess what? couldn't do it. so i just repainted the whole thing blue. that's when i decided on the random sky/cloud theme.

there's the girly owl. when it was just the light purple base with none of the details, chris asked me if i was painting a fat batman and it hurt my feelings. D:

close up of the owl. yes, she looks very soul-less and dead at the moment. her eyes will be painted slightly smaller than the purple circles marking them so they'll have that dark outline. and yes, she'll have feet in the future. i also have this awesome glow in the dark paint that chris gave me, so it may have random glowing things. and possibly a rainbow. it's kiddy-style storybook type scene, so i think a rainbow is perfectly acceptable. but we'll see.

so yeah. crafty stuff.

peace.

oh blogger.

i was actually shopping around for a different blog service, blogger. because whenever i try to put picture on you, you just piss me off and make me bang on my keyboard in anger. and i can't keep doing that blogger, my 'q' is already just a tiny little button, i can't afford to lose any more keys.

but everyone else seem to make you work and they don't appear to be filled with horrible rage, so i'm giving you another chance.

anyway, a bunch of stuff has probably happened since the last time i blogged. halloween being the biggest, but if you follow me on facebook you've seen all my halloween madness. but just because it makes me giggle still, he is my favorites dudes halloween costume:

yes, i know you are jealous of my gorgeous hunk of man in the underwear. but he it mine. you back off. :3

also, i did a million halloween looks just for fun. i actually wish i had done more. i still have a wig i didn't even get to use! but it also needs to be cut, my wig is in an ugly shape that is not all like the picture on the package. i need to get it trimmed up. i got it for an awesome cheshire cat tutorial and then never got around to doing it. D:

so yeah. that's about it.

i have an interview at spencer's tomorrow. i'm so excited. i can dress cute and stock all the adult toys and giggle madly to myself if i get this job. it would be so cool. :D

speaking of adult toys, i have nothing against them but some of them do look REALLY PAINFUL and not fun at all. seriously. go to spencer's and look. some of them will make you hurt inside just by looking at them.

oh well. to each there own and whatnot.

anyway, i hope to be posting some artsy and craftsy stuff on here real soon. i'm in the process of making a really sooper long and cozy black and white scarf like knives wears at the chaos theater in my new favorite movie scott pilgrim vs. the world.

just like this. only mine is all a crocheted and much wider, since i'm not a tiny chinese girl and a scarf that skinny would look like i'd wrapped thread around my neck. also, i love her hair. i want hair like knives chau.

i've also made two hats just for fun. well, one is just for fun, i made it my size but am never going to wear it, then i made a small bug sized one to put in her christmas stocking. if i can get some more yarn and some time before then i want to make her a little scarf, too. but we'll see on that one.

but i guess that's all from my random life right now bloggy. except for that dream i had when my hand was broken and i was trying to call my dad while chris took me to the hospital. but other than that it wasn't that interesting of a dream. so yeah.

peace.