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.