Spidery laptop sleeve

Ok, yet another crafty thing I did. It had been really long since i embroidered something and this wee project gave me the perfect opportunity to try it again. Since Chris bought a dell mini 9 a couple of weeks back I wanted to make a wee bag for it. I still had some slightly velour curtain fabric laying around in a nice bright olive/spring green. And because it is to protect a laptop I thought of putting some spiders on it, preferably venomous ones :) So a Brown Recluse and a Black Widow represent that group. The third one I let Chris choose himself, so that became a Orb Weaver. The flap closes by use of a big button and in between the two layers of fabric I sewed a plastic bag for water tightness. Although I don't think you can still call it watertight, probably more a water sifter after I finished all the embroidery on it :S

Burupya

Onegai, meet Burupya :)
This little guy is a character from the manga (and soon to be anime) 07 Ghost.
He is about 30 cm high including the ears. I did not intend on using two colours of wool, but ran out of one, so had to continue with the other.
The ears and wings are held up by thin wire.


^-^ Pya Pya ^-^

Lulu the baby Touda

And this will be my last post for the day, wow I think this is a record :)
So yeah first scroll down for the other two posts, please.

Since the beginning of January a new anime was brought out. It was of the same writer as Seirei no Moribito, which I absolutely loved, and even cosplayed. Kemono no souja Erin (The Beastmaster Erin) however is different in style and drawing, and at first glance it looks like a kids show. Still I am really starting to like this show, it has very cute dragon type lizards (Touda's) in it and the storyline is gentle, but also very intriguing. Already in the first episode a wee baby Touda is introduced, it is so Kawaii :) In the second episode it is named Lulu.
I didn't have the exact colours to make Lulu, but had some nice shades of purple and decided to go for it. Lulu is perhaps a wee bitty to big for a Amigurumi, but she is so adorable and cuddly :) I love her.



Greetz,
SW

Touch Wood Necklace

OK, we go straight on to the next thing, which is creativity with beads :)
The design started out with a Touch Wood bead, made by Angel. The rest of the beads are a mix of chicken bones, wooden beads and stone beads. Ow and two cat beads.
I like the result a lot, Thank you Angel :)

Birthday cake

A double layer sponge, with the top one being chocolate flavoured. In between the sponge lemon curd and on top Dutch whipped cream and mandarin parts. It unfortunately did not rise, but it tasted great non the less.
Ow and soon my posts will be in Japanese cause Chris got me the Berlitz learning programme :)

Some more crochet and Sushi

Ok, I know I already posted yesterday, but I also finished another wee crochet project that I want to show you. I think everyone knows that I went to Wolf Park in the USA some 5 years ago. I absolutely loved it there and there I also met my love Chris. So as I am about to make a laptop sleeve for him, I needed to practice on the art of crocheting colored designs such as logo's. Conveniently I had Yellow and Black laying around and thought the Wolf Park logo would make a nice iPhone sock. So here is the result. It was incredibly difficult as the thickness of the wool only allowed for a chain of 21 stitches, which is equivalent to 21 pixels.





And I also found an older project of mine at making Amigurumi (Japanese crochet). It is a cat cupcake :) just in case you don't recognise it *G* The art of Amigurumi is so cool, for the fact that anything, literally anything can be crocheted and look soooo Kawaii !! I also made two mameshiba, but i forgot to make pictures of them before I gave them away for Christmas.





And here is Sushi again, hihi, she was begging for food :)





Greetz,
SW

Meet Monsuta chan.....

Hi everyone,

As of late I have been crocheting a lot again. It is one of those things that once you start it becomes addictive, so I think I will need therapy soon *G*





This iPhone beastie turned out rather big, and is inspired by the phone frog that Ranka Lee has in the anime Macross Frontier. I partially filled it with beanies, for nice comfy holding. The iPhone is held in place by overlapping crochet and elastic woven through it.



Ow and another project from a few days ago, a hat made out of crocheted spirals. I got the recipe (pattern) from Woolly Wormhead. These are quick pictures taken with my phone. Hopefully I will be able to make some better pictures soon.

And last but not least two photies of an Iris.





Greetz,

SW

Bolt has arrived.......

And here he is, I proundly present Bolt to you. He is a 38 cm high stuffed toy made by Disney. I have been waiting for it for months and yesterday I got lucky. I went to the Disney store in Glasgow in the hope it was there, but after a good look around I could not find it and eventually had to aske a staffmember. She said they had just gotten them in and gladly went to the back to get one for me, I was so happy :) It is super Kawaii, I love it.
So here are the pictures.

The new apartment

Yesterday Chris and I went to see the new apartment we will be moving to by the end of January :)
It is absolutely beautiful as it has got lots of old features, including ancient stone stairs that lead to the front door on the 3rd floor. It is much bigger than the apartment we are in now, and we needed that.
Here are the pictures of it, Chris is in most of them *G*


Kitchen


Kitchen


Dining Area


Living Room


Living Room


Spare Bedroom


Master Bedroom


Hallway


Bathroom

The Rat Mobile

Here are some pictures of our Rat Mobile of which I mentioned in the previous post.

rat mobile in progress

Ok, so you buy a car, to be exact a Peugeot (don't ask me why) 406 1.9 TD in silver grey from 1998. Not a slow one, just decent and practical, but as for the outside, insanely boring. To remedy that, Chris and I got ourselves inspired by Banksy, got some black spray paint and made stencils *Grin*, see below the result:





It is not finished yet, so more pictures to come :)

Greetz,

SW

Hiking stick

A project of mine from a couple of weeks back. While doing a mountain I found a very good long stick. After first drying it for a while I carved it and than painted it. Finally last week I varnished it. So yesterday was the day to try it out as we did Bidean nam Bian (Glencoe). It was a beautiful day to climb a mountain and my, did I enjoy that :)

So here are some pictures of my stick:

Final Mural

Nope it wasn't finished, but now it is!!!!

Update on Mural

The pefect view for the bedroom, a Loch. It took me a while to come up with this idea, because the limited space was not good for much.
As for the ivy, it is a lot of work, sigh.....

A mural on a wardrobe

About a week ago I decided to do something creative with the wardrobe in the bedroom.
So the Mural project started, with the house being rented I had to be carefull with not damaging the wardrobe, so I decided to put plastic bags behind the (wall)paper.
The dimensions are quite insane, 52 cm by 204 cm per painting (2 pieces).
I took a few pictures during the process and currently I am still working on it.

Bolt/Spoon

Yesterday Chris and I found out that Disney is going to screen a new movie in November
To be exact it is named BOLT and will be in the cinema on the 21st. As I saw the small thumbnail I immediately yelled "NOONAH". The main character is a white, shepherd dog aka a American White Shepherd. Amazingly Bolt also resembles our humble Northern Inuit. Not that Northern Inuits are supposed to be white, but none the less Nanook is.
We already saw the trailer and the 2 clips which can be found here and in the Itunes store.
It is very well made, as to be expected from Disney and the story seems good as well, with lots of humor.
And now to the point, I uploaded the official desktop for Bolt and Chris is amazing version for Nanook aka SPOON. I also added a picture of his Spoonness in real life ^__^

Freya and cats :3

Ok here are some pictures of a freya and some cats

so enjoy

SW