2/30 Nyan Cat Bowtie and a Marriage Equality Bracelet

Well. The "In thirty days" plan has gone a bit by the wayside due to an unexpected illness that left me too sick, and too zonked on meds to make anything for a good while. But I'm starting to get better and starting to make things again.

So today I made two things- the first being something that I did find on Pinterest. This adorable nyan cat bowtie from NyanPon!

Eee! Cute! 

I had just picked up my room and put all my yarn in my organized little baskets, just to rip a bunch of them out again. D:

These will get put away in another two weeks.

This was a quick little project with no real problems or complexity, it is simple colored rows with a pink and tan band around it. But it is just too cute. I will wear this next time we decide to go out and be fancy.

My model Mr Stitch says "Bowties are cool"

Last night I also was sitting around and listening to the Supreme Court hearings for marriage equality, while reading the ever more annoying and bitter Facebook arguments and decided that I needed to do something more relaxing so I went to make an equal sign bracelet. This campaign has been represented by a pink equal sign over a red background from the Human Rights Campaign.

So here you go, this was my first experience with crocheting while changing colors without stopping and restarting. I lost the tutorial that I looked at a while ago so I forgot some critical steps- like this works better in the round. But I learned my lesson about that, and will still proudly wear my bracelet as a reminder that we are all equal and all deserve equal rights.

And there we go. That is my mini soap box for the day.

Yuuup. Two mini projects to try to get me back into crafting after being sick. And maybe now I can get back into the swing of getting my life together and work on some stuff, perhaps even the commissions that I have waiting. 

1/30- Song Lyric Art

Okay, so the name of it isn't that great. But this kept popping up all over, and I had to give it a shot. The original was made by Elsie over at A Beautiful Mess. It was made with a song lyric over a paint by number. 

It seemed pretty cute so I thought I'd try it out. I'm not a fan of paint by numbers. But I do have  around 150  movie cards that I got when Blockbuster went out of business. I sorted them into ones that had some cool colors to show through the white and decided on Across The Universe. Picked out a lyric, and ran into my first problem: Not enough letters. My particular quote had 14 Es in it and there was no way I would be able to use the same kind of font throughout. Craft room to the rescue though, and we scrounged up enough letters to make it work.

I thought it looked pretty cool like this

Step 1: Spray paint a clear coat over whatever you are putting the stickers on, this keeps it from tearing when you remove the stickers

Step 2: Spell out your quote with stickers (I used a long quote so more showed through because of the small stickers)

Step 3: Spray paint the whole thing with white. Let dry. (I ended up with two coats just to make sure nothing showed through. I missed a bit at the bottom though)

Step 4: Remove the stickers. Tweezers worked well for this. 

Done!

I think mine turned out a little Dr Seuss-esque with the different fonts and the fact that the letters aren't straight. But I think it worked out well enough.

All in all I thought this was a fun, quick, and easy project I'll probably be making more, perhaps in different colors to hang around my apartment to give it a little bit of life. 

30 Pinterest Projects in 30 Days

When I first saw Pinterest I was less than impressed. It is just a never ending page of random junk. Then I signed up. And I got horribly addicted- especially to the DIY and Crafts page. My mum said it best when she claimed that we are in the minority of Pinteresters that actually attempt the projects that we pin, and it's true, I have done many of the things that I have pinned. And now I want to try to do 30 of them in 30 days. And maybe that will motivate me to actually update this blog. >_> I am not going to lie to you- I might end up posting stuff that I pinned and worked on earlier, but still. 30 projects is pretty respectable. 

Let's go!