#17 Halloween Banner

Happy Rocktober everyone! This is pretty much my favourite month of the year. It's got "eat a lot of food" day for us Canadians (aka Thanksgiving), Will's birthday, and the almight Halloween! It's my absolute favourite holiday! You get to dress up, eat a lot of candy AND watch scary movies shamelessly/force friends to watch it with you in the spirit of halloween! Aaaaah it's the best. :D

Anywho, so I had the day off yesterday and went to fabricland. I found some wicked cheap Halloween fabric. The downside was that it was glittery, so I still have glitter all over me from handling the stuff. To kick off my halloween crafting, I made a banner to hang up on the wall! I'm pretty happy with it, so here are the pictures:

The triangles! It's the sheer glittery fabric on top of orange broadcloth, with bias tape as the "rope". I was inspired by Meg's mother's day banner in the Decor It Yourself segment of threadbanger. :D

In action! It's really hard to get decent action shots of it when it's above a huge ass window. So during the day it's way to bright to get a decent picture, and at night it also sucks, lol.

Yay! I hope to make many more halloween crafts...to Will's dismay probably, haha.

Upcoming Crafts

I just wanna post to keep myself on track, lol.

But upcoming things I'm working on include:
- Flareon cross-stitch (Michael's was missing two colours that I needed so it's like.. 80% finished. Of course those 2 colours make up a huge chunk of it :P). I want to make more Pokemon in general because they're fun and quick to make!
- Planet cross-stitches. I found a site with x-stitch planet coasters that were really neat so I wanted to try the patterns out. I've started a venus already. :D Probably won't use them as a coasters though.

Yeah that much actually, haha. I just want to do more cross-stitches mainly because it's been a while.

Of course I'll be posting any wedding crafty stuff too!

#16 Wedding Sampler

My friend Colleen got married this past friday, and is having a small wedding dinner to celebrate this coming weekend, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a special gift for her.

I decided to go with making a sweet embroidery wall hanging for them, even though they said no gifts, lol. How can I not do something?! So the embroidery part is finished, but I plan on making a fabric "frame" then have a solid fabric backing for it, with a ribbon to hang it up. I have uh...2 days to finish it before we head on the ferry over to Victoria. Oooh crap. Posting it now because the most time consuming part is done!

Picspam:

Detail shot of the french knot flower bouquet. I looove how these turned out. <3

Detail shot of the lettering and wedding rings. I just used my own handwriting as a template for it.

And the full image! It's about 6"x7.5", and took me about 3 days to finish completely. I just wanted to throw in as much detail as possible, haha. The lazy dazy stitches gave me a lot of trouble, urhghg.

Now to get to work on the border!

#15 Booze X-Stitches

I bought these patterns (along with a few others) from anawasabi on etsy. They have suuuh a cute shop! It was hard just picking 4 patterns! Anywho, I made these to decorate the kitchen a bit more. I need to iron them out and frame it somehow still, but here we go!

#14 Bridesmaid Invites

Sooo I've had a really good few weeks here, and working on a ton of crafts! BIG NEWS! My boyfriend proposed! We're getting hitched. :D Will's back in school and I have more time to do crafty things since I just work now. The dream is to do a handmade wedding, but I know it can't be completely handmade *sadface*. We plan on doing it in the north, in Terrace, as that's where Will is from (Kitimat is a short drive away) and really most of the people we want to invite live there or near there. Plus it would be cheaper to do it there hopefully, unless they overcharge because there is no competition. Also slightly worried about what kind of supplies/vendors would be there and how good they will be... I want to do as much creating down here as possible, lol. Either way, it's gonna be a long engagement so we can afford it.

Anywho! I was giddy and made cute little invites for the ladies I want to be my bridesmaids. I saw a tutorial on how to make crossword invites which I figured would be perfect! Pics spam!

So much fun to make! I used: double sided tape, MS word, a papercutter, black pen, and cute card paper. <3

Also for good measure here's a shot of my ring, hehe.

#13 Cousin Ichigo - Complete!

It's done! I did a lot of edits. The dress was easy, just had to sew in the armpit linings. The slippers...eh they weren't the best but they were functional at least. I fixed the head to have an antennae, and I decided it would be best for my sanity to cut out the face. All in all, I feel a bit like a cosplay fail because I didn't stick with the pain-in-the-ass of not being able to see that well, but it was really hard enough not having any peripheral vision.

I had a lot of fun anyways! A lot of people took pictures of me, well enough to be considered a lot. I would walk around and people would sing the Katamari theme song, haha.

Onto the pics:

I made a katamari ball last minute.

All the pieces without me in it, looking all sad without the face, haha.

At the convention! Found another cousing :D I posed really bad though all day, it was so embarassing.

Me and the Taiko drums! I wish I had taken the time to find a way to secure the head down. D: Urghghg.

Anyways, first cosplay evarrrr!! Next year I'll either go as a pokemon, Lotta Hart from Phoenix Wright or a disney character! Yay!

#12 Dawn of the Dead Embroidery!

Ack! It's been soooo long! The past month has been actually a fair bit busy, and when I wasn't working on homework or at the Sub, I was too drained to do much else. I vegged hardcore. :S Now my course is done so I have a lot more energy and creativity! Last weekend was AE so I'll post that in another completed projects post but for now...

It's Dawn of the Dead! When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!


I want to do a series of classic horror movie posters to hang up in the living room. <3 It's going to be sooo epic. I have some in mind: The blob, Nosferatu, The Shining, Halloween... I dunno, the horrors I own kind of have crappy covers. Like the Dawn of the Dead remake was just... the words. :S Maybe Evil Dead would be good! Aaaah so excited.