A little bit of everything

A post, a year in the making.

So first off I am noticing that I have no updates on the For the horde/alliance banner I was making. That is almost done. I just need to put it over a dowel and give it the tassels and it is done. But the stitching of this thing is completed, I am at the finishing stages of it. My room mate who it was made for LOVED it so much and I am looking forward to making myself on in the future. It will be great to flip it to show if I am feeling for the blue side, or the red side.

I have started a new large project The first generation of Pokemon! This project is huge, well over 30 pages of chart and takes over 100 different colours of floss. I am so happy with it and my daughter is looking forward to me being done with it. She is getting it for Christmas this year. She seems so excited by it. It is getting hard to work on it without her here though. I told her I was done with it, I gave up. So she was bummed out about it. But I have gotten most of it done without her knowledge.

This is my current set up for cross stitching. It is about midnight here when I took this but this is how I work now when working on cross stitch. In fact all my office has been changed around a lot. I moved all the desks around and just finishing to cleaning. So you will all get to see that soon.

Other things I am happy about is the dolls I am almost done with face ups and clothing we will be working with them, they also have a better display they are on. I can't wait to show that off nither. But for now, I am going to go back to work on this pokemon project.

So happy to be back. See you all tomorrow.

Lazy slow Saturday

So I spent the day trying to figure out what I was going to post here on my blog about my arts and crafts that I do. One would think I didn't do anything today with my comment like this but I have I have gone lots today.

I spent the morning sewing patches on my daughters bowling shirt with all her accomplishments that she has gotten through bowling. I know we are missing one on her shirt but I can't find it to save my life so she has some of them on her shirt. Tomorrow she is at a tournament and from what I understand because of how well she has been bowling these past few days she actually has a chance to win this time around. SO that is cool I am proud of her.

After she ran off to her grandmothers, I finished cleaning the floor of my office. I can't find my desks but I found the floor. I am just doing the final sort of things and then I can take people on a mini tour of the office. I am so happy with that idea of showing you all my office. I love looking at others crafting area's so I can't wait to show you mine. It is just a mix match of things that it is so much fun.

The Desk as it stands right now, it is so full of clutter you can't see anything. My doll and a friends doll are just hanging out waiting for me to be done with organizing so I can make Lao some clothes.

My sewing desk is my favorite thing in this room it is where I spend a lot of time and often am found trying to de clutter it so I can work on it. I love sewing it is so fun and just a great way to get away from the world. My sewing machine is newer, it was bought for me when my great grandmothers singer died on me. I cried that day it would sew through anything with no fuss. But the belt on it broke and I am still waiting for the singer place to find a replacement. Though I think I will just sell it to them. I love this new one, it also matches my serger.

And in this corner is my doll shelf, this is where all my dolls normally sit for display. I own quite a few. They are a great joy of mine. I love working with my dolls and love playing with them. I sew clothes for them, and paint tattoos for them. So much of my craft revolves around dolls, not just mine but my friends as well.

I also started in on the Alliance cross stitch and realized that I was already through the first two pages of it before the end of this morning. So I am already really far in on that. I am so amazed on how well it went for me. And how quickly it is for me to work on a cross stitch like that.

Also I finished FOR THE HORDE! YAY! now to wash and block it out.... but first the alliance side of it.

Oh I missed a day....

So yesterday I was so excited to tell you all that I did on Wednesday that I had the post all planned in my head, and photos taken. Then yesterday I got home and was so tired that I went to bed at Six! Not my normal 10 or 11 that night but 6!

It happens every so often I have a rough day at work, and a long few days off and I just need the sleep. I forgot just how hard it is to be a stay a working mom some days. Any ways after a great sleep I was awake this morning at 3:30am oh how un fair the world can be some times lol.

So this what's on your desk Wednesday was completely and amazingly productive. I had so much fun and really really just worked my butt off.

So I completed the following with a few photos! YAY!

Lao looks amazing with his Face up on him now, And now that his wings are on, his face is done. I need to really work on his outfit so he can be clothed and not naked. I just need to wait to get his crown and items so I can paint them too. I was happy with how he turned out. Do you see under his wing? The hanging pieces of pink. That is the pieces to Lia!

So after I was done with Lia, and Lao I was so happy with my new work and how face ups are looking for me I decided to continue on to Patches, she needed her make up done as well so on I went. I got her done in less then an hour. It is truly amazing just how comfortable I am with this style now. So now to start adding new techniques to my style.
And last but not least Ears and a tail of Lia. Her ears ended up darker then I wanted but the pink on them is AMAZING! I want to take her in her kitty gear outside with her and take photos before I send her off to her owner. I am sure that will be happening soon!

Not shown I also have worked really hard oh my for the horde cross stitch and finished off not one but TWO pages for it. I am so happy with that as well. I will be done with this cross stitch not long from now. HAPPY DAY!

So what was I doing today? WORKING! Yup, I taught today and it was a blast. I am now at home had a nap and just flipping through craft room video's on youtube. I LOVE these tour video's Makes me jealous and gives me so many idea's on what to do with my over cluttered office.

So till next time everyone. SEE YA!

WOYWW Dolls, dolls and more ... cross stitch?

So recently I have been working hard out of the house and have found that often my dolls are being ignored. so with today being a day off, and me being sick and un able to go out, I decided today was a good day to paint my dolls! So today I am doing just th
at!

I have also made a bit of progress on my cross stitch. I have finished two of the 6 pages of pattern in completion. I have the other 4 mostly done. Then I flip the image and work on the top part with the alliance symbol. I am so happy and can't wait to see it finished! I hate having projects half way done I am one of them people who have so many projects that are partly done I just want to finish something this year!

So this is what I am working on this week! it is what is on my desk.

Oh and look my Cross Stitch.

This photo was taken before I was done the first sheet, I am much further now. I am sure you will see more of this soon!

*hugs*

Phynix

Silly Phynix forgot the button!

Weekend Madness take 1

So the weekends are the days I spend my time in the office and work my arse off and get things finished. So on the desk for this weekend is painting lao with my now working airbrush system. (I am loving it so much)

And then to work a big on Horde sweet Horde! Maybe get working on the alliance side of that project this weekend. I am almost done and if I watch another two or three movies this weekend I will be done. I might do that tomorrow sit with the kids and work on that while we watch movies and chill out.

Also on the table is hole punching all the books I own for work... that is going to take forever... and I am going to keep the confetti from it for something just not sure what yet. I am sure the kids will find something to do with it.

So that is this weekend, and so far it is going well. Time for another sealant coat for lao!

WIPolypse

So today is the WIPolypse(not sure if that is spelled right) but I am happy about it. As I am new to this I don't have anything to really show you aside from the fact I made more progress in the Horde piece I am doing.

I am so happy on this, I am sure I can finish this in the next few days, and maybe start the Alliance one. I hope I can get them both done before my room mates birthday. But we will see.

Day One of finishing Projects

So as you know already I decided to join a few stitching events on blogger in hopes that I would be able to enjoy a craft that is long gone to me.

So far I decided before I start any new project I will finish off the ones I have here including one that my brother started years ago (over 8 of them) and he got mad at and handed to me when he was running out of time and things were not working well. I put it aside and forgot about it. So I pulled it out first and noticed where the error was and with all I would have to do to fix his project I decided I would just slot it to be re done. So away went the pattern to my bin of other patterns, and to the scrap heap went the piece my brother started (I saved the extra floss for other projects, and the cloth itself is in the bin for our fire starter scraps)

So I started to look at other projects and found one I started years ago for the door of my office and never got further then a few stitches and collecting the colours I wanted for it. So with my room mate's birthday coming up I am going to finish this piece and hopefully give it to him for his birthday. Join me later here to see how it turned out.

Also I have a pattern I made years ago that I am thinking to share. We will see about it later... not sure people will want to stitch it.

Thanks all!