Protected: turning your Pacman paper beads into jewelry
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/05/turning-your-pacman-paper-beads-into-jewelry/
Pacman paper beads
The following thought process frequently takes place inside my head:
Ooh, that thing is really neat. I wonder if I could make something like that.
Hm, well normally that thing is made out of plastic/glass/ceramic/some other material I don’t have access to or don’t have the tools and knowledge to shape and manipulate.
Ok, what do I have that I could make this out of?
Which is exactly how I first started making jewelry out of glued-together pieces of paper. I didn’t have the ability or resources to cut shapes from metal, so I used metallic paper instead, and made Star Trek com badge earrings.
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/05/pacman-paper-beads/
crafts for me – D20 purse & Tardis earrings
Much of life flips upside down and backwards when moving house. To remind me of this, two weeks ago I discovered I couldn’t remember where I’d packed any of my nice dress purses. I had a wedding to go to the next afternoon and couldn’t find anything but my dirty, everyday bike bag to hold my phone and lipstick and emergency needle and thread and other important items. Stellar.
It worked out, I found a purse and didn’t have to do any emergency sew-a-new-purse nonsense that night. It’s not a great purse though, and since I’m wearing the same outfit again this Saturday to a different wedding (that thing about how all your friends suddenly getting married all at once, that’s true, it really happens, and I can’t be to smart ass about it either since we got right on board that train ourselves), I decided I’d make a new one.
Not just any old purse though. I wanted to make something that would be a special project and really stand out. And maybe be used again at next winter’s Child’s Play Charity dinner (oh my gosh for once I’m doing some of my sewing for that months ahead of time, hallelujah!). Also, this is the sort of wedding where a D20 handbag will be absolutely perfectly appropriate.
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/04/crafts-for-me-d20-purse-tardis-earrings/
bunny plush with zippered pocket
This was one of those weeks where the project I’d intended to write a tutorial for just wasn’t working out. I mean, it was working generally, but slowly and with tweaks needed, and I decided that I’d rather come up with an entirely new idea at the 11th hour and begin its tutorial-making process from scratch rather than work with what I already had, which would require reworking a couple portions of it and doing one or two more trials. I wasn’t truly saving myself any time or effort with this switch, not that that’s a first for me. Causing myself extra craft-related work is, alas, probably what I’m best at in all the world. But hey, when you’re not feeling a project, sometimes you just need to walk away.
So I did. And then I simply needed to immediately come up with a new project idea. Easter themed, of course. It’s actually no easy matter to come up with a holiday craft that is your own when you’ve been looking at everyone else’s holiday craft ideas for the past 3 weeks, and also you’re telling yourself you need to figure this out in the next 15 minutes. I have upcoming posts that I planned and started months ago. But not this week’s. Read the full post »
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/04/bunny-plush-with-zippered-pocket/
Easter crafting and gifting ideas
I have so many little bits and pieces type crafts on the go right now in preparation for Easter, and I thought I’d share them with you while you’re waiting for the main, meat and potatoes tutorial of today. That’s right, this is just gravy, folks! Extra content because I love you.
So below are some of the Easter crafts I’ve been working on, crafts from past years that you might want to check out, and a couple of projects I spotted online and loved at first sight. Read the full post »
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/04/easter-crafting-and-gifting-ideas/
Creepy Doll photoshoot
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/04/creepy-doll-photoshoot/
The life and times of Creepy Doll hordes
Back in the fall, my friends over at LoadingReadyRun contracted me to make 50 Creepy Dolls for their Kickstarter. This is a plushie of a longtime LRR character with a bit of a random history.
The Creepy Doll first appeared years ago in Kathleen De Vere’s webcomic Korea, as a character called the Littlest Reaper. Kathleen later made a plushie of the character for Graham. The plushie appeared in a LoadingReadyRun video at some point and quickly became sort of a LRR meme, both enchanting and terrifying viewers.
Kathleen’s original comic character, the Littlest Reaper, and the very first Creepy Doll plush, also created by Kathleen.
This led to LoadingReadyRun commissioning me to make a series of 31 tiny Creepy Doll plushies in 2010. That was the very first time I sewed a large group of the same plush, which was quite exhausting and very much pushed my plushie-making skills, which were still pretty limited at the time.
The first set of Creepy Doll plushies. And I thought that was a lot of plushies to have to make!
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/04/making-50-creepy-dolls/