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Desktop Computer is Home

Admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:52:26 +0000

My desktop computer is back from HP, which means that by this weekend I should have things all set up to be able to upload pictures of the House Elf I have been making and the handbound book I have been working on. I’m really happy to be able to get back to work and be able to work without fearing that my little laptop will overheat and burn out. I’ve been neglecting a lot of things while my desktop was down and out, so now it is time to play serious catchup and I am catching up as fast as I can.

Working on Workshop Room

Admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:39:38 +0000

I’m working on getting my workshop for my OOAK things organized into a room of their own, so that I can have everything I need in one place and be able to make a real business out of my work with OOAK figures and other OOAK crafts such as my bookbinding, painting, drawing, decorative eggs, dollhouses and other crafts.

I want to get an area set up for using my Dremel tool, router, sewing machine and other stuff for working with my crafts and things so I can start trying to earn enough money to save my parents’ house.

OOAK crafts to save my parents house

Admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:49:19 +0000

I have decided that if I am going to find a way to pay off the money that my parents were forced to borrow against their house, the one that they had wanted to leave to me as a thank you for the years I had put my own life aside to help them as a caregiver, then I am going to have to find ways to earn money. So, even though my crafts have always been made for my mom, I think it is time that I make craft projects and sell them. I am looking into selling my craft stuff over the weekend, and will make my decision by the end of the week on if it is really a route I want to take, but at the moment I can not think of any other way than my writing and craft projects that I can earn money to help save my parent’s house.

Personal Loss

Admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:45:19 +0000

I find it very difficult to even think about working on craft projects at the moment, because throughout my life everything I have ever made has been made for my mom. She died of a massive heart attack on the 14th of this month, leaving my whole family in shock. My mom had never had a history of heart problems, and had focused her life on taking care of her family and in particular her husband after he had began having trouble with his own health years ago.

I will return to working on craft projects and on working on this website, but for now, I simply can not bring myself to think about either one.

Missed the State Fair

Admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:27:45 +0000

I missed getting an entry into the Alaska State Fair this year, which is kind of a bummer to me. I had not really realized just how fast the year was going past, then the news suddenly announced that the fair is starting and I was not sure just where that came from. Seems like it should only be early spring, but here we are going into fall now.

I need to find the time to get back into working on things with the polymer clay, but just never seem to find the time to work on any clay projects anymore. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to get back to it soon, just find it really annoying that I missed out on getting anything entered in the fair. Ah well, there’s always next year, huh?

Drawing Tutorial

Admin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:05:10 +0000

I’ve been too busy to get much work with polymer clay in, much less write about what I am doing (or rather not doing) with my clay projects. I am still around, though, and would love to be working on things here. I have plans to maybe change the site around some, so that might just happen before too much longer, we’ll see. I don’t want to mess with the links I know are out there on the Internet, so I am going to be sort of careful in just how I do this.

What brought me here today was the discovery of a kewl video on inking in crosshatching on a Manga drawing (you know, like Speed Racer) by a guy that has a bunch of drawing tutorials up on YouTube. The tutorials are by Mark Crilley, who does the Miki Falls: Spring (Miki Falls) books by HarperTeen (available in bookstores) and show what it takes to create Manga artwork. I’ve included one of the videos he has up at YouTube here, just so I can be sure to find them when I have some time to play around with drawing again. This one is for drawing a character in a fighting pose:

Miki Falls by Mark Crilley

I have not forgot the teapot

Admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:10:16 +0000

I was asked night before last about the teapot that I was supposed to make a tutorial of. That sort of got sidetracked when my nephew’s dog had puppies under my desk and I moved out of the office for a bit so I did not run over puppy toes with the wheels on the desk chair. I do need to get back to that tutorial, but it is going to take a little bit since I am sort of zoning on minimal sleep this week and as a result have a lot of things I have to catch up on in work.

Site is too busy looking

Admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:11:30 +0000

It has been a while since I have been to this site and the first thing I thought on sitting back studying it just now is that it is too busy looking. I need to do some work on it, prune a bunch of the “busy” out of the way it looks, but not right now, I am hardly focusing at the moment and sort of drifting along doing minor checks on sites and uploading links to a privacy policy here needed. I’ll revamp this site later on.

A sample of my craft projects

Admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:04:58 +0000

I have put up a picture showing a sampling of some of my crafts, these are things I am working on or have made recently. Just to show you the kinds of things I get into working on…

(click image to see larger version)

You could win a Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer

Admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:52:17 +0000

Okay, I know this is not exactly a crafty project, but I want to let you all know about this because it is very cool for a first contest giveaway. (and I wanna win it ::snicker::)

A Cowboy’s Wife is having a contest on her food blog! You can win a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer and she’ll ship anywhere so everyone is eligible!

Really, though, you need to check out the food blog, she has some wonderful recipes. (Helen, check out the pineapple upside down cake she has there! It’s listed under “desserts” in the “courses” menu. Looks like the one I used to make when I was a kid. I’m gonna make one for mom an’ dad.)