HOLY BALLS

I think I'd be fired if I was ever trying to be a professional blogger.  I'm so terrible at updating something I feel so excited about that it's stupid. 

Anyway, I just wanted to update about what I've been doing lately without giving too much away!  I've been working up patterns and stuff pretty well, and I've finally gotten it down to a process, so I'm at the beginning stages of the manufacturing to sell.  Man, I'm excited.  :)

Here's a sneak peek.  Sorry, it's with my cell phone again, so it's pretty crappy, no Instagram here, but, it'll all make sense soon! 

Still got a ton of work to do, as I haven't even started working on my pony yet. YIKES!  I so want to win that prize!  I don't even know what the prize is!  Actually, I am not really too obsessed with winning, I just want to make a pony and keep it forever.  Haha.  I didn't realize my sincere and strange love for morbidly cute things.I think it's a part of me that I've ignored for so long for no reason other than maintaining my dignity and pride, but really, why deny yourself the good shit in life?  It's about being happy.  I'm learning to accept myself for who I am more and more each day, and I'm becoming more and more happy every day. 

Enough of all that though, I've got work to do!

Apologies and Excuses

This is to my poor neglected craft table, yarn stash, knitting needles, scissors, and my entire hoard of craft supplies.

I'm very sorry.

I've forgotten you, it seems.  I've been busy... I've been distracted, whatever my excuse... it doesn't matter, I know.  I've been in a creative slump for far too long now.  Various video games have distracted me, books have cornered me and made me read them... I just... just... I don't know.  It took me SO long to knit up that project for this past swap.  I want to swap more, but I'm thinking maybe I'll take some time off from swapping until July, when hopefully I feel more creative.

Honestly, I've been a bit more sociable as of late, too, so I've been spending less time cooped up in my house doing whatever it is that I waste time doing.  I need to structure my time a little better.  It's getting hot out now, so that will surely end.  I'm the opposite when it comes to my outings.  Most people have summer parties, vacations, gatherings and what not.  I... don't go to the outdoor ones, which, most everyone has.  I'm uncomfortable and the heat/sun really bug me.  I'm not a summer person.  The sun is SO hard on my skin.  I actually got a touch of sunburn today on my 10 minute bike ride home, after slathering myself in SPF 80.  Like... the sun hates me :(

Waiting

Ah, so, June has come, summer is in full swing it seems, with the heat and humidity rising, my consistent sunburn though I slather myself with SPF 80+, and a considerably higher electric bill.  All in all, I feel like this is going to be a good summer.  Boyfriend and I are working on becoming better people all around, and working on our relationship, our bodies, our interests, and our brains.  I'm working on getting a second job to pay for school in the fall, studying physics on my own, working out 4+ days a week, and really concentrating on my crafting as a viable income source.

Currently, I'm working on my sculpting techniques, and learning how to best use my skills to make awesome shit.  I recently had a successful swap involving fairies, and that's inspired my creative juices to start-a-flowin'.

I just ordered some new pieces to begin crafting with again, and I'm really excited about how awesome everything will turn out to be.  I know things keep going back and forth, changing from one thing to the next, but I honestly feel it's more of a progression than indecisiveness.

On my table now is something I'm actually excited about, haha.  It's solely for my own entertainment purposes at this point, I plan on doing nothing with it other than keeping it forever and being obsessed with it.  Remember the pony picture from this post?  Yeah, there's a fun craft-a-long in my Ravelry Geek Swap group, it's PONY TIME!!  I've never been one obsessed with My Little Pony, but, they are really freakin cute.  Also, I did used to play with them when I was a kid, I got some donated when I was like 5 or 6 from the Mormon neighbors.  Also, I've been way obsessed with TradeChat vlog (about WoW) and she's all cute and obsessed with all that.  She's even got a fun add-on called My Little Companion that is super cute.  I even tried it out, and it's pretty sweet.  Hah.

I'm going to look into sculpting more and making super cute hair accessories and more earrings.  Photos to follow obviously, and I'll also be recruiting my good friend Molly to take photos of all my stuff!