Overstimulation!

So this week I’ve been going rather crazy with my crafting. I started like 4 projects and they’re all without patterns and more of the nature of “I make it up as I go along”. This is not a bad thing however. The things I have started working on:

A beaded crochet snood. For those not in the know, a snood is something women used to wear to hold their hair in place in renaissance times up until WWI or so. I’m not a history major so don’t hold me to that statement. But yeah, I’m attempting to make one out of black crochet thread and hot pink beads. It would be awesome if I get it right and can wear it to nero (my live action roleplaying game).

A boucle shrug. I started making this one on the purple knifty knitter loom. I’m using an awesome yarn from joanns in a light pink/light grey combo that Clint’s parents got me for Christmas 2 years ago. It’s light and warm and fluffy, and given the weather today I need to hurry up and finish it so I can wear it soon.

T-shirt quilt. Yep, I got the fusible interfacing for the thing finally but I haven’t done any ironing yet. It has kind of falled to the side and been replaced with piles of reading, paper writing, classes and work. I know that once I get into the groove it’ll go quickly but I haven’t gotten that far yet. It’s for a friend of mine so I need to get cracking on it soon. By December I want to have it completed.

Stamped cards. Yes, I got my hands on some stamps and ink and caught the stamping bug as well. So I’ve been working on those a lot from my collection. My goal is to make a few sets and sell them on my etsy site. So keep your eyes open for when I post some. 🙂

In unrelated news, I have grand plans for the evening. I’m going to, with the help of Candy, be putting blonde highlight/streaks into my hair. The goal of this is twofold. One, I want them to be nice-ish highlights that are relatively natural looking. I also want to get enough contrast in my hair because after this weekend I’m dyeing all of my hair a hot pink color. I want the highlights to be brighter pink. So there is a plan. We’ll see just how well it goes. 🙂

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Keep on truckin’

Well, Nikki and I didn’t manage to make it on the cool kids list for the valnetines day I Made It market. But I think I’m ok with that, not sure why. Goves me good reason to start looking around hardcore for other local stuff. Maybe try having an on campus crafty thing (I know they’ve happened before, just don’t remember who did them and if it’ll happen again) Like, I wonder what would happen if I set up in towers lobby and tried to sell my wares….

Curiosities aside, I broke out the knifty knitter tonight. Clint and I were in spencers the other day and were looking through the clearance christmas stuff. In the pile was an adorable knitted hat with two tips and poof balls. I remembered how easy it is to make a knitted tube and just sew the ends straight across to finish and end up with something like a kitty ear hat. Super cute, etc.

So I decided to start thinning out the yarn collection a big and make a bunch of things, preferrably hats of the cute (yet manly) variety. So far, all I got is this…

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