Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Self Portraits Part 3~

Hope no one is getting bored of these! Here are the latest of my self portrait project. I have been feeling sick lately, can you tell? :(

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10847131733/in/set-72157637216667974

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10863725663/in/set-72157637216667974

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10874337643/in/set-72157637216667974

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10892604855/in/set-72157637216667974

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10918204803/in/set-72157637216667974

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10935947575/in/set-72157637216667974

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Spoonflower Swatches!

   I ordered a set of swatches from Spoonflower not that long ago and I am just thrilled with these ones! :D The kitties are Lucifurr and Patch. I don't think I need to point out who is who, do I? ;P

   The roses was just me being bored with my wacom tablet, I also made one like that in coral but haven't ordered a swatch for it yet.


   I am super happy with how these turned out! Can't wait to get some fabric of these! I think the fabric of Patch with the balls of yarn would make a cute little dress, what about you? ;P

   I made the rose patterns with a skirt in mind, but I may wait until warmer weather to make little rosey skirts, haha.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Self Portraits, Part 2

   Last time I blogged, I shared my project of the month with you. To take a self portrait every day for November! I'm almost halfway through the project now and really enjoying it. It has made me need to get a little creative at times (not at all a bad thing) and definitely has helped me learn a bit about photography, my own makeup and poses, lighting, and of course self portraits.

   I just finished editing the photos for today while watching Repo! (still watching, hehe). So here is the photos I've taken and chosen for portrait of the day since the last blog post.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10736526005/in/set-72157637216667974
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10752267164/in/set-72157637216667974
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10773734946/in/set-72157637216667974
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10795952496/in/set-72157637216667974
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10811787955/in/set-72157637216667974
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10827251616/in/set-72157637216667974

   All the photos link to the same photo on my flickr, btw. :)

   So what do you think? Any favourites? ;P

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

My -BIG- Project of the Month and Other Recent Happenings

   At the start of every month, I write out a little list of small to medium sized goals to complete within the month. Sometimes I don't make all of them, but having that sort of reminder of what I want/need to do and the time in which I need to get it done has helped me a lot of with my depression and lack of motivation, both of which are not constant problems anymore. More of fleeting moments, but I'm not ready to retire my monthly goals list.

   This month, one of them was to take a self portrait every single day of November. Photography has been a fairly large part of my life for a while now, but my passion for it dwindled for a bit there. Self portraits were always what I was the worst at as far as photography goes, and it would be nice to improve to have nice photos of myself as well as building the skill to take good self portraits for this blog and it's posts.

   So, so far I'm on day six and have taken seven photo-of-the-day-s, haha. Here they are:

November 1st, 2013
November 3rd, 2013
November 3rd, 2013
November 4th, 2013
November 5th, 2013
November 6th, 2013


   And here's the photo from Day 2, which wasn't included above because it contains artistic nudity. So instead of making it automatically visible, I thought I'd give ya'll the choice to view it if you want to.

   I'm really happy with how my self portrait project is turning out so far, and may just post the results on a weekly basis, if anyone is interested. But for now, my set for my self portrait project is here, and this is my whole photostream. :) BTW, little mini blogs are posted in the caption of each self portrait of my project and the other self portraits that I didn't choose as 'photo of the day'.

   Besides taking probably too many photos of myself, I've been crocheting a slouchy colour block beanie, which is my third crochet project (and third hat, since all my crochet projects have been hats :D). I plan on making a matching scarf and mittens for this, wish me luck as I haven't even tried to make either yet!

   I've also been practicing my banjo every day. I got a banjo for my 22nd birthday in September, and I haven't really started practicing it until recently. I am a complete, complete beginner! After sharing the photo I took today of me and my banjo, someone shared with me that my finger picks were on backwards, so when I say complete beginner, I mean it! I've wanted to learn to play one for a long time though and I'm so happy to have one to try and learn on.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10715324594/http://www.flickr.com/photos/fk-flickr/10715324594/

   And speaking of banjo, today on Spoonflower I made my first sell on a pattern I designed! It was My First Banjo! Woo hoo! The order was for a fat quarter of the fabric and I made almost two bucks on it. ;P I'm really excited to have sold some fabric though and it will be nice to use that towards buying myself some more fabric of my own!

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2410001

   Well, I guess that's all I have to say before I go back to crocheting. I hadn't blogged in a week or so, so I wanted to share what I had been up to. Have a wonderful, crafty day!

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