MartianRaindrop42

Hello everyone! Happy New Years 2015! where have I been? Without internet for weeks!!! Ahrg.But anyhow...The year in review is as follows (in no particular order) I started 2014 with a break up, and a brand new relationship, a move from my ex boy friends house,to back home with my widowed Dad ( who is a handful ) to say the least, but still better than where I was living. I have not done a whole lot of art this past year,a few things here and there,I completed a MLP plushie order ( which I drasticly undersold myself on ) And ever since I have mostly just been making what I want, more than trying to make a profit. I successfully made and sewed my first all original plushie pattern ( The Nessie lochness monster ) I love making those little guys! Making plushies gets me so excited. I have taken notice of the adopts community and they inspire me to want to do simular things with plushies. has been especially inspiring to me, But I have yet to actually get The gumption and,or, time and peace to start making plushie adopts. I recently got a request to make a duplicate of one of my all time favourite creations, The crochet art doll, I'm Gonna Eatya' my Dad just loves that little guy, and showed pictures of him to some of his friends back in VA. and one of his friends wanted him so much that he payed me 150$ to make a duplicate of him.Not to shabby.And I had been wanting to make a better version of him for a while now, so that gave me the push to actually do it.It was a trip to pick up the crochet hooks again after almost 2 years and have it feel so natural and good.It was like falling in love with the craft all over again. The shapes and the forms I make with the yarn and hooks comes so easy and natural to me, in contrast to the sewing of plushies which I must have a pattern that I follow so closely.With crochet, I just make a sketch and than just choose my hooks and start going,no pattern needed!
So,thats about it for the art of 2014. I also recently got a fixer upper motorcycle which has been consuming a good bit of my time as of late,I have always been interested in mechanics,and this has been a crash course in the essential workings of an entire engine. Not to mention brakes and clutches and stuff.I am so impatient to actually have it all rebuilt and  road ready. I want to ride!
And with that, I wish you all the best of the best and success in all your endeavors and dreams for the new year. Happy New Year everyone! 

I'm Gonna Eatya' is getting a identical twin brother soon! only difference will be that the new one will have oppossable fingers,where the original one just has rag doll fingers. Here they are side by side a WIP picture  And here are the hands done  I can hardly wait to have them both side by side for some fun pictures before I send his brother to his new home in Virginia!

So,I got the sewing machine! yay It works good, I can hardly wait to really test it out for real! I just sewed the cute lil' furry maned nessie with it and it was nice to be able to sew something and have it only take a hour or less now,working without glitches and thread bunching and fabric eating is really nice! Now I just have to decide what to focus on right now as far as sewing goes.I want to sell some plushies before Christmas so as to earn some extra cash to buy presents with this year. also,there is going to be a big crochet project in the works very soon! Its probably going to be the most complicated piece I have ever attempted.Which excites me because as we know, I love the challenge of making complex things with yarn. My love of crochet may have seemed to die off in favor of the sewing, but not so true. I only stepped back from it for a while because in order to actually make any $ I needed to do something that didn't take up so much time to complete just one piece! Now,I find myself fighting an inner battle between the things I want to crochet,and the things I want to sew! And figuring out how to convert crochet creatures into sewn creatures. I'm pretty sure I have found the happy medium between the two now.sew during the day,and crochet during night and when I'm not at home. Also, I want to bring the two together,incorporating fabric and sewn pieces into certain crochet things.I have some ideas
Let the mash-up creativity run wild!!! 

Yep. I will soon no longer be fighting my sewing machine every step of the way when trying to sew something.It finally got so bad that I just couldn't stand it anymore,I tried taking it apart to see if I could pinpoint the problem,which I did.My tension tuning knob thing is messed up stuck. So my dad came in and was impressed that I was actually trying my best to fix it myself.He surprised me and told me that he is going to buy me a new one.He said that its something worth doing and that I should have a machine that works right so I can actually make more stuff instead of spending half my time trying to make the old one run right. At least I got a lot of miles out of my 40$ used sewing machine it served me well for almost 3 years.I cant wait to see what its like to sew on something that doesn't sound and run like an old tractor!