What I do with my time, spare or otherwise.
22 September 2009
By callatya
I admit it. I love beautiful things.
Most people will try and deny it, but I'm all for embracing my desire for all things to be perfectly pretty. After a trip to the local boutique stationery place, I was even more for embracing it. I was also for spending a small fortune on printed papergoods, fancy notepads and that snazzy tote bag they had in the window. Of course, beauty does not come cheap and I just couldn't justify spending the price of a small car on a few very attractive pens.
Still, the lady wants what she wants...
...and so the lady creates it from stuff she finds about the house.
Not bad for some old food containers and a bit of wrapping paper, hey?
24 July 2007
By callatya
Guess who is a clever little clogs?
Moi.
Was there ever any doubt?
Well, obviously there was some doubt, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten quite so excited! Wickedly Chic has featured one of my creations in it's Daily Ditties section. Hooray! I made something fashionable!
OK, so it hasn't translated into move Etsy lovin', or any sales, but I don't care. I'm just kind of pleased that some random person out there likes what I can do.
13 July 2007
By callatya
I walked into the newsagent and made a beeline for the racks of comforting DIY magazines. I picked one up and flipped through the pages slowly, delaying the torture which was to follow. With a hard swallow and all the courage I could muster on half a slice of toast and a cold cup of tea, I put down my friendly magazine and walked purposefully into the card aisle. Hundreds of mass-produced, glossy printed, gold embossed paper harlots started out at me from their neat little melamine racks, and I knew then and there that this was not a place I wished to frequent.
And so I came home and made my own.
It isn't that I don't like bought cards, I actually find them quite interesting. Art, humour, touching prose, and all on a piece of 5 x 8 cardstock. That takes some serious talent but, for the most part anyway, it takes very little thought on the part of the buyer. These days, your garden variety Hallmark card is a borderline anti-thought, and an expensive one at that!
There is glitter and punch-outs from here to next week, and I think I may have embossed a small smudge on the table but I can rest easy knowing that, for the next little while at least, I won't have to buy another boring old greeting card.
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07 April 2007
By callatya
This is the latest in my "I wanna do it but can't afford to do it well. Stuff it I'll do it anyway" beady endeavours.
A bracelet made with my very first Cellini spiral.
It is in desperate need of better bead cones, and chunkier strung beads, and something other than hideous metalized plastic for accents, but its not bad going for a few hours and some leftovers. A bit of tweaking and it might even pass for something that could be worn in public.
01 April 2007
By callatya
This week has been rather hectic.
PSWC has decided his purpose in life is to get me out of bed at a reasonable hour in an effort to get me to bed at a reasonable hour. What is so unreasonable about 4am I ask you? So every morning the doona is rather unceremoniously removed from my person and I'm forced to get up and start my day like everyone else.
I don't like it :(
But, as with most things, there are definite benefits. The most important one being that my days have almost doubled in length, allowing me to fit twice the amount of time-frittering activities that I would have ordinarily been able to accomplish.
I've cooked.
I've cleaned.
I've Ebayed.
And now, I'm knifty knitting.
These are going to be fingerless mittens for my Mum. A few years ago, presumably as part of some plot to ensure I'm always on my toes, she moved Mother's Day. Thankfully she only moved it to my Nanna's birthday but all the same, when you shift something like that its just begging to be overlooked. Recently she spotted the lone black fuzzy fingerless mitten that I'd made last year and decided that she really wanted a set of her own :)
Perfect!
Now I can spend less brain power on gifts, and more on remembering exactly which day they should be presented on.
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17 March 2007
By callatya
I am.
Wanna see?
Isn't she just gorgeous!? That there is my Milka Moobox, and yes it is a fully functioning computer.
In fact, that is my only computer. I'm typing on it right now. :)
I started working on it some time in 2005 while PSWC and I were living with my folks. A pot of glue and 2 metres of cheap fake fur later and there was no turning back. I was hooked.
This being only my second case mod and my first furmod I hadn't really anticipated the time it would take to complete, nor had I counted on the fact that every time I needed to drill something that I would have to drag all the computing guts out of it lest I fry its little silicon brain.
And I definitely hadn't counted on being offline during such procedures! *gasp*
So progress on the Moobox has been slow.
Very slow.
But tonight we made headway. A tail on the rear and two shiny polymer clay horns up top. Those horns have been haunting me for months. I had a lovely set of ex-plastic viking helmet horns donated to the Moobox cause a while back and I just couldn't get my head around how I was going to a) make them more durable and b) attach them to the box itself. As fate would have it the horn donor dug me out of that rut with an off-hand comment about a headband.
Voila! The horn earmuffs were born!
They all velcro on and off for easy travel to and from LAN gaming days. Easy peasy!
Of course there is still a lot of work to be done on the Moobox, as evidenced by that giant gaping drive bay in the front of it, but I'll get there eventually. She really is a fantastic little workhorse er, workcow of a machine so I have some time up my sleeve.
Who knows, I might even retire her to light duties sometime soon and...
...
wait for it
...
... get an udder one!
geddit? huh?
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