Funky Cat Studio

Current Mood: numb

I wouldn’t say multitalented. More like multiuseful. If I have a talent, it may just be photography, maybe a little talent in writing.

Here I am! This is from a couple hours ago:

Huzzah for pigtails!

And here’s some layouts I’m working on. Some are finished.  Its not every spread either.

So yeah.  It’s not my fortay and the only time I do it is when I’m with Louise.  Looks like we’ll be doing the once-a-week thing again ^-^  Yeeeup, my book will sit there for a year if I don’t have anyone to scrap with.  I really enjoy doing the minimalistic, simple layouts the best.

And I would so do it for money/trade! ^-^

Current Mood: artistic & geeky

Oh, I just found out I like Radiohead. Correction, I LOVE Radiohead! O.O

Anyway. New finished ATC for Ria:

“Imperial Song”

Named because I used Fiskar’s decorative scissors called “Imperial” and birds make songs. So there.

There’s a lot more going on in this ATC that it looks like… so… its a little bit better looking in person. I’m going to have a hard time letting go of some of these ATCs. I’ll have to make copies for myself eventually :)

I used a Home Impressions (fairy) stamp and an Autumn Leaves (swirl) stamp though you can’t really tell, and a When the Rubber Hits the Road (bird) and a Skipping Stones Designs stamp (diamonds), though you can hardly tell on that last one either.

So…. there’s that one which I know is finished and then there’s this one here which… I don’t know. What do you think guys?

“Fairy Treasures”

I think I’m still going to call it a work in progress. Its got some little bits glued on it and its really distressed looking. I never could pull the distress look off very well, even with distress ink.

Again, used Home Impressions stamp.

And here’s some other stamping I did. There’s more but they’re not all cut out and tweaked:

Home Impressions and When the Rubber Hits the Road.

They’ll prolly turn into ATCs. I hope Ria doesn’t mind a flood of ATCs. I seem to be on that kick right now :-p

Oh, and I told the Design Team I was going to make some stationary/letterhead stuff. I think I’m going to wait ’til I get some nice quality paper, maybe even colored, so I don’t have ink bleed through.

And wouldn’t some self-mailers be fun?

Hi all! I have all sorts of stuff to blog about, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to do that :-p I don’t want one monstrous post but I don’t know if I want to do multiple in one day. *shrug*

So here’s a painting I started today. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I just had an overwhelming urge to slap something around. So far, acrylic (real gold, cheap stuffs), water colors (yellow, cheapo) and gel medium used. Yes, I have other paintings in this stage, but, you know:

AND, I’ve finally jumped on the Snuggles bandwagon. Cheap Red Heart, Red Heart Baby Soft and Softee Chunky used:

And last, and most painfully not least - My PoA movie color Ravenclaw HP scarf started at LAST! I decided to go ahead and cast on today. I bought the yarn the other day. Caron Simply soft in Heather Gray and Dark Country Blue on size 6 circs. SIZE 6! *screams* I need to go get 2 more things of the blue. It can wait though since they have no dye lot (my ass…):

Annd… I’ve really backed away from all my Y! artsy e-groups and I backed out of all those nifty challenges ages ago, though I’ll keep Art Buzz on my list because I like her challenges. Just because… I don’t know. I’m on no-mail on the one group I really like and can’t think of, because I just wasn’t reading the e-mails anymore :-/

Aaaand, I think I’ll take a break from knitting all those damn dishcloths :-p If I can just finish my damn techno ripple shawl, then I’ll have a 6 to do dishcloths with. So let that be a motivation to myself to finish the techno shawl, even though I’m not sure how big it’ll get on the 32″ I have… bah.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, a friend I’ve known foreverandever wanted to buy one of my paintings. He likes some of my existing stuff, but I figured I could make him something custom, special. SO that’s what this is all about.

And since I can’t seem to get my desk cleaned up enough, I did it outside!

Ah, I so love working on multiple canvasas at once. I only have one empty one left now, though :-/

If he doesn’t want this one, it’ll go up for sale, either here or eBay. So here’s the Hand of God SO FAR:

And here’s another one! KAWAAAIII! It’ll be for sale when I think its done enough. Unless you want it now? I had to paint over a previous painting:

And then I did this one…. so much potentibility:

Aaaand… I worked on my 27 book some. Its coming along… slowly. But I’m not worried ^-^ I’m REALLY tired from sitting in the waaarmhot all day, but hopefully I’ll get some energy back. Then I’ll work on it some more tonight. Indoors >.>

Ahahah! Technically my third sock ever, technically the 2nd toe up, technically the first that I’ve gotten past the heel :-p

I had to redo it several times because… it was… weird O.o And then I finally decided to just plow through and it ended up holy. So I was going to frog it back AGAIN but found out I put my lifeline on the TOP half of the sock. Yes, I was knitting my fucking heel on the top half of the foot all that time. >.<

That’s okay, I got it. I messed it up, sure, but I think I’ll practice heels on some scrap yarn before trying this sock’s mate. *pissy*

Other than that, I have enjoyed making this sock. It’s been fun and REALLY easy, except for the heel part… which was easy but I was doing it wrong. Does that make sense?

I think I’ll put these on some spare needles and go to my Technicolor Yawn’s mate, which is toe-up and still in the foot part. I can see how socks can be addicting :)

OH! And the yarn feel wooonderful on the toes! Who knew Caron Simply Soft could feel so… sexxy?

I only wish I had 2 skeins of this stuff so I could try 2 at once… Oh, and I used Lifestyle Toe-Up Socks - No Swatch Needed. And other than the blasted heel part, it was easy to follow. And I now could knit a sock without looking at a pattern. It’s -that- easy.

So here’s the Technicolor Yarn’s mate that has been in this exact stage for a long, long time (the finished one was top down):

I went to my LYS and the lady there helped me start it.

*ETA* Oh, and I was so incredibly bored alone in the quiet dark of Tuesday morning that I took pics of my entire yarn stash (except really small, used and abused balls) and put ‘em up on my Ravelry account. I wasn’t going to do that at first, but then I realized how handy it would be. And I haven’t got everything, but hey its a start.