Made these of the rats i had/have. I ll add more if i get more rats irl.
It was a way to cope with artemis being put down. I dont want to forget about them so im making them into little clay sculptures for people to find once im dead lol
Some of the props I made for my Tutu many many years ago!
Top left: The wings. Made from steel gauge wire and organza (for that nice glittery finish). I sewed the edges over the wire, then added a small white felt piece with feathers (not pictured here) to go over the adjoining wire loop between the wings. The whole thing is light enough to be safety pinned onto the tutu.
Bottom left: I took a little artistic liberty to add some detailing to the crown. It's made from craft foam, hot glue, and pearls, and I added a little comb to attach it to her wig.
Right: Tutu's very specifically shaped fan. It was impossible to modify a regular folding fan, and the ones that do work like that don't come in such a design, so I ended up making it from scratch by cutting holes out of really, really thick cardboard. To create the illusion of 'spokes', I painted cast shadow lines along them.
Pendant: Crafted entirely by me from a whole lot of materials such as craft foam, ribbon, wire, resin, nail polish, rings. I wanted it to look as authentic and as pretty as possible, so I decided to forgo using clay (a material I'm far more familiar with), and instead what looked more like jewellery. I made all the gems out of resin, because shop bought gems were likely to be oddly faceted, and because I wanted them all to be size proportionate. The clear blue wings were also made from resin; I'm so glad it worked and is now blue and transparent and pretty ;w;
The gold wire was originally very yellow and gaudy (as seen in the first pic), so I sprayed it over with a warmer gold and then painstakingly began to cut and bend them into shape, sanding the edges so they wouldn't cut my poor Tutu's skin when she wore it. I've never done such tiny jewellery work before, so it was difficult and fairly painful to get some of the smaller pieces to do exactly what I wanted (gem hanging at the bottom, I'm looking at you). But I succeeded in the end! o/
The base and others are made from layers of craft foam, with nail polish over to make it glittery and shiny (although it doesn't really show up well in photos), because a flat colour would look too plain next to all the shiny gems. Ribbon is just ribbon. I stared at so many reference pictures and COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT ON EARTH THAT THING WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. It looked like strips of hard metal fastened about her neck at first, but when she took it off at the dramatic-wails-no-Ahiru-WHY episode it fell like soft ribbons. Argh.
Hello. If you look back over my posts you'll see I have stated several times that I'm going to try to return to this blog and post more often here. Well, guess what, this is another one of those posts, lol
You see, I hyperfixate on things. And the subject of my hyperfixation for the past year or so has been Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. I've been talking about it and posting fanfic on my fandom blog for the past year. That's why it's been difficult for me to break away. It kind of absorbs all my focus in my free time.
But it's a new year and a good excuse to re-double my efforts to make my life a little more balanced.
I'm going to start with crafts. Gonna try to do more of those again. I'd like to make more keychains and I also want to return to experimenting with making soap. Also picked up some 'Diamond Art' kit just to try it out since I see those darn things everywhere. And I might do something with Perler Beads again.
I will keep you all posted on my progress. I'll be using the #mycrafts tag for it. :)
A Halloween-y biscornu that I stitched up as part of @linkismyhomeboy Halloween swap. Love participating in swaps as not only do you get to meet new people but you also get to stitch designs you wouldn't normally do 😊 Pattern by @cloudsfactory #BritishStitchers #Crafts #CrossStitch #Embroidery #MyCrafts #MyCrossStitch #XStitch #PuntoDeCruz #CrossStitchersOfInstagram #CloudsFactory #Halloween #Pumpkins #Bats #Witches #Biscornu https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVOoIJtFxa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
im building my girlfriend a gaming pc for their bday and was telling them about the wide world of texture packs and i cannot BELIEVE that mizunos 16 craft has been defunct for FOUR years... do you remember how we used to run
After Mei and I first debuted Glad and Lillie at a con, I had the mad idea that I wanted to make a Silvally prop. The problem is… Silvally’s official size in the Pokedex is 2.4m. That’s 80cm taller than myself. )o) Sure, I could scale him down, make a tiny lap plushie like all the other cosplayers, but what would be the point? Although I’d never cosplayed from the Pokemon series before, I’d always thought that if I were to do so, I’d want to make life-size Pokemon so that it’d look like I actually have a Pokemon partner, and not just a Pokemon toy. But I’d thought then that my projects would be starters like Pikachu or Cyndaquil. Not a giant horse-dog like Silvally ^^;;;
I had to consider the fact that my house isn’t very big and I’d have barely any space to keep him. I had to consider how I’d be able to transport him, and how to construct him so that I could take him apart. I also had to consider the amount of money I’d be spending on him, because honestly, cosplay is not a cheap hobby. Materials in my country are especially expensive. As an unemployed student, I’d be splurging a lot if I decided to go ahead with this crazy project. When I told this to Mei during one of our dinners out, she suggested just making his head and taking halfbody shots so no one can tell that he has nobody. Like a hobby horse, except it’s a hobby Silvally.
And here's the result!! \o/ and then we only got one photo of him lololol
Okay, I really tried to make those cute resin shaker charms, but I could not get them to STOP leaking! So I said "Fuck that." And decided to try decorating some glass potion bottles, from the dollar store, in some polymer clay I have too much of.
The next video will be filling up the potion bottles!
Starting a new post to collect all the keychains I'm making! Or, at least, the ones I've photographed (I have around 5 I still need to take pictures of, lol)