I liiiiiive!

I swear I do. I'm just at work now and being trapped on these stupid ships for so long that my will to live, much less crochet or learn how to tat. I'm working on a Solomon's knot shawl now. It's pretty. Someday it'll be finished.

In other news I would give an ARM for some black raspberries. Maybe a kidney. I have two of each... so one's a spare right? No one believes me that they exist. I've never seen them outside of Michigan, but apparently somewhere in Oregon there is a commercial farm or two.

Kay I did it

Check it out. Not everything is on there. But it is a start. I also gave 4 pairs of the Cardinals to Elixer downtown... so let's see if anything sells.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueEyesWillow

Getting on the Etsy Train

Some things in life are inevitable, or at least they seem so. I like to crochet and learn new crafts. The things that I make I generally would wear, but not always and I seem to end up only wearing a few pieces with any regularity.

So I sign up.

Take pictures.

Realize that 70% of my pictures are crap and no one is going to buy anything based off of crap pictures.

I want a new camera that I can adjust the focus on my own instead of this auto-focus crap. That would unfortunatly entail spending money.

More tatting!

\Visiting my cousin left me with a good amount of downtime on the plane and when she was at work. So what else to do but craft? Hobby Lobby had a free pattern for a heart... this is actually my second attempt at it. I didn't have as much of an issue with twisting on the first one. Another issue I seem to have is with the picots, on the inside loops they are too close together for me to do them as evenly as I would like. :-( I guess that is what practice is for though.

My day-job work is something else. In less than two weeks I go off to my next ship. I need to figure out soon what crafts I have space for and want to take. There is so little space in one's room and definitely not so much time to experiment. I want to be able to practice my new crafts (aside from tatting I have started knitting and found a book on needle lace) However, it is also nice to have space for one's clothes. OOOOhhhh the dilemmas.

And now for something compleatly different: crochet!

This choker I designed all on my own! YAY! It looked a little twisty when I was making it up, but once I blocked it everything just came together beautifully (in my humble opinion). I am thinking more and more about starting something up on etsy or trying to sell the pattern at the very least. I was a good kid and for the first time ever took notes when I was working on the pattern. At least for most of it.

The final thing I shall leave you with.....




... a really bad picture. But seriously, this is a soon to be bunny earring that I set inside my dad's wedding band for scale. When I was working on this little baby I did think to myself for a moment that maybe some threads are just too small to work with. Then I realized just how cute this little guy is. I should have taken a picture when I was blocking out the ears.

New Blog

*Que Fanfare* The Old "Let's Do Lace" blog has closed and a new one has officially begun!

Not that I used the other one... I just wanted to have a craft/narcissist blog for all to see (I want attention, look at me!!!). The old blog had a grand total of three posts to it... none of them with pictures, if you can believe it! No more of that.

I successfully needle-tatted totsumel's flower pendant (http://www.instructables.com/id/Learn_Needle_Tatting_With_My_Flower_Pendant/)
The instructions were fairly clear.... no, I lied.... in order to make sense of them you need to watch the video repeatedly and slowly. I'm sure if I had gone into it knowing more about needle tatting everything would have made sense, but the reason I was trying to do this was to learn how! Once I got the idea of how to hold, turn, and tie everything it went smoothly.

Observe the awesomeness!