things on strings

Linn, the awesomely awesome person who gave me my darling instax, requested a header for her blog. So I drew her this:

I colored it in on Paint, and that took ages. I wasn't happy with it though. So this morning I got up early, did a watercolor version, and then made this:

I like it so much better. I am so very in love with the way watercolors look on paper.

Here is part of the elaborate contraption I made for that whole dangling on strings thing. I got very tired.

I don't have a tripod, hence the books.

I also made a really short stop motion animation thing. It isn't quite done, so hold on to your horses.

Love,

me.

sigh

My little sister's blogger account is all new and cool, and I can't get mine to be cool like hers. I've tried and I've tried and I've tried, and now I am tired.

Sniff.

Oh well.

Today I drew a superhero.

And then of course my sister wanted her own:

I gave her stripy socks.

I think tomorrow I'll re-draw and paint them.

Also, the other other day I made a hat. I wanted to copy Elsie's. It's kind of similar, so yay.

The problem: I just made it up and now I can't remember how to make it again. Shame.

I had fun with the timer that shoots eight photos in like, the blink of an eye. Okay, not really. But it felt like that.

(See my 20 peso plaid making an appearance? Yeah-huh. Thrift shops forever.)

refashion

Remember that ugly shirt I was telling you about? It had funny 3/4 sleeves and a neckline that kind of looked like one on a men's undershirt in the Spanish colonial times. It choked me.

Anyway, I snipped away at it (that on the left is one of the dratted sleeves):

And I fixed it!

I put a really large bow on the front, because I've always wanted a blouse with one. It's so green, I was afraid I would look like I was dying of consumption, but it looks okay.

I am a happy girl.

Now I just need to work up the courage to wear tanktops again.

fuzzy like peaches

You know what's awesome? Looking in the attic and finding out that you have floss the exact same shade as the cloth you want to sew on. Invisible stitches, chyeahh.

That fuzzy cloth used to be a sweater thing. I'm making it into something kooky and vintage, you know, the kind you can't really decide about? Kind of ugly but awesome at the same time.

This scarf? I cut up a sweatshirt into strips, and then crocheted it. I was deciding between a scarf, a rug, or potholders. I went with the scarf. Still thinking about it, since it leaves little bits of fluff all over my clothes.

I like my room in the late afternoon. The light is perfect, and I just want to sit there and think about things.

Like, how strange is my expression here?

Our forevers go together.

swoon sunday

(via Smythe)

I have no words.

(also the price makes me hyperventilate)

so i wait for you

I found a lot of this perfect golden-colored faux leather in the attic. I think my mom used it to make book covers or something. Anyway, I thought it would be nice if I cut them into leaf shapes... and then I wondered what to do about them for a few days, and then I had an idea.

I made a bracelet. And it is now my new favorite bracelet in all the world:

It looks particularly lovely with my nails. Seafoam green, rather messily applied.

Now my brain is practically spilling over with ideas. Leaves? Smaller leaves! Multitudes of leaves! Feathers! Flowers. Owls! No, skulls. Skull owls! ...wait, what?

sisters

A friend of ours had his film developed and this came out! It's my sister and I. I love this so much, for some reason we look so... calm. Ha.

I'm going to print it out really huge and hang it up in my room.

"Great minds, are like mine."

-Ina