Less making, more having fun

I realised I hadn't posted here for ages... so I wondered what I was up to. Checking back through social media, it seems like I've just been out with friends mostly.

First, cable car!! Which including a boat ride and a bit of visiting a sort of hackerspace in Greenwich.
There was some ponies...
something called Meat Tuesdays... o_O
and a Maker Faire!
I've been barely alive since the Maker Faire. I am so glad the golf courses no longer exist..

Alas, I am no longer invincible to money problems... so I will have to only make do with what I've got. This sadly includes making do with a netbook for a while until I can save up enough money for a new laptop. Less Inkscape fun probably.

I have a bunch of stuff to post about but I'll try to space it out a bit. Yay making things!

Sometimes you don't need a reason. BUBBLES!

Tom and I made bubble wands and made giant bubbles until we ran out of bubble solution last night :D We made bubbles that bounced off the carpet!! And bubbles that seemed to last forever and ever. And GIANT bubbles that take forever to pop along their length.

Random Dremel Engraving and Nostalgia

So... many many weeks ago I felt the need to buy this shiny, green beetle encased in resin.

Tonight, I had a random urge to engrave all over it. In my mind it was going to turn out more victoria/goth lace-like design. Instead I came up with something that vaguely reminds me of one of my favourite movies from my childhood... Explorers.



If you've never seen this movie before, I highly recommend you watch it. It is fantasy but very wonderful.

This part is pretty far along in the movie but that crystal in young Ethan Hawk's hand is what I was reminded of when I finished my bug carving.

It's funny how memory isn't perfect - I thought the crystal was green with white carvings but actually it looks more clear with green carvings.

Fluttershy Everything

pink, yellow & turquoise book finished


Fluttershy cutie mark inspired nail art

Bookbinding - Leather Tooling, Finishing and Fluttershy Book Progress

Trying to get the Fluttershy* book finished for the end of term (next week! OMG I did a whole school year of something! :P)

I was almost going to finish it yesterday but I forgot my tube of Shocking Pink Book Cloth ... then remembered I didn't make any endbands either so I prepared to do that in class, then went... Noo I wanna make pretty marks on leather. Look, I prepared a leather covered board at home and everything!

So I went through all the finishing tools we have in class and found allll the swirlies. Happy happy swirlies. AND a tiling swirly so I can make a line of swirly!

Here's my practice board


I love working with leather. I could grow to love just tooling and finishing... Didn't even do any foil/gold work in this.

Went home and figured out that the purple silk thread I brought back from class would be the wrong colour scheme for Fluttershy - it'd just go a bit Easter colours if I used purple. So I looked through my embroidery floss and found I had a good turquoise like Fluttershy's eyes. And tada! I finished the tailband


Just have to finish the headband now. And re-do the mull over the stitches (doh. do things in order next time...)

*For those of you uninitiated into My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Fluttershy looks like this:

This book was totally going to be sane and reasonable(yellow end papers, red book cloth half-binding with cute dormouse & red berries paper) until I found neon pink acrylic paint to paint the head of the book with... then reason went out the door.

Minecraft in Cake and Ring form

Ginger cake with lemon water icing


Lava, Cobblestone, Dirt, Grass & Water block rings. The lava and water ones are my favourites. They both use "caning" for the patterns. Mixing the white glitter fimo into the blue fimo is beautiful - it already has AB sparkles which works really well with the blue.

Fimo is the most awesome stuff ever

Experimented with translucent white fimo and baking/forming over a foil form. This actually needs to be balanced a little better, it keeps wanting to face-floor.

It is beautiful, though, for something I just made because I was getting frustrated trying to make fimo ponies :P