I switched to Wordpress because I seem to like how it works more now than it did a couple years back. Trouble is the format of all the images in my previous posts look like garbage now and I don’t feel like going back and editing them all. You may think I’m lazy, but it really is too tedious to try and make things look nicer… things that people might not see anyways. I hope you’re okay with that, Xin. Now I have to find and make you a new flashy suit to wear to warm you up some.
Another problem is that I have to go back to all my posts and throw them into the right category. I managed to import everything else correctly though. Oh well.
I kicked my butt changing every single aspect of this layout from the previous one. Skinning is very tedious.
I am not satisfied.
I want more space for my content. I don’t want a sidebar on the left as big as the main portion of the site. I want less colors, more white space, and more white, I guess. I need more minimization and less graphics.
I am thinking of redesigning. Yes, I like the look of this place and maybe I’ll change the above banner to something else if I feel like recycling the layout.
Tryton and Minh were talking about blogging in style the other day. We found a mutual friend of theirs that did so. She was from Tryton’s high school and from Minh’s house sophomore year! Tiny world, isn’t it! All three of us live in three different parts of California, but we were all brought together somehow. At any rate, she blogged in a narrative form so she rarely used first-person statements. On occasion she would ramble about junk in an emotive state, but other times she would have interesting story-like posts. I’m trying to think of a way to spice up my typings, but I’m more worried about the layout for now.
I think the entire site needs revamping. Sorry for not taking better care of you, Xin.
Tags: layout
I made many strawberries and tadpoles this last week. I turned some into magnets and now they live in peace with the fridge. One of the magnets was very weak though, so if someone slams the fridge door, a tadpole will fly off as well! I ended up using fabric glue for the tadpole eyes because I’m not that great at making pretty french knots yet.
I may or may not make a tutorial for the tadpoles. They seem straight forward enough for people to improvise their own ideas of how they’re made, right? 
Click on the sneak peek above to view the entire tutorial. It has been uploaded onto my DeviantArt page.
Tags: felt, Plush, pollywog, strawberry, tutorial
I just looked out the window to see how sunny it was and a bird just made an awkward back flip. I think the wind disrupted it’s supposedly epic flight maneuvers. I felt sort of embarrassed for it, looked away for half a second, and then looked back. It seemed to pretend nothing happened and flew away like normal. Nature is quirky here and there! At any rate, I haven’t updated this journal in a while and took photos of things that have been happening in this tiny workshop / bedroom / study room / game room / entertainment house of mine. But first things first! I got a gift certificate for presenting my game to prospective transfer students during Engineering Week in Baskin a couple months back. It was only $25 at the bookstore, so it wasn’t enough to buy a dry textbook for next quarter. I browsed the store for more than 5 hours before I found what I wanted to buy.
Ribbon! They cost $5.95 each! They are something I normally would not purchase for myself because they are expensive. Yuck. But I couldn’t resist the dashed pattern. If each roll didn’t come with the dashed design, I probably wouldn’t of bought them! I made a light box the other week as well. I needed a better place to take photos of the charms and jewelry I was making. I went into the box filled garage, grabbed one, started chopping it up with my exacto knife, and taped tissue paper to the sides. This is what it looks like with the ribbon stuck in the inside. I don’t have any other lamps to work with the light box, so no laughing! Below the light box are other examples of photos inside it. The first is of an apple I took from Hindquarter Bar & Grille. We ate there this week for Brian’s birthday. The second is of a Donald Duck candy holder I got from Tryton last Christmas.
Lastly, Tryton’s mom asked me to draw her something ages ago and I haven’t found the motivation to draw something nice. Earlier this month I drew a fairy in a flower and then it changed to a girl standing in an animal floating devise consisting of a shark, seal, fish, bird, and dolphin. Below are photos of it during my process of slowly finishing it. And of course, Tryton wanted me to use the Prismacolor markers he bought me to do the job. I’m really bad at using them effectively, so bare with me! Click the thumbnails to enlarge.
I was supposed to start a felt project today, but I ended up doing laundry and this instead. Maybe I should start now!
Tags: drawing, Photo, prisma, shopping
This second batch of polymer clay sweety charms was actually created and baked late last week, but I never had the chance to post it on my blog. I decided I will update this blog on a regular basis, posting down what I have been doing, rather than taking photos a week after they are created with new projects in between.
Otherwise things get way too complicated! I also want to keep better track of my doings and time management. Well, in this photo you see here are cookies (chocolate chip), various chocolates, ducks, bunnies, berries, cupcakes, donuts, and other random nursery items and candies. I don’t know how the theme ended up being this whimsical and colorful, but it did and it looks lovely!
Tags: charm, chocolate, cookie, Polymer Clay
I took photos of three of my new books and some of the interior pages. You can check them out on my neglected Flickr account here.
I was designing a business card for myself today on gotprint.net because I wanted to save a couple of dollars by not uploading my premade design. It took me half an hour to do it in their interactive flash design applet, but when I finished mine…. it gave me an error just as I was going to print. I knew something bad was going to happen! Maybe it’s a sign that I shouldn’t have any printed or something and I should make it myself! Ahh! And I have been hearing a lot of horror stories about vistaprint, so I am going to avoid them.
At any rate… I was supposed to say something else. Oo, I need to update the gallery here. I was going to implement something similar slimbox (for this CMS) but I kept getting errors. Strange! I’ll work it out.
For some reason or another my finger really hurts! It feels like I jammed it while playing basketball but I didn’t play, ahha. It’s really hard to type because it’s painful.
Tags: craft book, japanese
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Curious? Decode. Heh.
Tags: binary
This tree was supposed to be covered with clay and baked, but for some reason or another I decided against it and just painted it with acrylics. It was supposed to have wire hanging from it, able to hold charms, earrings, and bracelets, but I scrapped that idea too. Now it’s just a tree. It stands about one foot tall and has a wire/foil body.
I just bought about six books from Amazon. It was quite expensive because I ordered it across seas. The shipping costed almost as much as the books! Agh! But I am going to love them. If I don’t… I’m going to cry for a couple of weeks and then perhaps try to sell them to my little sister for less than half the price. I can’t help it!
I love craft books!
So, I promised myself today I would make some polymer clay figurines. I’ll be off doing that until Tryton is finished with work. We are supposed to go to the beach but it’s a bit windy again. This widget tells me it is 76 degrees F outside, but that’s probably a lie. The water will be cold anyways, but we’ll decide once he gets back.
I also put up my shop officially. You can visit it at SweetSprouts.etsy.com. Someone took the name “SweetSprout” already AND the domain SweetSprout.com is owned by another person selling hand made items. What the heck? I swear I googled for a couple of hours trying to come up with an original name, but it didn’t turn out so well. I’m a bit angry.
Sorry, this post was meant to be posted two days ago. I didn’t have the time to copy and paste it over! I was without connection.
The county fair starts today, but it sounds just like it would any of the other years. I won’t be attending because I’m going to go thrift store shopping with my sister. She needs some furniture. My younger sister is going to the fair with her boyfriend, but she wanted to go thrifting too. She can’t do both!
Since our house is still doing the spiritual boundary ceremony, we couldn’t have our barbecue until after 5:00pm. A lot of family came that I haven’t seen for a while, some last summer, and some since Spring Break. My one year old niece Jasmine can walk now!
At any rate, I need to go clean things up. It’s quite a mess out in the backyard: many cups and plates and empty soda cans and water bottles. Hmm!
But yesterday I saw Wall-e. It’s a great silent film, if you’d like to call it that. It was sweet, heart warming, and a thrill to watch. It’s definitely worth buying.
