Arwen

This is my first full colored-pencil portrait. I am not tottally happy with it, but it is certianly the best so far! And a good experience! I now know what colors to use for faces.

A work in progress shot

My drawing next to my reference.

FAILED: Sewing a skirt

So you thought that all I could make was some neat drawings and fun crafts? Looks can be misleading. For every good drawing showcased on my blog, I have ten pages (however unrelated, aside from technique)of terrible, horrible, nasty drawings. For every five crafts I make, one makes it to the dumpster. And of those that survive, not all make it to the blog.

But sometimes a fail has to make it to a blog. This is a particularly big fail. And... I'm posting it on my blog.

I had a pair of too small jeans with holes that I wanted to turn into a skit. I didn't want to turn it into a long skirt with two fabric triangles in front and back, like some friends of mine make. I wanted to make a knee-length skirt. And I don't know how to sew well.

The problem, as I later found out, was that the pants were too small. Nevermind that they fit around the waist-- a skirt tight in the hips does not work very well. Maybe this would have worked if I had a pair of fitting jeans. My other problem was that I tried to make it below knee length, and did not have enough fabric from the bottom of the legs to fill in the skirt.

^And there was my problem, and the reason I never finished the skirt. Had that not been an issue I would have finished sewing and given it to someone smaller.

My Brothers' Stuff

Arts, crafts, and crazy creativeness might not be the biggest thing in our family, but every now and then I convince my brothers to join me.

Ben has done some excellent drawings and poems, and William and Nick have both written some pretty good stories. But I don't have pictures of those.

But I do have these pictures to share:

SOME of the rings William made (I made the top right one for his Aragorn costume, but he made the rest without help):

A balloon William drew on for Mother's Day. It is our house with a "SOLD" sign. (We've been trying to move for... a long time.)

Ben, working on a drawing. He worked on it the same time I was working on my Aragorn. I think he got discouraged that my drawing actually turned out OK-- he gave up on it. :( He got pretty far and pretty good, though.

Ben is working on a rosary now, and I am teaching 3 of my brothers chainmaille. :)

My 2 year old brother had to join the fun, of course:

Craft Basket

I finally organised my craft basket. Don't worry if it doesn't look organized-- its organized to me. At least stuff is not falling out.

My beads and wire are in an under-the-bed box.

Drawings

A few weeks ago, we visited my cousins for a First Communion and a Confirmation. Mom suggested I draw pictures for them (the day before!) and this is what I came up with-- St. George and the Dragon for my cousin recieving his first Communion, and St. Benedict for my cousin recieving Confirmation with St. Benedict as his patron.

Teaching my sister

This picture is from sometime around last Christmas. EVERY BIT of my jewelry stuff was out all over the floor. Since then I've used most of it up and have more stuff! lol!

"How To Make A Rosary"

A few months ago I wrote this article for Ink and Fairydust. I thought I should post it on my blog-- I'm a little proud of my photography, graphics, and making sense of Miss Wendy's typos. :)

I'm going to take a moment to add that I draw a monthly comic and write a monthly art column for I&F.

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