I'm in trouble

I finally got my birthday present from Zach. It is late through no fault of his. Nintendo kept delaying its release date. Last week I finally got it. It is called Harvest Moon. All you do in the game is farm and try to make friends. It is kind of lame, but it is soooooo addictive. I just can't help myself. It is the reason the last time I updated was in September. That and I have been really faithful to the sweater so I haven't had much to update about it.

But I did get a few things done before it sucked me in

As you know I had been wanting the Interweave Felt magazine so I could get the pattern for the needle felted beagles. Well I did, and this is what I came up with. It turned out pretty well. The eyes are kind of big and give it a "precious moments" kind of look. But Heidi makes that face all the time, so I thought it was appropriate. I used Llama fiber for the brown. That was a bit difficult because the fibers are so long. So the needle felted version is a lot fluffier than the real one.
















I also took part in a swap on my Harry Potter Crafts Yahoo Group. We had to transfigure one of those little mint/candy tins into something else. I made an emergency potions kit. Hopefully I'll have pictures soon of what my partner sent me. I can't wait. I've seen the stuff she has made for previous swaps and I am super excited.

It's Tuesday (well it was when I started this post)

I had a busy weekend. I went to Barboursville Fall Festival with Tiffany on Friday. We got some yummy food, I contemplated buying a Coach purse knockoff, and we people watched. On Saturday I went to Chilifest. Ashland is having their chilli fest this weekend. I don't know if I can do it two weekends in a row. I also picked up a new book. Brisinger came out. With it being 40% off (store sale), my $5 in borders, and a gift card from like last Christmas I only paid 28 cents. Of course I haven't been reading it much if at all. I've been a bit distracted.



I have been working on the sweater. It is now 50% done. The way I am measuring is there are "6" pieces. I have finished 3. The back is 2 pieces, each front is one piece and each sleeve is one piece. I have the back and the left front panel done. The sleeves aren't really equal to the other, but I feel that will make me go faster.

Aimee picked up some stuff for me when she was in Lexington, KY from Rebelle. She picked me up the new Interweave Felt magazine. There is a pattern/instructions on how to make a needle felted beagle. Oh yes I must make one that looks like Heidi. I also got a skein of Malabrigo in worsted weight. It has 216 yards and I can't figure out what scarf to make out of it. But whatever it is, it will replace the baby sweater as my "cheating on my sweater" project.

Why? Because it is finished. Wooo. Now I need to wrap it up and actually give it to the recepient. P.S. Someone at SnB wanted the pattern. Here it is. I left out two of the bottom part repeats before doing the shell edge. And I didn't do the sleeves, I just did kind of a picot edge on them.




Also some random crafting. I got some polymer clay and some bead rollers and took a stab and making my own beads. Maybe I'll make some stitch markers out of them. Cause I don't know what else to do with them. I apologize for the crappy picture. My battery was running out and I was trying to take them as fast as possible.

I love Harry Potter

I adore Harry Potter. I attend all the movies in costume, as well as the last couple book releases. It has been my Halloween Costume for three years. I attend Hogwarts Online http://www.hol.org.uk/ And here are some of my favorite HP crafts.


My Hogwarts school robe with prefect pin. I have somehow managed not to get a picture of myself in this costume. I promise I will remedy that this Halloween. Maybe I can knifty knit myself a new sweater to go with it.






















My Skiving Snackbox and chocolate frogs. Which as you can tell from the second picture, was a huge hit at the book release. I used plain white crayon boxes from AC Moore. I got the Skiving Snackbox label from The Leaky Cauldron website and I made the chocolate frog label. The actual chocolates were made using Wilton Candy Melts. For the frogs, I used a frog mold and regular milk chocolate. For the skiving snackbox, I had a bunch of left over colors and used a bug mold and did half the mold in one color and half in another.

Every good Gryffindor must have a S.P.E.W. badge and a "Weasely is our King" badge. I can't find my nice prefect badge.

And of course you have to have school books. I took regular writing notebooks (the bound, but not spiral types) and painted them. Then decoupaged on pictures. latin text, jars of herbs, potions bottles, etc. The quill, I took apart several pens and removed the writing part with the ink. I cut off the end of several feathers with a large ?stem?. I shoved the pen up into the feather and sealed with a hot glue gun. Ta da! Magical self inking quills.