Earrings.

Ooo! Pretty dangly earrings that I made. Can you believe how hard it is to just find circles? Obnoxious...

What's next?

Here's me, in a rather disappointed and unhappy mood. Can someone please tell me why we all don't have a special room in our house for smashing things? There's really nothing I'd rather do more than smash glass plates on the floor and yell until I feel at least a little bit better. 
Ah, whatever, let's play nice.
I just finished a pair of earrings for my friend's girlfriend. they're all pretty and dangle-y.  It was incredibly difficult to find the bits I needed to create what I had in mind, which is pretty ridiculous since I just wanted some larger circles...
And, you'll be happy to know that I have finally purchased the white thread to finish the gun cross-stitch.  Actually finishing the cross-stitch is next on my list. In the meantime, I'm trying to come up with a great design for my next piece.  I'm starting to think of this more as a method of expression and art than as just a, well, a pretty thing to make.

Anyone know....

Does anyone know of a lighting design forum or something similar? I'd like to make some more lights but I'd really like to know for sure whether or not they'll catch on fire and kill us all.

Part Two: the blood! The horror!

Hello my fine fictitious fans! I wanted to let you all know that the massive snow storm we experienced here in little Rhodey gave me the patience to work on my cross-stitched gun again. Previously incredibly frustrating, it is now almost done.

Time spent: approximately 15 hours.
Finger pricks: 9. And three of those were really in there.

Part One: Fail.

Damn. I tried to take a little short cut on my cross-stitch pattern by using an iron-on transfer and it ended miserably.  I apparently overestimated the quality of iron-on transfer paper.

This looks like poop.

 

 Well... Okay.  Maybe I can make some sort of lemonade out of this... So, I stick it in this nifty new frame thing that I got. Handy dandy, right? Yep.

 

The boyfriend convinces me to try cross stitching with the pattern on the back. Right, I'll give it a go!

WORST IDEA EVER.  It took me probably twenty minutes to get two rows done. After giving up on that, I traced the areas all paint-by-numbery for me to fill in later.   And, I think that I'm ditching the text "Happiness is a warm gun" altogether.

Should I just start over?

The next project is in the works...

Immediately after finishing the "My shoes are flesh" pillow sham for Kyle, I came up with my next project.
Behold, a soon-to-be-cross-stitched work of freakish amazingness:

Thoughts? Suggestions?
Elan requested that the next one say "Happiness is a warm bun" with a cheeseburger.  Personally, I want to do something with bacon on it.

He likes it!

Because I wasn't able to be at the official unveiling of my present to Kyle, a video was taken of his response to the gift.

Here's Kyle, unwrapping his brand spankin new cross-stitched pillow.

I am so proud!

Whammy.