felt sushi
I wish I had an answer to the question, "what do you do?" The truth is, I work on whatever strikes my fancy at the moment: resin, jewelry, felt, sewing, paper crafts, you name it. Right now I'm on a felt kick and have been throughly enjoying making geektastic felt coasters and food. My next project involves mold making and rubber stamp casting. I am also a contributor to craftaweek.com.
I had an article published in 'The Best of Instructables' book for a piece called 'Crafting a Bento'. I also won a Valentine's Day contest for making a microcontrolled LED firefly pendant. Prior to that, I worked on several independent films (Snow Day, Bloody Snow Day, Until Voices Wake Us, Lakeside) as props master and makeup artist.
I've had this dream of living small for the last few years. Thus far, my dream has been to live in a shipping container. But tonight I met a friend of a friend who built her own tiny house!
It's 120 sq ft. That doesn't sound like much, but what she's done with it is nothing short of *amazing*. She lives in it with her 3 dogs. Most of the materials she got from craigslist. And it must be really empowering to build your house yourself! I'm really inspired. I'm going craigslist hunting asap!
Today I completed the bento box itself. The first image is the box, the second image is of the completed parts + a curious kitteh. (I guess it *does* look pretty tasty!)
A friend of mine wanted to make a friend of his a patch for her phenomenal pickling skillz. Unfortunately, we were unable to get the embroidery machine to work so I handmade one for him to give to her. (I'm not syndicating this post in hopes she won't see it until after she gets the patch!)
Update: The embroidery machine is now working! I'm sure the one from the machine will look *much* better. Regardless, it was a fun 'thing' to make! ^-^
I didn't actually make this but I'm counting the photo as my thing. This is a pole pig that my friends at hackerbot labs turned into a jacob's ladder.
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The little girl I nanny got a tooth fairy pillow from her grandma. It was super cute but I thought I could make a handmade one with a little more personality. The embroidered tooth came out a little wonky so I'm going to redo it but it's certainly proof of concept! It is held together with two small neodynium magnets.
One of two felt shrimp that will go in a larger project: felt bento!
I'm in the middle of a move (my 4th in 6 months). The first thing to go up is always the craft space.
