The lovely Christine commented on my last post that she likes seeing the crafty things I make. It just so happens I was going to post all of these things sometime soon, so I decided to go ahead and post them now. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

First, we have some adorable little pocket mirrors made by yours truly. Well, Colin actually helped me handpress the mirrors. I didn’t want to ruin them! I bought a 1 1/4 inch and a 2 1/4/ inch button maker back before Christmas. I tried my hand at making a button, but that’s pretty much all I did. Until this past weekend. I decided to try making a pocket mirror, and these two were the result. They are really quite adorable. I don’t think the pictures do them justice. I love making cute things! I am quite proud of the bee on the mirrors. I made it all by myselfs. love:

Next up we have some bee charms. These were an experiment. I had been wanting to try my hand at making the cute little plastic charms that seem to be sold all over Etsy and various other webshops these days. I knew they were made using ShrinkyDink paper, and I happened to buy some at Joann’s back before Christmas. I couldn’t find any of the inkjet ShrinkyDink paper though. I decided to experiment with regular ShrinkyDink paper in my printer instead. It worked, but as you can see, some places smeared. Most of the smears are from my fingers handling the other bees. They turned out fine, but they’d turn out way better (and more vivid) if I had actual inkjet ShrinkyDink paper.

Last, we have a couple of pictures of things I have been working on for several weeks now. These projects have been put on hold since I have been rather busy lately. I bet you can guess what one of them will turn out to be. Hopefully I can finish these two babies before say summer?

Happy Hump Day everyone!

I’m finally starting to feel better I think. Two Saturdays ago I got pretty sick. Some stomach virus/flu thing. Once, I got the flu really bad when I was in 5th grade and pretty much puked my guts out for days on end. Every since then, I haven’t been able to throw up when sick. Some people might think this is a good thing. It’s not always really. I mean, sometimes when you’re sick, it makes you feel better to throw up. Well anyway, since I can’t throw up I just sort of gag and get all nauseas and dizzy and stuff. It’s not fun. So when I was sick two Saturdays ago, if I could have thrown up, I would have been throwing up left and right. Instead, I just got to be very nauseas and gaggy and had diarrhea which is another fun treat in itself. I was also extremely achy. Luckily, the Monday was a day off (Martin Luther King day), and the Tuesday brought snow so school was cancelled. I did miss two days of work though. I didn’t go back until last Friday. It’s Wednesday now, and I’m starting to feel more like my old self again, which is definitely nice.

Some news about work- There is this conference I wanted to go to in March. It’s a two day thing, so I’d have to miss two days of work and stay overnight and stuff. I wanted to go because there are a lot of neat workshops that are being offered (some that give you way cool free stuff!) on things I am interested in. The conference workshops are largely technology oriented, but there are other general education ones as well. The main ones I am interested in are the podcasting ones, the animation ones, and the school newspaper/digital camera ones. Anyway, to go to this conference I figured I’d have to use two of my personal days and take off work and pay the conference fee and hotel out of my own pocket. I decided to ask my principal if there was any way I could go to this and be compensated for it. Well, Monday it finally got all sorted out. The budget committee decided that since we’re getting a lot of new technology stuff for our school (mostly document cameras and stuff) that sending me to this conference to learn about new things would be good. So… I get to go and everything is going to be paid for by the school! I even get reimbursed for mileage and all. I’m super excited! I’ve never gone out of town before, by myself, to something like this. I’ve gone to conferences before, but I never had to stay at a hotel by myself or anything like that. I think it’ll be neat though. I just hope I get into the workshops I want. So, on March 5 -7 I will be off hopefully having fun and getting free goodies in Louisville.

My new craft experiment: I bought some yellow yarn and Crocheting for Dummies last weekend. A couple of people have told me that the book is a pretty good one for helping to learn how to crochet. I’ve wanted to learn how for awhile now. I also bought this cd-rom that has crochet lessons on it. I tried it out yesterday, and I think it will definitely help a lot! The videos in the lessons are really good, and I guess I am pretty visual about things! Maybe one day I will crochet a masterpiece! Until then… I will practice.