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Been beading up a storm this weekend. Well, not really, as I've been working on two bracelets simultaneously on the loom and taking my time with both. One is a silver ascii rose, the other is a more kink oriented design:
I was gonna put in an actual picture butI eated it the Hatemonger is out of juice for the moment. I'm actually finished beading the silver rose, SLAVE requires a few more chain links. Thinking next time I do it I'm going to kill the drop shadowing effect - it looks great if you look at it from the side, and kinda muddled from the front. Thinking just a flat silver will work better. The more you know.
Sadly after I get done with SLAVE I will be out of black beads again. What, that took all of a week? *shakes head* Bulk ordering, for real. Actually if I can make it to the Garment District while I'm in NY I'm going to see if I can just buy black delicas by the hank. While I'm at it, looking for small buckles might not be a bad idea. I think I figured out how to make them work.
Seems like my beading stuff is falling into three categories; bigger pieces (like Bowser and the Castlevania screenshot I want to do, plus my own stuff), geeky wristband type things, and stuff for the kink market. Some nice niches to be found in all three categories, I think.
Its good to be cranking out actively creative stuff again. I've had quite a few people this weekend comment that they wouldn't have the patience to sit hunched over a bead loom for hours on end, but I see it as not all that different from other things that look tedious from an outside perspective but are supposedly either calming to the mind or is some sort of creative expression... I make bracelets, others golf, still others spend hours meticulously plotting encounters for their D&D games. We all gotta relax somehow, right?
In not-bead news, my allergies KILLED me this weekend. I spent most of yesterday outdoors at the Geoffroys' and paid for it by having a two hour allergy attack. I rubbed my eyes so raw I needed ice to get them to stop puffing up and hurting, and several hours after that to be able to close my eyelids without having them immediately adhering shut. Not fun. That's it, I've resolved to stay mostly indoors until all the lilacs die, cause that shit yesterday was utter balls. But on the upside the cookout was very nice and I did get to go home stuffed to the gills with nothing but animal protein, so that bit was happy at least. Today was somewhat busier what with the last bell performance of the season (we reconvene in September) and then gaming with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
extrajoker and co. in the afternoon. We're done with the werewolf campaign and are now doing a GURPS Victorian Steampunk sort of thing, so I rolled up kind of a cross between Kaylee from Firefly and Ed from Cowboy Bebop with a dash of Arya Stark for flavor in that I'm a teenage girl learning to fly, repair, maintain and all around be in love with airships. So far I like my little curly haired gearhead in pants. And afterwards I got sent home with a small crafty thing of extrajoker's: she makes crocheted fortune cookies full of catnip with a rattly bit inside, and a little satin fortune sticking out. It has since become Lily's bestie. Seriously, she played with that thing for hours.
So yeah, it was a good, reasonably busy weekend... next couple of days will no doubt be spent running around dreading the trip down to the city, per usual.
I was gonna put in an actual picture but
Sadly after I get done with SLAVE I will be out of black beads again. What, that took all of a week? *shakes head* Bulk ordering, for real. Actually if I can make it to the Garment District while I'm in NY I'm going to see if I can just buy black delicas by the hank. While I'm at it, looking for small buckles might not be a bad idea. I think I figured out how to make them work.
Seems like my beading stuff is falling into three categories; bigger pieces (like Bowser and the Castlevania screenshot I want to do, plus my own stuff), geeky wristband type things, and stuff for the kink market. Some nice niches to be found in all three categories, I think.
Its good to be cranking out actively creative stuff again. I've had quite a few people this weekend comment that they wouldn't have the patience to sit hunched over a bead loom for hours on end, but I see it as not all that different from other things that look tedious from an outside perspective but are supposedly either calming to the mind or is some sort of creative expression... I make bracelets, others golf, still others spend hours meticulously plotting encounters for their D&D games. We all gotta relax somehow, right?
In not-bead news, my allergies KILLED me this weekend. I spent most of yesterday outdoors at the Geoffroys' and paid for it by having a two hour allergy attack. I rubbed my eyes so raw I needed ice to get them to stop puffing up and hurting, and several hours after that to be able to close my eyelids without having them immediately adhering shut. Not fun. That's it, I've resolved to stay mostly indoors until all the lilacs die, cause that shit yesterday was utter balls. But on the upside the cookout was very nice and I did get to go home stuffed to the gills with nothing but animal protein, so that bit was happy at least. Today was somewhat busier what with the last bell performance of the season (we reconvene in September) and then gaming with
extrajoker and co. in the afternoon. We're done with the werewolf campaign and are now doing a GURPS Victorian Steampunk sort of thing, so I rolled up kind of a cross between Kaylee from Firefly and Ed from Cowboy Bebop with a dash of Arya Stark for flavor in that I'm a teenage girl learning to fly, repair, maintain and all around be in love with airships. So far I like my little curly haired gearhead in pants. And afterwards I got sent home with a small crafty thing of extrajoker's: she makes crocheted fortune cookies full of catnip with a rattly bit inside, and a little satin fortune sticking out. It has since become Lily's bestie. Seriously, she played with that thing for hours.So yeah, it was a good, reasonably busy weekend... next couple of days will no doubt be spent running around dreading the trip down to the city, per usual.
