Here's the big one, my master list of dolls. I will be keeping it up to date with any new dolls I make.

All these dolls were constructed by me and the patterns are mine unless otherwise noted.

( Miss Edith needs her tea . . . )

My complete list of finished customized teddy bears - called Furlings by some - is in here. I will be keeping it updated with each one I do. The bears are all store bought, but all the clothing and accessories were made by me, from patterns to execution, except where I could supplement Build-a-Bear items for things that are harder to construct like glasses and shoes.

( All the little bears in uniform? )

Okay, so this is a master list of all the plushies I have made. I will be keeping it updated because I am neurotic and obsessive compulsive with each new plushie I make.

All plushies are made 100% by me, from the pattern through the construction.

( Plushies Galore! )

Tapping, tapping, tapping, TAPPING. I feel like a character from one of Poe's stories (only I'm female and not either dead or buried alive). There is a CONSTANT TAPPING on the window through all the daylight hours and I don't know what to do about it.

Here is the demon that plagues my days.


It is a maniacal cardinal. I don't know whether he sees a rival in his reflection on the window or if he just does it to drive me insane. He's been doing it since the fall (I was only recently able to snap a picture of him, though) and even the dogs have stopped barking at him. They just don't care anymore. But I do. I hear it in my sleep. It wakes me up. It's driving me to distraction.

All told, I'd prefer a raven. At least they provide light conversation, even if it is only a reply of one word. The damn cardinal just attacks the window and flaps it's wings like a reject from the cast of Hitchcock's The Birds.

Yaaay, the post no one but me has been waiting for, a full catalog of what I did in the last year, with pictures! Because I would rather procrastinate than make things. Honestly, I don’t know how I made this many things in one year with my extremely un-industrious personality.

( Holy Exploded Sewing machine, Batman! )


Well, that was intense. And that was a list that didn't include some of the teeny things I made, like the small legions of bookmarks I designed on photoshop, and some single polyclay things that didn't have sets. Clearly, I have no life outside my craft supplies and sewing machine. (PS – it really did explode! But it’s better now). I am productive, though, which makes me happy.

Tauri is being attacked by a giant squid! Aaaaah!

( one more, :P )

I love that frikkin squid. I might have to make one for me (not that I need another stuffed animal . . .).

So, I'm compiling a masterlist of all the crafts I made this year. Yeah, I should be done with that by never June.

I was just randomly on wikipedia looking at authors (because I was just watching the BBC's Miss Austen Regrets and I couldn't remember what disease it was that historians eventually decided she died of) and I wandered over to Connie Willis' page. Wiki tells me that Willis is finally coming out with another novel (the last one she wrote was Passage in 2002). It also tells me (and amazon.com confirmed) that the new novel, Blackout (and it's second volume, All-Clear) will be set in my beloved 2060 Oxford! <3

Doomsday Book, which was her first novel set in the near-future Oxford college Balliol, was possibly the most brilliant work of contemprorary (are we still in contemporary?) science fiction literature I have read. Now, I know that doesn't sound like much because most of the stuff I read was originally published before the year 1900, but still. And To Say Nothing of the Dog, which is the second novel coming out of Balliol, is still, eleven years after I first read it, one of my favorite books ever.

So, needless to say, I am super excited for February when Blackout comes out! Yay, more Dunworthy!!! I hope Ned Henry makes an appearance, because I am a little in love with him. Gah, I love Connie Willis! Yaaaaay!

</bookgeek>

I wrote this little Ouran Christmas fic for shinebunny over on holiday_ouran, so I thought I'd share.


title: Souvenir
rating/warning: eh, PG, no warnings, 'tis not at all shocking
characters/pairings: Haruhi/Kyoya, with appeareances by the rest of the boys
word count: 2,402
summary: Haruhi goes to a Christmas party at Kyoya's after being away from high school and the Host Club for five years.




( Souvenir )

Who remembers this show?




Holy Crap, 80s. You made some weird shit.

I loved that show though.


Zoobilee Zoo is freaking Furry patient zero or something, jeez.

David Tennant is officially the most adorable man on Earth.

This is the first of his CBeebies bedtime stories. It was originally recorded and ripped by lj user pineapple_sky on my Tennant community, but I had to reupload it to share because it is insanely adorable. And there's a narwhal!

The story is called "Miki" by Stephen Mackey.

Download here!

Leave me a comment saying "Adventure is Out There!" and I will respond by asking you five questions that satisfy my curiosity. Update your journal with the answers to the questions, including this in the post.

( spectre_rouge )

It is already December 3rd and the PANIC is SETTING IN. It is CRAFTAPALOOZA in my house right now, a slightly neurotic and anxiety-attacky flurry of fabrics and threads and yarns as I attempt to make something for everyone. I've made good progress (since I started like a month ago), and intellectually I know I'll be fine and I'll get everything done, but I have this guttural terror of not getting everything done.

But lately I have made some cool things, if I do say so myself.

( a narwhal!? )

( Link, he come to town . . .  )

( Mini Master! )

( Whooo Scaaaarf! )

( Manga bag, featuring Hayate! )

Whoo, I've been busy. Yup. I've made more stuff than that but I can't share it yet :3




In other news, if I here ONE MORE WORD ABOUT TIGER WOODS I AM GOING TO LOSE MY SHIT AND GO HULK-SMASH ON NANCY GRACE AND THE WHOLE OF THE MASS MEDIA WHO CONTINUE TO HARP ON THIS SITUATION WHEN ACTUAL NEWS IS OUT THERE HAPPENING. HIS POSSIBLE MISTRESS HAD A LARGER PART OF THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK POST THAN THE GODDAMN PRESIDENT TALKING ABOUT THE GODDAMN WAR IN IRAQ YOU FUCKING IDIOTS AKFALKSDGHQIUAF;KHLA;LKFHAEBRLGJDFK.NHBHL.
</rage>

Leave me a comment saying "What up!?" and then...

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

( galaxylily )

( spectre_rouge )

Because I felt like it.

( Can I trust you with my back? )

It is snowing. Fucking snowing! Not just flurries, mind, really coming down and I can see it almost sticking on the picnic table in the back yard.

WTF*&^&$%$@$#%^T%&*^*&^!!

Title: Flamenco
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Summary: Roy and company go to a bar. Insanity ensues.
Rated: K probably. I dunno. Maybe W. No, C for Crack.
Characters: Maes Hughes, Roy Mustang and all his subordinates, with a cameo by Armstrong!
Spoilers: None really
Word count: 1743
Author's Note: This is utter crackfic. And it took me unconsciouably long to finish it and I'm not really sure why. But yes, it is CRACK. Unbetaed.

( Flamenco )

I adored the first opening theme for Brotherhood. The second was not bad, they had the little Roy & Co bit so I was happy. OP 3, however, is V. exciting. It's like HOOOOOLY Ishabal. Which is exciting because I loooove the Ishbal arc in the manga and I can't wait to see it animated. The only thing that makes me a little sad is that Riza isn't in it more, especially since she is the framework for the telling of the whole Ishbal arc. Because what I'm really excited about seeing animated are her flashbacks from before Ishbal. Those are some of my favorite scenes in the whole manga (Vol 15 <3). But anyway, the opening. It is cool.

Mmmm.


And look at Kimblee just dominating that thing with his white suit. And OMG Olivier yay! I wonder who will do her voice . . .

This lightened my mood a bit because Chapter 100? Yeah, I'm still not over it.

( No. No no no no. No. - cut for spoilers and profanity )

It is trying to destroy me.

There is a long time until mid-November.

D8

I have had too much caffeine to live today.

OMG Yay! My sewing machine part FINALLY came in! I'll be a little wary of it until I get home tonight and fit it into the machine, but it looks right. It had better work or there will be some arson and bazookas involved in my retribution.