The Guild of Mallow

Howdy howdy folks. It’s a brand new year, with brand new crafty ridiculousness! Enjoy these ornaments!

Happy New Years Everyone! Below, for your enjoyment,  is a picture of me and my xmas gift, a new pair of lungs; because I have asthma and I told Nettles jokingly that I wanted a new pair for  Christmas. Hahah

It is, it is. November kind of flew by. So much traveling and some larping and all sorts of insanity. We’ll be getting some new stuff into the store this week, hurray! And tomorrow I’ll be posting a Photosplosion of all of the larping gear that we made during the last month. Stay tuned!

My computer has the plague or something worse. I’ve been battling with it for the past few days, so my posts will continue to be somewhat sporadic over the next few weeks. We had a fun time at NERO Indy this past weekend. IceJames and I have been working furiously to complete our costumes, armor, and weapons by the time November’s Beronis event begins. I should have some pictures of that stuff up soon. Right now it just looks like a pile of cut-up pieces.

Yeah, so the IceJames and I have been spending the past few days visiting relatives, friends, and trying to find jobs so we can continue to keep our internet and entertain you all. Phew, run-on sentences ftw!

Anyhow, I’ve been working on a lot of the eyeball necklaces you’ve already seen and some secret secrets that I cannot reveal yet. Stay tuned for more insanity! Also, we are going to NERO Indy’s Halloween Event this weekend, so maybe I’ll see some of you there.

Despite my lack of posts, I do have some pictures of what I’ve been working on. It’s been a little busy with weddings and taking my kitten to get spayed two days ago. Here are the anticipated photos, enjoy!

I attempted to work on several accessories today. Despite actually making quite a few of the pieces for them, I accomplished making none of them. Weee! I do have several burnt orange terra-cotta colored Sculpey beads now that I’ll have to think of something to do with. You see, they were supposed to be orange, but the oven and I did not agree on that. The yellow ones turned out fine after I learned my lesson with the orange ones. =/

I did learn a new trick though. You can use polyester fiberfill (the stuff inside some stuffed animals) as a nest to put your polymer clay things in. It keeps them from getting any strange flat or shiny spots and it doesn’t melt or light on fire while you’re baking them, which is pretty cool. I’ve also been working on figuring out how to use memory wire. It’s pretty handy, but I supposedly need some special cutters for it.

As you have seen, the posts have been somewhat lacking for the past week. We had friends and family in town and they ate our life (in a good way). However, I did spend the afternoon with IceJames making spell packets for NERO Cincinnati, and while we won’t be larping at Ironpost this weekend with some of our friends, we will be going to a wedding in Michigan, weeee! Anyhow, hopefully there will be a plethora of new an exciting things to post tomorrow. TTFN!

Today for your viewing pleasure, I have a stamp!  It’s of a polliwog/tadpole and is for my aunt’s letterboxing kit.  Don’t know what letterboxing is?  Check out AtlasQuest for more info.

IceJames and I have been having an entertaining garage sale the past few days.  Well, entertaining is probably too strong of a word, but hey, at least we can sell things we don’t want for money!  Anyhow, in other news, my chicken Elvis laid two eggs!  These are the first ones she has laid since she came to live at our house and I am super excited about it.

Next week’s projects may be a little behind as we have a wedding to attend this weekend and one of our good friends from Florida is coming for a visit!