Okay, I currently have two projects going, which I hope to have some kind of payoff in the long run.
The first is of the kind that can move quickly, but be kinda boring during the run of it. An online-only friend of mine does work with iron-fuse beads, and has a lot of fun making coasters and figures using 8-64-bit characters and items from older video games. I've been working on getting some designs together that would fit the coaster size, using paw prints, various kanji, and cross stitch and beading patterns. The hardest part of this is trying to get the designs into a 22x22 or 23x23 area, and nothing larger, as this roughly translates to a 4x4-inch block.
My main thing is getting all the graphs done before I buy the beads, so I can figure out how many beads of each color I need. Part of me just wants to go and buy 2 of X colors, and 6 of white (which is the main background for most of the graphs), but my worry is that I'll run through them too fast. So, trying to get the graphs done first.
The second project I'm working on is a needlepoint design of my own doing, which I hope to have done in time for the State Fair. This being a compass rose that I'm currently entering in my bead graph program. Given how it's going so far, I fear this may turn out for the 2011 State Fair, instead of this fall, but we'll see what happens. I'm currently laying out the basic compass, and will be adding details after I'm done with that. The bad news is, the way the Beading program is (this being the 2.0 version), I have to do the design in four segments, each 180x180 beads. Since the fabric I have is 10 stitches per inch, this basically translates into a 18"x18" area, or one quarter of the 3'x 3' design. Which is what the fabric is.
And thinking of that, the fabric is exactly 36.5", so i may have just shot myself in the proverbial foot by making the design just that little bit too big. ^^;
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Monthly update: June
Okay, I was busy all month, yet didn't get a lot accomplished. This is mainly because one of the things I was busy with is prep work, and that's unfortunately time consuming.
Weigh in: 192
Yup, still on a plateau. This despite biking to work whenever I could. I imagine this means I need to actually start using the weight bench sitting in the living room.
Book: Pages written: 1/4
When did I inherit the pet writer's block? And what happens if I send it home? I have sections that I want to write planned out in my head, but I'm not to where they would happen in my book just yet. Considering writing them out anyway, so I have them later, but I'm not certain that I want to have fragments of stories going.
Pages typed: 5
The stack of papers on my desk is slowly getting smaller. Then again, the reason I'm going at this slowly might be because once I'm done with this section, I'm back to full writing, and there's that writer's block I'm dealing with.
Ponies: --Made the decision to sell the Chibi and generation 3 lines. I don't like where these lines have gone lately, style-wise, and I don't necessarily have the space for them. I have also decided to store my Generation 1 ponies for the interim, as having even the few I have out on display takes up space I don't really have while rooming with my parents. This has meant getting them out of storage, photographing them for my records, making a file of their conditions, and either storing them properly or selling them online. There's a pony meet coming up the first week if August, so I hope to bring my extras and G3s there to sell, and so I've been getting ready for that. I'm also considering holding a raffle, in order to raise some funds while getting these cleaned up, but that entails cleaning them up anyway.
--Custom-wise, I spent most of the month prepping the baits I have. Not only is this time consuming, but it's rather boring. And painful. I managed to cut the top of my index finger while cutting the magnet out of a G3's hoof, and I've bruised my thumb using my hemostat to pull hair out of the heads, along with bruising my palm while using a jeweler's type flat-head screwdriver to pry said magnets and their caps out of the hoofs. Dad let me borrow his wood carver's glove, which helps, since it's Kevlar, and therefore is supposed to not cut. Which does not mean I want to test the theory, but at least I theoretically don't have to worry about that now.
Bead work: I spent most of the month sorting beads from the bags I put them in after I finished the designated projects. This was something I had been putting off for well over a year, so it's about time. I also started making a necklace, but that was stymied by the above pony projects.
Music study, Language study, Cross stitch: No change.
Weigh in: 192
Yup, still on a plateau. This despite biking to work whenever I could. I imagine this means I need to actually start using the weight bench sitting in the living room.
Book: Pages written: 1/4
When did I inherit the pet writer's block? And what happens if I send it home? I have sections that I want to write planned out in my head, but I'm not to where they would happen in my book just yet. Considering writing them out anyway, so I have them later, but I'm not certain that I want to have fragments of stories going.
Pages typed: 5
The stack of papers on my desk is slowly getting smaller. Then again, the reason I'm going at this slowly might be because once I'm done with this section, I'm back to full writing, and there's that writer's block I'm dealing with.
Ponies: --Made the decision to sell the Chibi and generation 3 lines. I don't like where these lines have gone lately, style-wise, and I don't necessarily have the space for them. I have also decided to store my Generation 1 ponies for the interim, as having even the few I have out on display takes up space I don't really have while rooming with my parents. This has meant getting them out of storage, photographing them for my records, making a file of their conditions, and either storing them properly or selling them online. There's a pony meet coming up the first week if August, so I hope to bring my extras and G3s there to sell, and so I've been getting ready for that. I'm also considering holding a raffle, in order to raise some funds while getting these cleaned up, but that entails cleaning them up anyway.
--Custom-wise, I spent most of the month prepping the baits I have. Not only is this time consuming, but it's rather boring. And painful. I managed to cut the top of my index finger while cutting the magnet out of a G3's hoof, and I've bruised my thumb using my hemostat to pull hair out of the heads, along with bruising my palm while using a jeweler's type flat-head screwdriver to pry said magnets and their caps out of the hoofs. Dad let me borrow his wood carver's glove, which helps, since it's Kevlar, and therefore is supposed to not cut. Which does not mean I want to test the theory, but at least I theoretically don't have to worry about that now.
Bead work: I spent most of the month sorting beads from the bags I put them in after I finished the designated projects. This was something I had been putting off for well over a year, so it's about time. I also started making a necklace, but that was stymied by the above pony projects.
Music study, Language study, Cross stitch: No change.
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