he is made from a Tunisian crochet in the round, where i did a traditional Tunisian circle and then i tried a few rounds of Tunisian "in the round" using 3 crochet hooks.
it was a little difficult to wrangle but it can work. 4 hooks would be better i think, or a flexible afghan hook, but i cant actually get those anywhere here.
he proved a little hard to photograph as well, so you can't see his tentacles very well, or the detail around his edge of the body. oh well.
rainbow jellifish on etsy
my camera is constantly playing up now . i was lucky to get enough shots for this guys listing. i really should look into sending it off for fixing, specially as it should be free, seeing as the A80's are on the sensor recall list.
I just have to find out where to send it. it will be sad parting with it though, it's old and sad and past it really compared to the cameras on the market these days for a comparable price, but its still one of my most prized possessions, and i couldn't afford to replace it if it did die completely on me.
Oh and All my Love Monkey/ Love Bunny plush on etsy are on SALE!
now marked down to just $20! (plus postage)
see here for whats left of those
I was quite nervous, and haven't really slept much the last 2 nights, but I did ok.
I had 3 fillings today, 2 were fixing up and covering older fillings , which I'm glad about 'cos the old ones were the silver fillings and were old and quite dark looking. They looked horrible as they were next to the gaps were i had the extractions, i think was quite noticable. now they are toothy coloured fillings and thus less noticable and I wont feel quite so self concious about smilling at people.
here's a fairly accurate description of my dentist visit, as told by Eddie Izzard ;p
the police and coroner are in there collecting the body of (M) one of the tenants whom it seems had committed suicide quite a few days ago.
( cut incase dead body tale will squick you, and some musing on neighbours )
- Mood:strange
it was an ungodly for a Sunday 9 am start so I am quite tired now, as i just couldnt sleep last night and managed just a couple of hours at most.
it was interesting, he seemed a bit slow of the mark, I think he also felt that 9am on a Sunday was a bit of a struggle. but we got an interesting mix of him talking about young adult fiction and being a crossover adult / kids writer, and some prose and poetry centred round fairytale themes.
I have an Etsy meet up at 3 so need to head back into the city for that, then will have lots of coffee there so o can then get myself out to prahran for Doms birthdee drink ( hoping people will still be there when i arrive )
but dont worry too much of he lands on your head, he has no teeth, he's a gummy bear ;p
drop bear at etsy
crochet in zoomy yarn. claws and nose crochet from crochet cotton.
so it's been a bit quiet round here. is there anyone out there ?
I havent been up to much really, other than crocheting. I've made a few custom order things, and trying to catch up on email. I owe a few replies to people still.
oh i had also listed a few more red jellifish on my shop in case your after one. I'm trying to decide what new characters i can come up with to sew.
I dont feel like remaking old characters at the moment.
time for new things,
but what ...
We just went around the Yarra trail along the river, from Bridge rd around to Burnley st. Its been a while since we walked that.
I'm not sure how any Kilometres that ends up being, but it took about an hour and a half at our reasonably leisurely pace.
a few snaps; some birdys. not sure what they are ? the black long necked one was so shiny he looked like he was made from velvet.
cool looking trees, that big one is a monster, he'll eat you if you turn around, rarrr!
click on pic to embiggen
craft wise: I decided to decline to enter the crammed organisms show. I got the confirmation about being 'accepted' last week, but didn't take much notice of the dates due to flu and wisdom tooth concerns.
Friday we got reminder that fees to enter were due that day, and then i realised that to enter O would have had to have sent my items by last week to reach them by this coming Friday anyway. (I cant afford express international mail either).
at least Plush it and Plush you shows are coming up later in the year, and they have given more than a weeks notice for creating and sending stuff. so I'll be in those later in the year. but I should get onto ideas for those soon.
http://geekcrafts.com/13-crafty-robots/
Priest floats out to sea tied to party balloons
We recently watched all of the Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty. a 6 part comedy show featuring
(you'll never guess...)
thats right
David O'Doherty!
I loved it. if you can find it watch it! :]
hint: all 6 episodes can be found starting here
they are just clear safety eyes painted with acrylic paint.
I have two new red jellies made with my hand painted eyes (one of which is up on etsy) and find they look great. the eyes are nice and bright, (that doesn't really show in the pics that well though)
and by painting them myself this way means that the colours of the different sizes match much better than store bought ones.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-de
no link to my shop, sadly. I haven't seen the paper version yet but aparantly there is a jellisteins monster pic with it :]
anyway, there is a new creature in the shop
Pop-eye Cyclops kitty
as you can see his eye moves about and pops out of its socket in its stalk ;p
more info and pics at etsy
http://www.fourthousand.com.au/goods/je
:]
Me with the lovely Ross Noble and Gabriela.
I still have horrid head flu, and my brain feel like one of my poly-filled toys. and i just feel achy all over.
rather annoying as I really do need to make a heap of stuff, and clean up my place so i can have the space to make things. it's just a minor feeling of crapness and I'll get over it.
In news not so good
my sister had what she thought was a persistent skin irritation on her neck removed , and they discovered it was a skin cancer.
the crap thing is , she's had this for years and her previous doctor said nothing to worry about , no need to have it removed or tested or anything, that it was just a patch of eczema.
she has to have another small piece of skin removed off her face and hopefully it will be ok. any new patches need to be removed right away if they reoccur.
In news of some good:
just got an email saying tomorrows Age newspaper should have the article about Etsy with the interview with me in it.
this is the interview i did before xmas . I can't remember what I said in that at all. I'll need to get up early and buy a copy to check it out.
some photos of people you probably dont know over on facebook
we all did a mass exodus to trades later in the night but sadly some people couldn't get in as they stopped letting more people in at around 4am :[ but some of us were there till the very end.
It's been a long time since I've been out all night till the trams started running. and its a bit strange when it's on a Monday morning on PT with the people whom were on their way to start work for the day.
The walk home I saw the sky turn indigo then a dusty blue as the dawn was coming. It is a nice part of the day aquite possibly I go as far to say my favourite part. but maybe I think that only because I rarely get to see it.
It is a bit sad that Comedy festival all over again for another year. I shall need to find some other work, and really get stuck back into my sadly neglected jellibat stuff
very amusing. he's so cute and lovable. Though I did have to head off before his encore bit to start work.
after work a quick drink at ythe bar then saw the barrys anounced . some deserving winners, though not surprising from the nominees.
age critics : sammy j forest of dreams (I think. I missed the announcement but they were on stage at end photos and they only thing we didnt see announced ;)
piece of wood: Tom Gleeson
directors choice : Sam Simmons where can i find a bear around here
best newcomers: Fear of a brown planet
golden gibbo: Ghosts of rickets hill
the barry : A tie ! Nina Conti and Kristen Schaal
after the awards i went of to the trades with some work mates. quite a late night seeing as i need to party till the wee hours for our final night tomorrow ;p
but went to see saw The Suitcase Royale's The Ghosts of Ricketts Hill tonight after work.
I'd heard good things and I wasn't disapointed.
it's a bizzare play. shambolic and low tech, like a mighty boosh scenario on crack. Very funny.
if you like surreal junkyard theatre get your maxibonbons down to bosco threatre tomorrow night for what they say will be the final ever performance.
I also went to festival club after, (which is why i am now home at 3 am)
it was hosted by Jason Byrne and Adam Hills, I managed to catch Des Bishop, Josh Thomas, Hannah Gadsby, Mark Watson, Kent Valentine and Die Roten Punkte.
am having a snack before hopefully crashing out and getting some decent sleep, though i did put my name down for an extra shift tomorrow so I am prepared to be woken very early for a call in if I am needed.
my feet hurt .
only 2 days of the fest left :[
I woke suddenly at quarter to 1, eep! I had a hair appointment at vic gardens at 1 so it was a mad rush to knock the sleep from my eyes and throw on what ever clothes i could find and run up there.
I made it to the hairdressers by 5 past.
amazing!
I haven't been to a hairdressers in well over a year. my hair was giving me the irrits and looking horridly drab so it was time, though still not being very cashed up I did opt for a cheap cut at hair warehouse.
for a discount chain hair dresser I was quite impressed. I got a lovely hair wash and condition, which was very relaxing and needed as the aforementioned sleep in mean i hadn't washed it.
The hairdresser (Ian) asked what i was after (basically short at back and keep my fringe long) and then I left it up to him to (after all he's the professional and hopefully knows his job better than me , and it's only hair what's the worse that can go wrong with it... that I have to shave it all off ? ;)
anyway I have ended up with a great cut. very happy with it, and best of all , it was only $35.
The hairdresser styled it so nicely I feel a bit bad that I've come home and showered the product out so i could put a rinse in it ;p
I was going to do a permanent blue black dye job, but having time constraints I picked up a rinse instead.
In about 10 minutes I'll see if "blueberry" suits me. I will show pics later but need to leave for work soon so will go wash this out and then need to get ready.
also I may invest in a hair dryer.
I have only ever owned one hairdryer (true) it was a Xmas gift when i was a teenager. I gave it to my sister when i moved out of home.
(the hairdryer came with a hair crimper which i used more often. showing my age there ;)
I made a quilt block for the fab 24 hour quilt (Macedonia!) organised by Josie long, Maeve higgins, and ali macgregor
pics ahould be found on here
and I have a rathe-damp-from-adam-hills-sweat, nick cave shirt (pictorial evidence of adam as a "goth" , can you belive this man is up for the next gold logie ? ;p
oh and he did sing Nick Cave's wild rose with Ali ;)
it was all a bit of fun and a bit mad again.
http://www.watson24hour.com/
though i may go to sleep soon,I'll try get up early and i will actually go in :}
i finished work early (at 9) so we went and saw every film ever made at trades.
it's a lot of fun, from the hounds of the baskervilles crew. It's a very entertaining show. I'm not auch a big cinemaphile, but I got most the movie references.
go see it!
also saw quite a lot of RAW comedy and most the parts I saw was pretty good.
only one week left of the fest :[
there were announcemnt coming over of what tram lines were down through hawthorn from trees and power outages.
D called me and said weathers shit , trans and trams are delayed and going to be busy getting out of the city so lets meet up (after he'd finished work, and before i started ) and to go see a show.
i thought that sounds like a good idea..
at 5 i was leaving home to go into the city and meet D. I just got my bag ready went to the door and woosh! a dumping of water came down, 'hmm I'll need my brolly up' thought I...
it really didn't help much.
I got saturated getting to the tram, of course once i got on the tram it seemed the rain eased up.
so i had soggy feet and shoes and my jeans were soaked from the knee down . I was a bit soggy all night
:[
anyway we went and saw the Delusionists, everything that ever happened.
it was alright, a few laughs. a bit of a uni revue style skit show, sometimes with a bit too juvenille jokes, but overall a bit of fun.
they are doing well, one of the best sellers at the festival (it's a small room but selling out most nights which is hard for small acts) a larger room for them to moove in would have been better theres 6 of them after all to fit in, and a whole lot of costume changes.
good for starting a full night out at the festival from the city end.
one of the performers seemed to stand out in his acting amongst the group. might be interesting to see where he goes, and where the group goes from here.
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