Do they see Jesus in me? and scarfie :)

Happy Sunday, everyone!!! It's time to worship the Lord today :), and always. Have a blessed one!

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I also finished my second scarf today, using a shell pattern on YouTube. It isn't perfect but since crocheting can be quite forgiving especially with scarf I managed to pull off a pretty nice look for the scarf. Self-take some pics of what it's like here:

Plushies time!

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Let me introduce the newest member of my Kiki family: So-no-i :). She's a ginger-girl, adopted from Hobby Lobby for around 6 bucks. Pretty and unpretentious, she was all that I had my eyes upon when I was there. As soon as I had her home, I knew that I had to take pictures of her posing in various backgrounds: the left picture I had her posing in front of my computer screen which was dressed up in a pretty Meomi's wallpaper; and the right picture, So-no-i was playing with my puzzle snow pieces (the jigsaw puzzle is a very cute one actually, my ex got me one box and I haven't gotten around to do it until now) XD. Isn't she such a cutie <3??>,<.

Anyways, let's move on... so, is anyone getting excited for Christmas yet? It snowed a bit yesterday, and the temperature today dropped significantly, lows in the teens and highs around 30s or so, yup, it was a freakin' doodily freezing day today. I'm getting hyped up for Christmas however. Got a list of presents that I shall be making for my friends and loved ones, and guess what... they're gonna be mostly handmade items. That's the reason of me being in Hobby Lobby earlier :). My crocheted scarf is coming along nicely, I still have some more to do but I will be changing patterns; hopefully that will make the process much quicker. I also went to Barnes&Noble to look at some amigurumi books and found some very very interesting ones on crocheting and sewing. Didn't buy the books though because the prices were pretty high so I hopped onto Amazon to order them when I got home. They are:

Amigurumi World - Seriously cute Crochet

I'm planning to crochet a few stuffed plushies for my niece. It's gonna be important for me because she's the one I have never held or seen before due to some family conflicts. I hope with this present and the Christmas spirit, our families could at least sit down and break the distance between us. I really really hope God will be helping me in this.

and...

Stray Sock Sewing - Making one-of-a-kind creatures with Socks.

Guess what, I got this one mainly because of the cute pictures presented in this book, seriously. I realized that the book does not included instructions for all the creatures, but it's detailed and cute enough to wet my appetite for cuteness, lol XP.

Well, that's all for today. I hope you enjoy your week so far. Ja ne!

Papercrafting... and randomness :D

Did anyone have a happy Thanksgiving? Got any good stuff on black Friday? I had a lot of fun, too bad I didn't find anything interesting enough to buy on Friday; i still did have some joyful time shopping with my friends nonetheless. It's the heart that counts I think *winks* :D.

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So that was what kept me busy... and frustrated these last couple days (T_T;)o... I had this assignment for my Art History class in which we could choose from a list of topics and I happened to like tackling difficult thing so I chose the topic that had me assembling a paper medieval castle and doing a research on it. The completion of this castle took about... I'd say, approximately 15 hrs+ (even with the help of be' mam and be' mi't, thank you sooo much guys *hugs*), I just don't even want to remember how much it took me to put all the parts together, now... that was a nightmare >_<. Assembling all the little parts like the towers, the walls, the kitchen, queen's and king's gates was not all that complicated until I reached the part when I had to put them all together. I almost broke my brother's helping arm out of frustration. But then, I'm pretty pleased with the end result even though there are so many parts that could be improved upon, but nah, I'll just let it slide for now considering that it was my very first paper sculpture at such a grand scale. For the bottom part I just used blue wrapping paper, wrinkled it and glued it to a black foam board to imitate the water. I also took some grass in my yard to sprinkle them onto the surface of the foam board that I had already spreaded a little bit of rubber cement to ensure that they would stick. The rest was just the work of pastels. I was in such a big hurry so the pictures I took were not as how I'd have liked, but it's okay. Once I get my castle back I will take some better shots later. Speaking of papercraft, even though it can be frustrated sometimes but doing papercraft can also be so... addicting. I saw this model of the Howl's Moving Castle over at PaperKraft blog and couldn't help but stared.. and then stared some more. I got the PDF file (thanks to paperkraft also) and shall try my hand on it soon. It's gonna be so much fun :D. Here's an image of how the model looks like completed. I can't wait to get started, the problem now is to get the files printed -_-; man, it just has to happen when my printer died:

And just a little ranting... what the heck is with the hype of Twilight?!! I mean, the book was bad for me personally, but it still had some merits, but to create such a sensation, I cannot understand. My friends and I went to see the movie last Friday and the whole theatre was packed. The funniest moment to me was when Edward literally sparkled in the sun, hahaha... speaking of total cheesiness, but hehe, it was like watching a corny comedy, no substance but fun nonetheless.

While searching the Internet, I came across these very kawaii products called emotibuds but I'm not so sure about their usefulness, oh well, at least they are cute and affordable, hehe:

Just a little something, strange that I don't feel like talking a lot today even though I have a lot on my mind. Well, I hope you all have a good day, and God bless!