Blogging!

It's so easy to spend hours and hours reading over the blogs of complete strangers. If you know me, you'll know I love to make things, especially jewellery but more recently anything at all "crafty". Notice the " around that word? It always somehow conjures up images of old ladies, or tabletop sales in smelly old churches where people are selling doilies and bookmarks made of lace clippings. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that it's not an image I'd necessarily like to be associated with. So what's going on? Crafting has become fashionable again! Maybe that's in my own little world, maybe you're reading this and your jaw is dropping to the floor, because it's just not the same as drinking binges or... something else that is the thing to do right now. I digress. You'll probably notice that will happen a lot, it's like a talent of mine or something. Anyway, how is crafting suddenly cool? Well, people have started to throw a few more things into the mix...

Sackboy Amigurumi anyone?
For those of you living under a rock Sackboy is something of a Sony icon, being the foundation of the uber-fun game Little Big Planet. Which funnily enough is like crafting for gamergeeks, you create your own levels out of materials so that they look like they have been made from random bits of junk from around your house. It's hard to explain, I guess you have to play it to understand. This little guy below was found in RugRats at Etsy but you can pretty much find Sackboys everywhere at Etsy.


I told you I'd manage to wander off-point. Reading crafter blogs is even more fun than just reading any old blog because you get to pick up new techniques, find inspiration to do something different or just oooh and aaah at the things people are making and doing. This is exactly how I stumbled across the technique for making glass tile pendants, which is my latest obsession. The first crafty blog I ever read was Kawaii~neh, a blog by a girl in Malaysia who is to be fair more obsessed with Tokidoki bags than me, which is rather impressive. Glass tile pendants are pretty common on Etsy alongside scrabble tile pendants, and are usually decorated with Japanese floral patterns. The girl at Kawaii~neh (still not too sure of her name) did a twist on this and cut up little Japanese cartoon characters to make something that I'd never seen done before. So I decided to take inspiration and make my own.

I'm obsessed with all things cute, especially from the center of cute - Japan. Of course this means that I find in my possession a small mountain of cute cartoon memo pads, especially from San-X which is a branch of the company that is responsible for our favourite Kitty-chan, Hello Kitty. It was only natural that I made good use of the resources at my disposal.

On another note it's a brand new year give or take a couple of weeks and everyone's out making their new years resolutions. But this year I decided to try something a little different, instead of just doing something new to improve myself because it's a new year, I'm going to do something new just to improve myself. Because it's always good to have improvement in your life. Whilst having nosey-time around various blogs, I found something that really spoke to me. It was a piece of advice from someone I'd never heard of, but still:
It's almost like in that little bit of text, there's not a single wasted word, not a single misplaced comma, like poetry, aaaaahhhh it's good. It's advice about blogging. But it's kinda true to everyday life too. Apart from the explaining to one person you respect thing, because I only know so many people, and I think it would become annoying if I had to re-explain over and over wouldn't it? Sound advice.