Retro Paint

Just before the cyclone hit I got the urge to do a couple of paintings. I did them up intending to bring them to the markets to sell however I have kind of fallen in love with them and want to keep them all, particularly the warhol-inspired space invader one. The single space invader and the pikachu face were a 30cm x 30cm canvas and the coloured space invader one was a 45cm x 45xm canvas. So for now the coloured invaders have found a place on our wall at home. The other two might make it to the markets still since I got a couple of mario themed paintings aswell ;) 

I think I am mad.

Ok so I like to fold paper cranes, occasionally I like to make jewelery from them. During a session of making up a few cranes for such jewelery I got the urge to see if I could break my old record of 1.5cm x 1.5cm square which I had done way back in high school (I still have that crane on the front of one of my school diarys).

Well this little picture is a teensy crane I somehow managed to make from a 1cm x 1cm square. Took me a while. It's not as perfect but all the folds are essentially there. Can't really make anything jewelery out of it though :P

Am I crazy?
Maybe
Do I think this is cool?
Yes :)

Reliving the Past

Since I haven’t updated with any new projects in a while (I haven’t even been to the markets the past 2 weeks) I thought I would put up some of my older projects that I have done.

Christmas has just passed and here are a couple of things that I made up for gifts.

Now I've always been a huge Commander Keen fan as has my bf. I got real excited one night when I came up with the idea to make a painting of the signs that you find throughout the first games where you get a raygun.

Screenshot from Keen 1 

While I couldn't get it exactly the same in my image (I had to work with what I had at home as I only had one week before Christmas) I think I didn't do to bad. You at least get the idea. I went searching around town for a watergun that would be able to pass as the raygun but to my dismay I never found any. I ended finding a toy gun (one of those ones that spark when you pull the trigger) and painted it up as close as I could get it to the original. Luckily the shape of the gun I found worked a treat in the end.

Here it is hanging on our wall. 

The next picture was for my bf's lil sister. His whole family adore sonic as they all grew up with it. Since I was still going through my "shrink plastic is the bomb" phase I did up a couple of cool earrings for her.

Sonic and Super Sonic Shrink Plastic Earrings

Last one now is of a bracelet I made for my lil bro. I had been going nuts on my beading loom a few months before. I have all these space invader bracelets made up but I am being too lazy to finish the ends off because I hate doing that part. My brother was over one day and saw the rainbow one and exclaimed how awesome it was so I got my act together and finished one off for him.

Space Invader Loom Bracelet

When a Cyclone Comes to Visit

Ok so everything has been put on hold for the last week or so because of certain events. One cyclone Yasi decided it wanted to visit us all here in Australia. As a result all of my stuff got packed away and downstairs was all moved upstairs incase of flooding. Our place was thankfully spared and power has been restored after 4days (some people are still waiting). SO now comes the task of moving everything back down and putting the house back to the way it was. So unfortunately fun stuff is on hold until then.

Here are a couple of photos anyway of the aftermath around town.

Outside someone elses yard

Down near the beach front here. We were driving on sand. 

Little Drawers

I haven't posted anything in a while so I thought I would put up a quick little ditty.

Here is a little kit I ordered online while on ebay looking for some new yuzen washi paper. I thought it was real cute! I traced around the templates so that I can make it again if I want to :)

To Market, To Market

It was my first visit to the markets this year. I didn’t expect it to be much since it was so early on in the year and it’s normally pretty quiet at this time. Was frantically trying to make sure I had everything finished the night before. In the end I had to cut a lot of stuff out because I couldn’t fit it on the table anyway. I only have a small table and was thinking of getting another one but I didn’t quite have enough stuff to spread over the two, so just the one it was.

It was pretty windy that day and it was driving me absolutely insane having to constantly keep fixing everything up XD I guess that’s what you get when everything is all made of paper.

Anyway enough blathering here is some piccys of the table from the day. A few new items there too including the space invaders I had been working on :) I’ll be taking some new photos of all the new stuff and putting them on my other pages too.

The first photo was from the night before when I was seeing what I could fit onto the table.

A few new rings. I love the flower ones and made one for myself.  A little girl bought the paddle-pop one :)

There are a heap of the badges sitting on these because I was trying to hold them all down to keep from blowing away. We eventually went and bought some bluetak :P 

WARRRRP ZONNNNE!

I was in a bit of a tired mood today and didn’t really know what I wanted to do. To try and stop myself going to sleep 2hrs after I woke up I started playing “Super Meat Boy.”

Well it definitely did the trick in hyping me up hardcore. If you ever want a game so ridiculously frustrating yet so incredibly satisfying then this is the game for you. I had picked it up on the Steam Christmas sale nice and cheap and had only played a couple of levels. Today however I powering through it A+ing levels left right and centre on my first play of the level (and putting my bf’s skills with the game to shame while I was at it hahaha).

I have no way to describe this game other then it being a simple platformer. It’s the physics in the way that adorable little ball of meat moves that is the tricky part. That and the countless things that you can fall into, smoosh yourself on, and can completely obliterate you. Prepare to die a lot in this game.

Well after my mass session of this game (Which I also went back to later on that night) I decided I wanted a little meatboy of my own thus this phone hanger was born. Also after my love for machrinarium I did one of little Josef up too.

So if you are up for the challenge you can get Super Meat boy from steam here http://store.steampowered.com/app/40800/