Sitting in the school's cafe. Drinking monster and chasing it with coffee to try to make it through the day.

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Long Time Coming

So, I know. I haven't been updating as much as I was trying to. But heck have I been doing a LOT of crafting lately!

I've recently discovered a LOVE for steampunk and neo-victorian fashion. I've always loved victorian (I mean, there are so many parallels to our society now that it is sort of scary...) but I didn't realize there was such a following about it online. I've found some like-minded folks via etsy, and have been INSPIRED. It has been wonderful.

Actually, the inspiration seems to have infected my beau as well. He has been helping me make steam victorian stuff, which is really fun, seeing as he is FORCED to hang out with me for hours at a time!

I have found it a little difficult getting metal to stick to itself, and I'm wondering how these amazing artists on etsy do it! They are fantastic! Such as this! It is truly amazing work, and I want to achieve this ability at some point.

Until then, I will be playing with my metal bits, and hoping that they end up pretty. ^.^

I've also finished some cork stuff out of recycled wine bottle corks that my boss gave me. He's been wonderful all season about keeping all of the corks that come in and out of the restaurant in a jar for me and letting me take them home and do my crafts with them. I did a couple of little Christmas trees out of them yesterday while I was listening to the Amanda Palmer/Neil Gaiman/Kevin Smith podcast to benefit the Wayne Foundation (a group to raise money to stop child abuse, named after Batman, who is my idol.) It's been a good week. A long, but good week.

On top of ALLLLL of that nonsense ;) I've been totally dying under the weight of my exams for the end of the semester. I really cannot wait for Christmas break. I want to spend time with my family!

I promise I will put some pictures up tonight in return for some love from everyone!

Later guys!
-Brittani

Bag Bagger

So, I started to work on a couple of scrapbooks this past week, and in about a week I've finished 1 full book, 1 bag book, and I'm working on another book right now. Sometime later this week I will put up a tutorial on how to do the bag books!

Next month I'm going to try to sell these at the craft show as well. I heard from my boyfriends mother that they were selling them for quite a bit of money, and I think I do them well enough that I might be able to make a bit of money on it.

I hope I get some of them done this week, but school is back in session, so it is going to take me a bit more time to get things done. Oh well, I'll work on it.

Blarg

Black Friday went well. I got the mannequin that I wanted, and I got some new shoes and stuff for my kitchen (though I didn't get my cute matching towels yet). I didn't get Lee his present, the thing that I wanted to get him wasn't there, so I have to ebay it.

I'm out at his place for the evening, which is fun. I'm going on a trip to the corner store to get some munchies so I have something to do while he's at work.

I'm hungry.

Morning Glorious!

Good morning! Right now it is 7AM, but I was up at 4AM to get to Meijer today to get my sister a new laptop. Alas, we didn't get the laptop, because they didn't have anymore of them left, but it's ok. I still love them.

My mom gave me some money for Christmas today so that I could use it to go shopping for Black Friday. My mother bought me a new sewing mannequin, so you guys can look forward to me having lots of new fun things up on my site! I'm so excited! I've never had a mannequin before, so I think it will make my life much easier, and I will be able to see things as I'm making them for a while, which will help things to come out a bit more the way that I intend them when I design them!

I will try to get some photos up soon.

Here Piggy, piggy, piggy!!

So, the show was pretty good. Here's the lineup:
KENNY STAHL
A VISION TOO FAR
THE FINER THINGS
SYNDICATE

Kenny Stahl was alright. Kind of boring, and there weren't many people out for them, so it was hard to get into it. A vision too far didn't exist, I don't think, because I don't recall hearing them. The Finer Things was pretty sweet. They were the best of them all by far. Syndicate kind of sounded like a gay John Mayer. Not into it. Outside of that, it was a good night. 

Now I'm going to listen to some smodCAST and then go to bed.

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Working Hard(ly)

The first two days of my unemployed self-employment have gone fairly well. I made a few tea wallets, some YOSD/Littlefee sized skirts and some new hair stuff. My best friend Darcie and I are going out to the bar tonight, and we're going to see some live music. I hope they rock!

Tomorrow I plan to get as many things hand sewn done as possible. Hand sewing is such a pain, but the results that I get are much nicer, so I'm going to try to get that done.

Well, off to the Blind Pig! Thanks guys!

-Brittani

It has to start somewhere.

So, I've decided that I needed to start a blog, and thus here it is. I don't know where to begin with this other than to introduce myself. My name is Brittani, and I like to make things. I don't really focus on things well, and I have a tendency to bite off wayyyy more than I can chew, so I thought that maybe I should start using a blog to organize my thoughts, as well as to give some tutorials about the things that I enjoy making, and a picture journey through some of my more intense projects.

First off, let me say, thanks for reading. I do appreciate comments, because they let me know what I'm doing right and what I can improve upon. Thanks guys!

Second, please please please don't be mean to anyone else on here... It will force me to delete posts which often causes dissent among the users. Thanks

Thirdly, I will be documenting my process of getting my own business up and running. I work a seasonal job during the spring/summer months, and since it is the winter time right now, I am unemployed until March, so I am going to be doing my very best to write in here as often as possible, as well as to get all of the content required in order to make this blog at least sort of user-friendly.

Thank you for being patient. I'll get my tush in gear and start getting stuff up and moving.



Be Well!
-Brittani