Wow! Someone built a miniature Bag End! Its amazing... How someone could have the patience to build it with such meticulous detail, I have no idea.

Bag End Miniature

This shall be an inspiration. (If I ever decide to do miniatures! lol)

I got an iPod touch awhile ago! I was slightly annoyed, though, that the screen could only be used with your finger. Being an artist at heart, I loved the drawing apps. Being big in the bones, I have rather large fingers that made drawing on a four inch screen difficult. Being a person filled with curiosity, I had to figure out why iPods can't have styluses.
Here is the info on the way an iPod touch screen works. Its seriously cool. You must read it. Press "next" to continue with the article. HowStuffWorks--iPod Touch Screen

That explained why syluses don't work. It needs to be conductive.

Being a crafty person (in more than on sense... muahaha) I had to make a stylus. That is conductive. Being a person who misses the obvious, I didn't even think to look online and realize that they actually sell nice iPod styluses. Ones that don't have the same problem mine have.

The problem with mine:
It only works if it is touching your hand or skin or a banana. (WHY the banana works? That I don't know. But I did it accidently once. And it worked. Although that might just have been a fluke...). This stylus will be useless with a glove. However, it allows for better control on the screen!

You will need:
Aluminum foil
Tape
Two or more foil wrappers from Wrigley's gum (believe me, it makes sense)
Old pencils to kill
A craft knife
And an iPod touch


I covered mine with blue painter's tape! Voila! A stylus!

Until we had to clean our house to sell it, I tacked my pictures onto my wall. Partly a show-off display. :P Partly a way to make me continually fix them. You see, if I had to fall asleep looking at them, I would soon get tired of the mistakes, and notice new ones. I kept a pencil by my nightstand and fixed up those little mistakes. Pictures went up and came down for years-- every so often I took a photograph. Here are some pictures of the wall, in no particular order.

So! These are some of my old drawings! Click to enlarge picture.

I've been uncovering more and more old pictures from an undated CD. I really should get more organized and start dating my CDs. Some of the pictures are really, really old. Some of them are from barely 2 years ago. I really don't remember! But here they are!

There are going to be plenty of old pictures coming up on my blog. I actually have no idea how long ago I made these... and these files are all undated. They are most likely from two to three years ago. All I remember about these was giving them to a friend.

Well, I normally dislike abstract art. I mean, what is it? Just random blobs of color. Sometimes such random blobs can look nice to pull the colors of a room together... eh. But you know, abstract art is really, really easy to make. So easy that I finished both of these in half an hour. :P

And don't forget the fun angle shot. :)

I've been trying out new techniques and new challenges-- manga being the latest. I have to say, I am terribly thrown off by the weird proportions involved. I found some manga faces that I used as reference to learn. Then I turned my Lucy Pevensie of Narnia drawing into manga in the corner-- I'm sure you can see it, its bright red. :)

I updated a few posts with new pictures. All the ones that I said, "Hey, I've got more pictures for this laying around somewhere..."

Lucy Pevensie Colored Pencil

Hermione Granger Colored Pencil

Tapestry Crochet

(Old) Paintings for Above Staircase

I am also going to work a bit more on my Tengwar article-- update it; I learned some new things about vowel phonetics and that ties into the tehtar somehow...

Have you ever found yourself in possesion of a boring nightstand, three dusty dried roses, an idea and no vase?

Me no like computers. :P

First the scanner wasn't scanning very well. Then I thought I'd simply take pictures of my Lucy and Hermione drawings. I downloaded them, realized the WB setting had been incorrect, and decided to fix that via Paint Shop. Which promptly locked up. Then I had another page to scan in. Our scanner saves images as a TIF. Blogger does not accept TIF. And guess what is the only program we have that changes TIF to JPEG? That's right. THe locked up Paint SHop.

*deep breath*

Okay, I'm good. Just do it another day.

Anyway, it is a drawing of my little brother! And the squiggles on the one side is supposed to be his teddy bear. Excuse me, my sister's teddy bear, which he stole. The photograph is really cute, I snapped it while he was being protective of Mr. Fuzz-Fur.

Here is the photograph I based it off of: (you can tell I tottally messed up the face, particularly the nose, and the hands)

I am quite upset at our scanner; even with the help of Paint Shop, the picture doesn't have the depth of color that my actual drawing has. And the colors that it highlighted are the wrong ones-- it makes the drawing look funny.

I have decided to get back to honing my colored pencil skills! Believe it or not, this is my first colored pencil drawing that does not have any pen lines-- since third grade. Yes, it is true.

I based this drawing off of a photograph from Goblet of Fire. In the movies, Hermione wore a beautiful pink gown to the Yule Ball. In the books, however, the dress was periwinkle blue. :) So, for the fun of it, I drew the picture and transformed the dress blue. And more modest. :P