Yarn Bombing My Unicycle

         I've had my unicycle for a couple years now and I still can barely ride it. One of my goals is to eventually ride it as my main form of small distance transport. Unicycles are awesome becauase they are light, small, easy to transport, safe, cool looking, and fun. I was looking at it today and decided he needed decorating, if i cant ride him he might as well look awesome. So I took my two of my favorite things and combined them.

Before

 

During

After

 

      Uni is now all dressed up with yarn and beautiful. I hope to be practicing as soon as weather allows. 

Baby Gift for my Cousin

           My cousin was expecting his first baby. So I wanted to make him a nice gift for the baby. Normally it would be pretty simple, a pastel or rainbow colored baby blanket, because where I live and where most of my family lives it is a useful gift. When I suggested this to my Aunt she reminded me that he is stationed in Hawaii and that even though they may use the gift it would be very rarely.

           I was then thinking of making a crocheted mobile, but this posed problems, because I did not know how they were going to hang it and my Aunt did not know what theme if any they were using for the nursery.

           I then set my sights on making some sort of toy. This is a little harder, because the did not intend to find out the gender of the baby. This ruled out any blue or pink stuffed animals. I then thought maybe I'd use that interesting camo yarn because my cousin is in the military, but I'm not sure how they'd feel about that. So that idea was also out.

           I was almost about to give up the whole idea when I thought of just making a simple color cube. Colors are good for brain development so I always try to make baby items colorful and I think this fits the bill. It also has a rattle in the very middle, so it makes noise as you shake it. I placed the sides so that each of the secondary colors was next to the two primary colors that produce it. This is easy to make because you only need 6 squares of any color(s) which you then stuff and sew together.

           Over all a very simple baby gift that I hope my cousin will like.

(This is a post from a couple years back that I never posted . He now has two children, but I still wanted to share the simple idea.)

Valentines for Strangers

           I had quite a few crochet hearts left just hanging around before Valentine's day and Alfredo suggested a fun and sweet way to give them away. I always like it when quotes from video games are put in real life, so I made up this poster and popped some holes in the bottom using a Christmas tree punch. I tied the hearts through the holes and voila! 

          This is what it looked like hung up on the pole across from my window so I could watch. 

          I had a bit of a stake out with my camera stealth-fully placed through the windows shades the be less visible. I really just wanted to make sure nobody ruined the sign for everyone else. I did eventually move the sign in front of my door because there's more foot traffic.

When I got back on campus the sign was completely empty =)

My Halloween :D Belated

       I love Halloween it is my favorite holiday! This year was exspecially awesome, because I got to watch Alfredo experience some things for the first time. One such first is pumpkin carving, he had never done it before and we spent all of September waiting until an appropriate time to buy one. 

        It was so fun explaining to him how to cut the top of the pumpkin off and then watching his face the first time he smelled and felt raw pumpkin. The first thing he said was "This doesn't smell like pumpkin! This smells nothing like the candles", because he so used to the pumpkin spice that smells nothing like real pumpkin. 

Here are the results:

Alfredo with homer Ghost

Monica and Alfredo 4ever

Ghost Homer

Ghost Pokemon 

      Then after a fun weekend of pumpkin carving. We came back to the dorm and decorated :) We had purchased a bag of spider webs at target, for a dollar, so those of course went everywhere. 

                                                                            My desk 

                 

                      My book shelves

                                                                                                  The terrerium!

          

          Then of course I went Trick or Treat. I know that I'm to old to go by myself so we took Alfredo's cousins out and had so much fun :) look at all the candy I got! Alfredo dressed as fairy and I was the Marauders map from Harry Potter. His little cousins were a witch and a cat, so cute. 

Making the door a Monster

      In preperation for Halloween I decided to decorate the door at the dorm.

       I got these giant googly eyes at target for $3 and it inspired the idea. I used those and roll of white contact paper. I just had to cut the tooth shape and stick it up. I moved the eyes around a but until I liked the look. 

       I then added electrical tape eyebrows and a couple of the paper shapes that I had made a couple years back. Which include pumpkins, Frankenstein, a cauldron, and a moon. 

Birthday Box!

My sister's birthday was this past week and I live relatively far away. So I mailed her a birthday in a box. It was just a plain cardboard box on the outside and I filled it with confetti and candy and blown up balloons.

The best thing about the balloons is that they add a lot of joy and take up a lot of space without weighting too much which makes the shipping a lot less. To ship this whole 13"x 11"x 9" box only cost me 5 bucks.

I had several good quality happy birthday balloons around so they didn't cost me much and I also had some random candy from a birthday party bag that I went to the week before. So all I had to do was buy a bulk pack of fun sized twix, which is one of her favorite candy bars. The confetti was just some shredded construction paper.

I wrote the instructions on how to refill the package
and pass it along on one of the inner box flaps

Hope this gives someone some good ideas =) post again soon =)

Finished Monster Backpacks

            Here are the two finished back packs, except that the green one is still missing eyes. This is a very simple step so I consider them pretty much finished at this point. Attaching the teeth is the longest and hardest part, but even that is easy enough that a novice such as my self could do it. The felt is a key component to the ease of this project, because felt does not frey. This means that as long as you attach the teeth securely to the project you are good to go. This is unlike any other fabric, which you would have to put a seam on the prevent deterieration. 

            The backpacks are already in use and both his cousins seem to like them. They used them on the first day of school. Each of the monsters are their favorite colors :)

Below I included some images of what it looked like while I was sewing on the teeth, incase someone was interested in exactly how I sewed them. I opened the zipper and just sewed along in a line along the shaoe of the teeth. 

Hope you enjoyed this and I'll post again soon :)