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10 free sketches!
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I really need to get back to drawing more! So I decided to take part in this sketch meme after all.
Here are the rules:
- The first 10 people who comment on this journal will receive a FREE SKETCH! In return; however, you must offer 10 free sketches in your own journal too!
- When I see you made this journal too, then I will start your request! If you've done this in the recent (which means, less than half a year ago btw...) past just provide proof and that will do also.
- Remember, these are SKETCHES, meaning they probably won't be colored, and they will be done fast, nothing too hard or perfect. Sketchy, rough lines, quickly whenever-I-have-time made, by your request!
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Here are the rules:
- The first 10 people who comment on this journal will receive a FREE SKETCH! In return; however, you must offer 10 free sketches in your own journal too!
- When I see you made this journal too, then I will start your request! If you've done this in the recent (which means, less than half a year ago btw...) past just provide proof and that will do also.
- Remember, these are SKETCHES, meaning they probably won't be colored, and they will be done fast, nothing too hard or perfect. Sketchy, rough lines, quickly whenever-I-have-time made, by your request!
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Share the Art!!!
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Be one of the first 14 people commenting on this journal entry, and I will put your avatar and three deviations that I will personally select from your gallery in this "Share the Art" feature.
IMPORTANT: If you do comment, you're expected to do the same in your own journal; putting me on the first place, completing the list with 14 other people to make a sum of 15 people.
The idea behind this is NOT to get a free feature, but to help spread art and artists around for everyone. So why not check out the artists on other peoples' list?
Note: I apologize that this is not a real feature yet - I currently don't have a "proper" internet connection, so my internet is very slow and unstable, making it very hard for me to browse. So if it's okay with all of you, I'll only collect the people who want a feature in this post and will post the actual feature once I have normal internet again
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IMPORTANT: If you do comment, you're expected to do the same in your own journal; putting me on the first place, completing the list with 14 other people to make a sum of 15 people.
The idea behind this is NOT to get a free feature, but to help spread art and artists around for everyone. So why not check out the artists on other peoples' list?
Note: I apologize that this is not a real feature yet - I currently don't have a "proper" internet connection, so my internet is very slow and unstable, making it very hard for me to browse. So if it's okay with all of you, I'll only collect the people who want a feature in this post and will post the actual feature once I have normal internet again
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Help Japan - offering crafty things!
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As you all know, Japan has been hit by a bad earthquake and tsunami on Friday. The destruction is immense, and the pictures I've seen really tear at my heart. Japan is a country that is very dear to me - I'm rather worried about the town of Hirosaki where I spent my semester abroad. (I have long lost contact to everyone there so I have no way of finding out how the situation is there ...)
To help, a lots of activities have sprung up. On Livejournal and Dreamwidth, charity auctions have been set up and bidding for the offers has commenced. You can bid for lots of stuff there, from fiction and art over food and crafts to postcards and letters. If you have some money to spare, please head over there and have a look! As far as I know it's possible to comment with OpenID/a FB/Twitter account (or even anonymously).
Help Japan on LJ
Help Japan on DW
I am offering two mug rugs for auction, one on DW and one on LJ, as well as two customised mug rugs that I will sew according to the winner's wishes.
Coffee bean mug rug (Minimum bid 2 GDP)
Red star mug rug (Minimum bid $3)
Customised mug rug offer 1 (Minimum bid 2 GDP)
Customised mug rug offer 2 (Minimum bid $3)
I'd be happy if someone bids for them!
To help, a lots of activities have sprung up. On Livejournal and Dreamwidth, charity auctions have been set up and bidding for the offers has commenced. You can bid for lots of stuff there, from fiction and art over food and crafts to postcards and letters. If you have some money to spare, please head over there and have a look! As far as I know it's possible to comment with OpenID/a FB/Twitter account (or even anonymously).
Help Japan on LJ
Help Japan on DW
I am offering two mug rugs for auction, one on DW and one on LJ, as well as two customised mug rugs that I will sew according to the winner's wishes.
Coffee bean mug rug (Minimum bid 2 GDP)
Red star mug rug (Minimum bid $3)
Customised mug rug offer 1 (Minimum bid 2 GDP)
Customised mug rug offer 2 (Minimum bid $3)
I'd be happy if someone bids for them
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Craving Crafts
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As you probably know, I love crafts. All of them. If I had to choose a favourite, it would be pretty much impossible to choose.
And what I love even more is trying out new crafts! Lately I've been yearning to try something new - or old in one case. Now, if only had the time for all of it ...
* Patchwork. I did a VHS course on patchwork/quilting way back in ... 1999? 2000? I enjoyed it a lot and produced a few nice quilted blankets. Ever since I didn't do anything with it, though. I was reminded of it a while ago and spent a lot of time looking at pattern and pictures on the net. If I knew who to make it for I would start on a new quilt right now
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Instead, for the time being I think I will try a few mug rugs first
. Mug rugs seem to be the latest craze in the patchworking world - they're easy and fast to make and can be made with scraps. Of course, mostly making dolls in the last years all my scraps are solid colours and as such, pretty boring. So somehow some patterned fabrics found their way into my bag while I was at the fabric store to shop for my superduper sekrit EQ con project 
. (I also probably should buy a rolling cutter and a cutting mat but so far ... uh, it's the end of the month, my account's empty and shit's expensive!)
* Kumihimo. I stumbled upon that a while ago and was intrigued but never got around to trying it. Kumihimo is a Japanese braiding technique - lately it has become easier to do it without buying expensive supplies since there are inexpensive foam rubber disks and such available. Not that I would know what to do with the braids but then, is that really the point when being artistic
? Still looking for information and sources for supplies on that one.
* Temari. No, not the one from Naruto! (I kinda had to wade through lots of pages on her to find those about the craft.) I first saw it on a bento blog where the blogger had got a temari ball as a gift. It's an embroidery technique using small balls wrapped in thread and embroidered with symmetric patterns. I don't know if I really could do that but I'd love to give it a try anyway!
* Needle felting. In the words of the writer of Must Have Cute stuff.icanhascheezburger.com : How many other (legal) hobbies are there that consist mainly of stabbing and end up with cute stuff?! Really, it sounds awesome and I even have most of the supplies I need for it (since I have lots of wool for spinning). I actually was looking for a good book on it earlier but couldn't find one :/. Will have to look into it more closely.
And of course there are a lot of other things I would like to try. Bobbin lace-making for example! But for the sake of brevity I probably should stop now
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And what I love even more is trying out new crafts! Lately I've been yearning to try something new - or old in one case. Now, if only had the time for all of it ...
* Patchwork. I did a VHS course on patchwork/quilting way back in ... 1999? 2000? I enjoyed it a lot and produced a few nice quilted blankets. Ever since I didn't do anything with it, though. I was reminded of it a while ago and spent a lot of time looking at pattern and pictures on the net. If I knew who to make it for I would start on a new quilt right now
!Instead, for the time being I think I will try a few mug rugs first
. Mug rugs seem to be the latest craze in the patchworking world - they're easy and fast to make and can be made with scraps. Of course, mostly making dolls in the last years all my scraps are solid colours and as such, pretty boring. So somehow some patterned fabrics found their way into my bag while I was at the fabric store to shop for my superduper sekrit EQ con project . (I also probably should buy a rolling cutter and a cutting mat but so far ... uh, it's the end of the month, my account's empty and shit's expensive!)* Kumihimo. I stumbled upon that a while ago and was intrigued but never got around to trying it. Kumihimo is a Japanese braiding technique - lately it has become easier to do it without buying expensive supplies since there are inexpensive foam rubber disks and such available. Not that I would know what to do with the braids but then, is that really the point when being artistic
? Still looking for information and sources for supplies on that one.* Temari. No, not the one from Naruto! (I kinda had to wade through lots of pages on her to find those about the craft.) I first saw it on a bento blog where the blogger had got a temari ball as a gift. It's an embroidery technique using small balls wrapped in thread and embroidered with symmetric patterns. I don't know if I really could do that but I'd love to give it a try anyway!
* Needle felting. In the words of the writer of Must Have Cute stuff.icanhascheezburger.com : How many other (legal) hobbies are there that consist mainly of stabbing and end up with cute stuff?! Really, it sounds awesome and I even have most of the supplies I need for it
(since I have lots of wool for spinning). I actually was looking for a good book on it earlier but couldn't find one :/. Will have to look into it more closely.And of course there are a lot of other things I would like to try. Bobbin lace-making for example! But for the sake of brevity I probably should stop now
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Sketchfest
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Today I took part in the sketchfest organized by 
for the first time! It was actually its ninth instalment but before I never got around to taking part for one reason or the other ...
But today I did it and I had so much fun! Altogether I "only" spent four hours on actual sketching but that's a lot for me, too, and in between I had fun looking at the other sketches, commenting on a few of them and submitting prompts myself.
The next (10th!) sketchfest will be at the end of this month. I hope I will be able to take part again! How about you?
I did these sketches:
Waiting for the first snow
Quick Fang doesn't share!
Bey the Berserker
Lonely doesn't mean alone
Pretty happy with how all of them turned out!
for the first time! It was actually its ninth instalment but before I never got around to taking part for one reason or the other ...But today I did it and I had so much fun! Altogether I "only" spent four hours on actual sketching but that's a lot for me, too, and in between I had fun looking at the other sketches, commenting on a few of them and submitting prompts myself.
The next (10th!) sketchfest will be at the end of this month. I hope I will be able to take part again! How about you
?I did these sketches:
Waiting for the first snow
Quick Fang doesn't share!
Bey the Berserker
Lonely doesn't mean alone
Pretty happy with how all of them turned out!
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