Anyway, I am currently working on quite a few projects. I recently opened an Etsy account with the intentions of selling crafty things, hoping that will offset the money I'm not making while taking classes. It won't completely catch us up, but it's a more fun way to make money anyway, even if it is less :) I've got a bunch of milk rings ready to be made into earrings, some sculpey waiting to go in the oven, and some recycled bottle cap earrings ready to be posted!
On top of earrings, I'm thinking about indulging my inner snark with some "crapestry" projects and some re-designed paintings. Crapestry is a type of needlepoint that takes the cutesy, kitsch craft and adds a bit of humor (sometimes quite dark), making it more relevant to those of us with an ironic taste in home decor. I don't know if I'll go so far as to depict grotesque scenes of mass murder in a Thomas Kinkade vista, but I may add some superfluous facial hair and top hats to a couple of unsuspecting bunnies. Re-designed paintings are old thrift store paintings or prints that have been tweaked to add humor or interest. The ones I've seen tend to be sarcastic as well, but less irreverent than the crapestries. My favorites are ones that add giant monsters to landscapes! Time to get my garage sale bargaining on!
Lastly, something I'm working on just for me :) As some of you already know, I am a bit of a fan of My Little Pony, especially the most recent TV series, Friendship Is Magic. One of my groups on Ravelry is doing a Pony craft-a-long for this month of June, which entails going to the Pony Creator, making your own pony, and then MAKING your own pony! This is what "I" look like :)
She's so cute. Her cutie mark is a light bulb with butterfly wings to represent creativity. I did have a pencil and a paintbrush as antennae in my sketch, but I couldn't get them to look right when I Frankenstein'd it in Photoshop, so I left them out. I think the point stands anyway. Now that I made her in the Pony Creator, I'm going to physically make her using yarn and a crochet hook. Without an actual pattern... Well, I'm *kind of* basing it off of another pattern, but I'm changing so many things, it's going to be a completely different animal (pun somewhat intended) when I'm done. Should be fun! Right?
Of course it will be :)