These are the "giveaway" items. Not a great photo but maybe you get the idea what they are like. Again, if you want any (or all) of these, drop me an e-mail. First person gets them and if no one asks within a few days maybe I'll put it up on one of the Rav boards I belong to to see if anyone wants them. (Or maybe post on Twitter - I think at least one person who follows me is into Vocaloid)
Top left is the eyeball barette. Top right is the zipper bracelet. Bottom is the Vocaloid/Hatsune Miko lanyard. (Hatsune Miko is on one side and other Vocaloid characters are on the other).
And here's another item I made over break:
Moomintroll! (And Bee, if you're reading this - this is the pattern in the magazine you sent me, I FINALLY got around to making him). I used an acrylic yarn rather than the recommended cotton because I'm not fond of crocheting on a dk or larger weight cotton yarn.
You can probably see about how big he is there but he is a nice, huggable size. This photo is blurry (I took it one-handed) and I kind of have a thousand-yard stare*, but you can see how he's a nice size:
*Heh, my expression almost reminds me of some of the old propaganda posters some countries would put out, where the Happy Workers are staring towards the future as they labor on the farm.
And then, Ponies:
My newest ponies came today. The "bonus" the seller said she was including (because the order was delayed was a big surprise. I was expecting something like a magnet or some kind of little tchotcke but it was this:
She's a tiny bit grubby and stained (but worth giving a bath to and maybe applying a Magic Eraser to - some of the pony blogs recommend that). I don't even know who she is! One of the twice-as-fancies, maybe? The copyright year is 1987.
(Oh! Pillow Talk. She's not actually grey, she's just a very faded lilac. Okay then. I'm gonna try giving her a bath to see if that helps any. But even if it doesn't: free pony! And yeah, her name is kind of hilarious to me given that I know the "grown up" meaning of "pillow talk")
And here are the ones I ordered:
Bouncy and Tappy
I mmmmmmay try washing Tappy's hair with a bit of conditioner to see if I can get it smoother. (She was a decent price and I knew the hair wasn't perfect).
(ETA: maybe not. The MLP wikia shows her in "original state" with a funny poofy curl like her hair has, so maybe not washing it is better)
Bouncy I wanted specifically because she was a First Tooth Pony, see?
Knowing what I know of horse dentition that is hilariously wrong, but it's cute and amusing. And there is something kind of endearing about the First Tooths. (Teeth?) She's so little and cute.
(In the G1 ponies, the yellow ponies are my favorites; they seem to hold their color the best. I have more yellow ponies than any other color.)
So anyway. Lots of bad stuff going on in the world (I don't know if it's over yet but apparently University of Toronto wound up on lockdown because of an armed "bad guy" spotted on campus, and of course there's the continuing issue of Orlando). I reposted on Twitter a photo that Webs posted, because as I said, "looking at pictures of pretty yarn makes me feel better about the world." And it does. I know it's a very self-absorbed thing but it does help me.
Also ponies....I spent some time yesterday looking at pictures of Ponies, especially on Etsy. Didn't order any as I know I had these on the way to me and also I am waiting for "just the perfect" unicorn to be the other "adult" unicorn in my herd. (I have a Baby Glory). (I did also look at the Mountain Boys - an only-Europe release of male ponies which were pretty cool, but of course the prices on them were more than I could or would pay)
And books - I started J. Jefferson Farjeon's "Thirteen Guests" the other day. It's another one of those Golden Era mystery novels (a whole lot of the less-famous-author ones are being republished, which makes me tremendously happy, because I love these novels). This one involves a young man who is slightly injured while debarking from a train, and who is then taken to a big country house (where he knows no one) to recover because apparently his ankle is messed up enough that he must stay off it. I'm not very far in but it promises to be good. I really liked "Mystery in White," another one of Farjeon's (set at Christmastime, and ever so slightly creepy in the old ghost-stories-at-Christmas mode).
(Oh, and if his name is slightly familiar? His sister, Eleanor, wrote a lot of children's novels that were pretty well known even when I was growing up. And she wrote the words to this):
I always associate that with a folkie style and I wondered how it sounded sung by a church choir or something like that.... here's a version by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir:
And yarn, ponies, and books are three things that make me happy. And you can mix them up and put them together:
books and ponies (either Twilight Sparkle, or my own Folio, or even Rainbow Dash, who was shown reading and trying to ignore Fluttershy's brother in a recent episode)
yarn and ponies (I am thinking about "which Pony do I want to crochet next?" I am torn between doing the Trixie I bought a pattern for and a G4-ized Minty off of the old familiar pattern I've used a lot. I also want to do a Sunburst at some point but that will require more thought to do the alterations to add a horn and do the hair and beard. I think his "forehead blaze" will have to be felt....I could also see doing more "G1 to G4" versions, like a Bubbles** or a Up Up and Away (who has the most unusual color scheme of any of the ponies I own))
books and yarn....I can read and knit at the same time provided it is a simple thing I am knitting....
(**Though really, it could be argued that Derpy is Bubbles brought into G4, given her cutie mark)
I had my eye check up today. My prescription has not changed enough for me to justify buying new glasses. (Insurance pays for nearly all of the exam but only part of the glasses). My eyes are also healthy, which is a relief. I had remarked to the person doing the intake testing that I noticed bright lights seemed to give me a longer "afterimage" than I should have and everyone was slightly concerned by that (the doctor said that could be an indicator of the beginnings of macular degeneration) so he decided to do a "challenge test" where he shined a (painfully) bright light into each eye in succession, and then had me look at the chart and tell how soon I could read it again.
Normal is 30 seconds or less. It took me 20 seconds. So I guess what seemed really long for my eyes to recover isn't. (But still. I am very sensitive to bright lights but kind of have always been. One reason why I always wear sunglasses when it's bright out)
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Yay! Moomontroll ftw, he looks awesome!
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