Fun with Tetris

A long time ago I had some fun photographing my Tetris magnets and thought I would share.

Anyway, back to cross stitching a Christmas gift. At this rate I'll never finish it in time. :(

Interesting Find

So I've been quite busy lately and not doing any fun hobbies. However, sometimes I remember my past endeavors and get curious about whether anyone else has looked at them or used the patterns. This is exactly what I did tonight when I found this Pinky and the Brain LEGO mural.

No credit is given for the pattern, but it looks very familiar to me:

My Pinky and the Brain pattern!

I am a big fan of LEGO, but I must admit that it would have been cool to get some credit, which should be shared with The Spriters Resource as well. My pattern is a simplified (fewer colors) and slightly manipulated version of their sprites. I guess my main hope is that if the guy did use my pattern that he did it purely for fun and not for profit.

My New Hobby

I haven't been doing any crafty activities recently. Instead, I have been learning how to use my new camera that I got for Christmas in manual mode. I got an Olympus E-PL1 and I really like it so far. Minus the cost of the camera, it is a relatively cheap hobby, which fits perfectly within my current budget.

A Lone Canoe

A Pic of Pepper Pondering

I haven't given up completely on other endeavors. Sometimes it is just fun to take a break from one thing to learn about something new.

Mini Coffee Subway Art Pattern

When I showed my mom what I had made for my grandmother, she seemed to get jealous so I've been trying to come up with a pattern related to one of her favorite things: coffee. Unfortunately, I don't think this one is quite her style, but I think it is pretty cool so I'm sharing it. All of the fonts (except one) and the coffee cup came from various free patterns online. I had to make up the bottom font because I couldn't find another one that fit.

Peace

I made this recently for my grandmother. I took up cross stitching because I love all the pieces of it she did over the years that now fill up her house. She doesn't know I do this as a hobby though so I think she'll be surprised. I borrowed the dove pattern from a free one I found online and got the text from a cross stitch text generator so I can't really share the pattern since none of it is my own. I have no idea what I'm going to do next. I'm still recovering from a week spent with 10 two year old rambunctious kids at Vacation Bible School and thoroughly enjoying just laying in bed while listening to music. I do have a lot of unfinished patterns and thoughts so maybe I'll revisit one of those soon.

A Little Recognition

I haven't been posting or crafting much this year, but I do have some exciting news to share. My cross stitch pieces of Pinky and the Brain were featured on Craftster and my Tetris magnets were featured on Sprite Stitch. Both sites are full of such talented and creative people that I feel honored (and surprised!) to have anything I make noticed by them.

Happy Pi Day!