The pokemon crochet journey!

Hey everyone!! I swear these weeks are flying by faster and faster and I wonder if I'm actually thinking about things each week as much as I should. I have started a new job that I absolutely love. There is a learning curve and I have to learn to slow down so that everything I do is perfect rather than trying to rush forward and progress so my aim for this coming week is to slow down just a little to help myself become a better worker! I have been thinking about eating healthy this week. Eating healthy when I can and the easiest way to do it without blowing my budget. So the first thing I changed were my breakfast eating habits.  That is...to actually start eating breakfast. As I start work really early in the morning, usually I skip breakfast and then by the time lunch rolls around, I am starving. So to aid with that, I have been making myself breakfast every other night to eat the following day. So what does a time hungry, budget focussed person eat for breakfast...

Productivity vs Time vs Convenience  I was thinking on the bus ride home today, how different the past week has been compared to the previous weeks of my life. I am a very "productive" kind of oriented person. All of the minutes of my day are spent being productive or thinking about ways I can be productive. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean I'm a workaholic and only do serious things, but productive in the sense I must always be doing something. Then there comes the majority of the time where I'm also doing multiple things because it always feels like I'm never productive enough. I don't spend a lot of time on downtime/relax time during the week but I've learnt to give myself downtime on the weekend. But also because I spend my weekends at my boyfriend's house instead of my own and have realized that if I don't take productive things to his house, I tend to relax a lot more and spend my time split between RPGs on the PS3 and Sims 3...

So it's been another week already. The weeks are kind of just flying quickly around now aren't they? It's like the older we get, the faster time seems to move. There are so many things to do and my list just seems to get longer day by day...well my crochet list. Everyday I think of something new that I want to make. I add it to the bottom of my list and hopefully I'll get there one day. Then my list often gets reshuffled as different types of inspiration hit me. I also add to my queue other designs that I purchase to support other crocheters in the community. This little robot is a freshstitches.com design. So where do I get my inspiration from? Well, it's quite obvious that I'm a very fandom oriented crochet designer. I rarely come up with corchet patterns of my own which is why I'll probably never release a book of my own because I don't think I'm really that great at coming up with original ideas. Although, one day I might be able to? M...

I have been making so many things lately. The turtles that I made last time have almost all sold out! There is only Leonardo left. Poor thing. It appears he is the least loved out of all the four. And the most loved at the moment is Donatello since I have sold him and since then been asked to commission another one~ He is the same as the other turtles except the eyes were specially chosen for him. A little more red here but it's a browny shade of red. I am thinking of making another four of them really soon so I can add them to my shop at the next convention but there are so many things that I need to make! And I'm planning which pattern I'm going to be releasing next week! I might also be taking a small break from pattern writing and crochet designing to making some Freshstitches patterns that I've received but not had a chance to make yet. I have a dog pattern and a kit club pattern that I haven't had a chance to touch yet! But today is a day for thinking...

It's come Thursday again and this week hasn't been a very thoughtful week at all considering I have spent the entire week busily making all of the little plushies that I could to send to all my friends around the globe. Some of them have already arrived safely while a few of them like the Byakuya above are still in my room waiting to be boxed and posted. So this week I'm going to be diving into my little book of questions to find a topic to think about and go through. 001: Technology has become a part of us. Would you rather lose the use of all motorized vehicles, all telecommunication devices and computers, or one of your hands? I had a look at this question a while ago and it's actually quite a hard decision. Originally I would have thought the answer would be quite easy but the more I thought about it, the more difficult it became for me to make a real choice. I think in the end I would rather lose the use of all motorized vehicles. At the end of the day, ...

I get to thinking a lot about what makes an artist and whether or not I really could classify myself as an artist. When I think of an artist I think of all my wonderful friends who can draw really beautiful pieces of artwork. They create original pieces which are inspired by things around them and I really wish that I could be like that sometimes.  I create things that are based on other people's creations. I am inspired by all the fandoms that I am a part of as well as all the fandoms I'm not a part of but my friends love and their love inspires me. My current WIP.  I have a real hard time creating originals because I don't think I'm a very creative person. I'm not artistic and can sit down in front of my yarn and think of a beautiful mythical creature and then create it out of the materials at hand. I wish I could, but it's not a talent that I have and I don't feel like it's a talent I can build. However, I can sit in front of other people's ...

Thursday seems to be a nice day to start something like this. I was thinking that I would start making weekly posts with some themes just to keep myself active here and have a space for myself.  So Thursdays will be thoughtful Thursdays. I have a little book of questions that I've always wanted to pace myself through and answer, and it would be amazing to have a conversation with other people in the comments below about the question and how you all feel about it too. :) Once a fortnight I'm going to aim to release a freebie pattern of some sort. Just a small cute pattern that everyone can crochet along to. Maybe I'll do something big like growlithe as well and release it over a few fortnights. We shall see.  :) I do want to try and get more free things out there amongst all the patterns I want to try and sell as well. Just to give back to all the amazing people I know are lurking out there! Sometimes it'll be different ways I use the one pattern template as well just ...