Amigurumi scruffy cat

Hey there!

I know I haven't blogged much lately, the whole Christmas, New Years Celebrations kind of distracted me, Oh! & my birthday was in all that to. Beauty has been a little quiet over the last month for the same reasons & what work I have had has been alot of waxing, my clients don't really want to have their body parts put on the internet. So in my spare time I have been concentrating on my other obsession, amigurumi. I'm going to put the pics up first & explain at the bottom, I hope you like it!

 

 

 

 

How cute is this???

Where do I start.... Well after my success with all the amigurumi Christmas presents, my brother wanted something super cute to give to his girlfriend for Valentines day (you know a generic teddy bear from a department store). So I suggested that I make something for her... & this is the result. It's a very cute scruffy cat inspired by a cat we have named Megs. Megs is unbelievably soft & loves to be combed. My brothers girlfriend can't resist Megs cuteness & always gives in to combing her. I can't wait to see her face when she see's it. He or she doesn't have a name yet, I don't like to name creatures if they are going to be gifts for someone, I like to leave it up to them.

Anyways, I used a mixture of Flurry & Jazz yarn from Spotlight. The legs are teddy bear jointed so they move & can be posed (I wanted it to be able to sit, stand & lay on it's back) the legs also have pipecleaners through them to be bendable. Stuffed with polyfill & the eyes are custom made with polymer clay, the paws are embroidered with pink yarn (there is also a belly button).

This was a huge challenge but so worth it & I enjoyed every moment of making it. I am going to put these little guys on my amigurmi website for purchasing as a custom made to order item. If your interested click here

I want to say a huge Thank you to June at planetjune for having the tutorials on her website, if it wasn't for you I would have had a very frustrating time trying to work with these yarns.

Check out her site, it's amazing!

click here

Bye for now! 

Beauty Tips & Tricks - Toothpaste

Hey There!

 As I have mentioned before we all try to find inexpensive ways to keep up our beauty routines & I have discovered heaps of useful tricks you can do with toothpaste.

• First of all it's primary use is to clean your teeth.
• You can clean tarnished jewellery, but don't do this to often as it is very abrasive & cause damage to your jewellery.
  
• You can use it to calm down sore &  inflamed pimples, the menthol helps kill the bacteria & cools the inflammation. I have been know to use this trick often as occasionally I get these type of pimples & nothing else works to get rid of them.
• The best trick of all is that it takes away excess fake tan & spray tan off. When I do spray tans I always get it on my hands, they always have brown marks on them (I should wear gloves). At the end of the day I rub some toothpaste on them & they become all nice & clean again. After you have had a spraytan on for awhile (around 10 days) parts of it will exfoliate off sooner than other parts of your body. Toothpaste will take off these spots & your are ready for your next spraytan which will be flawless now that your skin is smooth & exfoliated.

I will add more to this when I discover them but if you have some usefull tips for toothpaste I'll add them & make sure you get the credit for it. I hope you enjoyed.

Bye for now!

Amigurumi

Hey There

A few years ago I asked my mum to to teach me how to crochet, but found that making clothes & other out dated looking items were very boring. Most of the time I wasn't happy with the result & half way through a project I would loose interest & pull it apart. I have ended up with a box full of all different kinds of yarn/wool & not known what to do with it. Until about a year ago I discovered amigurumi the japanese art of crocheting toys & stuff. So I taught my self how to do it with the 1000's of free patterns you can find on the internet. It has taken alot of practice & patience for me to be happy with a finished project. I can now create original toys & write my own patterns so my family & friends will get some really cool gifts in the future. I have some finished amigurumi's that I gave as Christmas presents that I would like to share with you. They are free patterns I have found from other amigurumi artists I have changed them a little but they still look like the originals. There will be a link for the patterns if you would like to try them out for yourself as I can not take any credit for creating them.

What came first!.... The Chicken or the Egg!

 

 The egg hatches!

 

Into a cute fluffy Chick.

 This was a gift to my mum because she has chickens & although she doesn't like chicken related noveties I just couldn't resist making this, he now sits near the monitor of her computer.This is a very easy project & it only took me about an hour to make. You make the egg then make the chick & attach them at the base so that it becomes reversible.

The pattern is available from here

http://irkachan.blogspot.com/2009/05/que-fue-primero.html

 The Monkey King

How cool is this!

I am part of the generation that grew up watching an unforgettable Asian TV show with a monkey king on a spiritual journey fighting bad guys along the way & flying around on a cloud. Has this just brought back some memories for you? I know it did for me when I found this pattern. If you have no idea what I am rambling about don't worry everyone will tell you all about it if you make one of these guys. Anyways... This was a gift for my brother purely for nostalgic reasons, he loved it! It took me about 2 days to make & was a little challenging as there were some techniques I wasn't used to but nothing to complicated for me to give up on finishing it.

The pattern is available here

http://irkachan.blogspot.com/2009/10/el-rey-mono-patron-gratis.html

Both of these projects are from the same creator & she is very talented, I will be keeping an eye on her blog for future patterns. I have heaps more projects in the works & will post them when I take pics of them. If you have any questions email me & I'll answer as soon as I can.

I hope you enjoyed this & give these patterns ago.

Bye for now!