Dollie Loves

Hello pixies,

It's almost the end of August and I realized I haven't blogged in a while. Since I just finished updating my Hubpage account, why not include blogging as well? I've been busy, yes that's a cliche but seriously I am. I've been sleeping late (like 4am-5am late) because I feel more awake and energized doing crochet works in the wee hours of morning. By the way, there's a reason why I'm crocheting a lot during the past days, weeks...

I and my friend Nanz attended a doll event last Saturday. This event is sort-of a gathering for doll owners to mingle but the main focus was to buy stuffs for dolls. Nanz and I had a booth, (well it's her booth since she paid for it haha - you're probably reading this Nanz!) and we sell doll clothes and hats. Since I'm not good with sewing, Nanz handled the clothing items while I do the crocheting part. It's really hard to explain our arrangement but we're partners in crime here LOL.

Okay, these lovely ladies are our dolls. The one on your left is Cece who belongs to Nanz and the one on the right with the red headband is Stardust, my first child haha. These girls accompanied us trying to charm buyers (I think they scared them away... kidding!) Do you like their head accessories? I made those! Haha!

Our booth! Yay! It took as 1 hour and some sweat to set this up. We didn't put any effort with the display because we just don't have time and we have been busy with the products we're selling. However, we're glad to be part of this event. :)

Besties Cece and Stardust just love to be in front of a camera. I'm glad they didn't fall off because that will be a disaster! They behaved well and gave us a break so we can just focus on selling.

Our day ended with a high note because Nanz won a wig for her other doll Simone! She finally won in a raffle haha! We both have no luck with contests or raffles and this one broke the record! Kudos!

Alrighty before I end my post for today, I want to share two of my recent BJD earflap hat creation inspired by Doctor Who and Adventure Time! (Note: Don't ask me anything about Doctor Who because I haven't seen the show yet , except for the fist episode of the first season). I was commissioned to do this and this was my interpretation:

 and Jake-inspired from Adventure Time:

Love it or hate it?

Thanks for reading my post and I hope I didn't bore you at all. I even included some pictures to add visuals :) LOL

Swish and flick!

Amigurumi keychain and Going 30's

Hello pixies,

My post title speaks about what I'm about to share to you in my blog entry today. I'll be writing about my new amigurumi creations and a post birthday celebration I attended last Monday.

Let me start with the amigurumi keychain first. Amigurumi is one of the things that I enjoyed doing. I'm an "all about arts and crafts" type of person and it's no surprise if I often post about these stuffs in my blog. My latest adventure with crocheting was making stuff toys with the help of some crochet yarn and my basic knowledge with crocheting. I've had posted several samples of my works in my past blog entries but none of them were keychain.

Lately, I came up with the idea of making a key chain or bag charm for my aunt and grandma who lives in Canada. I used the bunny pattern I bought a while back and inserted a chain and circular hook so it can be used as a key, wallet or bag accessory.

I also plan to sell this kind of keychain soon in my etsy shop. However, I have also added another keychain item on The Winking Fairy store and this is an Adventure Time amigurumi keychain. The character I did was Jake. I'm going to make a Finn keychain too but I need to find the right pattern for this first.

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake is one of my favorite shows and that's the main reason why I decided to create this keychain.

If you're interested in purchasing this item, you can check out the item here.

Also, last Monday, I met up with my college friends (our group name was and is still called "Angels") what a unique name right? Haha

Recently,one of our friend turned 30 years old. Since we didn't get the chance to celebrate her going on 30 on her actual birthday, she set up a lunch date last Monday. Only 3 of us (not including her) were available on the date she set but we still pushed through with the plan.

It was such a great day to reminisce about our college days especially the days we had our practicum at a local radio company where we learned a lot of things while having fun.

That's it for now. Hope you have a great day/night ahead! May the odds be ever in your favor! :)

It's Fab Feb

Manila weather is slightly shifting from super cold to super hot. This means that summer is fast approaching. I don't have any summer vacation plans so I've been thinking of things to do to occupy my time. Anyway enough about summer, let me share what I did last weekend.  I spent most of my time bonding with my niece. I haven't seen her since last Christmas and I missed her so much. I taught her how to play chess and we also played game apps from my phone and tablet.

So the month of February started few days ago, and at the beginning of the month I wrote an article about Gifts for Men. I discovered a lot of items that I myself wanted. I'm not a guy but there are some items I mentioned there that can be given to ladies like me as well especially if you're into games, books, and gadgets. For those who want to have ideas on what to give on cupid's favorite day, head over to my hubpage account linked at the sidebar.

Alright, if you've read my other posts, you'll know that I'm fond of amigurumi nowadays. My first attempt was a success and so I continued doing so. I made some revisions on the bunny pattern to make a bear ears instead of bunny ears and I'm proud of its outcome.

These two are of the size of a key chain or key charm which I'll be giving as gifts for friends. However I didn't put any hook because these will be used as doll props. I decided to start selling these kinds of amigurumi in my etsy shop so if you're interested, watch out for it.

I also searched for crochet free patterns for amigurumi projects and found an easy owl pattern for beginners like me.

Since I don't have a yellow felt cloth available in my craft kit, I used a crochet thread to make the beak part instead. I'm happy that it turned out okay and it still looks like an owl.

If you want the amigurumi pattern for this one or other free crochet patterns, you can visit this link.

Have a great day! May the odds be ever in your favor!

Learning progress

Making crafts has been a passion of mine ever since I learned how to use a needle and thread. Recently, I've been collecting crocheting books so I can come up with some ideas next time I plan on creating stuffs. But for now, I'm currently fond of amigurumis.

Earlier I decided to to use again the same pattern I bought. I started around 1 in the afternoon with this:

It kinda resembles a snowman. I used a 4-ply acrylic yarn which my friend purchased from a store in Quiapo Manila. This one resulted into a much larger version of the previous bunny I made here.

After approxiamtely 5 hours, here's the result:

I'm happy with how it turned out. It looks like a bunny and that's all I've hoped for.

Amigurumi noob

Few weeks ago I bought an amigurumi pattern from Amigurumeria. This pattern is a bunny stuffed toy which is perfect for beginners like me. I find the crochet stitches easy to follow. It's a good thing that Amigurumeria saw my instagram account and offered me to buy the bunny pattern.

As you can see at the picture above I haven't perfected this one yet (specifically the putting it together part wherein you have to sew the parts) so I still need more practice. I didn't put a mouth on this one because I find it cute even though it doesn't have a mouth.

There are amigurumi patterns free in Ravelry and in other personal crafting sites. Amigurumi stuffed animals can even serve as your handmade gifts for Valentine's Day. It's just few days away so hurry up and make some not just for your significant other but for your love ones too (includes parents, kids, friends etc.)

Park quick shoot, Little Tokyo, and new crochet project done.

Last Monday, I and some friends went to Little Tokyo in Makati. This was our first time to visit this popular place that consists of different Japanese Restaurants. When Roxy, who is my long time bestfriend invited me and another friend of mine Nanz to check out the place, I immediately jump in to that idea. I've been wanting to see the place for a long time but for some unknown reason, I didn't.

Anyway, I immediately informed Nanz about the plan and of course I already know that she'll agree on this meet-up. This was also the first time that Roxy and Nanz will see, talk to each other in person hahaha. I know they'll get along well because of some similarities they have that I also possess.

Before that dinner though, I helped out Nanz do a "special project" related to "Destiel." For those who don't know what Destiel is, this is a "ship" relating to the "special bond" between fictional characters Dean Winchester and Castiel from the popular CW series Supernatural. The name is simply a combination of the names Dean and Castiel and is created by the fans.

So going back, there's this tumblr page that has a project where they accept submissions from Destiel fans showing a picture of themselves holding a banner with their name and location plus the hashtag #DestielAroundtheWorld. Their goal is to show that Destiel shippers can be found anywhere in the world. My friend Nanz, she's one of them. She's really really REALLY a hardcore fan of this pairing.

Nanz aasked me to help her out and obviously I said yes. She chose the location on where I will take her photo and now you can find her picture here.

Alright, let's go back to Little Tokyo. The place where we ate is called Hana. They have a wide selection of Japanese foods that will surely make your mouth water.

I unfortunately forgot to take a picture of the food I ordered but I do know that it's a Tofu steak and takoyaki. We were 45 minutes early from their opening time (6pm) so we just sat in front of their place, talking about anything under the calamansi tree. Haha.

The weather is actually perfect, it's cold and it matches the outdoor decors they have one of them was this:

It's a snowman (not Olaf though). Isn't he adorable? I guess this is still a Christmas decor from last year that they haven't yet replaced with a new one but I don't care, it's cute.

I'll surely come back to Little Tokyo as there are still other restaurants to explore there. I wanna try different foods though so hopefully my takoyaki cravings won't kick in again.

After this outdoor adventure, I spent the whole week mostly indoors except the time I went out with my mom to pay some bills and do some grocery shopping. What I did for the rest of the week was crocheting  medium size pouch for our nail tools to replace the old and dirty one. I just completed it this afternoon. It's just a simple plain blue colored yarn, nothing special about it. Just want to make sure that our nail tools are organized in one bag.

  (Above is the new crochet pouch I did, below is the old nail tools pouch we have which is store bought).

Thank you for reading! May the odds be ever in your favor! Someone's obviously obsessed with Hunger Games. LOL

My Etsy Store

I created an Etsy store a year and a half ago. I uploaded a couple of items but didn't get a sale until last week. However this first sale has a huge impact to me that it boost my passion once again to create more stuffs to sell.

The name of my shop is The Winking Fairy. My shop name was inspired by my love for magical creatures especially fairies, pixies and elves. The "winking" was just randomly added - I thought of an action word that can represent cute yet sweet gesture of a fairy and so that's the word that came across my mind.

For this shop I'll be focusing on selling BJD-related items. BJD stands for ball-jointed doll. I'm a bjd collector and I want to incorporate my hobby into business by selling accessories for bjd in my shop. But, I will also sell some items that a person could use. I started putting up mobile phone cases like this one shown below:

And since, my first attempt in doing a sock monkey hat for bjds was a success (see previous post), I made another one this time in a different color which I am also selling in my store:

Hopefully my online store will have a more number of views and sales for this year.