Back from the dead!

It's been a busy few months with workshops(for work), parties and just general life.
I swear my beading hasn't stopped or at least not entirely. I had felt a little uninspired over the last little while. Now I am getting back into it. It's one of those things I miss and when I start again, I keep thinking why did I stop?

So for your viewing pleasure, here is the things I have been working on.

Now before I show you this piece, there is a back story.
Over at Pixelgasm, there is a challenge up to do Warhol pieces or inspired by him. The four coloured panel one. Now a few nights ago, I woke up at 2am with an idea of this. Not sure where it came from exactly. It was the weirdest thing to awake from my sleep with a beading idea. All day at work, I envisioned what it would look like. So when I got home, I went straight to work. My vision turned out exactly as I had imagined.



I loved Dr.Mario as a kid. We would have tetris/Dr. Mario tournaments in our house, as there was a game for the Super Nintendo that allowed you to do that. It was so much fun growing up. Yelling at the Tv and trying to make combos just to mess the other person up. So this game holds a special place in my heart.

Now I posted the work in process a month ago and I realized that I never showed the final project


Thank you to Riot Patch for giving me the pattern and permission to copy it. It was a fun project to do and I learned a lot about using cross stitching programs to create beaded art. There is always something new to use to further this crazy passion.

My family has now come to expect bead art for presents now. It's something personal for them and I love creating it. For a while now my mom has been asking me to make more lemmings for her wall at her house. She asked for ground for them to walk on.

Now what's really funny is, the set she got a long time ago had black outlines to them while I forgot about it for these little guys. She now says a war is going to happen and the ones she has now are plotting for the arrival.
So basically my mom is going to have a war with beaded lemmings that she can move on her own. I may have to ask her to take pictures of the war for this blog(if anyone wants to see it lol)

Now last year I posted a picture of a Mario Scene I had in my bathroom. When I moved, I didn't put it back up(as I keep forgetting to buy tacks). Yet again no tacks but I am completely re-doing the whole scene.
Now the scene is going to be in two parts. The water will go around the middle of the wall. There will be Mario Fish underneath and Flying Mario enemies above it. It's going to be a time consuming project but I am loving it so far.




I hope you all love these pieces.
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Spring is coming!!

New projects

So in the past week I have done a few projects which I am very excited about.
I hate these beading blocks. It drives me nuts that I have nothing to do.
So without further ado:

I plan on making these into frisge magnets. They didn't take me that long to make either.
The images are from Bistro Recipe from the Gameboy. I found them through random online searches.


In the Inspiration post I talked about a bookmark that I found online. I started working on it yesterday and so far it's been fun. The hardest part was figuring out what the colours of thread were in regards to beads. Lots of google searches and comparing later, I had it all written out.
That part took about an hour and a half. I don't have too much to do luckily.

So this week KoolStuffForKids is having a sale on 6k of black and white beads. 50% off! I ordered 12000 of each. I am very excited to get them as I am running low on white.
Be sure to pick some up if you need them. White and Black are essentials.

Hope everyone is having a good winter's day. It's freezing here but it was sunny which I like.

Inspiration

That word seems to be my best and least favourite word lately. Trying to find projects that I want to do.
Every time I find something, I realize that I need more beads to do it lol.
So hoping in the next coming weeks to put in a huge order and get on the move.

That being said, I have found some really amazing pieces lately that I want to share.

I seen this piece a few weeks ago by an artist on Pixelgasm by Gallio. He has done some really amazing stuff and this piece amazes me. I will be doing my own by with red instead of green(once I get clear beads)

PS. He also made this!


Also in the past week I have come across some cross stitching blogs. They are pretty cool. There are so many different mediums to do gaming sprites with.

This piece from A Riot Patch of Pixels
has become my favourite cross stitch piece. She was even nice enough to send me the pattern for it so I plan on making it with beads soon :)


Also, welcome to the new followers that the blog has received in the past month. I am very excited to see new people here and hope that you all love the art.

Before I knew it...

We passed January 15th and I didn't post all the new stuff I have made.


This is my favourite football team! The St. Louis Rams. I wanted to make it with Superbowl coming up. I got the amazing pattern here
She made a bunch of football teams so I still have to make my dad's.
This one was a real pain to do. It was my first experience with KG-Chart for Cross Stitching. The layout was hard to do as it didn't break down the pattern into 29x29 sections for pegboards like I am used to.


This is some pixelated versions of Casablanca characters that I got from Iotacons
I asked him if he was okay with me making the patterns and he was nice enough to mention my stuff on his site :)


This is a birthday of my sister that I gave to my dad for Christmas. I figured since he had a picture of me as a baby that he needed one of my sister.

These are the things I have done over the last little while. Not too much work. Still looking for new things to make all the time.
Welcome to 2011!