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The Crafts of Skyrim (Completed)

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Yes, I finished, lol.  My initial info from my partners questionnaire  was:

Anything you would like to receive? Anything!! I love practical/wearable stuff, and I really love subtle references. Trinkets are fun too, though, and I’ve started a hoopla wall so hoops are always great
Race of choice? I tend to play Redguard but I like Britons a lot. Khajiit are pretty awesome, too
What is your role on the battlefield? Tank! Heavy armor, greatswords, brute strength. I am the most unsubtle ever.
Stormcloak or Imperial? I’m doing Imperial on my first runthrough, though I’m kind of noncommittal about it… I’m kind of a Companion before anything else.
What hold would you consider home? Whiterun <3

Good communication also got me:

Colors Loooove dark red! I do a lot of reds and blacks. Love purples too… jewel tones, generally.
Metals Usually silvers. I like copper and brass a lot, too, though. (I’ve definitely got a bit of a steampunk streak in me  Tongue)

and:

Definitely a foodie – though I get lazy about cooking a lot of the time! It’s just me and my roommate, so we don’t cook super often. But I love food!

 

So after a bit of debate I couldn’t bring myself to actually embroider on the scarf/face muffler so it stayed the same as seen in The Crafts of Skyrim (almost done) so I left it as it was and it goes with the faux hide boots nicely. I of course had already finished The Tastes of Skyrim For the Real World cookbook. The paper box is already printed… but I had a couple things left to do, mainly the first thing that I had an idea for to begin with which was a setting of 3 artworks put into a frame, the problem with this one was that I really didn’t want to mail a frame (that also got a bit of crafting done to it) with glass so being the crafter that I am I found a way around that and though I don’t have a pic of that at the moment here is the artwork I did that went into it.

 

And of course I couldn’t forget that into every life a bit of fabric must come, and in this case it’s the over apron and hood in purple ;-)

Ultra Suede baby!  And honest to goodness screw on Nordic looking concho button things :::grin:::

Oh… And last but not least some nifty hand towels with a nice trim added.

Dragon Scrapbook Paper

Now I just need to get to the post office, wait til she receives, and hope to heck she likes it all cause I did go a bit overboard, lol.

Complete list:

  • Boots
  • Muffler
  • Cookbook
  • Artwork
  • Box papercraft
  • Apron
  • Hood
  • Towels
  • Dragon themed scrapbook paper I found
  • 2 Valentines Day wedding flutes for giggles
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Nikki Sixx Penguin Pot Holder/ Mug Rug

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Yeah, you read the title correctly and let me tell you it was a moment of divine inspiration that I even came up with this idea, lol.

How did this come to be you ask?  Well, I’m doing a Significant Other Swap on Craftster, basically it’s folks doing a bit of crafty goodness for a special someone in our swap partners life.  I LOVE doing craft swaps generally, alas though this one has been rather difficult because my partner gave me carte blanche in regards to her SO’s wish list, she only told me his likes in colors, sports, music, television, and that he’s a bit of a geek (like me! woohoo) but there is nothing that he currently wants and he pretty much lives in tee shirts.

So I got a button down that I was going to transform into a team shirt for his favorite driver because lets face it one sometimes needs a button down, but his fav drivers colors are turquoise which of course is one of the no no colors :::sigh:::  So I was going to knit him an awesome scarf, but he’s hot blooded so of course that’s a no too.  So he’s got cats and I’m making them some angry bird cat toys with bells but I still wanted to do something else…

Well I do have some stuff left over from the pot holder swap I just finished up, I’ll make him a pot holder!  Ok so cat?  No. The Stig helmet? No. Motley Crue? Eh, how would I do that?  Penguin? Ooh I could do a penguin!

So I started off by goggling penguin oven mitt and wasn’t really impressed with anything there because it wasn’t funny and I really wanted something unique.  So I goggled Motley Crue…  Wow that is some impressive hair!  Wonder what it would look like on a penguin?

 

Now, I considered giving you a tutorial on how to do this but I don’t want to like, infringe or anything but if you like this I’m pretty sure you can draw an oval with some weird hair and check out one of the zillion tutorials online for the base.  I just wanted to share the awesomeness that is…..

THE ORIGINAL (cause I’m not making another and no they are NOT for sale, it was a gift for a craft swap, lol)

PENGUIN NIKKI SIXX  MUG RUG/POT HOLDER

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