adventures in magikjaz land

(this is more for me than anything)

So after sleeping way too late today I got around to manipulating some images in anticipation of getting the final items needed to get started on my bottlecap endeavour. (if you're interested, they were an image of Marie Antoinette, the Virgin of Guadelupe and an English D ... and i absolutely LOVE the program i got with my pen tablet last year that allows me to do things like this)

Hubby finally got home around 5-ish. We went to Michael's to get the yarn for the afghan I was commissioned thru etsy. Sadly they didn't have that specific colour in stock. (which means I make a billion calls tomorrow to try and find it before I finally break down and order it online somehwere thereby spending way more than I anticipated and cutting into my profit *le sigh*)

ANYWAY!!!

Since we didn't find the yarn and I had a 25% off coupon that expired on Saturday, I went shopping for the final things I needed in order to make bottlecap stuffs. jump rings, hemp cord (i wanted imitation leather but they didn't have it there ... gonna have to order it online eventually or find another store that might carry it), some stickers and buttons for embellishment, a 1" circle punch (makes cutting those images SO MUCH EASIER!), modge podge.

Then it was off to the Avenue to spend my gift cert i got for my bday. They were having a sale so I got a couple plain tshirts and a much needed female undergarment. I could have bought a bunch more in there. Some nice stuff I must say! Alho I still have issues with tank tops with my chubby arms and they had lots of those there. Same thing in torrid.

side note. While I generally prefer to buy shirts bigger than my natural size, it seems that Avenue clothes are cut for you to buy exactly your size. The tshirts I tried on in 3 different sizes of the same style and the smallest one I chose (which was the actual size I thought I wore) looked the best on me. The other larger ones were less than appealing.

Then it was off to Target to spend an xmas gift card (yea we wait awhile to spend these things lol) We got a DVD copy of "Across the Universe" (fizzle ... you can borrow it if you want), a new laundry baskete and some febreeze (exciting I know)

After a stop at KFC for dinner it was home for Red Wings and Pistons games (damn the NHL and NBA for scheduling them on the same day ... AGAIN!)

While I was watching the games I decided I should try to experiment with the bottlecaps stuff. So I gathered the equpiment we had and charged.

Sadly the first couple attempts were pretty horrific. (i used cheap budweiser bottlecaps tho, so it's all good lol) and I was getting frustrated that I couldn't open the jumprings I bought. After some websurfing and the realization that I bought SPLIT RINGS instead of JUMP RINGS (DOH!) I was able to get things under control.

So I made 2 pendants tonight. They are curing right now but as soon as they finish I shall take pictars to share. One of them is going to the fizzle tomorrow night at darts. And as soon as I'm sure what I've done is correct I'm making a speshul one for da banshee (i'm so excited!!!!)

So I just had to share. I know this is boring as hell but I'm so excited that I was able to figure out what I was doing wroing to make bottlecap jewelry. And altho I have a crochet commission, I can see that I'm gonna get a bug for this and make BAZILLIONS!!!!!

xoxox