TUSAL update -14 feb

From Dragon my Needle

And so came the day of the new moon when I shall present you my TUSAL jar

My camera is back to life! I still don't know the cause for its  behaviour.

And I sure need to know how to take better pictures, but I think the difference is OBVIOUS

Puffles scraps, cat fur (no, we haven't shaved it yet, although *some people* really want to. The cat is still nameless btw) and cake leftovers

The new jar is quite better than the old one, ne? :D

As I said before, the only interesting thing would be the sheep charm. Ok, here's its story: I've been keeping this for years, seriously. I got it as a charm for martenitsa and I loved it so much I wore it on my neck whole month. But  martenitsi are worn only until you see spring bird/full blown tree, and should not be used the next year. Well I couldn't let go of this sheep, so I detached the charm and kept it without having exact idea what to do with it. It spend some time on my mother's USB. Eventually, I got the idea to attach it to some cross stitch work as I found the perfect sheep sampler. It would fit perfectly.

And then

CRACK

And I think you got the idea..

T_____T

Well that's it, pretty much

Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate it

Happy St Tryphon's Day to those others who celebrate it, if there are any among you

And very merry unbirthday to the rest of us :) 

And hey, this is the 100th post, wow.

Warning - horrible quality piccu

My camera suddenly refused to work

and mobile phones are no good..

Now that I think of it, I could have scanned the cross stitch

I still hope the camera will come back to life, because the TUSAL jar definitely won't fit in the scanner (and I bought a new jar :D )

I wonder when I last went to bed before midnight...

But the cake isn't dome yet :(

I wanted to say " I have a birthday, come and have some cake" but I haven't stitched the SODA cake part fully yet

Lol, it's so tiny it wouldn't be enough anyway! The mini-tiny-puny sweet SAL started yesterday, but I had so many things to do and so little tile to stitch and today when I have some time, I'm so tires, I just can't go on, nyaa... So better have some of this:

(I have a book how to make weird cakes like this, but somehow have the feeling I'll never make one) 

or this:

LOL! I so WANT a cake like this!

My cake was more ordinary one, but still nice. Yesterday I went to bed at 2 am and had to get up at 6.30 for school, so I wasn't in particularly good mood in the morning, I just wanted to let me have quietly my milk, and then mom entered my room with a plush cow and a bottle of strawberry champagne, lol!

Then at school my friend got the most amazing present, it was so unexpected and they were hiding it all the time, it's AWESOME, and I love it

 

Then we went to a Chinese restaurant (like every year). And in few words everything was great, but now I'm so tired *yawn*

So let's close things with the "19 years-old" song, I really love it, as well as the anime, well, we'll see about the lyrics ^^

Good night everyone :D 

Cause I man's gotta do what I man's gotta do...

Sometimes we all have to do things we don't like...

Like sewing... Cause when I say  "all things hand made" I mean it - it's all me, the needle and a first aid kit... no sewing machine invited to the party.

But finally:

Of course I won't be myself if I don't *screw* the finishing - I forgot to cut the excess of fabric and zipper and it's pretty obviously with those  edges...  I have to iron it, hope they'll look better after.

Well, could be worse.

Let's go back to the first sentence - sometimes puffles have to go to party and listen all evening to music not to their taste. Those puffles here have been heavily GACKTed (and lightly Vidolled) during their sewing period and now they're rebelling, that to say they're requesting songs:

The-so-not-interested puff - Shania Twain - That don't impress me much

Don't-mess-with-me-I'm-so-yandere puff - Weird Al Yankovich Trigger Happy

I-may-be-purple-but-I-see-the-world-in-pink puff - Frou Frou - Holding out for a hero (Where have all the goof puffs gone?!?)

Psycho Puffle - Robbie Williams - Difficult for Weirdos 

I don't get what's wrong with Gackt. And now

Sean Morey - The Man Song

"Cause a man gotta do what a man gotta do... and I'm gonna do what you told me to..."

I guess only the female puffs are gonna be happy with the dj choice.

THANKIES! + smth that's not fun....

Yey, you seem to like the cat, thankies for the comments, they made me really happy ^____^

And I'd like to thank a new follower, Kim - I wanted to do it more personally and visit her place , but lately the follower widget doesn't work for me, I can't put it on the blog. I can see it on the home panel, but nothing's happening when I click the icon ;( However - thanks! I'm so glad that you found my blog worth following!

Second - thanks to Kttycat, now I'm helplessly addicted to the SODA designs. I just have to try one! But I don't have the time for bigger project... so.. when I saw in Chcross (international chinese cross stitch forum) a thread saying: "Hey, I'm going to stitch this lil SODA design, someone wants to do it with me?" I was like "Hell YESS I DO". I don't know if I can call this SAL, but whatever. I'll be doing this for a present again - no time to stitch for myself! 

This is it! I want to make the cube in the bottom. I'd like it to be small enough so it can be used like a key chain. In order to do that, I'll probably have to stitch on 22 (nooo). But the real problem is... Cubes has 6 sides... that means I'll have to leave some squares out!!! T____T

And one very last thing... it's not related to craft in any way, but got me quite mad today.. I don't know if someone visits MyAnimeList, and how often. But since the beginning of the year, the made a lot of changes. First I thought it's just the skin (now it's uglier). But today I wanted to update my manga list with the chapters from the manga issue I buy monthly, I realized they're gone.

According to the new MAL rules, from what I got, only manga serialized in English will be listed on the site. So if the manga is originally posted in French, Portuguese, or whatever other language, and is not officially translated in English (scanlation groups doesn't  count), now it's gone. (I assume that manga in Japanese that's not translated won't be deleted, because this will be ridiculous by far O.o) If the manga is published originally in English, it stays.

They say that English speakers are their prime target and all the additional manga is a burden. I don't get it and I really think it's unfair. Great number of the users there aren't native English speakers, they just use the site features while reading in other languages too. Like I do. Mods say they won't change things just because of small group of people is unhappy. But I just don't see how exactly this made the other users "happy".  In the end, from the forum threads I read, they closed the topic with "you can keep track of that manga on a side list. Now happy holidays, topic closed." Well yeah, I can make anime and manga lists in Excel, but that's hardly the point.

MAL has always helped me to find new manga. The manga I lost now is BB Project, Omega Complex, Vairocana, All in, Pen Dragon, Kairi, Shin. Maybe there are more, but I haven't spotted them yet. Some of these series are really cool, especially the first ones, but they are serialized in the French Shogun magazine, that is translated in different languages, including Bulgarian (actually it's the only manga magazine here) but not English, so BYE BYE DEARS. With this, the club of the magazine lost all of his entries. Thanks to the club, many English speakers found out and got interested in these manga series, the interest raised and a scan translation of BB Project has even started -> One Manga But as said before, this doesn't count.

Sorry for the long babling but when I found out, first I was really pissed, now I'm just sad. I'm not getting the logic. Yeah, maybe you haven't heard of these titles, but there are OEL that are even less popular... Now I guess the only thing left to do for me is to try to recover my pass word for mangaupdates... or just start Excel. How fun.

Let's Shave it!

.... said the Puffle...

I did the backstitching today. It wasn't as much fun as the rest, but still managed it. I think... I'm happy withe result. This is my first heavily backstitched piece after all. 

And I forgot to say, I made some changes in the colours - in the pattern it was very light grey where I stitched white (I didn't like how it looked with the grey and replaced it with a creamy white). And the colour for the backstitch looked too red to me, so I used more brown one. I like it better like this.