My last two cross stitches were big projects. Each one took about a month!
I found the pictures online and used a website to convert them into cross stitch patterns.
MR KOALA
In progress.
Finished.
Close up.
The back. AHH!
MR OTTER
In progress.
Finished.
Close up.
The back. Not as bad?
I think I will get these framed up properly so we can hang them up as a pair. I’m VERY happy with how they turned out.
A new restaurant opened very close to our apartment. I had been craving dumplings ever since moving back to Melbourne, so we went to check it out the other week. We were the only people in the whole restaurant, which was a little weird. I walk by there all the time and they never have any customers! Doubutful they will survive, tbh.
Salt and pepper calamari. Quite good. Tempura batter was thin and crispy, and not too oily. Calamari was tender.
Panfried chicken and prawn dumplings. Also good. Wrapper wasn’t too thick. Nice and juicy dumplings.
Spring onion pancake. We weren’t too impressed with this. Why did they deepfry it?? It wasn’t very nice.
Fried overload. Kinda our fault, we didn’t order well.
Prices were higher than I expected but they gave us $10 off, so that was nice.
I finally got to try a Scotch Egg!
Actually the original plan was to meet Scott for lunch at the Masterchef event he saw on his walk to work. But it was SOOO busy and we couldn’t even figure out where the line started. Instead we just snooped around a bit and tried to get in the background of shots. I watched Gary, George and Matt taste some of the foods (although they didn’t actually eat much!), and we saw some of the competitors. There was quite a few of them on each team so I don’t think we really saw any big spoilers. There were people ERRYWHERE.
Then we walked a street over and ordered a couple scotch eggs from Good Egg where it was much less hectic.
They were only $5.50 each and quite filling, definitely one of the better value food options in Melbourne! Plus our server was very friendly. All in all a great experience.
I just realized that I never actually posted my 2016 video on here. I spammed it everywhere else, but not on the ol’ blog. So… here it is! What an epic year it was.
My favourite clips are Feb 29th, May 12th, and May 21st. :D
This year I decided to make shoes for the nieces and nephews for Christmas presents. I knew the kids were going to get literally heaps of presents so I wanted to get them something a little different.
Ava is the youngest. I got the smallest shoes possible and they’re still too big. Oops. Also there are no cute animals that start with “V”. These might be my favourite of the lot though!
Next is April, who loves the Wiggles. It took a little prodding, but then she recognized Emma and the rest of the group.
Seth got Avatar shoes. These were fun to draw and shade.
Beau’s are from Pokemon Black and White. I don’t know which Pokemon those are but he says they are the best ones. :D
And lastly, Noah got Dragon Ball Z. He’s been requesting a pair ever since I made his dad some Wolverine shoes.
It was fun making all of them! Scott picked all the pictures for the boys. Each pair only took a couple hours once I got started. And they’re all done with permanent fabric markers and Scotchgarded so they can get wet, although I would try to avoid it if possible.
I would love to sell custom shoes, but I can’t legally sell anything with copyrighted material. Technically you’re not even supposed to MAKE things with copyrighted material, but I don’t think companies usually mind if it’s just for fun. But making money from it is a different story.
Feel free to email me with any ideas you might have though and maybe we can figure something out.