I'm (sort of) back!

I know I haven't been updating much but I promise I have a good reason!

I've been hard at work in setting up my Etsy shop under the same name, Little Tiny Piranha, as well as trying to establish a social media presence (follow me on Twitter @tinypiranha and on Instagram @littletinypiranha!), which have all been eating up a lot of my time. I'm selling some of my handmade items to help fund my crafting needs and will be mainly selling crochet, knit, and sewn items. Here's a sample of a super adorable Frankenstein's monster mason jar cozy that I am selling!

I have, however, finally finished making the "dumpling" messenger bag that I had mentioned in my last post! *applaud applaud* Even though it isn't quite 100% perfect, I still feel very glad with myself for finishing it, after putting it off for more than a year ^^~ It certainly has motivated me to pick up working on my turtle quilt again :P 

A preview pic of my little dumpling bag~ I'll upload more pictures of the details in a following post (please excuse the uneven lighting). 

Oh oh I have also finished making the bobble toque as well, almost forgot that I had mentioned wanting to make it in my last post. More photos to come for that as well!

For the time being, I don't think I'll be able to running a tutorial-esque blog as picture taking has really become my kryptonite :(. I will, however, link to blogs with helpful tutorials as I come across them while I research for my own projects! 

I swear I didn't forget

Well... I realize it has been quite a while since I've last updated >.> I had worked on some arts and crafty things during this time but I have been kind of lazy with actually writing up the posts.

During this time I've made a bunny ear headband as well as continued working on a yellow dumpling/hobo messenger bag that I had been working on and of on for quite a long while. I really need to stop starting new projects before I finish old ones but I've also started on knitting a grey and yellow toque using the "bubble knit" and I also want to make a small, fold-over messenger bag out of some red pleather I bought a while back.

Some sample images of the various things I mentioned. Hopefully I can replace them with my own pics of my finished products eventually. 

Ah... so many things I want to do~ Let's see what I actually end up finishing before the end of this year =P

Until next time!

-ltp

Blast from the past: Orisinal

Wow nostalgia. A friend reminded me of this site, Orisinal, today and it really brings me back to my high school days of not paying attention in computer class =P 

I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were still new games being added to the collection. The main theme of all of these games seem to be a fusion of adorable animals, pretty backgrounds, and soothing music. Most of the games are very straight forward and, while I'm not really good at these type of timed/reaction games, I liked to play them for the cuteness, graphics, and sound effects. 

Below are two screen caps of a game that is new to me that I'd like to recommend. The objective of the game, Casanova, is that you're a giraffe that is trying to kiss other giraffes. Adorable right? You control the length of your neck by clicking your mouse (more clicks = longer extension, stop clicking = shortens) to adjust to the height of the oncoming giraffes. The graphics and adorable kissing sound effects (plus little hearts that show up) make this game a must play!

KISSING GIRAFFES <3 

What more of a reason do we need? 

Yoga day!

Recently I've decided to try picking up yoga. I looked around for local yoga studios to check out the prices and I was surprised to see how quickly the cost would build up, whether it be drop-in sessions or monthly memberships. As I had little faith that I would actually attend classes regularly if I did get a monthly membership, I decided to try doing some at home yoga first with our lovely friend, YouTube! I looked around for videos targeted at beginner yogis and came across this channel, Yoga With Adriene.

Both the video and audio are of good quality and she does a very good job explaining the poses and how to position your body. The poses are also quite simple (great for beginners) and mainly focuses on more "stretching" and "warming-up" type of poses as well as a few basic yoga poses in the second half.

Let the yoga journey begin~!

*CHomp CHomP*

Hey Ho~ While I've already tied up this name in an etsy and deviantART account, I've finally started up my own blog today! I originally came up with this name in hopes of starting my own "brand" of craft items to sell on etsy a few years back but then I got lazy busy. I realized that actually producing enough items to sell in a timely matter had proved to be a bit more difficult (in addition to having to advertise, get your name out there, blah blah blah) so I've decided to put that aside for a bit and just continue with making things for friends, family, and myself in my free time.

So... a little bit about myself. I'm a craft enthusiast and am in no way a "professional", whether it be crafting or photography. The majority of everything I know is self-taught through books, other blogs, online tutorials, YouTube, etc. Most of what I will be sharing will be from my own crafting experience that I hope maybe someone out there will be able to relate to. My main crafty hobbies are knitting, crocheting, sewing (bags, clothes, accessories) though I also like to dabble in some other smaller craft projects as well.

$$$ <-- where have all my moneys gone~ =O

While this blog will (hopefully) have more of a crafting presence, it'll also be used as a personal blog to document other tidbits that are going on with my life that I'd like to share when I'm not busy crafting away. Anyhow~ My current craft project is a turtle quilt so look forward to updates on that. That will be all for today. ^^