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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Whimsey: July

I recently joined Whimsey Box…because I felt like I didn’t have enough craft stuff?  Or maybe I felt like I had too much time?  Or something?  If you don’t know what Whimsey Box is, it’s this interesting and relatively new craft service you can subscribe to for 25$/mo and they’ll send you a box of something to make each month (actually, I think they upped the price just recently as I’m pretty sure I’m not paying that).

Anyway, it seemed like a lot of fun and would get me making something creative at least once a month.  Also, I wouldn’t really have to think about what to make either because it would come all packaged for me and I would be exposed to things I might not be exposed to normally.  It might even end up giving me good ideas for Friday night activities.  So anyway…yeah.  This was July’s project:

Chain bracelets (links back to Whimsey Box)

And here’s my version:

Yes, that is actually me.  (Sorry about the quality of the photos, they’re from my phone, which is dying.)

And instead of finishing the back like they had suggested, I decided to just do one long braid and tie it off on the other side.

Yes, I did actually try the bracelet on and it fits my wrist. I’ve been told that I have anorexic wrists.

Um…so there it is, my first Whimsey Box project.  I can’t say that it was the greatest thing ever.  I don’t wear jewelry.  Just functional stuff, like a watch.  I don’t really see why I have to be loaded down and dripping with accessories.  So, I don’t really know what to do with this project.  I have a lot of moose, but I don’t know if they all want to be wearing matching bracelets.

But as it is, Whimsey Box was really generous with the material.  I had enough to make at least three bracelets.  I think they actually sent me blue embroidery floss.  I have a huge collection of my own, so I subbed in some green.  I also actually found a bunch of bracelet findings in my stash, so if I were going to make this again, I would probably use those to finish it off.

I got my August box recently and it was packaged a lot nicer.  They’re still working out shipping kinks, I think.  I took a brief look August’s project and it looks a lot more interesting to me than bracelets.  Not that there’s anything wrong with bracelets…it’s just that…what do I do with them?

Giant, telepathic cabbages growing in the snow

I recently had a dream. It was a very interesting dream. The first interesting one I’ve had in awhile. My dreams have been really mundane recently. Fairly boring and not memorable at all. AT. ALL. But not this one. This one was really interesting. It was even more interesting when I was dreaming it because I could remember more of it then. Yes. Interesting. Quite interesting it was. Interesting indeed… (Ok, I’ll stop.)

Anyway, my dream involved a giant cabbage. It was growing in a snowy field. Also, it was telepathic. It may have also been telekinetic because I remember it was pounding the floor with something right before I woke up. Now then, why would there be a giant, telepathic cabbage growing in the snow pounding on the floor? Well, obviously it was to warn her son. Duh. I mean, why else would a telepathic, telekinetic cabbage pound on the floor?

Yes. Her son. You see, some unseen, evil villain guy wanted to kill her son, who is not a cabbage but a real boy. So he sent his tentacled eye-monster minion out to dispose of Mrs. Cabbage’s (I don’t know if that was her name, but I shall call her such) son. I don’t know why Little Boy Cabbage was targeted. My dream didn’t go into the backstory. Anyway, the tentacle eye-monster apparently had magical powers of some sort (if you think about it, a magickless tentacled eye-monster wouldn’t make a good minion at all) and was able to whisk the boy into an alternate reality for easy disposal except the eye-monster messed up and lost the kid in a field. Somehow, Mrs. Cabbage found out/knew of this plot and by the power of motherhood, was able to also get herself transported to this alternate reality to warn her son. Except…she ended up as a giant cabbage. Growing in a snowy field. But at least with the powers of telepathy and telekinesis.

Mrs. Cabbage. She has this red, ribbony thing orbiting around her and it fragments in proportion to the amount of awareness the eye-monster has of her son.

So, the last image I really remember is the scene where Mrs. Cabbage is frantically trying to warn her son about the eye-monster coming for him. She’s “shouting” at him and pounding on the floor with…something. I don’t think I ever saw what it was. The eye-monster has just seen Little Boy Cabbage and is rushing toward him. The boy is faintly aware that something is terribly amiss. I don’t think he had very developed powers in this alternate reality. I don’t know if he had any in the other reality either. Anyway, I woke up after that.

What the eye-monster looks like normally.

Also, this particular magical, tentacled eye-monster was a terrible minion. Completely incompetent. Seriously, how do you lose a kid in an empty field when he is in eye shot the whole time??

What the eye-monster looks like when it’s pursuing something. It moves a bit like how the sentinels did in /The Matrix/.

Also, also, in case you were wondering, this wasn’t really a nightmare.  I was incredibly entertained whilst dreaming and was slightly disappointed when I woke up.  I wanted to know how it ended.