AFK - Christmas inspiration

This took longer than I thought - did it in paint vs Photoshop as I did it at lunch during work. @_@; was hard. Anyway, instead of just writing down what I want to make this holiday I gathered a bunch of my holiday pins to show off. I have a lot here, and I do not know if I will do them all but I love Christmas so we're see. I am already starting to gather items. 

1. Christmas Tree
2. Christmas Foam Tree 
3. Ornament Wreath(broken)
4. Peppermint Stand(no link)
5. Christmas lanterns
6. Picture Frame
7. Snowman Pompoms 
8. Ornament Quote Frame
9. Holday Wine Glasses
10. Paper Gingerbread House
11. Upcycled Advent Calender
12. Cinnamon Ornaments
13. Snowflake Popsicle Sticks
14. Window Clings
15. Bow on the Door
16. Table Tree(broken)
17. Light Decoration -
18. Joy Letters
19. Cookie Box
20. Glitter Reindeer
21. Mini Peppermints 
22. Straw Snowflake
23. Noodle Candy Piece
24. Cotton Ball Garland
25. Jingle Bell Frame

I did not plan it, but there are 25 of them :D funny. Anyway I for sure doing the mini tree, hanging light decore, ornament wreaf, the word Joy and shiny reindeer. The others are cute and on the list. If I do them exepct to hear of it and see a quick how to as well. The ones I listed seem easy enough. I want to do the tiny tree as I do not want to get a big one this year. I also love the light hanging garland, that is super cute. The wreaf is one I have been wanting to do for a few holidays now, so I will do that this year with my peppermint colors. I will probably put something cute in the middle. the word joy is too easy not to do, just gotta find a big jingle bell. Then the reindeer is just cut out of glitter paper. Easy. 

Here is to a great holiday! Only 65 days til Christmas :9

Ska

AFK - Wood Results

♥ I’m Feeling; bleh - head hurts
♥ Eating; notta
♥ Listening; random music and office dribble
@; at work

Was writing an anime list - which probably isn't even all...and felt like I spent too much time on watching TV, was like damn that is way to many episodes and some of them I re-watched recently. Don't get me wrong I love anime but man was just adding that up slightly as I put series in there...

Anyway here is wood results

 

 

Just quick update. I like the designs but not the sizing and a few pieces were to small to come out. So will need to fix that. Also less like thick wood today, for whatever reason. Going to do some think next. 

Ska

Life List

A Life list I have come to believe is a list of things you want to accomplish in your lifetime. It was really hard for me as I had like two goals in life - graduate and move out of Oklahoma - which I succeeded at pretty quickly. 


Created: 10/15
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Things to See - Colorado
Go up a 14,000+ mt. (2015, September Pike's Peak)
Rock climb something
Go to a Bronco's Game
Go to a Rockie's Game
Camp in Rocky Mountains


Things to Accomplish
Graduate college(2011, Oklahoma State Uni)
Leave home state(2014, moved to Denver)
Settle in and build a life 
Get an MBA at a great school
Climb the corporate ladder at Fortune 500 company
Type 50 words a minute
Write a book
Become a published author
Learn another language
Own my own business
Earn $500/ month with side hustle


Things to See
North America
Aurora Borealis (Alaska)
Grand Canyon (Arizona)
White Desert(Arizona)
Redwood Forest (California)
Niagara Falls (New York)
Hoover Dam (Nevada/Arizona)
Go to Mardi Gras (New Orleans)
Olympics opening ceremony 
A World series
Cherry Blossom Rush(Washington D.C.)
Visit The White House, again (did as a child)
Go to Disney World(Florida)

South America
Head Statues on Easter Island (Chile – Easter Island)
Machu Picchu (Peru – Machu Picchu)
Iguazu Falls (Argentina)
Go to Carnival (Brazil – Rio de Janeiro)

Australia
Sydney Opera House (Australia – Sydney)

Europe
Acropolis (Greece – Athens)
Eiffel Tower (France – Paris)
Colosseum (Italy – Rome)
Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany – Schwangau)
Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland or Germany)
Stay in the ice hotel
Travel to Capri, Italy
Explore the French Rivera
Explore Greece

Asia
Great Wall of China (China)
Forbidden City (China – Beijing)
Taj Mahal (India – Agra)
Mount Everest (Nepal)

Africa
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt – Cairo)



Things to Try
Snowmobiling
Hang gliding
Get hypnotized
Sky diving
SCUBA diving
Dive in a submarine
Try out a professional massage
Fly in a helicopter
Go white water river rafting
Fly in a hot air balloon and blimp
Go to a TED conference
Go on a major cruise
Make a parachute jump
Go dog sledding



A few bottom notes - I am not super religious, nor do I want children. So these items are a bit left off on my personal goal list. I created this list after googling around and finding a few other list. I will probably add to it as I go, specially if we move states again. 

AFK updates continue

♥ I’m Feeling; excited
♥ Eating; DP Dough
♥ Listening; misc music around office
@; at work

woo the AFK stuff continues. Found a picture of my Halloween haul, i spent about $35 if I recall correctly. I love all of them D: I love Halloween. I nabbed a few cupcake liners for work too - as making the sweet stuff at work, then also the cheap aluminum foil to make some horns for a costume. 

Then here a finished shot of the some of the wood I had done; the controllers look great. I literally stole these off Instagram D: anyway I love them and the best part is the wood smells so good :9

 

Super happy with how this turned out, going to try staining the middle and back sections eventually. First of its kind but not the last >) I ordered a few more pieces to try out in the thick as well. I am thinking these would be great for Christmas, this one is for mum. I love it. I am actually going to hit up Micheal's today to get a small amount of stain to practice on some test pieces for. I think stain would be best vs acrylic to keep the wood feels. Going to test both though.

And finally the latest order. Giraffe is for me. hell all of them are for me. Except the penguin. That is for Taci. I really hope they turn out good. This is thick wood, which I liked how it smelt and felt better vs the thin, but I am limited with the dimensions. I plan to list the controllers and such. I will see.

Macaroons for test, waffle heart cause I had an idea and wanted to see if it was cute. Mustache cause YES and holiday cause its getting close. I though the origami crane was niffy too, giraffe is my favorite animal so I needed it. Zombie piece was a test, shield I needed D: then gift for Taci. If they turn out well, I will do some more scene pendants. I like those. 

I also wanna do ornaments for family I think. Still pondering. 

 I have so much to do to catch up, I have been adding things to the todo list like crazy. I plan to put all my templates on Pinterst D: and some finished stuff as well. I want to retake all my shop pics and list my de-stash stuff on ebay instead. AND I want to figure out the flipping silhouette machine. I will get that figured out dammit. I want to do so some flake stickers too - but I am unsure still. I want to do planner sets T_T but I can never get the machine to work. Still a goal. Feels good to be getting things checked off a list again, I have been so lazy =.=;; which again don't get me wrong sometimes we need to just netflix and chill, but I could never live that way. I'd go insane eventually. 

Feeling excited and motivated. w00t. Okay back to work, lunch over D:

❥Ska

AFK Updates and dusting off blogger

♥ I’m Feeling; tired
♥ Eating; notta
♥ Listening; hold music
@; at work

Welp! After a few months on word press, I decided I much prefer blogger I have decided. =C What can I say I love google =.=; take my money...

My domain will expire soon I think, and while I technically have the space until FEB I am going to go ahead and move back home. *snuggles blogger* I moved all the post over, need to clean em up and upload proper images, but just some general cleaning. I also want to redo the layout, as its so simple and its simply because I am lazy. So many of my friends use custom ones I should as well. 

So for the entire month of SEPT I was a lazy bum. I seriously did not do anything productive. I think I did laundry once, and I did not cook really either, did some ramen nights....I just sorta came home, chilled and such, *cough* Denver has been a bad influence on me. Don't get me wrong it was a great month but I feel better checking things off a list than just hanging out on the couch. I was sorta lost anyway, I hated starting over on word press and I missed blogger, even if the hits are possibly off, I enjoy knowing a few people get them. WP was just as bad however, I got over 1000 messages a week that were spam sales comments. 

So after much thought and pondering I am just coming back as is, update a few things and keep on trucking. I am still into the same stuff. I didn't craft all SEPT either. I had stuff I wanted to do in OCT but I never got around to it. I just didn't feel like it. I ended up 'splurging' on dollar store items and it turned out cute either way. I did get a few more items and I am testing Ikea furniture for myself now too. 

items I added to 
collection:
 & 
Had to own these, of course. Waiting on second set still. Gotta find a shelf to display these on still. I very much adore the first set so far.


 

Actually sold the farther two, just wanted the SM ones D: now I have all her wants *0* 




Mildly happy with these, the back was engraved wrong but they are made from China and are not official anyway, they are great quality overall though. I advised the user that they were off, but I do not know if they will fix or even if they can.



Love these guys too, I am loving the new SM items. I did not want the big versions for whatever reason but these cute chibi versions are adorable. 

I am sure I picked up some cute stuff. I'll dig around for any haul pics I took. There are so many more items I want as well. I have a large Aliexpress cart going for end of week pay check. Excited for that, I'll post it once I get it actually ordered. 

Okay that's a start, will start cleaning and putting info into pages after work.
Ska