To Blog or Not To Blog

Well, it has been an incredibly long time since I last posted... and I had at one point decided that I wasn't going to pick this back up. The problem I face is that I have WAY too many interesting craft projects that I am about to venture into and I don't want to forget the details of how I accomplished them later. So, here I am... getting ready to write again, more for my own chronicling than for anything else.

Ok, so projects that are coming up... HALLOWEEN!!!! My step-son, who is 8 years old, would like to be General Greivous for Halloween.

If you are familiar with General Greivous, you are probably laughing right now saying, "good luck with that!" because that is largely how I feel about the situation, but that is who he wants to be and there is no dissuading him from this decision.

Here is a photo of General Greivous.

As you can see... this will be a challenge. Greivous is a digital character in the movie, so no person has to fit inside of any suit or costume.

My game plan thus far is to use pvc pipe or tubing and cut it lengthwise to give me a 1/2 round, and then drill holes into the edges/corners of the pipe so I can sew it onto a pair of black pants and a black top. I will likely use foam core board for the flat pieces of "armor" on his shins and forearms.

I am working on how to do the chest and shoulder pad pieces as well as the neck collar (those are all hard to see from this picture, but I will post more as I begin working on each section). I have considered buying plastic bins from the dollar store and cutting them into the right shapes and then heating them up in the oven to see if I can remold them at all...but I don't want a burning pile of plastic in my oven, so we will see about that.

Another big thing on my list of projects is my house. My husband and I have been working on remodeling since right before I moved in and thus far we have taken out a wall, painted the kitchen, living room, and bed room, hung new light fixtures in the kitchen, new blinds throughout and ripped out the carpet. So upcoming for the house is painting the floors, dyeing my couch cover (I am going to attempt to washing machine dye it *fingers crossed), painting the bathroom, multiple pieces of wood furniture to refinish and lots of other little projects.

As for the outside of the house, we will be painting it next summer, we have some concrete pathways we want to get laid and the best part.... I AM GETTING A CRAFT SHED!!!!! I am so excited about this last bit that I can hardly stand it. We have a relatively small house and there is just no room for Crafternoon Delight in there, not to mention that I do work from home at least once a week and a nice quiet office space away from The Pack (our 4 dogs... more on this later) would be so nice to work from.

This is a photo of what my shed will look like.... roughly...

It comes primed, so we will trial run the new house color on it when the weather gets nice again. Of course it doesn't come finished inside, so that will be another project to work on :) There will be posts coming with all the details of the finishing of shed.

So those are a few of the things that I am working on and looking to keep track of here. More to come!