I MADE A THING

Good day, friends! Recently I attempted sewing, and I must say it was a success. I have said previously that I don't know how to use a sewing machine, but my grandma got me one for Christmas and I have figured out how to use it fairly well. 

I made a few shirts a couple months ago, and then this Twenty One Pilots shirt yesterday night, and it turned out the best of all of them. 

I hemmed the sleeves and neck and bottom and everything, something I usually avoid doing. That went okay, except for some stitches got too close together.

And I used VELCRO! I used to just tape the backs shut because I was too lazy to go find the velcro.

If I get good at this, I'd make an etsy shop. You know, the hypothetical one I mentioned a few months ago- My dolls need a store like Hot Topic or something. I've never been into a hot topic, but I hear it's like fandom gear and band shirts.

But on top of that, we also need punk clothes and hipster clothes and clothes that don't conform to either "girl" styles or "boy" styles and, I don't know, dinosaur costumes. Everything not normal.
But I don't know how to sew.This should be easier to achieve now that I am learning to sew.

Here, have some pretty pictures of flowers I pressed:

I have acquired another plush dragon! Problem is, I'm not sure on the names. I tried food names, but they don't seem to work. I was trying to think up fancy names, but I'm not a fancy person. Perhaps inanimate objects? Compact Disc! Toothbrush Bristle! Hand Sanitizer! No. No. This is silly. Perhaps math terms. Parabola. Sinusoid. Asymptote. Cosecant. Yeah, those work a little better.

Anyway, this is the new guy. He doesn't have wings or an extra head. His name is Asymptote. In a tangent or cotangent graph (and a few other things that I forgot), the line can go up (or down) FOREVER! IT JUST WONT STOP! It could go in the Y (Or X, but i'm mostly concerned with Y right now) direction for infinity. But it will never make it past a certain line. That line is the asymptote.

Think about it this way: Walk halfway to your front door. And then half of that. And half of that. And half of that. And half of that. And half of that. You're getting closer and closer to the door but you'll never make it, no matter how long you keep going halfway there. The door is the asymptote.

HERE I'LL SHOW YOU ON DESMOS:

Here's a tangent. y=tan (1.5 x)

Look how after the curve it goes almost straight up, but never touches the line x=1.

What if we scrolled up a bit farther? What if we zoomed in?

It looks like it touches in the first picture, but that's just cause the line is too thick. The second picture is zoomed in and you can see it still doesn't touch x=1

That aside, the other dragon, the one with wings and two heads, is now named sinusoid an parabola.

Parabola. y=x^2

Sinusoid. y=sin (x)

Go here, to Desmos to play with graphs.

When the sun sets, it turns the tops of the trees orange. It looks like they're on fire!

The mad girl with the blue box

*TARDIS noises*

Can you Aragorn the doors of the TARDIS? is that legal?

Aragorn: verb, to throw open a pair of adjacent doors simultaneously and forcefully, while striding through purposefully. 

"If I Aragorn this door, it might just shatter the glass with the force of pure awesome."

Ask and you shall receive

Izzy asked me recently if I could do a craft tutorial. I thought it would be fun to show you a bit of the doll room and how to do some of the things in there.

This has got to be Lilly's favorite place in the room.

Dresser: Ikea- no longer available, I think

Mirror: Doll Crafts kit by AG

Rug: canvas book cover from the UW bookstore

This little rack is for hair stuff. It is a popsicle stick.

I hot glued it to the wall. This may or may not go over well in your house. it was fine in mine because A) I painted my room myself and dad knows I am perfectly capable of fixing the wall if something goes awry and B) i never told him >;-D

the hooks are just bits of bent paper clips.

 Human bracelets make great doll necklaces. This one will belong to #58, once I get her.

This human necklace I wrap around the doll neck twice so it fits.

Yeaaah so pretty.

The jewel hair extensions are the only AG purchase I've regretted,. They do not stay in very well at all and just look weird. If I had seen them individually in a bin that said $5 each, I probably would have said, "no way!" and left in search of something worth two weeks of allowance. Alas- I didn't. I saw them wrapped up pretty together and thought nothing of buying them. Welp, thats marketing for ya.

Alrightie Izzy, here's a craft:

Were gonna make this headband! Alas, this is not my idea. The technique with the ponytail holder came from Doll Diaries. If you don't want to scroll through the archives over there, I will show you how I did it here. : )

We are using cut up jeans and a gray t-shirt. I love this color/ texture combo because it reminds me of what i wear to school every day (dark blue jeans and whatever t-shirt pleases me. Generally I think more about doll clothes than my own. For me, What+ever=dressed) XD

 Begin heating up your hot glue gun

 From jeans that don't fit you anymore, cut around that lovely little yellow line.

 Big heavy fabric scissors work best.

 I just cut where things were naturally thickest, the folded over part. (does that make sense?) : |

 It should come about this long on both sides of your doll's head. this gives you room for braiding and folding. (you'll see) : )

 See this thick part thats all stitched together? yeah. cut that off so the headband will be less bulky.

 you know, that part. I wish there was a name for it.

 You will also use the reverse side of the jeans. cut this strip as long and as wide as the first strip.

 From the gray tee shirt, cut a strip as long and as wide as the other ones.

 Now you have three different colored, equal sized strips.

 Put a blob of hot glue on one end of two of the strips.

Stick them together.

 now you have a nice little fabric sandwich.

 Braid all the way down and hot glue the ends together.

 Using a human ponytail holder. Glue it on and

 Fold the headband over

 Do the same on the other side. you see how the pony tail holder is like elastic?

I also made one for me. Sorta the same method, only with real elastic and no folding.

Here it is against a jackson pollock style painting I did. (fun activity: Get a canvas and some acrylic paint. Dribble the paint all over the canvas. Call yourself an artist. [I don't even mean that sarcastically!])

 Yup, the fashion corner is defiantly Lilly's favorite part.

 That purple thing is a cupcake wrapper mod podged onto cardstock. containers for hair thingies are little plastic sample bowls covered in washi tape. The bobby pin box is the part of a pencil sharpener that holds the shavings. Barrettes I found at safeway. they're goody brand. The dolls are cutouts from an AG catalog, mod podged to cardboard.

Oh yes! Happy national Genocide day! 

Woah. That was a little random. Not to mention morbid. Let me explain:

The Pilgrims Had: guns

They wanted: food

The indians had: food

They wanted: to wipe out a neighboring tribe 

The treaty between the Pilgrims and the indians went something like: "Hey help us kill this tribe we don't like and we'll give you some food." And the pilgrims were like: "ok sure sounds fun" so they went and killed the other tribe and then had a victory feast AKA thanksgiving.

There ya go. But I don't know if I can accurately call it national genocide day because I don't know where to draw the line between conquering and murdering. : /

With much love and doll enthusiasm 

Gwynefar