I haven't posted in a while, so here's a random update: I'm trying to make a lot of stuff to sell sometime during the summer so I can use the money for a poker bankroll. Because they're not going to be on sale for months, I'm usually not going to post the stuff I've made right away and instead wait until the summer. But because I'm a show-off who hasn't updated for a while, I'm going to post a few right now:

Bowie from Shining Force 2:



White Mage from Final Fantasy 1:



And here's something I made for a friend for Christmas:

So I signed up for an internet craft swap for retro video games. I was a week late sending it out, as is my style. Since 3 out of the 4 of you who read this blog have seen me working on at least some of it but never got to see it completed, and I felt like I should give you some closure:



That's all of it lumped together.



This is made out of paper tiles glued onto a wooden box. I think (hope?) it looks better in person. It looked a lot better than the first paper mosaic I made, which I refuse to post pictures of here on account it looks like a 5 year old's art project.



Standard needlepoint. Not cross stitch, Joe, although that was close. Not crochet, Corinne, which wasn't close.



Stained glass triforce.

I don't see any point in posting close up of the Dragon Warrior wolf or the coasters since they've been posted here before.

By the way, everyone is getting some variation of the above (speaking generally: coasters, suncatchers, magnets, etc) for Christmas because I have no money, but shitloads of time. So if you have any requests*, you better start getting them to me. **

* I reserve the right to deny any requests.

** I can also make sock monkeys.

Fucking finally:




So the final counts:

Number of times I bled for Godzilla: 8 times

Number of fingernails I ground down to nothing by accidentally slipping my finger into the grinder: 3

Number of burns from touching hot lead: 2

Number of tumors developed from breathing in lead without adequate ventilation: Only time will tell!

Lessons learned: I really need to work on my soldering. I really should learn how to make letters properly instead of winging it. I really need to check myself before I wreck myself.

The godzilla saga continues: I ran out of copper foil and cancer causing lead so he's been put on hold for a few days.

Well, that 1-up mushroom sold within hours of me putting it up so I thought I'd follow up on its popularity by making a needlework moogle, which is a cat or a bat or something from the Final Fantasy games. And if you're wondering why I don't have a picture of my progress on the needlework moogle, it's because I apparently left it at a Denny's. That or it got buried underneath the crap in my car. Either way, it's never going to be seen again.

I'd start another one, but I don't have the stomach to make the exact same thing over and over again so it's going to be a few weeks at the very least before another moogle is born.

The godzilla stained glass is coming along at a slug's pace:



I decided instead of making each little tooth and black space between the tooth individually, I'd instead just make one big white line of teeth and use lead to draw the lines between them. Of course, I decided that after spending a few hours grinding down a dozen teeth.

And you can't tell by the above picture, but the lettering at the top is red glass, not black, and it can be very hard to distinguish between tiny red glass shards and blood sometimes. That said, the following count may not be accurate:

Number of times I have bled for Godzilla: 5 and counting

Works in progress:

Megaman Pixel Art - I need to order a lot of blue. And in case you can't tell (I forgot to put in the standard quarter for comparison purposes), this is a large project. He's already nearly a foot and a half long and I've yet to get past his crotch.

He is very likely to be ruined during the ironing process.











Godzilla stained glass - this is more of an experiment than anything. It's my second stained glass project (Selma the Fish being my first), and my first attempt at my own design.

Number of times I have bled for Godzilla: 2 and counting