NP: Comsat Angels - Red Planet Revisited

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Check out my neat background. I've seen a lot of etsy sellers using what looks like scrapbook paper for their backdrops, so I thought I would give it a go myself.

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Some one contacted me and suggested I try making Chrono Trigger coasters - a very good idea, I think - and this is what I managed.

I might try making another set of these, only including as much of the body as I can fit. I find something unsettling about their disembodied faces staring at me. But I will put these up in my shop for now and see if they garner any interest or not.

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So my laptop broke about 2 weeks ago and has been being nursed back to health in some Best Buy tech center far far away. It is still gone and I miss it. I look out my window and sing 'Somewhere Out There' each night.

So my etsy updates have been, uh, a bit slow. Or nonexistent. Or whatever. I have a lot of catching up to do, so this will be a very long, very image intense post. Click on the picture to get magically whisked away to that particular item in the shop.

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Still here? I should also note that I am in the process of trying to make my shop more interesting to browse...most of the items for sale now have multiple pictures and I'm thinking of giving each a lengthier description. If you have any suggestions, I wouldn't mind hearing them.

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.

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Well, it looks like my internet is back up for the time being. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, rub a buddha belly or whatever you're supposed to do.


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First things first, check out what was on my porch last night:

I'm not sure where this thing came from, but I'm guessing Brazil. I'm also pretty sure its name is Shelob.

And I realize there's no frame of reference in this shot, but I wasn't about to risk my arm getting eaten just to stick a quarter, or a Mack truck, next to it. Suffice it to say, it was big. There are astronauts looking down on us from the moon and wondering "What's that big black spot?"

Also, a side note: Can you believe I've had a couple of hundred dollars worth of photography lessons?

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These are the original Dragon Warrior slimes in fridge magnet form. For those who don't remember or just never played the game (blasphemy, by the way), you usually encounter the blue slime first. He's the easiest of the easy. He's also pretty much the mascot for the entire Dragon Warrior/Quest series. You'd think the mascot would be a dragon. But it's not. It's a slime.

Then you encounter the red slime right after the blue slime, and he's only slightly harder than the blue slime. Much later on in the game you will eventually encounter a metal slime, and he is near impossible to kill because he is near impossible to hit.

The Dragon Quest series isn't terribly big here, but they are fanatics about it in Japan (go figure). I read somewhere that they're not allowed to release new DQ games during the week in Japan because too many people call in sick to work or skip school to go buy the game.

This is the Sea Slug from Dragon Warrior 2. It's also a magnet. I don't know whether or not he'll sell. He's a minor (forgotten) enemy from a minor (forgotten) game in a series that never made it big in America. But still....it's a slug sitting in its own drool. If no one else wants it, I wouldn't mind having it on my fridge.

These are Excite Bike coasters. It was a bike racing game, but the tracks had all kinds of obstacles from ramps to oil slicks and such. If memory serves, no one played the actual game very much, but instead focused on making their own ridiculously hard tracks.

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