For my brother's 23rd birthday, I decided to make him Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy. I decided this around Christmas time and his birthday isn't until Febuary.
However, it took me about 3 weeks to actually get up the nerve to make it.
First of all, there were no patterns. Second of all, I needed money to buy new yarn. I had no black or grey, and I didn't like the yellow I had.
For Christmas, a friend of mine gave me a set of new crochet hooks. I love them, and I love her. They proved to be very handy.
It took me about 3 days of looking at the picture above to come up with what I have. I am super in love with him. I hope Eric is too. The one downside is the hair. I don't think I could make it stick up, which I suppose is the trademark.
Ok, serious opinions needed.
As per the summer, a little info on plants.
I recently picked up the cactus that's in the picture with Cloud. To accompany that lone cacti, I bought 200 seeds cheaply off eBay (can you say "addict"?)
From this summer, I was trying to hybrid my lily plants. It worked. I came out ahead with a whole buttload of seeds.
I placed some seeds in some seed-starting mix, and they have started to grow roots.
Today, I decided to take them out of their zipper bag, and place them into their own containers -a great use for the old plastic travelwear I have.
All of the seeds started to grow. Makes me glad that I didn't plant them all just for the heck of it.
They have to live in their containers for a year.
Like I have said before:
If they provide the pretty, I can provide the patience.
