I'M IN L.A!!!

Okay, so it's been quite some time peeps, sorry, but hey I'm living in L.A now ha ha. I actually did it! So far I'm loving it here. I've been on quite a few adventures so far, well not really just a couple, but you know. So I'm still technically looking for a place to live and a job, but I'm staying pretty optimistic because I mean it's got to be better than working at a dead end fast food job living in a apartment where the landlord's screwing me over. Any way enough about my life, and back to the craft stuff ha ha.
So the reason why I'm telling you this is, as soon as I get a permanent place and a job, I'm going to have my family mail me my yarn and craft stuff so I can start working on my projects again. Maybe in the mean time I'll find a craft store and get something to tide me over. But, yeah just so you guys know why I haven't posted anything, and why I probably won't post anything for a while, but stick around please, I'll try keeping you guys updated on whats going on and check out my youtube channel where I'll be making daily vlogs about my life and maybe that will provide some insight as to when I'll start posting again, but just be warned, I have to figure out how to get the videos off of my video camera onto my chromebook so that might take a bit also lol. Sorry peeps.

youtube.com/sweetbloodsheena or you can just type bena babysox in the search box lol See you around :D

Picture Perfect

So I have a few new projects done that need to be photographed, but unfortunately my camera is still not working and I hate taking still photos with my video camera. But today I have for you a short story I wrote a couple summers ago for a creative writing class. Hopefully you like to read lol.

Picture Perfect

      Milo Walters sat on top of a bar stool seated behind the front counter. he had been playing with the miniature rock garden placed beside the register while waiting for his sister to finish with her final clients of the day.

    Milo was lost in a world of rocks and sand when an over-sized purse was thumped onto the counter.

    "Excuse me; I need to pay for my daughter's portraits. Did you hear me?" Demanded a woman.

     Milo dragged the tiny rake through the sand with a quick swipe and placed a shiny black rock in the corner of the garden before grabbing the slip from the woman's hand.

     "It'll be one hundred-twelve dollars and forty-six cents."

     The woman pulled two one hundred dollar bills from her purse and held them out. Milo much preferred when people paid with credit cards.

     "Well, are you just going to stare at me? I don't have all day," she spoke with a harsh tone that Milo was oblivious to.

     Milo slowly grabbed her money and put it in the register, but before handing back the change, he pumped a blob of hand-sanitizer into his palms, and once again after giving back the change.

     The woman was highly irritated and she stormed out the door with her daughter, she muttered, "God, could they hire anyone more retarded to work here."

     Milo's sister, Lola, quickly slammed the door shut behind the woman and locked it.

     "I swear that woman is totally logic-missing! I hate her! I hate her! I hate her!" Lola stomped her foot as she ran her fingers through her snarled red hair.

     "We're going to be late," Milo responded after uncovering his ears.

     "Milo, late for-" Lola's voice fell as she happened to glance up at the wall clock, "Oh."

     Milo was eager to leave; He was always home at five-thirty. It was five-seven now, and the drive took twenty-five minutes. But Milo froze when he saw the only car in the parking lot, "Where's your car?"

     Lola only laughed as she happily bounced into the driver's seat. Milo reluctantly crawled in the front seat; He always sat in the back, but this car had no back seat.

     "Do you like it? We're borrowing it from Adam's dad."

     Milo squirmed in the leather seat. No I don't like it, not one bit, this isn't good and we're going to be late, Milo thought as he tried to rationalize the anger rising in him. What he really needed was to get out of this car and into Lola's, but that would only make him more late. But late for what? Exactly, nothing. That was just his routine. Milo tried to sit still and not panic because he knew he was being irrational and he just wanted to seem normal even if he couldn't be normal.

    "Lola, stop the car. Lola stop the car! Stop the car!" Milo screamed as he started to kick his feet.

     Cars flew by and honked as Lola stomped on the brake and pulled off to the side of the road. Milo jumped out of the car before it came to a complete stop.

     "Milo!" Lola threw the car in park and jumped out after her brother, "Are you crazy!"

    Milo stood against a telephone pole with tears streaming down his cheeks, hot with anger and frustration towards his sister and the stupid car.

     "What's the matter with you?" Lola screeched when she reached Milo.

     "I don't know! Everything! Go away! You ruined everything! You're so stupid!"

     Lola opened her mouth as if she were going to speak, but then shut it and walked quietly back to the car, where she waited for Milo's meltdown to end.

Lothlorien Leaf

Forgive the crappy quality of the picture, my camera has decided to stop working again and now I have to take pictures with my video camera. But look what I crocheted! I even put a pin on the back so it is wearable.

So I just used some scrap yarn that I had to make this some I'm actually not sure what the color names are. Also after I made the leaf, I spent 2 HOURS looking through all my yarn because I knew I had light grey somewhere and I COULDN'T find it. ANYWHERE! And then I found it so I was happy. Also it's about 4 1/2 inches long.

Stormcloak Banner Pictures Yay!

Look at how beautiful it looks hanging up on the wall! ^_^

Here's a close up:

Yes, there are tacks in it so that is was stretched out properly, because when it hangs, the sides curl in a bit like this:

 
Here's a more accurate photo of the colors, the flash on my camera makes it look like a lighter blue:

 And here's the fancy curtain rod that I bought just for it because I needed something to hang it up with and this decorative curtain rod, I feel does just that and also looks appealing.

I had lots of fun trying to hang this up, and by lots I mean none at all. When I started putting the screws in for the curtain rod holder, three of the nails holding the paneling in place popped out because they were the crappy short little nails you use to put those stupid cardboard backing onto entertainment centers and such. So I went to the store and bought actual paneling nails, and learned that the plaster wall between the paneling and the outside brick wall is very thin and that's why there was such short nails in the paneling. Which leaves my wondering, "Is that why it's the only wall facing outside that has paneling?".

And in case you missed it in my last post:

Lion Brand Yarn Hometown USA

6 skeins of San Diego Navy

&

not quite 1 skein of Los Angeles Tan 

Skyrim Stormcloak Banner

Yay! It's finally done. So I lost the cord for my camera (not my video camera, my regular camera), so I can't put up any pictures, but here's a video I made of it. Hopefully I will find it soon and I will upload actual pictures. 

Now if you're interested, I used:

Lion Brand Yarn Hometown USA

6 skeins of San Diego Navy

&

not quite 1 skein of Los Angeles Tan 

I thought I was going to use 4 skeins of blue and 2 of the white, I estimated horribly. But I guess it doesn't really matter much because I still have a whole skein of super soft white yarn that I can make something with ^_^

Skyrim Cross Stich and Fondant Baby Hulk

Here's a cross stitch I did. I made the black background using Tunisian crochet, which sets up a good piece of material for doing cross stitching into. This took me about three days to make. I don't have much experience with cross stitching so this was kind of a simple learning project for me. And I don't know if you can tell but the little x's at the top are straighter and more consistent than the ones near to bottom.

Some one had asked my mom to make a cake for a baby shower. And of course since my mom is now living with me and she knows how crafty I am, she asked me to make a baby Hulk. I just used store bought fondant and it was butt fucking ridiculous. I was so frustrated working on this. I like the way cakes look with things on them made out of fondant, but I hate working with it and it's probably because I haven't used it a lot.

Here's a picture of the finished cake:

Geek Pride Day

So in honor of Geek Pride Day, I've decided to share with my Peeps the Stormcloak banner I am actively working on. I am knitting it because I like the look of knitted color work to that of crocheted color work, not that I have much experience with either. I just looked at a bunch of pictures.

It is a little bit wider than what it looks in the picture, just because I didn't want to stretch it out too much off my needles and lose my stitches. I have 17 rows done, then 19 more rows before doing the actual color work. 

Here it is charted out in Minecraft because I didn't have any graph paper big enough:

For those of you who are interested I'm using Lion Brand's Hometown USA in San Diego Navy and will probably use either Natural Cream or Neutral Beige for the bear, I haven't decided yet. I'm also using size 15 needles. And I don't think I'll take any more progress pictures of this project because after I put all the stitches back on, I realized I put them all on backwards :/

Baby Sandals

I girl I work with is having a baby girl, and she requested that I make her some baby sandals. These aren't that actual one she wanted, but I used the same colors (pink with white flowers).  So, these were the most butt-fucking ridiculous things I've ever tried to crochet. I took me two and a half hours to finish just one sandal. I consider myself to be a fast crocheter, but it took fooorever to just finish one of them. And I was having such a hard time following the patter, like I don't even know what I was doing because I either had too many or not enough stitches in the previous round. And in conclusion, I, Sabrina "Bena Babysox" Becker, with never crochet baby sandals again. I don't care how much you beg. I don't care how completely adorable your child is. I don't care how much you pay me. I will never make baby sandals again. I will make blankets, hats, jackets, bootie, but I will not make sandals. Gah! It wasn't even that bad, but I just never want to make them again. I do suppose if you offered me enough money, I probably would make some lol.

Update on Rainbow Dash

So here's a vlog I did showing off Rainbow Dash. She has a little bit more hair now since this video is now a week old. I've been trying to do daily vlogs, but I can't find the charger for my video camera!
I've also started a pair of baby flip flops for a girl that I work with. They're going to be pink with white flowers. I'm planning on making her a pair of black flip flops also with pink flowers. I'm hopefully going to get some pictures up soon of those, but my camera's been acting goofy again. And I don't really feel like typing anymore so have a fantastical night.

Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash starting to get her mane attached. It looks pretty wild, but its quite easy to move the hair around. I've almost got all the green strands done, just need to attach those, then I can start on the blue and purple strands and begin working on the tail. Hopefully it goes pretty quickly and then I can attach her wings. Then it'll just be the little details like eyes and cutie mark. 

The next pony I will start will be Pinkie Pie just because I have left over yarn that happens to be the exact pinks I need, then Fluttershy because I also have the colors to make her.

Well....

So here's the deal, I'm not moving to the Wisconsin Dells anymore, because I got in a stupid fight with my friend I was moving there with. So I've been working on some small crochet projects, just so I can some posts up for my peeps to read. Kevin is trying to eat my fingers while I type this.

This is going to be Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I'm working on her mane and tail at the moment which is pretty time consuming, for me anyway. Sorry I don't have pictures of that, I might take some.

I made some cute little butterflies, its about the size of a tea-light candle and I think It's absolutely adorable.

 The black one is Kevin, and the greyish one is Matt Cat. Matt is a girl. Kevin is a boy.

I'M MOVING!!!!

Sorry I have not posted in quite some time but I haven't really been working on anything since I've moving to the Wisconsin Dells! And have spent most of my time going through my stuff and decided what to get rid of and what to pack. Hopefully I will start vlogging soon, which I'm excited about. So subscribe to my Youtube channel youtube.com/sweetbloodsheena and I'll get the ball rolling on getting some vids out there. Want to hear something crazy? Last Wednesday, the building, three buildings over from mine burnt down. And I didn't even know it was on fire until like and hour after the fire started....yeah... But it was pretty crazy and it smelt really bad in my apartment the next day. So that's all I got for today. Have a great Monday my peeps. :D

Sushi Scarf

I crocheted this scarf. I thought the pattern was pretty cool and adorable, and I just happened to have the right colors in some bags of yarn I got from my great-aunt. So this scarf was totally made with left over yarn and that made me really happy because I don't really like being wasteful, that's something I kinda learned from my mom's side of the family.

First World Promblems

This is a Pop-tart iPod holder I made for my younger sister for Christmas. Her favorite kind is the Wildberry  so that's what it's supposed to look like. She wanted me to make her something and I delivered. This is the first thing I knitted that I made the pattern for. Basically what I did was knitted a long rectangle and then folded it in half and sewed up the sides. As far as I'm aware, she still uses it, which is pretty cool since I made it about two years ago.
On a different note, do you want to know something really frustrating?
Well, I wrecked my keyboard, so I had to buy a new one like a week ago or so and unsuspectingly I got one that has a giant "enter" key, which drives me crazy and if I would have realized it, I wouldn't have gotten this key board. And because it has the stupid giant "enter" key, the backslash (this one: \ ), is now squished up by the backspace key, and that drives my absolutely bonkers because I'm used to having a bigger backspace key and every time I try to delete mistakes I get this " \\\\\\"!!! I'm not even joking. Man, first world problems right here.

Legend of Zelda

So here's a project I need to come back to, I was making a Legend of Zelda bomb bag, I only have one bomb made, but I have to drawstring pouch made though. Yeah, I'm really good at starting a project, and then just not finishing it. Because really, how hard would it be to finish 2 more bombs (I wanted a total of 3)? Maybe posting this will give me to motivation to finish it.

IT'S DONE!

That's right, I finished the Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf (minus weaving in the ends) but hey that's still pretty cool. I finished it at like 6 am today, because I stayed up all night, and then I tried to take a nap before I worked at 9 am, totally failed at that and ended up being late. But other than that I have been having a fantastic week. Did I tell you that my camera magically decided to fix itself, it's that awesome? And I got the picture uploader to work again, obviously, I mean come on, I really want pics on my blog. Although I can't upload them directly from my camera? I don't know, I'll figure it out. Oh hey check this out!

Yay!

Finally got a video camera!!! I actually ended up getting a different one than the one I wanted, but it's actually better (in my opinion) and it was (a lot!) cheaper too. I was able to get a memory card and the camera at Best Buy for about the same price that they wanted for just the camera at Walmart. So I'm happy I drove to the nearest Best Buy to just check out what they had.
So now the plan's is to start filming some stuff. And getting my vids put up on youtube and all that good stuff. All and all today's been a pretty good day. And now I'm just chillaxing with Kevin sitting on my lap, I might read a book or what I should really do is clean, but I'll probably sit on the computer and maybe just maybe finish the Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf which I really need to finish because it's almost done!

Oh hey

By the way I have a twitter thing now and I'll probably put some stuff there, I don't know but yeah.
twitter.com/benababysox

Blah

So my camera works again!!! Yay! Like actually works, so I'm super excited. I took some pictures of the Darkness Redness Whiteness scarf which I litterally have like 40 rows left so really I should have it done at any time. But I haven't have much time to work on my projects. I've been babysitting my younger brother while my mom is at school and he's quite the hand full and I've been getting behind on my cleaning around my apartment. And not to mention my cats are A-holes. And I'd love to post pictures for you but the picture uploader is still not working for me and I've tried all the shit it said to make it work so I don't know, I might have my room mate look at it, maybe he can figure it out? Also I'm getting my video camera (hopefully) tomorrow and then I'm going to start making vids :)

Hot Pads

So a co-worker of mine, who is also a friend of mine, has recently moved into a new house which she is buying and Friday, she is having a house warming party. Of course, there is no requirement to bring a gift, but I've decided to crochet her some hot pads because, really who couldn't use some really cool crocheted hot pads. I'm not using my usual method of making hot pads, but making granny squares, that I'm going to sew together to make it the double thickness. Which I've stated before that I can not make granny squares, but I found a pattern, that so far my squares look like how they're supposed to look. So I'm really excited! I've used a lot of commas tonight, but I've also had a lot to drink...maybe I don't know, it's Tuesday, I might be drunk blogging, and there's tons of people at my apartment and they're all playing guitar. And some one needs to remind me to do my taxes so I can get a fricken' video camera! I didn't swear, I'm impressed lol. Well, have fun 'cuz I'm having fun, and you should too. You deserve it, whether you've been reading my blog from the beginning or just started. Sorry that I haven't been posting that often, or at least as often as I would like. Night Peeps! That's what I've decided to call my readers, Peeps. Ha!

Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf is almost done!!!

So I have "TOBUSC"  done and I'm super excited because it shouldn't take me too much longer, expect somehow I got my three things of yarn all tangled up and I need to untangle those before I can finish. Also I found my tiny knitting needles, so hopefully as soon as I finish the Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf, I can start making socks. Sorry for the short post, I'm having a really terrible night and past couple days and haven't really felt like trying to blog about old projects or new projects or anything really.

Updates

As far as my camera goes, I looked up getting it fixed, and it would be cheaper for me to buy a newer, better, brand new camera than to send it in to get fixed considering I have to send it to New Jersey if I wanted it fixed. But I'm probably just going to buy the exact same type of camera because I like it, it does what I want it to do (most of the time), and I really don't like changing things. So I'd rather have a camera that I'm familiar with, than one that I have to learn how to use.

Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf is coming along fantastically. I would post a picture...but my camera's broken! So far I have "TOBU" knit and it's about two feet-ish. I'm excited, hopefully I can keep myself motivated to work on it.

My internet is back to normal now, and it was actually the computer making every thing super slow. So some stuff got updated and now everything's good. Oh and it wasn't the internet that was making the picture loader not work, because I tried today and it still froze up, so hopefully I can figure that out soon. Because I want to post some of my older projects I did.

I have not started my socks yet because I can't find my tiny knitting needles! I don't know what happened to them...

Another thing that is not an update, but something new: I'm going to be doing my taxes soon, and with my return I plan on getting a camcorder and start making some how to videos on YouTube. But they're not the type of how to's that you expect. So stay tuned for that.

New project and Shitty camera

So my camera is a piece of fucking shit! It's like the lens is covered, but it's not! So any picture I take is just black. I don't understand what happened because last night I used it to take a picture of my cat inside my hoodie, it turned out blurry, I turned the flash on, took another picture, and just BLACKNESS!

But on a happier note, I just bought some multicolored yarn that I plan to knit some socks out of. I'm kind of iffy when it comes to using multicolored yarn for certain things, but this sock pattern is made for multicolored yarn so I'm pretty excited. Don't worry, I still plan to keep working on the Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf,  it knits up pretty fast, but I have this problem focusing on one project until it's finished, so that's why I bought yarn for socks. I also have to finish my Chuck slippers and find motivation to get started on the Legend of Zelda blanket.

Also not to mention the camera problems, but my internet has been slow as fuck lately, taking up to 5 minutes to just load a page. I usually don't complain about this kind of shit because when I was younger we lived out in the middle of nowhere and literally had the slowest dial up connection ever, but when I'm paying for high speed internet, I expect it to be high speed internet.
Here's the yarn I'm making socks out of, I would just put the picture in here, but my camera's BROKEN and the my internet SUCKS and won't even open the little box of pictureness that I could link the picture in! I don't know if that made sense to you, I'm just upset.

Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf Update

Just finished the 'O'. This isn't the greatest angle to view it from, my apologies. But I just wanted to show how you can start seeing the letters. ^_^ I'm probably going to have to block this because my cast on row is pretty tight compared to the other rows I've knitted so far.

Honey Badger doesn't give a Shit

This adorable little guy was made as a gift for a co-worker because of our Secret Santa thing. Her nickname is Honey Badger and this was the only thing I could think of giving her. I made up the pattern myself, which I do with a lot of things. I just crocheted until I got a shape I liked, and if I didn't like it, I frogged it and started over. So it was sort of a time consuming project and I tried so hard to finish it before she left for New York, NY for Christmas, and I did, but then we closed early so she didn't end up working and didn't get it until January.
I used a half double crochet for everything except the white stripe. The grey piece was made separately and sewn on, then I used a single crochet for the white working around sewn edge of the grey piece.

Here are some more pics of crocheted Honey Badger (I think clicking on them makes them bigger) :

Baneling Key Chain

This is a crocheted baneling key chain I made for an ex-boyfriend of mine. It's about 2 inches long, maybe? I didn't exactly measure it. But I think it's adorable. I know he liked.

Comissions

I'd just like to let anyone know who would like me to make something, to email me and let me know what they would like. My email should be listed as at the top of the page, if not comment and I'll post it. Just put 'Commission' as the subject line. I will email you back with how much I would charge and any other info you would need.

Update on Darkness Redness Whiteness Scarf

So this is as far as I've gotten, the 'T' is almost done in 'Tobuscus'. I've gotten I a couple more rows done since this picture. Hopefully this will get done pretty quickly and I can post the done pictures. :D

My Prom Shoulderette

I knitted this to go with my strapless prom dress for my junior prom. I got the pattern from the book Punk Knits, I also used a pattern to knit a matching tie for my boyfriend. It was pretty cool getting compliments form people when they found I made the shoulderette and the tie. Here's a picture from prom.

Hard to see all of the tie.

Hamburgesa Con Queso

I crocheted this hamburger for my younger brother who loves to pretend he works at a restaurant. The pattern I followed instructed me to sew it together using clear fishing line, but I decided to leave it as the individual pieces. My brother didn't end up playing with it that much so I took it back and sold it at a craft...to my grandmother. Apparently me telling her I would make her anything she wanted for free wasn't good enough and she bought it from me quite forciblely.

Naughty/Nice Scarf

This is the first thing I ever knitted. I actually taught myself how to knit just so I could make this scarf. I got this wonderfull pattern from the book Son of Stitch 'n Bitch, which I received for a gift from a ex-boyfriend when we had first started dating. This scarf took me over a year to make because I'm excessively slow at knitting and there was a few months that I hadn't even worked on it. I love showing this scarf off and I'm really proud to say "Hey! Look at the first thing I ever knitted!" and everyone's like "Wow, that looks really hard, it must have taken a long time," and I'm like "It's not that hard," and then people look at my like I'm a cocky asshole. Ha! But really it's not, it just uses purl and knit stitches in alternating rows to make the picture appear from a certain angle.
I really love how it just looks like a stripped scarf and no one knows that really, I have a pole dancer one my scarf. Oh! I also love how its about 8ft-ish long and almost hangs to my feet when I wear it.

Scarf of Darkness then Redness then Whiteness

So I'm starting a illusion/shadow knit inspired by Toby Turner. It'll be and black, red and white striped scarf with "Tobuscus" as the hidden image only visible from a certain angle. I'm not sure how long this will take, but in the mean time I will probably make posts on past projects, starting with the epic Stripper Scarf, which was also made using illusion/shadow knitting.
Also check out  Toby's youtube stuff,(<- link) he's pretty fantastic. Sponsor.

Ugh!

Okay so it's been forever since I did an update on my blanket, well because I pretty much stopped working on it. I think I have 8 squares made and scattered about my apartment. But I've got some new ideas for new projects and and started 2 projects. I'm working on crocheted Chuck Taylor slippers and spent and couple hours charting letters on graph paper for a totally fantastic scarf that I will knit using shadow/illusion knitting. I've written one other pattern for a shadow knit scarf, but never actually got around to working on it. So hopefully I'm writing this pattern right and it'll work out good and I won't get frustrated. But I'll probably get frustrated and stop working on it, but then I'll work on it again. Ha! It's late, I'm tired, I'm watching weird videos. There should have been an "and" in there but I don't care. LOL
Hint: Audience?!