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!