Week off school/work = sewing projects!

So I finally put together a project for those fabrics I posted a while ago.  Ta-da:

It's not finished yet... needs back, binding, and quilting... not sure what to do for that yet.


Another easy (yet AWESOME) project... I made probably the most amazing pair of boxers ever!

Photoshop waterdrops tutorial

Found a pretty cool tutorial on how to make waterdrops and a foggy window look.

Props to the tutorial I followed: abduzeedo.com Foggy Window Effect

Here's my result!  The background is a photo I took in Australia looking down on the city in the Sydney tower Restaurant.

Illustrator fun

Trying to practice in Illustrator CS5... here's a little birdie I made!

Maya character project

Sooo this project took the whole duration of my summer school class in 3d Animation.  I think I'm calling it done for now.  I still have one day to do anything if I change my mind.

Our class created characters from nothing... so this meant all of the modelling, rigging, texturing, and animation from scratch.

Break from Maya

Needed a small break from working on my Maya project...

Remembering how to use photoshop :)

I love... lamp?

Finally getting into Maya!  Got the 2011 version for free on students.autodesk.com.  Our homework so far is working on our character (which will take the whole summer) and creating a lamp.  Here's my lamp (no textures or anything yet).

Top Photos from Australia

Ok so I scoured for my favorite of alllllllllll the photos.  Narrowed it down to these.  Sorry too many to post all in the blog, so here is a slide show that you can also click to get to the album.

One (ok a few) more Panorama(s)

I couldn't believe I got this one together.  I didn't take the photos very well to stitch them in Photoshop, but I managed to somehow!  I reconstructed a lot of sky and water since I didn't have source image for it.  Even though it was raining in Sydney this day, it was probably the most beautiful and memorable for this moment!

This one is at Darling Harbour:

This is another in Darling Harbour, of the Maritime Museum.

Australia Panoramas!

Ok so it's been a while since my last post, but for good reason.  Had the most amazing vacation to Australia!  Got to kayak with sea turtles, cuddle a koala, snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge, oh yeah, and take thousands of photos while I'm at it.

Here's the start of my photo editing, just put together the panorama shots using photoshop CS5.  Been very jetlagged while editing so I hope there aren't any screw-ups.  Enjoy!


These are from the Blue Mountains about an hour's drive outside of Sydney.  Very Grand Canyon-like but with some waterfalls.

These are in Sydney:

These are views from our hotel on Hamilton Island.
High tide:

Low tide:

View later with some clouds:

View from hiking to the top of the island:

Mini Travel Bags

A mini sewing project; took about 45 minutes to make these really quick when I had a bit of free time between other things.  It got me away from the screen for a bit!

I'm pretty sure these qualify as adorable...

The larger one is padded with quilter's batting so I can use it for my little point and shoot camera and accessories (my camera is tiiiiiiny).  The smaller pouch is for whatever!

In case anyone was wondering what kind of camera I use, it looks like this (image grabbed off the web):

It is the Sony Cybershot DSC-T77.  I'm pretty stoked I was able to pull off my digital photography class with this pocket-sized bad boy while a lot of people had big expensive DSLRs.  Obviously I can't always get the image quality I want but I think I've gotten some really cool stuff out of it.  Eventually I'll get my dream camera and gear ;)