Thank you everyone for all your kind words. I appreciate it. I only wish I had something spectacular to show everyone to celebrate my journal of the week. As it stands I have still not completed my felt craft. However, I did find the glue, so that’s a start. I thought I’d end up buying some tomorrow. At this rate I should have it done by Friday. Even though I have not completed my project I’ll show you what it’s supposed to look like. I can tell it will look nothing like this.

Like I said before, it won’t look a thing like this…I suppose it will be pink. That way people will be able to guess that it’s a pig. 

Aside from my felt pig project I have been working on creating an unstoppable army.

As you can see soon my Scotties will be running amuck causing mischief and putting facial tissues where you’d least expect it. I figure an army of Scotties is much more controllable than that of the undead.

It is cold today. The furnace has been running all day and I’m still cold in my room. Granted it could be due to the draft coming through my window. It’s only bothersome on cold windy days. I realize I had made some “lofty” promises of posting during the week. Unfortunately life got in the way. I managed to get away from life for some time today, which is good, and have made time to post. 

You would think that since I’ve been so busy this week I’d have news to report. Yet I do not. If it wasn’t winter, I might actually leave the house, but with temperatures being -45° outside I’ll stay inside my draftee room. Oh, the neighbour woke me up at 7:45 in the morning. I swear one of these days…I don’t care if he’s old. They had someone shovelling and snow blowing their driveway at 7:45 am… on the WEEKEND!! I get Saturday’s “off” every once in a blue moon, and then this guy wakes me up. I was not impressed, to say the least. 

I have yet to complete my felt project, it’s all sewn up, I just need to glue on a few pieces, but you know how it is. That means I have to look for the glue. And we all know how crafty glue can be. *badum ching* I really enjoyed that. Maybe I’ll find the glue tomorrow. Still here’s that book that I was going to show you earlier in the week. 

Considering I just got this new crocheting book, one would think I’d progressed in my crochet training. I am pleased to announce that I am still on … 

I hope to progress to Lesson 3 in the near future.

I think I’m in love! I just watched the trailer for the Star Trek XI. It didn’t actually show anything, but my goodness it’s just sexy. I want to watch it. I want to watch it on the big screen. Or little dinky theatre screen in my neighbourhood. I have not been this passionate about a movie in ages. I WILL see this film in the theatre even if it kills me. Now, I just need to find someone who will sit in a theatre to watch a Star Trek movie. I downloaded a trailer from http://www.trekcore.com/, a real high quality version – except it is in quicktime. Why does everyone choose that format? It’s no good. For those of you who are interested watch the Youtube trailer. 

Now, if you want to see the one from the actual movie watch this one.

Aside from that last week the mailman visited. He made me very happy, by bringing me crafting books. He came again today and brought me another one. These are the ones I got last week.

I’ve already started making a felt pig. It should be done soon and I’ll post pictures of it. I’ll also post the book I got today later this week.

I went to the mail today, and was disappointed to find that there was nothing there… I’m waiting on some books. Generally though, there’s at least something in the box, a flyer, a bill, anything. I felt as if it was the beginning of the end of the world. I only pray that tomorrow brings something. Preferable money and books, as opposed to bills and junk.

A week or so ago I was lucky enough to receive my Okage: Shadow King figures. I was so happy. I have the complete set. However, the complete set doesn’t include Epros or Kisling. I don’t understand. Okay, Kisling was not a memorable character, but Epros was one of my favourites.

If your not familiar with Okage, it’s a PS2 game that came out in 2001. It’s about a boy named Ari who’s shadow is possessed by the spirit of the one and only Evil King Stan. The duo meet up with several other characters and end up questing to kill off the impostor evil kings in order for Stan to regain his powers. It is, in my opinion, the best RPG for the PS2. If only they’d create a sequel. I’ve posted the pictures of my toys for you below. Right now they are still in their boxes, but I think that will change soon. I have plans for them.

Ari, Stan & Marlene

Rosalyn & Stan's Butler James

Linda & Big Bull

I finally handed in my Sociology assignment! It’s a weight of my shoulders, but I’ve still have my Philosophy and Economics assignments left. The Economics assignment isn’t that big a deal at the moment as I’m really waiting for input on my last assignment. In Communications, or rather counselling – because every businessman must be like Dianna Troy – I’ve got a few more questions to do in this week’s lesson. Even still I was able to find time to do this

and watch Project Runway. Is it just me or should Victoria have gone home. I’m assuming they kept her in because she’s one of the most unlovable people on the show. I hope Ricky holds a grudge against her. … Still this season doesn’t seem to be as exciting as previous seasons. I mean I was more into Project Runway Canada. Biddell and Lucian were the best, especially towards the end, but I was no Iman fan, frankly I couldn’t stand her, she’s just no Heidi.

Like promised I will post some pictures today. ... However I was not as successful with my schoolwork. I did some, but not as much as I would have liked to do. Pity. Maybe I'll try to do a little Philosophy later tonight.

On the crafting side of things I am on Lesson 2 of my crochet book.

Lesson one was stating the chain. At this point I feel I've mastered the art of chain making, but you be the judge.

If you're wondering why the stiches are less than consistant, it could be the fact that I'm not as good as I pretend to be. OR I was testing different tensions. I like the latter better. Of course while I am becoming a crochet wiz, I have also been working on my quilling. See look, a ducky!

After a full day of Legal Studies and Philosophy I have come to the conclusion that logic formulas and me do not agree. I can pick apart an argument using regular everyday deductive reasoning, but the moment I have to grammatically pick apart an argument for premises, indicator words and conclusions I want to run ad hide… or take a nap.

Worse than my accursed school work I’ve got work at 7 am tomorrow. This means waking up at 5:46 according to my alarm clock. I have no love of opening on Saturdays. Don’t get me wrong I enjoy opening, I just don’t enjoy mornings. After work I should work on my Sociology, Economics and Philosophy papers. I will really finish them this weekend.

I’ll post some pictures this weekend too.

I was so happy to see the following books in the Crafters Book Club that I quickly purchased them.

It was a two book set, I bought it for the book above, but Lacy Crochet came with it.

Now unfortunately I have never crocheted in my life. This makes it difficult to do much in the way of creation. Thus, the next time I went to Michael's I decided to get some books that would help me in my desire to learn the fine art of crocheting.

This book was in a kit with crochet hooks, I couldn't take a look in it to see if it was any good, but I needed the tools anyway so I figured, why not.

And I mean, with "More Than 30 Fun Projects" who could resist. Admittedly though, the book seemed a little advanced. After all the cover shows a baby blanket. That seems difficult to me. So I looked for another book that might be a little more my speed.

I came up with this...

The book contains brightly colored images, and thus hopefully will keep my attention. The projects are small and simple. The book's dated 2002, but looks like it was made in the late 80's early 90's. It's geared for ages 9-14, while it may have been years since I was that age, I'm thinking the instructions should be simplistic enough to follow.

You should see how into crocheting these girls are in the book. It's like their lives revolve around it. I remember when I was that age I was playing video games and watching the WWF. These kids frighten me.

As the name of my blog suggests, I am somewhat of a reluctant crafter. It's not because I don't enjoy crafting, because I do... though I don't think my skill level is as high as some other crafting bloggers. It's just that I have work and school getting in my way. Still, I have started to actually make time to craft, so I decided why not make a blog.