Special: Near 7 Years Fandom

So, what is this fandom of mine?

Tah-dah~

It's Final Fantasy Yuna's...

beautiful earrings!

See, see?

Don't look at the person, look at her earrings! Ehehe...

 I still remembered when I first playing Final Fantasy X, back in 2005, I was really fond of this ornament Yuna is wearing at her right side of her face. I even made the ornament and strung it in a long string.

I, then posed in front of the mirror, tried to figure out how does Yuna wears this ornament? Does she hang the ornament onto her hair? Later in the game, I found out that that ornament is an earring... Haha, silly me...
The ornament I made was then converted into and earring, it was hanged onto my actually earring though. I often wore it and posed myself in front of the mirror in my room, playing Yuna. I wonder where that earring had gone... That was the one and only earring I made back then...

My fandom for Yuna's earrings grew even more with Final Fantasy X-2 which shows Yuna's earrings in details... I love watching FMVs featuring Yuna and watch her earrings dangling... Haaa... I fell in love...

Then I started to google images of Yuna earrings, and I even have a collection of images of Yuna earrings made by other people. I will never get tired of looking at those images. >v<

For Yuna cosplay pictures, the first part that I will look is the earrings. If I love the earrings, I will definitely favorite the picture. Haha, I'm so choosy...

My fandom continued several years later, in mid 2011, I made two Yuna's earrings in cellphone charm version:

On the left side is the first charm I made, and on the right side is the second.

For the first one, I used a pencil to make the center long bead, and some air-dry clay I bought online to make the teardrop-shaped bead and the upper post. The tassel was made of embroidery thread. I glued all of the parts together with super glue, and it didn't last for even a night... Haha...

Then, for the second one, I used a colored pencil for the long bead. I managed to make a hole by splitting the colored pencil body into half, remove the lead, and glued the pieces back together... Lots of work, I know. I strung all the beads starting from up to bottom, with the teardrop bead and tassel glued to the upper beads. It last for quite sometime, but the bottom bead kept falling off, I once lost the bead, and made a new one, almost lost it, but then found again. I lost the teardrop bead and tassel completely several months later, and I gave up and switch to other cellphone charms... What's left are the ones you saw in the above picture... Haha...

However, that was when I didn't know about jewelry findings thingies...

This is the newest version of Yuna earring cellphone charm I've made several months ago. For this one, I used small tube, cut into several pieces, stuffed with soft clay, painted with acrylic paint, added details; crisscross and triangle stripes (made from super light air-dry clay), and coated with nail polish. The teardrop bead is also made from super light air-dry clay, painted with acrylic paint, and coated with nail polish. I should have make the small earrings too, but I couldn't wait to attach the charm to my cellphone, I ended up leaving the charm as it is. :P

As I was making the cellphone charm, I was making a real-size earring as well. It is the CG movies version. The process of making the earring is the same as the cellphone charm, the differences are I used tube of a marker pen's body for the large earring, and  I tried using clay to make the crisscross and triangle stripes, but the thickness is not consistent, I ended up using a regular photocopy paper instead. I also made the smaller earrings as well. Once the large earring is finished, I tried wearing it to test the weight. It is lightweight, and I wore it the whole day, and had fun playing Yuna all day long. Ehehe...

I was so happy with the earring, and I made two other earrings to be sold on Etsy. I opened an account on Etsy only to sell these earrings. One is made to follow Yuna's concept artwork by Mr. Tetsuya Nomura, and the other is as appeared in the game CG movies. The earrings are sold out though...

I'm planning on making more of these earrings,  so for those who are planning to cosplay as Yuna, do check out my [Etsy Shop]. >w<

I believe these earrings are not the only Yuna-related things I'm going to make... @w@

Crochet: Tote Bag for Myself

Okay, I did mention in one of my previous posts that I'm going to post about crocheted bags I'm currently making. Well, I changed my mind, I'm going to post about the bags only when they are finished.

So, here's my new crocheted bag:

My Crochet Tote Bag

The color turned out to be blue in this picture, but the actual color is more close to this:

I found a crocheted sunflower that I like [Sunflower Hot Pad], but I couldn't seem to get the sunflower right because I wanted to crochet a smaller sunflower but with longer petals, and I ended up not to exactly follow the pattern, I twisted it and I got the sunflower as shown in the picture... Haha...

As for the leaves, I'm sure you can get tons of tutorial of them on the web. :)

I used Donna's cute [Bumble Bee Applique] to add to the cuteness of the decorations.

I used a fabric I once bought to line my cross-stitch bag. Yeah, I once loved cross-stitching, but not so much anymore. I'm planning to finish the bag, but it was abandoned for about a year, and I don't know if I have the mood to finish it... Let's hope that I will finish the bag so you guys can see it. :)

As for the lining, I don't know what type of fabric it is. It is kind of like a canvas but softer. I hand-sewn the lining and used the same yarn used for the upper part of the bag to sew the lining to the bag, because I want the bag to be sturdy enough and last for a long time.

Lining Inside of the Bag

The zipper is Daiso's long zipper with three heart-shaped sliders. I used one of three of it:

The Zipper

Alright, next bag project, backpack! Wonder what it will look like?  >v<

In my next post, I will write about my near-seven-years fandom, want to know more?

Stay tuned~

Crochet: Tote Bag for My Mom

When my mother knew that I can crochet, she asked me to crochet a tote bag. She wanted a maroon-colored bag. Here's the finished bag:

Maroon Tote Bag

I took about a month because I crocheted the bag slowly... Didn't want to put pressure into my head that was already full of other more important stuffs at that time...

Crochet stitch in maroon yarn is from Crochet Stitches Visual Encyclopedia by Robyn Chacula. I don't remember its name...

The bag is lined with velvet fabric, with the water-proof side facing outside. The lining and the zipper is hand-sewn. 

I want a sewing machine...

Oh, and that flower is really random. I crocheted the flower using two strands of yarn to make it bulky. I forgot where I got the pattern, I thought that I bookmarked the page... Oh, well... I'll put the link once I found the page...

My mom is happy when she received the bag.

Crochet: Strawberry Cellphone Charm

I had crocheted the body of the strawberry and the leaves.

I also had stuffed the fiber fill into the body, and then I kept the unfinished strawberry in sewing threads storage box (Yeah, I really did).

I had abandoned the unfinished strawberry for quite a long time, and yesterday I decided to finish making the charm.

And this is the result:

Crocheted Strawberry Cellphone Charm

It's cute, isn't it?

My very first crocheted strawberry cellphone charm ever.

I'm so happy... and I've attached the charm to my cellphone...

Although I sewed the leaves in a weird position... I just realized about that when I looked at the photo of the charm I had taken... Oh, well...

Anyway, I learned how to crochet the strawberry through this free pattern [Crocheted Summer Strawberry].

The original strawberry is quite big for a cellphone charm, so I decreased the number of stitches to make the strawberry be in small size.

For the leaves and the tiny flowers, I used the pattern found in a crochet book; [Pelbagai Ragam Mengait]. I'm sure you can find the flower pattern in the Internet, it's a basic flower pattern. It's just that I learned to make those flowers using the instruction in the book...

The book has so many beautiful crochet accessories photos. I feel like crocheting all of them! Well, someday...

String Maker...

Lily-yarn Set

I bought this handy string maker tool at Daiso shop at Sunway Pyramid. You can create three different thicknesses of string: small, medium, and large. I'm making strings for my crohet bags (still in progress though...). At first, it was hard for me to use the tool, but now I can't stop using it! I even making the string while waiting for the bus...

The packaging and two screw-on heads

Yeah, right. I have to stop or else I won't be doing anything other than making strings...

I'll be posting pictures about crochet bags I'm currently making.

I'm also planning to post about my previous crochet projects.

Please look forward to them!