I've taken up embriodery

and it's going pretty well.
I've had a project that I'd been embroidering for a long while, but lost while moving home from the dorms and back. A while ago I made a hooded scarf based on Altiar of Assassin's Creed (because I cannot get enough of that series) and decided I wanted to make one for Connor as well. Here's the only progress I've made:

And here's my new project:

I've been wanting to make a new business card case (I lost my old one a while ago) and have also been reading Kuroko No Basuke, a manga about a high school basketball team. So I'm making a card case with the main protagonists on it:

and a basketball because basketball is a main protagonist too

Leather masks are super cool

My sister and I spent today making a couple leather masks.

I drafted the patterns out of paper. Then we held it up to her face, she told me what she wanted changed and I tweaked things.

we ended up with pretty amazing patterns which she traced and cut out of leather.

then she wetted the back and walked around the house while wearing silly masks so they fit snugly to her face. here's the two we've made so far.

Huntress

Mockingbird

My sister has ordered leather paint, so when we get them painted. I'll post more.

crafty crafty craftiness

I've been doing some crafts and watching movies recently. so here are some things:

almost done with my bedazzled sheild.

made a first whack at an apple of Eden.

I'll make a better one eventually, I swear.

And my sister got me this guy. I've totally loved Jericho from first sight. He's blond and mute, what more could you ask for?

More Rinestoning and other things

Spent another night rinestoning:

SPARKLE!

But then we ran out of white. So that's all we got done.

My sister ordered more wigs from The Five Wits, but I only have pictures of her in the Gothic Lolipocalypse in the color Bloody Mary (she had gotten a second art bang zodiac star and the gothic lolipocalypse in café frangelico):

As you can tell, I really like these wigs.

 My friend gave me a bottle opener (apparently they are a common item to give away at races) and my sister had told me about how much Lady Blackhawk drinks. This was the next logical step:

HAWKAAA!

And lastly I got a good haul from Newbury Comics a coupe days ago:

I finally found a copy of the director's cut of daredevil! (don't judge me but I love that movie) and all these were $4 a pop. What a deal!

horrible blogger is horrible at updating

I'm amused by how many times I've written on this blog about how I am horrible at updating. I'm always like "I wanted to update sooner but -insert excuse here-," but I never get better at updating.

So here's an update:
I did my nails in the beginning of the week (but then broke a nail when sewing so they look ugly now).

Assassin's Creed 3 FTW

I also hung out with Antonia and Raven and started working on a sparkly shield for my Captain America costume (seen here and here)

the shield was bough on sale at CVS for $6

Here it is after two hours of gluing.

 It's a children's shield so it will be small enough that I won't want to murder myself while bedazzling and it won't cover my costume when I pose.

Hawkeye!

My sister have been having a little back-and-forth joke it goes like this: "you know what would be better than -insert awesome thing here-"
"No, Antonia. Please stop."
"A hawkeye shirt."
Now this all came about because I've been wanting to try screen printing, but was too lazy to actually do anything about it.
So using this tutorial here:

I made this screen for an I <3 Hawkeye shirt:

geddit? because he's a marksman? yeah

Now I need to find the purple shirt my sister bought to put the design on.

my sister would point to him "look at him! He needs you to make a shirt!"

My sister's list of favorite superheroes goes something like: Hawkeye, then Mockingbird, then (60s television) Batman. And no Black Widow (because she always steals the limelight from Hawkeye).