Not exactly the Lion King...

DON'T ACT LIKE YOU'VE NEVER DONE IT.

Sorry!

Sorry about the lack of updates! Between working like mad (I've been called in on almost every day off I've had AND double-shifted, which I'm not complaining since I need the hours but it's still exhausting) moving and life in general, I haven't had much time to draw. When I finally had a little time to draw today, my camera decided to go "Haha screw you!" and die the pixelated death of suck (See, I hand-draw the stuff in my sketchbook, use a digital camera to take a picture of it to upload into photoshop, and color it and all there. I have no scanner, so that's not an option, and I'm not too terribly good at drawing with just digital.) so I am going to have to see if boyfriend has a camera/batteries I can borrow when he gets home, so I can actually upload it.

Sorry everyone!

Boyfriend's new hat. :3

I start my new job tomorrow, yaaaaay!

Anyway, with the job prep, moving prep and a lot of other stuff going on (including acting as boyfriend's mom's personal assistant the past week, which involves being up at 5 am every day and not getting home 'til late) I haven't had a lot of time for updates, and for that I am sorry. To try and make up for it, have a picture of boyfriend looking baleful in his new hat that his mom and I found for him. :D

He was actually pretty amused by it, particularly with this whole thing with a viking helmet thing he had when he was a kid. While his mom and I were giggling at it he was grinning, and I said I needed to get some pictures of it for here so everyone could see him in his new hat looking doleful.

BF: I don't look doleful. Doleful would be like this. (makes baleful expression)
Me: *camera click* :3
BF: NO no no no! That's not...
BF Mom: *laughing*

So that's the source of that pic. I have another one, but he looks happier in it and I thought this was funnier.

Also, another conversation we had started with his mother and I somehow getting on the subject of kilts. I brought up that I wanted to get Zack in a kilt someday, very much, but he was steadfastly refusing to wear it 'properly', if you know what I mean. Zack got involved in the conversation, William Wallace was invoked, and Zack agreed that if I can get him a kilt, a sword, the Scottish cap thing, bagpipes and the blue paint, he'll wear it all, properly, and even moon some brits for me if we can find some, and he'll let me videotape it and get pictures.

Challenge. Fucking. Accepted.

If you would like to donate to the "Get video of Zack traipsing around painted blue with a set of bagpipes in a kilt" fund, feel free to send something to my paypal at themuffinknight@hotmail.com on Paypal

The video will be on youtube someday. I swear it on the Celtic Isles!

Plushies and Job!

WHOO Finally got hired! :D I'll be working at Target now...it's currently a seasonal job, but if they like me enough they mentioned a possible permanent position, so yay! It also means that I'll be able to move into a new condo with my boyfriend, which is awesome. :3

Also, plushies.

Halloween Pony Plush 2

Got another one done!

I call him/her Blacklight. :3 Is it bad that I name the plushies I make?

The candle with the black center to the flame is totally not inspired by the black flame candle from Hocus Pocus, which is totally not one of my favorite halloween movies ever. In any way. It's not. Really.

If interested in purchasing, all the info is right here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/111055560/halloween-pony-plushies

APPLES ARE EVIL

I spent the other day, and most of yesterday, working on twenty four large jars of canned apples.

TWENTY. FRIGGEN. FOUR.

Look at these shiny red bastards. They're so pleased with themselves for being so red.

That's cutting them up, cooking them JUST enough that they don't turn into mush, making a sugar free syrup juice thing to fill the jar since my boyfriend's mom can't have sugar, washing all the jars to make sure they're sanitized, boiling the lids, filling the jars and sealing them up as tight as possible while they're still hotter than holy hell, then submerging the jars in boiling water for about twenty minutes (it ended up being an hour of boiling for each batch, since we didn't have a pot big enough, and when boyfriend's mom got one, I had to reheat the entire contents of the jar back to boiling temperature to make sure everything got completely sanitized and heated, so I had to let the sealed jars boil for an HOUR, each batch, and I could only fit a few jars in at a time, so you can imagine how long this took) and constantly checking them while they cooled to make sure the lids popped, so that they'd be sealed properly and die the horrible green fuzzy death of gross.

I never want to see another apple again in my life.

PONY

 Finally completed the plush I was working on for my boyfriend's nephew!

The mane was tricky, since it's too small for me to have done the cloth tube braiding thing I did for the tail, so I sewed it in a way that I hope it comes off looking like it was braided. All hand-sewn, the eyes were embroidered on felt (since the white fluffy cloth was too thin to embroider on without destroying it) and attached.

I'll take commissions for these, providing the designs aren't too complex. I'd have to see a reference of the character first, before being able to tell you whether or not I could do it at all, how much it'd cost and a general timeframe. So, if interested, just send me a message or comment with your e-mail!