The first things that I made and sold were these little crochet bears, bunnies and axolotls. I’ve been trying to post all of the stuff I’ve made so that I can hopefully make my page ready to sell the stuff I make online. I’ll be doing another show in two weeks! Selling crochet Christmas things! Pictures coming soon!
Ah, the possibilities would be so endless, I wouldn’t know where to start! Do I invite historical figures that I love? What is the limit to this dinner invite? Or do I pick someone I admire that are still alive? How many people am I allowed to invite?
There are a number of celebrities that would love to invite. My favorites being David Tennant and Stephen Fry, though I would also like to meet Michael Sheen, Hilary Duff (I’m old!), or my favorite writer, Eoin Colfer, if only to ask him what the heck he was thinking when he let Disney butcher the Artemis Fowl movie!
I could also say Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Merrick, or Oscar Wilde if we could invite the dead.
But, ultimately, I would want to invite my father, if only to see him one last time. Just to hear his voice again and tell him that I love him. I would give anything to have just one more hour with him.
For the past year and a half, I’ve become obsessed with the book and show Good Omens. I fell in love with the characters and story, especially the main characters: Aziraphale the angel and Crowley the demon.
I first got into it because I’ve always loved David Tennant. He’s an awesome actor, an activist for Trans rights, and he’s so pretty. I also loved Michael Sheen when I saw him in the movie Wilde. So when my best friend and I found out they were in a show together, well we had to check it out. But we were determined to read the book first.
It took a while for me to finally get around to reading it, but when I finally did, I found it to be pretty good. A few outdated jokes, but overall it was fun. The show however, was amazing! And I’ve been in love with it ever since. My best friend and I have been obsessed with it.
So, we didn’t have to wait long for season two, since we had just recently gotten into the show. And when we saw the heartbreaking final episode, it was devastating. I love Aziraphale and Crowley as a couple. Crowley finally confessed his feelings to Aziraphale (sort of) in the final episode, but it wasn’t enough to keep the angel from leaving to Heaven, trying to make the place better. Even when he kissed him. It was heartbreaking.
So, I drew that fateful moment. I’d never drawn such a dynamic scene before, so I’m rather proud with how it turned out.
I like to think I’m a good judge of character, but I’m probably not. I definitely try not to judge people based on their looks alone, at least. I myself am awkward and shy when people first meet me, but once you get to know me, I can be pretty outgoing. I’m passionate about the things I like and can go off on a tangent if we’re talking about the right thing. I definitely don’t give off that vibe, however.
There are some who I can easily tell what their character is. If someone is wearing a Trump shirt, for instance, I know that person has no morals and isn’t someone I want to associate with. If someone is talking on the phone loudly in a library, I know they’re rude and don’t care about disrupting others.
All in all though, I’m probably terrible at judging character until I get to know someone or they do something obvious.
In my town, our library will be throwing a block party at the end of June, and I was chosen to sell my crochet projects at a booth. So, I’ve been working hard to make enough stuff in time, crocheting like a crazy person.
I have several patterns that I’ve been making, one of them being this adorable bear. I love how he turned out and I almost don’t want to sell him. But I’m hoping to start an online store, upgrading my wordpress and selling my art online. And this block party will be a good start to that. I’ve made several things, but I just love how cute the bear is.
The pattern is a little different than what I did, I gave him a belly, and a little bow tie. I’ve given most of my creations little bows and scarves to add a little personality to them. I think they turned out well. I like to use Big Twist yarn, normally. They make fantastic yarns.
Pride month is coming up soon, and my town has a Pride day that I am hoping to be a part of this year. I made this little guy with special Trans colored yarn I ordered. Aside from the fact that you start at the tail, he’s rather easy to make. And it turned out quite cute, in my opinion. I also have asexual, pansexual, nonbinary, and bisexual colors. I love the patterns that these colors will bring to the chameleon.
Like all the crochet I’ve been doing, I’m hoping to sell my work soon. I’m hoping to have a venue in the local block party in town, and with the money I make there, I can hopefully expand and make it so I can sell my products on this site as well.
Snom is an ice/bug type Pokémon from Sword and Shield. It is one of my favorite bug type Pokémon just because of how cute it is and because of its name. Snom! It also evolves into a gorgeous ice moth.
Its body turned out a lot larger than I expected and is even bigger than the Pikachu I made, but I think that’s mostly because I used bigger yarn than the Pikachu. It’s kind of hard to find yarn as small as the yarn I used for that Pikachu and have it be in the right colors.
I think because of the bigger yarn I should have maybe not made the body so big or made the spikes a little bigger to fill the entire body, but I still think it turned out rather cute. It’s Snom, it’s my first attempt, what can I say?
I made a blue ghost with black chains for a friend of mine and he turned out so much bigger than the first one. I had tried to get yarn of the same size, but he still turned out pretty awesome if I do say so myself.
I don’t know why, but the historical event that has always fascinated me the most has always been the sinking of the Titanic. Sinking ships is not uncommon, of course, but there was so much that went into making this particular sinking famous. The ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912 near midnight, and was lost to the ocean a little over two hours later, taking over half its passengers and crew with it.
The Titanic was the largest ship in the world at the time. And it was proclaimed to be “unsinkable” because of its special compartments that trapped water. If four flooded, then it would still be able to continue sailing with no problems.
But even before the ship set sail there were problems. There was a few deaths just building the ship, and corners were cut while it was constructed, with weak steel and shoddy welding. But then there was so much that went wrong on its maiden voyage that it never made it to New York City. There was the fact that it was going faster than it should have. And it was a moonless night when the ship struck that iceberg, the look out didn’t have binoculars, and the gash caused by the iceberg flooded five compartments immediately. The tragedy is, if the ship hadn’t tried to avoid the iceberg and struck it head on instead, it wouldn’t have sunk.
At the same time, the Titanic’s sinking allowed so many regulations concerning ships to change. The Titanic did not have enough life boats for everyone on board, but it had more than the amount that was regulated at the time. And there had been a ship nearby that could have saved everyone, but the radio man had gone to bed and never heard the Titanic’s distress signal. After the sinking, regulations were changed so that all ships had to have enough life boats for everyone, and the radio room had to be open at all times.
There were so many lives lost that night. Of the 2,224 people on board, only 710 people survived. Despite having enough lifeboats being on board that could hold more than half the people on board, so many of the lifeboats deployed only half full. One lifeboat only had 11 people in it. There were so many heroes that night as well, like the band who played the entire time to calm the passengers down.
One has to wonder what would have happened if the Titanic never sank. Would these regulations come to be? It’s sad how many people had to die for things to change. I think about that ship, on the ocean floor, and I think about the terror every single person on that ship must have felt. My heart goes out to them, and I can’t help but think about what might have been. I think that is why the Titanic fascinates me so much. It will sadly be gone while I’m still alive, but at least we have the stories and the movies and the newly released footage of the first voyage down to the ship’s final resting place. Sail on, Titanic.
I have recently become absolutely obsessed with Good Omens, particularly the TV show. My favorite character from the show is the demon Crowley, who turned out to be the serpent that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. Since I’m fairly new to crochet, I thought a snake would be an easy way to practice, and well, Crowley is a snake and I think you can see where this is going.
He turned out pretty cute, don’t you think? The hardest part was getting his snout right and making his tail. But I love how he turned out. He’ll be part of my Crowley cosplay from now on. I kind of love him.
Carly A. Gould 