Writing topics #Stayhomechallenge

I love writing and with things being so gloomy (on purpose it seems) we all need to work a little harder to keep up our cheer.  So I thought of the beauty in the world and decided we will do a week writing challenge!

Day 1)  the first time you saw a flower and/or bouquet that made you fall in love with how beautiful flowers are. 

Day 2)  the first moment you think of when I mention the gentle breeze against your back...

Day 3)  the first animal you saw in the clouds that made you look more often to find more...

Day 4)  the scent of cooking that made you so happy that you try to remember it when you need a lift.

Day 5)  the song you find yourself humming when you are quietly happy.

Day 6)  the cutest animal you ever saw.

Day 7)  since this is the day of rest, a best waking moment when the dream is still fresh and real and you manage to bring a piece with you to start your day.

These can be long or short, but they should be written without much thought, what springs into your mind first or second.  Dont worry about punctuation or grammar this time around, just enjoy the moment of pen to paper (or finger to keyboard)...

I will go ahead and post my short ones but you can skip them and go do your own!!

So, if you did these challenges then comment 7 more for us to try!  Remember the world is beautiful and magical!  We are strong!


1)  it was a white flower, a lily, but I cant remember when or where but I was young and my mother was carrying me.  Must have been a funeral but I was too young to understand and just saw the pretty white flowers.



2)  waking up next to an open window and the cool breeze gets under the covers and wakes you...



3)  I think it was a dragon and it seemed so magical!



4)  tacos, family and love!



5)  Prince singing kiss

6)  first time I saw a pony!



7)  I think it must have been my perfume, some rose one since I carried the perfect red rose into my waking world almost, it faded but the scent stayed a bit!




#stayathomechallenge
#writing
#Keepbusy

What makes you smile?  I felted this flower!

My short film idea of cursed doll!

Daydreaming...

I have been daydreaming of getting some farmland of my own!  While that dream is a ways off yet, I do plan to get some elevated raised beds this summer.  I think I will garden more if it is easier for me to reach and saw many of this type of elevated raised  garden beds.



I like this one because it is long and what I was looking for:

Link to his site to download the pfd plans




My favorite DIY builder is Ana White and she has a few things I want to build this Spring:

She has an outdoor sectional that looks cool and comfortable.

She has a greenhouse that looks perfect size.

She has a chicken coop and even though I am vegetarian it seems a good idea to have some for barter if nothing else...


Life is good and we need to hold on to the good parts and the love!

Be safe everyone!

#BeSafe
#OnePeople
#Indigenous

Positivity #stayathome

It can be hard to stay positive when you feel "stuck" at home so change the way you view it to become positive again!

An easy way is to keep busy, either doing what you love or learning something new!  So here are a few of my favorite YouTube channels if you need a place to try....  



Evil Ted Smith /cosplay!!  I love foam crafting and cosplay and prop building and he is doing a foam scraps challenge:

Leather working is another one I want to learn.  I always get inspired by this channel:

Photography is another area I love and this is my current favorite channel:

I love comfort food:

foam working and one of my fav channels:

music is also a good way to pass time and get into a good mood, I love @Slash so much and this is a good song:

This is one I think you will like:  The Hu

Cake!  I doubt I will ever actually attempt to make this one but I love how it looks!!!

maybe some projects around the home:

or just need some shelving:

and for a yummy dinner:

and just some ones to help pass time:


urban explorers are always interesting

computer games:

your true crime fix:

Cookies!!!!!

Nuno Felting, my fierce passion:

I hope you find one that interests you and you stay safe!  take care of yourself, do not live in "fear" but rather live in love!!


#stayathome
#stayathomechallenge
#nunofelting
#photography
#crafting

Most current works of wearable art

I took some quick pics of my latest creations and thought I would show a few here...  I plan on getting some props so my items look better displayed.   This is my warp mill, I thought it would be a cute background for the items since it is all fiber art!  All handmade with love and a little prayer woven in...



A popular style is my locks bag.  The backside is "plain", merino wool with an outer layer of flax/linen that will soften with age.  Depending on the locks and materials used these can range from $150 - $500.

This one is called "skirted" because of how it turned out, looking like the bag is wearing a mini skirt... 

locks bag

This is one of my "rugged" series for men who want beautiful wearable art... The textures and edges are rough to give it a very rough and rugged feel.  The main body is silk lap for texture with silk roving and alpaca edging.  It is super soft to the touch.  I will also offer it with straight edges for an extra $20 for those who need it looking "neater"...

alpaca silk scarf

I am so proud of this one!  It was meant to be a wool pachima but I had opened it from the plastic before I remembered I would need to felt it from the middle too...  so it tore a bit because wet wool is so heavy!  I nearly cried at "ruining" it!   But added a super long piece of blue-green silk to help hold it together and called it "Genocide" since it is very much like putting your life back together after it has been brutally torn apart!

Genocide scarf

This is another in my genocide series.  I planned a "rugged" series but made the hat too thick to shrink it down like I had planned.  I was left with this huge "hat" and felt so down on myself for not remembering to calculate thickness in my shrinkage!  But then I thought "Hey!!!  I know what to do!"  I turned it upside down and made it into a gorgeous bag!  

Genocide Bag

This is just a sweet little bag that I wanted to be able to offer people.  Inexpensive but pretty.  A sweet deal!   Affordable luxury of sorts... :p

Sweet Bag

Fingerless gloves are nice to have on hand for when you are a bit cold but also working.  These wrist warmers are so soft and comfortable.  It is 1 thin layer of merino wool done on a pattern that shrinks by half.  it makes it feel like you are not even wearing it...

wrist warmer

#HandmadeWithLove
#FiberArt
#FiberArtist
#Merino
#nunofelt
#wearableArt

Seaweed Game Demo

So excited!  I finished my first game demo!  I wanted to show my style and get hints and tips for the finished game.  

Get it here!


I am using the RPG Maker MV for it.  I find the engine very easy to use and the community is great!  You can find me there on the forums:

Jaded


I need to polish it a bit and add in the quests but this gives you a chance to wander a bit and hopefully get you interested in purchasing the game itself!


The starting village is a small fishing one that the new innkeeper has been making "fancy"...

your home

Your grandparents raised you and gave you a beautiful and good life.  The fact that you are a little dark and light-fingered has nothing to do with them...

Outside your house

 While this is my first game I am actually making, I have several designed games for when I learn how to create them.  This one is not as in depth as those but for a first game it will be fun as the demo is over half an hour of wandering and discovering the girls' personalities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"the girls"

 

The party is 4 girls who do not know each other, 3 are the same age and one is noticeably younger.  You can explore your village a bit but then you need to go north to get the rest of your party. 

battle scene

I will figure out how to do a pre-order so those who want the game can save some money!! 

#Crowdfund #FirstGame #RPGMakerMV

Positivity!

I hope everyone is doing good!  I am feeling very excited and nervous, I am about to have my second booth for selling my felted items!  I find it so hard sometimes, having confidence in myself...

I work hard at it and have prepared some wearable art for my booth.  I still dream of getting a fashion line ready.  I can see it in my head and feel so ready to go for it.

felted flowers from a few years ago...

It is a good feeling and one I hope everyone reading this feels too.  It is not enough to have passion and artistic vision, you need to not only create but put yourself "out there" so others can experience it too...   

I am working on a photoshoot so hopefully can post some photos of my latest items soon!

Until then, I just wanted to send out good feelings into the world, know you can do it, whatever "it" means to you!  

hugs, ~Sea 

#Attu
#Unangan
#confidence
#Artisticvision
#handmadeWithLove

Millionaire philanthropist needed!!

 Hello all,

It is late night here and my mind has wandered into the goofy area and I decided to share it with you.  I was thinking how wonderful it would be if we could somehow capture the interest of a millionaire philanthropist who is searching for a good cause to support.

 It is a weird feeling to think you could change the world for the better if only you had the resources! 

The Artiste Herself

I have a grand vision and working toward it slowly but surely and think how incredible it would be with some real help.  The stress of real life, you know things like surviving the ongoing genocide, how do we get people to acknowledge it is even happening and so on, makes the creative process a bit slow going.

Image for #WaterisLife

I am a Batman fan and that got me thinking of someone with too much money and looking for a decent way to use it finding my blog and dreams.  I do believe in goodness and that good attracts more good.  I also think the ongoing genocide makes it very hard to feel the "good" in the world.  Which makes it hard to attract "good" and "decent" when there is a lot of anger mixed in daily life.  I don't mean just for me, but for this whole half of the world! 

Currently I am working on creating a fashion line with the fiber arts and specifically nuno felting being my medium.  When the raw fleece costs so much just for that and not including the merino or decoration materials, it is prohibitive. 

I am very lucky and have a supportive family who have helped me build up my fiber art tools over these years and I am ready to move to the next level.  I plan to sell some at a  craft booth and build up a following and earn some money to buy more fibers, everything is in place.  The big dream is to create a complete line of outfits, accessories and jewelry and present it in a simulated fashion show.

sample of first items created

After that I want to begin holding workshops to teach the art and help other #indigenous because it is so expensive to try it out. Lol, I will do this on my own but if you have extra millions lying around and wonder what to do with it...  :p

Thanks for being a bit silly with me at 2am!!  
hugs,
Searean



#millionaire
#philanthropy
#goodCauses
#indigenous
#AttuTribe
#Alaska
#fiberArts
#handmadeWithLove

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There is a giveaway for a chance to win some of this new laundry soap! 

[Fortnite: Save the World] Emote Showcase: Time Out

It is called "genocide"

I get so frustrated seeing many Africans pretending to be the real #indigenous and that we are what they call "$5 Indians"....

I think the major problem is how they refuse to see it as "genocide"...

This article here by an educated African woman calls it "colonialism" instead of genocide and wonders why there is tension between the #indigenous and the Africans!

Dear #Africans, this is not "hate" towards your people at all!   This about our fighting for our own lands and our rights to rule our lands! 

Pretending the genocidal regime known as "america" has any validity is one of the main sources of "tension" mentioned in her article below...  remember, we first met your People when you were raping, torturing and destroying us and our villages along with your european allies/masters/whatever you call it! 

Do I need to explain that genocide is not the basis for friendship????!!!!!!

We have long beautiful histories, majestic, heroic, beautiful and some tragic too, we never need mention europeans or Africans as part of it!   Trying to write yourselves into our history by force is called genocide!!



an article showing they refuse to use the word "genocide"



Being on these lands and refusing to leave is part of our ongoing genocide!!  The #indigenous never went to your lands to capture you from your villages, that was Africans!!!!   We never shipped you to these lands to help murder the rightful rulers, that was europeans!!  Yet you pretend we have no say in our lands and give authority to these europeans because they give you an "excuse" to remain on these #indigenous lands!

But it is part of the ongoing genocide that Africans and Europeans pretend is not even happening as they destroy these lands and brutally rape the people and the resources!!!

Start an honest relationship with the #indigenous by calling it "genocide" and figuring out how much "reparations" you owe to those of these lands for your part in the genocide!!  If you can not do this then the only decent alternative is to go back to you own Homeland or to Europe to fight for reparations from them who harmed you for it was not us! 

I know they love to bring up the "5 civilized tribes" as an excuse to dishonor us so but the context is genocide!

not colonialism
not oppression
not suppression

it is called GENOCIDE and it is an atrocity against humanity that you are committing by remaining on these lands yet not honoring the #indigenous!!

The 100,000,000 million does not include many millions harmed and/or killed since then???!!!

 

What is being done about the childten in cages that everyone pretends they do not know about???!!!  this is genocide happening right in front of your eyes and you do not care! 

It is time to stop asking for a bigger piece of the genocidal pie and instead help stop the ongoing genocide!! 

I honestly and truly believe we are all One People but that does not make genocide in any way, shape or form "ok"!!!!!

Fortnite: Freestylin' feat. Every STW Hero)

Fortnite: Freestylin' feat. Every STW Hero)

Here is a game my daughters love and found this video showing some of the moves the characters can make..