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Ugh...what a year it has been. Sorry to leave this dormant for so long. :/ So quick recap: I got a new job! I finished my Princess Costume for Halloween: My cat of 9 years Lucius passed away the day I finished this costume. :(  I adopted a new cat a week later, Sebastien!  *smoulder* He had a bunch of health and anxiety issues and pretty sure he has asthma. Which is distressing because that cough is the sound Lucius made before I took him to the emergency vet.  I've not been able to post to YouTube since. It's just not the right time.  After watching the final season of Voltron, decided to abandon my Pidge cosplay...because I grew to hate the main cast.   Anyboo, instead I'm cosplaying Lotor from the same series. Speaking of Lotor...finally used my embroidery machine to make a Lotor Pony Plush. Yay. Oh...and crochet has taken over my life recently. Made a baby blanket, some stuffed animals, working on my Visual Novel sloooowly....

So I took a Staycation the first week of this month and used it to buy a new car and work on some projects. I did gain some weight back but I'm already down again and heading toward the next goal: 140 lbs or less. (As of today I'm 144!) Loss of Weight When I started the weight loss program I was 157 lbs and creeping ever closer to an unhealthy 160. My first goal was to get down to 150 lbs. It took about 6 weeks of dieting and hardly any exercise to do that. Once I reached that I wanted to go for another 5 lbs. It took another 5 - 6 weeks but I did get down to 145 for a total loss of 12 lbs in about 12 weeks. Which is what I wanted. Losing about 1 lb a week.  At one point I did start doing some arm toning exercises, but I fell off the bandwagon because my weights were too heavy and I hurt myself. One of these days I'll go get 3 lb weights and ease back into the 5 lbs.  The weight loss was a personal goal but also prompted by a desire to get back into cosplay ...

Exciting day. I've lost 12 lbs of weight and I have noticed that I'm slimming down. I'm working on toning my arms now but I feel like I'm in a good place. I'm going to continue striving to get my weight down but spandex IS on sale this weekend, so before the 5th I intend to re-measure myself and figure out how much fabric I need for the Jumpsuit...which will be stirrup pants and a turtle neck. The only "hurdles" right now are a) I'm also trying to buy a car this week so I expect to be emotionally drained. b) My laptop battery isn't charging so I'm waiting on a new charger. (2nd one for this particular laptop.) And c) Steam Summer Sale. FML. I expect to be gaming a lot. AND sewing plushies. I finished the body for Loyal defender and wings and redid the head. I actually am at the point where I need to sew the head to the body. ...Oh and sew the ears and horn on too. Then make a mane pattern. Then I'll have my big pony plush pillow. ^^ A...

I'm the worst at updating. But summer's coming and for some reason that seems to be getting me into my creative groove again. So I think it's almost been a year but I'm still working on my Pony OC plushies. I'm happy to say that I've finished the first "body" of a pony. She still needs a mane and tail, but here's Willow Wisp. The wings are velcroed on so I can interchange them with open wings. The eyes and cutie marks were hand embroidered. ...Yeah...I have to find a better way to do that.  And luckily  I think I have. I found a video that suggested printing on felt which is something I may try. (I did an experiment on batting and it worked decently well.) Which will help speed up the process on other ponies. Seriously, hand embroidering make-up eyes...So much work.  I've taken apart my old Rough Edges pony and recut him in proper minky. He's the other one I had nearly finished but now I have to start over with. :P  ...

I made most of the plushie! I need to attache her head to the neck, put some wire/pipe cleaners/straws into her wings to give them some stiffness. I plan on making them velcro detachable. :) Also need to make the mane and tail. She might be the pony I finish first. :) I've taken apart Rough Edge's head to re-do it. I dun fudged up sewing it together. It got all bunched up. Working on Tender Heart's eyes on and off, but I'm putting my pony project away because my parents are coming next week to visit and I need to clean! These make such a mess!

I've got quite a bit of work done on these. First is Rough Edges: This is the first thing I put together with the pattern. The body turned out okay, the head, I made too big. I used a different head pattern than the one included with the body pattern. I think i may nee to take the head apart and do it again. It's still oddly shaped and I screwed up the ears. I've now corrected the pattern for the other stallion heads I have planned.  Next Willow Wisp I'm actually a little farther along than this picture suggests. The cutie marks and one eye is sewn down onto the pattern. We'll see how the sewing on this one goes soon. I just have one more eye to sew down. I've been procrastinating on that. 

Hello again blog. I'm here again. The sewing table is working out like a dream. It's a great place for snacks AND sewing. :) My current project is going to take me the rest of summer I feel like. (Steam's summer sale has NOT helped with this.) I'm working on plush versions of all my current My Little Pony Original Characters. Which are mostly based on pre-existing characters of mine that I've ponified. Some are new though.  I don't have a machine to do my embroidering. I can't justify the cost of an embroidering machine at this time either. ( I will probably hire someone eventually. ) So for now doing everything by hand.That's the part that's taking five-ever. And I have so many ponies! Here's the list of ponies I've started work on and those I have planned.  Name Progress To Do Creative Burst Pattern Cut, Mane Cut, Tail Cut, CM 10% finished Embroider Eyes, Finish CM, sew body, sew mane/tail, stuff Rough Edges Pattern Sew...