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Tomorrow morning early, Lord willing, my family and I will be driving to a cruise ship and then getting on. It is a family reunion cruise as the members of my Dad’s side of the family are going. I think twenty-five relations in all. I will be sharing a stateroom with my cousin Erika. I shall try to write posts about what I’m doing but I can’t promise anything. At anyrate, there probably won’t be any more posts on here until the Monday after next. In the meantime however there are a lot of very interesting this to be found in the archives if you wish to look for them.

This movie really doesn’t have any special effects. It mainly just showcases my new light saber that I finished making last night and also I wear my Jedi Robe in it. I made the movie in record time, probably less than ten minutes of filming and it hasn’t taken too long to edit it together. It has the exact same characters as the previous Jedi Movie. I think that you may reasonably expect to see another Jedi Special effects Movie at some point on here. Watch Movie
And here is a picture of the lightsaber I cross stitched.

At the moment I am in the process of making a pink one…

Tiny Kitty liked her Jedi outfit so much that she wanted one of Arwen’s dresses from Lord of the Rings. The pictures you are about to see are the result of this. The outfit only took me about a half an hour or so to make, which is nice:)

On these pictures I had a fun time posing her in different places and with different objects.

There were certain scenes which were cut from the movie for very obvious reasons…

Over the course of today the outfit I made. Turned out quite well, in my opinion, it did.

The Doll I made the outfit for is a Tiny Kitty Doll. Quite posable she is:)

Jedi robe for her I made as well.

I think the Jedi Robe ended up a slight bit too small…

…It doesn’t exactly fit over the rest of her outfit.

But it looks alright and it can stand up on it’s own.

I made the entire outfit, including the boots and lightsaber, without using a pattern. A challenge the boots were. In fact, the whole outfit was:)

Yarn and plastic canvas I used to make the lightsaber.

All in all quite pleased with the end result I am. I hope you enjoyed seeing the pictures. Stop Talking like Yoda I shall now.

My Dad has a friend in the Fabric/Curtain business and Dad told me on Monday that I could expect a present of some extra fabric withen the next couple of days. Now I was very excited by this and I decided to be very reasonable and logical about this and assume that it would probably be a small box with perhaps enough small pieces fabric for a few Barbie outfits and maybe a yard and a half or so large piece for an outfit for me. This afternoon the box arrived… John informed me of it by comming inside. I wondered why, if the fabric had arrived, he hadn’t just brought the box in with him. I walked out to the shop where the box had been delivered and I was looking around for a small box when I noticed that the huge cardboard box out in front of the shop had fabric peeking out through it’s opened top. When I saw this

I grew REALLY excited. That much weight would mean a lot of fabric. True, I thought, the pieces might be small but maybe they weren’t…

It took some effort to get the box from the shop to the living room but it was soon lying opened in front of the couch. I then proceeded to be in a state of ecstatic joy. The pieces were large, yards upon yards. The fabric was lovely and in magestic shades of color. Oh… the joy and gladness of the moment when I took this picture…

The picture really doesn’t do justice to the stagerment of the fabric. It’s like Bilbo couldn’t have found words to amply describe Smaug’s treasure. Oh, I am so very happy!!!

Now, of course, being me, I’ve already made a test outfit with the new fabric. I was quite pleased with the result. The fabric cuts fairly easily and sews together well and when you hem the stitches seem to vanish in the velour fabric. However the fabric sheds little pieces of itself… But with a handy dandy vacuum cleaner that isn’t too much of a problem.

So I’m quite happy and I probably have in excess of 25 yards of fabric. And since it was a present I didn’t have to pay for it!!! I will be doing a bit more sewing I have a feeling…

I used Photoshop and Imovie to make this short little movie. I think it’s rather nice. I had to draw 52 frames for it. And actually it only took two hours in total to make! However, since it’s a thirty-second long movie that is rather long… Live action is probably still my favorite but with animation you can do some very fun things! Everything is quite pixelated for one thing:)

Watch My Very First Animated Movie!!!

And as a special bonus, here is the Second Animation Test

I have just completed the tweny-four page rough draft of the story I have decided to call “Crown Princess of Kralth”. I am very very pleased about completing it. I am not planning on posting the story on Bethjoy.com at present though in case I might be able to publish the story at some point. Though I would probably rewrite it and make it much longer and better than it currently is. And as I am now very tired of typing since I have typed about four and a half pages of text as well as doing extensive gramatcial editing to the story. So now for the next story…

So I shall write a post now now. I have found a really really really nice something I would like, it’s called a portable media device and it’s a little larger than an Ipod and can have movies on it!!! Plus music and pictures and other varieties of files on it’s 20gb hard drive. It would fit in my purse nicely and would be very fun indeed! Now to save up my money… Or beg:)

Last month was my largest unique visitor month I think, it was 466 visitors as opposed to 460 visitors. It’s very nice that the amount of visitors to my website keeps going up and up and up:) Probably the strangest of the key phrases used on search engines which brought visitors to my website was “farel rabbits” but “robot fabric” was rather unusual as well. As it is high time for another story on here perhaps I shall write a story about the strange Farel Rabbits and their obsession with the manufacturing of Robot Fabric.

The Tale of the Farel Rabbits

Once upon a time there lived in a valley overshadowed by a stony mountain a small breed of rabbits who were called the Farel Rabbits. The Farel Rabbits were very peaceful in nature, except during the autumn between the hours of three and six P.M. on the fourth Friday of October. At that time the new leader and chief of the Farel Rabbits was chosen for his superior combat ability. Though the Farel Rabbits disliked fighting, their evil neighbors, the Tibbar Leraf tribe of foxes, lived close by and frequently made raids on the Farel Rabbit’s prized store of carrot chip cookies.

When not being attacked or sleeping the Farel Rabbits could usually be found briskly making Robot Fabric. Why they did so they weren’t quite sure but most felt it had something to do with the martians who landed twice a year to pick up the stuff in exchange for radioactive carrot extracts. When eaten these radioactive carrot extracts would make the one who ate them wish in the extreme that they had not. So usually the radioactive carrot extracts were used to make radioactive carrot chip cookies to bait the Tibbar Leraf tribe of foxes with. Then, while the foxes started rolling around on the ground yelping with pain in the regions of the stomach, the rabbits would calmly see to it that they rolled into a certain cave that was at the base of the stony mountains. It was a cave of no return for no fox, once inside it, had ever come out.

Thus it was that eventually the Tibbar Leraf tribe of foxes had all entered the cave and the Feral Rabbits were able to live very happily ever after in complete peace in their lovely valley. As for the foxes… Well, my theory is that the cave they went into had a peculiar type of fungus growing in it. The fungus tasted delicious and the foxes were so very happy and content eating it that they never wanted to leave the cave again and so stayed there growing fat and prosperous.

MORAL: Peacefulness and Plumpness often can be found in the same places.