Birthday Goodies

This is the year. The year where my peers and I turn 21. Let the parties begin! One of the first birthdays belonged to my very lovely best friend of 14 years. Now let me tell you something about her. She LOVES owls. And so the theme of her present was decided and a plethora of owls were created.

First up where these two guys. They're adorable, but I felt like they needed a purpose other than to sit around somewhere.

I resolved this by chaining them together so they can hang over the rearview mirror in my friend's car. It's like having fuzzy dice, except better. Because owls.

Another thing she loves is coffee. Maybe too much sometimes ;) 

Now she can sip her coffee and think of owls at the same time!

This was a super easy pattern and only took an hour or so to work up because I was distracted and watching the Avengers.

Lastly, she always has her iPhone with her.

My iPod fit perfectly when I checked it, and this is also a super easy pattern. I originally sewed on beads for the eyes, but I didn't like the way it looked so I hot glued button eyes on. Much better.

Then they all got stuck in a box and sent!

Unfortunately it was the smallest box I had.

I also drew her this very lovely furbie card....it's a long story. So happy birthday, sissy! :)

Want to make something in this post?

Tiny owls (Ravelry download)

Owl cozy

Owl phone case

Baby Dragons

Another request I got for my boyfriend's rats were toys. My first thought was balls. Because what pet (of the furry, fluffy variety) doesn't love a ball? I used a pattern for a perfect sphere and made four of them!

However I decided that this wasn't enough. I needed something else. I'd always seen patterns for tiny stuffed animals on Ravelry, so I decided to try one of those. Originally I had planned on making a teddy bear, but I found a pattern for a tiny dragon and I made up my mind.

The original pattern didn't include wings, but I felt like it looked too much like a dinosaur-hybrid. I used the wings from a tiny cthulhu pattern (same person whose pattern I used for my Cthulhu earlier), and they worked quite well.

After seeing this little guy, Alex decided it wasn't fair that his rats got one and he didn't. So I made another one. 

If you want to make this dragon, make sure to make your circle for the nose large enough. The snout turned out better on the second dragon when I wove yarn through a third of the head. (If you read the pattern this comment will make more sense).

I am currently working on some updates to my blog (I'm way behind!), so there will hopefully be a couple more new posts within the week!