The Gryphon Nest

Side blog dedicated to all of my crafting adventures

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Meet Strawberry Bulbasaur! Their body is light pink and their spots are white. Rather than a traditional bulb, they have a red strawberry on their back. Each strawberry "seed" is made up of three gold glass beads for a total of 324 hand sewn beads.

(Pattern by CholyKnight)

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Strawberry! Bulbasaur is coming along well!

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SOON

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Today I busted out one of my blocks of clear melt and pour soap and made myself some watermelon scented soaps!

I got 5 frogs out of it, along with 4 hexagon bars, which are in the background.

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How about a little progress on my little Halloween project? Now I just need to find time to sit down and sew it.

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Multiple things went wrong with these little gingerbread bath bombs, but that's just part of learning. Will attempt again with a different mixture and maybe a smidge more polysorbate 80. (The brown residue did wipe away fairly easily and anything that still stuck around I got rid of with some scrubbing bubbles, but still, what a pain.)

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An attempt at gingerbread bath bombs had been made! They got a little crumbly and I think I know where I went wrong, so I'll definitely be trying these again.

The nice thing is, they're all still usable. The most crumbly one I'll be breaking down fully and mixing it with epsom salt and powdered milk for a nice bath tea/milk.

Scented with gingerbread cookie fragrance oil.

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My boy is finished!

A lovely bird inspired by Nightwing/Dick Grayson from DC comics.

Pattern by CholyKnight

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Time for an update on my (totally normal) bird plush!

Just the legs and wings left!

(pattern by: CholyKnight)

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My fabric order arrived today, so instead of doing any of the other stuff I told myself I need to do, I sat down and cut out the pieces for my next plush.

He looks very odd all laid out like this, but he will be a very cute bird once sewn together.

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I'll have another book to show off soon, but for now enjoy some of the bath bombs I made this week!

These beauties are made with baking soda, citric acid, coconut oil, powdered goats milk, a teensy bit of powdered honey, and a light topping of pink Himalayan salt. (As well as my favorite fragrance and a little water.)

I smooshed the mix into my silicon mold, then let them dry overnight before flipping them over for another day of drying. They turned out so pretty!

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Floppy disc pocket notebook! I plan on making a bigger 4"x4" later, but I wanted to test things out first with a smaller one.

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Getting some paper cut and ready for some new bindings!

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It's been a lackluster year in crafting for me so far, but the few things I have done, I'm really proud of how they've turned out.

Today I present, a new little plush friend:

(pattern by: cholyknight)

This little guy is jammed full of fluff and I also made a little pouch and filled it with poly pellets, so he's got a bit more weight to him. He doesn't really need it, but I was excited to try them out.

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I have acquired a new craft...

(She has a few flaws but I love her. Pattern by Choly Knight)

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At long last, I have completed my first book of the year.

From the start I knew I wanted to do something with the Chinese lunar new year (especially since I was born in the year of the snake), so here it is in honor of that:

I put my coffee stained paper to good use for this one and gave myself a good test of patience weeding out all those tiny pieces from the snake. I really like how this one turned out

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Slowly testing out some new crafts this year. I figured I'd show off the bath bombs that I made the other day:

Same scent and mixture for all of them.

I'm still working out some kinks. The sphere tends to break when I wait to remove the second half until it's dry enough to support itself (though luckily it was just malleable enough this time to squish the bottom back against the top). I might try rubbing a slight amount of coconut oil along the inside of the molds next time

The diamond hearts worked well! Though you can see where I needed to press them harder to really fill in the edges on two of them.