Current project

Thought that I should take a pic of my current project before I manage to mess it up. About 5000 beads in it so far. I think that the figure needs some modification but overall I'm quite happy with it. Can you say what it is supposed to be?

All the Super Mario World sprites so far

I finished Super Mario World. Good game. Somehow it felt a lot harder when I was a kid. Or maybe Dark Souls have redefined the concept of hardness in my mind. Well anyway, to celebrate I made some more of Super Mario World sprites. Here they are with all the other SMW sprites:

The Making of: Mario and Yoshi (Super Mario World)

We got a Wii some weeks ago and surprise, surprise there was Super Mario World on it. I've been playing it some time now (Valley of Bowser almost conquered) and thought that it would be awesome to make my favourite character: Yoshi. Because Yoshi shines only when he's with Mario, I decided to make them together. Sprites are from spriters-resource.com, I just had to combine them myself.

As I have already made Mario with cape once, let us start with him. Whites and blacks first. I put Yoshi's there too already.

Next Hama burgundy (no. 30).

Hama yellow (03) and pink (06).

Hama blue (08), Photo Pearls yellow (21) to the cap, PP light grey (10) to the face and added also some whites I missed earlier.

PP no. 27 for the brown parts, PP yellow (21) to the shoe which I missed earlier, PP no. 23 and 28 for the blues (for some reason there was a lot of greens with the blues in the no. 23 bag).

Hama claret for Mario's arm and cap. Then I made a small adjustment to my earlier colour selection. Previously I had used Pyssla pink for the pink in the cap and in the arm. Pyssla beads however are thinner and taller than Hama or Photo Pearls so this time I traded it for Nabbi no. 18 which I got just recently. The Nabbi number 18 is about the same colour as Pyssla pink. First use for Nabbi beads. Let's see how it turns out.

Next Yoshi. Yoshi has three shades of green and I decided to try PP dark green (09) for the darkest, Hama green (10) for the middle and PP light green (22) for the lightest. Another viable option would have been PP green (16) instead of Hama green, but as it is really hard to separate PP geen and light green when they are next to each other, I decided to try Hama green as the middle one.

Almost there. Only feet (or shoes?) and hand left. The feet are easy. Just add red. Hama no. 05 for them. Unfortunately I don't have exact colour for the yellowish orange that is Yoshis hand. After some debate I used Hama teddybear brown (60) for it.

Here is the final product.

Iron Man

Yay! Got the iron back. To celebrate I made an Iron Man. It is a fridge magnet and a gift for a friend.

Just hanging here

I don't know whose the design is originally. If you google "iron man" and "perler" or "hama" there will be plenty of those. All the colours are Hama.

Creations of my better half - Part II: Some flowers and more owls

As promised, here are more of my wife's creations. First some flowers:

...in sky with diamonds?

I'm not sure if the last one is supposed to be a flower, but maybe it's close enough. It's nice and psychedelic anyway.

Then some more owls. There used to be about a dozen of these on our windowsill, but now all I could find were these two. I wonder what happened to the others.

The right one is also a badge:

These are all for today, hope you enjoyed the photos and perhaps got some inspiration. Maybe I'll do part III in some distant future.

Creations of my better half - Part I: Darth Vader, Bernese Mountain Dog and Huge Owl

My better half left for this school practise... internship... thingy to another city and won't be back until March. And she took our iron with her. So as I can't do any new beadsprites, I thought to show some of the work she has done.

First what I think is the coolest thing she has made out of beads: Darth Vader coaster!

Just needs a storm trooper coaster for companion

Next there is a head of Bernese Mountain Dog. Can be used as a coaster as well. Man we do a lot of coasters...

Last piece for this post is Huge Owl.

I think this is the biggest piece she has done. And it is actually pretty cool. Especially because you can see it pretty well from outside.

She got the ideas for these from the Pinterest, I think.

That's all for to night. Some more of her creations in a couple of days.

Christmas presents: CS: GO and Tappara logo

Handmade Christmas presents this year (except for the picture frame of course). First a CS:GO logo for a CS enthusiastic:

And for another relative a logo of Finnish ice-hockey team Tappara:

I especially like how the logo of Tappara turned out. Both pieces are few beads under 60 in height. A program called Perler was big help when I was creating these as I didn't have any model for them.