How to Bead a Heart Shaped Wallet Tutorial on Youtube

Heart Shaped Wallet Hey guys, I got another tutorial out on Youtube. Please do check it out. It is a Heart Shape type of wallet. About 3x4 inches. It is using some Acrylic Rough beads. Kindly go to my channel Gantsilyera, type cedie aqui. Look for the playlist and please do comment below if you get the chance to make them. Here are the pics.

Crochet Puppets

My brother in-law has asked me a long time ago to make crochet puppets. He has a picture on hand that I can follow but it wasn't in crochet. I tried making it but had a hard time copying from the photo. So I took other pictures that can be a reference for it. That's when I made Iggu the aligator. I was quite pleased with it and I started with Kepler. Kepler is slightly bigger than Iggu and has some details from him unlike the first one. I remember that I incorporated a flat form for him and I've also sewn some fabric on the inside. In the end they both came out well and was quite pleased with it. It was suppose to be a start of a business for my kuya and I but it ended up being a toy for the kids specially Daniel. They had been playing with it eversince. Oh, as added project I also made a Fox Puppet named "Raffy". Just don't know where he is now.

Crochet Blouses out of Sugar Free Yarns

Crochet Blouses out of Sugar Free Yarns This past weeks I have been in a Crochet blouse frame of mind. I started a blouse from last year but wasn't able to pick it up for a while because of all the beads orders and holiday fever. So last last week I started to crochet it again. The pattern was from a Japanese Crochet/Knit magazine. Doubting if I ever can make them then. The pattern has a diagram that can be followed but the words are in Japanese. I felt intimidated. But I had the courage to follow the diagram and make it piece by piece. I made a mistake with the motifs part and the size of it but it came out quite well and fits Stella, my manequin. The yarn I used for it is a Sugar Free Yarn I won from the Yarn Caravan Event in Luneta that was hosted by Gantsilyo Filipino. We won the tag along contest of making a granny square. Most of my teammates has chosen a yarn already and I ended up with the orange one with lighter orange mixed with it. I was glad to have it because it turned out quite well. So after making that blouse I was encouraged to make another one using another Sugar Free Yarn that is called Ombre. For sometime I was thinking of what to do with it. Then I saw another pattern on the magazine that with be very appropriate to use for it. Although in the pattern the blouse only have one color I didn't think that a gradient yarn wouldn't be fit with it. I got the flow of making the blouse and enjoyed working on it. Watching the yarn change from one color to another. After finishing the blouse I got the urge to buy more of those yarns. I'm willing to save for it unlike before that I apprehend even buying it. So that is one of my goals now. So without further ado, here are the pictures...

On reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

On reading Harry Potter The Deathly Hallows: One day I decided to take the last book of the Harry Potter series and flip through some pages and start reading from there. So on Chapter 7 I started reading the book. I know it has been a while since I've read The Goblet of Fire and wasn't able to finish it. I cheated and gone right through the last part and read from there. And I have been doing that for some time now. It just sort of gave me purpose for each day. Something to look forward to in a small way. Like how I look forward to opening this laptop that kuya gave me and browsing it. Looking for things to do here. Like typing this silly narrative. I passed that dreaded part of the book for me. The part where Harry and Hermione (without Ron) went to Godric's Hollow and meet Bathilda or Nagini. I wanted to read as fast as I can so I can read that part. That part that I keep watching on youtube before. The part where Ron reunited with his friends and Hermione got angry at him and he explained stuff that is quite intriguing for me. How he explained the way he found how to get back to them. I'm on that middle part of the book now. I'm thinking about how can it be possible for the rest of the story to be on that other half part of the book. Cause I know there are plenty of things that's going to happen according to the movie. I keep comparing the book to the movie and citing some differences that there is. I don't know what will happen after me reading the book. Maybe I would try to find The Half Blood Prince from Kuya and read that or move on with other things but one thing is certain. It has given me some other thing to do. And to look forward to.

Sunflower and Pastel Mandala/Dreamcatcher

Sunflower and Pastel Colored DreamCatchers or Mandala: Lately I've been on a quest in making a different to me kind of Dreamcatcher or Mandala, a wall hanging if you like. It is requested to me by a cousin of my brother in-law that used to order from me a bear amigurumi. She wanted a Sunflower designed one and also a Pastel colored one that needs to be combined with black yarn color. I researched online for pictures that I can get an idea from and found some and so I started on making the middle part composed of two crochet circles that I sew together and put a foam inside. I have come to make 2 brown ones in two sizes and two black ones. I was hoping to have spare as a sample and experiment more on. Then I started making the petals that is going to be connected on the crochet circles. I have made petals with yellow and orange colors. I sewn them to the circles but when Micolle saw it she said she preferred the yellow one from the orange. When I said I'm gonna sew the yellow petals to the black rounded crochet, she rejected it and said I should put it on the brown instead. So I followed her and made some. I let Ysrah see my progress and she has been making some adjustments to it. I enjoyed making the sunflowers and just a while ago I was able to put the fringes on it using the colors of yarns used for it plus some mohair and eyelash yarns that ms Jan gave me. I forwarded the pictures to Ysrah but she has to reply yet. Tomorrow I'm going to ask my brother in-law to send it to her. She requested I put them on a nice plastic bag so after hearing from her I'm gonna do that. Here are some of the pictures:

Monetization

January 21, 2018 Sunday I tried applying for monetization on Youtube last November 2017 and had been reading their policies and learning how to monetize my channel. When I started making videos on Youtube last 2014 I just wanted to show my projects and be a member of the yarn community. But eversince I have been making tutorials about beaded wallets I thought of monetizing. I just needed to have some type of income to support my tutorials and for me to build it better. So I applied for it last year in hopes of being approved. Days and weeks past and still the monetization button is not enabled. I was wondering what I did wrong or did I miss something. I keep borrowing a laptop from my sister to read their policies and keep searching for things that I wasn't able to do. I even thought I should pass the creators exam part of it. I thought about having the 10,000 views requirement and even surpassed it. I also applied for adsense and I followed through the bits of it but what might be the problem? So as soon as I saw Ms Zoe's recent video featuring monetization then I knew what it was. I am dismayed with the requirements that needs to be met before monetization approval. I thought about the first few months when I started to make videos. How hard to even make 50 subbies. It's just lately that my subbies list picked up. All because of my tutorials. I'm quite happy with 800 subbies but to know that I needed 1k subbies to be monetized really saddened me. What more is it needs to be met come February 20. A thought came to mind that it is impossible for me to meet that. It's just not plausible to accumulate that much more subbies in quite a short time. I hoped they will extend it. It is really becoming a huge stumbling block but what can we do? We can only try our best to promote our channel and hope for the best. But for whatever outcome it may have I am still determined to make more show and tell videos and tutorials because I have come to love the community that I am in and what's important is it makes me happy. And I also hope to make my friends happy.