Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Tatted Mask Strikes Again

You might have noticed that I wasn't around yesterday. I have a really good excuse though. My daughters eardrum burst and her sister was sick as well. We spent the morning at the doctors office and I spent the rest of the day playing nursemaid to the two of them. There was a lot of napping, but while they were awake, there was crying and clinging and I guess blogging really didn't seem important.

As the evening arrived, they did seem a bit better and I received an email from flickr. My tatted mask had won a third place in the diy/instructables Halloween contest in the costume category. I had entered simply by adding a photo to their flickr pool and I almost forgot about it, assuming of course that I had no chance up against some of the amazing creation featured there. In the message I received, it was suggested that I also upload a slideshow to the site which required no step by step instruction, so I went ahead and did so again assuming it would be lost among the other more interesting thing on the site. Moments later I received a message saying that the slideshow was featured on the front page of Instructables. I've no idea how it will be there, so run now and take a look.

It has been pointed out that there are no instructions, so why is it featured? I've no idea, they thought it was cool enough I guess. I will tell you though, the interface to make the slideshow was super easy and I just might have to try my hand at listing some patterns there in the future. So a bad day ended on a high note and the tatted mask has again asserted itself as my claim to fame. I still laugh that it started out as a custom request from someone who changed their mind. I guess the moral of the story is, if someone challenges you to make something unexpected, take the challenge, you never know where it might take you!

5 comments:

Heather - Dollarstorecrafts.com said...

That's so awesome! Congratulations! I just checked, and you're the top link on the front page. Sweet!

jewelstreet said...

OMG! I hope your daughter will be okay, and her hearing won't be damaged.

Congrats on the win though!

AJ said...

Congratulations! Your tatted masks are so beautiful and unique.

I hope your daughter is feeling better soon. Poor kiddo.

Anonymous said...

I hope the kids feel better soon. I had the flu for Thanksgiving but luckily the baby didn't get it. When my daughter was a baby she had the Rotovirus and looked so helpless. I hate the feeling of not being able to do anything for them.

Ang

Anonymous said...

Saw your slide show. About the babydolls I hope they feel better soon!!! There is someone called Mema that needs some TLC too!!! She is very, VERY, VERY sick!!!! So I come over and you'll take care of me and pamper me and spoil me like you do Zairah Bear and Xandra Panda???