Hey You! Yeah You! Have You Ever Been Living Life When You Think To Yourself, Man I Wish I Could Do That.

Hey you! Yeah you! Have you ever been living life when you think to yourself, man I wish I could do that. Think to yourself,

Yeah I can do that! Who's gonna stop me!

Please ignore the previous statement if thought involved illegal activities.

Well I hand made a plushie and I'm proud of myself.

When Jaiden Animations uploaded her video reviewing gen 5 pokemon plushies, I wondered what Drifloons official plush looked like. Looking it up, it was kinda disappointing. There were parts I thought I'd change if I made it myself...

Then I thought, why don't I make it myself! So I stopped studying for my exam and proceeded to plan out the designs. However, I'm no expert by any means. My credentials were essentially:

Learned how to sew a quilt in grade 11.

Quick fixes in clothes or toys.

Lots of videos of doll customizations and a few cosplay tutorials I've seen on YouTube.

So, I set my expectations low and kept my self-confidence high. My margin of error for the drifloon plush was going to be huge, so regardless of the end result, I'll be happy.

Above are some of the first drafts of templates I used. The seem-lines excess grew as I learned that more is better. The circular tag for the bottom of Drifloon I had to remake a few times, so it was big enough with the final product. The arms I originally thought to make with fabrics, but once realizing it would look like shoelaces, I challenged myself to use rope.

I also had no plan for the cloud. I did know I wanted to use fabric rather than it to be pure fluff like the official design. I ended up just stuffing and stretching fabric into a sphere shape and sewing it together, hiding all the raw edges.

When I went to buy the material, I didn't buy plush and soft materials. If I remade the plush, I probably would make the cloud part fluffy, but since drifloon is a balloon, the smooth pillow-like sheets (Linen, I think) worked fine.

Gotta love the stitch work of my first attempt. I probably used a total of four stitch methods. One was stitched the machine, then handstitched the rest since I realized it was crazy to machine stitch something so small. Two of the stitches I probably made up. I stuffed the pads, and the end result is smooth enough, and I love each little flaw. The mistakes also helped me understand how to approach the rest of the body.

One, two, skip a few, I stitched 5 oval patterns together to make the body. I then bought an embroidery hoop to make the eyes. I thought of doing an outline for the mouth but settled for machine stitching.

This poor baby wasn't properly stuffed. Originally, I planned on using old stuffing, but then I bought cotton to stuff it properly. I accidentally ripped the material and thought I fixed it, but after stuffing it I realized he had a Dwane Johnson eyebrow. Luckily, with new stuffing, it's less noticeable, kind of.

Above is the finished product immediately after I finished! Ignore the calendar it was actually June. He can sit without rolling and the colours look great together! It wasn't until recently when the weather was beautiful and I took him outside for a photo shoot!

While there was lots of mistakes, I had lots of fun learning. I love my shiny baby who was inspired by a shiny I caught in Pokemon Scarlet, my first non-guaranteed shiny in a main game! Her ingame name is Aurora, but I've been calling the plush a he, so do with that info as you will.

Thank you for reading!

This project was really fun for me, and it all started by just wanting to do it myself. I hope this encourages you to just make something you've been holding out on doing. You may make mistakes like I did, but you may also finish with a final product that YOU made! What's cooler than that?

me doing japanese homework:

wait a minute….

Dear Farmer,

Last night, a Joja team member found you incapacitated. A medical team was dispatched to bring you home safely.

We're glad you're okay!

(You've been billed 400g for this service)

-Morris

Joja Customer Satisfaction Representative

I just remembered that in my food history class, the professor was telling us how people would brag in taverns of what they buy to show off their wealth, not always understanding what it is theyre bragging about. Essentially, he was making up some scenarios for jokes.

"I make a cup of tea every day for breakfast."

"Oh yeah, well I drink 8 cups each day!"

"You think that's impressive? I eat a pound of tea leaves on my toast each day!"

Then the prof say, "Actually, if anyone here can eat a pound of tea leaves in front of the class then I'll give you a bonus 2%!"

The entire class went silent, we were thinking of the logistics of actually doing that.