The Tale of the Megaman Pillow

New year and a new post! Remember my "project"? Well it's done and although not in time for Christmas it was done and given before the end of the year. What was it? My attempt at making a classic Megaman sprite pillow. I knew it was going to be quite a bit of work as I got down to seriously planning how I was going to make it, but yes well...




The beginnings...the purple construction paper littered on the left there are my attempt at making a pattern. At first I thought I would sew it together pixel by pixel, but...just think about that for a minute and realize how insane that seems. Fuju was my constant companion throughout the process.




As time went on I would work on him for hours and feel like I did nothing, but I knew he was coming together somehow. It became painfully obvious that I am nocturnal along with my muse. 12am to three is my best time to work because my muse is evil along with whatever runs my energy. I could feel terrible, nauseous, migraine, you name it, but as soon as 12-3am comes around I am gooooood. :│




Then finally the hard part is done and all that is left is to sew on his back, stuff him, close him up and this madness can end and I can be in bed at these hours rather than be continuously creeped out by one of the people in my house in the morning while I try to work on him for a few more minutes (by minutes I mean hours of course :P). My sister and I would joke that he looks like Megaman's retarded brother this way. I ran into some serious setbacks the closer I got to finishing him, but I was determined to send him that Christmas Eve, sleep or no sleep. Funny thing is even when he was finished and I even had time to nap before I had to run to the post office and get ready to go to Bakersfield, I couldn't sleep. Maybe 15 minutes of just barely slipping from consciousness, but I woke right back up and tossed and turned as I seem to be destined to do this winter because I don't deal with cold well...especially when I'm trying to sleep.




Complete and striking a pose with his fleece brother, Kirby, just before they are wrapped and ready to go to whom they were meant for. My DeviantArt has a picture of him alone.

And now...Shimeji! I ran into these while wandering the internet the way I always do and fell in love with the cuteness. They're little desktop mascots of a sort. I've had programs that did something similar, but they cannot compare to the cute these have. I downloaded a few that interested me and my desktop soon looked like this...




Wander is the one that lead me to the others which are Red(Pokemon), Mew, Gastly, Haunter, Typhlosion, Eevee, Missingno, and even Trollface. They actually don't bother much, but they multiply as time goes on and even though I had got rid of a few of them I still ended up with this...




They did slow down my computer once it got ridiculous. You can't see it too well, but there are some hiding behind my open windows. I was watching She's The Man and playing Solitaire, because I can't seem to just watch movies. >_<; In the end I decided to close them all except Wander and Typhlosion. I hadn't even thought of my own little inside joke with these two until this happened...




Aside from being so cute I squealed and took a screenshot, I then remembered that on my Pokemon Soul Silver I chose Cyndaquil (who evolves, eventually, into a Typhlosion) and named him Wander after the hero from Shadow of the Colossus. I laughed at myself and was even happier to have them wandering my desktop, but they too multiplied into chaos before I went to bed.

You can grab your own here!