I thought these turned out super cute! I liked the round tops and the adorable roots at the bottom. I thought it was pretty cool too that after I put it out, that I learned the other names for them in other places in the world, which has happened with other Happy Foods too!
I also had a few people tell me that they were leeks and not green onions. I tried to explain that they were indeed green onions as they had round "leaves" and not flat ones, but eh, at the end of the day, they can call them what they want, lol.
I had hoped too that since this was a bit easier than other designs and not so band heavy that it would deter those without many bands.
If you would like to try this Happy Green Onion....or Leek....you can find the tutorial on my YouTube channel or right here:
I love how my Happy Fries turned out! They are just so cute and ADORABLE! The making of the box to have a higher back like real fry boxes I thought was pretty awesome! AND of course, having removable fries was a must!
I enjoyed making them and was really happy to see that many more people really started to get into the Happy Foods. I had wanted to stay away from junk foods for awhile longer, but I figured I just better dive in! As my first junk food, I'm pretty stoked!
You can find the tutorial on my YouTube channel, feelinspiffy or right here:
I have been super busy trying to keep up with my family and all the Happy Foods! It's amazing how fast time flies every night after the kiddos go to bed and I can finally get in some looming time! It seems like it is 9pm and then the next time that I look, it's 4 or 5am....seriously! Crazy!
And as you can see, it's been awhile since I posted. I am really sorry about that. I have gotten to the point where in order to keep posting new things every few days, I have little time to do much else but create when I get my looming time.
But of course! I plan to amend that today (this morning, lol) and catch up with all the designs that I am behind. That means there is going to be a serious number of posts coming up, lol. Thank you for stopping by and seeing what's new, I appreciate it! :)
I have been working tirelessly continuing the Happy Food series! Ok, so maybe not tirelessly, there have been way too many nights spent looming into the wee hours of the morning. Thank goodness my hubby is so supportive!
I'm really proud of all of these. I feel like they are super unique to anything else out there. Even if someone else has made a fruit or vegetable design before, I am still able to take it to the next level, making it unique to me and my looming style. I'm really happy with how they have turned out! It's definitely not without it's work, that's for sure!
I'm sorry I haven't updated here as often as I should. Between creating designs, filming, editing, rendering, uploading, socializing, answering comments on YouTube AND still making my family number one. I feel like I rarely have time left for anything else. I'm afraid that at some point in the near future I'm going to have to change answering all comments on YouTube to just answering the ones that request help. I get hundreds of comments a day and it takes a few hours to answer them all, which is time that could be spent designing. I don't know, so torn!
Anyways, it's time to update the roster of Happy Foods! And there are quite a few! :)
We have the Happy Asparagus. It's not a favorite it appears, but I love it!
You can find the tutorial here:
Next we have the Happy Peas in a Pod. This one DEFINITELY is a favorite!
You can find the tutorial here:
Then we have the Happy Cherries! I so wish I would have thought to make them detachable like I did with the Happy Grapes, but I still love them! :)
You can find the tutorial here:
Then we have the fabulous Happy Strawberry! I love this so much! So adorable and my flower I made for the strawberry was so requested that I put a little tutorial at the end of my Happy Grapes video to make it. :)
You can find the tutorial here:
Now the Happy Grapes! I was stoked to figure out how to make the grapes detachable! This was a very band heavy design and I wanted to give kids the option to reduce the amount of bands needed. I figured detachable grapes was the perfect solution! Make as many as you want, then just pretend the others were eaten. Great idea I hope!
You can find the tutorial here:
Then we have the Happy Pear! I love how it turned out. I did my best to try to make a nice fat bottom with a tapered neck on it. This design is a bit more complicated since it's a looming down design, but it's still workable for all looms.
You can find the tutorial here:
And of course! The Happy Apple had to come along too! I am super proud of the shape. It took quite a bit of playing around to get to the finished result. I hope you like it too!
You can find the tutorial here:
Then we have the Happy Pineapple! OMG! I love how it turned out! I think my suggestion to use mango bands from Rainbow Loom helped to sell them out! Cool! But I want more bands! I love the wrapped bands on it. A pain to make, sure, but SO worth it!
You can find the tutorial here:
The Happy Watermelon had to come along too! I love how the shape turned out! It took me awhile to get the even triangle shape; the first few times it looked more like a piece of pizza, lol. I made it as a growing up design, but then I turned it inside out. Just seems to work better and makes it so anyone can make it regardless of whether or not they had a Rainbow Loom.
You can find the tutorial here:
The Happy Banana! Oh my! This took forever to perfect, lol. I wanted it to look just right. I tried making several different versions and sizes. Tried doing a removable peel which I loved the peel, just not how they looked together when the banana was inside of it. I love how it turned out though. The construction of the banana with the peels did require me to remove the pin bar in the middle of the loom, which kind of was disappointing since I want my designs to be available to everyone regardless of the loom they have. I first had made it with cheap bands and it worked fine without removing the pin bar, but once I used good bands I could barely keep it on the loom or keep the loom from falling apart. I still love it though! :)
You can find the tutorial here:
And another highly asked for fruit, the Happy Mango! It took awhile to get the shape just right. The fat top, the curve and the little bottom, not so easy, lol. I have heard comments since that I made the little bump on the bottom too big, but I think it looks perfect; too much smaller and I don't think it would have been as obvious what it was. And contrary to what people might think, this is not my Happy Pear upside down, lol. I used mango bands to make it and of course the Rainbow Loom online store has been out of stock, lol. I'm hoping that they get more back in stock soon and that they will be the same color when they do. I had heard that they were a production error on the neon orange bands (hence why there were stickers that said mango on the back covering the neon orange name. Hopefully, they will come back soon; I actually like the color quite a bit.
You can find the tutorial here:
So that's everything up until now! Whew! I'm still working on many things. Just time to make them is the barrier I face. But I'm doing my best!
Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you enjoy your Happy Foods! :)
So I have been going a little outside the norm for me lately and trying my hand at more figures and I think they are absolutely adorable! These guys are 3D, and so far made all on one loom. They don't require stuffing and I really don't think they are too terribly difficult to make, mainly just time consuming. I would definitely suggest getting a hold of a rug latch hook if you plan to make some. It's not necessary, but it definitely makes it much easier to do them.
I have been receiving such positive responses to these guys! It's fabulous! I have been having a little fun on instagram too. I have suggested to people that they put their figures into silly situations, kind of like an elf on the shelf kind of deal, and then hash tag them to feelinspiffyhappyfoods. There have been some super cute and very funny pictures. I love the creativity I'm seeing in them!
If you would like to see them, you can check them out below or on my YouTube channel, feelinspiffy. I definitely have more on the way!
I wanted to make a bigger bracelet design and I had an idea of what I wanted and it very awesomely turned into three bracelets that are fabulous in their own right! I thought about having a design that was nice and square and came up with the Waffle Bracelet. I absolutely love it! I also love that it lead to the Boardwalk and Pixel bracelets. Just removing some bands or rows and awesome results! I have one and two loom versions for the Waffle and Boardwalk bracelets and the Pixel bracelet is just one loom. I, of course, show how to extend them as well!
So, this is weird, lol. But a long time ago, I made actual unicorn poop cookies (yes they are real! Google them, lol) for a party. They are basically sugar cookies where the dough has been divided into brightly colored sections, then all swirled together into what looks, well, like a poop. Then sprinkles, sugar are added to just make them sparkly...and of course, no other animal besides a unicorn could do that!
I definitely worried about putting out a design with the word poop in it, but hoped that most people would just think it was quirky and not harp on it too much. So far, I haven't had too many comments that have made me too worried. I did have someone ask me to make another tutorial using just brown bands because all the colors were too confusing....definitely not going to happen, lol.
I hope that you enjoy the quirkiness!
You can find the two loom tutorial here:
And the one loom tutorial here:
Hmmm, guess I used the same picture, lol. Have to change that sometime when I remember. :)
