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    Saturday, June 25th, 2011
    9:56 pm
    eye breaks
    Tough week -- eye neuralgia and depression and state politics and campus politics and stress, oh my! So, I plan to spend the weekend doing only enjoyable, relaxing, rejuvenating things. No budget insanity for two whole days, hurrah!

    Went out late this morning to run a few errands, something I haven't had the chance to do in over a week thanks to the eye, so that was nice, even if the weather wasn't.

    Back here at home, I have some paper mache fruit drying in the oven. This is mainly because over the past week, when unable to look at screens (computer and otherwise), I have been working through stacks of old junk mail, outdated receipts, etc., and shredding up the lot in a frenzy. It going against my grain to simply throw away the resulting masses of paper bits, I stewed up a giant kettle's worth, drained and pressed it, ran my crafts-use-only mixer through it to break up the fibers further, added the necessary additional gluey-elements, and now have five pounds of paper mache ready for use. I still had two pounds left from the previous batch, which I figured I better use up while it was still viable; that having been a rather chunky batch, shaping it into fruit seemed the most sensible (i.e. quick and easy) thing to do. A brief round in the oven to let it set up, a swift polish with the back of an old metal spoon, and now it's back in the oven to finish drying.

    Once dried, finish-coated, sanded, primed, painted, and sealed, the pieces will look like this (except better, as my photography is terrible):



    The latest batch of mache is much smoother than the batch I just used up, so I think my technique may be improving with practice (also, old thermal paper receipts turn into really great product, and there were a LOT of them in the shredder this week); I'm considering using it to make "stone" frames for tissue paper "stained glass". (One of the unintended side-benefits[1] of last weekend's Great Book Boxing effort is the improved access to my craft reference and Art books -- had a lot of fun last night paging through a history of stained glass, getting some good ideas.) I suspect it would also make up nicely into bowls and vessels. I should get busy and paint the last set I made, so that I could put it on Etsy; still nothing in the shop there other than the "candy" hearts, which really won't be heavily promotable until next Valentine's Day.

    I haven't yet started painting my paper mache Tardis -- contemplating several different approaches/methods, and some things just shouldn't be rushed...



    Hope you are all having relaxing weekends so far! :-)


    [1] The actual intent was to free up space on the bedroom bookcases for tomes related to the Letters Project -- 1920s/1930s histories, biographies, memoirs, letter collections, literature, etc. -- and to unearth the surface of the desk in the study, so that I can actually work on the project. Assuming the eye improves in the near future, I'm looking forward to getting back to that effort.
    Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
    5:43 pm
    Pixilated Pixel Product Proffering #285
    Time for a few Dr Who icons:









    Source for all of these is the "Daily Dalek" comic, by Tony Naylor.

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    Monday, September 12th, 2011
    7:23 pm
    HBD wishes!
    Happy birthday, e11en! Hope it's a lovely one!
    Friday, September 30th, 2011
    12:05 pm
    It's 8:00, do you have your bearnigs yet?
    Fred and I like to frequent the Book Swap Shed at our municipal recycling center -- you never know what odd items are going to turn up. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a 1944 edition of The Newspaper Institute of America Handbook for Writers; it's in rotten shape, but I thought it might have some bearing on the Letters Project given my grandad's background in newspapers, so I brought it home.

    My favorite bit so far is in the Table of Contents:



    Have you got your bearnigs yet this morning? I'm still looking for mine... ;-)
    Friday, March 23rd, 2012
    2:25 pm
    Pixilated Pixel Product Proffering #288
    A financial theme today:



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    Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
    12:49 pm
    Pixilated Pixel Product Proffering #290
    I haven't done icons in quite a while; here's a set from Pixar's Inside Out:

     photo Joy_zpsnjtbbqvh.png  photo Anger2_zpskbqj8d6o.png  photo Anger1_zpshhocu0bu.png  photo Disgust_zpsffoc5oay.png
     photo Fear_zpsdmsatbzw.png  photo BingBong_zpscdbsqqyl.png  photo Memory_zpscqth6tg4.png  photo Sadness_at_the_core_zps32f51os5.png
     photo Sadness1_zpsxjbvfvzx.png  photo Sadness2_zpsxzmmyad7.png  photo Sadness3a_zpsuwnt4ybe.png  photo Sadness3b_zpsqi0xs578.png
     photo Sadness_lost_in_memories_zpsjruehgbm.png  photo Joy_lost_in_memories_zpsvonivrge.png

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