Archive for November, 2006
Some photo development notes
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Yahoo Groups
Sunday, November 26th, 2006I was at Yahoo Groups for another reason, but decided i would post a note about my absence in the artistamp, non_cents, and iouma mailing lists.
Dear Artistamp Friends,
I admit i was a lurker when i was “active.” I’ve been overwhelmed for some months, and still don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. I haven’t been reading the list recently, deleting upon arrival, so i’m going to save a bit of bandwidth and go to no messages for a while.
I miss making artistamps and look forward to finding myself suddenly back in the groove!
Cheers!
judith aka judielaine
Recycled Candles, again
Sunday, November 26th, 2006A month or so ago, I wrote about not being able to get my recycled candles to burn well enough. I gave my attempt one more try with two innovations.
The first innovation was melting the wax in a recycled cereal bag. This worked very well. The plastic withstood the boiling water, the wax melted within, and cleanup was quite easy. I’m not sure how often one could use a bag over. I think i threw it out.
The second innovation was to use multiple wicks in the votive jars. Two wicks seem to burn off the wax at a rate that keeps up with the melting, so the wick doesn’t drown. The candles do burn down quickly, but also are quite bright.
A pleasant discovery in the waning light of the year.
Birthday Cat
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Inspired by PhotoJoJo
www.photojojo.com/content/diy/how-to-make-a-postcard-mosa…
and
www.photojojo.com/content/tutorials/turn-photos-into-comi…
with additional help from
this color palette tool
I made a VERY LARGE version of this image for my nephew. I get to print and cut and then start mailing pieces to China….
It’s probably not that interesting at high res, but for a three year old, i think it will be OK.
Crochet work
Saturday, November 4th, 2006I noticed the pile of mending and, not feeling well after a late work night, i puttered with yarn.
The yarn is from a stash of crewel work yarn i purchased off eBay. It required lots of dealing with ends, but worked out OK.
The motifs were to cover some holes worn in a pair of Christine’s jeans. Star? Flower? Pentagon? Not too cute or “sweet.” I would have done one more round with picots emphasizing the points to make it more star like, i think, but she liked the simplicity of this.
The "shaft" of the arrow was one long chain, then sc around. The arrow was ad libbed single crochet decreases, but turned out OK.
I noted the hem was fraying a bit, so i did a blanket stitch on which i hooked in to make a row of single crochet. "Behind" the sc i used a slip stitch to connect the picots.