In Progress

I want an led glowy star chart. I started with an 18 inch diameter piece of plywood and painted it blue for the Milky Way

  

 I love watercolors but I seriously hate painting with them, I'm better at acrylics since I can layer it easier. This was a lot of blues and purples, some metallics, a lot of sprayed on water and salt. It took most of the day to dry.

Now completely dry I sketched out the map and drilled holes into the wood.

I have a string led light from Ikea since fiver optics were out of my depth, though I'll be playing with them in the future, but testing Cygnus looks good:

Placing the leds, notice the constellation connect the dots. I didn't glue anything down yet, I have more to add.

All lit up.

I bought a fiber optic light and will now drill even smaller holes into the wood so there is some variation of the light.

More coming soon.

Christmas!!!

I'm still making treats to send out to a few more family members BUT I am finished with the handmade gift this year.  I made 35 copies of a small book I wrote and illustrated. Since most of them are out in the world and I even uploaded it to Amazon to sell as a kindle book (link forthcoming), I thought I'd post it here. I only have 5 followers so I don't think I'm giving too much away.

Puppy

by Beth

One sunny morning

I went outside to play,

and was followed by a puppy,

somewhere along the way.

He did not bark or bite,

And he seemed very tame.

How was I to know

That this was just his special game?




 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

He hid behind the bed,


he hid behind the chair,

he jumped up to kiss me

and latched onto my hair.

I ran around the room.


I fought and cried and bit,

puppy finally came off

As I yelled at him to sit.

I went into my room,


As I saw his sad wagging tail,

And I pulled out my gat,

and sent him back to hell.

Wishing...

I saw this prototype for an awesome camera and added it to my Amazon Wishlist just to remind myself of it.

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

But wait! It hasn't even been patented. How can I posses such a wonderus camera if only a few were in existance. Possibly I could make something?

How about I hit record on my phone's camcorder app and throw it up in the air?

It works about as well as I could imagine. Plus there was a real fear of dropping my phone. I will have to keep trying so I can one day have the camera.

Next item on my wish list:

ZERO-G Gife Package

Silly Walks Oh How You Torment Me!

This is my first attempt. I don't like it at all. I think it looks squished.

#2, better but still not quite enough.

If I get any better resolution the finished afghan will be enormous!

And Now For Something Completely Different

I have always been a diehard Python fan and lately had some cravings to make something that would warm my cold dead heart.

I did the accordian book first but that wasn't enough. I am obsessed with this:

I formatted it in photoshop and sent it to a letterpress plate-maker so I can do even more. But wait, wouldn't this be a great aftghan like the Mythbusters? Yes. So here's what I've done so far. I uploaded the image to http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/ and then try and figure out if the grid size will be enough. The stitch size is 1:1. Now I need to decide if the resolution will work for the size. I used a sample just to see what it will look like and if I like it.

 Big and Regular. I don't want this to be the size of a parking lot so (sample guyx12) the smaller is better. 

And here's my mockup/prototype:

Now I have to decide if it will work and do I want the same colors, navy/off white, etc. Either way this will be awesome. Tunisian crochet has a tendency to squish the image horizontally so I also need to figure out how  much I need to stretch the it before printing the guide.

Mythbusters...

Man every long-term project ends with me not liking it. I still need to block it and put a backing on and then I will be sending it out into the world. I am crocheting an 8-bit group pic for the bottom but I haven't decided if it makes the cut yet. Maybe.

I think next I will work on a version of:

Banana Update!

"The banana you sent me was still a little green and had no bruises.  I took a picture of it, but you'll have to wait a little while for it cause I won't have time to develop it before I leave. You'll get it though.  And thanks for the banana bread and star wars stuff.  I'm excited to do the puzzle at the airport during lay overs.  And the banana bread was super good.  It's almost gone:)"

Developing film? Seriously? Well, she's leaving for Argentina ina couple weeks so I can only do this a few more times.