I think I’ll leave the prompt in play for now. Even though the prompt and project were apparently happening at the same time, the more I think about it, the weirder I feel about making the claim. (But, hoo, we are on some kind of inspiration wavelength today.)
If the chain stalls here, though, I may go ahead to keep it moving. But I’d rather give someone the chance to be truly inspired by the theme first.
“So long, and thanks for all the fish” is one of my favorite literary sentences, and I snagged this laser-cut made by Nooo on the old site a couple years ago just to do something related to it. I turned the two pieces into an ornament I’ll likely give to my retiring supervisor. I went with normal fishy color because my initial plan was to mount this on a galaxy-print greeting card. Now that it is an ornament instead, I might attempt to repaint the whole thing to look like space.
Or, maybe, take it apart and go back to the galaxy greeting card idea?
I started on the purple square, trying out a pattern, then moved on to the blue one since I had no scissors in my craft bag when it was time to change colors…
Now I just need to figure out what kind of motif I want for the purple square, and maybe make a couple more and actually turn this into something.
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I took @aimr’s "pocket’ challenge and came up with:
Start to finish: I spray painted everything matte black, including the canvas. Then, I glued everything down with E6000. Then, it sat for a couple of weeks until I asked @geekgirl how to finish. She said she dry brushes paint over hers, so I grabbed some copper fabric paint and a brush! I made sure to brush the excess paint off onto a scrap before brushing it on the pieces. I focused mostly on the surfaces and tried not to get a lot on the canvas itself.
Here’s my reply to @Lynx’s kindness challenge! My kiddo has to wear masks at school and he wanted plain black masks stenciled. He was particularly anxious to advertise his YT channel to his schoolmates, so the kindness comes in with the advertising masks. Those are the “sub to” and toad logo masks.
I completely dropped the ball on my two challenges… but I still have plans to do them! Motivation has been seriously lacking, but the negative things have calmed down a bit, and while I’m going to be very busy in the weeks ahead, I can still get it done
I completed @calluna challenge today. I set a timer to stop every thirty minutes and just be mindful. It was good.
I made this necklace and matching earrings, I have no creative urges at the moment, zilch motivation, so I dumped all my green beads into a pile and made a random necklace.
Looks good! I was just wearing my Deadster shirt over the weekend, lol. Take care of you, and if the crafty motivation is off on holiday, that’s okay… It always returns in its own time!
It was been a very hard week, but shortly after 3am there was a loud clap of thunder and then rain. Beautiful rain. One of the things I did to cope was watch movies like Total Recall and Dune and paint moons. Here is my Moon and Other Planets collection:
The smoky scenes really resonate with me (I live in a damp climate now but come from wildfire country). No matter what hellish nastiness is going on, there’s that occasional moment when you catch a full moon rising above it all, and the sad, still beauty in those moments can shift things.