I have been slacking on my Countdown posting! I have been busy doing stuff. Like making cathedral windows.
This was a lot of fun, and I will have to resist making another one right nownownow!
Making Stuff
This is where I admit that I read the list wrong AGAIN, and did this one before the witch. Well, I guess it put me ahead.
I once again do my thing where I forget to hit record, so you miss some coloring-in. Sowwy. I’m also good at starting recording when I think I’m stopping, but I will not include the footage of the desk while I’m off gathering pens.
I got tired of cutting out card components, and I already had some tags with neat backgrounds, so I switched to those. It’s a lot of fun to do a bunch of tags and put them on a ring. I have one from years ago with some great drawings. I still look at it.
I continued using the Posca pens with a little actual paint.
I actually remembered to keep the camera on the whole time. But at the end I realized she needed steam lines.
I just had to make one more diorama.
It took a lot longer than I expected it to. Like, a lot. Every day I’d wake up and think, today, I’ll finish! And I did not finish.
I learned a lot, though. I bought a soldering kit, and soldered something, and it worked! I made my first wire tree, and was pretty pleased with the result.
Overall, I like it, though it has too many flaws to put it in the shop. I shall happily keep it around as part of my collection. Maybe someday I’ll give it to a friend.
I am super pleased with this box. It’s two separate molds. The base box took quite a bit of resin, but is smooth and beautiful and full of possibilities. The frog was half-poured, and by the time I remembered I needed to finish him, I didn’t remember what I’d used originally. So I used leftover resin…which just happened to be from the box. I think he looks pretty great.
I sculpted this Venus of Willendorf a year or so ago because I wanted to make a resin mold. I like ancient goddesses. Because she is in polyclay, the mold turned out less glossy than I wanted. Also, I needed to separate the head mold or she ended up with a flat top. Wasn’t sure how to fix those things then, but now I am. She’s getting a gloss coat, and a re-mold.
Because let’s face it, if the original makers had had glitter and mica powder, they would have used them.
