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Skull Cabochons

Posted by frykitty on September 30, 2024
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Dangit, I knew I forgot something when I uploaded my last video. My preciousssss blog!

Two cabochons with creepy skulls and black frames. One has a little glitter.

This week I used the Little Windows cabochon kit again, and it did not disappoint. I love these.

Tomorrow, the Countdown to Halloween begins. This year, I’m using a prompt list from a Mastodon friend, Mother Suspiria. Here it is if you’d like to follow along:

I like it because so many prompt lists try to be different by being way too specific, in weird ways. This is just straight-up Halloweeny. I’m kind of crap at drawing, so this will be 31 days of good practice.

Happy Spooky Season!

Resin Trinket Box for Halloween

Posted by frykitty on September 8, 2024
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Dark orange resin box with Halloween trinkets embedded in the bottom, with a vintage Halloween lid.

This week on My Messy Desk, I made a little trinket box from the 6-in-1 mold set by Little Windows. I am not sponsored by them, they just make wonderful stuff. I made the dish, then flipped the mold over to make the lid. It even had a template I could have used to cut the vintage Halloween image to the correct size, but I didn’t use it, because I didn’t notice it until I put the set away.

Of course, I made the whole thing twice, just not on camera. I wasn’t liking the first one anyway, then the image lifted on the lid, so it was a bust. Funny, I thought I was ahead of the game when I got started on Monday. Yeah, not so much.

This mold was a lot of fun, and I suspect it will be showing up again in the future.

Old and Spooky is LIVE

Posted by frykitty on September 7, 2024
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About a year ago, I started working on a bunch of stuff. Among them was a retro-horror channel called Old and Spooky, where I would discuss 20th century horror. I was almost done with my first video, when disaster struck. Disaster named ADHD. I accidentally deleted my data, and thanks to Microsoft (it’s complicated, but they suck) I could only restore a tiny amount.

I was devastated. I couldn’t look at it for months.

Then I started My Messy Desk, which is a whole lot of fun. Problem is, there’s a lot of downtime while I wait for things to dry or cure or whatever, and I don’t have much else to do. I decided to work on Old and Spooky during that downtime. It felt great. It feels great. And now, the first video is out.

It’s about one of my all-time faves: Dan Curtis. If you don’t know who that is, I bet you do know Dark Shadows and the Kolchak movies, right? Well that’s Dan Curtis.

Here is my inaugural video. My reading is a little stiff, but that will get better with time. Overall, I’m pretty proud of this. *flexes*

Dan Curtis looking all cool in his leather jacket.