This was a lot of fun to make. I wish this show had gotten at least one more season. But no. Because stupid networks.
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A couple years ago, I stopped buying small lots of jewelry to sort, and just bought 100lbs from someone. I dole it out when I have the need to sort things. Which I do. Because weird, see. Problem is, I must keep the shiniest bits. And anything I think I could make something with. It’s a lot, and every once in a while, it’s necessary to actually make something. Today, you get a ghost bride, along with her murderous story.
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.
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*
I watch a lot of YouTube. I have a wide range of interests, and I dig watching people do their thing. NightMind, by Nick Nocturne, is one of a handful of creators I love so much I support them on Patreon. He covers Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and Unfiction, two of my favorite things in the world. He’s thorough, interesting, and fun. I have sat through 4-hour streams for this guy. So, naturally, I had to get a plushie. I mean, that’s what you do, right? I also got a pin, which I proceeded to put on the plushie.
Nick has two channels, his main channel, Nightmind, is for meticulously researched scripted explorations of cool stuff. Nick Nocturne [Astraline], is where he posts his Twitch streams of Unfiction and ARG. They’re long, but so much fun because you are looking at new things with him. Astraline is its own world of characters, of which Nick is one, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
