Apr 22
I often wear tee shirts, and almost all of my shirts have no logo or design on them at all. Usually, that’s the way I like it. However, I’ve been toying with the idea of having a design on my shirts. A crow, naturally, since I like them so much. I bought a silkscreening kit …
Apr 18
These are a close-up of a set of magnets I made to donate to the Clarion Write-a-Thon efforts. They’re made from one of the keyboards donated to the Datamancer/Clarion Keyboard project. Specifically, they’re from Walter Jon Williams’ keyboard. I’m going to make a second set as well. To make these, I started with bottlecaps that …
Jan 31
This is the crown that Big Critter made. She also didn’t like a radially symmetrical design. She sketched what she was thinking of, and I helped her design it. For the shiny gold parts, she drew a design with hot glue, and then applied gold leaf directly to the cooled glue. It works very well. …
Jan 28
When I made my crown, I made it radially symmetrical, and it didn’t occur to me that the kids would want anything else. However, they are people, and people have their own minds. Little Critter wanted it more like a tiara, and she wanted swans. It took some doing, but I was able to oblige. …
Jan 19
I made this crown so that my kids would have something fun to play with, since they often like to play princesses and queens and whatnot. I used a technique given to me by a costumer at Westercon to make brigandine armor. I’m sorry to say I forgot which costumer told me this, but I …
