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[dave_b]

If it wasn't for Canada

If it wasn’t for Canada, the world wouldn’t be protected by a global strategic maple syrup reserve.

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If it wasn't for Canada

If it wasn’t for Canada, you couldn’t take a university course on The Science of Batman.

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If it wasn't for Canada

I believe it’s pronounced “round-a-BOOT”.

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If it wasn't for Canada

Canada, the global “Plan B”

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Making, Crafting, Creating... aka Whatcha workin' on?

My plate might currently be a little over-full: A pair of shoes for my middle daughter. It’s my second pair, and we call them Tim’s-not-Tom’s because obvious. I have a pair for the wife lined up after this. A backpack for my youngest child. Kids backpacks are mostly junk, and the ones that aren’t are much more adult-sized than they should be. So he’s getting his very own copy of Dad’s bag (though in less… somber colors). I’ve got a KLH speaker I’ve been “rebuilding” for a couple of years. Most…

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Ok you crafty buggers… I am working on a tutorial for photo pendant kits that I will sell on my etsy shop. I fucking haaaaaaaaaaate this so much! argle bargle and the great big sea someone do this for me i hate it i hate it i hate it… THIS is why I like doing in person shows! Talking to strangers on my feet for hours on end? Absolutely, bring it on! Love it! Could do it forever! Its the best! WRITING that shit down in a way that doesn’t make me sound like a moron OMG no no no hate hate hate… …

[dave_b]

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Okay, here’s another one. The darks/translucents are still a bit tacky, so I need to wait a day before making a final pass over it to smooth out some things, like the shadow between the chair leg and the dog’s cast shadow, and deepen the darks in his coat a bit. May I get some serious opinions on this one? This happens to be my “Hail Mary”, because I need to sell 100 prints a.s.a.p. (thinking of starting with family and friends before working outwards from there) if I want to get myself out of…

[dave_b]

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Oh stop it. I’m always so jealous of folks who can put paint down like this.

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I can tell you, every painter has one thing that drives them batty, and mine is hair or fur. I think I just need to take more time to deal with it as I’m painting. However, I do think the woman’s left foot is on fleek.

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Okay, I couldn’t do the bow. Can’t find enough images to reference and make an accurate drawing with shadows on the dog’s head. Still, being a cat person, I think he’s a cute dog, and I chose to draw this amalgam bulldog for another friend who’s trying to help promote me. [image]

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Beewax candels with the 5 year old, who, no idea how, loves Christmas and can’t wait. [image]

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We made vanilla grapefruit marmalade today to mixed results. It has a wonderful vanilla start, and it finishes on a great grapefruit flavor, but the transition between the two is odd.

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This is not really a maker thing, but I decided to work on organizing my house a while back. We have a super tiny house from 1938 that was never really intended as a permanent living structure to begin with. There is a fair amount of storage but it’s all very awkward to access. Meantime, we have piles of stuff and we tend to just shuffle it around from one place to another. My hope is that sometime in the next year or two we will be moving, and when we do, I’d like to be able to show the place l…

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Finished a short fantasia for novice cellist and experienced organist in time for Christmas, demo here: This may be subject to some change: potential problems for a novice would be the low range of the opening and the relatively long notes of the middle section, but I’m waiting for the novice in question to try it out before I change anything. (The novice in question is a fairly quick study.) I’m currently working on a chorale prelude (about half-done, a big one for the genre, estimate about …

[dave_b]

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All done; just waiting for the new charger to arrive. [image] I think I’ll paint it red to kill time while I wait, and add a little canopy just forward of the wings. Maybe some taildragger landing gear as well.

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All painted up; red wuns go fasta. [image]

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I’m kind of thinking of just finishing the ends of the bottom straight piece and leaving it as it is, the photos don’t really do it justice since there’s so much depth to it and the light plays with it really nicely in person. The Han in this is also cast glass (the steel blue reacts with the air to get the sheen) with enameled irid for the side panels - the backdrop’s glass too: [image]

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Try two of the fork. I ran into an issue when I did the decreases. I didn’t count on the factors of 92 being so difficult to work with and keep any semblance of symmetry. So, I’m going to try doing an increase from 92 to 96, a panel of fair isle, etc. before doing the decrease pattern I designed on the original. [image]

[dave_b]

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Ah, an elegant instrument for a more civilized age. A landline.

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Something that works equally well during storms, power outages, and general heavy use times, and doesn’t drop calls or have so much static or delay that you can’t understand the caller? Landlines are not entirely dinosaurs yet.

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The dress is complete: [image] Now to attempt a glowy Eye of Agamotto: [image]

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I found some small SW ships (Aluminum Falcon, The Ghost & Slave 1) @ Walmart for $4.99 - Diecast by Hot Wheels & with a bit of paint they go from this: [image] to something more like this (still got a few coats & some air brushing to go, but you get the idea): [image] Note: It’s still wet, so the dark lines will lighten considerably when the water evaporates and leaves paint on the edges where it will pool as it dries. I didn’t grab a “before” of The Ghost, but even a few touches of paint he…

[dave_b]

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IT’S DONE [image] Pictures of me in it will have to wait for the weekend though. Edit: Uploaded a better picture with the Eye.

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Making these: [image]

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Artwork sample: [image]

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I’ve recently started ‘adult colouring’… and not finding it fucking ‘relaxing’ at all! Choosing colours stresses me out, going outside the lines by mistake stresses me out, worrying about the final look stresses me out. What is wrong with me?!

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[OtherMichael]

Stanford rapist Brock Turner already free

Definitely. He shouldn’t be encouraged to commit suicide. He needs to “enjoy” having to tell his neighbors for the rest of his life that he’s a sex offender. He needs to have to dread every date, job interview, and background check. It’s quite literally the least he could do if he isn’t going to stay in prison longer.

[Melizmatic]

Dude… you’re kinda turning a simple game into actual work for me, needlessly.

PLEASE TALLY UP YOUR POINTS ACCRUED AT THE END OF EACH COMMENT YOU MAKE.

##PLEASE!

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@wisconsinplatt = 900 points

@jsroberts = 800 points

@Ignatius = 20 points

@Markdow = 10 points

@daneel = 30 points

@Melizmatic = 20 points

@dave_b = 435 points

@OtherMichael = 40 points

@critter

Got a mercy rule on this game?

No, but it seems that one might be needed, huh?

*lolz

[Ignatius]

I clearly lack the dedication to be a contender. Y’all have fun and I’ll just tip over posts as I spot them when I’m already doing my thing.

[anon35121463]

I’ll join you in competing for the wooden spoon.

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[image] I have been “drilling” holes in rocks. It is highly satisfying.

ETA:

Warning: viewing these baby animals in cute outfits may kill you

Re: “That cute otter could grow to 99 pounds, the heaviest of the weasel family.”: anyone with a copy of The New York Times could name half a dozen more massive.

M_M - Running total = 20.

[dave_b]

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Encaustics… [image] [image]

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Encaustics… [image] [image]

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Every year in late Spring I help my wife’s 4th grade class make a short stop-motion animated film. Last week we did “Animals of the 50 States.” Sorry to any who were left out, there were only 34 students.

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It’s officially summer break, so I get to spend some big chunks of time bein’ crafty. Yesterday, I embroidered parts of my purse: [image] I also dyed an old shirt and a t-shirt and need to add embroidery to the former and freezer-paper stenciling to the latter. More on those when they’re done.

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[image] Working on baby hats for my friend who is expecting her second. Also trying to write some presentations for my docent gig.

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Resin pendants… [image] [image]

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Not pictured: my exacto knives and packs of extra blades.

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Totes not trying to monopolize this epic thread, but I just started something out of necessity & it works surprisingly well. Gouache for the first layer of grime (4th+ layer of background shading basically) [image] I do art stuff pretty much as often as I’m able (which has been a bit more of late ) & is why I happen to have Gouache just lying around. I used it on the KT & BB as well and it’s working out surprisingly well. A water mixdown is needed followed by buffing it down however y…

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In a separate tent, of course!

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and the best thing is POCKETS!

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Teeth?

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[dave_b]

Sorry about that.

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[image] That’s a full 3/8" thick sandcast red bronze (not brass). If I sell this property that switchplate is not included, nor the matching bronze heat registers, nor any of the ceramic switchplates. The chromed brasswork I put in the bathrooms can stay, and also the iron registes. [image]

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Some of you might remember that my high school senior is in the non-enviable process of applying to college. April 1st (in most cases, although she did have an Early Action acceptance too) is the standard acceptance date, and then there are admitted student events at the schools during April, and then May 1st is the deadline for the student to make a choice. She went to two of these overnight on-campus events for the two schools she felt were her best choices and then spent time thinking and tal…

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I’m surprised a car with heated seats doesn’t come with AC.

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Yes, but not my own!!!

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Hears you from the Detroit Metro, and nods in agreement.

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I have a friend who started to develop an idea to buy farmland in Michigan to create a farming camp for inner city girls. (Her work history made this a realistic venture.) She asked if I would come look at properties with her, because I have some knowledge in this area. Before we’d even get to the properties, I would point out how much gang graffiti was on garages, etc. that we would pass going down the various farm roads. She finally realized that taking girls from the south side of Chicago to …

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We found out during the amnio, ultrasoud camera for the amio showed not only that the kid to be was a boy but proud of it at the time.

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This is more of a Victory for the people here. I go to therapy (the peanut gallery: Up your sessions!! ), and I brought up-- anonymously of course-- the content of some conversations here. His reaction was, “well, that is a series of astute and insightful observations.” My therapist likes you crazy diamonds, so go you!! Eta I don’t know if he is any good though, cause he called me “normal”.

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Neither do I. But according to 1) one PhD psychiatrist, and 2) masters therapist, I am receiving good guidance here. Are we in that twilight zone episode where we are normal, and everyone else is weird?

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What have words like “normal” ever meant? Isn’t it just a simple way for people to box those around them into a general category so that they can make themselves feel like they ‘belong’ while simultaneously alienating others, because you can’t have a normal unless there is also a not normal. The same thing applies to most words in that descriptive area. Isn’t that what those kind of words have always been used for? [image]

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Apparently I was really quiet, and my mum was convinced I’d be a girl. I’ve always thought using signs like belly shape or activity in the womb to guess the gender of a foetus was a classic example of confirmation bias - especially as it’s almost equal probability, slightly mystical and open to correction later based on other factors.

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Guess what I’m out of.

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Glad she’s safe and I’m sure she’ll have a fantastic time in Morocco! Can I say I’m totes jealous of her, too?

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Please, have her evaluated by a psychiatrist and referred to a therapist for intensive counseling. (Start with a psychiatrist, because they can prescribe meds, which in my opinion are necessary for patients suffering from PTSD.) Hopefully your school can help out with a referral to a psychiatrist that specializes in PTSD in adolescents. The good news is, this is probably fixable, if she’s willing to put in the time and do the work.

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Small one, but a personal one and amid the shitstorms that seem to be blowing from all points recently, figured I’d share. As a counterpoint to the currents of hatred and bile that would strip us of our better nature or something. Left the house on my own for a few hours today, to do regular normal people stuff like buying tea and buns and string and shit like that. First time in forever (OK, 4 or 5 months maybe but still…) I’ve actually been out without a “safety net”. Like. A. Fucken. BA…

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I want to give you a hug, but it sounds like you’re on it.

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You’re going to be staring at the lighting the whole time, muttering, aren’t you.

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Yayyyyyyyy! [image]

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Watched the first 3 episodes last night! I am really looking forward to the “privatized prison” commentary, which we need to pay attention to, given . Also, I’m looking forward to the So So/Poussey relationship! [image]

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This is a bittersweet victory. Against the advice of many, I spent the last week after the death concentrating solely on others. And it worked. My fam is still grieving, but my mother has been laughing when I talk to her on the phone and sees a constructive way forward. She put her life on hold for others when shit was going down, and now others have done the same for her and my family. The generosity has been overwhelming. She taught me those values, and now she reaps the windfall of goodwill…

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At 33, I’m just getting to the age when I can venture out without a beard without looking like a teenager. Not that I venture out much anyway, but theoretically…

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Geez, I gotta tell you, you Brits have a big problem here. (You might already be aware of that!) I haven’t spoken to a single person here who: a) thinks Brexit was a good idea; b) understands why y’all have lost your minds. It’s not even so much that they’re angry as it is they just don’t understand it. And worse, they’re making fun of it. It reminds me of the Bush years after he squandered all the post-9/11 goodwill. And the regular folks I’ve talked to want y’all gone yesterday. None o…

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Actually I just say Tom Hiddleston is coming over to my place for naked twister, follow me!

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Really now?

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“No, but Katy did!” (har) [Crazy Katydid chases a cricket - real life pokemon]

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We don’t seem to have a WTF thread, so I’ll put this here as it’s a victory for Gibraltar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/36775154

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By the way, the theorem is “if and only if,” which means that if you have a circle and want to draw a diameter, you can take something rectangular (like a sheet of paper), put one corner on the circumference, and the two points where the sides of the paper hit the circle are antipodal, so a line connecting them is a diameter. This is genuinely useful.

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Dumbest memory of my youth: one day in the fall in 4th grade (first of our two years in Arlington, TX), a half inch of “snow” dusted the area. We were sent home from school, and the freeways knotted up. 1/2" of fluff did this. The kind of fluff you don’t even bother brushing off your car because it blows off the second you begin accelerating. I urge you to telecommute the day it “snows” in DFW.

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I am starting to get that

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This one is a slightly mixed bag: a family issue that has been stressing me out for literally a year (more depending on when you start counting) has finally resolved itself. I literally fell over with relief and lay on the ground for an hour when I found out. There’s still a lot of unfinished business, and now I realize I could have resolved it much sooner, but I feel like I can breathe again. It’s unbelievable. Pro-tip people: Whatever it is. Rip off the fucking bandaid, already.

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about budget, but also about how they react to stress & uncertainty.

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My dog Danny and I just got back from the veterinarian’s after his 6-week post-operation check-up (bilateral perineal hernia repair and neutering.) Yeah, it’s been more like seven-and-a-half weeks, but the place was busy. And… everything’s great. The doc feels he’s made a full recovery. I finally feel like we can declare victory!

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