I wrote a bit ago about how I discovered I had two blogs here because at some point Blogger and Blogspot merged due to corporate take-over.
I have now discovered that I can post here and if I sign in, it takes me here. However my reading list is on the other one, and if I add anyone to my list it's attached there, not here. I can't add a reading list here at all, only there.
I have no idea how to fix this.
*grumps*
Friday, December 30, 2022
Monday, October 3, 2022
... and what happened to Crate, pt. 2?
I took pictures of the crate project -- and here we are years later and I never put them up or talked about the process.
I'm going to move this blog to WordPress, but I really need to put up the rest of the crate story here. I'll try to do that, but don't expect anything soon.
Thursday, August 19, 2021
One Blogger, two accounts *grumps*
I weirdly discovered I used to have another page here on blogger. It explains why I had to hyphenate starwefter on this one; I'd already used it there, and apparently when Blogger was bought up by one of the other companies (Yahoo I think?) I got closed out of it.
I had the same problem on YouTube -- when it was taken over they made us put channels up that were connected to our Google accounts and connecting them to our previous accounts that were under whatever pseudonym we'd used (mine was probably also starwefter there) was a total pain in the neck. You used to have to sign out and back in and hope for the best. They finally came up with a way to link your accounts, but till then if you had a list of videos you'd saved it was nigh impossible to get back to it, or to edit it by adding new videos to it. Heaven help the people who'd actually uploaded to a channel!
The joys of corporate gobble-up.
If anyone cares, my old blog is here: http://starwefter.blogspot.com/. I think it has an entire one entry.
And yes, I'm salty that I can't get into it or connect it to this.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Crate craft, aka box conversion, pt.1
I made a thing.
I know, people are always saying they made a thing, but this time I really did. If I had a decent camera I'd post pictures, and possibly I can get some, given a bit of time. As it is, I can post the box I started out with.
As you can see, it's really more of a crate:
....which occasionally comes with a helpful cat attached:
So, the story behind this box is some 20 years ago a boss I had at the time showed up at my house one day with some odds and ends, including this wooden box, and said "Do you want this?" And the (now ex-)husband and I looked at it, both thought it was an incredibly cool frapped-out box and jumped at the chance. It wasn't quite this distressed at the time, but it came close.
It moved around in our various living spaces, but mostly my ex claimed it for his den. Sometimes it held books, sometimes it lay upside down or on one side like a coffee table, other times it stood on end like it is in the bottom two pictures which made a convenient place for a coffee cup where the cat is sitting. When my ex moved out, he took it with him. And a couple years ago he was downsizing his possessions and asked if I wanted it back. Of course I did! It's a way cool frapped box!
By then I was just getting into steampunk and I had this idea of steampunking it out, only I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. I took these pictures then, planning to put them up on Facebook and ask for ideas, and then never got around to it. The box sat in my basement since then.
Some months later I ran into some really cool printed burlap at Hobby Lobby. (Gah, I know -- Hobby Lobby. My political rants are on my other blog, on WordPress, so I won't start here, just know that I try to avoid Hobby Lobby whenever possible. But it's easier to shop for some things in person, not on the internet, and Hobby Lobby is both the largest crafts store in our area and has the deepest and widest selection of steampunk style merchandise, so occasionally I compromise with my conscience and give in and shop there. -- Now to get back to the burlap.....) It had the Eiffel Tower, and French postmarks and stamps, along with fleur-de-lis and other miscellaneous vintage markings and typestyles. All it all, it was pretty awesome, but it was also a bit spendy -- not too bad, but enough to make me think it over for a while.
....Which turned out to be a good thing, because it went on clearance, and the price cut in half. And by this time I'd had time for ideas to perk around in the back of my head when I wasn't thinking about them and I'd come up with the plan of gluing the burlap to the inside of the box. I wasn't sure how much I needed, but there was a bolt with a lot, and a different bolt with just the last tiny bit, less than two yards. I ended up buying what was left on the tiny bolt. I think it was too small an amount for them to cut up if I bought only a yard and a half -- they would have been left with less than half a yard -- so they just measured it out and sold me the entire end piece. More than enough to cover the inside of the box.
........And then there it sat for most of a year while I ignored it. I thought about it now and then, tried to figure out whether I should put legs under the box, tried to figure out what kind, how tall, what was available, occasionally tried pricing things online, occasionally looked for legs or wheels or something in second-hand stores. But mostly I ignored it. Cast iron legs cost -- well, an arm and a leg -- both arms and legs, really -- $70 on up to $170, gah! Finding things in second-hands just didn't happen. My favorite antique store had the occasional set of wheels, and would have a set of -- three? or two? Yeah, that was unhelpful. And then one day I found a very nice set of four small brass mounted black wheels for under $10, so I bought those, stuck them on a shelf, and ignored it some more. For months.
And then a week ago I was talking to my counselor about how I have projects I want to do and can't seem to finish because I can't get started because it all seems overwhelming. We discussed how maybe part of the secret is to break them down into smaller parts. Like this box -- I have all the parts for it, so maybe instead of thinking about doing the entire box, I need to think of doing just one part of it. Figure out how to cut and glue the material, and worry about the rest later.
Yeah, I could do that.
Pictures to come.......
I know, people are always saying they made a thing, but this time I really did. If I had a decent camera I'd post pictures, and possibly I can get some, given a bit of time. As it is, I can post the box I started out with.
As you can see, it's really more of a crate:
....which occasionally comes with a helpful cat attached:
It moved around in our various living spaces, but mostly my ex claimed it for his den. Sometimes it held books, sometimes it lay upside down or on one side like a coffee table, other times it stood on end like it is in the bottom two pictures which made a convenient place for a coffee cup where the cat is sitting. When my ex moved out, he took it with him. And a couple years ago he was downsizing his possessions and asked if I wanted it back. Of course I did! It's a way cool frapped box!
By then I was just getting into steampunk and I had this idea of steampunking it out, only I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. I took these pictures then, planning to put them up on Facebook and ask for ideas, and then never got around to it. The box sat in my basement since then.
Some months later I ran into some really cool printed burlap at Hobby Lobby. (Gah, I know -- Hobby Lobby. My political rants are on my other blog, on WordPress, so I won't start here, just know that I try to avoid Hobby Lobby whenever possible. But it's easier to shop for some things in person, not on the internet, and Hobby Lobby is both the largest crafts store in our area and has the deepest and widest selection of steampunk style merchandise, so occasionally I compromise with my conscience and give in and shop there. -- Now to get back to the burlap.....) It had the Eiffel Tower, and French postmarks and stamps, along with fleur-de-lis and other miscellaneous vintage markings and typestyles. All it all, it was pretty awesome, but it was also a bit spendy -- not too bad, but enough to make me think it over for a while.
....Which turned out to be a good thing, because it went on clearance, and the price cut in half. And by this time I'd had time for ideas to perk around in the back of my head when I wasn't thinking about them and I'd come up with the plan of gluing the burlap to the inside of the box. I wasn't sure how much I needed, but there was a bolt with a lot, and a different bolt with just the last tiny bit, less than two yards. I ended up buying what was left on the tiny bolt. I think it was too small an amount for them to cut up if I bought only a yard and a half -- they would have been left with less than half a yard -- so they just measured it out and sold me the entire end piece. More than enough to cover the inside of the box.
........And then there it sat for most of a year while I ignored it. I thought about it now and then, tried to figure out whether I should put legs under the box, tried to figure out what kind, how tall, what was available, occasionally tried pricing things online, occasionally looked for legs or wheels or something in second-hand stores. But mostly I ignored it. Cast iron legs cost -- well, an arm and a leg -- both arms and legs, really -- $70 on up to $170, gah! Finding things in second-hands just didn't happen. My favorite antique store had the occasional set of wheels, and would have a set of -- three? or two? Yeah, that was unhelpful. And then one day I found a very nice set of four small brass mounted black wheels for under $10, so I bought those, stuck them on a shelf, and ignored it some more. For months.
And then a week ago I was talking to my counselor about how I have projects I want to do and can't seem to finish because I can't get started because it all seems overwhelming. We discussed how maybe part of the secret is to break them down into smaller parts. Like this box -- I have all the parts for it, so maybe instead of thinking about doing the entire box, I need to think of doing just one part of it. Figure out how to cut and glue the material, and worry about the rest later.
Yeah, I could do that.
Pictures to come.......
Friday, June 5, 2015
It's Not About the Love Locks
It's Not About the Love Locks
A great article discussing Paris's City Hall removing the love locks from the two bridges they've been attached to since 2008. In spite of people thinking this is a long standing tradition, it is actually less than 10 years old.
A great article discussing Paris's City Hall removing the love locks from the two bridges they've been attached to since 2008. In spite of people thinking this is a long standing tradition, it is actually less than 10 years old.
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