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Completed Sculpey™ toast.  Real 100% creamery Sculpey™ butter.  It’s been really fun, peeps.  Peace out!  I mean it!  -jhj

As promised … I glued the donuts to the plates.  Here they are w/ Proj. Hot Patio proof and butter for the toast.

And here’s the cleaned-up toast.  Butter glued tomorrow.

I’ll miss this everyday spur to Thing.  I won’t quit.  Tonight’s TADpr (Thing-a-Day Psyching Rock):

“Bites + Remission” and “12-inch Anthology” both by Skinny Puppy.

Peace out!!  -jhj

Toast gets a second coat on ze crust.

And the donuts get sprinkles! And the plates get more white paint.

Almost there. Tomorrow: Toast bread gets cleaned up, donuts get glued to plates.

So close. Peace out! -jhj

Mini Sculpey™ donuts w/ icing!!

They’re for you, TAD peeps.  yep.  You know who you are.

Sculpey™ toast gets crust paint.

Old Man Bicentennial quarter is in there for reference.  (Old Man reference dime is in the wall forever (see yesterday’s TAD post)).

Sculpey™ travel box

I had a great pink left over from the donuts and so I painted my Sculpey™ travel box.  I made an ugly green for the other side.  ha.  Oh hey … there’s Old Man Bicentennial quarter for size ref.  Peace out!  -jhj

Here’s the note that’s going in the Time Capsule:  “Hello and welcome to the year 2008.  Cheers to you for fiinding this junk and hope your life is rich and rewarding.  This Time Capsule is being sealed on 26 February, 2008.  Contents selected by JHJ, born 05 July 1970.  Peace out!”

Here’s the contents:

Here’s what’s going in the Time Capsule (See TAD Day 04):  A deck of cards and a fortune from tonight’s fortune cookie (thanks  jocelyn); Five Bucks!; Old Man Reference Dime (the real McCoy (see TAD posts Day 24, 21, 12, 10, 09 and 02) … getting retired the Old Fashioned way … sealed in a wall!); a Bicentennial quarter (I’m trying to get them out of circulation); a used lift ticket to the aerial tram in Palm Springs, CA; Twinkies! (thanks Janet Kowal); a snap of a rainbow in the Arizona desert; and a Miller™ High Life™ bar coaster.

Also containing:  A snap of Jailbreak (my Jeep™ (named after an AC/DC song); a set of foam earplugs; a silly “sexy novelty” (from a coin-op machine in a bar); a small magnet of AC/DC’s “The Razor’s Edge” album art; a bottlecap from a bottle of Hite (Korean beer) (thanks again jocelyn); a hippo in red overalls finger puppet (did not make); a snap of me and my little wife snorkelling in Zihuatanejo, Gro, Mexico; and finally, a Polaroid™ of a unknown hotel room.

I’ll get a snap for posting tomorrow of the capsule itself (the paint is still drying.)  It’s just a flat, white box that will be sealed in a cool pink ziplock bag, so don’t get too excited.  Peace out!  -jhj

Toast and butter.  Fun.

Painted Sculpey™ donuts.  There’s a chocolate one.

Painted Sculpey™ plates for donuts.  And there’s that Project Hot Patio sneak peek.

That’s all for now.  Gonna makes some buffalo-style chicken fangers.  mmmm.  Peace out!  -jhj

It sucked, sucked, sucked.  And it ain’t over.  Peace out. -jhj

Made some nachos and had some problems.  Peace out. -jhj

Makin’ up some Sculpey™ toast!  There’s old man reference dime and bonus!  Peek at proof #1 for Project Hot Patio!

Hells yeah!  Who wants some toast?  Seriously … who wants toast?  Stay tuned to this channel for fired, painted versions.  Peace out!  -jhj

Had to stay late at work so I only got a chance to get the stripe painted on the plates.  I dug out the stripe then back-filled it w/ acrylic.  I’ll sand it smooth when it’s dry and fix up the white.  Peace out!  -jhj

All I can say about this Top Secret design is that there is to be wood, paint, Scupley™, LEDs, electricity, glue and plastic involved.    Woo hoo!  Peace out!  -jhj

Addend 1-A:  Eggplant.  Sliced and salted to leech out ze water.

Addend 1-B:  Cool fire.

Addend 1-C:  Cream cheese, coursely-chopped tomato, minced thyme, diced cheddar, chopped parsley.

Sum 1:  Grilled, cheese-stuffed eggplant.

Addend 2-A:  Spice-rubbed bone-in ribeyes.

Addend 2-B:  Hot direct fire with an additional medium, indirect side.

Sum 2:  Grilled ribeyes, medium rare.  Yeee-ha!  Peace out!  -jhj

Chicago Bears acrylic paint clingy!  I printed out the logo in reverse on paper, then taped that to a piece of glass.

Then painted in the bear with navy blue paint applied with a bamboo skewer.

For the orange C logo I used an ittybitty paintbrush.

Then I built a dam of modeling clay and filled the reservoir with Liquitex™ Gloss Medium & Varnish - a truly awesome product.  How many Thing-A-Day projects have I used it on?  Lots.  I’ll peel it off the glass tomorrow and post a shot.  It’s to go in my pal Jenn’s car window, thus the reverse.  Peace out!  -jhj

Started new proj:  Rubber stamp.  Chopped out a chunk and considered trying my red uakari monkey face logo then bagged the idea.  I figure I need to start with a less complicated thing to carve.

… so I went with text only.  I printed it in reverse and normally so I could have a reference of what it would look like during and after carving.

I got it traced onto the rubber block by penciling-in the logo on tracing paper and rubbing it onto the block.  Then came the carving.  Then came the delicious slicing.  Then came the me getting carried away.  Then came … I gotta start over.  Ha ha.  Moral:  Don’t drink and carve intricate rubber blocks with razors.  I’m fine but the block is quite rogered.

Pile of debris.  Ha.  It was fun to scrape it all off and plan a new attack on the reverse side.  yay.  Good night and Happy VD!!

Here’s the Cubs clingy I made on Day 06 of 29.  It turned out great and sticks to the sliding-glass door like a champ.  I’m going to make some reversal clingys for my pals’ cars.  Go Cubs!

My little wife and I drove through Joshua Tree Nat’l Forest on Christmas Eve, 2006.  We were leaving on a road that passed the cholla (choi-ya) (cactus) grove, and we stopped.  It was just after sundown and the light was making the already other-worldly plants look decidedly preternatural.  I got a very satisfying photo of the scene and tweaked it in Photoshop™ to exaggerate the alien-like feel of the place.  Hello Visitors!

Here’s the avos with their hardware eyes.  Hey!  There’s the old reference dime!  I think they’ve turned out well.

avo.dev day 2!!  Finally!!  Got the fleshy bits painted in.  Not pictured are the pits … the pits that got glossy varnish magic but didn’t get photographed.  Left to do … drill in the holes for the hardware eyes.  I have a Dremel™ bit that’s about a millimeter thick … should work just fine.