Thanks for a great month, everyone!

Phew!

I made some tags to put on the party favor boxes for my friend’s daughter’s b-day this weekend. She’s giving out boxes of origami paper with instructions for a few simple folds. I find the kids names, and how they differ from the names that were popular when I was young, particularly fascinating.

Following on yesterday’s theme, Russian poster style mashup with aquatic life…

I also made one of those Gardner dragon optical illusions that seems to follow you around the room (see how it works here). Spooky!

I’ve also enjoyed making all the arcade papercraft models I’ve made over the course of this month. Here’s a big picture of all ten of them in my office at work!

Thing-A-Day has been a great process. I’ve loved making things every day together with Jocelyn. Let’s hope that I can keep it up! Making these papercraft models is lots of fun so I think I’ll keep doing it.

Think I left off at the twenty-fourth…? So:

Feb 25
3D linear sculpture thing for Design II class (no pic as of now; still needs to be fixed, too)

Feb 26

Feb 27

Feb 28
Color swatches for Design I (lame). First time using gouache, though.

Feb 29
Working on icons for my icon journal, of which there will be more as the night progresses into March…:

(I mostly mess around with the colors & stuff. Nothing too special, I guess.)

Well, that’s it… If anyone cares, here are some links of mine:
DeviantArt
Blog where I put Thing a Day stuff
Aforementioned icon journal

Next year I’ll do better. ._. With pictures & stuff.

(waves) Byee all. ;_;/ Come visit my URLs (and give me yours! (Please?))

My paper cutout today is supposed to be a cake, a little shabby on my part. My bad.

On reflection, I’m really pleased I was involved in this project; I’ve tried out lots of new things, taken on a few challenges and surprised myself. I’ve finished this month a little more confident in my sketching abilities and addicted to knitting!

Can’t wait for next year!

Djinn signing off.

Finally! Figured out how to print nicely and cut in a straight line

Not-so-shameless plug (hey, you’ve been asking!): These are freshly posted in my etsy, if you’re interested.
(molliefabric.etsy.com)

I can’t believe this is the last day! I’ll post one more thing tonight (this post is for yesterday).
Thing-a-day really got me goin! I’m feeling so… useful haha

Seriously though, is there a year round community for this? I want to keep going. I guess I could start my own blog, but having a community to interact with would be way better! Does anyone know? I cant find any info about it on the thing-a-day site.

ok, so i guess this is it….  etsy was on martha today, and love her or not, it can only help sales…  i listed this today, hoping it will find the right home! =)

 click the pic, and i hope you’ll be sent to my etsy shop.  if not, try this:

 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9918546

and with that, i bid you a happy march, see you next year!  *mu-wah!* byebye, thing-a-day!

Thing 21 - Prototype 1

and Thing 22 - Prototype 2

We’ve gone back and forth on these a couple of times and there are still some changes to make, but I think we are approaching a final decision soon. soon. soon!

visit my blog: hot air! 

and a concert sketch

So, I bought a used copy of the game from eBay, and in our last game, we used the actual result cards. These worked okay, but they’re small cards that are not particularly well-designed. I had already redesigned the action cards, the counters, and the weapon cards, so why not design replacement result cards?

So I’ve now set to out re-create all 108 result cards. Mine are in color and are easier to read than the originals. I don’t have all of them done yet, but here are some of them:

Once the full deck of 108 is complete, I’ll upload it to BoardGameGeek like I did with my action cards, and then I’ll print them all out on cardstock and cut them out for use with my gaming group.

i like russian poster style, and lately i’ve been wanting to draw a giant squid, because someone at work had a cool sweatshirt with some on it. but i opted for an octopus, and decided to mash it up with the russian poster thing. i’m not sure if the green takes away from the russian feeling, but i like the result anyway. long live the sharpie! i also like that octopusses have so many legs, and the russian text on the drawing translates into “Our strengths are uncountable.”

and so they are…

I worked some on my Inspirational Reminders book - printing out some words I want to have in the book to match some sayings I bought at Paper Source. To continue the color them of turquoise and red, the only colors in the book will be those two so I will print this again in red ink on my color printer at work - the black and white version in the photo below.

I want to include a rotating list of creative projects to work on so decided to use photo corners for the list so I can switch it out as I finish things. When I went to use the white ones I have on hand, however, my artists persnickety nature kicked in and they just wont do. I will pick up either red or turquoise photo corners this weekend. I did cut some red and turquoise nice paper to have stored in a little envelope for future lists.

With this paper corner decision, I think I will also use the photo corners to mount the sayings instead of glue as well so I can have a whole set of sayings and switch them out as desired. I like the idea of an evolving book that changes over time and with my mood. By the way, there is also an imagine saying which was hiding under the book. A stagnant book would just become a display; this way, I think I will come back to it often to assess what I need to see and hear from myself and change it at any time.

Lastly, I received my foil paper for the black Magritte book just now. I haven’t had a chance to open it yet but I am very excited to explore it. I have some more black books on order so that will be a project for March.

It didn’t seem like I did much today but in actuality, lots of creative plans were made, some actual work was done and as Thing a Day draws to a close, I feel like I have several projects in the works I am looking forward to completing.

I also turned my winter time display

into a spring time one.

(Which I just realize continue the color theme of red and blue…)

And a close up -

Sunday was spiral earrings -

Monday was fairy earrings -

Tuesday was some sketching for a stationery design -

Wednesday was the culmination of the plague, and i have nothing.

Today, I have two collages - I have a word a day calendar at work, and I saved most of the words from February and a little of January and made them into two collages - one for words I knew and one for words i didn’t.

Finally finished the Mothers’ Day card (or, as some of us here still say, ‘Mothering Sunday’) - whoops, let the secret out the bag! Hope my Mum’s not reading this.

This is a quickly made card for Michelle, who just sent me the Amy Sedaris book. Whoo hoo!  Another good use for my contact sheets. I’m glad I was “all vertical” for that roll!

6 are double sided.  they’re decoupaged and decorated , almost ready for their new homes.  all they need are thier ties to hang them!  i’ll finish that part up now, and the girls and i will deliver them this a.m.!

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This is a map of the place I always go in my dreams (not an island, just not fully colored yet).
Just playing with coloring it in here.

Also, I:
Made a shrinky dink:

based on a Mucha… it got weird and cloudy around the edges, not sure why. Also, it was a circle but it got deformed so i tried to cut it with scissors after it was shrunk… and it splintered a lot.  I’ll try again.

ALSO, I Printed owl cards!
I’ll take em to school to use the super duper paper cutter tomorrow.
They’re black prints of drawings on cream cardstock. Does that sound ok, or too plain? I’m kind of thinking about printing on fancier paper, then applying that to cardstock. Hmmmph. Today was one of those days where you get really caught up in all the possibilities and it starts to get in the way of actually moving forward.
Worked a lot on an animation, but fruitlessly, as I could not get the *&%#ing turbulence feild to effect the grass. It was probably just a glitch, but I lost patience. Yarg.

Only 2 more days after this? Is there a year long thing-a-day? This has been so satisfying.

Today’s two arcade games are Robotron: 2084 and Gravitar. I don’t know very much about Gravitar — it was not a game I ever recall seeing or playing. Looks like it was a vector-graphics game that turned out to be the inspiration for Oids, which is an old Mac game that I did play a lot of. Robotron, on the other hand, is an old friend. It’s one of my favorites and I’d still play it today. That dual-joystick control and fast-and-furious action, plus the great sound effects, make it a classic. Thank you, Eugene Jarvis.

Both of these models were pretty simple to construct, though Gravitar has a much more complicated cabinet. I ended up gluing one part wrong and having to rip it apart and re-glue it, though it’s in a hard-to-see spot and it’s not really noticeable.

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*handlebars, and not of the mustache variety*

I can’t post what I did here because I’m not sure if it’s okay to post an essay from my pending application on the internet. So I want to play it safe. I submitted my college application for Colorado College (as a transfer applicant) on the 26th, and so decided to use that for my thing-a-day considering I had just finished edits on several rather creative essays that were required for it. Basically, I was asked to detail and design my own class. I had a lot of fun doing it. Those on the lj thingaday08 community should be able to see it though, friends locked.

I am a sucker for stripes and polka dots. Put them on $1 ribbon and I’m in. So tonight I made a card and wrapped up a package with my new supplies. The picture doesn’t really do the package justice; I think it turned out very nicely.  And everyone loves to receive a package in the mail, so I’ve got that in my corner.

I hope I got them right.