We act out a youtube puppet video that the kids found. I was explaining how tubers sometimes make altered parodied or referential videos and they wanted to play that game, too! I know I know - I’m a horrible influence. I will post this as a video response to the original for reference.embedded by Embedded Video
She bravely does her first internet stunt. It took me YEARS to stop being afraid to look silly to the world. Go her. It’s a baptism in frosting.
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Dear Blog,
Today was a pretty good day.
I made these earrings by cutting up a cd, putting it in the microwave for a few seconds, then baking the crackly bits in the oven for a few minutes. Drilled holes when they cooled down.
Also, my brother and I made a subversive gingerbread house for Cale’s birthday:
<– Happy house eats happy gingerbread man. Has third eye.
<–Ben was in charge of the candy kill side.
<– My side may be a little more traditional…
<– Yep.
Also, the amaryllis is getting huge!
AND I made my first sale on etsy today! Huzzah!
AND I started an alternate blog, to keep going with this thing-a-day stuff. I suspect it’ll be like a cross between thing-a-day and a photo journal. Whatever form it takes, it’ll be: colorful, illustrated, full of flash photography and a little bit tacky.
If you liked what I did this month, come check it out 
http://molliefabric.wordpress.com
I’ve had a great time “getting to know you” through your crafts, you guys, and I do hope to keep in touch with some of you, and keep up with the wonderful things you are making!
Such an amazing body of work here, really.
Cheers to all, see you next year!
Wow! I am SO glad I participated in Thing-A-Day this year. It was a whole new way of challenging myself, and I feel like I have gained a lot out of it!
One thing I’ve definitely learned is that I don’t want to waste another year until I decide to be creative again, so what I’m doing right now, for my final T-A-D is setting up my very own WordPress blog, in which I will document work projects (I’m a website designer), personal projects, or, heck, just use to talk about my day and how I’m feeling.
But I’m gonna keep this one much less personal than what I do on MySpace. I’ve gotten way too personal with MySpace since I started that horrid habit in January of 2006. So personal that I really have no choice but to keep my profile private, either that or go back through each of the hundreds of blogs I’ve posted and set private ones to Friends Only. And I seriously do not have the time to devote to that.
So I’m starting fresh on WordPress. I may not necessarily quit posting MySpace blogs, but I really want to shift my blogging habit to a more mature, more customizable, more blog-focused, less profile-focused format. And I’ve heard many people in my industry sing WordPress’s praises for a while now, and since Thing-A-Day, I’ve gotten to know and love the inner workings.
So here I am, to stay! On WordPress.
Now, the only problem is…. my entire blog audience resides on MySpace. Which means, I’m going to have to finagle some readers over to this direction somehow. And, while I’m at it, I’d love to make some new friends who are already on the WordPress train. So if you blog via WordPress, will you connect with me in whatever way WordPress does that? (So far, I only know how to post blogs.)
Now, I absolutely HATE to complete my Thing-A-Day journey with a post that doesn’t even have a picture!!!! So here’s a screenshot of my blog:
Yes, I know I’m a web designer using a default WordPress theme. I just started, K? I’ll design my own theme soon as I figure out where to go to insert custom CSS. (And soon as I have a few free hours to spend in Photoshop & Dreamweaver.)
So won’t you go read my first post? It’s about a website I’ll be working on this weekend. *Sigh.*
Well, I did it. I made a thing a day for 29 days. I decided to sign off from TAD2 with another shrinky-dink-magnifying necklace. The charm says “create beauty,” and has a bird carrying an olive branch. I included the bird because I had been thinking about “cultural diplomacy” today. I heard the term being used to describe what the New York Philharmonic’s performance in North Korea was all about. I like the idea of vastly different communities coming together around cultural activities (i.e. art) in a way that fosters constructive conversations - who wouldn’t. These conversations may ultimately lead to peaceful solutions to foreign policy problems. The whole world could use some of that these days.
However my necklace came from a place much more personal than cultural diplomacy. My husband tells me that one of the reasons he loves me is that I “make our life beautiful.” He is not talking about my habit of spending evenings in stained pjs, with my hair piled on top of my head, while I eat Chinese food out of the container. He is talking about how I like to fill the room with sunshine, how I point out details in the world that he may not have noticed, how I make pretty jewelry and stationary, and how I love to throw theme parties. He is talking about my approach to life in general, and it is a most lovely compliment.
I love beautiful things. I like to create them. I like to share them. I like to keep them. I must continue to make them without TAD, because beautiful objects inspire me and making things energizes me.
For future musings and creations by yours truly (I have a handful I did not even get to tackle during TAD), check out my new blog Lady Lulu’s Braindump Hut and Craftarium. Although I will not be posting a thing a day, I do intend to keep up the good work. So set up an RSS feed and keep tabs on me.
-Lu
Today I suffered through a a bad back, a cranky baby and a crabby self - but I still managed to TAD! I decided it was time to create my blog Lady Lulu’s Braindump Hut and Craftarium. I realized that I could not leave being the blogging and crafting. I hope you some of you check it out, and of course let me know what you got going on.
It’s back to NYC for me tomorrow. See you then!
Today’s creative thing is inspired by my husband finding a really good deal on a car he liked.
It’s a performance piece called “American Woman Begrudgingly Ventures into the Next Highest Bracket of Debt by Purchase of Very Red Very Fast Car That Runs out of Gas during the Test Drive then Small Part Slips Off a Pedal Rendering Car Brakeless Several Hours After Purchase.”
And now I am exhausted. Who knew purchasing a used car was an all-day task? So this, alas, is my Thing today.
Yes, my husband fixed whatever slipped off the brake pedal. (Or whatever happened. I’m a girl, so I don’t know.) And he says it’s OK, it’s not going to be a big deal, the car is still worth what we’re paying for it.
Here’s to the next five years! No more fast food diet, Fox Hollow Coffee, Hobby Lobby excursions, Ocean Springs road trips, new outfits, bottled wine (hello, Franzia)… unless we get raises. COME ON BOSS!
The things you do to make the one you love smile.
Next big purchase with money we don’t have is MIIIIIIINE.
I’m still putting my portfolio site together, however I did adapt the design to use as a template for my blog. There’s still a few kinks that need to be worked out, but for now I like it better than the generic template I was using.
Yesterday I forgot to post. Really I just needed to take a break. I feel drained from creating everyday and trying to create before the sun goes down so I can take decent photos. Yesterday I did do some creating really. I took my camera onto my balcony and took photos of my plants. That is rather normal for me since I keep a garden blog called New Sprout. It’s difficult to post gardening related things when I only have a balcony to garden on. My plants are few but that makes me notice changes better then if I had many plants.
This is my Lemon Balm plant. It smells like mosquito repellent and can be used for just that. You can make tea from the leaves and cook with it but the smell doesn’t make me really want to do that. I’m sure it probably doesn’t taste like it smells. I just need to get brave one day.
I have landscape design projects to do today so my crafting time is zilch. I’m a procrastinator and save my homework to the last day. Shame on me.
This entry is for E., who complained that I did not post anything recently.Yesterday I finished Extremely loud & incredibly close. “I’m still wearing heavy boots.” I can really recommend that book to everyone, it is a must-read.
The Whitest Boy Alive at the Electric Ballroom, 07/02/08This week I was very lazy concerning Thing-a-Day. I not good in doing something on the tube or during my lunch break. I either read (I finished the book within five days, which is good, when you keep in mind that I was at work on four days out of those five.), talk or feel too sick for doing anything (I hate the Metropolitan line! It is so shabby and wobbly, that I could vomit all over the train …). And because I am really not into drawing (more into painting, but I do not have the materials), I haven’t done anything worth mentioning. I will upload one picture, which I quite like. I made it on my way to work. Everyday the sun rises three minutes earlier and you can really feel the difference. It’s amazing!
The Whitest Boy Alive at the Electric Ballroom, 07/02/08My hand was also hurting every now and then, which kept we away from my computer at home. On Wednesdays I have my choir rehearsal and on Thursdays I hopefully practise my juggling some more. Fridays are here to chill out and phone home. I forgot Tuesdays: I am coming home at about half past seven and do stuff one does when s/he comes home from work so late and I prepare for bed. So, I am sorry, but from Tue to Fri I am really not up to do something to be worth posting. But I make a picture every now and then.
On my way to work, 06:44 am. You can already anticipate the sun rising.I flipped through the recent photographs and I will post a few in/with that entry.At the beginning of March I will get an assessment from my manager, if I got it right, besides that my wage will go up a bit. I really hope, that I can get the tax back I am paying right now, because it is immensely high! As I only work for three months in the UK tax year of 2007/2008, it is just a matter of me insisting on getting it. I haven’t heard anything regarding Council/Housing Benefit yet, which pisses me off (like missing the Chiltern train in the morning). I don’t want to phone them and tell them to their †¿§‰?”*)+!=•¡ job.
On my way to the office. I can see where I go! 07:34 amRight now I am also waiting for the tax rebate from Austria. It takes so long because I received jobseeker’s allowance for a while. That’s unfortunate, but I can hardly change it.I started the first book of Harry Potter today. It’s so much thinner than the last one! Good, I think that’s it for now …Too long Johnny For the proper layout look on my blog, I just can’t be bothered right now with WordPress!
Today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month garden bloggers from all over the world show their blooms. Carol from May Dreams Gardens put this together. Check out her blog comments for GBBD to see others who posted for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.
This was my first time posting. I normally don’t have any blooms since most of my plants are young and I like to start them from seed. Here is my post for todays blooms that I have. I don’t have many only a few. I count the photos I took today as my thing-a-day.
I’ve been having some sleeping problem lately so I haven’t done much of anything. But I amazed myself by thinking of making a banner finally. I was never interested in learning more about Photoshop since I’m satisfied with the most basic functions. I guess I wanted a customized banner bad enough. I got one now! I love flowers so I googled for white roses and happened to find three gorgeous photos. I studied a bit of the online tutorials and this is what I managed to do.
I tried the above banner on my blog only to see that my blog’s name and description were completely overshadowed and hard to discern. So I made the second banner below.
Now this is the final product.
The Teafaerie finds out that she and dan are in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most fire breathers lit at the same time. Shot at the Bangkok airport. (flashback)
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I made this today…
I also wrote a tutorial on my brand new blog, so if you want to make your own rings, read up there… http://caseyacrossthepond.blogspot.com
This one’s not for sale because it’s not as perfect as I’d like it to be, but I’m putting more up in my shop soon!
I’ve been planning to do an Etsy blog for a while and finally got around to starting it today. It is still in the developmental stages - I’m not sure about any of what I have put together so far. You are welcome to take a peek if you like. Any feedback is appreciated.
I am helping Bobby with his blog, Cross Town Rival, and he needs a logo. I don’t have graphic design programs on my PC but I do have cool fonts so I created the following typefaces for his blog.
I don’t know if he’ll like any of them, but I think it’s a good start. Which are your favorites? If you need reference go to http://crosstownrival.blogspot.com
Thanks guys! -Meghan http://thoughtsfrommeggiepoo.blogspot.com
Honoring my commitment to be more productive, I finished two items today!!
Those of you who follow my blog regularly will recognize the fabric combination in the mommy dress!! It has been all pinned on my dress form since the day I wrote about it. I took the bodice portion off the dress form to take pictures of the apron top last night. This morning when I walked into the studio, I was inspired to create a jumper dress using those fabrics.
The base fabric for this jumper is a really gorgeous, rich brown with slight cream dots and there is a great floral pattern smattering about everywhere *smiles* The flowers are in rich reds and oranges and the stems & leaves are shades of green. Just gorgeous! I know I said that, but I love this fabric. I chose a goddess swirl print in shades of fuschia and pink to go with it. At first glance, they appear to be an unnatural pairing, but take one look at this garment and you will quickly see that the two fabrics appear to be made to go together.
I decided to do something a little different for this jumper dress. As I had already constructed the sashing to be used in a kimono style dress, I decided that it would look totally darling for a jumper dress. In my experience, jumper dresses hang like a bag and are not very flattering. Well, not this one! This one ties in the bag neatly with two long ties!!
I just love how it turned out. I also decided that since the skirt was sweetly finished with the swirly goddess print that a pocket would be smashing. And, what a better touch than the same trim on the pocket?! Of course, the pocket and the bodice are fully lined as with all my garments.
You might see some of my zig zag stitches in the photo from the gathering that I did. Those have been removed. I didn’t notice them until I was tagging, assigning a stock number, and putting the dress away.
For good measure, the dress looks great from the side too. Though, I may have forgot to mention that this dress is a plus sized dress and too big for my dress form.
I didn’t stop there! As many of you know my husband and I are trying to conceive. I would love nothing more than a little girl. So, it is in my nature that for every womans dress, I make a girls dress….cause that is what I would do for myself *smiles*
The toddler dress is a bit too big for the child form that I used, but I do not have one that is the right size for displaying this one *smiles* So, the pocket looks rather large on the toddler dress, but it isn’t so so large when the right sized child wears it. Though, this goes to show the range of kiddos that can wear this dress. I fully believe that the dress can be worn as a top on an older child as well. I know a ton of kindergarten aged children that this would fit as a summer top. Anyways, here it is:
As soon as I am done with this blog posting I am going to be working on some pillow covers. I decided that since I will be discontinuing my line of Lovies (for now *smiles*) that I can still find a way to do hand embroidery work. Tonight it occurred to me that a pillow cover would make a great canvas for this type of needle work. I have a few ideas and hopefully I will have them done tomorrow.
I am so shocked that just the accountability of Thing-a-day.com keeps me productive! Thanks to thing-a-day!!!!! Not that anyone is really looking and watching, but I feel compelled to do this because I said I would *smiles*
I’m already a bit behind, however, maybe my creating of this image, uploading some pics to my flickr and writing a post on my blog about this counts? I dunno. Will do more today I’m sure to catch up! The images are some supplies and randomness that I will be surrounding myself with for the tasks over the next 28 days.
Here’s my list of activities:
Create a new ‘website’ using Extensis Portfolio
Learn Extensis Portfolio
Learn/become better at drawing w/drawing books I bought ages ago
Paint for fun
Ads for book*
Logo for M.R. as commissioned*
Edit book I’ve been writing for years
Tiny Journals
Take more photos
Write more of book
Put Ad/Design inspiration scrapbook together
These are in random order and the ones with the stars are more important and actually ‘due’ if you will, however I think some of the other ones are better for my wellbeing.
So it took me an hour and 15 minutes to get this whole wordpress posting mess sorted out. It looks like this will work this time. I originally thought I had 45 minutes to spare, but now it turns out I’m 30 minutes late! Doh!
Here’s the original post, or as close as I could remember to the original.
I posted my first blog. Well, not my very first actual blog. I’ve blogged before but have somehow always managed to delete it. It’s all explained in the post.
Here’s the link: http://dogheadmonkeymusic.blogspot.com
Someone posted the Thing-a-day site to the Polymer Clay Central forum and I figured - what better way to get me back into the making-tons-of-stuff habit! So, look for a lot of polymer clay related things: canes, beads, squished messes, perhaps more canes (sorry, production period right now), some finished jewelry.
I’ll stuff bigger details into my blog or flickr as I go!
Any other clayers going to keep me company?
