Well, I decided to go with the wrong linings matched to each bag.
My daughters love them, and I’m going to now take a break from my sewing machine for a little while.
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A few doodles and sketches and class assignments in progress over the last few days.
One is the “bad” childhood memory, the start of my career as an outlaw bandita. I musta been 3 or 4 and saw my brother with candy in the store. So I reached up and grabbed some gum off the shelf. I apparently didn’t know about the whole ‘buying’ concept, which turned out to be a problem when my mom discovered the gum in my fat little fist about to go into my contented face. I think I had to go in and hand it back. It wasn’t so bad, really, but I remember the whole thing came as quite a surprise to me, and an unpleasant one. Mostly, I chose this topic because I wanted to google pictures of Piggly Wiggly stores. Wish I’d had time to do their logo and lettering justice.
Other sketches are a kaiser roll (see day 4) and idea generation sketches for a book review illustration assignment…the book is about horse races, and involves lots of gambling, addiction, cheating, superstition (apparently nuns in parking lots are bad omens) and racetrack weirdos
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Inspired by yesterday’s candle-making and having the broken crayons still out, and having noted another thing-a-day member having done this, I collected a bunch of crayon bits and filled one of the star-shaped foil tins that I left out. Instead of working on the stove-top like I did with the candles (but wouldn’t again), I put it in the oven and turned it to 200F and after a while up to 225F. I think it took about fifteen minutes to melt down and an hour or more to cool. But now I have a multi-colored star-shaped crayon that’s about three inches across. I’ll try to get a picture of it tomorrow and update this post.
Happy February!
This will be fun :)
I’m not sure where thing-a-day will take me, so I guess we’ll see. I can’t say I have weekly themes planned or anything, so I guess I’ll just take each day as it comes.
Starting off the month with some heart-shaped crayons.
