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I’ve been inspired to do shrinky dinks after seeing all the cool things people are doing here at thing-a-day. thefabricator had fun with them yesterday, shinwa made a really cool keychain for her husband on the 19th, craftkeg made some neat buttons on the 18th, and before rakka made the awesome cheeto Britney and Bender Easter egg, there was the terribly cute shrinky dink cloud necklace, and of course, Lu’s been having a field day with it, the shrinky dink owl necklace being my favorite of her many creations. I had just had to join all the cool kids just to see what the fun is all about.

I used some number 6 plastic I had from some store bought food items, sanded them down, and drew/colored them in with pencils. I did the two square ones with a black sharpie just to see the difference in sharpness in color variation, both the squares being one inch squares to measure the shrinkage. Just to see how the metal pin would fair, I made the five pipped die side with the pin stuck inside per instructions on wee wonderfuls shrinky dink pins. They all came out pretty good for a first time, I think. In the future, I’m going to invest in a nice set of permanent markers to do these in. I think they’d come out looking more vivid instead of dulled like my robot kind of does.

Two weekends ago Aidan and I went to radio shack and he was looking at these $9 bug bots which have a sound sensor, two touch sensors (antennae) and 6 legs. He was very interseted in both the walking mechanism and the touch sensor. We decided that we should add one of those to his arduino based mouse (A168).

A collage that sort of came out of nowhere……
Robots, rainbows and ice cream oh my!

Is it okay to be boring sometimes? 

Today I had planned to do a paper collage, but I couldn’t get the inspiration for it.  Paper just isn’t giving me the love today so I decided to go back to felt for one day and I made another gift card holder instead.

 I made the eyes using that french stitch and the eye on the left came out like it’s supposed to look!  I’m real happy about that.  It pays to be persistent and practice!

 No promises for tomorrow.

I continued my absolutely delicious trend of getting things cleaned up. Today I cleared all the junk out of my car and put down some much-needed new floor mats:

Awesome. 

drew a few robot/creature things. scanned them into my computer, did some lame photoshop filters to them and inserted into a pug sunning him self in the back room.

keep an eye out on your local news for how this story turns out.