Googly eye pleather bracelet

I've been trying to think of things to put googly eyes on, and I was inspired by seeing a punk rock studded bracelet to make this lil number with some leftover pleather and Velcro. I still need to work on my hot glue technique, and I'm not sure how well the eyes will stay on. I've got some other idea though.

Spraypainting things gold

A very satisfying pastime. Little plastic things look a lot fancier painted gold. I always think of Goldfinger when I'm doing it.

Happy Pi Day!

Being 3.14, it's Pi Day. And on Pi Day I like to make silly jokes about pi and make actual pies, which are round (not squared, see what I did there?). Last year I made a chicken pot pie from scratch which was a lot of work and not as good as I was hoping. This year I made apple pie featuring Granny Smith apples against the recommendations of the Joy of Cooking, and I made a variation on one of my favorite ice cream pies. My favorite ice cream pie is a chocolate graham cracker crust, then soften chocolate ice cream add peanut butter, mix and refreeze it.

My older daughter is not a big fan of dark chocolate so I opted to make her a vanilla ice cream pie, making a honey graham cracker crust with vanilla ice cream, white chocolate and coconut. And for dinner instead of chicken pot pie we opted for pizza. You know how to approximate the volume of a pizza of radius z and height a? Pi*z*z*a.

Happy birthday, Douglas Adams

Yet more can lanterns

Today's door message

From Jean-Paul Sartre. Another quote about doing things, à propos for crafting

My magnetic front door

...Painted in TARDIS blue. We have collected a lot of letters over the years. For some reason, most letter sets come with a-z and no repeats. Lame. So we've accumulated a lots of letters, enough to put up seasonal messages and this quote from Yoda himself. I think that used up all my O's.

Another can lantern

I've been working on this one for a while. Originally started with nails and tonight I used the Dremel to carve out the snowflake patterns. This is actually a big old number 10 can.

Can lanterns

I recently got a Dremel and have been having lots of fun playing with it. But I've found with these lanterns, a hammer and nail is the best way to go. The cans are painted so I just use the painting on the outside as a guide.

Instead of freezing water in the cans to keep from denting them, I use a section of dowel like an anvil.

FIRST!

A friend of mine told me that I'm the only adult male she knows who admits he's on Pinterest.  I also note that when I buy material at one of my many favorite haunts to buy cloth, I'm the only man in the line.  So I'm starting this blog in the hope that it will serve as a venue to share my creations and ideas.

I like to cook, sew, and otherwise make things that are useful and hopefully beautiful.