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The first completed copper pieces I have ever done. I move around through mediums a lot because I get bored. I've never really worked with metal but it seemed like fun and I had some old copper pipe and wire. Now I am gathering up more for future projects.
One of these pieces actually sold about a day after I finished. My first ever art sale. Mostly I make art for myself.
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I saw these dress form Christmas Trees for sale and thought it could be improved. I've been making costumes for 13 years and wanted to give myself a challenge. Except for the wig, every piece was handmade.
-I cut up an old skirt to make the corset and used the biggest zip ties as boning
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Tore apart wreaths for greenery, pinecone, and silver pieces
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Cut up a hoop skirt and designed a chicken wire underskirt for support
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Used scrap leather for the harness
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Hand sewed 160 keychain rings onto the green high-low skirt I made, so branches could be attached
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Got a bunch of garland from a craft store and had a friend wire cut them into different sizes, to shove into the keychain rings and make it look like a Christmas tree
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Sewed the collar
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Modded fake white Poinsettia flowers so they could be attached to the corset, headpiece, and skirt
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Used a wire, fake cardinal, and pieces ripped from the wreaths to make the Headpiece
I'm so proud and so happy! It was the most time consuming, expensive, and complex costume I've ever made and it's the cleanest and most gorgeous thing I could have imagined!
Though I have no idea where to store it (it's been my literal Christmas tree this season) and the skirt alone weighs about 35lbs. 😅
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If you would like to see a little speed-paint session for this piece, here is my yt link.
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(Does this community allow posts about product restorations? I didn't forge these skillets, but I did make them usable and appealing again.)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30170080
(long time lurker, first time poster)
A few months ago, a friend convinced me on the benefits of cast iron skillets. Having only used Teflon-coated non-stick pans, I figured it would be worth a try, if I could find one at the thrift store. Sure, I could have just bought a new Lodge skillet, but that's too easy lol.
So a few weeks pass and I eventually find these two specimens at my local thrift store, for $5 and $8 respectively. It's not entirely clear to me why the smaller skillet cost more, but it was below $10 so I didn't complain too loudly. My cursory web searches at the store suggested that old Wagner skillets are of reasonable quality, so I took the plunge. My assumption is that the unmarked, smaller skillet is also a Wagner product.
10-inch skillet ($5) 9-inch skillet ($8) It's very clear that both these skillets are very crusty. Initially, I tried to remove the buildup using a brass wire brush. This was only somewhat successful, so I switched to a stainless steel wire brush. That also didn't do much, except reveal some of the inscription on the bottom.
Some research suggested I could either do an electrolysis tank, a lye bath, or try lye-based oven cleaner. For want of not over-complicating my first restoration attempt, I went with the oven cleaner method, using the instructions from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pvf0m9jTeE
For both skillets, I had to apply the oven cleaner six times to finally shift all the crud, each time leaving the skillets in the garbage bag for a full day-and-a-half in the sun. In between applications, I would brush off more buildup, with the handle root and the skillet walls being the most stubborn areas. The whole process smelled terrible and hunching over the garage utility sink to brush pans is not my idea of a pleasant time.
Nevertheless, having stripped both pans, I proceeded with six rounds of seasoning with very old corn oil -- it's what was handy -- at 450 F (~230 C) using my toaster oven. This happened over six days, since I wanted to use my excess daytime solar power for this endeavor. I wiped on the oil using a single blue shop towel, to avoid the issues of lint or fraying with paper towel.
I don't have a post-seasoning photo for the larger skillet, but here's how the 9-inch skillet turned out. I think I did a decent job for a first attempt. And I'm thrilled that these are as non-stick as promised, with only minimal upkeep required after each use.
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My wife found this cool snake shed in the woodpile this summer.
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My sister in law is very hard to shop for, but she knits and crochets. She also makes kimchi throughout the year, so I painted the ingredients for kimchi on some stitch markers she can use with her knitting projects.
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Image Transcription
A small stack of Christmas cards, a small stack of envelopes with the back facing the camera, and a single envelope with the flap facing the camera.
The cards have a round grey cat holding a dead mouse with a red bow on the mouse in the cat's mouth. The cat is standing in front of a gold and dark green striped background. The words "Merry Christmas" are printed on the card in maroon cursive. There is a white border around the edge of the card.
The envelopes have parallel squiggly stripes diagonally covering the envelopes. The stripes are a repeating pattern of thick light green, medium thickness light yellow, thin light red, and medium thickness light yellow again. There is a path of paw-prints walking across the envelope in the same light green as the diagonal stripes.
The envelope with the flap facing the camera is printed with the same pattern and reveals the flap to be a flat-edge flap with rounded corners
I have wanted to send out Christmas cards to my friends for some time, but was never able to get a festive photo to use for such purpose; so this year instead of trying to convince my partner to take the appropriate pictures, I decided to illustrate the card instead.
As for the envelopes, I realized I did not have access to any A6 envelopes and it looked like it would take a long time for them to ship to me. Originally I was going to cut the envelopes out of standard construction paper, but I realized if I made flat-flap envelopes instead of triangular-flap envelopes, I would be able to cut the card out of a single 8.5"x11" sized sheet. With this in mind, I decided to design the envelope myself as well since I could print across the entire envelope area.
The pattern for the card was illustrated in Procreate (but the text was added via Illustrator). The envelope pattern was designed entirely in Illustrator (including the cutting template). The cards and envelopes were printed on card-stock and cut out using my vinyl cutter.
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Obviously I didn't make the watch itself, but I have a different style to me, so of course I needed to make a custom band.
Don't ask how much it costed me, too much, but plenty of extra material.
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Mod: Customizable Player Models Game: Minecraft
This new player model i made is more detailed and even has digitigrade legs and a tail with 4 segments (not visible in the screenshot)
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Drew a celebration thingy featuring my slobbering biblically accurate angel character Goodie!
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Celebration card thingy I doodled up for another site. I really do enjoy drawing teeth and mouths way too much haha. Felt a little refreshing to draw in this lined style again since I love using different line thickness. I hope you all enjoy! 😃
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Had to upload the video to Internet Archive since Lemmy doesn't like largeish file sizes. Zbrush's UI is a little bit weird, and definitely takes some time to become accustomed to, but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out!😃
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