Diy

A 8-post collection

They're ready!I finished them all, this morning. Huzzah.Alas, I currently don't have the funds to buy the proper postal parcels, so they're...

They’re ready!

I finished them all, this morning. Huzzah.

Alas, I currently don’t have the funds to buy the proper postal parcels, so they’re all going to be sitting quietly until I have money again.

Sigh. O, fuel… why do we keep needing you?

Since the finings came in gunmetal and black [it was that or silver and gold] I did my best to hide it behind silver and gems. You just can’t get gunmetal stuff that’s easy to appropriate for other purposes. Sorry.

What do you think, bunnybennett? Which set runs the trans-pacific gauntlet first?

Progress at last! Thanks to my new tools, it took roughly five and a half minutes to file the nipples off the back of each stud. So the...

Progress at last! Thanks to my new tools, it took roughly five and a half minutes to file the nipples off the back of each stud. So the line-up in picture 2 represents the better part of an hour’s work.

Cumulative, of course. I had to take frequent breaks because, though it’s a small thing to do, it’s a lot of work. My wrists were complaining by the third pair.

I finished the final pair this morning, and now

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Eureka! To the right, an ex-stud earring with the dreaded 'nipple'. To the left, the ex-stud earring with the 'nipple' almost gone.The...

Eureka! To the right, an ex-stud earring with the dreaded ‘nipple’. To the left, the ex-stud earring with the ‘nipple’ almost gone.

The solution to the cursed ‘metal nipple’ problem is to have two very important things: a hand vice, and a set of fine metal files.

The hand vice pictured here has some foam pieces cut off a bit of leftover underlay so nothing nasty happens to the bit that’s going to show.

The back of the piece in the

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ARGH D:<

Okay, so you remember how I was trying to make more earrings for the fantastic Miss Isabella Bennett…

I’ve hit a snag.

Namely, that pierced studs no longer have a flat bit I can just clip the stem off and then that stud is mine to play with… nope. They have a fucking NIPPLE on the back now for no reason whatsoever.

It basically means that I can’t glue ex-studs to the clips, any more.

I have tried

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For those of you who have been wondering what I was up to when I was forbidden to write for three and a bit weeks&hellip;This is it.I've ...

For those of you who have been wondering what I was up to when I was forbidden to write for three and a bit weeks…

This is it.

I’ve
had this flat-pack dollhouse in my SABLE [Stash Above and Beyond Life Expectancy] for some years [something over eight years FYI]. And I
figured that it would at least keep me distracted for my enforced
time-out.

Distracted, yes. Calm, no. Happy? HELL no. This is
possibly the most INFURIATING hobby I

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internutter: internutter: I can't art. It's obvious. Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never...

internutter:

internutter:

I can’t art. It’s obvious.

Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never pay me back.

My usual design consultant [aka best-beloved SO] is too busy to help me before the October 4 publication date.

So. Speaking as someone who lacks design skills to everyone who actually has them: What do I need to do to make this cover look cool?

My goal is simple, but slightly “off”. Like a

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Phew! (pantpantpant)

I managed to bodge up a cover for my upcoming free book [Out TOMORROW!] in fantastic Suck-O-Vision care of my pathetic art skills and equally pathetic Inkscape skills.

It all stems from the concept that there’s a point in my story where my antagonist is completely covered in… things… [Spoilers] Therefore, the view plate of their helmet would be all HUD.

All I had to do was design the farging HUD.

Pain. In. The Arse.

Not doing that

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Frugality Check: Benefits of line-drying

I’ve been cleaning my house, lately [it’s mostly OK now BTW] and in the process, I have been doing absolute shittons of laundry. Y'know, mostly because there were drifts of dirty clothes in there that were a foot deep.

I had been doing a load a day, but thanks to my unsister, Powerhouse, I’ve been going through load after load after load. And putting it all on the clothesline to benefit from the absolutely vicious summer

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