craft diary 1/?
Jun. 8th, 2023 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ichthyocentaursI don't think I can really do a craft diary because there would be 10 zillion entries but maybe if I did one once in a while it would be nice since I have so many things I want to do right now and maybe it's good for like, a record?
Initially I was thinking this would be disappointing to write about but thinking about it, I've actually managed to keep one project going for... more than half a year now, another for several months, and some new stuff that seems do-able.
My crossstitch is taking literally forever but I'm glad I didn't give up on it. It really is the ultimate zone out activity, and once my current batch of foster kittens is gone (might still be 2 weeks... maybe only a week and a half because the one that was way behind seems to be picking up) I think the season might be mostly over so I can go back to doing it more like, daily. Since the book I'm using is making monthly themed carousel horses I would like to keep going because a lot of them are really cute but also like, this one has taken SO long I should probably pick favorites. Imagining taking 12 years to finish the whole thing is turning me into a skeleton before I need to go to bed lmao
Book nook confidence wavered for a week or two, but the break wasn't bad because I feel re-inspired to finish it. I think part of it was just like, looking at white shapes of foamcore is so boring and just was like, god is this gonna look like trash or what?? but now that most everything is painted and I started adding details, I like it a lot more. It helped to loosen my mental image of what it was meant to be, and now even though it's a bit annoying to add more little things I'm like, cutting plastic for little windows and things. I need to finish this one so I can justify buying a little pre-printed model I saw at a store over the weekend...... I want it.... doing it yourself is so much harder HAHA.
Making stepping stones is like the new hot fun thing for me... in my head lol. Working with cement is both easier and scarier than I thought it would be, like yeah I don't want chemical burns or silicone lungs but also I hate safety gear it's so boring. I wanna touch the concrete!! This weekend I'll at least do one, I've been collecting rocks and shells and stuff that I have lying around that aren't my super cool ones... or maybe I'll use the stained glass scrap pieces I've been cutting and make it more mosaic-like? There's too many possibilities. And though it is different, it also REALLY makes me want to do mosaic. I'm worried I'll get too into it and go into crazy mode and just make like 10 mosaic-d flowerpots and then be like ok. :3 what next.
also I really wanna do pebble mosaic but it's pretty different and rocks are too expensive :'( :'( I also need to remember that I want to do papier mache and have all the supplies so I have to do it before I find some other fucking. thing. I bought a book on carving carousel horses, my brain is just an evil craft hole
Initially I was thinking this would be disappointing to write about but thinking about it, I've actually managed to keep one project going for... more than half a year now, another for several months, and some new stuff that seems do-able.
My crossstitch is taking literally forever but I'm glad I didn't give up on it. It really is the ultimate zone out activity, and once my current batch of foster kittens is gone (might still be 2 weeks... maybe only a week and a half because the one that was way behind seems to be picking up) I think the season might be mostly over so I can go back to doing it more like, daily. Since the book I'm using is making monthly themed carousel horses I would like to keep going because a lot of them are really cute but also like, this one has taken SO long I should probably pick favorites. Imagining taking 12 years to finish the whole thing is turning me into a skeleton before I need to go to bed lmao
Book nook confidence wavered for a week or two, but the break wasn't bad because I feel re-inspired to finish it. I think part of it was just like, looking at white shapes of foamcore is so boring and just was like, god is this gonna look like trash or what?? but now that most everything is painted and I started adding details, I like it a lot more. It helped to loosen my mental image of what it was meant to be, and now even though it's a bit annoying to add more little things I'm like, cutting plastic for little windows and things. I need to finish this one so I can justify buying a little pre-printed model I saw at a store over the weekend...... I want it.... doing it yourself is so much harder HAHA.
Making stepping stones is like the new hot fun thing for me... in my head lol. Working with cement is both easier and scarier than I thought it would be, like yeah I don't want chemical burns or silicone lungs but also I hate safety gear it's so boring. I wanna touch the concrete!! This weekend I'll at least do one, I've been collecting rocks and shells and stuff that I have lying around that aren't my super cool ones... or maybe I'll use the stained glass scrap pieces I've been cutting and make it more mosaic-like? There's too many possibilities. And though it is different, it also REALLY makes me want to do mosaic. I'm worried I'll get too into it and go into crazy mode and just make like 10 mosaic-d flowerpots and then be like ok. :3 what next.
also I really wanna do pebble mosaic but it's pretty different and rocks are too expensive :'( :'( I also need to remember that I want to do papier mache and have all the supplies so I have to do it before I find some other fucking. thing. I bought a book on carving carousel horses, my brain is just an evil craft hole
