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Three small squares with different watercolor backgrounds - magenta, purple, orange. Each is collaged with 6 or 7 "the"s in all different fonts, cut from a variety of newspapers and magazines

#the100dayproject day 25, in which I learn that a) watercolor smears when you brush glue on it, which you can then pick up with your fingers and leave smeary colored fingerprints, and b) the word "the" looks really, really weird when you are looking at it this many times

A hand holds a bumpy hailstone next to a ruler. It is about an inch and a half in diameter.

The biggest one we grabbed

Well, this is exciting. And loud.

It's growing on me.

There's nothing he likes more than a horrible muddle, soooo

Notebook with a heading "Tues March 10". A carved pink stamp of a cat stretching, head between front paws and tail in the air, blocks the list itself. Underneath is the printed version facing the other way, and at the bottom is a carried-over list item, crossed out: "fix up stamp & re-try ↗️" pointing at the cat

Le sigh. I did not think I had carved the eye out this big. Question: do I try again? It's a tiny stamp, like under an inch and a half. Or do I just decide I have made a big-eyed cat?

Small square with an orange paisley design stamped on a yellow watercolor background. The triangular stamp and a paintbrush lie next to it on a table.

#the100dayproject day 24
Another try at a repeating stamp. Reminds me of - whaddya call those shiny folded things on a stick that you blow on and they spin? Pinwheel?

Embroidery piece with cental red flower motif surrounded by a patterned border in pink orange black and green on a white background

Yusufzai Pathan silk embroidery traditionally created by tribal women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and eastern Afghanistan #womensart

I cannot tell you how often I see a headline and think to myself, "wow, these people have NOT been consuming the right kind of post-apocalyptic media, I read that/saw that years ago"

Three small squares taped to a table. One is magenta, one tangerine, and one purple.

#the100dayproject day 23: painted some backgrounds for some collaging I want to do later, I need to acquire a different newspaper. Or a magazine, I guess.

Glowing silk fabric in rippling shades of turquoise, teal, aqua, emerald, lime and a tiny bit of yellow, reminiscent of a Caribbean beach vacation

Haven't decided yet if I'm doing a square for #the100dayproject tonight, but in the meantime here's what I do "for real" when I'm not messing around with art supplies - this is a 3 yard silk veil for a dance event I'm vending at next month. One down, many to go!

#the100dayproject day 22
Last mystery snail in the tank, he needs a couple friends.

I am currently super into a clear, bright, light orange-yellow tangerine color. Like a lemonade sunrise.

#the100dayproject day 21
Watercolor, crochet thread, embroidery floss

Results: the marker held up fine. Stamp pad not so much, but now that I'm thinking about it the martini might have been done in proper block-pronting fabric paint. Science would probably be better served if I labelled my experiments 🤣

A green-yellow tie dyed bandana with a snowflake-ish design block printed on black, with parts colored in in red and orange

Also did one for a wash test, with "permanent" markers (do I sound like I've been burned? GOLLY). Both stamp pad and markers have been wash-tested after heat-setting, which the directions do not call for, but I am skeptical for Reasons

Small square with a snowflake-like print in black, that has petals and hearts. The design hangs off the edges in several places. It is painted in spring colors of pink, lime, tangerine, and blue.

#the100dayproject day 20
"It's under an inch and a half, how long can it take?"
As it turns out, 2.5 hours from design, to carving, to turning the kitchen upside down looking for the stupid stamp pad, to printing and discovering it's still too big, to watercolors. Good thing there was no rush.

Timeline cleanse. Sound up.

I have to finish these current projects, so I can make the projects I have this yarn for, because I already came up with a new project I want to get more yarn for.

- The Ouroborus of the Crafter.

#knitsky #crochet 🧶

Long ago I worked at a fabric shop, and each quarter the patterns/trims companies would rotate out old styles/colors to make room for new. The manager was supposed to destroy them so they couldn't be resold, but would just chuck them out back.
We did a lot of dumpster diving that year.

in college I worked at the Bombay Company, one of my mom’s favorite stores, and my middle-aged gay boss was obsessed with her. anytime something got even a tiny scratch, corporate ordered you to throw it out. he’d just lie and then hide it in a secret Theresa Could Fix This box for me to take home 😂

Small square watercolor of a hand holding a paint brush, which now has a shadow similar to the hand and the water cup

I looked at my reference photo after this and was poked in the eye by the lack of shadow from the paintbrush 🤦🏻‍♀️
Tell me you have no art training without telling me, etc
Quick fix later

A table is set with painting supplies - a cloth bag, a water cup with a bush perched across the top, a closed palette. Against the palette is leaning a small square watercolor of a table with painting supplies - a water cup, an open palette with a rainbow of colors. A pale hand is holding a paintbrush that is painting a purple swish on a small square watercolor.

#the100dayproject day 19, in which I try out water in a piston-filling brush fountain pen. As anticipated, I like it better than the squeezy kind of water brush.

#the100dayproject day 18, in which I ask, wait, can you embroider on watercolor paper?
Yes, it turns out. Carefully.

I have told several of my friends that there are people taking active steps towards making the apocalypse happen, and the reaction is always, "no way, that's crazy talk". I wanted them to be right.

Leo: Someone will try to make you feel better with stupid platitudes today. It works. After you gut them with a pen you'll feel much better.

“But what if we gave the One Ring better training?”

#the100dayproject day 17, inspired by the blood moon

#the100dayproject day 16
Light a candle to drive away the dark

Small square watercolor of a baby pygmy hippopotamus with its feet all tangled up, partly balanced on an overturned metal tub

A little Moo Deng for #the100dayproject day 15.