Homemade2homemade craft post

[redsnake05]

So, this was the third year of homemade2homemade, and I completed a few things. Just a few, in my copious spare time.

The first of my parcels to arrive was to batwrangler. How can it not be fun crafting for someone who is a noctilionine whisperer?

So, I made a bat mirror:


It is so difficult getting good pictures of mirrors, so sorry about the photo. I love mirrors, personally, and I had fun designing this to be simple but the right sort of size to still be effective as an actual mirror. It was digitally designed, then I laser cut it out of black gloss acrylic and silver mirror acrylic.

And then I made a tote bag:



I handpainted the images, and could not resist the puns, terrible though they might be. I love tote bags and find them incredibly useful, and I hope it serves well.

Finally, I made a mug rug:


The large green rock in the middle is pounamu, or New Zealand Jade, a kind of nephrite. It is beautiful to wear and an important taonga (treasure) in Maori culture. It's often found on beaches on the West Coast of the South Island, and the background of the mat is greywacke pebbles. Pounamu is all well and good and important, but greywacke actually does the work. If NZ had a national rock, it would be greywacke - it's a hard sedimentary rock that is dull, unremarkable, ubiquitous and essential. It suits the terminally modest nature of NZ very well.

And that's one parcel done!

Comments

[james]

Oooh, those are all awesome!

[redsnake05]

Thanks! I had a lot of fun making everything

[semielliptical]

I love the variety! The mirror and bag are adorable, and the mug rug is beautiful.

[redsnake05]

Thank you! I always like making lots of different things.

[yourlibrarian]

Wow, what a wonderfully eclectic series of items. I particularly love the mirror!

[redsnake05]

I deeply love mirrors, and I had a lot of fun designing this bat one!

[batwrangler]

I love all my things! Thanks so much!

[redsnake05]

Thank you for being a great recipient!

[tjs_whatnot]

These are AMAZING (as are you❤). I love how much of NZ leaks into all your work. And dog puns are some of the only truly acceptable sort. 😀

[redsnake05]

How can one not like dog puns? To be fair, my Gentleman Friend groaned at them, but I was undeterred. He is well known to be curmudgeonly.

[kat_lair]

That mirror is so awesome!

(also, hi!)

[redsnake05]

Hi also! I am glad you like the bat mirror. I had so much fun making it too.

[tigerweave]

Greywacke! The name brings it all back. So kiwi. And then I read the next few sentences which cracked me up. That is exactly what the name brought back :-D

omg the bat mirror! SO COOOOOL!!!!! (I love mirrors too. I also rather love broken mirrors too. I've unfashionably resistant to superstitions btw.

[redsnake05]

One cannot be cracked up by the spiritual profundity of greywacke. Australians.

Have you done any mirror mosaics? Or using the larger pieces (sharp edges carefully sanded) as unexpected little mirror shards stuck on the inside of cupboard doors for an unexpected reflection moment? I love the ones that you sometimes see around the edge of a lintel on a door, for example, but not enough to break a mirror on purpose. I could laser cut one to shape, but that defeats the 'found' pleasure of it.