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redsnake05) wrote2020-06-04 06:37 pm
redsnake05) wrote2020-06-04 06:37 pm
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Homemade2homemade craft post
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 tobatwrangler. 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!
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!
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