Crafty Litsters show your work!

[Keroin]

Really neat project today. This client has built a beautiful little Japanese garden in one corner of his yard, for his wife who has a severe case of Alzheimer's. The landscaper he hired to build a waterfall also put in a pond, which the client didn't want. Go figure. So he hired us to build a little deck over the pond. Anyway, here's the garden area...

http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac126/Keroin/003.jpg

Here's our work in progress...
http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac126/Keroin/006-1.jpg

And here's the finished deck (the waterfall isn't running yet)...
http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac126/Keroin/009-3.jpg

Nothing spectacular but there were a lot of fussy angles and such. I love how it looks - like it's floating. Crafted, as always, with sustainably harvested, western red cedar .

 

[Stella_Omega]

Gorgeous, Keroin. It's such a pretty, graceful shape...

 

[midwestyankee]

@Keroin, I want a garden like that when my Alzheimers kicks in for good. With a geisha or two, of course.

So does the cedar age to a gray in the sun without a sealant or does it maintain its color?

 

[Keroin]

Gorgeous, Keroin. It's such a pretty, graceful shape...

Thanks Stella. Yes, it came out as a trapezoid because of the shape of the pond, but I like it.

@Keroin, I want a garden like that when my Alzheimers kicks in for good. With a geisha or two, of course.

LOL. It is a lovely space he's created.

So does the cedar age to a gray in the sun without a sealant or does it maintain its color?

He had originally planned to stain it with Broda (an environmentally friendly stain), which would have turned the wood a slightly darker shade (like wet cedar) and kept it that way, but now he's decided to just let it go silver naturally. Personally, I would have gone with the stain. Those 2x6's are just too beautiful as they are now.

 

[++Encore++]

wow! so many talented litsters! i'm very impressed with this thread. i also have attempted several diy projects, i'll snap some pics and post them here later

 

[++Encore++]

let's see.. some pottery weird things and some t-shirts and different stuff turned into necklaces (and modelled by a friend of mine)

 

[++Encore++]

and some "subversive" cross stitching : ) -excuse me for the poor shot-

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hee Hee Encore, I like your cross stitch!

 

[Stella_Omega]

So I've been designing calling cards in my off time (meaning when I should be doing something else)
You can see lots of 'em on my etsy store probablepossible, but-- I just finished this one and I adore it!
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.249189414.jpg

heee! Shes so KEWT!

 

[seela]

So I've been designing calling cards in my off time (meaning when I should be doing something else)
You can see lots of 'em on my etsy store probablepossible, but-- I just finished this one and I adore it!
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.249189414.jpg

heee! Shes so KEWT!

Completely kewt! If I had any current need for calling cards, these would be nice. But, alas, no job, no need for calling cards. And so far my job has always provided to boring bulk standard cards, so I guess I'll never get cute ones.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

I know how to make roses out of drinking straw wrappers.

 

[++Encore++]

So I've been designing calling cards in my off time (meaning when I should be doing something else)
You can see lots of 'em on my etsy store probablepossible, but-- I just finished this one and I adore it!

heee! Shes so KEWT!

those are lovely!!!!!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Thanks, guys

Seela, these are not business cards-- but calling cards. You know, if you're out and about and you get talking with someone and you want to give them your phone number so as to keep talking... you hand them one of these instead of fumbling for a pen and a sales receipt in your purse or pocket...

I've been really enjoying this sort of miniature graphic design.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ProbablePossible?section_id=8091287

 

[seela]

Thanks, guys

Seela, these are not business cards-- but calling cards. You know, if you're out and about and you get talking with someone and you want to give them your phone number so as to keep talking... you hand them one of these instead of fumbling for a pen and a sales receipt in your purse or pocket...

I've been really enjoying this sort of miniature graphic design.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ProbablePossible?section_id=8091287

Aah, but I'm not used to fumbling for a pen anyways. I just program it in my phone. And I'm so boring, that I hardly ever meet anyone outside of a business setting.

But I still really like your stuff. It's veeery cute.

 

[Zobor]

Lot of cool things being doe on here people. I'm not much of a craftier. I do play around with color pencils and paint some. I just finished this over the weekend.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/phillip66/medicenflute.jpg

 

[DVS]

I know how to make roses out of drinking straw wrappers.

That's cool. Do you have a larger, more detailed picture?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ooookay... This is NOT exactly a crafty thing, in the strict sense of the word. But it's so... funny, and who else would I share it with?

A piece of my early history;
http://www.etsy.com/listing/75512183/rare-banned-queen-poster-1976-night-at

I'm the one on the floor.

No sisters or rock stars were harmed in the making of this poster.

 

[Etoile]

Ooookay... This is NOT exactly a crafty thing, in the strict sense of the word. But it's so... funny, and who else would I share it with?

A piece of my early history;
http://www.etsy.com/listing/75512183/rare-banned-queen-poster-1976-night-at

I'm the one on the floor.

No sisters or rock stars were harmed in the making of this poster.

THAT'S YOU AND QUEEN????

 

[Stella_Omega]

THAT'S YOU AND QUEEN????

Actually, their faces are stripped in-- The guys weren't actually on the set...

But we got a chance to meet them backstage for a halfasecond, before the concert. And we did have very good seats!

 

[midwestyankee]

Ooookay... This is NOT exactly a crafty thing, in the strict sense of the word. But it's so... funny, and who else would I share it with?

A piece of my early history;
http://www.etsy.com/listing/75512183/rare-banned-queen-poster-1976-night-at

I'm the one on the floor.

No sisters or rock stars were harmed in the making of this poster.

I like the more mature you much better. Now, please indulge the geezer: who's Queen?

 

[Keroin]

Now, please indulge the geezer: who's Queen?

I'm going to pretend you didn't ask that. You are not THAT old!

Here ya go...

 

[midwestyankee]

I'm going to pretend you didn't ask that. You are not THAT old!

Here ya go...

Thanks....I never knew who did that. In self-defense, I had been out of college for a few years by the time that came out and was about two years into a no-pop radio and no tv kick that lasted another 5 or 6 years.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm going to pretend you didn't ask that. You are not THAT old!

Here ya go...

Of course that song, what else!

 

[midwestyankee]

Of course that song, what else!

Please tell me they did something of artistic merit.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Please tell me they did something of artistic merit.

Yeah they wrote Mahler's third.

And they painted Van Gogh's Starry Night.

Good enough?