Misc
Did a bit of tidying in the studio but it does not show at all. Too much stuff, too little space.
Worked on Christmas ornaments today. Still not entirely sure which set I'm going to use this year for the famndamily ornament exchange but at least I have options that don't involve putting something together at last minute. Have also worked on half a dozen paintings in various stages of incompletion. I think I got varnish on a couple of things this week, and I made a protective cardboard collar for one of the highly textured ones so it can be safely stored instead of hanging out on my work surface.
I'm waiting for an order of packaging materials to come in so I can get a couple of the prints I made two months ago over to the gallery in time for the Holiday Shopping Season. It's not that I've waited two months for the materials to come in; it's that it took me a month to figure out the size of packaging I had was not right for the product I'd made, and then it took me another month to work up the nerve to spend money and order the stuff. It should arrive within the week.
Found my bead box - haven't done beadwork in 5+ years - and strung a necklace tonight. Red-black-gray-white, a favorite color scheme. This one has red glass, white shell and irregular pearls, hematite, black and gray glass, with a black stone donut I found in one of the boxes. The bead stuff is a tangled mess; I must have packed it up in a hurry. Er, yeah, that probably -is- what happened.
If I get back into beadwork I want to get a pair of crimping pliers. And maybe another pair of smooth needlenose pliers (or a non-smooth pair, so I can take the smooth ones out of the picture-hanging box and put them back in the bead box where they belong.)
I also need to duplicate my mini wire cutters because they can't simultaneously live in the bead box and in the picture-hanging box, and I know I need a set in the picture-hanging box because that's where I found them (after rummaging all through the bead box.)
(I don't know what kind of yak I'm shaving [*], but I'm obviously putting off dealing with something.)
Mox harvested the butternuts and the two largest buttercup squashes tonight - something had started chewing on one of the butternuts so I think we may be eating that one soon. I think there are still a couple of small acorn squashes in the garden and not sure whether any of the babies will have time to mature. Still we got a good harvest of squash this year.
And Mox also got rid of the tomato plants while I was at church, for which I am grateful, because I was absolutely not looking forward to dealing with that.
He has taken the week off to deal with a major local Boy Scout camping event, so I may have some time to futz around with stuff this week (or next weekend if nothing else). I need to gather up the laundry and wash a load of summer things not to be brought back upstairs. I also need to take stock of various projects and see what I can finish. I am in the mood to finish things - it comes over me every once in awhile, this need to FINISH something, and that's why I keep UFO's hanging around: sometimes it's very satisfying to take something that hasn't been touched in awhile, put the final steps on it, and then it's done (and I have to figure out what to do with it, but that's another story.)
I have an Etsy ID but I've never set up shop - reluctant to use paypal, mostly because Mox hates them with a passion I don't quite understand, partly just not wanting to have to find the razor before I can go shave that yak, etc... On the other hand, if I took inventory of all the finished-stored projects I've made, I suppose there's some subset of them I could sell to the right buyer. I just can't be arsed to go looking for buyers; I hate marketing, I hate sales, I hate dealing with people.
[*] There is a technical distinction between "cat vacuuming" and "yak shaving but neither activity is immediately productive.
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Worked on Christmas ornaments today. Still not entirely sure which set I'm going to use this year for the famndamily ornament exchange but at least I have options that don't involve putting something together at last minute. Have also worked on half a dozen paintings in various stages of incompletion. I think I got varnish on a couple of things this week, and I made a protective cardboard collar for one of the highly textured ones so it can be safely stored instead of hanging out on my work surface.
I'm waiting for an order of packaging materials to come in so I can get a couple of the prints I made two months ago over to the gallery in time for the Holiday Shopping Season. It's not that I've waited two months for the materials to come in; it's that it took me a month to figure out the size of packaging I had was not right for the product I'd made, and then it took me another month to work up the nerve to spend money and order the stuff. It should arrive within the week.
Found my bead box - haven't done beadwork in 5+ years - and strung a necklace tonight. Red-black-gray-white, a favorite color scheme. This one has red glass, white shell and irregular pearls, hematite, black and gray glass, with a black stone donut I found in one of the boxes. The bead stuff is a tangled mess; I must have packed it up in a hurry. Er, yeah, that probably -is- what happened.
If I get back into beadwork I want to get a pair of crimping pliers. And maybe another pair of smooth needlenose pliers (or a non-smooth pair, so I can take the smooth ones out of the picture-hanging box and put them back in the bead box where they belong.)
I also need to duplicate my mini wire cutters because they can't simultaneously live in the bead box and in the picture-hanging box, and I know I need a set in the picture-hanging box because that's where I found them (after rummaging all through the bead box.)
(I don't know what kind of yak I'm shaving [*], but I'm obviously putting off dealing with something.)
Mox harvested the butternuts and the two largest buttercup squashes tonight - something had started chewing on one of the butternuts so I think we may be eating that one soon. I think there are still a couple of small acorn squashes in the garden and not sure whether any of the babies will have time to mature. Still we got a good harvest of squash this year.
And Mox also got rid of the tomato plants while I was at church, for which I am grateful, because I was absolutely not looking forward to dealing with that.
He has taken the week off to deal with a major local Boy Scout camping event, so I may have some time to futz around with stuff this week (or next weekend if nothing else). I need to gather up the laundry and wash a load of summer things not to be brought back upstairs. I also need to take stock of various projects and see what I can finish. I am in the mood to finish things - it comes over me every once in awhile, this need to FINISH something, and that's why I keep UFO's hanging around: sometimes it's very satisfying to take something that hasn't been touched in awhile, put the final steps on it, and then it's done (and I have to figure out what to do with it, but that's another story.)
I have an Etsy ID but I've never set up shop - reluctant to use paypal, mostly because Mox hates them with a passion I don't quite understand, partly just not wanting to have to find the razor before I can go shave that yak, etc... On the other hand, if I took inventory of all the finished-stored projects I've made, I suppose there's some subset of them I could sell to the right buyer. I just can't be arsed to go looking for buyers; I hate marketing, I hate sales, I hate dealing with people.
[*] There is a technical distinction between "cat vacuuming" and "yak shaving but neither activity is immediately productive.
This entry was originally posted at http://panacea.dreamwidth.org/412785.html