Because religion/magick and art/practicalities are so well connected

[consortofvenus]

Your father dies and leaves to you boxes of tools and other such odds and ends. You're just getting out of the house, have no idea how most of these tools work in a practical situation, you might find them useless and dumb at first. NO. Keep them. Especially if you're artistically inclined. Just keep whatever isn't obviously real junk that will

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[tehexile]

what sort of things do you make?

[dragonnas]

I would like to buy some candy, dancing merchant.

[consortofvenus]

You silly Discordians/Chaotists.

[tehexile]

of course! that'll be 10 gold.

[consortofvenus]

I've made and fixed jewelry, fixed up/made altars, made a sign, I make other religious and general house decor. I do not yet have the skills and resources for anything huge but I've enjoyed mostly geririgging stuff. I shall learn.

Just recently I've been working on a rattle such as shamans use.

tools

[dragonnas]

I could benefit from knowing a person like you... Currently all the ritual tools I use are scavenged directly from the wilderness and used "raw" with no modifications.

The method has produced one success so far, a wand that fell through the trees at my feet one day whilst on a nature walk. But I need to meet more people in oregon who fab their own tools.

Re: tools

[consortofvenus]

Make friends with garbage day and dumpsters. And the dollar store. Be creative and don't let lack of funds poke at your pride too much

Re: tools

[tehexile]

we have a redundant technology center in Sheffield thats always having to get rid of excess old computer parts, so i usually nab the pretty ones for making things. we have a huge bucket of keyboard buttons :D.

Re: tools

[consortofvenus]

You are so damn lucky. I mean that.

Re: tools

[consortofvenus]

Advice:

Get a bunch of junk from around your house. Tool stuffs, hooks, screws, tacks... all that kind of practical stuff. Put it all in front of you. Stair at it for a long time. It's what I did, basically, and the ideas just come flowing to me.

And freecycle: Basically, people who give away things which are useless to them but may be useful to others. It's a gold mine. People even get computers and video games from there. Often, you'll have people giving away boxes of "junk". Join the yahoo group for your area ad go nuts http://www.freecycle.org/group/US/

[tehexile]

you don't make golems :( i really want a golem.

[consortofvenus]

Oh, I will be making a Golem.

[tehexile]

YAY!

[consortofvenus]

Oh my god... TECH GOLEM!

[tehexile]

make it out of keyboard buttons!

[consortofvenus]

haha!