Day 36/365: Pangea Swag

Day 36/365: Pangea Swag

I have such an addiction to the jewelry Angie makes. I already have a ring I bought from her a couple of years ago, and I have relied on her for more than a few birthday and Christmas gifts for friends. I have lusted after those earrings for months and months now, and then when I saw the yellow butterfly necklace, EVERYTHING GOT BLURRY and before I knew it, I was clicking buttons with wild abandon, and getting this awesome stuff in the mail. PayPal is a dangerous thing.

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Day 13/365: Where My @s At?

Day 13/365: Where My @s At?

They are on South Main, obviously.

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Crafty concerns

lily magnets

I was so excited to start making and selling magnets made from my photos, until I did a couple of test batches and realized that the glass marbles I bought have lots of bubbles in them. I’m thinking people will see the finished product and think the bubbles are something I neglected to fix when gluing.

So now it’s back to square one. I bought some larger marbles that are a nice, substantial size, but the magnets I am using are just strong enough to hold them to a surface decoratively. There is no way they would be able to hold up anything heavier than a sheet of paper.

So I need some less bubbly marbles and some stronger magnets. I’m having lots of fun doing this stuff but it’s kind of ridiculous for me to be spending all this money when the goal is to make money and pad the ol’ income.

Feh.

Just call me ‘shopkeep’

Finally, after wanting to do so for a long time and just never really being able to pull the trigger on it, I’ve opened an Etsy shop. Right now there are photo prints available as well as one framed collage-type item, but I’m busting ass to add more things that, hopefully, people will want to buy. Eventually I want to add customizable stationery designs, but that’s going to take some time since the few designs I had started prototyping disappeared in the Great Hard Drive Crash of Aught Ten (Back Up Your Files, Please). Still, I’m excited about the possibilities and having fun figuring out how to set up the shop and price and market stuff (and reading about self-employment taxes, whee!). I’ve got lots of little creative projects kicking around in my head lately and it feels good to be working on things again after a museless (but still really awesome) summer.

So please mosey on over to the shop and have a look. You tried and true Etsy buyers and sellers may have tips for me. I’m all ears. And forehead. But ears too.

Full-on yellow tape robot graffiti — what does it mean?

tape robot   tape robot

Twice now I’ve noticed a yellow tape robot placed somewhere conspicuous in an urban core: Once in Chicago near Millenium Park (left) and once in Portland near Powell’s (right). The Chicago robot, which probably measured a foot or so in length, was spotted around New Year’s Day, 2010, while the Portland robot — much smaller at maybe three inches tall — was spotted just Sunday.

I’ve been Googling and Flickring like mad to try and identify the common thread that would put a yellow tape robot on a sign and on a busy street thousands of miles from one another, but have come up with nothing. Is this a pop culture icon I’m not familiar with? A hip underground tape graffiti collective that’s on the verge of blowing up? Something completely benign? Some snarky way of marking touristy spots? Some completely random coincidence? One person with yellow tape who travels to the same cities as I and marks where he’s been?

I must know.

Instant update: Only thing that comes close that I’ve found is an image in this post. Of course no explanation accompanies it.

Instant update 2.0: A fellow LT directed me to a photo on Flickr and I followed a tag rabbit hole and found this collection of what is apparently known as Stikman. Hot damn, I love the constantly pulsing internet brain. Now to figure out what this little dude means. If anything.

Today’s uke-and-trumpet pause

I pulled this video for the song (“The Bunker” by Beirut) but then realized the video is pretty cool too.

I wish I could paint.

Papercomiccrafty!

I really meant to link to this last week but I have that, you know, brain thing.

Shane‘s awesome papercraft skills + Curt and Chris‘ awesome comic skills + my photos = BEHOLD! Basically the funniest/cutest thing you ever did see.

Day 335: Comet

Day 335: Comet

Another fabulous Shane McDermott papercraft project. This one’s in conjunction with the annual advent calendar. I’ll post a link to the online version as soon as it goes live. The calendar is here!

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Day 263: Oak Pond Glass

Day 263: Oak Pond Glass

Oak Pond Glass, a little shop out of DeSoto County, always has a booth at C-Y Fest. This year I was unable to contain my lust. I wish I could link you to their wares, but they don’t have a web presence that I can find.

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