Woot
Woot — sewed in a metal strip for nosepiece for a mask that doesn’t use bias tape, worked fine. Have to be a *little* careful the needle doesn’t intersect with the metal strip, but other than that, no problem.
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Driving Me a Little Nuts
Sigh — it’s driving me a little nuts that I don’t know the name of this tulip. Anyone? It has so many colors in it — pink, obviously, but also cream and green and I think that’s even blue. Wacky! (The leaves are edged in white too.)
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Shout-out to Local Sheet Metal Workers
HUGE shout-out to sheet metal workers’ local 73 — they have a form where you can request metal strips suitable for mask nose-pieces, for free. I put in a request for 250, and less than a week later, they were delivered to me. Union strong! https://actionnetwork.org/forms/nose-piece-request-form This is my first attempt at sewing one in,
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Current Fabrics Available for Masks
All the current fabrics available for masks. There will be more arriving (slowly, since it’s not a priority purchase for fulfillment or shipping), because I’m afraid that every penny coming in for mask purchases is going right out again to buy more fabric. That’s a lot of what I’m getting out of this, personally —
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Fun with Lighting Kit
This was fun — I ordered a lighting kit a while back because I had started getting really frustrated by how hard it was to light food photos well sometimes. I mean, some days I can go outside for natural light, or to a window, but sometimes it’s night when I’m cooking, etc. and so
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Quick Safety Note
A quick safety note. One of the people who ordered a mask from me requested two different fabrics for front and back. That’s fine — see pictured in third mask. I’m guessing she asked for that to make it reversible, to coordinate with different clothes. The problem with that is that it’s safer if you
To Bed, to Bed
Okay, to bed, to bed. Today, I dragged all these thorny branches from the front yard to the backyard, which was pretty tiring work! Grateful for my long leather rose gloves, which saved me from shedding serious blood. Tomorrow, I chop these briars up, and then I think I feed them to the fire. That
Whole Garden Photo
Nicole asked for a photo of my whole garden, because all my close-up flower shots really don’t do much to give you the shape of it, but I honestly don’t know how to do that. Um, maybe I can climb out on the porch roof. Or at least dig up the pencil sketch I did
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Plum Tree
Plum tree. So far, a few years in, I’ve seen plums growing on here, but never managed to get any that were ripe before they disappeared. This year, though, I have plenty of time to obsessively watch (and net) my fruit trees…
Another Request for ID
Another request for ID? This one looks like it might want to be a tree, and this is not a good place for a tree, but before I pull it out, would like to know what it is…
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