[ Closeup of weathered copper tubing, bent into a V shape, with copper wire bent into a similar shape and fastened on with really thin copper wire. ] … more a ‘here is a thing I made’ than a process post as such, I’ve really gotten out of the habit of taking pics as I […]
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[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby, stands facing the camera, one eye squinted mostly shut. ] I’ve been carrying a basket of pendulums & other new stuff around for the last three months, not getting around to taking pictures of them so I can get them posted, but I finally got round to it
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[ Four bulbous glass jars, the rough shape of squat Greek amphorae, sit on a shelf, each holding a different colour of bath salts. One is yellow, the next brown, the third is blue, and the last is a brown-red. ] Also bath salts, cos those are the other thing that takes time, but this
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Having finished the bed platform itself, the next bit is the bed enclosure — just a bit of wall to demarcate the bed from the rest of Tyrava. [ About two feet along the left side of the bed platform has been framed with 2×2 boards, running from the floor almost to the ceiling. ]
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[ Tyrava, seen from the side, takes up part of the driveway; parked next to her, and a little ahead, is a vardo perhaps half her length, green with blue trim, with two windows on the side. ] Not long after I got back from Colorado, I had a visitor, & so did Tyrava! My
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[ A meadow rising to rocks and trees; the sky above is cloudy. ] Having unloaded, but not yet having made contact with the realtor, I decided to find a spot in the national forest for the weekend. … for a fairly liberal definition of ‘forest’ but there WERE some trees.
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[ Tyrava’s back doorknob, a fancy black lever, is fastened to a heavy-duty handle next to the door by a bungee cord. ] Not long after setting out — in fact, before I’d actually left the driveway — I realized that Tyrava was having a problem, which was that her back door wasn’t staying shut.
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[ A piece of white seaglass, shaped like the point of a spear & wrapped in thick copper wire, dangles from the center of a shallow arc of more wire; on either side of it are dangles with silvery-grey beads, with cowrie shells hanging from the bottoms. ] Not really a process post, cos I
[ An aluminum foil cupcake tray holds a selection of beads, most of them either purple or green, and a driftwood stick. ] Way back in fifth grade, I got into a HUGE argument with another kid about wearing green & purple clothing together. She insisted that they clashed & should not EVER be worn
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[ Three metal charms, one shaped like a scallop shell & the other two shaped like conch shells, sit on a piece of black terrycloth, along with two pale green beads & two pale grey beads. Next to them sits a purple plastic box with a bunch of egregiously fake turquoise beads. ] Woods Day
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& that’s it for the year! Everyone here at The Vagabond Tabby is gonna take a nice long nap (ngl most of us are asleep already), we’ll celebrate our various winter holidays, & yeah, probably make more soap.
We’ll reopen January 1st, just as soon as someone manages to actually get out of bed.
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