[ A small label printer, about 4x4x6″, sits in an open drawer, with 4×6 labels stacked behind it. There’s a small space between the front of the printer, where the labels come out, & the front of the drawer. ] (This was written on Monday but scheduled for Wednesday; who knows what’ll happen between now […]
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[ A good stick, a bunch of copper wire, & some beads. ] Above, the ingredients!
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[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry. Optimism! ] I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right?
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[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ] I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened &
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[ Tyrava’s front door frame, which is painted purple; a length of unpainted wood maybe an inch wide & half an inch deep runs along the inside of the frame, right where the door will stop when it’s closed properly. ] Last Saturday & today I got a bunch done on Tyrava, including the door
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[ one long stick, shaped somewhat like a lacrosse stick & about a foot long; three shorter sticks, each about four inches long; & two tangles of copper wire sit in a pile, waiting for me to get a clue ] As is traditional I picked up the big stick & it told me what
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This thing where they’re telling me their names as soon as I pick up the right pieces, I’m kinda liking it.
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I found this rusty weird-ass chunk of wire in the backyard of a house in Albuquerque, & I knew right away it was gonna turn into something like this. When I tucked it into the basket to go out to the woods yesterday, it told me its name: Suspend.
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Apparently Woods Day is also Make A Big Piece For Trickster’s Trash Day these days. I’m good with that.
It’s been far, FAR too long since I’ve made a BIG piece for Trickster’s Trash. I knew more-or-less what this piece was going to be when I picked up the already-twisted bucket handle that frames it, so using this as a place to dip my toes back in was kinda perfect. This is where I
& 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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