the dreaded tree

something i drew on with ink. would make a fairly nice tattoo though, yes ?

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finally what i’ve always wanted.
striped hair with bleach, so it’ll stay, unlike sharpies.

check out the feather.

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and some old ones…
look at how beautifully worn my leggings are becoming.

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today i made a tea necklace and a new patch.

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photos © alyx s

some random experimentation. first time wearing nail varnish in 11 years.

And head stripes because ….. why not, right? (sharpies)

EDIT: head stripes are not a good idea harhar. not recommended.
I knew my head oil would make them very temporary, which is why i decided to try it. But it also distorts the stripes so they end up looking like weird dark mottled skin, not stripes. Temporary, of course, but there’s no point. Experiment complete. it’s a better idea not to draw on your head, anyway.

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photos © alyx s

Knee socks always come in the best patterns, but they’re knee socks.
I don’t like knee socks.
They were just sitting in my closet, waiting for me to come up with some use for the material, when I went to put on some socks and saw they were the only clean ones left. So I finally came up with a solution.

I put on the socks, cut holes in the upper half and then stretched them over my shoes. Due to the gap in the sole, this worked out marvellously.

Sadly the utilisation thing isn’t going particularly well.
The melon rinds moulded, and keeping all bottles and tins is too much. I need a factory of my own doppelgängers or something. I’ve been keeping the bones, on the other hand, and that should be very nice. I don’t have to do anything with them immediately and they don’t take up a lot of room.

Er, I’ll update when I make something else.

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photos © alyx s

Something I regarded as important, a logical and stewardly concept;
but did I do it? Not really.

I want to learn to utilise as much as possible without becoming a hoarder. I thought I’d start with what I know how to use. If I buy a roasted chicken, I should eat the meat and save its bones and cook whatever is left on the carcass in a pot to make stew. Melon rinds can be made into art and flowers and plants can be dried just before wilting and kept as decoration. If I had chickens I would feed them other food rinds, but unfortunately I don’t. Unneeded tins and pots can be decorated and sold, or you can donate them to charity shops or even just use them (things become liked a lot better once you make them into art).

These bones are going to be made into wind chimes. The ones on the left still need to be brushed/sanded.

These melon rinds are drying and once they’re dry I’m going to sew them together. I haven’t quite decided what the final product will be.

These flowers are drying and once they are dry they will go in those pots.

This is leftover bread that broken up and left out to dry (the film is only set lightly across the bread to keep other stuff from falling in). After it’s dry, I make it into bread pudding loafs — a perfect solution to prevent leftover bread from moulding that actually tastes better than the bread did in the first place.

This would be my biggest project… It’s what used to be an organ that I found at the side of the road. I intend to make it some sort of “found art”.

For now, it’s just plaguing me.

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