the dreaded tree

now, admittedly, i have a beautiful purse. i love it a lot. it’s made of tapestry and has beaded tassles hanging off. it’s very, very neat looking.

however, it’s also pretty annoying. when i’m walking it sometimes swings over to the front and gets repeatedly smacked by my thigh with each step. or when i lean over to get something, and it swings over and attacks my face. or when i want to dance but i can’t because of that PURSE, and i don’t want to set it down lest it’s stolen. i used to think the solution to these problems was the right purse, but it’s really not. all purses possess the same annoying traits.

the solution is a utility belt.

so i made this out of an old hat i had. a very nice heavy-duty hat that i was very fond of, but didn’t wear. i feel that its new life purpose is 20 times better than before, and i’m happy to be using it.

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since i’m a terrible swimmer, i’ll happily settle for a pirate lorry instead of a pirate ship.
here’s my pinzgauer — a 6-wheeled all-terrain utility vehicle originally developed in austria.
complete with pirate flag!

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here’s a bone necklace i made last week. i’ve got quite the surplus of bones right now, all of which will eventually turn into jewellery or art projects of one kind or another. most of the bones i get come from chickens that are made into gumbo. i wish i saved all the bones i got my hands on — but cleaning all of that is too much work.

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this is something i’ve been working on lately. i can’t say i’m remarkably pleased with it yet, but it isn’t finished. at my work, we go through a lot of bottles — and they happen to be really nice bottles. some of them i use as water bottles, but there’s simple too many to keep all of them. even so, i really don’t want to waste them. it’s such a sad sight each time one goes in the bin. i’ve considered making my own soft drinks with a Co2 charger, and filling the bottles with that. but that’s a later project. for now, the bottles are stacking up and i need to do something with them.

so that’s when i started gluing them together and pasting a motley of materials onto them in an attempt to create ‘art’. i’d like it to be usable in some way, but presently it’s a useless sculpture.

right now it’s clearly just a few bottles with rubbish strewn all about them. but when i’m finished, it will hopefully look more dignified — and with luck, also serve as a lamp. the trick is finding lights that will fit into the narrow bottle necks, and then creating a base for the whole thing. so until then.. this is it.

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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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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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