Yep, still January
Jan. 21st, 2024 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resoluteToday the high temp is supposed to be 22F/-12C, which is 25F/10C higher than it has been. At least.
And the sun is still shining this morning! Which is great! Usually a rise in winter temps means that it's grey and overcast.
In other news, every northern hemisphere winter I want to send physical mail to people. If you would like to receive a piece of physical mail from me, message me with your mailing address. Yes, I include my international comrades in this. (Hello Australia! Hello New Zealand! I hope summer is okay and the droughts, fires, and floods are not too bad where you live!) (Wait, that sounded sarcastic, and it is not intended that way! Thinking of you and wishing you the best!) Hit me up, I'll get around to it.
I have successfully made a wire-wrap bracelet which I like as my first effort. My son pointed out that, since I have used copper, it will verdigris. Ah well. Perhaps I will borrow his torch and put a finish on it.
I am also trying my hand at some art journaling, which I grew up calling collage and then became scrapbooking. Yes, I understand there are small differences between these things in style and intention. They do all, however, involve gluing, taping, and sticking various bits of paper to a larger sheet of paper and then adding various effects in paint, marker, pen, glitter, etc. Anyhoo, I have found a spiralbound book, one of the MANY copies of the collected self-published short comics I wrote over a decade ago, and am using that as the base. The paper is a bit stiffer and has a good finish for taping and gluing things to it. And the art provides an interesting background.
I did read through it again, and, dammit, I think I wrote some decent short stories. Vignettes, since that's basically all I could afford to pay artists to illustrate. And, dammit, the artists did a great job! I wish my efforts had gotten traction, somewhat for my sake but very much for the artists in question. Though one of them, Erika Moen, has gone on to decent success as a cartoonist. (Not due to me and the work I commissioned, of course.) There's a couple pieces in there about unrequited love and how messy it is, one about the lives of the background characters in a steampunk setting (it's grim, I assure you,) a super-power one that I think I did not stick the landing on, and a cute story in the Plants vs Zombies universe. (I contacted the game developers and asked for their permission, which they gave with a sort of gobsmacked delight, and used about a hundred copies as convention freebies once. I was pleased.) There's a couple more stories in the collection too, I think.
Like I said, I rather wish anyone had noticed or cared about the stuff I produced. In the end, I just ran out of money to pay artists with.
... Where was I?
Ah, yes. January.
It is still, indeed, January.
And the sun is still shining this morning! Which is great! Usually a rise in winter temps means that it's grey and overcast.
In other news, every northern hemisphere winter I want to send physical mail to people. If you would like to receive a piece of physical mail from me, message me with your mailing address. Yes, I include my international comrades in this. (Hello Australia! Hello New Zealand! I hope summer is okay and the droughts, fires, and floods are not too bad where you live!) (Wait, that sounded sarcastic, and it is not intended that way! Thinking of you and wishing you the best!) Hit me up, I'll get around to it.
I have successfully made a wire-wrap bracelet which I like as my first effort. My son pointed out that, since I have used copper, it will verdigris. Ah well. Perhaps I will borrow his torch and put a finish on it.
I am also trying my hand at some art journaling, which I grew up calling collage and then became scrapbooking. Yes, I understand there are small differences between these things in style and intention. They do all, however, involve gluing, taping, and sticking various bits of paper to a larger sheet of paper and then adding various effects in paint, marker, pen, glitter, etc. Anyhoo, I have found a spiralbound book, one of the MANY copies of the collected self-published short comics I wrote over a decade ago, and am using that as the base. The paper is a bit stiffer and has a good finish for taping and gluing things to it. And the art provides an interesting background.
I did read through it again, and, dammit, I think I wrote some decent short stories. Vignettes, since that's basically all I could afford to pay artists to illustrate. And, dammit, the artists did a great job! I wish my efforts had gotten traction, somewhat for my sake but very much for the artists in question. Though one of them, Erika Moen, has gone on to decent success as a cartoonist. (Not due to me and the work I commissioned, of course.) There's a couple pieces in there about unrequited love and how messy it is, one about the lives of the background characters in a steampunk setting (it's grim, I assure you,) a super-power one that I think I did not stick the landing on, and a cute story in the Plants vs Zombies universe. (I contacted the game developers and asked for their permission, which they gave with a sort of gobsmacked delight, and used about a hundred copies as convention freebies once. I was pleased.) There's a couple more stories in the collection too, I think.
Like I said, I rather wish anyone had noticed or cared about the stuff I produced. In the end, I just ran out of money to pay artists with.
... Where was I?
Ah, yes. January.
It is still, indeed, January.