82 degrees and sleepy
Feb. 7th, 2017 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseYesterday I finished digging up the 'sword' plants and then remembered that today's the deadline for a Rainforest Animal theme contest. I HAD an idea, but just couldn't get the drawing on computer to work- tried three different ways and finally gave up and went to drawing on paper with colored pencil. Took forever to draw 6 frogs (in actual frog species colors). And then I scanned them and discovered colored pencil doesn't show up very well, so I experimented with Photoshop Elements (settled on upping the saturation 100%, using the Stamp filter on black, and then selecting the non-black portions to fill with color.) Other stuff went on, but you get the idea. It ate up most of the day.
Rainforest Rainbow Poison Dart Frogs
Until it's proofed and set for sale, it's not publicly viewable on Roostery, so I copied the mockup of the pillow. It makes a fun pillow.
So far today:
I've just cleared off the shelf above the kitchen sink, washed it, and repainted it using linen white semi-gloss. It's always surprising to me the stuff I find when I clean. A box of yellow plastic corn on the cob holders. A cat's tooth! (the vet SWORE she'd removed all his bad teeth, but I wound up pulling this one myself two days later because it was sticking out of his mouth at a 45 degree angle! Thomas was a good kitty.)
Went out and heard peep peep peep and looked until I saw a bluegray gnatcatcher. SO CUTE. So tiny and fast. I may have got a photo.
Also. Miwahni mentioned the Owl Service and wondered if I could make a snowflake similar to the batflake, but with owls and flowers. I went to one of my favorite on line snowflake makers and had a try. I wound up with a fairly good flying owl, but I think the flower is... a thistle? Don't know. :^)
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com
They gave the flake ID as flake #30906737 (which is how you can look it up in the gallery, but that's a slow system.)
This should be the direct link. When you 'cut' the flakes they're white, but when you save them as jpegs, they're blue.
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/viewflake.php?id=32423104
I also made 3 color variants of the batflake, so I think it's time for more yard work. For a change of pace I think I'll attack the Asp. Fern in the front yard.
*whew* I'm taking a break. I was so sweaty my googles were filling up. I've been attacking some of the Asp. fern along the fence- my neighbor has a wooden fence a few inches away from my chain link fence, and the Asp. that grew in the space between... well... it's huge, and awkward to get at. But since it's been killing the bushes there, I can now work the shovel in bit by bit and lever away at the roots.
I'm feeling time pressure because a lot of the Asp. Fern I'm digging up has green berries. DIE DIE DIE, and DIE CHILDLESS!
Rainforest Rainbow Poison Dart Frogs
Until it's proofed and set for sale, it's not publicly viewable on Roostery, so I copied the mockup of the pillow. It makes a fun pillow.
So far today:
I've just cleared off the shelf above the kitchen sink, washed it, and repainted it using linen white semi-gloss. It's always surprising to me the stuff I find when I clean. A box of yellow plastic corn on the cob holders. A cat's tooth! (the vet SWORE she'd removed all his bad teeth, but I wound up pulling this one myself two days later because it was sticking out of his mouth at a 45 degree angle! Thomas was a good kitty.)
Went out and heard peep peep peep and looked until I saw a bluegray gnatcatcher. SO CUTE. So tiny and fast. I may have got a photo.
Also. Miwahni mentioned the Owl Service and wondered if I could make a snowflake similar to the batflake, but with owls and flowers. I went to one of my favorite on line snowflake makers and had a try. I wound up with a fairly good flying owl, but I think the flower is... a thistle? Don't know. :^)
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com
They gave the flake ID as flake #30906737 (which is how you can look it up in the gallery, but that's a slow system.)
This should be the direct link. When you 'cut' the flakes they're white, but when you save them as jpegs, they're blue.
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/viewflake.php?id=32423104
I also made 3 color variants of the batflake, so I think it's time for more yard work. For a change of pace I think I'll attack the Asp. Fern in the front yard.
*whew* I'm taking a break. I was so sweaty my googles were filling up. I've been attacking some of the Asp. fern along the fence- my neighbor has a wooden fence a few inches away from my chain link fence, and the Asp. that grew in the space between... well... it's huge, and awkward to get at. But since it's been killing the bushes there, I can now work the shovel in bit by bit and lever away at the roots.
I'm feeling time pressure because a lot of the Asp. Fern I'm digging up has green berries. DIE DIE DIE, and DIE CHILDLESS!
