Wreath

Actually, this is pretty easy to make since I don't gotta measure or cut anything. It's pretty flimsy though, using cocktail straws and sewing thread.

I bought a can of silver glitter spraypaint for a small star I made for a card. If there's any leftover from my test sprays (gonna use the previous straw thingies I made as test subjects), I'mma spraypaint this baby.

60

Not sure if my calculations are correct. If a regular icosahedron has 20 little triangles in total, then I add three triangles to each little triangular face to make a triangle-based pyramid, I'd get like 60 surface triangles? (Honestly, I don't know the names to these shapes and shit. I either was not taught it, or I'd been spaced out when it was taught ...)

I have to say though: I don't like this spiky orb thing.

Sigh

Yesterday was the Diwali public holiday. The only Hindi movie screening on the free-to-view channel was fucking Chennai Express. Why the shitty show I don't have a clue, but I guess a movie like That Girl in Yellow Boots or Ugly isn't exactly something that will liven the holiday mood.

Tried out a himmeli orb (well, I made two, actually) while streaming Gone Girl:

I'd not read Gone Girl but the movie I couldn't finish nor did I want to. Visually, the movie looked great, but the characters and story—big fucking ugh. I found the movie to have zero incentive for me to continue or finish watching: I dislike both major characters and don't give a fuck as to whether revenge was had or they reconciled and had a happily ever after.

Anyway, books I finished in the last week or so:

• Bad Monkey
• Mystery
• Victims
• Sandman Slim:
  [note to self] Not sure whether to pursue this series or not. This book came as a if-you-like-[book A]-you'll-like-[book C] recommendation, [book A] being the Cabal brothers series. While I adore Johannes (and Holt) Cabal, James Stark isn't a character I feel much for either way. Sure, the book's throwaway one-liners gave me a number of amused snorts along the way, but I had to push myself to continue reading, almost right until the take-down at Club Avila when it got kinda exciting.

The himmeli orb has 20 facets (if I counted correctly), which makes it a regular icosahedron—I think. With no internal spokes, the structure is less stable than I like. Maybe I'll try stellated polyhedra next ... or something in a larger scale.

Wilde Cut

This is, I think, my first attempt at a pop-up card without a template ... so, as expected, my calculations and measurements are a little off. (Not to mention the lack of structural support in the text so that the first are is collapsing backwards.)

The background isn't coming through the way I thought it would (it's the starry night-sky background I created for my VSC 2 assignment, the Cirque des Rêves booklet).

This is one of my favorite quotes (out of context). Something I hope to remind myself when times get shitty.

A Quick One

The basic building block of this thing (three-sided triangle-faced) came to me while I was lying in bed on Sunday morning. This thing turned out to be kinda 'movable'—as in it can be rotated like flip food lunchbox.

I guess if I used bugle beads or something with clear nylon thread, this could arguably be worn ... right?

Mini Projects

As soon as I decided on wearable himmelis, I started making a butterfly one (cribbing from a design I found on Etsy) which is definitely not wearable.

Completed this one on Friday ... and it doesn't look much like a butterfly because I eyeballed the different lengths required based on the design. Ah well.

Also, I finally finished the first of my Islamic pattern cuttings yesterday:

I don't quite know what to do with this—mount it? Make it into something of a lampshade? What??? I gotta try to give this away to a friend so it's gotta be made into something.

I've also been on a bit of guilty-reading binge. I borrowed a bunch of books last Wednesday and the Wednesday before last after my blood test and a doctor consultation (re: blood test results; I'mma stop my thyroid pills now that my TSH and other crap have leveled out) and have been steadily going through them.

Guilty reads so far:

• The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden
• Explosive Eighteen
• Notorious Nineteen
• Takedown Twenty
• The Outsourcer's Apprentice
• The Woman Who Died A Lot
• Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute

Gotta say, I absolutely adore the Thursday Next and Johannes Cabal series! It used to be Tom Holt was my favorite (because of books like Who's Afraid of Beowulf and Expecting Someone Taller) but Jasper Fforde is now my new hero. And Jonathan L. Howard—hoo boy, I love me more of the brothers Cabal!

Not What I Had In Mind ...

See, what I'd intended to make was a bangle/bracelet; what I ended up with was a fucking wreath. A tiny wreath, but still a wreath nonetheless. Fuck.

I'm quite determined that I make something wearable today. And not flat.