Project dump

I've been doing a bunch of random stuff, so I thought I'd just dump it all here for fun.

Decoupage/Collage Switch Covers

I found one of these that my sister made in high school and it was sick, so I invited a bunch of friends and family over to decorate mine.

A young happy black girl on a toy phone, surrounded by toys and animals, with a giant finger pointing at magazine text saying

Black and white sheet music with various Christmas carol names pasted on top, with a red bow on top of everything.

A queen of spades from a deck of cards riding a confused cassowary. Behind them are a background full of pizza and a foreground of random green stamps, with capitalized bold text above,

A stylized colorful floral outlet cover, dwarfed completely by a giant hippo surrounding the bottom with his mighty jaw. This is all on a paper below it and makes you wonder where you would put this in your house.

A large artistically-drawn geometric nun holding three guitar chord symbols, with children's show star Barney at their chest. To their right is a cat with a hige clown wig and is written

A horse whose eye is protruding out as the light switch, with the caption

Crockpot Steam Release

My crockpot does not allow steam out, which I think is generally desirable, if you are slow cooking and want to keep in moisture. In my case, I was trying to make caramelized onions, which *require* the removal of the liquid from the onions. So I grabbed some of my (giant) box of corks and fashioned a small step that the lid could rest on, while ensuring the corks could not fall in. A triad of corks in an S tetris piece shape (kinda), all held together by some cord. Worked well and was a fun project!

A silver-sided crockpot on the kitchen counter filled with onions. It has a steamy clear lid held up by the cork tool.

Visible Mending For My Dog

When my dog has a favorite toy, it is their toy for a much shorter time than otherwise. That was the case with this stuffed rabbit. She just sits and chews on it, which means it got a gaping hole where it's eye is. I had some spare scrap black jeans sitting around and made a patch that was way too big and sewed it on while watching Umbrella Academy. She loved it! My sisted thinks it looks like a bad guy from the Redwall books, which I think is accurate.

A stuffed rabbit with their face's left side totally covered by a giant square black patch. It's flat texture and black color is highly contrasted by the rest of the furry colorful animal.

The "Church Chair Guy", Revisited

I too am afflicted by the disease seemingly many people get, which is "I don't want to take two trips to do something, even if it takes five times as long and will likely cause problems". I had to take out the paper and glass recycling and didn't want to go up and then down the stairs.

I tied one rope around the tall and slender paper recycling container using some kind of boring bend, like a square knot. Then I made two "straps" by tying pseudo taut-line hitches on it, and the backpack was born. Then I had to put a bag of paper recycling on top of the existing stuff, so I tied to the other rope and did a couple trucker hitches to squish it down. Then I grabbed the glass container box and went down the stairs to the outside recycling.

Was it "efficient"? No, but it was fun.

My looking despondently at the camera while carrying all the recycling stuff because I didn't give myself enough time on the phone camera's automatic timer.