Olivia makes stuff.

ianbrooks: LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao Exquisitely...

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:59:22 -0400

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao

Exquisitely detailed enough to be crafted in the forest realm of Lothlórien, this beauteous guitar was not forged by elf nor man, but by 16 year Vivian Xiao with sharpie markers! Depicting Nazgul, Minas Tirith, and even the all-seeing Eye of Sauron, this divinely-engraved instrument could surely inspire even more Led Zeppelin songs. Check put Vivian’s website for details on purchasing and commissions.

Artist: Deviantart / Tumblr / Facebook (via: Obvious Winner)

this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life and puts my guitar-decorating attempts to shame

hello how are you?: so recently a couple dudes who i hate because they have been shitty to...

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:22:10 -0400

hello how are you?: so recently a couple dudes who i hate because they have been shitty to...:

katydidnot:

so recently a couple dudes who i hate because they have been shitty to my favorite ladies (and to be fair some dudes i don’t know) made a craigslist ad looking for new roommates that was intended to be funny but that also revealed:

1. they are disgusting people who live in filth, like,…

Hahahahaha I can confirm from first-hand experience that these dudes are both terrible and super gross (when I dated [redacted] his dorm room was FULL OF ANTS because of all the dirty dishes lying around (many of which were from the food he’d convince me to steal him from the dining hall on weekends, god damnit I wanted that tupperware back)) so it is not at all surprising but pretty pleasing to hear they’re living in squalor.

Like, what is the target demographic of this ad?

Ms. Behaved Style Icon - Lydia Brambila

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:43:15 -0400

Ms. Behaved Style Icon - Lydia Brambila:

lybram:

so i got interviewed for the blog MS. BEHAVED about my fashion sense or whatever, and it got published the first day of my period, and when i saw it, i ran around for like 15 minutes going NOOOOOO GAAAAAAAAAD and felt really weird and gross about it

but now my hormones have died down and i feel a little better! i talked about selena, magical girls, compton, and chola stuff. here it is

Tried to read Lydia’s interview but on the school computers it’s blocked for being pornography because Lydia is TOO HOT.

katydidnot: here it is FEMINIST SKILLJOYS, issue one! a...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:45:57 -0400

katydidnot:

~~here it is~~ FEMINIST SKILLJOYS, issue one! a zine about making stuff, available ONLINE NOW FOR FREE or~ in physical copy for trade or a couple bux (covering postage basically) just message me or email me~

A BIG THANKS TO: all the contributors to the zine (allison jean, olivia, dena, stacey-marie, r.b., fiona, lonna, rose l, hannah, and ethan) plus everyone doing the in person skillshare tomorrow and also kt for giving me printing tipzzz and letting me do the skillshare at the really really free market AND begrudgingly martin for thinking up the title pun

there is already so much more i am excited to include so i am definitely planning a second issue. you should email me if you have something to contribute! I AM ALSO planning a q&a section in the next issue so if you have questions about a specific craft or skill send me an email too and to the best of my ability i will see if i can find an expert to answer your query. ~~ batselke (at) bellsouth (dot) net ~~

(also the part where there are way too many pages of me talking is going to be fixed in the next issue, this is because this is a part of my term assignment — my ~praxis project~ — for my final women’s studies course. i feel like actually a lot of the goals are self-explanatory though so definitely future issues will be way more just about making stuff)

Guys I am in this and it is super great, Katy is super great and so are all the other talented people who contributed. Check it out!

Made some bracelets from eucalyptus bark plus embroidery thread....

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:13:00 -0400

Made some bracelets from eucalyptus bark plus embroidery thread. You can also do these with tulip poplar bark!

katydidnot: ok so kale is delicious and i literally just had it for maybe the first time last week...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:03:26 -0400

katydidnot:

ok so kale is delicious and i literally just had it for maybe the first time last week and now i’m cooking with it all the time but i am still very very skeptical of kale juice/smoothies/etc

katy I grew SO MUCH KALE before I left and I had to abandon most of it because I just couldn’t eat it all by myself, I did not know you liked greens I could have given you ALL THE KALE IN THE WORLD, it’s probably gone feral by now

katydidnot: i got this book at barnes and noble yesterday. me...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:35:09 -0500

katydidnot:

i got this book at barnes and noble yesterday. me and olivia and daniel are going to learn to make natural dyes! WHAT WILL WE CREATE. daniel’s done a little dye-making before with violet but i have never done any of it. i am excited to learn! i’m really excited to dye with pokeweed berries because as a little kid i used to draw all over my body with it and the color looks super vibrant in the dye examples i’ve seen. if anyone has any natural dyeing advice (in general, or if you are from around here and know where to find stuff) lemme know!

FUTURE CRAFTS I am super excited about

MAKE YOUR OWN INSANELY EASY CHOCOLATE BARS! My mom taught me how...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:31:51 -0500

MAKE YOUR OWN INSANELY EASY CHOCOLATE BARS!

My mom taught me how to do this recently and it’s the best thing ever. It doesn’t require very many ingredients and the only cooking skill you need is the ability to operate a microwave.

Ingredients:

A bag of chocolate chips
Whatever mix-ins you want in your chocolate bars. I used dried blueberries, sliced almonds, and salt, but other than dried fruit and nuts you could also use marshmallows, other kinds of candy, your favorite cereal, crushed up potato chips, cinnamon, graham crackers, coconut, or anything else you think would taste good!
Either some waxed paper or tinfoil or a pan greased with butter (or anything else that will keep the chocolate from sticking without ruining the taste). If you’re feeling fancy you could try pouring them into a mold, but again you’ll have to grease it first.
A microwave

Directions:

Prepare your pan/wax paper/foil/whatever you’re using.
Heat up the chocolate chips in small amounts in your microwave. I like to do it in a mug cause it’s easier to manage than a big bowl. It’s very easy to heat chocolate too much and ruin it, so microwave the chocolate chips in 20 second intervals and stir in between each heating. It’ll melt faster than you think!
Pour the melted chocolate into your designated receptacle.
Sprinkle on your mix-ins! You can also try putting them in your container/on your paper first and pouring the chocolate over them, like I did.
Heat up more chocolate chips if needed and repeat the process until you’ve made as much as you’d like.
Put you chocolate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to cool and harden.
Take it out of the fridge. If you greased your pan properly, it should pop right out (if you used wax paper, you should be able to peel it off). You can cut your chocolate into bars or wedges by scoring a line along the top of the chocolate using a knife where you want to cut it, and then carefully breaking it with your hands—it should break right along the line you made.
Eat them! These would also make super cute and easy gifts wrapped in some colorful paper or foil.

sciencesoup: Manga Farms Manga publishing is a huge business,...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:01:55 -0500

sciencesoup:

Manga Farms

Manga publishing is a huge business, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, but what happens when the books are no longer wanted? They’re sent to secondhand bookstores, passed down under they’re tattered and worn, recycled and turned to pulp… But Koshi Kawachi, a Tokyo-based artist whose works often feature water and recycling themes, has come up with a fun and eclectic way to give the old comics a burst of new life. His concept is quite simple: place an old comic upright in a dish in a sunny, airy spot, sprinkle some seeds over it, water them, and wait for sprouts to peek out from between the printed pages. Radishes, buckwheat, broccoli, rocket, basil, and many others will work—and of course, so would any book or comic. You might balk at the idea of sacrificing of a perfectly good book—but you can always use a hated one, perhaps one with a particularly weak storyline that you can (literally) breathe some fresh life into it. Paper is potentially a good fertiliser, and if the nitrogen content of pulp could be boosted and the ink made more environmentally-friendly, then Kawachi’s idea could open up imaginative possibilities for book recycling and indoor farming.

I wanna try this!

learning some embroidery by stitching a heart on the pocket of...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:03:26 -0500

learning some embroidery by stitching a heart on the pocket of my favorite vest

I got some embroidery stuff cause I miss crafting and I needed something compact/relatively...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:02:02 -0500

I got some embroidery stuff cause I miss crafting and I needed something compact/relatively un-messy. I’ve never really properly learned to embroider before, the most I’ve ever done was this which I made having no idea how to do any real embroidery (it shows). Does anyone have any good resources for learning embroidery?

bemyghoulfriend: sic-dominus-meus: YOOOOOO. I’ve almost hit...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:06:25 -0500

bemyghoulfriend:

sic-dominus-meus:

YOOOOOO.

I’ve almost hit my 169 follower mark |D so to celebrate, I’m giving away TWO marimos. NOT ONE. TWO. TWO FUCKIN MOSS BALLS OF CUTE FOR YOUR VERY OWN. :3c

Aren’t they cute? I’m obsessed with them.

ROOLZ:

-You don’t have to be following me, but that’d be pretty tight \m/

-Like/reblog as many times as you want idc man go fuckin nuts.

-BE OKAY WITH GIVING ME YOUR ADDRESS!!!

-YES, I ship internationally. HUZZAH.

-Take care of the marimo if you win!

Giveaway will end on Wednesday, February 20th at 6pm CST.

Good luck~

This is cute I want one!

Okay I know it’s cool to hate Valentine’s Day or...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:01:11 -0500

Okay I know it’s cool to hate Valentine’s Day or whatever but I am not gonna pass up the chance to make a cute card for someone, this is what I made for my boyfriend this year because we are ADVENTURE BUDDIES.

revengeofthebunyip: According to my brand new copy of The...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:27:19 -0500

revengeofthebunyip:

According to my brand new copy of The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Second Edition this is an Australian White Ibis, they were all over the place in Sydney.

revengeofthebunyip: Okay, anyone know what this one is? My...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:02:12 -0500

revengeofthebunyip:

Okay, anyone know what this one is? My google searches for “weird head spike bird australia” were fruitless. What is the deal with its head thing.

Another Australia bird doodle. Apparently it’s a crested pigeon!

revengeofthebunyip: Here’s a little doodle of my first Super...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:59:34 -0500

revengeofthebunyip:

Here’s a little doodle of my first Super Cool Wildlife Encounter, and he’s called a Galah, or Rose-Breasted Cockatoo. I thought they were pigeons at first because they were all just standing around on the ground, but apparently they like to hang out in open fields and look for food. That there are flocks of parrots right outside my apartment is one of the best things about Canberra, I think.

Did you know I am in Australia right now? It’s true! Here is a picture of a bird that I saw.

HELP what is a good craft project I can bring on an extremely long plane ride that requires minimal...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:47 -0500

HELP what is a good craft project I can bring on an extremely long plane ride that requires minimal space/will make minimal mess/does not involve anything that airplanes don’t like (big ol scissors etc)?????

did you know that I am actually the best paper snowflake maker...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:43:22 -0500

did you know that I am actually the best paper snowflake maker of all time.

katydidnot: whoisthisfuck: equiusdirk: Sock Dreams is a...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:03:21 -0500

katydidnot:

whoisthisfuck:

equiusdirk:

Sock Dreams is a really cool place with really cute socks! I have bought three pairs of socks there, for a reasonable price, and they ARE SO GREAT!!!

I thought I should share the great socks and giveaway a $60 gift certificate to their site!

The rules are super simple:

You may reblog this as much as you like!

No sideblogs please, lets keep this fair.

You do not have to be following me to win! Though, if you can tolerate my gobs of Homestuck, feel free to do so!

Likes do count!!!

Since this is an e-gift certificate, I will be needing your email address.

I will be using a random number generator to pick the winner, and they will be contacted via Tumblr ask box. Please have your ask open. If the first winner does not reply within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen.

The winner will be chosen on January 27th, 2013.

Good luck! ♥

sOCKS!

i never win these but also i really love sock dreams

my chances are likewise pretty slim but

Tire planters, y’all. Just cut out the top with a knife...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:02:03 -0500

Tire planters, y’all. Just cut out the top with a knife (it’s not as hard as you’d think) and fill it up with dirt. You don’t HAVE to cut it but you’ll have a lot more space/waste a lot less dirt if you do.

Olivia makes stuff.

ianbrooks: LOTR Illustrated Guitar by Vivian Xiao Exquisitely...

hello how are you?: so recently a couple dudes who i hate because they have been shitty to...

Ms. Behaved Style Icon - Lydia Brambila

katydidnot: ~~here it is~~ FEMINIST SKILLJOYS, issue one! a...

Made some bracelets from eucalyptus bark plus embroidery thread....

katydidnot: ok so kale is delicious and i literally just had it for maybe the first time last week...

katydidnot: i got this book at barnes and noble yesterday. me...

MAKE YOUR OWN INSANELY EASY CHOCOLATE BARS! My mom taught me how...

sciencesoup: Manga Farms Manga publishing is a huge business,...

learning some embroidery by stitching a heart on the pocket of...

I got some embroidery stuff cause I miss crafting and I needed something compact/relatively...

bemyghoulfriend: sic-dominus-meus: YOOOOOO. I’ve almost hit...

Okay I know it’s cool to hate Valentine’s Day or...

revengeofthebunyip: According to my brand new copy of The...

revengeofthebunyip: Okay, anyone know what this one is? My...

revengeofthebunyip: Here’s a little doodle of my first Super...

HELP what is a good craft project I can bring on an extremely long plane ride that requires minimal...

did you know that I am actually the best paper snowflake maker...

katydidnot: whoisthisfuck: equiusdirk: Sock Dreams is a...

Tire planters, y’all. Just cut out the top with a knife...

katydidnot: here it is FEMINIST SKILLJOYS, issue one! a...