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My mama and I have gotten to season 9 which is when the Ori show up.

We aren’t too many episodes in when I start seeing the similarities between them and the Alterans.

Both have no actual regard for humans.

Both see humans as inferior, but useful on occasion.

Both use technology to gain cooperation in a manner that’s harmful (the Ori for belief and Alterans for experimentation).

I’m just saying y’all.

Having a great time though!

I hadn’t intended to do a big crafty thing today but things happened and this was actually the easiest craft to do.

Got this puppet holder from work when a new one came in, but it was several inches too big and I would have kept stubbing my toes. You can see the two sides that aren’t cut and the two I did before remembering I was supposed to take pics.

The hardest part was making a scored line the saw could nest in. Aggravating!

Once the teeth were completely beneath the top it got way easier! Not a lot of effort was needed at all!

I decided to time myself because it don’t feel very long but apparently it took me about half an hour for each side! 2 hrs to cut this down isn’t half bad!

Completely cut!

Rough edges will not do!

So nice and sanded.

Finished product!

Getting into my closet isn’t the easiest due to my rearranging and I’d been hanging my work shirts on my bedroom door knob for months to make it easier.

I didn’t like that because it looked tacky and felt wrong somehow.

Don’t ask me how.

Anyways, when this was going to be thrown away my boss said I could have it(so long as I took it that night!).

It didn’t occur to me until the next day that I could have dismantled it and put it in my car…

I put the seats down and shoved it in instead.

I like it! I may have to do some glow in the dark painting, but not now.

Ciao!

I got more tiny books which means more tiny shelves!

I should definitely have enough now to make another bookshelf.

I just have to get more black paint I believe. I didn’t realize how low I was so I’m not actually sure I have enough for another bookshelf project.

This time I am determined to take pics at every stage!

Will keep y’all posted!

Have a fabulous week and God bless it!

I had already painted the dresses, grass, black around the outside and the rabbits themselves years ago when I first got this.

Obviously, I forgot to take between the paintings pics. This is the final result with a coating of varnish on it.

When I first tried varnish I was worried the white wouldn’t go away, but as you’ll see it did go away and leaves a beautiful shine!

The inside of the rabbit jewelry box originally had a velvet bottom but it was old and torn. I pried it out and considered making a resin diorama inside or simply replacing the velvet.

The bottle is an experiment I did years ago as well. It never occurred to me that the cork stopper would leak. I put super glue and resin around the rim to try and get it to stop before finally realizing I needed to coat the entire cork stopper with something to seal it!

The horse will be getting painted with only color shift paint. It’s also something of an experiment. I was going to paint it to match the description of a horse in a short story I did with NARCON, but I can’t find that story now…

It’s a little hard to see if you’re not looking, but the paint inside changes from blue to purple! The pic really doesn’t do it justice!

Final result!

Look how shiny!!

I don’t have too much left to paint, then I’ll be on to finishing my scrapbooks!

I’m super excited that I’ll be able to get rid of one of the tables in my room soon. That means I’ll be able to get the bigger bookshelves and eventually convert a smaller one into a craft holder for my supplies!

I’ve already started looking for organizational ideas!

Also!!

I have a super cool thing this year in addition to Toys for Tots!!

See ya next week!

Still haven’t figured out how to post to a page and not just the blog (mostly because I forgot to look into that…oops.), however, nothing says I can’t just make Bible study blog posts!

Which you’d think I’d have thought of earlier…

Anyways, I’ve heard that God wants us to pray for our enemies. I don’t remember reading that yet in the Bible (I’m in Daniel now), though I suppose I could be forgetting (edit: I am forgetting because I read it in Psalms and highlighted it!) I know I’ve heard it said by multiple Christians on social media.

I always thought enemy was on par with great evil. Terrorists, pedophiles, murderers, and so on. It didn’t occur to me until today (and yes to some extent I’ve heard this said online too) that ‘enemy’ is anything or anyone that works to keep you from being closer to God and doing His will.

For example: there’s a frequent customer where I work and I don’t like him. At all, because he was rude to me during our first interaction and a few times since. If I’m supposed to pray for my enemies, that would definitely include him because I have allowed myself to be upset and angry and disgusted when I have to interact with him.

This clearly comes through in my tone, but I’ve allowed it and excused it by telling myself that I’m being professional and that’s the ‘bare minimum’ I need to be a good employee dealing with a trouble customer.

The ‘bare minimum’ is not what God asks of us.

Figuring this out changes perspective on quite a few things. Guess the question is whether I’ll choose to follow God’s command or not.

Heavy topic and easier said than done!

Til next time!

Just an update today on crafty things!

Pretty sure I forgot to take before pictures (though I’ll check of course), but I got some more paining of small figures done today!

I got one completely done (it’s part of a set so I can’t post pics yet) and several almost done!

I also had a fantastic idea for one of them. It’s a cute little jewelry box that had a faux velvet liner to it but was torn. At first I was going to replace it then, while paining it today, I figured I may as well tear it out now.

What was underneath has potential!

I plan to paint the inside silver glittery and then add a small layer of resin to the bottom with a scene of some kind. Leaving enough room for it to still be used as a jewelry box if someone wanted too.

This was a lot done today. Even though it was all small stuff individually, it adds up!

Hopefully next week I’ll have pics of finished crafts!

Toodaloo!

I finished it!! Here are the pics (when I remembered to take them…) to show the process!

I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!

I actually got another 2 after these pics, so the shelves are more full now and I’ll be getting 4 more later to add again!

I plan to ask my sister to make me barcodes and spine labels for them because these are library bookcases (it was the only way I could justify keeping all copies!) and as such require certain accoutrements!!

Love y’all!

See you next week and stay crafty!

We all remember when Shepherd meets Teyla for the first time and lies about liking tea.

How long do you think it took for him to confess to that?

I’m not saying Teyla didn’t know from that exact moment he was lying. I’m just wondering how long it took before their relationship was at the point that he randomly thought about it and apologized for lying.

It’s not a huge deal and she wouldn’t have held it against him either. Especially as time went by and she got to know him better.

But it is pretty funny to think about.

Bonus points if he was having a random conversation with Ronin and spilled about his and Teyla’s first meet and accidentally confessed.

I bet she would have messed with him for a bit or at least let Ronin do it.

Random thought that’s been floating around my head for a bit.

Have a fabulous week everyone!!

We’ve been under several heat alerts lately and it’s definitely taking a toll!

It’s not like we’ve been outside doing stuff for long periods of time, but the mere act of going from A/C to THAT level of heat is ridiculous.

Don’t even get me started on the changing pressure and pollen!!!

Everyone take a deep breath and keep up the good work!

I’ll see you next week!

For Christmas my sister got me a small pestle and mortar.

It’s adorable!

I completely forgot about it because I left it wrapped and in it’s box to keep it safe, but while cleaning off my table recently I found it again.

I don’t currently have use for it because I’m not doing any crafts that would lend themselves to figuring out the best method.

However.

That didn’t stop me from trying to grind small pieces of glow-in-the-dark plastic.

A little back story: I got some dollar store glow-in-the-dark dinosaur kits and didn’t feel like throwing away perfectly good glow-in-the-dark material. Ever since then I’ve been randomly cutting the bigger pieces down.

I thought to myself, why not make it a powder so I can use it for crafty things?

I couldn’t find anything online about using a mortar and pestle for crafty things. I also couldn’t find anything concrete about trying to make powder out of plastic.

So I tried it.

Thankfully, my brother came in not long after and asked me what I was doing.

I told him and during the conversation he reminded me that plastic, for the most part, is toxic…

Trying to grind down plastic when I don’t know the properties is a bad idea.

I know this, because I’d started smelling something as I’d been grinding. I ignored it and kept going.

The slight headache I was getting could have been due to countless reasons so I don’t want to assume anything.

So, yeah.

Doing crafty things is fun but can also be dangerous!

Until next week, stay safe when crafting people!