Just Create - June 20

[vidderkidder]

Create or Consume. How's it going. What's up, y'all? :-)

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[kellan_the_tabby]

the last month of my life has been More Exciting Than Usual so I haven't got much done but things are getting back on track? Today I:

watered all the plants

made grapefruit ginger soap for my Patreon & Soap of the Month people

& took pictures of the progress I've made on my tiny house so I can write a blog post about em

I still need to write the post, order more soap backstock boxes, & wrap a bunch of soap. Little by little!

[icecheetah]

Oooh! what plants? houseplants? Or do you have a garden?

Grapefruit Ginger sounds like a lovely combination.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Houseplants! Although one of them _is_ basil & I forgot to water that one so uh thanks for asking? I live in the desert, & the concept of planting things outside is frightening to me.

[icecheetah]

Ah!

I'm a gardener and I live in Scotland, so that's a VERY different experience.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Yeah, I grew up in Pennsylvania, where there's actually water, so this is ... another thing entirely.

[kellan_the_tabby]

I have possibly ordered the soap boxes! But the website stopped loading partway through & I don't want to try again right away because I don't want to accidentally too many soap boxes!

The pictures are edited & need to be uploaded!

About half the soap is wrapped!

[icecheetah]

I have managed all my weekly creative tasks! The art was a profile for an oc of mine.
And I created a music track with a goal in mind: Music to use in chase segments of a game.
I call it "Chaser" because I am good and creative at naming things.
General consensus is that I did well at this!

I'd also signed up to a free fashion design course. The intention was that I'd use that to design cool clothes for my ocs, though so far I've learned that the French, particularly Paris, have a stranglehold on the fashion industry.

Literally you cannot say your clothes are Haute Couture, which is considered the highest standard, unless you employ at least twenty staff in a workshop in Paris and have France judge four designs of yours a year.

I thought maybe the course creator had a huge bias towards French fashion but a friend of mine said that it's not just them.

But ah well it's a free course and if it turns out not to provide me what I want, I can just drop it.

[silvercat17]

If you like podcasts, I can recommend Dressed: The History of Fashion (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-dressed-the-history-of-fas-29000690/). It's got some great episodes.

[icecheetah]

Oh gods
I literally follow too many podcasts. I listen to them while I art and work and play certain grindy games and I do not do enough of those to keep up with the rate new episodes are released, nevermind catch up to all of them.


so eh what's one more?

(I am now subscribed to it, thanks!)

[silvercat17]

Fucking mood. I have about 1700 episodes to catch up because I added a bunch of new shows. And of course, all of them are about an hour long...

[icecheetah]

A mere 1,700?
Though at least in my case a good chunk of them are less than 30mins so it's entirely possible that you have more to listen to timewise... and that's only going to get worse.

[kellan_the_tabby]

I just listened to 'chaser' & I am now ENERGIZED.

[icecheetah]

I hope you have places to put that energy!

[kellan_the_tabby]

SO MUCH TO DO

[ryl]

I had a 7 a.m. meeting this past Thursday. I discovered the joy of Webex meetings when I was able to finish my coffee and a stripe on my new striped blanket during the Powerpoint. It helps that my irk computer does not have video.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Yay getting stuff done during boring meetings!

[icecheetah]

Smart use of the time.
7AM though? I hope you are a morning person.

[ryl]

I am a morning person, but only after I've had my coffee and a chance to wake up all the way. My shift starts at 8 so 7 is right in the middle of "waking up completely" time.

[icecheetah]

Ah! I see!

[silvercat17]

Been watching a lot of youtube, so here's some videos that cheered me up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt7zKLmLdqU (Aqua Pup gets Aqua Pup Snacks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBgr32jL0Do (Baby Beaver cuteness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRZBC7Ortjk&t (American Hedgehog Warrior course 7) (and all
of the hedgehog courses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_6v-jh1Z5k (Boom de yada 2020 from Discovery Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUwRRYCe5VI (Cute Rats trying different foods)

And two daily livestreams:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqPZGFtBau8rm7wnScxdA3g/live (Crowcam, but mostly squirrel cam)
https://www.twitch.tv/ksonney (baby chickens)

[silvercat17]

I've also done stuff!

Here's the blog post about my finished dice tower, with video: http://www.silversspace.com/2020/06/dice-tower-out-of-paper/

And I've finally gotten my office vacuumed and dusted and it looks really good.

[silvercat17]

And here's some bardcore (aka pop songs done with medieval instruments):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JKtQ9UAlfY (Land Down Under)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbj4bulZX2Y (What is Love)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzshPGoy6R8 (Sweet Dreams are Made of This)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGSfwUaYzDo (Paint it Black)

[kellan_the_tabby]

these are GLORIOUS

[silvercat17]

there's a lot more on youtube, but most of them are instrumental only

[icecheetah]

I am so bookmarking this thread for later.

[roselightfairy]

I fell into a racism-in-fandom rabbit hole of blog posts and twitter threads and read for like...3-4 hours, which definitely did not feel like productive creative work but I have to hope is part of that action-as-self-education thing so many people have been talking about these days. Slow, steady self-bettering work.

Beyond that, I have a couple projects in the works, though I did not actually work on any of them today. I have a full first draft of a story that's sitting on the back burner to stew for a bit so I can come back to it with fresh eyes - and I wrote a little snippet for a follow-up to a collaborative project last night, which will similarly sit for a little while.

Also! I was introduced to this lady-elf character maker and I have made SO MANY ELVES. (one of my OCs has at least 5 different clothing/expression/background combos now.)

[ryl]

Elf-maker site....hmmm....I may have to bookmark that for later mischief.

*plays with it*

[althea_valara]

I finished this Playing Cat Amigurumi, and also this Dragon Silhouette Applique. Both were for challenges in Nerdopolis, my crafting tournament I take part in.

I have some other projects for Nerdopolis in the works, but I don't know if I'm going to have time to get them done because my mom commissioned me to make an elephant blanket for a baby shower she's going to. Last night I worked on it for an hour, and got only two motifs done so it's going to take some considerable work to finish it on time.