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]

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.

[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.

[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)

[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.)

[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.