So, Walt Whitman walks into a bar wearing rainbow hippie pants...

I haven't shown you my awesomely nerdy hippie pants yet. I made them about two months ago. They started out as a pair of jeans that I didn't wear very often. Brynne slitted them at the front and back and added triangles of denim fabric cut from some other pants to make the flares very, very wide. Then I took a set of rainbow Sharpies (left over from my tie-dying efforts here and here) and wrote the first half of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself on them.

Those of you out there who have read John Green's Paper Towns will surely appreciate the reference, as the poem is a major plot point in the book.

Front view:
Side-ish view:

Detail:

And the wonderful flares:

teh craftses

So. In my various perusals I've discovered this moste excellente website that makes me want to go and make some of the things shown. They just look so cuddly and cute. And geeky.

This will likely become a source for shameless borrowing and inspiration for projects to come.

Then there are these, which just make me laugh.

Now, I'm going to go crochet. Adieu!

P.S. LOLcat thrown in for good measure:

spunk

Above are two screenshots of my desktop. It is very steempunk-y.

And above is a screenshot of my new Firefox theme. It is lovely as well.

"Winter Moon" covers

So. Aunt Sarah is printing hard copies of her latest novel (which has yet to be published) and asked me to design the cover.  If anyone wants to order it you can contact Sarah at dr.sarahwoodbury -at- gmail -dot- com. The horror ones were just for my own amusement, but I've included them anyway. 

 

These first two I love, even though the second doesn't quite fit the tone of the book: 

The next few are horrific:

 

And she ended up picking this one: 

My absolute favourite: 

The end. 

as if there's a chance you didn't notice...

Yes, there's been a redesign. And that little dreamcatcher by the blog title is the logo that I spent quite a bit of today on. I think that it turned out surprisingly well, given that it's the first thing I've tried to draw on Inkscape (which is lovely) that isn't a map. The text is set in Zapfino. 

And I've always liked the look of a black background, so we're going back to that for a while, and I hope it's not hard to read. 

Layli and the technicolour dream shirt

One of my nerdfighter shirts was getting grey and gross, so I decided to 'tie-dye' it with Sharpies. 

Front: 

Back: 

Unfortunately, the lettering is kind of hard to see, because I didn't know what Sharpies would do to fabric paint. If I could have, I think I would have dyed the shirt first and then chosen contrasting colours of fabric paint, but I'm still quite happy with my shirt. 

the death of my sheet*

A couple of days ago I decided to fake tie-dye my bottom sheet (I don't sleep under a top sheet because it gets tangled around my legs and then makes me feel like I'm caught in a net). 

Anyway, here are pictures of part of the process (which involved lots of Sharpies, rubber bands, rubbing alcohol, and plastic wrap). 

And... 

...the finished product. :D

It makes me happy. And the nice thing about using Sharpies is that you can use way more colours than you can with real die without it looking muddy, and you get more of a water-colour runny look too. I have to confess that I like it just as much as the real thing, maybe even more. 

But don't tell anyone. 

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*I don't ONLY tie-dye so that I can make bad puns, I swear!