#MAKE STUFF

[haylanmakesstuff]

Back to our regularly scheduled programming

Thanks to all of you for following along on my journey this summer and to those of you who helped me raise so much money for the Ehler’s-Danlo’s Syndrome. Now that I’m back home and we’ve hurled straight into spooky season, I will bring us all back to our regularly scheduled programing: Stuff I make. 

So to start off the most wonderful time of the year, I want to share with you a very affordable and easy to make pumpkin arch! Above is our sweet Ms. Nova modeling the finished product for us. Here is it all lit up at night: 

First, we clearly went to the store and got the essentials: 

Side note: we got home and played our first round of Jumanji, and just as we rolled the dice, some raccoons or something in the attic went off very loudly. Coincidence? The game clearly works. 

Another day, after we escaped the perils of the game successfully, I began by removing the handles and drilling a quarter sized hole in each pumpkin (for the lights and pole to go through) and a smaller .5 cm hole for each. The little hole is located in a spot so that when it rains, the pumpkin will not fill with rain. 

Next, I simply strung the pumpkins and lights through a PVC pipe measured to fit the gateway where we wanted the arch -- a very strange size. 

Since the gateway you see is particularly wide, we did struggle with figuring out how to attach it; we could have used weighted pots, but we chose to secure it with metal fasteners to the hinges of the gate. We also found out after a few days that the 100-degree direct sunshine was a tad too much, and it began melting during the day; not the pumpkins, but the pole was drooping. We fixed this by using a black metal bar to hold up the center. I was bummed about this at first, but I decorated it with a giant spider web and spider and it worked out ok. 

As you can see, this arch was SO cheap and simple to make (99 cent buckets, $2 PVC pipe, lights we already had) and so cute! Not everything has to be grand, expensive, or hard to make. Stay tuned for more of my Spooky Season creations! 

Haylan

[smoking-witch]

I follow accts that 1) post original content, or 2) interact w my original content. // I quietly love on accts that reblog content like mine, bc they'll prolly reblog me at some point. // I block accts that post AI art/plagiarize in general, bc eschew bootlickers

[evesaintyves]

so a long time ago i took this community college art class just to kill some time. we had to do a final project, any medium, any subject, just produce a work and present it in front of the class. i was working with rich people in newport beach at the time so i sculpted this clay medusa mask based on some of my clients - like think medusa with a lot of facial fillers. this isn't important - the important bit is that when i presented it in class the professor looked it over, gave me some feedback, and then looked me in the eye and said, "you should make about maybe 200 of these." meaning, if i wanted to learn how to do this and refine it into something good, i was going to need to just do a lot of making the same thing over and over.

i think about that advice a lot lately when i'm writing or thinking about writing. i get really uptight all the time about retreading things that i or other people have done before, writing the same stories about the same characters over and over, writing things that don't really break much new ground - like it is a real anxiety i have and it has shut down my creative process before, and made me really worried that my work, and my desire to work, is more of an unhealthy compulsion than something i should put effort into and be proud of. i think i'm probably not the only writer who feels that way. but it really is helpful, for me at least, to think of it like needing to make 200 of the same sculpture before you really know what you're doing: that it's not just okay but necessary to repeat yourself. it's part of learning how to do what you do.

so i'm just passing that on in case it helps anybody else.

[planetoidsfun]

"A little quiet, guys?" If my demons would shut up, I could make shit up.

[oldtreeinanalley]

i just realised i have ocs in a band WHAT am i still doing i bed

[larsmerch]

Making business cards by hand because our current printer won't work with thick cardstock, and we have a lot of cardstock.

Plus they're cheaper and super thick af.

We may have gotten a little excited over our tiny corner punch too. 💕

[banezarian]

Learning how to code shit for streamers is absolutely wild. I’ve got a project for a good buddy of mine and i went to encode all the files for it and

THE TEXT FILE FOR THE ALL THE ENCODES IS 17.5 MEGABYTES. A PLAIN TEXT FILE.

Anyways, hopefully i can record it when it’s done and showcase it for all of you to see! I need to start up a GitHub for all my extensions I’m gonna have made, and once the Spin The Wheel V2.0 is done with the planned custom color shifter button sets, I’ll have that up there too to showcase as well!

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[karinaesque]

[morganbritton132]

No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.

[minjimunji]

bi 4 bi percabeth,,,,, 👉👈

[nondelphic]

"just write the story you want to read!" they said. well, guess what, now i have 14 unfinished drafts because apparently, i want to read 14 different stories at once.

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[sweethysteria]