The completed hat.
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another sign for deliveries.
the one in the post above the reply link goes to bit the dust due to poor lamination job, but also I got rid of the cushion and added a thing about the welcome mat.
hopefully itās not too passive-agressive, but the rainwater is a big problem.
itās visually a bit busy. I toned a few elements down and this is what I came up with anyway. I like how it came out but remains to be seen how effective it is.
recursion!
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My living room floor:
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I hope this isnāt taken as an insult, but you should work a little ark in the pool of water. I mean, it would be cute. I love the whole thing!
I showed this to my son, and he liked it; when I scrolled down to show your actual porch, he saw the dog first and said, āDoggo, doggo!ā (we both say that when we see dogs, though; but I usually use the now not-cool āgoggoā.)
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Formerly packing for a jar candle.
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Abraham Lincoln
Never wore a turtleneck
Holy Counterfeit!
Note the seasonal reference.
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_ - ā¢ . [haiku]
( ._.) [me]
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Wow, those are beautiful. Did you bend the rings yourself or are they available somewhere? Reminds me of armor.
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Iām getting my rings from a Canadian store called Ringlord, but Iād like to put together my own ring making set up in the garage eventually. Iāll probably keep buying the anodized aluminum rings for consistency though, for custom make to order stuff in my shop, even if I set up an anodizer.
Iād be especially interested in being able to make my own rings from enameled copper wire. I love two color twisted rings but they are super pricey.
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love this stuff
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Many years ago I decided I was going to make my own chain shirt from. I got just a steel threaded dowel and some wire cutters and started to make rings by handā¦ many hours and blisters later, I had enough to make a small, awkward dice bag and a vow to never do this again 
I was using galvanized steel wire.
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Yeah I donāt have the hand or wrist strength to work with steel at all, I occasionally use very thin steel rings but I inevitably cut myself. The largest steel piece Iāve made is a rubber and steel ring guitar strap with very thin small steel rings.
My favorite rings are copper. Copper has an extremely pleasant texture to work. Most of my stuff is aluminum because of the weight and color choices. I use either aluminum or acrylic scales for scalemaille.
If I started making rings Iād want to use a set up that mechanically winds the wire onto the dowel. Iāve read plans for devices to do this as well as anodizers. And Iād want to saw cut. Iām trying to switch to only buying saw cut rings. Ringlord is discontinuing most of their machine cut rings anyway. But it is easier to mess up a batch with a saw even though they are so much better when done right. You can get a nearly invisible close with good saw cut rings.
For real serious armor some people weld each ring closed, that stuff is intimidating.
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Or rivets. Tiny hand-hammered rivets. But you can use solid rings for the other half. Sim and Ridge suggest that the Romans may have used punches to make the solid rings.
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Another sign project ā except for the drawback. In the old days, when cigarette ads and billboards were everywhere, there was a famous (I guess) billboard in Times Square which featured a guy actually smoking:
They used some sort of smoke generator (though the rings in the picture may have been added). I first became aware of this kind of poster through a funny movie I once saw, where IIRC someone opened a window right onto a poster like this, and got smoke in his face.
Model steam locomotives sometimes have smoke generators, which dates back to old Lionel systems in the middle of the previous century. Todayās models are sophisticated, with sound and pulsating fans to blow the smoke out in synchronization with the drive wheels turning.
You can get smoke generators and tiny fans separately, so I built a box to collect smoke, then blow it out in a puff. The smoke is really a petroleum oil of some sort that isnāt due to combustion, but rather heated to form a fine mist that looks like smoke.
And there lies the problem. I generated some smoke in experiments on Monday, and have been coughing ever since. 
Breathing oil droplets is Definitely Not A Good Thing. So that project is dead.
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a reproduction of the Times Square billboard is featured in the Woody Allen movie Radio Days. I canāt find a pic from the movie but thereās plenty of the real one. no smoke rings, just a big periodic puff. they changed the ad several times but looks like they always lined the picture of the man with the permanent smoke generator.
I could swear there was a scene with a window opening on a sign painted on a building in From Russia With Love but canāt find it by searching that or James Bond. I donāt think it was a smoke-generating sign, though.
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Thanks for remembering that!
For my version of the billboard, in reaction to the Virile Man in so many cigarette commercials, I photoshopped an ad from this picture:
Looks like Iāve already started to disappear the cigarette. Anyway this is what I came up with, which I will spoiler because I canāt figure out whether itās offensive or not:
ETA: maybe I can add a smoke puff from a piece of cotton or polyester fiber-fill coming out of his mouth.
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Itād be a lot less convenient and not ready to go all the time, but it might be possible to get something similar, but without as much inhalation hazard, using a bit of dry ice in water. Though the fog would have more of a tendency to sink, too.
Thereās also the possibility of using pure glycerin with a vape atomizer, or āfog juiceā (though I donāt know if you could use the same kind of atomizer with that). Stumbled on a project for that in a quick google: https://www.instructables.com/id/An-Inexpensive-Smoke-Fog-Generator/
(Thereās also the problem of the jury still being out on possible inhalation problems with the vapes, but with pure glycerin and tuned to only generate small puffs in an area with ventilation I wouldnāt think there would be much danger. Donāt know if thereād be any unpleasant smells related, thoughā¦)
ā¦and now Iām wondering how hard it would be to combine one of those methods with a very-scaled-down version of the classic smoke ring launcher toys, like this but smaller, maybe actuated by a small servo or a clockwork mechanism.
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