Whatchya Workin' On, O Creatives?

Both of those links are very neat – thanks! I like the dry ice method, with the smoke rings, and it’s just water. One problem with the smoke generator method I tried is that it can eventually coat everything with a film of oil. I’ve read about that being a problem in the model railroad magazines. Glycerin may be less of a problem, but it is one of the stickiest substances on earth, I think.

I think my lungs are almost back to normal . . .

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New album release. Gloomy, snarly ambient :slight_smile:

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All the pieces I’ve done with acrylics on packing cardboard (you can see that three of them were not made using egg cartons, lol.). Gonna try and sell 'em.

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I think in theory there wouldn’t be a lot of it in each puff, and a lot of the “fog juice” recipes you dilute it further with water (though as I noted, I’m not sure if that’d work with the same atomizer). But, now that you mention it, I see that could be a possible issue with that path. I’m not sure how gunky those vapes get. The “fog juice” pages I briefly looked at also mentioned that you should clean it up and not leave the stuff in a fog machine unused for any length of time as it could quickly grow stuff, so it wouldn’t be something that could just be ready to go whenever either.

With the dry ice/water method, there might be a possibility of moisture issues since it’s straight condensation, but if everything’s sealed up really well that might not be as much of a problem. Would probably want the water vessel to be easy to empty/clean out when it’s not in use, but it’d be a lot easier to clean out than glycerin and if distilled water was used would probably last longer without growing issues. Bigger downside is that dry ice is difficult to store for any length of time, so there’s a little bit of a cost/convenience issue.

I’m not gonna try building one, I’m not gonna try building one… darn it, I don’t have the free time for tempting ideas like this. :slight_smile:

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A nebulizer would avoid the necessity of CO2. IIRC they use ultrasound to convert water to mist.
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Gee, you can get one for $50 on Amazon.

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A completed beanie.
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Imagine this with clear glass and everything else a sort-of eggshell shade of white:
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The latest beanie-cap:

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Nice! But where’s the fluffy ball at the top? :smiley_cat:

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Not enough cotton yarn.

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Two purses/bags made from old jeans (the Gap one is from the 1970s, junior size 7 - and I couldn’t fit into them at 125 lbs - they HAVE messed with sizing women’s clothes since then!) and the latest neck gaiter (made with yarn for baby clothes):

And the strap was knitted by my mom for a different jeans purse, which got repurposed into a clothespin bag for my ex-best friend.

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I embellished the bottom sign on my back door, and finished the purses.


The signs are basically how I feel about the outside world.

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High-school works. The first, pencil and paper, 9th grade; the second, watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 10th grade.
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I’ve been working on a large mushroom painting that I promised my partner some time ago.

It’s based on a series of small studies that I painted in preparation for a large painting for a friend that was supposed to be “sexy mushroom ladies” growing out of a field of mushrooms.

This one is just meant to be a colorful pile of the mushrooms on a black background.

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A pillow cover that almost became a neck cowl; the beginnings of a door-draft snake; and, another collage made up of panels from “Big Ideas” by Lynda Barry.

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“No Fuss Anything” has ALways appealed to me.

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The completed door-draft snake, placed at the threshold between the enclosed back porch and the back landing.
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My latest knit cap.

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