The Wreath of Con
Dec. 18th, 2002 10:43 amOkay,
I guess this a multi-entandra... There's a new Star Trek movie out, though you wouldn't know. It's not running at any of the local theatres. I haven't seen any of the last two or three so I'm not that upset about it. Still. It's weird. I thought Paramont was a major motion picture company.
The next part? Well. Now that school is over, no rest for the wicked. I got roped into helping with FCTV for Further Confusion 2003 so I'm now making a bunch of little video shorts for furry convention. If anyone has any cute and simple ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'm doing all kinds of things. Animation, video, stop-motion, etc.
So that brings me to the wreath... We had a big wind storm a couple of days ago. Luckily I'd cut the dead snags out of my trees so they were okay, but the tree in the yard of the house behind us had not been trimmed so it lost some branches and brough down a really nice bow of tightly clustered fir needles. So I decided I'd make a wreath with it....
If I could have found my flower arrangement wire (and before you shun me, let me explain! I use it for claymation figures! Really!) this might have turned out well. I couldn't locate it though, so ultimately, I ended up using a bunch of green twist-ties that came with the garbage bags. It took about three hours to make something somewhat wreath-like that didn't completely sag and made a total mess out of my living room with dropped needles, and I have a bazillion little pokes and scratches on my hands now, but there is something somewhere between a circle and triangle hanging on my door, strung with christmas lights that at least somewhat resembles a holiday wreath.
Well. My partner liked it anyhow. She gets really blue around the holiday time and we're very low on money this year, so we hadn't done anything christmasy. Anyhow. It was an interesting experience. Not sure I'll try repeating it next year.
-Samantha
I guess this a multi-entandra... There's a new Star Trek movie out, though you wouldn't know. It's not running at any of the local theatres. I haven't seen any of the last two or three so I'm not that upset about it. Still. It's weird. I thought Paramont was a major motion picture company.
The next part? Well. Now that school is over, no rest for the wicked. I got roped into helping with FCTV for Further Confusion 2003 so I'm now making a bunch of little video shorts for furry convention. If anyone has any cute and simple ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'm doing all kinds of things. Animation, video, stop-motion, etc.
So that brings me to the wreath... We had a big wind storm a couple of days ago. Luckily I'd cut the dead snags out of my trees so they were okay, but the tree in the yard of the house behind us had not been trimmed so it lost some branches and brough down a really nice bow of tightly clustered fir needles. So I decided I'd make a wreath with it....
If I could have found my flower arrangement wire (and before you shun me, let me explain! I use it for claymation figures! Really!) this might have turned out well. I couldn't locate it though, so ultimately, I ended up using a bunch of green twist-ties that came with the garbage bags. It took about three hours to make something somewhat wreath-like that didn't completely sag and made a total mess out of my living room with dropped needles, and I have a bazillion little pokes and scratches on my hands now, but there is something somewhere between a circle and triangle hanging on my door, strung with christmas lights that at least somewhat resembles a holiday wreath.
Well. My partner liked it anyhow. She gets really blue around the holiday time and we're very low on money this year, so we hadn't done anything christmasy. Anyhow. It was an interesting experience. Not sure I'll try repeating it next year.
-Samantha