Thursday, July 3, 2025

Tolkin's Definition of Fairies

"Fairies are supernatural beings of diminutive size, in popular belief supposed to possess magical powers and to have great influences for good or evel over the affairs of man."

J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm, On Fairy Stories.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

High Hopes

One of the most powerful bands of all time. To simpler times...

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Memory in Miniature

I had to check my posts. I am surprised that this post wasn't posted before now. A miniatures artist is archiving places where people gather in older parts of town. Many of these small coffee shops and family owned restaurants are in areas of planned urban development. So, instead of taking pictures and writing about these popular "hole in the wall" establishments she is making dioramas. Absolutely, charming little dioramas that depict the many aspects of these shops.



We have blown through the first half of this year and all seems like a blur.

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Ink Joy & Paper Mate Gel Pens

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A fine writing instrument for all your word smithing.

Why choose a color, collect them all.

They all produce the same vibrent colors and with there 0.7 ball point they glide across the page.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Camping Gear

Chouinard Expedition Sewing Kit

I found this sewig kit at the bottom of a side pouch on an old backpack and I a afraid that most of the contents are looking rather sad with mildew and rust. About the only item that wasn't in bad shape was the needle vise.

The kit included two heavy duty sewing needles, the pinvise, a few strieght pins, a couple short pieces of heavy duty waxed threading material, a cotter pin, used to fish a draw string back into a jacket, and cellaphane bag with a button. There are also printed instructions on how to use the contents of this package for various tasks.

The needles and cotter pin are encrusted in rust and will be replaced. Although the pouch doesn't look to bad it could use some cleaning, and then have leather conditioner applied to its surface.



What You Can and CAN’T Use to Clean Leather

Friday, June 13, 2025

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Can Anything Come Out of This?

Can anything come out of this? I save my bits from my projects. I store them inside an envelope or in banking envelopes. Rarley do I go back to see what is in these envelopes. And I rarely bother to take inventory of these bits before starting a new projects. Although I might look for a bit of embossed paper or stone sheet or a scrap of conregated material from time-to-time.

This collection is mainly made up of pieces of cardstock, a couple pieces of matboard and everything in between. Who knows what may come of this mess?



Updated on 6.14.25 @ 11.34 A.M. Corrected grammar.

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Adam Savage's One Day Builds: How To Build a Box!

Although I aways find Adam Savage's videos interesting and informative this is one of Adam's better takes. His build of a box for a set of Appolo space suit mittens is near genius. The build seems to be counterintuitive, but then again, this is Adam Savege.

Adam slowly takes you step-by-step through the process of creating his display and storage box.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

From Airfix To Scratch-Building

Some nice historic facts about UK passenger ships along the way as the authors introduces us to his 40 years of scratch builting and plastic kit model making.



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Model Ships from Paper

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Microcosm

"They were humans - or so they believed - the grotesque result of a grandiose experiment which had gone appallingly awry.

Trapped on a world that was hurling through space at a fantasic speed, they sought the riddle of their heritage amoung the only companions they knew - ghosts, mutants, giants and regimented rats."

As found on the backcover of the 1963 edition of Brian Aldiss's Starship

Starship, Brian Aldiss