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I made this a while ago, as a companion gift to the quilt for Rob's bro's two year old son.
Picking out the fabrics was tons of fun!
This is loosely based on the crayon roll from LMPQG. I forgot to buy ribbon for ties so I made them out of the exterior elephant fabric.
croquis crayon et crayons de couleur aquarellables d'après photo / pencil and watercolour solubles colour pencils sketch after a photo
When I was a kid I learned how to make gunpowder from the instructions in a chemistry set.
Always one to think big, at 11 years old I was buying bulk chemicals from wholesalers and making hundreds of pounds of homemade explosives in my parent's shed.
With that I then built very dangerous bombs called pipe bombs and me and the neighborhood kids literally had a blast blowing things up.
Until the feds showed up one day.
And my grandmother was the only one home and she let them search the house and the shed.
I think I was in the fifth grade.
When I got home from school that day there were lots of strange cars in front of the house.
Police cars too.
Which wasn't so strange but with all of the other vehicles it was certainly concerning.
All of my bomb making stuff was laid out on the lawn and everyone was really serious looking.
I knew I was in trouble.
They were waitin' for me.
The feds were really worked up about this old shotgun they found in the shed.
My buddies and I had found it in the post of a birdfeeder on an abandoned farm all rusty with the stocks rotted away and we cleaned it up and sanded it down... got rid of all of the rust... made a new pistol grip and forestock and sawed it off so we could use it to shoot bottle rockets out of it for 'bottle rocket wars.'
We had no idea that the way we'd sawed it off violated federal firearms laws.
We didn't even know what federal firearms laws were.
The feds were all over my case about it and they ended up being put in their place by the local cops who knew I just used the thing to shoot bottle rockets.
They kinda thought bringing federal charges against an eleven year old in this situation was a little harsh.
No one really believed the gun was still functional but the feds had a point.
The cops tried to explain it to me... 'whether it works or not you can't be running around the neighborhood with a sawed off shotgun kid.'
The local cops were some good guys though, and they were a little concerned about my above average skills in building powerful explosive devices.
I got a ride to the police station where I was given a serious lecture.
One that probably saved my life.
I didn't know how dangerous making those bombs was but a kid had gotten killed that summer doing the same thing and the cops made me look at the photographs of his body.
Gruesome photographs that showed the extent of the injuries that killed him when the bomb that he was making went off in his hands.
That shit scared me straight!
They confiscated all of my bomb making stuff and let me go with the promise that I'd never make a bomb again.
And I haven't.
Although in 1986 I carried six half sticks of dynamite, three stilleto knives and a half a dozen onyx pipes I'd bought in Tijuana on an airplane as my carry on luggage!
Never even raised an eyebrow!
That same year my dad caught me with five pounds of a military explosive called C-4 that a friend said he'd found after it 'fell off a truck.'
Actually he had 200 pounds of it... but we didn't have any blasting caps and we never could set it off.
Plus my dad lit it on fire with a cigarette lighter to prove a point to me...
that it wouldn't explode.
It just burned.
He said that when he was in the Marines they used it to cook their meals with... that it would burn but it wouldn't detonate without that blasting cap.
My kids are always pointing out how life seemed so much more exciting back then.
They're right.
And they're always asking me to help them to make explosives and teach them to play with fire.
'Come on dad... teach us how to make gunpowder!'
Over the weekend I decided we'd play with some fire in a more artistic way.
The kids bought a bunch of boxes of crayons and a couple of canvasses...
I went into an art store to buy some large paper for backdrops and I found these pencils and fell in love with them!
Ava got these crayons for Christmas last year, but they’ve been getting more use recently. She wanted to do a lot of drawing last week in particular, opting to use the blank backsides of her toddler coloring book pages rather than coloring the pictures of animals. I guess we should have gotten her a sketchbook instead.
It's my crayon carving of a Stormtrooper on the tip of a crayon.
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crayola crayons:
the box of 64.
as a kid, i recall the excitement in getting a brand new box of crayola crayons. the 24-pack wouldn't do. but the big box was filled with every vivid color imaginable, and back then, the most sought after was the box of 64.
i loved the smell and feel of the wax on each perfectly molded crayon in neat rainbow rows.
i couldn't wait to pull out the coloring book and break in my new sky blue and sea green.
to this day coloring with my crayolas still brings me a great deal of contentment.
Olá gente!
Não me recordo de ter visto esse glitter por aqui no Flickr. Quando vi na loja da Tiane bati o olho e me apaixonei por ele. Confesso que foi difícil achar uma combinação que destacasse todos os glitteres e, claro, que ficasse harmoniosa, porque tem 5 cores diferentes aí.
Maaaas, do nada, olhei pras minhas unhas e pensei em dar um up na minha última misturinha inspirada no Eggs of the wild birds da El Corazon.
Foi rápida a decisão e logo lembrei do Crayon que estava na fila louco pra dar o ar de sua graça.
Foi uma camadinha dele e só fui acertando os glitteres.
Espero que gostem.
Bjo!
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Ces crayons de couleur se sont rassemblés pour créer un panel multicolore allant dans la même direction mais pas toujours dans le même sens.
lilies field ...
Stop every now and then. Just stop and enjoy. Take a deep
breath. Relax and take in the abundance of life...
Have a Wonderful week ahead...Arlenk.
I remember seeing a quilt by Kaffe Fassett where the sunlight shines through the fabric to give it a stained glass effect.
Macro shot of Crayola crayons from top.
Strobist : 1 * 1/4 behind umbrella top right triggered by cactus
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