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This was the last day of the 2015 Phoenix Comicon and I had to catch a late afternoon flight so it was a short day. The morning started off really slow compared to the prior two days so I spent a lot of leisure time strolling around the vendor area - what an amazing collection of merchandise. More cosplayers showed up in the afternoon so it was another productive day of shooting - what a blast!
Oh boy, time to pack up the shop and office. Next weekend is my last one here and since the place will be bare except what can go in a Honda Civic after next Thursday, The last 4 days are probably gonna be rather uncomfortable. I hate moving, but this is worth the effort...
The first day of dirt packing. It's dirty, but not cob. This is the floor! A lot of work and I wouldn't recommend EVER installing a dirt floor, it's just not worth the effort. I've got another foot to go in this photo. It's very sturdy though; I'm shoveling damp dirt in and tamping it with a homeade packer. The next day, when the packed dirt is dry, it is surprisingly durable. Lately I've been shoveling in dry dirt and have noticed that it doesn't pack well at all and looks exactly the same the next day.
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On May 11th, I started packing up the solar plant; the storage batteries were full and would deliver power for about two weeks (for the water pump, the lamps, the laptop, the mobile phone and, of course, the camera).
When I had come back from my last hike through the sacred Moon Mountain, I had been impatiently awaited by Nereida, and from this moment she did not leave my side for any second (exempt from the nights); she poked her sweet little nose into everything, and she was playful and joyfully excited like never before -- it was as if she had grasped that she was meant to come along with me to Switzerland.
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This was our last night on the ship. It was a lot easier packing to go home, since we didn't have to care about wrinkles or anything.
This is but the first of many wounds I am sure to incur over this next week. This one is one my hand.
How to make wrapping, packing (recycled material)
I wanted to make something different. I used old cardboard, some paper and felt.
The image above shows the second layer, the top has been removed in one piece. I built the layers of bubble wrap to the top of the inner shipping box so the very top layer could completely cover the whole inside of the box. Easy to remove and obvious where to put it back.
Harriete Berman has two blog posts, here and here, about packing art for shipping. I really like most of her suggestions, but she uses upholstery foam, which harbors mold. I am allergic and have had terrible reactions to foam, so it doesn't come into my house. I'm experimenting with using bubble wrap, arranging it in a "nest" so that there is no tape and the box and object don't have to be wrapped around and around to send it back. Some things have come back to be barely wrapped. Recently I sent two artist's books to a publisher, each in an inner box, inside a larger box. They were returned in their inner boxes. I don't know what happened to the outer box. It was very upsetting because one of the books was barely covered, much less protected from scratching. Luckily both books were okay.
Using Kirsten's.
I loved the colourful new items from STICKY FINGERS so I had to get!! Being summer and all in Aussie land.
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