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I was back at the Benjamin Moore paint store and noticed these 18"x18" paint samples. Many color choices and would make nice walls for playscale dioramas. They are thin so they would need to be double face taped to foam core. Just love all of the color options.
I still love mat board best for dioramas. I get one big sheet in the framing dept of Michael's with a 60% off framing coupon (so about $12). Then, I cut it in half for 2 giant walls in the color of your choice. I need to get one for a diorama I'm hoping to do at some point.
By the way, Benjamin Moore is the best paint I've used. Does not drip and awesome coverage. Expensive though - $51 for a gallon. It washes well, too. I usually use pearl finish, but I'm going to try eggshell for my next set of rooms - a little less sheen. Pearl is great for high traffic rooms because it is so washable.
Sweet pea and her sister-in-law sampling flavored moonshine. Ole Smoky Moonshine opened for business in July of 2010. I think they did 50,000 cases that year. This year they expect to produce 900,000 cases. Quite a success story.
It wasn't until I made the black sample, that I discovered a threading error with eight threads. So I made some repair heddles, cut this sample piece off, then retied and made one more full repeat to make sure there was nothing else. I thought I might continue with the grey and yellow (see comparison a few photos down), but I think I prefer the grey and natural.
There have been a lot of changes in the bird world in our area over the last couple of weeks. The wiser ones have either already flocked off or are having loud conferences about which routes to take south before they actually leave. One aspect my wife has noticed in our neighborhood is how quickly they fly to the bird buffet that she puts out early each morning. The easy availability of food in the wild is changing.
This young downy woodpecker has shown up lately and scrounges around for insects that may be hiding in various wooden structures. Though he has favorite foods, he is not adverse to sampling other things that might please him as seen in this photo. This woodpecker is a member of the smallest and most widespread woodpecker species in North America.
Extremely agile bird on trees, you can often spot them circling a tree looking for food as they cling to the bark with their long and sharp claws.
In our brutal Minnesota winters, they often join other small birds like chickadees when they forage for food.
Interestingly, male and females downy woodpeckers normally hunt in different locations if they are on the same tree. Males tend to go lower on the tree while females like larger branches that are higher up.
Not quite sure what that means but I never fail to consider there may be important concepts that may be transferable to humans.
There are an estimated 14 million downy woodpeckers alive at any one time so they always have friends in the areas they inhabit.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.
The sophisticated robot, known as the Sample Transfer Arm or STA, will play a crucial role in the success of the Mars Sample Return campaign. The joint endeavour between NASA and ESA aims to bring back martian samples to the best labs in our planet by 2033.
The robotic arm will land on Mars to retrieve the sample tubes NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently collecting from the surface. Able to “see”, “feel” and take autonomous decisions, the Sample Transfer Arm will identify, pick up and transfer the tubes into the first rocket fired off another planet – the Mars Launch System.
Only after the robot closes the container’s lid, the martian samples will be launched for rendezvous with ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) and bring the material back to Earth.
The Sample Transfer Arm is conceived to be autonomous, highly reliable and robust.
Its architecture mimics a human arm with a shoulder, elbow and wrist, and has its own built-in brain and eyes. The robot can perform a large range of movements with seven degrees of freedom.
Credits: Leonardo/Maxon/GMV/ OHB Italia/ SAB Aerospace s.r.o
// self-made leather and metal bracelet
taking a sample for a test run.
I like how it sits better with each wear, taking the form of my wrist.
brought to our Connections retreat at Sybil's this month...I could not resist photographing them because of the interesting secondary pattern the four tiny pieces made.
I took this class several years ago, when it was taught by Eileen in London, Ontario ...and I made a similar sample piece.
Eileen lives in British Columbia.
Sample using the "Cracked Window," mask/texture.
Foremost model courtesy of liam-stock.
Background model courtesy of Faestock.
These are samples for a wedding order. The bride has requested vanilla cupcakes filled with vanilla bean cream, topped with chocolate mint frosting and chocolate cupcakes filled with fresh raspberries, topped with nutella hazelnut cream frosting.
During our trip to the Biltmore Estate, we just had to visit Antler Hill Village when we learned there was so much to see and do!
And how could we not check out an opportunity to do a little wine tasting at the wine bar? With so many choices, it was hard to pick only a few.
no template. just a design I made using paper from LeahP, words from Scrap Girls, and a vintage frame from LeahP (Leah Profancik - Miabella actions)
Where there's tons of food to choose from, I guess sometimes you just need to sit and sample the goods, like this little chipmunk is doing, before you start carting it all off.
After all, you have to make sure to take the good stuff and leave the weird stuff like those ginormous walnuts for those pesky squirrels.
** Best when viewed large - just click on the image.