Now is also the time to dream of the things we'll create when we have free time again; the Joy calls out to us from the cookbook shelf, tempting us with cookies, and my unfinished knitting resides in the depths of my backpack, waiting to be bound off. Since this is invariably the time where nothing seems to get done, I thought I'd put up some pretty pictures of finished projects, partly for inspiration, and partly because I think they're cool:
For christmas break, I made marble fridge magnets for the family, and they turned out quite well (for size, each one is about as large as a quarter). I got the idea from Not Martha, another excellent craft blog, and the directions can be found here. I must warn you: the ease and thrill of creating personalized magnets only disguises the fact that they are extremely addicting! I ended up making hundreds of them (the top section of our fridge was coated in them), and was a little burned out by christmas. If you still want to try them, I found that Smithsonian magazine had some of the best images, and that the 5/8" diameter magnets looked the best under the marbles with no edges showing.This next photo doesn't really qualify as a craft, but it was just too cool to leave out! In last week's lab after drawing crab hemolymph, we got a brief tutorial on usin the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). It's all very space-agey, and it doesn't hurt its novelty that it's hidden away in the depths of the lab buildings. After the introdduction by our professor, we each got to play around with samples, and take a picture of anything we wanted (!!). I chose a copepod:
...And if anyone is now wondering how a SEM works, I give you the wikipedia version.I also made really cool retro aprons for Spencer, Celia and my mother, my domestic partners in crime. They turned out quite well, and I will be hopefully adding pictures soon.
