Make Sleep Repeat

Recently, the Alberta Ghostbusters had the opportunity to help grant a wish for a seven-year-old here in Calgary. He wanted to become a ghostbuster, bust some ghosts, be in a ghostbuster film and eat a ghostbusters chocolate cake. We got to work and created a day that he will hopefully never forget.

I am so grateful that I was able to help with his wish. I made his flight suit, belt and elbow pads. I also created a prop that was used in the short film we shot for him.

https://youtu.be/lsVD-MPDle4?si=ZDumlbDvWqRG0gNS

My final repeating pattern design. You can see how much I added/edited from the version I had after adding colour. I'm undecided about the background colour but I am leaning towards one of them. What do you think?

I've been doing a workshop/challenge for the last week or so. I'm not all the way through it yet but I thought I'd share what I've gotten done so far. It's the Trailing Floral Challenge put on by Bärbel Dressler of History Repeating. It's a challenge to create a seamless floral pattern in either the Indian Floral, Chinoiserie or Arts & Crafts style. I chose Indian Floral because it's my favourite of the three. I love that you can just make up plants and flowers 😆

I forgot to post these! I decided to make some Victorian inspired mixed media Valentine's for some of my friends this year. It was so much fun, I think I'll be doing a lot more mixed media in the future.

Another project inspired by Piece Of Cake Cosplay!

I have been playing around with latex and fabric. I designed some wing veins based on cicada wings. Then I laser cut two pairs out of some dark grey synthetic fabric. I sandwiched some matte polyester organza in between the veins. I glued the veins to the organza with a very thin layer of latex. Then I tinted latex in a few different colors with acrylic paint and mica powders.

After applying the colors to both sides of the organza, I painted over the veins with dark grey acrylic to clean them up. Finally, I applied a layer of gloss ModPodge to seal them.

These ones are doll sized but I'd like to try making a human sized pair.

It's been a hot minute but I'm finally back to mucking around creatively. I can't remember when, but I saw a video by Piece of Cake Cosplay where they were making faux leather using cotton fabric, paint and furniture wax. So I decided to give it a try. I'm working on a corset for my smart doll and any real leather I have is way too thick for this scale. I think I'm going to do one more coat of wax but I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out. The light brown cotton fabric is what I started out with.

My younger son (15) and I made this scratch build for a Bill Making Stuff Patreon challenge. The idea/design was my son's. He was inspired by the giant robot hand that Bill made for his bot shop. He really wanted to do a giant robot head. The prompt was "fungus" so we made some little mushrooms to grow out of the robot head.

The whole thing is made of plastic, wood, wire, and metal bits. The base is foam core board slathered in a glue/sand/spackle mixture. The mushrooms are made of hot glue and wire.

New printer! My old one the screen gave out and it's so old, I can't get a replacement. I like that I can send stuff to print via wifi with this new one!