#making layered boards

[zhalfirin-binds]

WIP - l'esprit de l'escalier

I recently had a chat with some others from the renegade server about the appeal of grey board and how it can be a choice.

So I wanted to do a simple case. No cloth or paper on the cover, but then I thought, that might be a bit bland so I decided to do a layered board from grey and coloured cardstock.

I prepared both boards at once because it's simpler to cut them to size once they are glued than line them up perfectly to fit. In advance I decided for overlap of the cloth piece from the spine and and cut the blue board more narrow than the grey to make room for that overlap.

I did a test fit and marked up the hinge gap before cutting the cloth back (I had kept it a bit longer for that very purpose) below oyu can see the test fitting and and both sides of the board.

To have it easier I added glue to the the board side and glued in the spine piece. The glue stain on the blue board doesn't matter at all, since it's going to be covered up anyway.

The third layer was added last. Then I gave the boards a quick press and weighed it down to dry.

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

[miss-lavender-fan]

this was supposed to be a low quality redraw for the fun of it but i got a little distracted

[fuckinart]

getting back into spray painting for the summer. strawhat's jollyroger is next

[micechicken]

Link-Fitzgerald family making Christmas cookies as I've been promising for YEARS now...

[nyt1ba]

I need an intervention

[lamarie-artsy]

The 7yo is currently poaching my laptop so I can't fuck around with the gibbet hill typeset I was working on earlier.

It was basically finished, but still.

[girljeremystrong]

i want her to play ishmael in martin scorsese moby dick TV show where jeremy strong will play starbuck

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

i think what's really getting me about kozma claiming to have blown up the moon and also claiming to "be" the breach and basically equating "breach collaborators" and "my allies" in the same speech is that. the breach operative we've known since season one, the person who "is" the breach as far the story's concerned, is saskia. and midst is saskia's HOME! she built the black candle with her own two hands (metaphorically, at the very least), she LOVES it there and she loves those people :( and if we take kozma's story at face value, she just threw the "centerpoint" (according to imelda) of her own operation entirely under the bus and endangered the lives not only of innocent people but also of a bunch of her own operatives without their knowledge just to destabilize the trust and frankly that makes me kind of hope she IS telling the truth simply because that's the kind of betrayal i find absolutely delicious,

[bmpmp3]

learned a new technique for intaglio printmaking in school recently! did a quick print based off that drawing i did of the man who is definitely Not Made Of Fish from that dream I had once LOL

[araneitela]

Me: Talks about the significance and intimacy (not automatically romantic, folks, but also there's an inherent romanticism) of hands, and touch and who you let into that space of comfort. Pinterest: Did you say hands? Here, we've adjusted your home feed you so that you. cannot. possibly. escape. them. you're. welcome. Me: I just wanted— what did I want, again?

... Did I end up rambling about anything but hands in my tags? Yes. Welcome to me, this is what you sign up for. Not my portrayal, not my writing, my tag rambles.

[roseband]

oof i just realized since i have a newer phone now and outlook app works on it, not only can i work on teams off my wrist, but i can do EMAILS off my wrist

[lookwhatyoumademelou]

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[hellenhighwater]

I'm putting a leather cover on my thread book to make it more durable, and debating a layer of board between the paper and leather for extra rigidity.

[lesbiten]

good news: the snowstorm started, and its really not snowing all that much!

bad news: thats because it decided to sleet instead

[ms-demeanor]

Hey, are you a broke motherfucker trying to save money on groceries and attempting to plan for having food in the house at the end of the month? Do you have a good system for storing frozen meat? If you don't, here's how I do it:

Large Bastard called me when I was at the plasma center (we're broke motherfuckers!) to tell me that Aldi had nearly expired pork chops (use or freeze by tomorrow) for 50% off, so I told him to get 4 packs.

I keep my freezer pretty full with homemade stock, frozen meat, frozen veggies, frozen fruit, and g-free bread, so I can't just stick the big packages of pork chops directly in the freezer, and besides if I do, the pork chops will freeze to each other and then I'll have to thaw the whole mass of them if i want to cook them, which will increase thawing time.

So what I do instead is make an accordion of waxed paper and fill it with pork chops.

This ends up saving a ton of space, and means I can choose to thaw 8 pieces or 1 piece or however much I need at a time.

3 packs stored this way are smaller than 1 pack from the store.

The final accordion of meat gets wrapped in a layer of waxed paper, then put into a freezer bag with the air pressed out, and now if I don't have cash for groceries I've still got something to eat.

This is also the way that I save meat that is close to its spoilage date that I won't be able to cook before it goes bad. If you stick a family pack of chicken breasts in the freezer, you have a family pack of chicken breasts to thaw. If you put them into little waxed paper envelopes, you've got single serving packets that you can easily toss into a soup or bake from frozen.

This is ALSO pretty much the technique I use to freeze banana slices when my bananas are going brown and I'm not in the mood to bake, only I freeze them on a cutting board before breaking them off and sticking them in a bag when they're frozen.

Freeze wet stuff in individual pieces, not big chunks, so you don't have to break up big chunks to use your frozen food.

I know this probably seems pretty obvious to a lot of people, but it wasn't obvious to me until a couple years ago because nobody ever showed me how to do it and I didn't grow up in a family that cooked a lot.