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What started life as a pair of bent and broken jackstands became a planter which it stayed until we couldn’t figure out what to plant in it and I decided to make a metal vine of imaginary metal flowers from the discarded clippings and trimmings of this summer’s metalwork. Managed to hang it above the side door without getting mangled by the wasps. Tempers flared, but stingers didn't.

scrap metal flowers in red jack stands hanging above a red door

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My wife gave me a pair of old garden shears and said she wanted me to make something with them so I stared at them off and on for a few weeks until this hit me yesterday. Added the base (I’m thinking it was the top of a bit of farm machinery exhaust), designed and printed the lampshades (used magnetic USB-C bulbs for the lights – a wonderful thing for making lamps with reclaimed metal), and took a wild creative swing with the red paint. Worked out well, I think.

red lamp made of garden shears with two 3d printed shades

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First, I've brought back my Scraps page, which is fed the ten most recent ephemeral thought morsels via by my self-hosted Mastodon instance (as opposed to pubbing them in this space then copy/pasting them around what remains / passes for the social web); those useless in-between thoughtlets/morsels will live on Mastodon until they die a death-by-vanishing after 30 days because I don't want it to get more expensive to host my own instance and I already felt bad enough that I wasn't using it to its fullest extent.

As for this space, it will remain largely unchanged (save the aforementioned ephemeralities). Basically anything that would either fit in Projects (Informalities, metalwork, paintings, comics, stories, and/or other major releases) or longer-form text. Still considering a daily text post here, but that will have to wait until next month probably, at the earliest.

Central question that's been guiding this reorientation is: How can I make this space be the digital representation of my work in The Shed –projects, pieces, developed thoughts, etc? Think I've found something that will work for now. Giving it a go to see what happens. All I can do.