Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Jay Angler wrote:  We made the mistake of starting a large puzzle on the dining room table without removing the table cloth and silencer first - bad plan! The puzzle wasn't fully locking pieces to begin with, and pieces kept coming loose.


Pro tip: Do your puzzle on the table top, put the silencer pad and cloth over it to use the table. When we have company they don't know they are eating over a puzzle... well they ASSUME they are, they know us, but it's not obtrusive.
7 hours ago
There are online companies that you can send a picture to and they put it on a puzzle. We did that for a gift a few years ago.

Y'all used the terms fanatic and obsessed etc....

Me and mom have a big dining table that we turned into a serious puzzle table. I made a lazy susan with edges on it that is big enough to hold the pieces from a 1000 piece puzzle and they don't fall off when you turn it. The part of the table where we work we have a mat made of two taped together poster boards, so you have good contrast and the pieces move easily. We use greeting cards as puzzle dustpans to move sections around. I ran nice, adjustable lights that are at each end of the table and they are on the same power bar as the big ceiling light. We have snack spaces and chairs we chose to work best for us.  

We both do our own things during the day, but about 4:30 one of us wanders in, turns on the lights and that attracts the other one :D  We chat about our day, the puzzle, whatever, and do puzzle. It's a lovely break in the day. Mom suggested this for brain exercises for her, as memory issues are a problem in the family.

Fanatic and obsessed might be good terms, yes   :D

Some people have a designated space for TV watching, and some of us have a puzzle space instead!   :D
9 hours ago
Try "low light" I saw at least a couple of hits.

"Bad weather" and "cloudy weather" might work too.
2 days ago
Apologies for not answering, I lost track of this thread.

The idea is circulation of air, from lower to higher, without it needing to be heated by the sun. I'm thinking the cooler air is lower, higher is generally warmer, is that enough to move the air from here to there?

So in the winter, or in the shade, is the air inclined to go that way? It doesn't have to be heavy flow, just circulation flow.

I might be able to test this, I have some guttering downspouts, could put little wind spinners by them to see if the air moves.

I don't recall what exactly prompted this question, I'll try to remember what I wanted it for :D
2 days ago
The sweater, with NO stupid corners!! Still doing final drying on the rack.  
It worked!! YAY!!!

I have a lot of that black iridescent bead jewelry. That's why I wanted the sweater :D





3 days ago
It's finally blocked, I'll see how it comes out. Looking at it closely while I was doing it, I bet it had shoulder pads. I put matching cereal bowls under each side, and blocked it to that shape.  It took the blocking, the peaks went down. Hope it works!  It's really pretty. I like gaudy black...
4 days ago
It seems to me that a folding tripod type thing, some made for posters, some for cameras or poster easels, that are easy to find at thrift stores, would make an excellent A frame level.

A random one off the net:


A random A frame level off the net:


I'd just leave one leg folded up and use the other two. Third one is there if I want to stand it up.

4 days ago
...when I have to slam on the brakes to not hit someone, and right where I would have hit them, the car has already been hit there, obvious collision damage. The driver had done this move before, and didn't learn from the last time!
6 days ago
Oh BEAUTIFUL!!  
For future reference, the way to move a treadle like that is to take the machine off the base, and if the base has drawers, hat whole unit comes off too.
Will save your back!! :D

My sister got two LOVELY old machines for Christmas. I'll try to post pics at some point in the thread about showing off sewing machines :D
1 week ago