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merimask ([personal profile] merimask) wrote2007-02-01 02:21 pm
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New masks

As promised, some pictures of my new masks.

They're not really "new", since I do these all the time.  I have a basic "half-mask" pattern that I trace out on the leather.  Then, with a stylus, I etch a dragon onto one side of the mask (most often with the wing sticking out beyond the edge 'cause I just like it that way), and then I cut out and carve the whole thing.  Usually, I do the mask in black and they look like this:


...but I felt like getting colorful so I did the blue & gold mask above, as well as these two:


I'm curious to see what people think of them.  I'll find out next week in Kalamazoo, I guess.

In other news, I am SO happy that our nation's multi-billion dollar Homeland Security Act has protected us from...Meatwad.  Way to go!  Yeah, I guess if you squint and tilt your head a little, the 'Lite-Brite" display of a Moononite flipping the bird might look like a bomb.  *sigh*  Maybe I'd be more inclined to be outraged by it all if the freaking displays hadn't been out in public for weeks and weeks...I guess they SUDDENLY looked bomb-like on Wednesday (wednesdays will do that to ya...more people don tinfoil hats on wednesdays than on any other day of the week...it's true!).  What's next, exploding Wile E Coyote displays?    Beware packages that look like HUGE anvils with "ACME" printed on the sides!  We need to coin a new term for this phenomenon; "Cartoon-Terrorism".

And OMG if Sessoumaru dies I am going to be monumentally pissed-off.  It'll cause a great disturbance in The Force...almost as if millions of fangirls "squeeee!" all at once, and are silenced.  Takahashi (as I was pointing out last week) has a penchant for using "one word" titles for the chapters where characters are killed off.  "Wind" for Kagura, "Light" for Kikyo, "Void" for poor little Kanna.  I swear if I see that next week's title is something like "Pride" I am just NOT going to read it.  *shakes head*

[identity profile] golden-meliades.livejournal.com 2007-02-05 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't been back to a newsgroup since I was in college. Had a few bouts on messageboards, but gave them up, too, after Too Much Drama.

Your eye doesn't look very old...no wrinkles :) (hehe, sounds silly, doesn't it?)

Damn, I HAVE that book, AND I checked it...why couldn't I find that? Grr...I KNEW I remembered it!

PS: I'm sorry, Meri. I'm going to be quiet, now.

[identity profile] merimask.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
lol! No no...it's so cute that you guys get along. :-) I knew there was something about Smilla that it liked; she kind of reminds me of you, Goldie.

Talk away...holy crap I've never had this much activitiy in my LJ. *feels the need to redecorate or bake a cake or order a tray of pizza fingers*

[identity profile] golden-meliades.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Cake, pleasey. Cake would be awesome. But only if no one sees me eat it. <.< >.>