New masks

[merimask]

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*

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

The aqua beads are from two different lots, and the smaller lot are flat and completely clear, like yours. And silk beading cord comes in wide range of thicknesses, from super-fine stuff for pearls to fairly heavy twists. ;)

I believe this bit from Book of Lost Tales is the quote you're looking for:

_{"He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the remendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship."}

And yeah, David Salo was a regular on the newsgroups (may still be, I've not checked in there for a while.)

More self-taught laziness here, surprise surprise. But, ah, a bit older than you. HEY YOU DANG KIDS GET OFFA MY LAWN!!!

Ah well, I've already offered Meri some musical goodness, perhaps extra downloads will suffice for penance?

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

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.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

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*

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Cake, pleasey. Cake would be awesome. But only if no one sees me eat it. <.< >.>