when i took my XHTML class it was just confusing and frustrating and hard. so i'm not totally stoked about this class. that said, i do like the instructor, and i do need to learn this stuff, so i am excited at the possibility of learning it in a way that is more meaningful and easier for me to understand. i will be thrilled if i actually end up understanding the subject matter. wish me luck.
today i made magazine page envelopes. loki first taught me to make them years ago when i was assisting her with the tail end of Bummers and Gummers. it was a mind-blowing concept at the time. i was so thrilled with the recycle-ed-ness of it, and the picture-filled-ness, and the anti-corporate, unbleached whateverness...it was awesomely revolutionary to me and i loved to sit in front of our ancient tellie with one of loki's strange video tapes popped into the VCR dismantling National Geographics and turning them into envelopes. old National Geographics are so awesome for so many different projects. i have quite a stash of them, and for that reason it's likely that a lot of my projects this year will involve them somehow.
i usually bust out the glue stick and glue shut my seams and end flaps, but this time i just used tape, which obviously isn't as neat, but is easier and less messy, especially when you can just say "honey, will you bring me my tape?" and never even leave the comfort of your fuzzy blanket on the couch with judge judy on the tellie reaming idiots new ones and generally shouting and seeming tough. i couldn't remember with precision where the glue stick might have got off to, so i settled for tape, since it meant i wouldn't have to get up. it's so cold right now, and that makes me lazy. it makes all my joints and my spine hurt, which makes me feel old, and wonder how crippled up i will be when i am ACTUALLY old. but i digress.
i didn't make particular sizes, again because of the laziness. the post office has gotten rather annoyingly tight about their envelope rules and they are supposed to be a certain size and shape and not be made of glossy magazines anymore. so if i wanted to make officially mailable ones, i would have had to get off my cold butt and google postal regulations, and that wasn't going to happen. so i just found pictures i liked, and then made envelopes that fit the pictures nicely. i can use these for little gift cards, or to hold random things like brads, or glitter, or coins.
my favorite one is the one with the crawdads where i left a little bit of the text and it says "some like it hot". i also really like the one with the students in labcoats going through people's garbage. the article, which was probably from the 80s judging by the photography, called them "garbologists", which amused me.
envelopes are seriously one of my favorite things. they are made of paper, which i love. and they hold other things, which is a trait that i love. and they are used to transport various types of missives, which is ANOTHER thing that i love. also, making them totally justifies time spent vegging on the couch watching t.v. (i might have to make some more tonight when the new bachelor and all new episode of castle are on. i just might.)
i also made 2 loaves of bread today (or at least started them, they are rising right now) and i made garlic bread to go with dinner with the left over bread from the last batch. even though it's rodney's night to cook. it's not one of my official resolutions, but i decided over winter break to go back to baking my own bread all of the time and have been doing it for almost a month now. it's pretty rad. warm, just-out bread is the best.
i am grateful for:
yeast
magazines
tape
scissors
crap t.v. shows
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment