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    Wall imperfection solution

    February 10, 2016 - By 

    So what’s a girl to do when she doesn’t want to repaint a wall quite yet…hide the imperfections, of course.

    This first one is were my dustbuster hand vacuum formerly hung. It finally “bit the dust” so to speak. Oh man that was bad.

    wall imperfection solution | Halle's Hobbies

    My solution is not too shabby. Totally hides the wall anchors. It’s an awkward little section of wall anyway…might as well try to dress it up.

    wall imperfection solution | Halle's Hobbies

    This UGLY phone jack was truly an eye sore in the kitchen when I took down the wall phone. Just the simple hanging of the painting over the jack gave that wall a fresh new look. I didn’t even have to pound in a nail!

     Big J says the painting makes him of cells….and that’s from the kid who says he doesn’t like biology.  Me…I just like the colors. LOL

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    T Tuesday: pattern making edition

    February 9, 2016 - By 

    Good morning and welcome to T stands for Tuesday.

    T stands for Tuesday

    I finally caught the cold/virus that Big J was suffering with all last week. Bummer! Hopefully we won’t continue to pass it along to the rest of the family.

    Before I started feeling cruddy I was asked by Mr. G to make a cover for his new gadget…a 3D printer.

    T Tuesday pattern maker edition | Halle's Hobbies

    More on that in a future post.

    T Tuesday pattern maker edition | Halle's Hobbies

    Measurements in hand I went about drawing and figuring out how to make a cover that had a special feature…an opening for the carry handle.

    T Tuesday pattern maker edition | Halle's Hobbies

    I picked this blackout curtain on clearance at Target for my fabric. I have used this material in the past for printer covers…the synthetic lining keeps dust from filtering through.

    T Tuesday pattern maker edition | Halle's Hobbies

    After cutting my pieces I pinned them inside out around the 3D printer. That way I could take up any slack where needed and make sure my flap idea actually worked.

    T Tuesday pattern maker edition | Halle's Hobbies

    Tada! It worked just as I thought. The flap overlaps…think of men’s boxer shorts flap…it’s closed but there is still access when needed. 🙂

    T Tuesday pattern maker edition | Halle's Hobbies

    It’s a bit wrinkled but who cares…it serves the purpose of keeping the dust off.  See the green gear like object…that was printed with this machine.  I’ll do a whole post about the 3D printer. It’s really cool!

    As for today…I’ll be drinking lots of hot tea with honey. Unfortunately the laundry still needs to be done, dishes washed and food made…darn it. I’ll be plugging away at those things today.

    What are you doing today?

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    T Tuesday: a second look edition

    February 1, 2016 - By 

    Welcome to T stands for Tuesday AND Second on the 2nd…both hosted by Elizabeth.  Hmmm…I wonder how she’s planning on keeping these links straight. 🙂 Anyway…lets get on with it, shall we…

    long shadows tea | Halle's Hobbies

    First I have to take care of a bit of business. I apologize to my T Tuesday friends for not getting around to visiting. I had to abandon sitting at my desk with the exception of short bursts. Sitting for long periods just does a number on my body. I need to stay active or everything sort of cramps or gets stiff or all crunched up. I’m sure it’s my posture at the keyboard. I’ve started doing yoga every morning and stretches throughout the day. It’s really helping. Of course, since I didn’t get up early enough do my yoga over the weekend (I’m too embarrassed to do it in front of my family since I still really suck at it) I’m a little stiff today.

    vintage button stack pendants | Halle's Hobbies

    I also wanted to show the pendants I posted about last week. They turned out quite nice. I’ve a bunch more set aside to create more pendants. I’ll be listing some in my etsy store soon.

    Now on to Second on the 2nd… I looked back through my blog and realized that I started what I would call an art journal now way back in 2007. I considered it a “no theme” altered book then. Really they are sort of interchangeable terms to me unless you are literally journalling in one.  This post kind of cracks me up. I was very critical of myself. Looking back I still know which pages I wasn’t find of but now I can appreciate them all and truly like them!

    Take a look at the post from November 10, 2007…

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    I picked up a this book at a local thrift store the other day. I had originally intended it for something completely different but decided since it was small that I should just dive in and play!!

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    I really like 3 of the 5 pages. The other 2, I am not so pleased with. I don’t actually hate them enough to cover them up but may go back and revisit them later to see if I can make any good changes.

    Can you guess which ones I like??

    I still have plenty of room to play some more in this book. It’s very freeing to work without a theme…at least for today. 🙂 Sometimes I need a theme to get me started. In fact this book was planned to be a book in which each spread dealt with one of the senses. Yeah…that changed pretty quickly.