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Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: It was pretty funny, even when they wore the worst fashion possible. I kind of miss my village, since I haven't played in a few months - I just didn't feel interested in it, but maybe I'll play some more again
Posted in Hoi . -w-
Posted 4 years ago
@Junko7: If you'd like the solstice gear from the last major event, I can send you a bundle
Posted in Drinks of choice during the shutdown?
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: I also love Oatly, but I drank up my carton and none of the nearby stores have any, so I'm back to drinking tea and water. The past couple days I've been drinking genmaicha, but I have several types of green and black/red teas.
Posted in Hoi . -w-
Posted 4 years ago
Welcome!
I see you've already found some cool things to wear
I see you've already found some cool things to wear
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: In New Leaf, villagers would change their outfit if you sent them clothes in a letter, or if there was a fashion at the Able Sisters that one of their friends had bought and was wearing. Sometimes it was like a fad - you wake up and your villagers are all wearing the same horrible shirt, and sometimes it was just a couple of them.
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: 24 hours for the whole batch, since my kiln holds a huuuuuuge number of pieces, especially if I'm making tiny stuff. It's still a long time, and then there's all the days or weeks that go into a piece even before it gets to the kiln. A lot of what you're paying for when you buy ceramic art is labor and expertise (skills & knowledge), just like with paintings.
The materials aren't cheap collectively, but when you break down the cost of everything that goes into a single piece, it's not that bad. And I'm good at finding kilns and equipment like that at incredible deals, so that helps. But the labor aspect is pretty large, even when I'm casting things from molds (which I make myself because I don't want to cast stuff that isn't wholly mine.)
I love trees and flowers, so I always try to cover my AC towns in them. I don't have a switch, and I don't plan to buy one or the new AC for a while, but I am enjoying seeing screenshots from the new game.
@Lithium: planning Halloween sounds like a fun activity, especially when it's still months away and you have time to dream big
The materials aren't cheap collectively, but when you break down the cost of everything that goes into a single piece, it's not that bad. And I'm good at finding kilns and equipment like that at incredible deals, so that helps. But the labor aspect is pretty large, even when I'm casting things from molds (which I make myself because I don't want to cast stuff that isn't wholly mine.)
I love trees and flowers, so I always try to cover my AC towns in them. I don't have a switch, and I don't plan to buy one or the new AC for a while, but I am enjoying seeing screenshots from the new game.
@Lithium: planning Halloween sounds like a fun activity, especially when it's still months away and you have time to dream big
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: I hope so. If not, I'll just fire pieces and glaze later, but I prefer to do a single firing when I'm firing porcelain, since it saves time. It takes a full 24 hours for my big kiln to heat up and cool down, and I'm sort of an impatient person. It's a little ironic that I enjoy ceramics, but part of it is how much it forces me to be deliberate and present in the moment.
How is your AC island coming along? Any favorite villagers so far?
How is your AC island coming along? Any favorite villagers so far?
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: Yeah, it's soon!
I'm looking at what ceramic supplies I can buy while I'm still in Portland, because I'm out of one necessary material to mix the glaze I use the most, and I want to try some new stain colors. The pottery place is doing curbside pickups, and I really want to continue to support them.
They also make the ^6 porcelain I use, and I don't want to lose access to it, because I'm used to casting with it, and I love building miniature pieces from it, and it plays nice with all my glazes and takes stain better than the stoneware I tried to replace it with, for cost savings. I seriously love that clay.
I have a couple other clays I also love, but for different uses, and right now I just want to make small and/or delicate things from porcelain because it's so rewarding when they're fired.
I'm looking at what ceramic supplies I can buy while I'm still in Portland, because I'm out of one necessary material to mix the glaze I use the most, and I want to try some new stain colors. The pottery place is doing curbside pickups, and I really want to continue to support them.
They also make the ^6 porcelain I use, and I don't want to lose access to it, because I'm used to casting with it, and I love building miniature pieces from it, and it plays nice with all my glazes and takes stain better than the stoneware I tried to replace it with, for cost savings. I seriously love that clay.
I have a couple other clays I also love, but for different uses, and right now I just want to make small and/or delicate things from porcelain because it's so rewarding when they're fired.
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Kairie: 5-8 days of games and AC sounds like such a good idea
@Totalanimefan: I get to head home on Monday!
@Totalanimefan: I get to head home on Monday!
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Kairie: I played a bit of the new AC on my friend's switch, and it's super cute. The only downside is that I missed the double screens of the DS/3DS
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: I think I'm gonna be able to go home next week, and I can't wait to get back into my studio and work on ceramics.
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: Yeah, I don't mind staying at a close friend's house for a while, but I miss my own space where I can really relax.
Posted in This has helped my mental health this week
Posted 4 years ago
...I'm used to staying home with my cat, since I'm chronically fatigued, but the part that's been getting me down is how everyone is panicking, and that is making me anxious.
I'm away from home right now, because I'm watching cats for a friend, and already had started before the stay at home orders went into effect, so that means I don't have access to my ceramics like I normally would, and I've had to readjust my plans to include fewer trips to the park to admire the flowers. It's been none trips so far, but that park is usually very empty, and I hope I can go see the magnolias while they're still in bloom.
I've been taking the time to work on making miniature plants from polymer clay that I'd been putting off for forever, and decided to actually work on learning how to watercolor, since I've had a set of watercolor pencils for years, and barely used them. I had planned to try to paint the park flowers, so I'll see if I can still do that.
I'm away from home right now, because I'm watching cats for a friend, and already had started before the stay at home orders went into effect, so that means I don't have access to my ceramics like I normally would, and I've had to readjust my plans to include fewer trips to the park to admire the flowers. It's been none trips so far, but that park is usually very empty, and I hope I can go see the magnolias while they're still in bloom.
I've been taking the time to work on making miniature plants from polymer clay that I'd been putting off for forever, and decided to actually work on learning how to watercolor, since I've had a set of watercolor pencils for years, and barely used them. I had planned to try to paint the park flowers, so I'll see if I can still do that.
Posted in The Surge [Breaking News!]: Knick-Knack, Comm. Disc., & More!
Posted 4 years ago
Yay! Jigsaw!