Wow! Really? That kid is is super talented then!
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I wish I could buy several pieces I have told others to come to the tear down tomorrow night because some artists sell their work most don’t but you never know
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I was going though some of my old work and found this that y’all might be interested in.
http://www.robotsandcomputers.com/robots/projects/cpfishtank.htm
Years ago, I got Elevyn a beta fish for Valentines Day. Rather than go with the standard little fish bowl, I decided to do something unique. I repurposed an old coffee pot, designed a temperature control circuit for it and made it into a (i think) cute little home for the guy.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the main reason I had to do this. Beta fish are tropical, so while our 98° home would be perfect in the summer, they’d freeze to death in the winter. This was my way of keeping them warm.
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Too cute!
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Thank you! The recipient is a Batman fan so of course I had to give em Batsy.
Thanks to you too!
And thanks to you as well! I bought a box of Pantone postcards and got the idea of painting and drawing on them from another artist. And I never thought to sell them 
It’s a good idea. I’ve never been good at marketing myself. I just give stuff away for the smiles they bring. But I will sell photos.
Mayhap I’ll show y’all the next round of postcards I’m working on. Or some more of my old ones.
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Absolutely. We always enjoy seeing some great pieces! 
By the way… love the use of the word “mayhap” 
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Haha, my husband’s nickname for me is Batman!
I didn’t change my last name when we got married. My niece was asking me about it. I kept saying my name throughout the conversation. My husband asked " Who are you Batman?"
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Bahahaha! That’s awesome.
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Maybe one of you crafty peoples can help me out here. Elevyn wants a new beaded curtain. I want to print her out a pattern that she can use to string beads like popcorn garland where the end result is a scene. I’ve drawn the ganomie, but I cannot for the life of me figure out her to get it into a beadified pattern. This is going to be large enough to go across a doorway, so whatever I do has to be able to handle something that large. Any of y’all know of any program (or, God forbid, a web site) I can use to accomplish this? Or maybe a plugin for gimp? I’m stumped!
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So I do not have a printer or anything fancy I will tell how we (my mama) did it when I was a kid when she was making wall hangings bead back lawn chairs etc. this is way Old-School but she made a lot of them in different patterns… it is also how she taught me to pattern my own macrame hangings 
so take your picture redraw it on graph paper assign each square a longitude and a latitude the more intricate the pattern the bigger your ’ map’ gets and with this kind of pattern we always started in the middle you might also talk to @gingirlj she weaves and I bet she will know how to do something like this in her sleep most of her work is so crazy intricate she has to have picked up a few sharable pointers. Good luck send pics if you can.
I hope I helped a little
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I am glad I looked back I almost over looked your brilliant fish tank. That is the way to show the old reduce reuse spirit that when I was younger was just called being poor haha.
It is a nice little fish tank and I loved the disclaimer on the link SMH very smart to add that. people are so sad but I guess they have to find some way to pay off their student loans with out actually working.
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By the way I need help figuring out how to get a program that will help me enough to enter the durby I have a few great ideas and I can draw enough to just barely not embarrass my linage if I mostly use text but I have no idea what programs to use or how to enter so a little help would be greatly appreciated
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That is awesome to think to repurpose such a item into a unique tank for the little guy. Amazing.
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Funny and clever!
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Do you mean yhe hirt derby here on Woot!
I know they have a template. I thought they had tips and suggestions. I will look for them.
You can reach out to mareli. I believe she submitted one?
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Have you looked through this thread?
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Thanks for the tag in this post @Flourlover
@RebelTaz I have not made any garlands like what your describing. I’ve seen what I think you’re speaking of: vertical strings of beads in various colors that when looked at from a way back you can see a pattern or image.
I’m amazed how those are created.
I do not know of any programs or apps off hand which to use to graph out patterns. I know sewists use some when drafting. Perhaps an internet search for pattern drafting might help; especially for embroidery like cross stitch where going grid by grid point is used.
I think specific to your needs and what described before me is using graph paper at least for a rough sketch. My mom crossed stitched for decades and would color out patterns that way.
There are resources for those making beaded bracelets, bead looming and macrame decor and wondering if scaling up could work. The weaving back and forth part is different for jewelry as it holds the item together vs loose strands. You wouldn’t do the weaving back n forth rather just follow the order of colors from top-down.
Normal pattern #172866 | BraceletBook. An example I found and played around with.Also went down a rabbit hole of Reddit, Pintrest, Google etc.
Good luck!
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Y’all just want to see what kind of patience I have, don’t you?
This is going to be huge as far as using graph paper goes. I’ll keep that in mind (WAY back of my mind!) as a last resort. After a little searching , I found one “program” that I think MIGHT work - Beadographer It looks like I can import the graphic I’ve already drawn and modify the size and it picks the colors for each “bead” itself. It still looks iffy…
No matter what I finally go with, what I will probably wind up doing for Elevyn is to convert the grid to alphanumeric instructions: 7 black; 3 red; 4 flesh; etc… I think that may be easier for her to follow.
In any event, I ain’t getting her to string beads until it cools down, so… I’ll post photos sometime around Christmas 
Thanks 
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I use gimp. It’s an open source (i.e. free) program comparable to Photoshop. It’s got most everything that PS has, has basically the same user layout / interface (or it used to decades ago 
) and if you need any help with it, you can ask me That has to be a plus
Oh… and it’s multi-platform. I run it under linux, but it’s available for windows, too.
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I saw that link during my web searches too.
I’ve noticed that for graphing or charting out patterns especially with repeats, only do 1 -2 rounds or portions and all one has to do is go back up to the top and read top-down and/or left -right for continuous patterns.
Knitters and crocheters do this all the time for repeating with yarn stitches.
They can use all sorts of abbreviations and marks for certain steps too.
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