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Yes, of course, like every business, we have terms and conditions of trading. But being in business is about relationships, and about treating customers how we would like to be treated ourselves. So we've come up with our own 'Fair Trading Promise', just to highlight that at Fort Locks Self Storage, we go that extra mile.
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Artists of all abilities, styles, and genres are invited to participate in the IDEA Center's figure drawing series. DRAW takes place the first Wednesday of each month. With featured themes and models both costumed and nude, DRAW lets artists practice their skills among friends. Part class, part social experience—artists should bring both their own supplies and snacks. Beer will be available for purchase.
DRAW is open to artists 18+ and costs $10 for the general public. Admission is $5 for CREATE & IDEA Center members. Sessions take place from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at the IDEA Center (1039B Ellis Street, Stevens Point, WI).
Space is limited to 15 artists. A facilitator will be available to share figure-drawing techniques and to answer questions. Limited easels are available first-come-first- served. Walk-ins welcome is space allows. Email email@example.com to reserve your spot!
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Both DRAW and the IDEA Center are CREATE initiatives, which aim to make creativity central to our way of life in Portage County.

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Stretch Film and Plastic Resin Pricing for Sept / Oct 2016
The increase: (Sept 23rd orders placed - 6% - really .05/lb). Surprising but gaining a lot of momentum, going to happen is the popular thought.
Resin guys putting another increase out there in October. The popular belief is that stretch pricing
will not lower (or be lower) prior to end of 2016.
Just FYI
If you plan to do so - I would get orders in earlier next week and stay away from orders placed close to Sept 23rd increase date, not sure if things will tighten up or not.
Our LEAD TIMES are pushing out with escalating order rate to
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Hundreds of artists, a free Street Festival, The Bluegrass Ramble, and the two-day Wide Open Bluegrass Festival on 8 stages....all coming to Downtown Raleigh on September 25th through 29th. Swift Creek will be there, playing and singing our original music and the innovative covers you love. Stay tuned...we'll let you know our schedule soon. In the meantime, don't forget to get your tickets HERE!
We're pumped about playing at The Blue Note Grill, one of Durham's most popular venues, on Sunday, April 22! The show is 5-7 PM, and we heartily endorse the food (BBQ included!). Top off your weekend with "Dinner and a Show!" The Blue Note Grill was voted INDY Week Best of the Triangle 2017: Best Place to hear Blues (winner) and Best Place to hear Bluegrass (finalist)!
Swift Creek is proud to be included in the impressive Spring lineup for the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance. Come hear us at 4:30 PM on Saturday, May 5!
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MaryBeth & Frank's Reception at CescaphePaul Evans
DJ Paul Evans was the Silver Sound DJ selected by Marybeth Colangelo and Frank Peterson after they had a meeting. "Cescaphe is a unique location because everything is done BIG", says Paul. Paul was very enthusiastic, taking pictures throughout the night. After a warm welcome from Megan and Mike, he got to work setting up on the upper level where they sport an incredible h'orderves presentation. Following dinner was a dazzling flambé and dessert presentation to die for. Paul regrets not getting photographs of the seafood presentation because the shrimp bar extended over 10-feet featuring jumbo shrimp, crab claws, lobster tail, clams on the half shell and more.
Cescaphe also provided a large and very prominent custom monogram of the couples initials that was projected on the wall for all to see. Once the party started Marybeth and Frank were out on the floor with their guests all night. At the end of the night a young nightclub DJ, Joey Yannizzi, jumped on and performed a special guest DJ set on Paul's console. The dancing ended on a strong note at midnight with this energetic crowd finishing out the night dancing to 'Sexy and I Know It' by LMFAO.


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ATB Morton is a leading, privately owned engineering, building and construction company headquartered in Newcastle, NSW.
Established in 1981, the company has completed over 2000 construction projects totalling over $1bn.
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Face waxing is a safe method to remove unwanted facial hair, but the method can loosen facial skin. This is because facial skin is very thin and delicate compared to other skin areas on the body. Frequently waxing facial skin can lead to loosening the skin, especially the area around the mouth.
Waxing is an effective method for hair removal because it removes hair follicles at the root, unlike shaving which simply shaves off the hair above the surface of the skin. Women are not recommended to shave off hair on their face, as the hair will grow back darker and stronger than it was there before. Beauty salons commonly offer special face wax methods that leave the skin feeling smooth and replenished but it should be noted that waxing is a very aggressive method of removing hair follicles and since the skin on the face is delicate, this could lead to loosening the skin prematurely.
Another option is bleaching the facial hair. This changes the color of the hair so it is easily camouflaged. Another method is threading, where someone uses a thread in a criss-cross method to remove the hair. This method is quite painful, though and must be done regularly because it doesn't remove the hair follicles at the root. It can also leaving scarring on the face.
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Men, we will gather, beginning Wednesday October 4 at 6am at The Wired Goat in the Vista, for a 7-week study on the book of Galatians. We hope you can join us! These studies are a great way to dig deep into Scripture, and also fellowship with other guys from Midlands. Plan to bring your Bible, a pen and journal, and invite some of your buddies! The Wire Goat will take care of your coffee and breakfast needs!
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I had zero intentions of making turkey soup with our Thanksgiving leftovers this year because it's what I do every year and I just didn't want it. I wanted loaded sandwiches and pastas with this year's turkey but it didn't pan out that way, clearly. I forgot that every single year, without fail, I get sick around Thanksgiving. Sometimes it's just before, sometimes it's right after, but either way, I get a flu. It's not usually bad enough that I can't function or take part in family get togethers and cooking, but it's always enough to make me sleep extra long, be completely disgusted with any sweet things, run a teeny tiny fever and not want to eat anything but oatmeal and soup.
I was lucky this year and didn't get really sick until the day after so I was able to be a normal person and enjoy the weekend with my family before my flu set in. When I felt it taking hold of me, I knew there wasn't going to be sandwiches or pastas in my near future. No, it had to be soup.
I'm not really great at letting other people take care of me and I'm annoyingly insistent about making my own feel-good, get-better food so the second I knew I was going to be knocked on my butt for the next few days, I made a big pot of this healthy leftover turkey broccoli soup with stuffing croutons. Yes, stuffing croutons.
You know the deal with turkey stuffing. It's the most amazing part of any Thanksgiving and Christmas meal and it also becomes very, very soggy when kept for leftovers. This has never been an issue for me- I'll straight up eat it cold out of the fridge- but I knew the stuffing could be turned in to little balls and broiled until lightly crispy to form croutons for the soup and that it would be amazing. Stuffing is always amazing.
If you've been reading along for a while, you know that I can't stand waste of any kind and it won't surprise you to know that I especially hate buying an entire stalk of broccoli and throwing away what's left after cutting off the florets. The same goes for cauliflower. The stalks are just as tasty and nutritious as the florets and only need a little extra cooking time to be soft enough to eat. My favorite way to use them up while making the soup healthier and stretch further is to chop them up and boil them with the stock, onions, seasonings and celery.
Once it's all soft, I blend it until it's completely smooth and creamy, return it all to the pot and then add the broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and turkey. It's only another 5-10 minutes of simmering before the florets are cooked and then you add a little cheese, cream, honey and lemon juice, season it more to taste and then it's all done! An added bonus is by blending the stalks, you get a creamy soup without needing to add a lot of extra cream which is both good for our waistlines and our pocketbooks.
While the florets are cooking, you broil your leftover stuffing cubes for 5-10 minutes or until they're crispy, top your bowls of soup with as many as you want and then eat!
Yes, Bear got a bowl of soup too. Apparently I'm generous when I'm sick. Go figure.
- 2 TBSP butter
- 1 TBSP olive oil
- 1 large sweet white onion, diced
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 large stalks of celery, chopped
- 5-6 C broccoli and cauliflower stems, chopped
- 6-8 C broccoli and cauliflower florets, chopped in to bite sized pieces
- 8 C homemade turkey broth or chicken broth** see note
- ½ tsp dried thyme or 1½ tsp fresh leaves
- 1 TBSP fresh rosemary leaves, minced
- 1 TBSP fresh sage leaves, minced
- 1 bay leaf
- 4-5 C shredded, leftover turkey meat (I used all dark meat)
- ¾ C half n half
- 1 cup shredded Asiago or Parmesan
- 1-2 TBSP honey
- salt and pepper, to taste
- Juice of ½ a lemon or 1-2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 C leftover turkey stuffing.
- In a large soup pot, heat butter and olive oil over medium-high heat. Once hot, add onion and celery along with a heavy pinch of salt.
- Cook, stirring often, until onion and celery are soft, 5-7 minutes.
- Add thyme, rosemary, garlic, bay leaf and another heavy pinch of salt. Cook, stirring constantly for 30 seconds.
- Add broccoli and broccoli stems and turkey or chicken broth. Cover, bring to a boil then reduce heat to low and continue to simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the stems are soft.
- Once soft, remove the bay leaf and, working in batches, blend the soup carefully in a blender (taking care not to burn yourself) until completely smooth.
- Return soup to the pot and add remaining broccoli and cauliflower, turkey and, if your broth is not salted, add an extra few heavy pinches of salt.
- Bring back to a boil then immediately reduce the heat on the stove to low. Simmer the soup until the florets are soft but still retain some chew, about 5-7 minutes.
- Meanwhile, break your left over stuffing up in to small cubes and place on a baking sheet. Turn on your broiler and place baking sheet on the upper 3rd rack of your oven. Broil for 3-5 minutes while keeping a very close eye on your croutons (some broilers are hotter than others) then, when crispy, carefully turn each crouton over and continue to broil for 2 more minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to rest on the baking sheet and set aside.
- When the broccoli and cauliflower are done, remove the pot from heat, stir in cream, cheese, honey and lemon juice, stirring until the cheese is melted. Taste, adjust salt and pepper to your liking.
- Serve soup warm with as many croutons as you would like on top and extra cheese.
You'll definitely want to try these recipes too…
Apple Mushroom and Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash
Roasted Jalapeno Cheddar Chicken Sausage Stuffed Delicata Squash
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I just got back from a delightful lunch with a friend who is newly diagnosed with MS. It is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that she is sick at all since she looks wonderful and healthy. But she is struggling with all the unknowns that surround having a serious, chronic disease. It was so interesting to compare notes because our emotions regarding the whole inconvenient mess which a chronic disease entails are so similar. It does not matter what the diagnosis is: MS or cancer. Being sick is not what we would choose and we would prefer not to participate in this experience.
We discussed the fact that anger has not been part of our emotional reactions or at least, not a big part of our emotional reactions. My friend is 3 months into this journey so she is experiencing what I experienced at the beginning of my diagnosis, which is essentially fear. We talked about learning to have faith in what medical science has to offer us. Fifteen years ago, she would have been facing a life in a wheelchair, or worse. Fifteen years ago, I would likely not have survived more than 12 months. We are so fortunate that the research has been done which has resulted in treatments that are essentially miraculous. This is not to say that it is all peaches and cream. But given the alternatives, I am glad that this much progress has been made. What would my emotional reaction have been if I was told that it was 80% probable that I would not survive? I am doing well because I am doing well. If not, I would not be a rock of emotional stability.
When I was diagnosed, I felt really sick. So I did not have much energy to worry about the future. Also, I was tired from playing tennis, albeit poorly. If I had felt better, I think it would have been tougher for me to "stay strong". I told my friend that it is a pity she feels as well as she does because it gives her time to worry. We laughed about that.
We talked about how one of the most difficult things is sharing the diagnosis with others. Is it better to remain on the "down low" so that you do not get those looks of pity or being the "special one" when you are with acquaintances? I pointed out that I could not be on the "down low". First of all, I looked green around the gills so it would have been hard to hide the fact that I was having treatment. Secondly, the fact that my hair was falling out made it fairly obvious that I was sick. I told my friend that I did not dwell on survivability issues since I was totally freaked out about losing my hair. She has a gorgeous head of hair so she cannot distract herself with this issue.
It felt great to be with someone who was facing some of the issues that I faced. I would not wish this on her for the world, but it was a conversation among equals. I could put myself in her shoes and I could remember how it felt to face the challenges that I never wanted to face. It seems like the distant past now. But it is really not all that distant. We are going to continue our discussions and I will treasure the therapeutic benefits of sharing our mutual insights into living with this junk.


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Yellow Pearl: Eighteen Short Stories from the Stringybark Australian History Awards
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Lachlan Dunn lifted his eyes from the book he was trying to read. He studied his uncle in the dim lamplight. "What you all done up for?"
Thaiter grinned and finished tucking his clean shirt into his trousers. "It's me birthday. I'm off ta the Cosmopolitan for a couple."
"Your birthday?" Lachlan laughed.
"You'll note. I'm done right. Clean and shaven." Thaiter did a spin and twinkled his eyebrows. "I might get lucky tonight."
— from "Done Right" by Donna Fieldhouse
The postman dropped a bundle of mail and there's a letter with the AIF crest, I recognised the same rising sun symbol from Uncle John's slouch hat. Nanna concentrated for a long time, holding the thin paper out at arm's length as if any closer would risk infection by a terrible disease hidden there. She stretched her old thin arms away from her as if trying to bring the important words into focus.
— from "Water or Speed" by Karen Lethlean
Raise the term 'history' in a conversation in any group and half the participants will glaze over and talk about something else. Why? Is it because they think that history is a collection of dates or stories about musty, dusty, kings? Perhaps. Or perhaps they have never come across an anthology like this one — full of good writing and intriguing plots. Knowing that a story is true or based on truth always adds a little more spice to a tale, than a straight fiction piece can ever engender. Here are eighteen unique, short stories, chosen from the Stringybark Australian History Awards. Each provides a fascinating insight into Australian history.


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The writer Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) wrote:
'To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.'
The irony is that, at the time, not only was the game frequently played for money, but exactly the wrong sort of money – that of illegal gamblers out to rig the result.
It is generally considered that match fixing had died out by the end of the nineteenth century, but no readers will need reminding that match fixing in cricket is back in a disturbingly large way. First there were the Pakistani scandals in the 1990s, leading to a judicial inquiry, then the Hansie Cronje debacle of 2000, and now in more recent times we have gambling associated with the 20/20 tours. The journalist Ed Hawkins has written a very important book explaining the nature of all this skulduggery.
Since I wrote a blog on match fixing last week and spoke to Radio NZ, there have been some important developments:
- Brendon McCullum has confirmed he stands by the testimony he gave to the ICC, which was leaked to the media recently.
- The ECB has brought disciplinary proceedings against Lou Vincent and another player.
- Vincent has confirmed that he has made no plea bargain.
- Chris Cairns has come to London to speak to the police and ICC investigators.
There are three possible legal fora under which proceedings might be brought:
(i) The internal disciplinary regimes of the ICC or national authorities, as is under way with Vincent. The ECB banned Danish Kaneria under its own procedures, and Kaneria's challenge to the High Court (under the Arbitration Act 1996) was dismissed. I intend to write a bit more about Kaneria's case in the next week or so.
(ii) A player accused of match fixing might sue anyone who publishes the accusation, as Cairns did a few years ago when Lalit Modi accused him in a tweet. I have written about this case in detail in my forthcoming book (due at the end of June).
(iii) Criminal charges might be brought, as they were against Salman Butt and two bowlers earlier this century. I wrote a short account of this case in my first book.
I would reiterate the following:
- Chris Cairns is not just entitled to the presumption of innocence, he has not even been charged with anything. He has voluntarily come to London to provide his testimony.
- The ICC seems to have been sitting on some testimony for several years. This appears unacceptably dilatory, unless some proper reasons not publicly known at present come to light in due course. On that we must reserve judgement.
- The media are only doing their job in reporting allegations and leaks, and no-one can blame them for that. It is the ICC who is at fault, for not stopping the leaks in the first place. The leaks have (i) interfered with the right of the subject of them to a fair trial; (ii) brought the general competence of the ICC into question; and (iii) worst of all, possibly deterred players from putting themselves at risk by going to the authorities in the first place. As I have stressed elsewhere, players (especially the more junior ones) who are approached by match fixers will need to have full confidence that they can report things in private, or they will be too in fear of reprisals from the wrong-doers to risk it.
One can only hope the truth will out. I along with the rest of the general public cannot know who is telling the truth in all this at the moment. But that also means we as the general public cannot know the extent of the wrongdoing, and thus how many games we pay good money to watch or read about are tainted.
The stakes – to use an ironic term – could not be higher. There is much evidence that illegal gambling was the reason cricket became an organised, national sport in the first place. In a rather cruelly circuitous fashion, illegal gambling may yet become the reason it ceases to be so. Let us hope not.


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Looking at $(t,x)\in[0,1]\times\mathbb{R}^2$, I came across the statement (for sufficiently smooth) real-valued $f$ that $$ \|f(t,x)\|_{L^\infty_tL^2_x} \lesssim \|f\|_{L^2_tL^2_x}^{1/2}\|\partial_t f\|_{L^2_tL^2_x}^{1/2} + \|f\|_{L^2_tL^2_x}, $$ which is a "simple calculus identity."
I do not know how to prove this. I tried to let $t\in[0,1]$ and then bound $ \int f(t,x)^2dx$ by the above by writing $f(t,x)$ as $\int_0^t\partial_s f(s,x)ds+f(0,x)$ and similar tricks, but could not get it to work out. I also tried to use the Sobolev embedding of $W^{1,2}(\mathbb{R})$ into $L^\infty(\mathbb{R})$, but could not get that to work (nor is that "simple calculus" in my opinion). Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
(In case it is not standard, the mixed norm notation is $$ \|f(t,x)\|_{L^q_tL^p_x} = \left(\int\|f(t,\cdot)\|^q_{L^p}dt\right)^{1/q}. $$ )
(For reference, the original statement was found in the paper "Sharp Trace Theorems for Null Hypersurfaces on Einstein Metrics with Finite Curvature Flux" by S. Klainerman and I. Rodnianski, Geom. funct. anal. Vol. 16 (2006) 164-229.)


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The 2015 edition of Asian Boxing Championship proved fruitful for India as the nation came out with a silver and three bronze medals.
At the start of the tournament, six Indian boxers got a bye in the first round. Olympic berths were up for grabs and the boxers had their eyes set on them. Shiva Thapa, Devendro Singh, Satish Kumar, Manpreet Singh and Vikas Krishan reached the quarterfinals and it proved to be a big boost for everyone.
However, the boxers were met with some tough competition in the Quarterfinals stage of the championship. Devendro Singh progressed easily into the semi-finals with a 3-0 win over his opponent Cornelis Kwangu Langu of Indonesia. Shiva Thapa and Vikas Krishan also made it to the semis on the same day by winning their respective matches.
Satish Kumar then earned his spot in the final four and raised the number of Indians in the semi-finals to four.
Vikas Krishan goes on to clinch silver at Asian Boxing Championship
Of the four Indians who competed in the Semi-finals, only Vikas Krishan managed to make it into the finals. He set up a bout with Bektemir Melikuziev of Uzbekistan in the final, but was unlucky to lose 0-2. The silver proved to be a big encouragement for the boxer nevertheless.
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National Curriculum
The National Curriculum is a framework used by all maintained schools to ensure that teaching and learning is balanced and consistent in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. It seeks to build on the foundation provided by the seven areas of learning in the Early Learning Goals.
The National Curriculum sets out the subjects taught as well as the knowledge, skills and understanding required in each subject. It also provides standards or statements in each subject and these are used by teachers to help measure your child's progress and plan the next steps in their learning. In accordance with the law, the school curriculum meets all the requirements of the National Curriculum, plus the requirements for Religious Education set out by the local authority.
Core Subjects
Computing - this is taught as a discrete subject and is also used to support teaching and learning across the curriculum.
Religious Education - the requirements for Religious Education are laid down in a locally-agreed syllabus.
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
"Behind Walgreens"
OMG! Vegas details are revealed!!!
Starz Comedy presents "Special Sauce"
When: Thursday November 2, 2006
Where: The Empire Ballroom
3765 Las Vegas Blvd.
South Las Vegas, NV
The Empire Ballroom is right off of the strip, next to the MGM Grand, across from the Monte Carlo Hotel and behind Walgreens.
And it's totally FREE!
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Knife Skills
Andy ran out of picks so he was playing with a button today. It was hard for him to play all his sweet licks with a button, so Andy switched over to a plasitc knife. When you hear how good he sounds on Sweet Child O Mine, remember he played that S. with a knife!
Check out his knife.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The Hazzards Win!
Dear Blog,
Congratulations to us. The Village Voice has awarded us, The Hazzards, the title of: Best Ukulele-playing Fag Hags, 2006. Dang!
You'd be surprised how many ukulele playing fag hags there are. The competition was pretty intense.
We win!
Friday, October 13, 2006
Details TBD
OMG!!! Did you see what we're doing on November 2nd? Details TBD!!!
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Drum tracks
1. It was raining.
2. The gate was locked.
3. Christian was having dinner with his dad.
4. Sydney bought a bottle of wine.
5. Will shimmied through a puddle on the ground.
6. They dropped the wine.
7. They got the keys.
8. Sydney found a secret gate.
9. Eugene brought beer.
10. Drum tracks. High five!
Friday, October 06, 2006
The Hazzards @ Comix - 11/16
It's been so long since we've played a big show in NYC. Save the date. We miss you!
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
353 West 14th Street
just east of 9th Ave.
New York, NY 10014
Tickets: $15 (get them here)
Join us and all our TBA special guests at NYC's newest, fanciest comedy club. There is NO drink minimum. Yeah!
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Old Glory, she gets around. The American flag is no stranger to movies, in fact by now it probably deserves a star on the walk of fame. Sometimes it's a backdrop for an important moment as in Patton, other times it's a rallying cry as in Flags of our Fathers. But there are movies you expect the American flag to show up; In films about patriotism, war, government, or even the occasional olympic movie like Miracle; and then there are the places where you just wouldn't think it'd be found.
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Day 435: Getting out of Tayrona National Park
Horseback rides out of half of Tayrona National Park today was a must. Had we more time, we would have stayed an extra day to relax longer in the park, but with only a week left of the trip, we were a little anxious to get to Cartagena. We woke up to rain, and lounged early in the morning. Dozing off, reading, listening to the rain. It was lovely. Once the rain stopped, we headed for the horses and bypassed the even muddier ravines (due to the additional rain last night) by foot. I have never been so grateful to be on a horse in my life.
Instead of taking what felt like two hours the day before to cross the muddy trail, it only took about twenty minutes. While we were on horseback, a handler ran along side of us hustling the horses along. I was impressed (and jealous of his rain boots) at how fast he moved through the ravine. We trekked out the rest of the way, then hopped in a bus back to the park entrance, another bus back to Santa Marta, then a cab to El Rodadero, while we waited for yet another form of transportation; a shared taxi to Cartagena.
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Methi Dal
Methi dal, a rich dal with fenugreek leaves. Methi is one of the very healthy greens. Though they have bitter taste, if we chop them and sprinkle some salt and keep it aside for 30minutes, the bitterness will be less in the dish we prepare. Fenugreek has many health benefits. It helps in reducing the cholesterol levels also fenugreek helps in increase the milk production for lactating mothers. So lets all try to use methi leaves and seeds as much as possible in our daily routine cooking.
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|Turmeric Powder
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- For Methi dal we can use thur dal / moong dal / masoor dal or a combination of all of these. Here I have used the thur dal and masoor dal. Take both the dals in a bowl and add a pinch of turmeric and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. Once the dal is cooked, take it and mash it nicely and keep it aside
- Wash the methi leaves and then pluck only the leaves from its stem . Immediately finely chop the methi leaves and keep it in a bowl and add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and mix well and keep it aside for 30 minutes. Adding salt reduces the bitterness of the methi leaves
- Meanwhile, finely chop the onions and tomatoes. Vertically slit the green chillies and keep it ready. Heat oil in a pan, add butter and allow it to melt
- Add cumins seeds to the melted butter. When the cumin seeds starts to sputter, add broken red chillies, slit green chillies and onions and saute them till the onions turn brown color. Add a pinch of salt to cook the onions evenly and quickly
- Then add tomatoes and stir fry them in medium flame. When the tomatoes become mushy, add chopped methi leaves and stir fry for another 5 minutes
- When the methi leaves are cooked, add mashed dal, coriander powder, red chilli powder and salt. Keep the flame in low and close the pan with a lid and cook it for another 5 minutes. Adjust the water level to have a good dal consistency and allow it to boil for another 2 minutes. Remove from flame
- The yummy Methi Dal is ready to serve with hot rice or roti/chapati
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After last November's elections were over, the combatants filed year-end reports on what they had spent for and against legislative candidates and ballot measures and it was close to $700 million – nearly two-thirds more than spending during the previous election cycle.
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Kentucky officially announced the hiring of Florida International defensive coordinator Matt House as its new special teams coordinator and inside linebackers coach on Thursday.
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Eco-conscious nonprofits that accept bitcoin
1) Ocean Shepherd Conservation Society
Ocean Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is really a nonprofit that serves to safeguard and conserve marine wildlife and it is oceanic habitat. Its founder, Paul Watson, would be a founding member and director of Greenpeace until departing in 1977 to determine Ocean Shepherd. Their direct-action method of conservation mean their crew is around the front lines of activism. Current campaigns include Operation Milagro III, where a couple of their ships is going to be positively patrolling a refuge position for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Another, Operation Jairo, defends endangered ocean turtles around the the coasts of Florida, Honduras, and Panama And Nicaragua ,. Donate with bitcoin to assist Ocean Shepherd safeguard our oceans.
2) Darwin Animal Doctors
The Galapagos Islands are the place to find probably the most different and unique wildlife on the planet. As well as in recent decades, a boost in the neighborhood population has meant a rise in the amount of domestic creatures like cats and dogs. This, consequently, elevated the requirement for education, veterinary care, and efforts to safeguard native wildlife. Darwin Animal Doctors, a platinum level Guidestar Participant, is headquartered in New You are able to and it was began this year by Founder Tod Emko. Their mission would be to provide free comprehensive veterinary choose to the Galapagos creatures – both domestic and wild – while preserving the archipelago's wealthy bio-diversity. Father also have expanded their efforts to Greenland, Sumatra, Belize, and many lately, Thailand. You are able to donate bitcoin to Father here, or by delivering donations for this bitcoin address.
3) BitGive
Founded in 2013 by Connie Gallippi, BitGive is probably probably the most well-known charity for promoting the advantages of bitcoin and block chain technology for nonprofits. The nonprofit (that was the very first bitcoin-focused charitable organization obtain 501(c)(3) status), aims to aid ecological and public health-focused nonprofits by looking into making simple to use to allow them to accept bitcoin and find out the advantages first-hands. Their latest big news may be the launch of GiveTrack, which utilizes block chain technology to trace donation progress. Help BitGive by looking into making a bitcoin donation here.
4) Greenpeace (via BitPay)
In 2014, ecological nonprofit Greenpeace started accepting bitcoin donations through BitPay. The business calls focus on ecological abuses and tries to educate and supply effective methods to these complaints. Current campaigns include: Saving the Arctic, Protecting our Oceans, and Living Toxic-Free. You are able to donate to Greenpeace with bitcoin here.
5) Art for Evolution
Community-focused eco-art and the development of Land Art Parks are what Art for Evolution uses to boost ecological awareness. The nonprofit began by Analia Bordenave, grew to become a 501(c)(3) in 2014 and it is a Gold Level Guidestar participant. Their flagship project, Eco-friendly on Grey, is made to help participants recognize and replace dangerous habits with increased eco-friendly alternatives. Art for Evolution also promotes bitcoin like a greener solution, and cites work from Chartered Engineer and Master of business administration graduate Hass McCook, that takes a closer inspection in the economic and ecological impacts of bitcoin mining when compared with traditional banking, and producing gold and physical currencies. To give bitcoin to Art for Evolution, click the link.


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March 20: Macaron Day Celebration
About Madame Macaron
Having studied the art of French Pastry Baking in Paris, Finia Jahangard, also known as Madame Macaron, was soon recognized as the master of the art of macaron baking. What started out as a personal passion to make these delectable treasures for close friends and family, Madame Macaron quickly found herself making these treats for private celebrity parties, fashion spreads, music videos, and movie sets.
I pride myself in looking at people's faces when they eat something and love it so much that I can say, it's ok have another one! – Madame Macaron
Her passion for evolving French pastries is what makes Madame Macaron so unique, and her creations so irresitable. She has developed a recipe that not only has people begging for more, but also gives them a guilt-free slice of heaven! Although the macaron is already much lighter in calories than its counterparts, Madame Macaron began customizing her macaron recipe to significantly reduce the calories, fat, and sugar- without compromising taste at all. Madame Macaron says, "I pride myself in looking at people's faces when they eat something and love it so much that I can say, it's ok have another one!"
Madame Macaron's menu varies from individual desserts, cakes, Macarons, parfaits, and cookies- all with the finest ingredients and exquisite taste.
Tradition of Perfection
Although predominantly a French confection, there has been much debate about its origins. Larousse Gastronomique cites the macaron as being created in 1791 in a convent near Cormery. Some have traced its French debut back to the arrival of Catherine de' Medici's Italian pastry chefs whom she brought with her in 1533 upon marrying Henry II of France.
In the 1830s, macarons were served two-by-two with the addition of jams, liqueurs, and spices. Italian Jews later adopted the cookie because it has no flour or leavening and can be enjoyed during the eight-day observation of Passover. It was introduced to other European Jews and became popular as a year-round sweet.
A French macaroon is a confectionery whose name is derived from an Italian word "maccarone" meaning paste. It is meringue-based: made from a mixture of egg whites, almond flour, and both granulated and confectionery sugar.
March 20th is known as Macaron Day and be sure to order some!
Website: macaronqueen.com
Facebook: MacaronQueen
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Looksee reinvents itself with better photo editing and more filter packs
Looksee, a universal app that we examined a few months back, has reinvented itself with its latest update. The app allows you to share discover photos, allowing you to collaborate and connect with other people who share your particular look at the world. The app includes photo editing tools, allowing you to polish up your gems before you share them, and was originally designed to share images anonymously until someone liked your picture. Once someone liked your photo, the app would unlock a chat feature and allow you to follow each other on Instagram.
With the reinvented version, Looksee has "ditched the anonymous mechanic," according to Quebec Drive founder Justin Spraggins, focusing instead on the filter packs that can be unlocked via In App Purchase. Called "Looks," these filter packs are created by top Instagram users to represent the way they look at the world. Looksee allows you to collaborate with these top Instagram users by using their unique Looks on your own photos.
With the update also comes improved photo editing tools. These tools are comprehensive and easy to use, allowing you to adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, and other settings. The update also includes 18 new Looks, bringing the total number to 62, created by top photographers, bloggers, and models.
Looksee is available for free on the App Store, and filter packs start at $0.99.


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Every girl can have chains. Every girl can be free. Discover the message of freedom that can change your life.
Leave Your a Beauty Mark (LYBM) is a movement committed to empowering women with resources and opportunities to grow spiritually and leave their mark on the world from a place of wholeness. Through online bible studies, empowerment events and media resources, our goal is to see a generation of young women connecting to God, thriving with purpose, active in service and celebrated in a community of like-minded leaders.
Today during our family day at the museum, I overheard a dialogue between a mother and her son. He had been playing in the play area for a while with Grace, and then his mother told him it was time to go. As with most children being gently peeled away from their beloved playtime, it came with resistance. "I don't want to leave!" he said sadly. With sympathy yet expectancy, his mother responded,
For several weeks now, Grace as been begging me to find a pottery store where she can watch a potter throw clay & make pottery. She watched a few videos on YouTube, but she wanted to see it up close with her own eyes! It all started with our weekly bible study, and this particular week we were learning about story of the potter & the clay from Jeremiah 17.
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"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
King James Version (KJV)
5:9 The peace makers - They that out of love to God and man do all possible good to all men. Peace in the Scripture sense implies all blessings temporal and eternal. They shall be called the children of God - Shall be acknowledged such by God and man. One would imagine a person of this amiable temper and behaviour would be the darling of mankind. But our Lord well knew it would not be so, as long as Satan was the prince of this world. He therefore warns them before of the treatment all were to expect, who were determined thus to tread in his steps, by immediately subjoining, Happy are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake. Through this whole discourse we cannot but observe the most exact method which can possibly be conceived. Every paragraph, every sentence, is closely connected both with that which precedes, and that which follows it. And is not this the pattern for every Christian preacher? If any then are able to follow it without any premeditation, well: if not, let them not dare to preach without it. No rhapsody, no incoherency, whether the things spoken be true or false, comes of the Spirit of Christ.
Mt 5:9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers. Not the soldiers of a warrior king, such as the Jews expected but the men who, in the name of the Prince of Peace, go forth to proclaim peace and good will among men. Christ is the great Peacemaker.


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Art Review — Bill Frederick: Something About You by Diane Thodos
Bill Frederick: Something About You
January 16 – March 21, 2010
Elmhurst Art Museum
Elmhurst, IL
A dumpster and an abandoned gas station. A nuclear cooling tower next to a junkyard. Craning electric street lights on an empty highway. These are the places which the expert draughtsman Bill Frederick has always chosen as subjects. His scrupulous ink renderings from photographs strain to record abandoned and banal modern structures, often giving them a quaking and ominous quality. His distinct palette of black and white gives his subjects a dramatic sense of being ghostly. Mundane structures of everyday life are imbedded with an intense focus and belie a strange subjective hum below the surface of ordinary "empirical" existence. In one drawing a boy stands on a beach with the slash of an airplane vapor trail above his head. There is a distinct tension in the scene: a contradiction between man and machine. The line in the sky seems to be a harbinger of the figure's isolation and loneliness; a distant sign that speaks of the alienation that exists behind everyday appearances. The mundane becomes disproportionate and strange. People in several of his pictures seem trapped in a desert of everyday reality, trying to make sense of their existence, and co-existence, within it. They are strangely objectified, as though puzzled to find themselves where they are. In several drawings a woman sits in her car where deep shadows cast a gloomy and imprisoning mood. Nature itself is made unnatural, even in the middle of the woods where man made elements such as a picnic table or canoe assert themselves with an oblique strangeness to the surrounding nature, making nature itself strange.
The artist also concentrates on the painstaking rendering of the traces of phenomena from photographs that are out of focus or jittered. Some works reproduce the chemical tones of color photography or show unfocus elements to create visual depth. This has the effect of making the concretely real strangely unreal and hyper-real at the same time. These photographic phenomena sometimes gives a distancing quality to his subjects and imbue them with an existential silence that is tinged with melancholy that longs for connection and transcendence. The mundane has become otherworldly.
Some pieces in the show have a distinctly Hopperesque quality to them. They demonstrate a theme that both Frederick and the American realist painter Edward Hopper are drawn to: the incommensurateness of our modern environment to human existence. Structures and machines signal a profound break with human proportion and meaning. There is no mistaking Frederick's pictures for images that are aimed at "tricking the eye" or are obsessed with the exact rendering of surfaces for their own sake. His pictures create an existential tension between the objectively, even incomprehensively, real and suppressed emotions vibrating below the surface. This subterfuge of feeling in his strangely barren subjects marks the everyday appearance of things with ominous significance. His people are real in their feelings, if somehow lost and bewildered (like Hopper's people are) by their existence in the modern world. The deadening effects of modernity are both a mystery and a dark dream, where emotional substance still attempts to break through an alienating contemporary landscape.
Frederick's works should not be mistaken for simplistic photorealistic transcription: they do not seek to celebrate popular culture and city life as the kind of superficial subjects which many Photorealist artists have depicted in the past. Nor do they sentimentalize abandoned structures and landscapes. There is a searching eye and mindfulness behind the meticulous surfaces: technical virtuosity is at the service of a subjective task that his mind seeks. There is a strange wildness in the world he glimpses behind modern banality; not sterility but the emotional struggle with the sterility of modern, abandoned environments. Bill Frederick remains a contemporary emotional witness in his art, and a keeper of internal human experiences in a true Chicago art vein.
Diane Thodos is and artist and art critic who lives in Evanston, IL. She will be exhibiting at the Kouros Gallery in New York City in 2011 and is represented by the Paule Friedman & Alex Rivault Gallery in Paris, the Traeger/Pinto Gallery in Mexico City, and the Thomas Masters Gallery in Chicago.


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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
–Vincent Van Gogh
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
–Bill Cosby
I came across an article that actually spurs me to rekindle my love for Dressing Dollies and I promised myself to restart my passion and dream again.
How and when can I get back the kind of passion that I had before depends on the moneys in my pocket.
Financing and sustaining a household by ourselves is not an easy job.
All the expenses seemed to multiply thereafter.
I need the passion, I need the luck
I need the money and I need the perseverance!
2014 Resolutions:
Late resolutions settings but its better than never!
1. Worked doubly hard for my passion
2. To be able to log a #dvtravelogue before the year ends
3. I need to tighten my belt to save more money!
Its finally Thursday and I cannot wait for the weekend to be here as I need my much needed rest.
Age is really creeping up in me that I can feel the tiredness once the clock strikes midnight.


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Arcade Miss Fortune Write-Up
Arcade Miss Fortune is the most recently costume project that I have completed and I'll be sharing some of my construction details here about the costume, accessories, and props. Just a heads up though, I don't specialize in seamstress work so I'll only be covering prop/accessory details.
I unfortunately don't have a lot of process photos for Arcade Miss Fortune because half the time I was really trying to rush to make multiple deadlines, but I do have some!
Creating the Hat
The hat was the part I was dreading the most (I have a weird trend of choosing costumes with hats and then dreading it… why do I do this to myself?) but because of some of my recent contract jobs at Total Fabrication Inc. I learned a little bit about L200 and was able to use that to my benefit.
Patterning is actually one of my biggest weaknesses when it comes to building anything based on fabrics/soft goods. My solution? Build a wireform structure to pattern off of! This is the same technique that's covered in my Giant Hat tutorial, so if you're interested in that go check it out.
Using this technique I was able to create a three dimensional form that I can visually see and decide whether I want any major changes, such as size or curvature.
The next step was obtaining the pattern from this wireframe structure so I started taping on pieces of cardstock paper (firmer, allowing it to form to the curve) which created a solid outer shell. I only needed to cover half of it since the hat is supposed to be mirrored anyways.
Once everything was taped in place and fully covered I was able to draw the panels that I would be using for my L200 pieces. I probably could have designed the pattern differently, but I'm still pretty new to working with L200. Albeit messy, it worked out in the end!
Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the L200 form before I sanded it, but you can kind of see how the whole surface is pretty rough. I cut all the patterned pieces out of 1/2″ L200 foam and glued them together with barge. Once everything was dry I attacked the hat with low grit sandpaper to smooth out all the hard edges (seams) of the foam, followed by higher grit sanding to smooth it out furthermore. I chose a thicker foam to work with so that I have more leeway with sanding it down. If I had used a thinner foam, I wouldn't have been able to sand away so much of the material.
After sanding there were some areas that clearly had small gaps, those were filled with caulking. This is a great way to smooth out foam surfaces (post wet-sanding if you plan on doing that), it's like bondo for foam! I wasn't too concerned with how perfect the surface was though because I knew I would eventually be covering the entire thing with fabric anyways, so it didn't completely matter how clean the form was.
I sewed some felt together to further hide the seams of the foam and added worbla (GASP) to the brim, this was actually my first time ever working with worbla. I've never been a fan of the material, but I didn't want to seem biased without ever touching it. So now that I've played with it, I can officially say I am not a fan of it. I can see the benefits of the material, but it's just not my thing. (Also, it looks like a duck with Oreos!)
But I digress.
Afterwards I simply sewed together a vinyl casing for the hat and added it on top. The heart on the front of the hat was laser cut out of two different kinds of vinyls and glued together.
Feel free to use these for your own project. I'll have a digital kit available for purchase on my shop with actual Illustrator vector files available, but if you want to trace it yourself you can just use the image from this post.
Creating the Wig
This was actually the first time I had to modify a wig on my own. In the past, such as Miss Fortune, I would have a friend help me modify it because I have absolutely no patience for wig work, but this time I decided to do the work myself.
I purchased two 38″ Hera white curly wigs from Epic Cosplay and spliced the wefts together to create one volumous wig (I've always considered Miss Fortune's hair to have more volume than a normal wig). The photo above is just ONE Hera wig, it looks so empty! Adding the second wig does so much to give it more of a Miss Fortune feel. Afterwards I used the FW Ink method to dye my wig, I used my friend, Vickybunnyangel's, tutorial on YouTube to achieve the gradient.
I was pretty satisfied with the result I obtained, especially for my first shot at dying a wig! It doesn't rub off too much, but it does slightly get on the white of my corset.
Creating the Skirt
I've seen a lot of people wondering about the Arcade Miss Fortune skirt pattern, and there's actually a a few different methods of doing it:
- Sewing squares together
- Painting the squares on
- Custom ordering fabric with a pre-designed pattern
I went the custom fabric route because I have never had an excuse to use that technique for any project previously. I ordered swatches from Spoon Flower and Fabric on Demand, but I only received my swatches from Spoon Flower so they got my business.
After some scale tests (with the belt width) I decided that I liked the squares on the skirt being 2×2″ each.
This is the file I used for printing my skirt, but I even made it publicly available for anyone to purchase if they want to use the same exact file/design that I used:
If you follow this item, you can order the same exact fabric I used for my costume, the DPI is set properly and everything. Click to purchase the fabric on SpoonFlower!
I used a store bought pattern for the skirt and simply modified it to add the pleated bottom to it. Patterning is not my forte! I fully lined my skirt because custom printed fabric has a boring white backing, but that's completely optional.
Creating the Headset
I originally planned on 3D printing the entire headset piece, but I ended up only 3D printing the star and building the base of the headset on the lathe.
These are the 3D printed stars for the belt buckle and headset piece, straight from the printer without any cleaning done yet (the roughness of the shape is more visibly noticeable on the smaller star).
I decided to turn the base headset shape on my lathe using resin bucks. I created my buck by pouring some resin into paper drinking cups and then tossing that onto the lathe and adding the details that way. The left piece in the photo was a test with some bad resin and the right piece was the final form used for my headset.
Afterwards I molded and casted the star, pulling it out before it fully cured and shaping it to the curve of the turned piece. After that was all filler work.
Creating the Belt + Belt Accessories
The belt was pretty simple, I took the waistband pattern from my skirt pattern, imported it into Illustrator, and added the zig-zag pattern onto it, which I then got laser cut/engraved on vegetable tanned leather. I used leather paint to make it white and carefully painted in the zig-zag with grey leather paint using the engraving as a guide.
The pattern for my belt was split in two because it would not fit in the laser cut bed otherwise, and also if I were to cut it in one long strip that would waste a lot of leather.
The star belt buckle was 3D printed and molded/casted (previously shown).
I have raw casted belt buckle stars available in the Vensy Props store if anyone is interested. I might make painted versions available in the future, but for now it's just the raw castings.
The Gameboy hanging off of the belt is actually a real Gameboy that I purchased off of eBay – don't worry, it was already broken when I bought it! I opened it and took out all the hardware so that it would be lighter and I removed the buttons, molded, and casted them in their proper colors to replace inside of the console.
Casted GameBoy buttons are also available through the Vensy Props store if you're interested in purple/blue buttons.
I purchased a replacement screen because the one that game with the broken GameBoy was completely trashed! These are readily available on eBay, and if you're opening up your GameBoy to hollow it out you might as well replace the screen considering how inexpensive they are.
Creating the Boots
The boots were pretty simple, I just ordered some wedged heeled boots from eBay and used Meltonian Nu-Life Color Spray (in purple) for the base color and mixed some Angelus leather paint to paint all of the purple details. I purchased some neon pink shoelaces from Amazon and glued/sewed them to the boot. The upper flap and straps are pieces of vegetable tanned leather sewn/glued onto the boots, painted with their respective paints.
Creating the Guns
Normally I would create a separate post for how I fabricated the props for a costume, but I unfortunately have very few photos I can publicly share of the process. I was working on these guns at the same time as the Overwatch guns for BlizzCon 2014 and a lot of the photos featuring Arcade Miss Fortune's Shock and Awe progress also have Overwatch guns in progress and Blizzard has been strict about not allowing us to show progress. Sorry!
As always, I begin my project with a digital blueprint created in Illustrator to fully design the project. This allows me to be fully prepared for the build, as well as print the prop in various scales to determine what the final scale should be. My digital blueprint for Arcade Miss Fortune's guns are available for purchase at the Vensy Props shop.
I used the Illustrator file to laser cut the sides of the guns in 1mm Sintra, 1/4″ and 1/8″ MDF. The 1mm Sintra layer was the very top layer, creating the depth for the three circles; the 1/4″ MDF layer was directly under that, creating the depth of the bevel; and the final 1/8″ MDF layer was the bottom-most layer with the exterior of the bevel included.
With these all glued and layered together I was able to add Apoxie Sculpt to create a perfect bevel around the outside perimeter of the form.
In this photo I had already cut out the "body" of the gun with layers of MDF and was just seeing how all the pieces looked when layered together. This was before I actually went back and sanded the bevels furthermore.
Doing another test fit with more of the pieces cut out. No buttons yet in this stage and the ABS pipe was too long still, but I just wanted to see how everything looked together.
This was also before I sanded the handle, and I'd like to mention a rule for prop handles that I have. When creating a prop, I will make sure that the handle is comfortable for the user, even if that means it's slightly inaccurate. For example, my default Miss Fortune's Shock and Awe was scaled down a good amount so that it would be comfortable to hold as well as capable of pulling the trigger/cocking the gun all with one hand (especially considering Miss Fortune holds two guns, no hands free). Arcade Miss Fortune was no different, when shaping/sanding the handle part I made sure it was comfortable.
At this point I was creating the inset for the ABS pipe to slide into seamlessly. Lots and lots of bondo to make this perfect! My goal with this build was to have as minimum post work after casting as possible, so I just wanted it to be as seamless a fit as possible.
This was one of the final fittings, making sure the area below the ABS pipe fit seamlessly, as well as adding the buttons and button stand on the backside of the gun. I decided to mold the gun body and handle separately so that it would be easier to cast (and also to save on material).
Here's the gun when it was finally 100% ready for molding. You can also see the headset and star piece being molded in this shot! The body of the gun was huge and required nearly a whole gallon of Smooth-On's Mold Max 40.
I don't have any photos of the gun post casting, but I do plan on selling raw castings as well as a limited number of finished gun sets in the very near future, and at that point I will take more photos and possibly separate the gun into its own post. But for now this is all I can share, sorry guys!
Hope this post was relatively helpful, even if I lacked a lot of photos. If you have any questions feel free to drop them below in a comment or contact me on Facebook.
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I got into my car and nervously drove up to the parking lot gate where all that stood between me and freedom was a tough-as-nails administrator checking parking permits. As I slowly passed the staff member I was given the wave of approval and the voice in my head reassured me that we were in the clear. See, little did she know, my best friend was hiding in the trunk of my car. You can blame it on a bad case of senioritis or the fact that I was one of the lucky ones who was done everyday at lunch while Sky had to stick around for one extra class. But when it comes down to it, she was smitten over some boy from another school – one who also got out at lunch time. And me being the completely awesome friend that I was (and am!) I willingly snuck her out that ONE TIME. Okay, maybe a handful of times. Did I mention the senioritis part?? 😉
Fast forward six years and these two are planning their wedding! I love Sky & Kyle dearly and couldn't be more excited for the two of them!