Creative times

[wiseheart]

Firstly, the baby journal for my colleague CsÉ's grandson, expected to be born in two weeks' time. Just the front cover, as the inside is basically lots of teddy bear pictures with titles like "Mummy's Little Hero", "Cuteness Alert" and the likes.

Brownie points for those who can guess what the wheels are made of!



Then the finished Kastanienwürfel aka chestnut squares:



They turned out fairly well, if I say so myself. Actually, Mum says so, too.


Also, the girl who's started learning German from scratch today is a real sweetheart. I knew she was a nice kid but I haven't expected to be quite this easy to work with her. I only hope it will last. But the colleagues who know her say that she's eager and good-natured as a rule. So far, I enjoy working with her.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You probably will. Think of older data storage thingies - before CDs and data sticks came about.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

OMG! I GET IT!

Bloody hell, you still have some of those? (Mind you, I think I still have some in a drawer somewhere too.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've dismantled them years ago. But as I was cutting up the plastic parts to destroy the data, I thought it would be wasteful to throw away the metal parts as well; I had so many, and I thought eventually something could be made of them. Originally I was thinking in the steampunk direction, but I find the pram looks well on them, too.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

If you have enough, they could be corded together to make a belt?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, although I'm not that big on accessoires. I think I'll just keep them and use them up piece by piece for scrapbooking or something similar. Hardcore scrapbooking is just too kitschy for my taste.

I really had a lot and, alas, threw out many metal parts - both the middle discs and the little square thingies - before the idea of keeping them occurred to me.