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Vandy
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Disabled, queer nutritionist who loves cooking, crafts, cats, & books. 🏳️‍🌈
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My folded book vase with paper flowers is done! I changed out the 2 large roses for 3 small roses made from peach colored illustrations, made a stock of trumpet flowers, a head of hydrangeas from blue illustrations, & green leaves. I also painted the vase with metallic gold & added a ribbon.
An open book with the center pages folded into a vase shape with a narrow bottom, wide center, and flared top. The vase is brushed with metallic gold paint and there's a metallic gold and white striped ribbon around the narrowest part of the neck. In the vase at the top left is a stock of trumpet-shaped paper flowers with salmon-pink colored centers and two light green, blade shaped leaves. Next to it is a head of blue paper hydrangea flowers. In front of the hydrangea and down the side of the vase from right to left are three peach colored roses. From center top and curved toward the right bottom is a strand of light green leaves.
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Last night I started a new book art idea: folded book vase holding paper flowers. I made the two roses from the illustrated pages I cut out of the thin Reader's Digest condensed book that I folded. I plan to make a few other styles of flowers and foliage for the vase.
A thin Readers Digest condensed book (about 3/4 inch thick) with the center 160 pages folded into the shape of a vase with a narrow base, wide center, and flared top. There are two paper roses, one at the middle and slightly left and the other at the top and slightly right. The lower rose is in shades of black, gray, and orange. The top rose is in shades of white, yellow, and green.
January 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Sunny afternoon brought out the rainbows in the lobby of the library from the prisms in the clerestory windows. 🌈
January 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate.

My dad made me a gorgeous black walnut bowl from a board with a live edge.
Top three quarters view of a dark brown wooden bowl with a freeform asymmetrical lip.
December 26, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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The fruit on my parents medlar tree (Mespilus germanica) are ripening. Medlars are a very old fruit found frequently in literature. Shakespeare particularly liked it as its bawdy nickname is "open-arse" due to the shape of the fruit and there's a lot of play on medlar and meddler.
Branches of a tree without leaves but filled with golf ball-sized brown fruit with spiky-looking bottoms where it developed from the flowers
December 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Nutmeg begging for belly rubs! It's not a trap.
A small tortoiseshell cat lying on her with her feet curled up and belly exposed.
December 10, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Someone ordered a pink carved book dog. Reader's Digest condensed books with pink covers are hard to find but I had one from the 1960s in pretty good shape. It turned out great. Look at how cute it is? I hope the recipient loves it.
A dark pink book with a gold and white flower pattern and a wide light blue-gray binding on the spine with gold loop design on the edge carved into the shape of the side view of a Labrador retriever sitting down with its muzzle in the air as if it is begging for a treat.
December 9, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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New design in my TeePublic shop: We will NEVER go back to the 1950s! On sale today for $15! Price increases tomorrow.

www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6906...
Wall art with light green background with an image of three-quarter view of a 1950s woman with dark hair wearing a light blue and black striped blouse with a white ruffled collar and a light pink apron on the left. She has her middle finger up at her lips. On the right there is pink text with black shadow that says, "We will/NEVER/go back/to the/1950s"
November 30, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Yesterday's craft project: upcycled book page wreaths. The first is made from an old dictionary & features a silver paper poinsettia. The second is made from Christmas music and features two red paper amaryllis.
Ten inch cardboard ring with three layers of paper cones glued onto it. In the lower right is a silver paper poinsettia with green leaves. Ten inch cardboard ring with two layers of paper cones glued to it. In the lower-middle left there are two red paper amaryllis flowers with green leaves and yellow stamens.
November 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM