I used to use scraps from my little books for the background paper in these, but the scrapbook papers commonly available are just as nice. You can’t see them perfectly well anyway. The one at the top with the orange flowers is one of my favorites.
Tag: magnet
Jun 28
Magnet Set 3
These magnets contain some of my niftier findings. I took apart a watch to get the gears in the upper right. They aren’t as fun as all-metal gears, but plastic watch gears aren’t radioactive, unlike some of the radium dusted (it glows! In the dark!) ones from last century. I like the transistors too, and …
Jun 25
Clarion Magnets
Here’s the second set of magnets I made for the Clarion Foundation’s Write-a-thon this year. Some lucky person will get these. Keys donated by Kim Stanley Robinson. I hope they’re going to a good fridge.
Jun 21
Magnet Set 2
I experimented with different things to set in the resin, and some were more successful than others. The gold leaf didn’t have that lovely suspended quality I had hoped for. The small metal button in the bottom one is nice, though the glare of the light (which was even filtered!) makes it hard to see. …
Jun 14
Magnet Set 1
We got a new refrigerator, so to make it feel welcome, I made a set of magnets. Here are some of them, photographed in their natural habitat. To do a project like this, you have to have lots and lots of little pieces and different types of paper, otherwise they aren’t terribly creative.