August 2011 archive

Ceramic Ball

This looks a lot like a smiley ball without a face, doesn’t it?  I wanted to do something as close to a sphere as I could manage, just because it’s pretty easy and it’s sometimes nice to have a heavy ball to roll around in your hands. I coated it with red iron oxide (as …

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Writing Advice: Prologues

 Dear Blog Friends: This is my first flowchart. I used visio, only to find that wordpress doesn’t want me to post visio documents for “security reasons.” Um. Okay. Gimp to the rescue! It’s not a pretty flowchart. I’d like to have colors and have it a little tidier, but as this was my first …

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