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even when complicated, love is joyful
Apr. 5th, 2021 02:27 pmI have always falling in love easily and often--the easiest path to my heart is simply to be a good friend, share quality time with me, share common interests with me, and do fun stuff with me. In recent years a number of the people I have grown to love are both much younger than I, and not interested in any sort of romantic relationships, though we continue to be close friends, and I had begun to think that it was unlikely that anyone was going to fall for me again, though I knew it was inevitable that I would continue to fall for others. ( it is a kinda long story ), here are some photos of the rose he made me:
I really wasn't expecting a gift when he came up this weekend, though I had made one for him--a little soapstone Stone Age fishing line sinker. I had previously seen a bunch of plain ones online, and thought of making him one already the summer of 2018, when he made the soapstone carving tool for me, but never got further than putting the idea onto my list of project ideas (along with that link). Then the week before last it was his turn to do the mini-lecture at the local A&S zoom meeting, and he spoke on Medieval Fishing, which reminded me of the idea, and I looked again at the idea, and also did a bit more research, and found figure 13 of this paper, which is much prettier than the ones from the first link.
Therefore I decided to give it a try, and this is what I wound up with:
Yah, I am better at stone carving than I am taking photos of the project, but he was very happy with it, and I am happy with how it compares with the orginal.
I really wasn't expecting a gift when he came up this weekend, though I had made one for him--a little soapstone Stone Age fishing line sinker. I had previously seen a bunch of plain ones online, and thought of making him one already the summer of 2018, when he made the soapstone carving tool for me, but never got further than putting the idea onto my list of project ideas (along with that link). Then the week before last it was his turn to do the mini-lecture at the local A&S zoom meeting, and he spoke on Medieval Fishing, which reminded me of the idea, and I looked again at the idea, and also did a bit more research, and found figure 13 of this paper, which is much prettier than the ones from the first link.
Therefore I decided to give it a try, and this is what I wound up with:
Yah, I am better at stone carving than I am taking photos of the project, but he was very happy with it, and I am happy with how it compares with the orginal.