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kareinaSunday evening during our daily yoga routine Crian commented that next weekend is the Tasmanian's Folk Federation Masked Medieval Ball with the band Harlequin http://harlequintas.googlepages.com/home and that masks don't really work with glasses. I pointed out that I'd made him a mask last year which can be worn under glasses, and he said that it looks stupid to put glasses on top. So my mind started thinking of ways to attach a mask to the frame of a pair of glasses. I reminded myself that May is fast approaching, and I'm no where near done with that complete thesis draft I'm meant to have by then, and went to sleep.
Monday I woke up inspired and spent the morning finding images of various leaves on-line and combining them into a design for a mask to be worn over/on glasses, followed by several hours using fusible interfacing to stiffen bits of silk from my fabric collection into leaves of various sorts, followed by yet more hours getting about half of them stitched to a (also stiffened) cotton base before finally going to sleep somewhat later than, perhaps, I should have. Tuesday saw fitting of the frame to his face & glasses, the attachment of rings through which to slide the glasses frame & strings with which to tie it to his head, the attachment of the rest of the leaves, and a few twist-ties stitched behind some of the leaves which needed further stiffening and which he wanted to be able to bed away from his face.
After that was complete, I looked at the calender, and counted just how few weeks there are between now and May, and promptly stayed up late doing uni work!
(note: this sort of account doesn't seem able to add pictures to the journal entries, so I've put the photo of the mask into the user pic)
Monday I woke up inspired and spent the morning finding images of various leaves on-line and combining them into a design for a mask to be worn over/on glasses, followed by several hours using fusible interfacing to stiffen bits of silk from my fabric collection into leaves of various sorts, followed by yet more hours getting about half of them stitched to a (also stiffened) cotton base before finally going to sleep somewhat later than, perhaps, I should have. Tuesday saw fitting of the frame to his face & glasses, the attachment of rings through which to slide the glasses frame & strings with which to tie it to his head, the attachment of the rest of the leaves, and a few twist-ties stitched behind some of the leaves which needed further stiffening and which he wanted to be able to bed away from his face.
After that was complete, I looked at the calender, and counted just how few weeks there are between now and May, and promptly stayed up late doing uni work!
(note: this sort of account doesn't seem able to add pictures to the journal entries, so I've put the photo of the mask into the user pic)
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Date: 2008-03-26 03:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-03-26 10:15 pm (UTC)My first thought when desiring it was to attach it to the frame at the bridge of the nose and again at the temples, and pictured it sitting in front of the face. But then I couldn't figure out how best to attach it--having strings to tie it on would be all bad, especially at the bridge of the nose. I considered just sewing it on each time, but then he said he'd rather it were easy to take on and off. He also pointed out that he wanted some sort of string to tie it on, so that it couldn't fall off and take the glasses with it.
That is when I remembered an old pair of Australian-style hoop earrings I had sitting in a box (the clasp and hinge are built so that one can't see them from any distance, so one can spin the ring about in its hole). I stitched them down to the mask at the temples, and now it is an easy task to slip the frame through the loops. He decided that it was quite comfortable to have the mask rest against the forehead, so it doesn't attach at the bridge of the nose after all. (If I had more time, I might have sought out something other than silver jewellery as the frame holder--I suspect that there are any number o other, less costly, circles of metal which would do!)
I don't know about any "takeover", but I do know that the only button I could find for adding photos required that the photo have a URL. I tried putting a photo into my MySpace photo album and using the URL from that, but it didn't work. Any advice on how to manage the trick some other time would be appreciated.
posting pictures on LJ
Date: 2008-03-26 11:53 pm (UTC)1. click on the little (multicolor) picture icon on the menu bar when you are writing an entry.
2. a box will open saying "image properties", ignore the opening page, and click on the tab at the top that says "upload"
3. that page will say "insert image", click on the dot for "image from file", then click on the "browse" button, and find your image wherever it is in a file on your computer. when you find it, select it and click the "open" button, which will put the image URL into the menu window... Then click the "upload" button near the bottom of the window.
4 When you do that, you will be returned to "image properties, and after a moment or two, your picture will show up in the little preview window. Then click the "OK" button and you picture should upload. (It gets stored in something called a scrapbook, on LJ, which I don't really understand, but it does work, and I have put pictures with my posts many times.
Good luck and I hope this helps
Re: posting pictures on LJ
Date: 2008-03-27 12:11 am (UTC)Re: posting pictures on LJ
Date: 2008-03-27 05:28 pm (UTC)