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8 years ago @ Clever Manka - Tuesday Tumblr collection · 0 replies · +9 points

I'VE TOUCHED HIM, I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT, I SHOOK HIS HAND AND IT WAS... AN EXPERIENCE.

Also he is really VERY BIG. Shaking hands with him: you know those photosets of the weird Disney sexual dimorphism, where the female characters have teeeeeny tiiiiiny hands that are just engulfed by the male characters' hands? It was like that, and I am not even a small, Disney-princess-sized woman.

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 1 reply · +3 points

OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDS SO CUTE

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +2 points

This is so beautiful! I saw that you lettered a bunch of comments and it looks like they're all on one sheet -- what's the finished piece look like? Do you now have a beautiful Toastly poster for your wall?

8 years ago @ The Toast - "You just get stronger... · 1 reply · +2 points

Nahhh. To advance past a certain point, you'll need to start adding muscle, which does require a high-protein diet, which of course can be hard for vegans. But even if you can't get that much protein, or just don't feel like rearranging your diet to focus on protein, the worst-case scenario is really just "you max out at a lower weight," you can still have fun and get strong.

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +2 points

Congratulations on your new niece and good luck on your hurried knitting! I'm super impressed that you have actually finished THREE blankets BEFORE their respective babies showed up! That's the main reason I stopped trying to give crafts as gifts, I was always turning up in July like "Merry... two Christmases ago! Here's your scarf!"

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +1 points

It's so beautiful! I love the arrangement of the colors.

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +2 points

That sounds awesome! Rose_camelia will make an excellent mentor, I'm sure. Have you already chosen a design for your quilt? What will it be like?

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +2 points

This sounds like exactly the pace my craft projects usually go at! I bet it will be the baby's very favorite doll.

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 2 replies · +14 points

Well, it took me longer than I expected to get my photos ready! But here are my most recent polymer clay minis!
An assortment of small breads:

A halved Hostess Sno-Ball:

And perhaps my favorite, a comparison shot of two poppyseed kolaches:

The big one is one of my first projects. I'm still proud of it, but it's not exactly a masterpiece; it's made to no particular scale, the "poppyseeds" are basically life-size and not miniature at all, the dough color is not realistic. The smaller one is recent; it's properly scaled for a 1/12 dollhouse, the "poppyseeds" are teeny-tiny bits of grated clay, the dough color is more realistic and uses chalk pastels to get the "baked" look, and overall it is an almost perfect teeny replica of a closed poppyseed kolache from Hruska's. I'm super proud.

I KNOW I said this was the non-mourning portion of the thread, but I just want to say that the Toast is the first place I mentioned an interest in making miniatures, and Toasties encouraged me and gave me suggestions and complimented my work every step of the way, and it seems like such a small, silly thing but it's made me very happy and I'm so glad I've had you guys in my corner.

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 36 replies · +126 points

For obvious reasons, this lovely piece has been on my mind a lot, these last few weeks:

I hope that in the future they invent a small golden light that follows you everywhere and when something is about to end, it shines brightly so you know it's about to end. ... Maybe, if you're with a group of friends who'll never be together again, all your lights will shine at the same time and you'll know, and then you can hold each other and whisper, "This was so good. Oh my God, this was so good."

("The Light That Shines When Things End," Iain S. Thomas)

This was so good, Toasties, and I'm going to miss it so much -- but I'm grateful that we got to have these last few weeks with our lights shining. And while I may never find another place quite like the Toast, I know I'll always have the Toasties. If you want to find me post-Toast, I'm on Twitter, Tumblr, r/ToastCrumbs, and probably pretty soon Slack all under this same username. Thank you so much, you guys, for everything.

OKAY, now let's talk about something that isn't mourning! CRAFT THREAD! How are everyone's craft projects going? I will share mine in the replies!

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