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Well, 62 was a good number.

21 Saturday Jan 2023

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art, bro, crafting, crash landing, crashdlanding, Cricut, Cricut design space, design, drawing, exhausted, Mo the cat, Mr beast, non-fiction, Procreate, sleep, sticker design, sticker making, stickers, sunflowers

I’m not calling it failure because I didn’t put a number on it. I’m really just amazed I lasted as long as I did, even with a little cheating. But last night, after working on several different things, I forgot and went to sleep.

Here’s a list of things I did tonight.

  • Created a store front for sticker sales.
    • There are two stickers by myself and two by The Kid.
  • Made my Cricut work
    • When I tried to use it to cut stickers the other day, it messed up. I used some tips from TT comments to figure it out. I had to turn off my lights to do it.
  • Figured out how to keep Cricut Design Space from adding a bold black line to my images.
    • It has to do with transparency. Now I just gotta figure out how to fix the stickers I’ve already designed.
  • Completed The Kid’s stickers.
    • The only thing I did was create a white background with a distinct and clear border for CDS and the Cricut to cut.
  • Published the storefront and sold two stickers!
    • They were the kid’s but still. She earned $4.
  • Learned how to and made a stamp/brush in Procreate to easily add “The Kid ‘23” to her images.
    • At some point I’ll get her to help.
  • Printed two of each of The Kid’s stickers, and one of mine, just so I didn’t waste paper.
    • I then used the Cricut to cut said stickers. While they were cutting I got two separate notifications that two of hers sold.
    • We packaged those up in a sweet envelope, after she wrote a little message of course, and they’ll be hand delivered tomorrow. Ah, the glory of knowing your customers personally.

I have some to make for my nephew, he only gave me guidance on one, requested an edit on another, and liked one more but didn’t say if he wanted it. It’s not ready anyway.

I’m sure this will be yet another failed side hustle did me, but it’s fun. And if I don’t print something every day my stupid printer acts a fool.

I’m not planning on beating my streak for a while. Gonna post as they come. But I’ve got a few in the pipeline. Another page of Cora’s story. A review of some Oats Overnight flavors, and some Spite Diet updates.

Anyway here’s Wonderwall some stickers.

Language? Not complete.
Sleep is beautiful.
Mo the Cat. First sticker sale. Available
Original. Need to change the font. Available
Pink for some reason
First sticker. Still love it. Available
Background Not Included. Available
Mr. Beast. Background not included. Available
Stickers. Some WIP. Some Available.

My Bob I’m tired.

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I made some stickers

18 Wednesday Jan 2023

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art, crash landing, crashdlanding, Cricut, drawing, drawing challenge, non-fiction, Procreate, small business, sticker making

Sorta

Well, really not sorta. But it was a struggle.

The goal was to make them to sell, but my Cricut is being absolutely stupid.

First, I had to do some warranty violating things to my printer. If I go for more than a few days without using it (honestly it’s typically six months to a year), it wants me to clean the print beads or nozzles or whatever and that uses an ungodly amount of ink.

But I figured out why that has to be done. It’s because of the amount of in that just sits in the nozzles between prints that doesn’t even get used, dries out and clogs it. Then it ushers the most inefficient way of unclogging, which is I assume, blading an ungodly amount of ink through the nozzles to force any clogs out. This way the manufacturer gets more money because you run out of ink faster. Plus, when it says the ink is empty, it’s 100% not empty.

Anyway, I eventually got it printing well, reminding me that it is a really good printer, despite its faults, after all. I waited until almost bedtime to work on it, they printed fine.

I had to dig my Cricut out and plop it on the bed.

It was only after one cut attempt, a calibration and another cut attempt that I gave up and hand cut out these six stickers. One was sliced from the poor cut, leaving me with five.

I’m keeping the damaged one for myself. Saving one for the sister, that would have left four. However, I just realized I slapped a perfectly good one on my water bottle, leaving three. I miss counted that twice so that’s a sign I should probably give up and go it bed.

In other news, I finished the most recent drawing challenge. It’s awful but it’s done. I’m going to start working on the video as soon as my iPad stops being a spaz. And I’ve had some sleep.


It really is too bad I’m.l not wealthy enough to be unemployed

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Drawing Challenge 2: The Duck

24 Saturday Dec 2022

Posted by crashdlanding in Arts & Crafts, Non-Fiction

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art, Bruce, crash landing, crashdlanding, dragon, drawing, drawing challenge, duck, kids, non-fiction, YouTube

Things I’ve learned and will hopefully remember next time.

  • How to add in an image or video Picture-in-picture style: I use VideoLeap to edit my videos, and there’s an option called overlay. I used it to add reference images I used, as well as a TikTok video I “borrowed without permission” because I like the sound of duck feet slapping around.
  • Edit your actual video completely to your preference FIRST, and add in extras later: editing piece by piece and adding in your features, like Overlay, graphics, sounds, voice over etc, and then having to go back in and rearrange and scale extras to fit and sit where you want will increase edit time.
  • When using screen record as your primary source of content, you probably don’t need everything. Just snippets: the unholy amount of footage I have of doing the same thing over and over again, that I had to cut, is astronomical.
  • DON’T MARATHON EDIT: trying to get all the work done in one session is going to exhaust you, and lead to poorer work. Take your time, over multiple sessions, and step by step.
  • Remember why you are doing it: if my niece hadn’t been so excited about the whole thing, I don’t think I would have done it. It’s hard to quit when a kid has expectations.
  • SPEEDING THINGS UP IS YOUR FRIEND: this is not an instructional video. You can go at ludicrous speed if you want too, or need too. And it cuts down in final runtime.

In the end

My niece, who seems to be the only one who cares about it, actually watched the whole video this time, at least once. And she chose the next drawing. A dragon. I’m gonna start by doing some research tomorrow.

Until then, Merry Christmas.


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Drawing Challenge 1

30 Wednesday Nov 2022

Posted by crashdlanding in Arts & Crafts, Non-Fiction

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art, challenge, crash landing, crashdlanding, drawing, drawing challenge, non-fiction, video, VideoLeap, YouTube, YT

With a surprise question for my niece.

This whole video would look better if I’d spent more time on it. And if my iPad would have stopped telling me it had no memory and stopping my screen recording!

The Drawing Challenge

I needed a creative outlet that I could feasibly do that had very little expectation, for myself and others. And because I love that random generators take some of the work out of whatever it is I’m trying to do, I pulled my favorite website up and found their “Random Things To Draw” link (go to “more”).

I wanted to use Procreate on my iPad because I knew I could screen record some of the process.

By doing the challenge I hope to improve my very poor drawing ability and my knowledge of the Procreate app. I also completed the whole thing in one sitting. So, I know it’s not gonna be great.

But here it is.

Video Edited and music added With VideoLeap

I tried to make it shorter by speeding it up.

My iPad kept ending my screen recording, so the videos are all over the place. Then I got a “memory is full” warning. I’ll have to go back and delete a lot of nonsense if I do this again.

I now know, though, to screen record in bits and pieces as opposed to the whole process. I’ve also learned to adjust and crop videos before adding text.

Should I do voiceover next time? Or just music and text? Also, last time I used app provided music, I got a warning from YouTube as someone reported my use of a song even though it was provided in the app.

We’ll see what happens!

Also, my niece will hopefully see my little message to her in the end. Lol


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Eat My Hat

20 Sunday Nov 2022

Posted by crashdlanding in Non-Fiction

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art, challenge, crash landing, crashdlanding, non-fiction, Procreate, Procreate App, random generator, writing

Of course it’s Randomly Generated

If I don’t just lay around in my bed all day tomorrow I’ll EAT MY HAT.

Did I do that right?

Anyway, this is me doing the third post in a row. If we’re being technical, I cheated. I could have sworn I hit publish in yesterday’s post. But when I opened up the app, it was still in drafts. I was falling asleep when I finished it. But I cheated and gave it yesterday’s post date.

Anyway, it’s not like I work for some major news outlet that I could get in big trouble with for fudging the numbers. I’m just little old me.

But I have confidence that I can succeed at posting every single day. It just might not be quality.

Here’s what might come to you this month.

(By “this month” I mean the next 30 days or so, not by the end of November. I’m not that confident)

  • Holiday History: Thanksgiving: Yes I know I flubbed up in the Halloween one. I had it scheduled to publish, thinking I would be forced inspired to complete before publish. But I forgot about it and it auto-pub’d incomplete. I realized it when someone LIKED THE POST and I unpublished it. Like, it was poorly written, and I was mid-depressive episode, my dude! Anyway, Thanksgiving is a juicy one and I’m not referring to the Turkey!
  • Possible PFN short story: I haven’t worked on it in a week, but it’s there, in the back of my mind.
  • More drawing challenges???
  • More “flying by the seat of my pants???

To be honest I’m going keep going with my trademark ABSOLUTELY BONKERS “content” until someone forces me to stop. And even then they’ll have to drag the internet away from my clammy clutches.

GOODNIGHT

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Drawing Challenge 1

19 Saturday Nov 2022

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art, crash landing, crashdlanding, drawing, drawing challenge, non-fiction, sunflower

I am no artist. I’m not very good at drawing. In fact I am not very good at anything. But in order to post a blog every day you must have CONTENT. So I decided to UTTERLY SHAME MYSELF IN A PUBLIC WAY!!

yay.

AnyWho, we all know that I love random generators. So on my favorite random generator site there is a button for a random drawing and so I clicked on that button. This is what I got.

Screenshot
And a screen recording. In case… you didn’t believe me… I guess?

Anyway I started on it tonight using Procreate, while on the phone with my dad. I found a decent reference photo and got to work.

Now I know better than to claim it’s any good. But the whole point of the thing was to practice to get better. That’s how one improves at something, I’m told.

I tried to screen record the whole process but my iPad ran out of memory. I’m gonna throw it into a video at some point. Mostly cause I paid for a year subscription of videoleap and don’t want it to go to waste.

I’m also going to leave a small message for my niece. She likes to draw, and also stalks my YouTube when she’s bored. I hope she’ll see it and challenge me 😂.

The Result

On a transparent background
A very busy background

How’d I do?

Seriously tho, I don’t need critiques I know it sucks. Lol

Anyway, posting before midnight so I get my daily post in. Goodnight


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BMB: GIANT AFRICAN LAND SNAILS

08 Friday Jul 2022

Posted by crashdlanding in BMB, News, Non-Fiction

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art, canva, crash landing, crashdlanding, Florida, giant African land snail, news, non-fiction, Politics, Science, snails

Day 8

What Do You Think of When you hear Giant African Land Snails?

If its something like this, we have a similar imagination. Snail image borrowed from Here. Image thrown together in Canva.

This morning, as I was avoiding going in to work, and reading news on Yahoo!, when I stumbled upon a very interesting article. This article is titled “Effort begun to eradicate giant African snails in Florida” and it is literally about snails that eat buildings.

The fact that my brain turned this:

(Image stolen from here)

Into the thing in the poorly made Canva clickbait above, well, that’s just who I be. And we don’t judge here. We are a judge free zone.

However, it is true that these guys do literally eat buildings. They apparently enjoy the delicious delicacy of plaster and stucco. They also, like a true multitasking invasive species, carry diseases.

The article specifically mentions something called the rat lungworm, which, I’m not going to think to hard about, because well, look what my brain did with a giant snail. I have a very literal mind. But the rat lungworm can cause meningitis in humans.

And guess whose to blame for this chunky shelled slug (yes I’m sure there’s a difference) being in our country and not where its native.

Yup.

Apparently we imported them as pets. Yes, I can imagine being bag-checked at an airport. First, they at some point had to ask someone, “do you have anything to declare?”

“Oh just a giant land snail.” And then they all laugh.

And then later, they check the bags and there’s a slimy shelled creature. Is it apparent I’ve never been on a plane?

But the problem with these dudes isn’t just that they eat buildings, or carry diseases, but they enjoy 500 other things to eat, that we eat too. Including but not limited to (cause these are hungry boys) peanuts, beans, cucumbers, and melons.

They also share a characteristic with rabbits. I’m quite sure you know what I’m talking about but just in case: they make a lot of babies. The giant African land snail can lay up to 1200 eggs a year.

Now I absolutely have to bring up the most ridiculous fact in this entire article: they had to mention that Nikki Fried (cool name BTW) who is commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is a Democrat. I’m not entirely sure what the importance of that was, maybe besides the fact that she’s running for governor. Maybe her determination to eradicate the snails again will help her win. But we don’t Politic here either, my dudes.

Yes, I did just gloss over the whole again part. It was for dramatic effect. Did I do it right? Yes, they had this issue not once but twice before. The most recent campaign—see what I did there since shes’s running for gov—took ten years and they captured 170,000 snails in Miami-Dade County. “I think they missed one or two” would be funny to put here, if the county of the current invasion, Pasco County, wasn’t several counties away.

A visual

So far, this go ‘round, they’ve managed to capture 1,000 snails in the area they quarantined (I know the snails hate that word as much as we all do). The snails were initially spotted by a homeowner, and the properties involved (meaning having their buildings gnawed on by snails) are being treated with a molluscicide bait. Hole up imma google that. A pesticide against slugs. There’s one called Sluggo 😂.

Available on Amazon

The slugs are illegal to own without a permit. The fact that you can get a permit for a snail, and own this thing, despite its obvious problems… well that just sounds like Florida to me. Its also illegal to move them or dirt out of the quarantine area. Floridians are expected to call 888-397-1517 if they see one of the distinctive snails. These bad boys can grow up to 8 inches long and “have a distinctive whirled, brown mottled shell.”

They are also not the escargot type of snail. Thanks for that.

Gross.

I had a vision one building-eating snails in my head all day, so, now you can too!


Thanks for reading. -C

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Gallery

Just Give Me a Resin

05 Monday Oct 2020

Posted by crashdlanding in Arts & Crafts, Non-Fiction, resin

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art, crafts, crash landing, crashdlanding, for sale, non-fiction, resin

This gallery contains 16 photos.

I Make Resin Crafts I absolutely LOVE working with resin. From designing to pulling the works from molds, right down …

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I’m no artist…

12 Thursday Jun 2014

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art, cover, Darkness, self-publishing

… But this is the closest I’ve come to representing the image I’d like for the “Darkness” cover. 20140612-001620-980541.jpg

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Tonight I Art

08 Saturday Mar 2014

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art, birthdays, friend, gifts, non-fiction

I’m making a gift for a friend, so not much from this lady tonight!

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