A biologist learns to make tiny worlds.
Not much going on with the lab today. I used my metal stamping kit to make a brass address plaque for the door. The one shown below is the best of five tries. I’ve never done metal stamping before and it is harder than you would think to get a decent result. I also addedContinue reading “Just a short one.”
I got a lot of work done on the lab in the last few days. The chemistry table is still in the works but I have completed the test tube rack. Each test tube is made of a piece of very thin plastic tubing that I cut to fit into the test tube rack. IContinue reading “Almost done with the lab and my first ever video!”
Today, I had an email argument with an Etsy shop owner. It seems they took exception to my negative review of their shop. I’m sorry, but if you can’t tell the difference between a shipping address and a billing address, and you don’t know what Apple Pay is, you should not be running an onlineContinue reading “I don’t know if I won, but he’s upset too…”
Things made a giant leap forward in my miniature lab this weekend. I completed the entomology table and the wall above it, created a new bookshelf for the back wall and stocked it with books, specimens and spare equipment and got the chemistry table mostly ready. I need to go to the drug store forContinue reading “Experiments are underway.”
Today was one of those days. Not the kind when everything goes wrong, but the kind when everything that happens is unsatisfying. It was beastly humid where I am and we had a torrential thunderstorm in the early afternoon. The rain cooled the air down a bit, but somehow managed to make the air evenContinue reading “Unsatisfied”
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I am a huge (HUGE) nerd. While I have been working in the lab and on the lab, I have been watching/listening to a 24 part lecture series about the Black Death. It seemed apropos to what is happening in the world today. I have to sayContinue reading “The Black Death.”
I couldn’t find a design for a ladder or for stairs that would work in the space, so I decided to design one. I based my design on the companionway on the ship I used to live on (a story for another day). Companionways are great because the combine features of both ladders and stairs.Continue reading “I heart chipboard.”
We are getting down to the details on the laboratory. The inside of the clock is looking like something now. The telescope is installed and I have begun figuring out the positions for the rest of the furnishings. To keep things going in the steampunk vein, we needed some goggles. Plus, one should always beContinue reading “Not quite rose colored glasses…”
I have been making some progress on the interior of the clock. The platform for the telescope has been completed. The railing is made from clock hands, necklace chain, and some jump rings. It has been glued into place at the bottom of the clock face. The coat rack has been completed as well. AsContinue reading “Interior design.”
More work on the star chart in the laboratory tonight. If you are going to claim you are steampunk, you need to have a bunch of inexplicable gears around. Also, I wanted to make the holes in the clock face look like part of the scene and not detract from it. Here’s how the starContinue reading “The machinery of the stars”
My Microcosms 