Creative Writing, Poetry, Arts & Crafts, and Other Creations Thread

So, artist types! I want to put out a couple of books/ebooks on Amazon,which need covers. I was going to use the Pulp-O-Mizer site, to create pulpy covers, but you can only use a range of 'magazine' titles rather than a custom one that I have in mind. I have a very definite of what I want it to look like, basically a banner title and 4 squares in the middle linked to the 4 stories.

Very pulpy! Check the Pulp-O-Mizer website to get the gist.

Anyone interested?
https://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html

 

AI taking my image then altering it like this --- about 10 different alterations into this --- I took those altered images and made a gif -0- enjoy

 

4 haikus I wrote for my fiancée Kim.

eyes meet, touching you
Love blooms in silence, pure, true
Forever entwined

Eyes like the sunshine
Lips sweet in morning awake
Kim, my heart belongs

Kim, our hearts sing loud
With you life is wonderful
Endless love in time

hearts of fire we meet
at night our souls touch as one
warm cuddling we

https://www.poeticous.com/bill-newbold/four-haikus-of-love

 

How freaking incredible is this. A freaking cake boom box. It's an actual cake.



Video preview showing parts of how this was made with link to the full tutorial.

 

lately I've had a mild obsession with making 90's video game music for games that never existed, if that made sense. Anyway, first youtube upload.

 

Camp NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. Anyone else doing it?

 

Ode to Joy

Oh, the joy that toys within me
Like a song, or a feeling so free
Where beyond the clouds of sadness reign
It's the sun's pure presence again and again

My love, is a rock of hard stone
But my life has changed to the bone
My secret I shall share in true glee
How I grow through sorrow like a tree

My energy has changed to positive light
I have hope, love and joy so bright
Can this be real or do I dream?
Should I say of my new esteem?

Happy and joyous my laughter's heard
Knowing my reality is like a dove bird
I call it love in my heart of hearts
With delighted sights, again I start

I greet my thoughts with positive mind
Like great blissful insights of time
For our beauty is the moment now
And feeling my joy that I know how

My life is a grand experience in joy
My love is like a wonderful toy
I have new feelings never felt before
Of my new happiness I give and implore

Bill Newbold

*wrote this for a poetry contest about joy,..

 

I just finished the July 2023 Camp NaNoWriMo, 6 days early. I wrote every day, and made better than par every day.

Bonus: I also wrote over 600 words of a Merlin story today (didn't count that in my Nano total, since it's not part of the project I'm working on).

I plan to keep going to the end of the month to see how much farther I can go.

 

i'm well known for never finishing a project but lets see how this one goes.
i really love the distressed look and shape of a Martin-streetmaster guitar.


but these things cost from 2000$ and up.... so what to do?

--
i bought a 25$ old guitar produce in Oslo between 1947 and 1951...
the quality is of course nothing like a streetmaster, it sound kinda terrible(cool) and it's hard to play on...
Maybe i can turn it in to something blues'y.. stripping this down


...looking better already


started to sand down literally decades of grime


so far so good..... coming back to this thread with updates .. maybe, i think...if i ever...etc

 

I decorated my phone with some hand drawn art. A piece I called "shattered web"

 

think!!!
The Poetry Thread is back!
I remember your great submissions.

 

Very nice!

 

Thank you. It looks a lot better in person then a horrible phone picture. I have a collection of paint pens that I use for various projects.

 

When I looked at it, I could well imagine it as something I might see for sale on Society6 (art site). Anyone can submit designs, and it's possible to have them available for sale as art prints, tote bags, pillows, rugs, clocks, and a whole slew of other things. The nice thing is that you don't actually have to make the physical object yourself.

I've bought a few things on that site over the years - cat throw pillows (artist is apofiss, whose stuff I first encountered on deviantArt; I have quite a few mugs, art prints, and magnets of cats and birds), an abstract clock, with colors that compliment my bookshelves (black and autumn shades), a penguin mug, and an art print of the Antarctic penguin species.

I've been looking into it as a possibility to earn a bit of money, since rent never goes any direction but up, and not having to make the items myself means no fussing with the post office. Not sure exactly how this works internationally, though.

Of course the first step is to actually create something other people would like. I know I can do that with 3-D needlepoint, but that means making stuff, sending stuff, and it's not like in the pre-internet era when I used to sell in craft shops around town, at craft fairs, and take private commissions.

 

Oh thank you that feels like a huge compliment.....

Oddly a few people today thought I had paid to have that done and were surprised when I told them I did it myself and it wasn't a custom print.

 

It's definitely meant as a huge compliment.

And since people are saying they thought you'd had it done by someone else (presumably paying someone to do it), that should be taken as a vote of confidence that it's a salable design.

That said, I don't know how you'd feel about going commercial with your artwork. Some people in the SCA asked me how I could bear to part with my needlepoint items, even though I was being paid for them. The truth is, I did needlepoint for a couple of years, gradually practicing and improving, and ran out of family members to give stuff to. It occurred to me that there were several craft stores in town that sold on commission, so I decided to try it. My hobby turned into a seasonal home business.

As for bearing to part with something I'd made, when you have a pattern it's easy enough to replicate an item, and the designs I created myself were never submitted or published anywhere. I've got the only patterns in existence, and most of those are just jotted down on graph paper. So there are a lot of things I sold over the years that I had no real emotional attachment to after I'd made a few dozen of them. But the specially-commissioned ones that were only made once, for a specific person, some of which were fairly difficult... I can't see doing a lot of those for sale, since some of them were personal to the recipient.

(Someone once asked me for a realistic horse pattern for a tissue box cover, and I was in a panic, since I had none in my craft books and I haven't been around horses enough to get a real feel for their anatomy and how to depict that with needlepoint - my dad brought me some of his Louis L'Amour novels with horses on the front cover and he did a sketch of a couple; from there I was able to create a pattern.)

 

Thank you.

I wouldn't mind selling some of my works but I think I have to make a few more to start with..

 

When I make my "teacher-created" art and crafts and such, I think about trying the sites geared towards teacher-created items, but I get very proprietary about what I made. Sharing with teammates and kids, yes. Selling? Maybe some day...

 

Well, it does please me that one lady bought out a certain style of coasters at a craft fair, then asked for my number. A few weeks later I was busy typing a term paper for a college student (another home business), when the phone rang - she wanted several more sets, in a variety of colors. One of those sets went to Prince Edward Island and another went to the U.K. for Christmas gifts.

My needlework has seen more of this planet than I have.


One of the fun things about writing and NaNoWriMo is researching odd bits of information and miscellaneous facts. I just learned that France was first officially called France in 987 CE. I need a character to tell another that he's been to France, but since it's only the late 6th/early 7th century for them, I had to find out what it's called after it wasn't Gaul anymore.

 

Never too old or busy to learn!!!