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These Leather Fortune Cookies Are Unreasonably Entertaining To Me. The Natural Color Of The Leather,
These leather fortune cookies are unreasonably entertaining to me. The natural color of the leather, especially, is almost exactly the right tone to match actual fortune cookies.
In the future I will probably work out a template and actually print the fortunes, but for now they're just carefully hand-lettered. Also, I want to come up with different "flavors" of fortune, ranging from sincere to surreal.
As it turns out, leather was not quite my first idea for this. I initially thought of making them out of acrylic plastic. If you heat up acrylic to about 300°F, it softens, and you can shape it. It would end up with a clear (or colored) cookie shape, and you'd just have to be very firm in your conviction to break it open and get the fortune out. I may still do that, but in general I think leather is a more friendly material for this.
Oh, and by the way, this can serve as a menu for all the standard leather stain colors I have. (Though the gold was acrylic paint.)
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More Posts from Armoreddragon
Just a quick update. A few things that were ordered recently, and a couple bracelets I needed to get photos of being worn.
Here we've got a pair of Half-Persian bracelets, some leather barrettes (three with an eye pattern and one plain), a hatchwork leather bracelet, and a hexagonal patterned leather bracelet.
Anyway, there are some things for now. A big portion of my crafting energy recently has been going towards finishing up this scale mail shirt commission. It's almost done! Photos will be coming in the next few days.
I made a couple new leather notebook covers. The first one I made was a bit overly fancy, with a bunch of stitch-work on the covers, so these are more straightforward. I'm using Moleskine notebooks for the insides because they're nice, and they're freely available.
The Celtic knot pattern is cut all the way through to expose the cardstock of the blank journal inside. It's up for sale over on my Etsy shop.
The interrobang is engraved into the surface of the leather. This one I made just for myself. (The interrobang is definitely my favorite punctuation mark.) As photographed the notebook has been in and out of my pocket and backpack for a couple weeks. So it's holding up pretty nicely.
I'm liking this concept, and would like to make more if it looks like they'll sell. If people have any requests for different types of patterns to do on these, let me know!
Just a quick photo of armor pieces I realized I hadn't posted. It's 3 different types of bracers I prepared for the convention I was vending at a couple weekends ago. The dragon-scaled one in the middle is a design that I originally did some time ago, but made a fresh copy of for the convention, which sold pretty promptly. The one on the right was a plain one that I did as a quick test of buckling these on instead of lacing them. And the one on the left was a new design that I'm currently referring to as dragon-rider bracers.
These are the chainmail juggling balls (cubes?) I made for myself a few years ago. They're made of a three-dimensional Japanese type of weave. Basically, it's a weave based on a square grid, that can be extended into a cubical solid weave. So these are chainmail all the way through. They take 504 rings I believe. (I did the math for it once.)
As juggling balls, I've been super happy with them. They're about half a pound each (240 grams to be precise), which is a lot heavier than most standard balls that other people use. I've found that since they take more force to move, a variation in the throw produces less of a difference in the path of the ball than it would with lighter balls.
Another thing I like about them is that they have no rebound; when you drop them, the links collapse into each other without resistance, so they land dead, with no bounce. This means you never have problems with them bouncing out of your hands.
Also, they jingle delightfully when you throw them.
The ones shown are stainless steel. I've been juggling them consistently since 2009. They're basically indestructible. I think I would have gone through 2 or 3 sets of normal juggling balls in that period of time. I have 4 stainless ones and 2 more in galvanized steel, which tarnished to a matte gray years ago. I'm slowly getting more consistent at juggling 5. 6 is still beyond me, but I keep trying. (Shown are my friends, who are only juggling 3, but didn't want to deal with the camera.)
Anyway, I finally decided to photograph these things and put them up for order on my Etsy shop. Take a gander.
Detail shots of the previous scale dragon tail. There's a bit of laser-engraving on two scales--the name of the character this tail is representing, plus an insignia the commissioner uses. I use the same laser cutters to do this engraving as I use to cut my leather designs.
Also showing some close-up shots of the spade tip. This one was a diamond-shaped tip. It's made of leather, which I laser-cut, stain, and sew together by hand. In between the two exterior layers are more leather pieces shaped to give the final tip a bit of dimensionality and bulk.
You can also see the way in which the spade tip gets attached with three lobster clasps, which means the tips are easily removable. Those last photos were taken before I attached the spikes in.