Pyramid Box

Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) came out Tuesday. We all loved his Percy Jackson books, even my husband who picked one up that got left lying around and started reading it and then wound up finishing the series with us. I've just started reading Red Pyramid, after I finish,  the Turnip and Mike will read it.
The book inspired me to make this pyramid box, which is not red, but I do like how it turned out. It opens at the bottom, and needs to be scored carefully to fit together correctly. I did make the tab on the pyramid side big enough to use double stick tape with for quick assembly. It stands about 2.5 inches high and is 3 inches at it's base. I plan to do more with this template. The photo is a little darker than usual because using the flash washed out the colors very badly.

Click on the image for the 100 ppi file to print.

If you'd like the blank template, I posted it for sale in my Etsy shop. The template is 300 ppi, but if you want the web ready 100 ppi template as well, just let me know in notes to the seller. 

Busy Busy

Yesterday I did some stuff around the house, posted some new beadwork to Beadwork at BellaOnline and caught up on some reading. Plus working out some electronic stuph.

Currently I have a couple things in various contests if you'd like to take a look.
Slogan at Threadless.com, sign into Threadless to vote.

Cocktail fabric voting at Spoonflower, I'm very sure I won't win. There are some amazing designs in this contest. Go take a look and vote for your favorites! I think I wound up voting for 14. One of my favorite contests yet and I don't drink very often.

When I do drink, it's mostly locally produced micro-brews and just one, but we are going to try and go on a tour of the local mead brewery next weekend for my birthday. This weekend we are going to the local Saturday Market. Yay! The company my kids love best won't be there until next month, but it will still be grand.
I'm turning 39 on the 16th, the current plans are for my husband to grill chicken with my homemade teriyaki sauce, zucchini and mushrooms with his garlic butter/olive oil combination which isn't even vaguely healthy but tastes just incredible and to get a cake from the bakery I've been getting my cakes from since I was 12. My dad looks forward to my b-day just for those cakes. We are also talking about going out hiking. Look forward to lots of photos if it's warm enough.

I'm actually going to make 2 batches of teriyaki sauce. One will be my normal recipe, the other will be a sugar free variation for my uncle. I'll let you know how the sugar free one works out. I know he's very eager. He thinks Mike's grilled zucchini is one of the best things in the world as well.

A Snail For You (coloring page)

I hope you like this coloring page. 

Click on the image below for the full size 100 ppi version.

Free comic book day and other stuff

I told K that we are all plague-y because we had plans to meet tonight until I got sick too.
I do plan to go out though. It's the first Saturday in May which means Free Comic Book Day! Yay!!!
If it works like last year did at our local comic book shop, everyone gets 3 comics each but you *can* go to both Bosco's and wind up with 6 comics each. Which we do. Which really shows the world just how comic geeky my family is. The Free Comic Book Day website has a participating store locator that works with zip codes.
Last night I worked on a small electronic project. I'm working out a simple method using copper wires to make tiny led lamps to fit in decorated jars that can be turned on and off through a simple mechanism. This is complicated by the fact I know nothing about electronics. But leds and 3v batteries are simple enough. I don't need to mess with resistors.
Nearly done with The Turnips scarf. Made a necklace for William I'll get a picture of soonish.


Some of my most recent reviews on Amazon:
Fairy Parties by Colleen Mullaney
Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries by Sherry Seethaler
Totally Twisted: Innovative Wirework & Art Glass Jewelry by Kerry Bogert


If you find them helpful, please do vote so. I finally made it into the top 1000 reviews on Amazon. It's been a mini goal of mine for a while.