It's Full Of Stars!

A chronicle of my quest to make a star every day for a year.

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167 - Socket Head Screws

I was trying to pick a bolt size for something and put together this gallery. 3/8, 1/4, #10, #8, #6 and #4.

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166 - Stained Glass Digital Image

I saw a t-shirt with a "crossed lines with colors filled in between" style and decided to mess around in Inkscape. This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I started, but there you go.

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165 - Skedoodle

This one of my wife's old tools that my kids inherited (We were an Etch-A-Sketch house when I grew up).

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164 - Big Stars

Grabbed this free music card at Starbucks and wanted to do something with it after getting the number off the back.

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163 - Bubblewrap

Cutting the bubblewrap was surprisingly easy. The sheet between the bubbles is so thin that the scissors glided through. The trick was not slicing through the bubbles I wanted to keep.

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162 - Needles

My wife got me these needles for a bookbinding project I'm messing with. They didn't really work out for that, but they can make a star!

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160 - Mandarin Oranges

My girls love these canned mandarin oranges and we go through a lot of them. When serving out another can, I saw an opportunity.

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159 - Shenandoah Flower

Another star shape in nature. I took this on the side of the trail in Shenandoah N.P. The picture languished for a while on the camera memory card, but I've finally gotten to it.

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158 - Ice Star

A while back, my wife got me a star shape ice cube tray. I kind of forgot about it for a while, but finally pulled it out. Now I can put the stars to work cooling off my iced tea.

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157 - Postcards

I like the look of the old "Greetings from" postcards with pictures of the place in the big blocky lettering. I tried a few sketches of what a postcard from deep space would look like.

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156 - Remains of the Hubcap

While walking at lunch, I saw this piece of a hubcap laying in the gutter. I'm not sure how a hubcap breaks this way, or why someone would cut out the center of one.

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155 - Stars in the Mist

I was cooking dinner and my wife had turned on her wax melting thingie. The light through the star cut out was making tons of beams through the steam. I tried my best to capture it and was marginally successful.

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154 - Queen Anne's Lace

On the edge of our campsite was this rather star shaped bloom of Queen Anne's Lace. I got a quick sketch between hikes.

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153 - Party Star

For some reason, this star was sitting in the grass in our campsite at Big Meadows. It looks like the remainders of birthday party decorations, but I can't imagine decorating a camp site. Different strokes, I guess.

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152 - Stars of Lucketts

On the way to Shenendoah NP for some camping, we had to stop at the Lucketts General Store in Lucketts, VA. Here are some stars I found walking around.

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151 - Collage

My wife and I got a evening away from the kids at the Newark Arts Alliance. It was a Friday Night Art Date, just for the grownups. We had a good time pawing through stacks of old magazines, drink wine and making art.

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150 - GORP

A late night snack, after a run. Nothing like it!