The Paper Fairy

My blog of all things papery! not active on this blog

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I see so many people starting to use Threads as a way to escape Twitter and yes, it's owned by Facebook's CEO and giving Facebook the monopoly of social media is bad but I think we should also talk about the fact that, you know, Threads isn't avalibe in the EU for privacy reasons????? That should be concerning to EVERYONE

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also the fact that iirc if you want to delete your threads profile you'll need to delete your Instagram account too 🙃🙃🙃 (also please lmk if any of the links repeat and/or are fucked up!)

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Well that's one I didn't even think possible.... Well, that's a good way to force everyone to not leave the app

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Have you seen the permissions it needs?

This is fucking terrifying

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In New York you can be a new man!

I can’t believe this papercut is still going on, but I think it’s like 80% ready, so there is hope.

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Papercutting in progress - a closer look.

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So you may have been wondering what I do in my spare time, and the answer is (for right now) robots!

I’ve been competing on a team in a game thing called FTC (look it up) and this is what our robot Gerald looks like!

In order to do well at FTC though, you have to do more than the building, coding, and driving for the robot! I have been making our teams videos for presentations and other things, and making the YouTube channel for them to go on, as well as drawing the designs on Gerald, on our shirts, and our pins(here’s the designs now)

Each firefly is designed for a specific purpose, since fireflies are each unique in their coloring, shaping, and size! We went with fireflies because we “light up the world” (not with our butts though), and because usually in nature, it’s the boys who woo the girls, but for fireflies, everyone woos each other, and that’s pretty cool for an all girls team in the STEM community! I know this isn’t about paper, but it’s about the designs I’ve done, which I’ve printed on paper (still a reach, but it counts!)

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Happy One year birthday to Paper Fairy!! We have done many blogs on many papery subjects, and have gained many followers (though most of them are bots, they still SOMEWHAT count). So thanks for not totally kicking me of this platform!

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Hi Tumblr! Please take a look at this Ollivanders wand shop ad that I made over the weekend and let me know if you like it or not.

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It looks great!

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https://youtu.be/riEvgt7AKjw

Figure these might also be good for the murdering people with paper thing we’ve got going on here. With these, you could shove them in the eye, the mouth, or just give the victim a various amount of paper cuts! I do hope when you’re all murdering, you keep it to evil/enemy/other types, and not just civilians.

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Sticky notes are used throughout the world for a great many purposes; as notes to remember things, as bookmarks, as art, as salad, and many more options. The supposed history of them is that in 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver was trying to make a really sticky glue thing, but instead made the stuff on the back of a sticky note. He thought it could be used for good, so he went around his company 3M doing seminars for ages, trying to get people to care. Finally, someone named Arthur Fry did care, and thought they could use the glue on paper for a bookmark in his hymn book. The experiment worked, so 3M tried selling sticky notes, but it flopped; until they started giving them out and letting people try it first; and then in 1978 they started getting very popular, to this day they are found in offices and home all over. There is a claim that this guy Alan Amron actually made them, and he talked very loudly about how 3M stole his design, and sued them for it. 3M gave him money and had him sign some things saying he’d shut up about it, but occasionally he’ll show up and sue them for money, so that’s fun.

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Do you like pre ripped jeans and paper that looks old but isn’t? First of all, you’re a disgrace to jean kind, second of all, I found a tutorial on how to do the paper!

You need:

A piece of paper you want to look old (if you want to print stuff on it, do so before “aging” process)

Some really black coffee/tea

Some instant coffe powder stuff

An oven

Put wanted paper in a sheet, and pour a lil black coffee on, but not enough to get soaked

Sprinkle the instant coffee powder

Wait for a few minutes, and preset your oven to “low”

Put in your old paper and watch it like a hawk, because it might catch on fire if you’re not careful :)

Here’s a link to the tutorial I used

I saw Martha "antique" paper a few years ago, and although I don’t remember her technique, I do remember that it was complicated. I played a

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Happy Valentines Day from the Hamiltons.

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A bouquet made of paper and light.

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Gift cards are a staple for every holiday and special occasion; especially Christmas. When you think of Christmas cards, you usually think of things like Santa, stockings, elves, snowmen, happiness and joy, etc. But back in the Victorian Era, things were slightly different. The Christmas market was not nearly as cheery or large as it is now, with Christmas mostly being something to give people a few presents for, and going to church. But in the Victorian Era, cards in general started to become ver popular, because literacy was going up and postage was getting to be very affordable, and wealth in general getting slightly better. With wealth comes frivolous things, and cards were a favorite in England. You could give strange Valentines, or anti Valentines (something I could be do a post on), and the new Christmas cards. Because they were so new, and didn’t have quite the same images as we think of for Christmas, the cards had very strange things, like lobsters, or frogs, or krampus.

Many were unsettling, and had very strange vibes for their art and moral, which made them popular. The thing is, they weren’t as strange then as they are now; certain dead birds wet considered sacred, or special, although they are still a little creepy. Soon, people wanted them fancier, with silk bits, glitter, and other things, and they eventually got to be the weird things they are now.

One could even say, that the Victorians cards, were their version of memes. I mean, just imagine THIS being a meme template! Cause I can see it.

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Something I drew with a tutorial from my mom! A very cool optical illusion in my opinion at least. Here’s the link to the tutorial

https://youtu.be/LfSVdXHxA2E

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Eric Standley makes really pretty stained glass type art with paper! He is inspired by Islamic art, and how it’s not really based off anything but pretty geometric shapes with layers. Standley uses lasers to cut the layers thin and perfect, and layers them to look really cool.

Official website of artist Eric Standley. View new works, exhibition news and latest projects. About - Galleries - Contact - Events - CV

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Paper Dress

c.1905

United States

LACMA

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Palimpsest. That’s a word I guess. I looked it up though, and it comes from Ancient Greek to basically mean “again scraped”. Back in the day before anyone alive was born, parchment (or, Pergamon or Pergamum, as it was called back then) was made of lamb, calf, or goat kid skin, and thus was very thick (at least in comparison to today’s paper). Pergamon was expensive though, so if you wanted to write things down, you either did it in the dirt, or scraped off the words of an old book or scroll to write it down there (or bought/made new pergamon, but that’s for when you’re rich).