2020 has been…a year. With the quarantine and a new baby, I didn’t do…anything, really for months. I’ve already been kind of neglecting my hobbies when I got pregnant, and it just got worse with a newborn. 3D printing was relatively easy to keep up with, because once the machine was tuned and the model made, you just leave it to do its thing.
Then, you know, the ‘rona hit, and suddenly, I was home all the time with the baby, and worried about my husband, who works in an essential field now. So I didn’t do anything for myself. I barely could get my WFH work done, and just went through each day as it came. I felt pretty useless. The 3D print groups i belonged to exploded with PPE prints, and I so wanted to be a part of that, but how to know what hospitals would accept? I didn’t want to spend a bunch of time and money on things people couldn’t even use, so I waited. In the meantime, I gathered some fabric from other projects, and made masks for Frank and me. Elastic was nowhere to be found, so my mask is held on by hairties on my ears, and Frank’s uses an elastic hairband cut in half. The aren’t the prettiest, but they work, and have a pocket for a filter.
Then in a local group, someone from the university where I work now was putting together a team of local makers, and I leapt at the opportunity. Finally! I am useful! They provided the files and filament, and I think I ended up printing the frames of roughly 75 masks by the time we stopped production.
Throughout this time, Animal Crossing:New Horizons took up quite a bit of my time. I’ve poured quite a bit of time into the game, and it reminds me of when I played New Leaf on the ship. The other day, I printed a little Roald. I’d like to print all our faves. I also made one of my houses into a full on theatre, which I can post a video of or a Dream Code if anyone is interested lol.
Personally, I am working on transitioning back to work. Even though we’re back with daycare, and I’m working from home most of the time, I’m still just…blahhhhh. My stitching bug is slowly peeking out, and I’ve finished a couple new small pieces. So I hope to be posting those soon. And my best friend just commissioned a piece, so I need to get on that. I’m also printing some more stuff like jewelry or things for my D&D group. In order to not fill my whole feed with 3D Printing for the next 6 months, I’ll be posting some completed projects on its own page until I get caught up with what I’ve done so far.
So: all this to say, I’m back! I hope!