#soooooo. this is the piece of paper i had underneath the one where i painted the warehouse full of leviathans

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SPN moments but abstract [7/?] - The fire that killed Mary

#hellooooo good morning #spn #spnart #spn art #fanart #mine #spn fanart #spnabstract #soooooo. this is the piece of paper i had underneath the one where i painted the warehouse full of leviathans #not for the grey parts but for the red hand. that's what the red smudge is from #the lines in pencil were the sketch for the warehouse #and the black bits were from having this paper also underneath the ones i used for the 3D trueform angel origami star #while i was painting them before folding everything #so after all that i looked at the paper and tried to figure out what i could use it for and this is what i came up with #it's the best way i can articulate that other post i did about how mary's death turned their house into a chapel #which john worshipping a wrong or at best incomplete version of her bc her real self was left in the fire (seen here barely visible #at the bottom) #and the picture of saint mary in the chapel (our lady of fátima vibes for portuguesenatural) is pure and peaceful and idyllic #but what john worships is the cult of violence in her name #while a child takes her place and cares for another child under the knife he gives as an offering #i thought about adding puppetteer hands and strings to this. above and under. but i ended up deciding it was better just like this #so there you have another one #my attempt at articulating the john and mary thesis

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Tackling "the list"

I’ve had a running list of little housekeeping projects accumulating over the last few weeks that needed to be done before some bigger things can be accomplished like the finish flooring and paint and installing appliances etc… I dedicated the last couple few weeks to tackling that list. Some things are more interesting than others so I’ll just give a quick blurb on a few.

Of note, in the last few weeks since my cabinetry marathon post I have:

finished all the electrical (installing outlets, recessed ceiling lights, and both the bathroom and kitchen lights), finished off the stainless steel shower surround and installed the doors (actually horribly difficult), made a medicine cabinet from leftover birch, built a butcher block slab that I cut into two pieces and made into a secret under cabinet pull-out cutting board in the kitchen and my dining table/desk that folds down into the wall on right angle drop-brackets, built a “frosted glass” pocket door from scratch for the bathroom so I can poop in private, and got started on some of the tedious final trim and molding work.

The shower was a bitch to install. The surround was fun and pretty creative but installing the corner doors was a feat. I’ll spare the problem solving details for you but I’ll just say i prefer making things from scratch. Looks nice in the end though!

The two butcher block projects were fun. I made a big 6 foot slab of “butcher block” from some 1x4 common boards and cut it into two lengths. The first 4 foot piece I am mounting to some fold-down brackets that I found online and am using as my little dining table/work space. Got about ten gallons of saw dust coating my lungs and a weeks worth of polyurethane fumes coating my neurons from it but it’s simple, functional and folds down out of the way when not in use.

With the leftover length that I had I figured I’d make a little cutting board for the kitchen. But then I got a cool idea. The freezer I have is about 2 in shorter in height than the fridge is so there will be few inches to play with in that opening in the cabinets on the left hand side. I cut the slab to length, mounted the edges on some drawer slides and fit it up into that sliver of a space. So now I have a secret little cutting board (or extra counter space) that pulls out above the freezer and slides underneath the cabinet to disappear from sight. I’ve been getting into adding metal elements to wood lately too so I polished up some scrap C-channel aluminum that I found in the scrap bucket and capped the ends to add to the commercial kitchen vibe goin on with all the stainless steel.

And finally the “frosted glass” pocket door. This has been one of my more creative and enjoyable projects in a while. I really wanted a full view frosted glass door for the bathroom but when looking around was pretty disappointed to realize those things are NOT cheap (and they r super heavy!!!). I’m hanging the door on a simple pocket door track so the weight wasn’t going to work for one, and two, my budget at this stage in the build unfortunately does not include fancy pants $500-$800 doors - Most definitely not! Soooooo, once again, from scratch it’s gonna have to be… here is how I ended up throwing it together:

I calculated the dimensions and pieced together a rough door frame from some super cheap 1x4 pine boards, cut a 1/8 inch dado groove into the interior edges with the table saw and pocket-holed the two sides together. I found a sheet of 1/8 in polycarbonate acrylic at Home Depot (the most expensive part), cut it to size and hit it with the orbital sander with 150 grit sand paper for about an hour straight. This was scary because it was a complete experiment and was either going to transform the crystal clear acrylic into a perfect pseudo “frosted glass” effect just like it did in my “in-a-perfect-world” fantasy or it was going to completely destroy and waste a $85 sheet of acrylic and leave me out of ideas and seriously depressed. Fortunately, this is a rare instance where one of my ideas ended up working out pretty awesome!!! It took some experimenting and fidgeting with to get the right combination of elements but, in the end, ended up lookin just like frosted glass and is about 1/10th of the weight! From there I slipped it into the dado groove and pieced the rest of the door together around it. Viola! Got me a cheap, super light-weight pocket door now that lets in plenty of natural light and let’s me poop/shower in peace if there ever happens to be another human being lurking around… oh! And I also finally found a use for the giant steel L-brackets I’ve had laying around. I found these brackets attached to a deconstructed bunk bed in a dumpster one day and thought they were sorta cool. So I pulled them off, cleaned them, polished them up with a dye-grinder and screwed them across the joints on the backside of the door. It adds some integrity to the joints, but really I just did it to give this very simple door a little industrial-flare. The side with the brackets is on the bathroom side to accent the metal shower.

And then, it’s been more trim and moldings. Lots of glue, spackle and paint… yadayadayada

Looking forward to doing the floors soon! 😁🌲