Jessica@SheekGeek

Color Inspiration

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When creating a color scheme for a blog (or any artistic endeavor), a great place to see your colors side by side is COLOURLovers.  Even better, if you are at a complete loss, you can view other people’s color suggestions.  In a moment of serendipity, the colors I had in mind for the SheekGeek.org redesign of *blue* and *green* were in a palette on Color Lovers.  Not only that, the palette had been created just 7 minutes before I visited the site.  (Not surprisingly, these are also common colors used in our home.  I am definitely influenced by my surroundings.)

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Color by COLOURlovers

The colors also come with HEX codes, which make it easier for web coding (or should I say tweaking, since I do not code!) and photoshop.

These colors really got me going, because I completed almost the entire overhaul of SheekGeek.org in one night.  In that night, we went from this (keep scrolling!):

Nature Wdl 1.3 Theme

To this:

Arthemia Free Theme V2.0

I am in love with dreamy goodness of this new site design!  It has my creative juices on overdrive – oh the post ideas that are brewing…

By the way, if you are wondering how I got those super long screen-shots, it was a snap with a firefox plugin called Screengrab!.

 

Skywriting: Drawing Light Pictures

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Tree and Sky LED Photograph Example

Tree and Sky LED Photograph ExampleCreating led light drawings using a camera is a snap!  All you need is a camera (with the ability to set long exposure times) and a tripod (We actually used a table!).  Most of the pictures we took had shutter speeds ranging from 20 to 60 seconds; however, even shutter speeds as short as 4 seconds can work (you just have less time to draw!).  The camera we used for this project is my trusty (and no longer manufactured) Panasonic DMC-FZ30.  See more example pictures and tips after the jump.

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Creating a Duct Tape Chair

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I purchased a dome chair from a big box store last year and it didn’t hold up very well.  The chair part ripped and fell of the frame.  Since the frame was still left intact, I didn’t want to throw it away -so I reused it to make a new chair.  Using duct tape (the best duct tape of all – Nashua 357), I created a new frame for the chair.  This project was quick, cheap, and easy; it used less than $10 in materials and only an hour of my time.  The result is a chair that is much sturdier than the original I purchased. 

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DIY Holiday Bracelet

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So I received all this super cool retro Holiday-themed ribbon from my grandma.  After using it for gift wrapping, I had a small piece left.  This piece was too small for a bow or other wrapping decoration, so I decided to use it to make a Christmas decoration for myself – a bracelet!  All you need is some good quality ribbon that has a good sized width.  The ribbon I used is 1 1/4″ (1.25″) thick.  Here is a video showcasing this quick and easy how to.

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Create an Instrument – Easier than Lemon Pie

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After baking a cheesecake, my husband cut off the top to the lemon juice container.  It turns out that the resulting plastic container creates the perfect jug-like instrument.  Because it is plastic you can easily squeeze the “lemon” to create different sounds.  Just like a real jug instrument, you can also add water to make different notes.  I wonder if you can add holes to create a ocarina-like instrument?  Perhaps that will be another post…

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