I craft these flower lights sometimes from acrylic cuts and found components. I weld the plastic parts together with the light for best light transfer between the LED and the acryclic cuts.

I had some crafting time with family and we brought "Gurp" to life as a small keychain. We turned a couple of test cuts into earrings, and afterwards, having dialed in to the right settings for the material, I made a lanternfly hairclip with some fine details.

Part of my ongoing obsession with tiles, these laser cut tiles combine together to form fascinating pictographs.

My apartment is great, but tiny, so I built a shelf that fits neatly behind the door when it's open, rendering unused space into significant storage. All of the materials were scrap.

I don't have many Copics myself, but I have a friend whose collection has become quite ludicrous. The devices he uses to keep the markers organized is pretty impressive, and seemed like a perfect opportunity for some crafting. I now use this prototype as a general pen/small cylinder organizer, and I'm sure I'll be making more versions in the future.

One of the other members at my studio ,Nate Harris, runs a very cool custom letter blocks project. I helped him update his order page by integrating a custom WYSIWYG widget that provides a live preview of the shopper's puzzle. I wrote scripts to extract SVG paths from the original files Nate uses to trace the letters, then built a React component that renders the puzzle preview live as the user types. This gives shoppers a great idea of how their custom puzzle will look before ordering (and is great fun to play with).

During downtime in the slow season at the refrigeration shop, I decided to recycle some of the full-page paper receipts we routinely landfill. I made a slurry with some assistance from my boss who attached some aluminum banding to a pipe as a makeshift paper blender. I then filter the slurry thru a mold & deckle and transfer the paper to a surface to dry.

I eat a lot of grape leaves which come in a can that is the same size and shape as the classic fuzz face. Seems like an obvious marriage, but first, I had to develop a method for processing the cans so they are worthy of pedal magic.

There may be nothing more captivating than a tank of jellyfish. At a restaurant recently, 2 moon jellies made of plastic had sunk and stuck permanently to the bottom. It did not capture the beauty I remember from the acquariums.

It's like I'm always remaking myself. Or perhaps I have many facets. Either way, lots of different ways to make a website.