wyld_dandelyon: (Magical Moth Artist by Djinni)
I'm sitting here attending Eurofilk, have sung both "just bass" songs I have already to show off the new acoustic bass, and have so much to do. A lot of it is music stuff; I really want to put together an EP for Bandcamp this month, and I still have to finish sorting the tax papers to make sure they all really are on the spreadsheet so I can do the taxes, and I hopefully have a chance to do recording with Ravenslake Music later in the month and have to practice for that, and I need to start some tomato seedlings, and it would be good to get ready to plant peas outside, and I want to finish my submission for Metricula's songswap to benefit a charity that provides musical instruments and other support to schools that otherwise could not afford to give kids a music education.

Yesterday, among other things, ended up cleaning the fridge. It wasn't bad, but was cluttered and we had a whole slow-cooker pot of pork stew to put away, and once you take stuff off a shelf it's kind of dumb not to clean it. Anyway, it looks a lot better in there and some unfortunate experiments went out into the compost pit, and that is all good.

And I did more work on the new gig bag:


The formerly boring brown gig bag is now a bright green, somewhere beteween forest green and kelly green, and the piping and straps are starting to be gold.

Just looking at it makes me grin. It is SO VERY MUCH more my style than it was to start with. Painting the piping is really intense, though, so I might not en-golden the piping on the back. Or I might, just because it's so pretty that way. It's a thing to do while watching the news or other tv.
wyld_dandelyon: (Magical Moth Artist by Djinni)
The new bass came with a lovely padded gig bag--except it is a dull brown, kind of khaki, which decidedly clashes with my bright purple/green/blue/pink aesthetic. I just knew it would bug me forever if I left it like that.

I had to make it better. But how? Easy--well, maybe not "easy" to do it in a way I'll enjoy it, but at least not complicated in principle: Fabric paint!

Even better, I have a bunch of that still from when I was semi-regularly painting t-shirts. (When you are a working single Mom, you don't get to do stuff like painting dragons on t-shirts very regularly.)

So, first I'm making it green, and then I'll brighten it up a little more with paints, and then I'll have to decide if I'm going to go all figural on it with paints, or leave it plain enough that I can add patches like I normally do on gig bags.

I plan to share more progress photos on my Patreon, as well as the finished photos, eventually.

The top of a dull brown gig bag, with gold letters stitched on it (GS mini), and green paint starting to cover the brown, with dark green paint around the letters to help them stand out.

This is a picture of the case with the very start of the painting. At the bottom, you can see the original color, which is WAY too reminiscent of my high-school uniform colors (which were brown, beige, and white). Painting around those lovely stitched letters was not easy!

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