Snowflake Challenge Day 9 / WIP post

[potofsoup]

Wow, turning off email notifs for comments has made me feel much better. I think in part because email is my space for "things I need to deal with", and so having all of the comments drop in there, unthreaded and without context, was very stressful.

Anyway, I didn't get a chance to take a pic for my daily wip post last night, so here's a belated picture:


It's socks that I tie-dyed for the Arts and Crafts New Year's Gift Exchange that I hosted at work today! The gift exchange was really fun -- I went and got us boba, and we took turns sharing the clues that we received and then getting the gifts. (Context: in mid-Dec I asked people to sign up with (a) what sorts of things they can make, and (b) an art prompt and a craft prompt. Then I made assignments. Everyone had to leave a clue to what their gift was.) It filled me with so much joy and love at the creativity and thoughtfulness of my coworkers. <3 <3 <3 (Someone painted a mug! Someone made magnets! Someone did an oil pastel of the roads that they've traveled! Someone made a really cool abstract painting using Illustrator!)

Anyway, I gave away the 6 best pairs to come out of this tie-dye batch, so I suppose that counts for:

Day 9

Commit an Act of Kindness. In your own space, share what you’ve done, talk about what you’ve done, or simply leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Comments

[the_genderman]

Oh, that's cool! I had never thought about tie-dying socks, but that's perfect.

[potofsoup]

teehee. I tie-dye my socks and underwear, and it's lots of fun to be discreetly wearing rad!colorful!stuff.

Pros: small surface area, so you can make a lot with one batch of colors. For example, I made 15 pairs this round.

Cons: I had to spend a lot of time standing in front of a sink doing the rinse-out.

[katherine]

Those are great socks and what a fun exchange that sounds!

[potofsoup]

<3 <3 <3 It was SUPER FUN. It filled me with so much love and joy. Now there is more art in *everyone*'s lives!

[minoanmiss]

That sounds so awesome!

[ineptshieldmaid]

Those are great socks! (And I agree about email notifs. Mine come into my email, but are filtered under a separate tab.)

[potofsoup]

yeah, I just added a filter so that it skips the inbox. (I used to have that, but then my DW activity became 1 person posting, so I stopped. Now there's reason to start again, so huzzah!)

[zellephantom]

Wow- those are really cool socks! The other exchange items also sound amazing, especially the oil pastel one :)

[potofsoup]

yeah, that oil pastel one was pretty cool -- all these branching roads, and it was in a weird shape??? anyway, super artsy.

[lou2]

<3 \o/ Really awesome.