Log - 12 January 2012 - Fluffy red Diffus.

One of the things you usually notice after it has happened is that alkyd paints and acrylic paints don't mix and react badly to one and other, resulting in Zenia's paintjob looking like the skin of a scrotum instead of becoming shiny white and smooth. Next plan is to buy new acrylic spray paint by the same brand from the same store and re-paint Zenia instead of trying to find alkyd silver paint and clear coat that I have no idea where can be found. Being that it's only two days until Saturday when I can buy new spray paint, I decided to stay at home yesterday to fix whatever would need fixing here and also got to work more on my website, deleting all my previous 4:3 ratio photos and pages now that I am replacing them all with 16:9 ratio widescreen photos and pages instead. While going through all these photos, I looked at the temporary banner for the fluffy, red marionette called Diffus that I've been planning to make for about 3 or 4 years already and thought maybe this would be the best time to start making that fluffy thing since it would not really take long when first getting to make it, and so I started to make it. The fabric was stretched out over the floor and the shapes were traced out, then the parts were mostly sewn together, only it got so late that I didn't bother finishing it then anyway. Today I woke up somewhat early because I was damn hungry, so I got plenty of extra time to work on Diffus anyway since I got up at that time. Sewing the parts together went fast, and after that I went down to my workroom to find some sticks in the toolshed that I would turn into the control cross for the marionette movements. After completing the control cross, the fluffy marionette was tied to it using a thin fishing line that wasn't too visible against the rest, and so Diffus was finally completed after having bought the red fabric for it years ago. In fact I used to own a pink duck-like animal marionette when I was a child and therefore already knew about these sort of things, but it was after having seen one at my ex-girlfriend's home that I decided to make my own, and it turned out looking preddy darn funny and fluffy. After having imagined this thing completed for years, the end result looks exactly like what I had in mind, making it seem like I've always had the thing, so I suppose it became just what I wanted it to be. I also realized that I've got several unseen DVD boxsets of Star Trek, MacGyver and Scrubs and will begin watching Star Trek tonight in bed on my portable DVD player. That's just what I got it for, the sweet awesomeness of watching movies and TV shows in bed.