A new phase approaches.

So I have been thinking of making stuffed toys and other little crafts. It would give me quick projects to sew up and I can also practice embroidery which I've also been getting into lately. Once I start making them I think I will be opening up an Etsy store which hopefully will return some of the money I spend making crafts.

Rock and Roll

It was my birthday on the 14th of May. Michael got me something nerdy I have wanted since I was a kid--A rock tumbler.



Frankly I was expecting something more complicated. I had imagined some strange system of brushes or grinders inside the cylinder. It's really just a tube with 14 walls on the inside so the rocks can ... well.. tumble. The polishing is done by adding in sand/grit which grinds away at the surface of the stones. Here's what it looks like before starting:



6/17/2011 edit: The entire process takes about a month. I, of course, have been slacking and keep forgetting to switch it to the next phase.  After a week tumbling in "coarse grit" the rocks were already looking kinda shiny. I took some pictures which somehow got deleted off of my phone.