Eugene, Oregon has quite a few fine institutions, like the Toolbox Project, MECCA, and others.

When the local maker space burned down I wasn't sure what would happen, didn't have the capacity to get involved. They've survived through what was obviously a tough time and seem to be thriving in their new space — open house tonight!

Here's a recent video about some of what goes on there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPIwVfcUESY #Eugene #Oregon #MakerSpace #maker #craft #crafting #ThirdSpace https://eugenemakerspace.com/

Two geodes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode) I crocheted with beads for the 15th birthday of the home geologist, who loves Stardew Valley (https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Geode) 🪨💎💎💎🪨

שתי גיאודות (https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94_(%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94)) שסרגתי עם חרוזים לרגל יום ההולדת ה־15 של גיאולוג הבית, שמת על עמק טל כוכבים (https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Geode) 🪨💎💎💎🪨
שרשור בפדיוורס: https://hed.im/@ruxotves/115465801096857087

#crochet #beads #beadedCrochet #art #craft #handmade #commissionsOpen #geodes #geode #MastoArt #StardewValley #קרושה #אמנות #אומנות #עבודת_יד #מלאכת_יד #סריגה #חרוזים #גיאודה #גיאודות #עמק_טל_כוכבים

THE COMPLEX ANTAGONIST
Create exciting antagonists that truly challenge the protagonists in your work, creating interesting, exciting, complex characters. Learn how to create the antagonist’s circle and develop the antagonist as a fully-developed individual, not an idea or a cipher. Combination of topics, exercises, and examples that you can re-visit with every story.

$2.99 USD

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Craft #Antagonist #CharacterDevelopment

UBL: https://books2read.com/u/bPgv1d

I draw and design with a new style...

#digitalart #craft #oc #design #painting #Installationart

sad goth girl

#digitalart #craft #oc #design #painting #Installationart

Our next #HitchinHackspace weekly open evening is on Monday 11th May.

We will be open from 19:30 until 22:00 to give folks who may be interested in what we do, and what facilities we can provide, a chance to come and have a look round and meet some of our members.
All are welcome. If you have ever wondered what we did to convert a derelict toilet into a hackspace, or what a "hackspace" is for that matter, come and have a look around.
If you like to create, make or craft things why not pay us a visit?
We have tools and equipment that cover a wide range of hobbies, crafts and technologies: woodwork, metalwork, electronics, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, sewing, 3D printing.....
Free tea, coffee and a biscuit or two.🫖☕🍪🙂
#Hitchin #Letchworth #Stevenage #Baldock #NorthHerts #hackspace #NorthHertsMakers
#make #craft #invent #learn

Better writing takes more words, more time and more drafts. That’s not a flaw — it’s the point.

The fourth draft is where the mundane phrasing comes out and the precise word goes in. Only works when the dictionary supports it. Modern dictionaries collapse meaning; Webster’s 1913 Unabridged opens it back up.

The right word becomes findable.

#writing #craft #language
https://blog.bosslogic.com/p/breathing-life-into-your-writing

Once Upon a Page

(With thanks to writer T.A. Barnes for the title of this post.)
How many pages are in your current manuscript? Every one of them is a momentary story. A story instant. For your reader, that story instant is as important as the grand problem, the giant premise that you established in your opening.
Your reader is only once on the opening page. After that, it is up to each page to tell the story: not the big story—the overall plot, although it may advance that one step—but the little story of right now. This instant. You can bring story effects to bear upon this instant, or you can cruise along on the presumption that, once hooked, your reader will read anything you set down for hundreds of pages.
Do you think that’s likely? Nah, me either.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/06/once-upon-a-page/

#CRAFT #adviceforwriters #DonaldMaass