hey there, long time no see

I've been busy on all sorts of projects, but most of them are school projects, and it just hasn't felt right to update this space with grad school assignments. So here are some things I've done in my "spare" time (aka procrastination time) in the last few months...



In January, Shannon, Saffron, and I made concrete planters. Shannon was inspired by my last blog post about making concrete planters for materials testing, so we mixed up a few batches at my place. Notice it's pitch black through the blinds in the background; we started at like 2, thinking it would take just a few hours. I think they left around 10 pm. We mixed the concrete in a big plastic bin on the side patio, which was covered with a frozen sheet of ice, smarties that we are. Saffron was such a trooper:

First batch was two tall planters, the shorty with a large planting space and the tall one with a smaller hole. Plastic tubes added for drainage (wondering if this will work adequately?).

My favorite is this rectangle planter we made by lining a gridded plastic basket from the $1 store with a plastic bag, and filling with concrete. Next version should have drainage holes, and I'd like to make an actual mold that would put the pillow-y grid on the top instead of the bottom:




(gridded basket in the background)