hey there all you cool cats and kittens this is Kate with tested and here's
another edition of tested from home as you can see I'm in my home studio right
now terribly missing all of my co-workers but try to do what I can to
get through this be productive stay sane so I thought I'd walk you through some
of the projects I've been looking at now the first thing I want to say is if you
aren't feeling up to doing projects or if you're feeling any kind of guilt
about how little you've accomplished please don't you need to know that
however you handle this is the right way I personally was sick for the beginning
of lockdown so for about three or four weeks I did nothing I was in bed once I
felt up to it the first thing I started you was something that made me feel
productive but was really low impact so the the best idea I had was I had a
bunch of these which are watercolor postcards so you can see on the back
they have a place to put your address and your message on the front it's a
watercolor paper that you can put whatever you want on so I have been
setting up a station on my living room coffee table and again I'll put on a
movie or a TV show I'll zone out paint and whatever I have done in two hours is
is what I send out in the mail it's been a great way to keep some stability and
structure in my life as well and so far I've been getting a few responses people
have been receiving them they're staggered since I do them daily but it's
been it's been a real treat seeing people's faces
now the next project I tried again as a way of just doing something super
low-impact boosting morale you know we recently had
a holiday and sometimes it's hard to distinguish one day from another so I
wanted to find a way to like make this a more fun day
so I laser cut out some Easter eggs so I took some
i laser cut out some egg shapes and just did like as you can see these aren't
masterpieces they're just fun with markers I don't feel like having to deal
with paint you know in my living room so just having fun with them another
project that I got going this was the first one that was sort of a bigger
project for me um I have pets and I don't know if anybody else does I hope
you do they've been keeping me wonderful company doing this time
so this nasty-looking thing is a cat scratcher and as you can see it has been
very well-loved in my household this is a fun pie-in-the-sky project again just
more out of curiosity to see if I could do it so um went in a computer and
designed out just a basic I call it a figure 8 infinity maybe um shape and
started cutting up all the cardboard boxes I could find that fit the
parameters of this size and shape so lots of crawling around on the living
room floor slicing the boxes into the right shape and then cutting them and so
this is my current stack that I have going and as you can see so this was
this was quite a lot of boxes unfortunately this size limit too so
sometimes you really can't use some of the smaller boxes that come um and if
you compare it to the real deal you will see that um we're a little ways off
basically this is a bit more to do I have some more blanks ready to cut but
it's gonna take me a while it's gonna be an ongoing project and again it's just
more about like hey I've got this stuff that I normally was gonna be throwing
away and anything I can do to reuse something and again make make something
for a creature that I love a lot I think if that is a fun project to try now the
last project that I think I'm going to jump into I was inspired by I Reece
we posted online about a repair shop which is a British show that I've been
loving on Netflix um and it kind of inspired me to fix some things around
the house which i think is a great way to keep busy especially things you just
been putting off and putting off and putting off I think I have a tile on my
bathroom sink that has been falling off for quite a while now I should probably
get around to gluing that back in place but in the meantime I have here
a vase I know if you just heard that there's some clanking things inside of
it because wah wah uh-oh the day that I bought this beautiful
vase from a local craft market I went outside set down my bag
and when I looked down the bag just spell right over and just broke this so
literally like standing outside the place that I bought it um and I was
heartbroken and I was frustrated and I was just so like over it and I put it
away and I haven't looked at it in quite a while but right now I think I'm
inspired to finally tackle this project I contacted a friend of mine who is an
amazing ceramicist and I said you know I've used a lot of
glues what should I use she said you know some people use e6000 people are
thrown off by the porous nature of the clay she said but when I found that
works is simply sign or accurately superglue uh and Lord knows I've got a
lot of that and I know how to use it so I think that that's what I'm gonna try
next I encourage anybody with an unfinished project why not take this
time it's all bonus time basically again only if you're feeling mentally up for
it stable and in a place where you want to be productive something else that's
really simple um is painting your nails pampering yourself treating yourself
doing something fun well these are just a few of my projects that I'm keeping
busy with I'm I'm figuring out what works for me and I really hope that you
at home are able to find out what works for you to you
you want to see any updates on any of these projects I've been working on I'll
try to start posting some I've been doing time lapses of some of these
things I hope that you all are safe and happy and productive and I wish the best
for everyone stay tuned for some more tested at home videos coming up bye