The Things I Have Made In the Makerspace

In the past few months at the Fulton School, I have made many things in the Makerspace, including three others I did before I even went to this school. While I visited, I used a wood laser cutter to make a wooden bookmark with a crow on it, and two button pins that were made using a button maker.

Once I actually came to school, lots of the things I did were with epoxy resin. I did a few with Hannah for chicken middle, specifically some red epoxy cats and four multicolored coasters we will sell for the craft fair next month. I also have ones that aren’t for chicken middle, like my initials (AB), one blue epoxy cat, and an orange and blue resin bookmark. You have to mix different kinds of resin or epoxy together to get the right consistency, or the resin won’t set right, and will forever be sticky and bendy. Maybe not forever, but there’s a failed one in the Makerspace that has been setting for over a month. Also don’t forget to stir the two ingredients together for a few minutes with a popsicle stick. To get color, you can add this sparkly colored powder of your choice in the resin cup. Just don’t add too much color, otherwise the resin won’t be translucent anymore. Unless that’s what you’re going for, it’s your preference!

Next, I’ll talk about the bracelets I have made out of beads. I’m a big history, country, and flags fan, so I made the Axis and Allies with bracelets! On my right arm, there’s the Soviet Union (red and yellow), America (red white and blue), and Poland (red and white half and half). The Soviet Union is mostly red, and I purposefully made sure there were only three yellow beads on it, because it is based off of the yellow hammer, sickle, and star on the actual flag of that country. The left side has Germany (black red and yellow), Japan (red and white in a striped pattern), and Italy (green white and red). Another cool detail about it is that each of the opposing countries’ flags are across from their most heated rival in World War II. For example, the Soviet Union is across from Germany, since they both mainly fought with each other throughout the war. The reason I picked Poland and not the United Kingdom is because the UK is also red white and blue, just like America! So they’re both in one bracelet.

The last crafting medium I used in the Makerspace was the button making machine. I know I already did two before I came to the school, but I made two more since I felt like two button pins wasn’t enough. Both of them were my most recent creations of the Makerspace, as of writing this blog. They both turned out a little wonky, because the button maker wasn’t working right and Anneliese had to get Doc to figure out what was wrong with it. Now the button machine is working once again! Both buttons have goofy dogs on them, since I’m silly and they match my energy when I’m at home. The button on the right reads: “Oh nein!” Which means “Oh no!” in German. The left one says: “Kindly redirected,” because that’s the saying for when someone is going crazy or being annoying, and it’s basically another word for “Get out!” We use it playfully, NOT rudely, so don’t worry.

So that’s basically it! In total I used four craft mediums, which are: Laser wood cutting, I have only used this once, but I’m sure I’ll get around to using it again this year! Then I did button making, Trinity taught me how to use the button maker, so shout out to her. In total I have made four buttons, which isn’t a lot, but it’s more than what I did with the laser printer! The epoxy resin is the only one where I have not counted on, since there were a lot I did for chicken middle including some personal ones that I’m not selling. The amount of bracelets I’ve made are actually eleven, not six. The other five I didn’t mention only because the paragraph was getting pretty long. I actually made the country Ukraine, and two characters from a book series called Wings of Fire. The last two have messages in them, one of them being partially glow-in-the-dark. The regular one says: “That never happened.” It’s a silly joke I use that has a bit of a deeper meaning, but I’m not going to go into it since this paragraph is also quite long. The final bracelet reads: “Guten tag my fellow comrades!” Just to be clear, “guten tag” is good day in German, and comrade is another word for friend, at least, that’s what I know. That’s pretty much my blog. Thank you for reading!