So I've followed @sbrebrown for many years. His posts and videos on fountain pens have a certain wit that I enjoy. But this was pure fire. Personally, as a queer person on the internet I rather like it when the phones show their full ass so I can block and report them for hate speech. I have a lot more respect for Stephen after this. His insta is worth a follow, even if you aren't into fountain pens.

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I make small kits to hold tools and materials for customizing things, or small repairs. I like those plastic gum containers and glucose strip containers for storage. These 2 "kits" show why you need to properly prepare plastics for paint markers. The black container was scuffed up and degreased I did not scuff or degrease the white camera customizer kit. My bad. The paint marker is all flaking off. Annoying. This weekend I'll clean off the paint and scuff it up and properly degrease it. I use isopropyl alc to degrease. The spray hand sani works well. But avoid the stuff with aloe. #makergonnaupcycle #makersgonnamake

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Last night here. Taking the dog out and it's dark before 6pm. Jeebis chrisco it's cold.

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I come by my penchant for repair honestly. This is an old comforter my mom repaired a small hole with stitching.

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Shooting a time lapse of the trip. One shot every 5 minutes... Should result in a short video about 5 minutes long... Neat. the last time I did this was on my canon elph... S1100? It wasn't hd but still really cool.

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That coffee is just so photogenic. Foamed milk and a decaf espresso.

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Look at this lovely little stainless steel double wall insulated mug. It was sad lonely and disgusting lly caked with old coffee grime. I snagged it from the "is this yours?" pile at work and did a thorough cleaning. First with soap and water on the inside and then my usual denture cleaner and boiling water soak. (Seriously denture cleaner is cheap, smells nice and is food safe. It is designed to get stains out of porcelain and plastic and stainless steel. Get some at the dollar store to clean your mugs and water bottles.) Inside is spotless. The lid needed... Special care. Disassembly required a drill. I had to drill out the plastic pins that held the 2 halves of the slider in place. One broke off. I'd intended to use a stainless screw to hold it together. Instead I drilled a hole and used a M4 bolt, a few washers and a nut all stainless, to hold the slider together. Before assembly I had to give the slider a complete clean. This thing was nasty. I mean proper gagging gross. Now it's got a cute little M4 hex bolt on the top and a little nut on the bottom. Too cool. I might need to art up the sides. Not sure with what though. #makersgonnamake #makergonnaupcycle #fixdamagedthings

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Made it mine with some jb steel weld and @sharpie oil based markers. Hot hot 🔥🔥🔥 orange, pink and a hint of purple. The old canon 330hs that I bought years ago is now on fire and shot some great video today. #makersgonnamake #makeitmine #forgottorecordit #betterthennew

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See those blue feet? They are pretty strongly magnetic. I stuffed the whole camera in my pocket and left those feet sticking out... Just above my key card. Guess what? My key card stopped working... Whoops.

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Sometime you can save a thing from the trash with about 3 bucks in parts from homodespot. This little tripod only costs about 15 bucks but that's 15 bucks I can spend on other things. Anyway, loving that I fixed this. #diyordie #makersgonnamake #trashfind

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I needed a simple easy to draw calendar solution. First pic is the scribbling ideas (should have turned on the camera) and 2nd pic is a rough version. This'll do for now

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One for the haters. If you get it you get it. And yeah I shot a little video. Came to work 20 min early for that good light for shooting. A little 🍆 for the jerks who post hateful comments. Might pick up some tube to decorate for the Ko-fi site. #makersgonnamake #makeitmine #customizeyourstuff #customizetheworld #art #artist

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Voted. Hope you did too.

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Do I have better things to do than make all my inconsequential things 100% mine? Maybe, but why not spend a few minutes scuffing up some plastic and then decorating my tubes of chapstick? In progress braaaaiiiinnnnzzzzzz. #makersgonnamake #customizeyourstuff #makeitmine #lifewithpersonality #whylivewithboring

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Make stuff 001 will be up tomorrow. I'm really trying to turn the camera on when I make and do stuff. But it is hard to remember to do. This is a useful thing to make. I ended up with a selfie stick AND 2 monopods from one broken tripod. #makersgonnamake #upcycle I think I have another broken tripod too.

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Reppin @pencilution on my bike helmet. Had to apply a layer of paint pen to make that sticker POP off the helmet. Love the sticker!!! #makeitmine #maker #customizetheworld

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Next Make it Mine will be up.on YouTube on Monday. I continue to set up my next sketchbook. I add an elastic and ribbons then number the pages.

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Preview of tomorrow's yt video. Working on a series about customization of things. #makersgonnamake #learningrush #art #artist #customizeyourstuff

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People are awful. I loaded a short little clip of my sanding the labels off a chapstick tube, which I then decorated to "make it mine" and withing an hour had a nasty comment. YouTube is the worst. I blocked and reported but not until after I gave a pithy response. Ugh. Anyway. I made the chapstick tube mine with some sanding and adding of doodles to the tube with paint markers. I like it. I don't care if you don't. Have fun and enjoy life. #makersgonnamake #make #makeitmine #simple #art

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