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hello everyone! 💙
just wanted to pop in to show off my jellyfish car hanger amigurumi that i made yesterday for a friend. ☺️💙
i named her blueberry 🥺💙
@chyni
Omigoshhh this is so adorable!🥺❤
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
ikr 🥹 thank yoouuuu, I wish I could've kept her
@chyni
Maybe my proudest achievement craft-wise is a telescope I made some time ago for deep-sky skywatching:
@HealingTalk
You. Made. Your. Own. Freaking. Telescope?!!😮 This is Amazingggg, Marcelo!😍
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
I did it because it was extremely expensive to import one from the US as it's a big thing mostly empty. And I badly wanted one, I was in love with the night sky, and Astronomy. I wished to see galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae with my own eyes.
I mostly followed instructions from this book:
And there is a very supportive community of telescope builders on the Internet, everybody with their websites who will gladly answer your questions.
There is also free software for calculating the precise geometry of mirror location, length, etc.
@HealingTalk
Ahhhh I love all things astronomical, Marcelo, the outer-space is truly a fascinating place and woah, it's such a dream to actually see some of it even, with our eyes. 😭
I'm so proud of you, and legit super thrilled, it must've taken a lot of time and determination to put the telescope together, including all the technicalities and equipment. Sooooo well done! 🙌😍
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Yes, it was insane!
But you get a lot of motivation when you do something interesting in itself and with a great purpose into the future.
The main challenge was precision. It's a precision instrument.
One thing is to build a wood box, another to build a wood box with millimetric accurate measures and perfect right angles.
It was a great adventure, an experience to cherish and remember.
These posts brought wonderful memories.
And the Universe is awe-inspiring.
One of the most amazing aspects of Reality.
I aspire to live always in awe and wonder, and these things help a lot.
@HealingTalk
omg, this is so flipping cool.. that's AMAZING!! YOU'RE AMAZING 💫👏🏾😭 I absolutely love this, I wish I had a telescope because I love astronomy!! wow!
does it work though? how many times have you used it?
@chyni
Thank you so much!
Yes, it does work!
I have watched many wonderful things with it.
I might have used it a few hundred times.
You need a moonless night (or the hours when the moon is not present, and clear skies (no clouds).
Astronomy (and Cosmology) is fascinating.
We are twin souls in this!
@HealingTalk wow! That's absolutely amazing 😍 next make a time machine, I believe you have the power ❤
@Tinywhisper11
A telescope is a time machine in a way, Lola.
Light takes time to get here, so the further away you look, you are looking more into the past.
For example, I watched the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the center of the Virgo Supercluster to which our Milky Way galaxy belongs. That is 50 million light years away. Light took 50 million years to come from there to here. So I was watching it as it was 50 million years ago.
Early this year, using the new space telescope, the Webb (successor to the Hubble), a galaxy was discovered that dates to 320 million years after the Big Bang, (and 3 more a few million years older) so as it was about 13.500 million years ago. It represents how all galaxies in the universe were at that time. There are no images, only information about it.
https://time.com/6269232/james-webb-telescope-oldest-galaxies/
More recently, a photo was taken of one a bit younger. the Maisie galaxy, dated 390 million years after the Big Bang: 
So that's how it looked like 13.400 million years ago (the first galaxies were small and very irregular, the big spiral galaxies like the Milky Way were formed by merging many little irregular ones).
"Flight to Maisie's Galaxy" video by NASA: https://youtu.be/M1n82zTBwQY
Watching with a telescope you look back in time.
It's the closest real thing we have to a time machine.
@HealingTalk 😮😮😮 I don't fully understand but wow! Space is very fascinating to me, the sky we see is also very fascinating. I'm not the cleverest of people, so I found it a very hard topic to understand. It's just all one big beautiful mystery to me ❤❤ thankyou for teaching me something new ❤❤
and I knew you had the ability to make a time machine, your a genius ❤❤
@Tinywhisper11
Some people know things but nobody fully understands.
It doesn't enter our minds, even if we know things rationally.
Can anyone conceive of a billion years?
Magnitudes of time and distances like that?
And it's full of mysteries and unknowns.
I like that.
It makes the Universe so hugely interesting and awesome!
@chyni awwww! Chyni that's super cute ❤❤ my hobby is art and craft. 
@Tinywhisper11
here’s just a few of my drawings.. ☺️❤️
@chyni
Beautiful drawings!
The cube with the squares reminds me of Escher.
@HealingTalk
thank you 😊 idk what escher is though, lol
@chyni
M. C. Escher was an artist who made drawings based on geometry.
Many were paradoxical. Representations of "impossible" things.
https://platonicrealms.com/minitexts/Mathematical-Art-Of-M-C-Escher
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/20/the-impossible-world-of-mc-escher
@HealingTalk
thanks for the references, i had googled “escher” and realized that escher is a dutch graphic artist, i saw a few of his works and i absolutely love them. funny thing is i saw one of his work already and had no idea who the artist was.. at least i know now, so thank you 🙏🏾
@chyni
Yes, his drawings are much more widely known than his name!
@Tinywhisper11
Ouu, I love it 😊 my first talent was art and crafts as well.. I still do crafty things, however, I haven't done any art piece since year. I'll try to share a few if I can find pictures, thanks for sharing ❤
@chyni
I love your amigurumi
Amigurumi is a wonderful craft
You can create beautiful, cute animal figures, tini dolls, and many other objects.
I have seen beautiful small amigurumi pumpkins for Halloween.
The amigurumi creations are cute, beautiful, and don't take much space, so you can show many on a small surface like a shelf, for example.
They also make wonderful gifts and decoration.
And being small I guess they take a manageable time.
It doesn't take ages like painting for example.
You make one cute amigurumi, and soon you can make another.
BTW, I posted a watercolor in the Hobby Zone last year:
https://www.7cups.com/forum/crafts/Art_2592/LetssharesomeWorkofArt_275397/?post=2983139
@HealingTalk
I've been meaning to make some small potted amigurumi plants for my home, however, I never got around to do it. I normally make amigurumis and gift them to my family members as keychains.
@chyni
Potted amigurumi plants is a beautiful idea!
They will look cute and colorful, enlivening the place.
You will make them at some point, for sure.
You are too kind.
You employ your creations like the "friendship bracelets" which are made only as gifts for friends.
But you deserve to keep some amigurumi for yourself too!
They will look gorgeous decorating your house.
@Tinywhisper11
Those look scary!
But very well drawn!
Congratulations, Lola!
What is the medium?
Permanent markers, like Sharpies?
@HealingTalk yep markers for the clock and pastels for the leaves 😁 I do all mixed media sorts of art ❤thankyou ❤
@Tinywhisper11
You are very talented!
Pastels are wonderful! So subtle!
I used to watch this YouTube channel for drawing with markers:
https://www.youtube.com/@ALPHONSODUNN
A very generous artist spending hundreds of hours teaching for free.
There are people like that on YouTube.
@HealingTalk I'm not allowed to use you tube 😞
@Tinywhisper11
Oh, how bad!
Maybe if you create a 2nd empty G amil account and connect through a VPN like Privado VPN or Karspersky VPN, from an Incognito or Private window in your browser.
Or through Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org
All of those hide your IP so your location can't be tracked.
You might try Tor to see how it works.
@HealingTalk ohh! Ok thanks ❤ I can ask my carers ❤
@Tinywhisper11
I wish you good luck with that!
@chyni
Thats some wonderful work😀
If reading counts as a hobby, then I am in !!!
@Comphi yes reading counts 😁 not to brag, but I read 'lord of the rings' in 20 seconds😎I know it's only 4 words, but it's a good start😁
@Tinywhisper11
I am laughing like crazy🤣
@Comphi 😂😂😂
It's so cute :) I'm not really good at crocheting. My hobby is knitting, stitching, drawing and photography.
@MelSophiaMarie
we have so much in common, because i draw and do photography as well.. i have a canon rebel t5
Oh great :) I have a Sony Alpha a35. What type of photography do you like most?
@MelSophiaMarie
nature.. and i’m obsessed with moon pictures 🥺🫶🏽
Me tooo.. I love the moon.. But also sunsets and sunrises
@MelSophiaMarie
i draw as well and do photography. well used to, my camera now needs a new display screen. 😞
@chyni
ohh.. i saw your comment and didn’t realize that i had already replied..🤭
No problem ^^