Covered in Glitter and Screaming

Every wedding anniversary is associated with  specific items . The first year is the paper anniversary, the 50th is the golden anniversary, etc. A few years back we started taking photos of ourselves with those items. The traditional items for the 12th anniversary are silk or linen (traditional) or pearls (modern). Husband has a (probably) silk brocade jacket, so that set the formalwear tone. I made spider and pearl accessories to go with them. I started with a faux pearl necklace that looks like a spiderweb. After some sketches and image searches I realized that what makes it read as a spiderweb is if the curved segments curve up . It's not how it would happen in real life because of gravity, but even in my sketches if the arcs drooped down it looked more like a chandelier than a spiderweb.  The three strands that make up the main part of the necklace were harder than I expected, both to get the lengths right and to get all three to lay flat against my neck. But it works! ...

Every wedding anniversary is  associated with specific traditional items . You might have heard that first year is the paper anniversary, the 50th is the golden anniversary, stuff like that. A few years back we started taking photos of ourselves with those items. This year is our steel anniversary. Given the dumpster fire that 2020 has turned out to be, we went for a post-apocalyptic warrior vibe.  I got some  patterns  for shoulder, chest, and knee armor and made them out of foam and we decorated them with pieces of steel. There are a lot of ways to do post-apocalypse armor, but I feel like shoulder and chest armor really defines the look. Husband's aesthetic was "rolled through a scrapyard" and he stuck wire mesh, nails, and screws on his. My go-to for random things is the ¥100 store and most of the options for steel are kitchen implements, so I used three collapsible steamer trays, a couple of graters, and a bunch of spoons. Process Chest/shoulder armor for him S...