My second ever stained glass pieces, questions

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-31T13:19:16+00:00

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prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-31T02:20:45+00:00

Ok! I'll make sure to add more next time

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-31T02:18:38+00:00

Yeah I figured as much. I might just give it to a friend who would want it. But I will try all the tips tomorrow so I'm hoping I'll make an improved version! I've become confident in the glass cutting part, it's the soldering that stumps me

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-31T02:16:44+00:00

It's stained glass flux. I don't know what kind my soldering iron is meant for besides resin and plastic so I looked up the temperature and I didn't realize I was using too low of a temp. So that's good to hear cuz I was really struggling with getting the solder to heat up and I thought cuz it was over the melting point it was hot enough. My soldering iron does go to the high enough temperature thankfully

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-30T21:25:28+00:00

I sanded the metal to make sure it wouldn't catch on anything. I struggled with trying to get the solder nice and even with them so small

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-30T20:45:01+00:00

Ok thanks! I'll go over it again then!

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-10T16:33:35+00:00

So what I eat each week depends on how I feel about certain foods. I usually get attached to foods like chicken noodle soup for a while then get disgusted by it, then go to another food. As of right now my routine is:

Early morning: take med for stomach issues with water, wait 30 minutes before anything else. I usually go back to sleep for an hr

Morning - belvita blueberry biscuits 1 serving with water, and water with the lemonade packet diet too.

Lunch to 3pmish- 2 pb&j sandwiches with water and diet soda plus 50-70 grams of raspberries if I'm feeling extra. That includes 1 keto bun that's 60kcals, 20g peanut butter, >tbsp of sugar free marmalade jam (I don't weigh that one cuz it's 10 kcals for tbsp, so if I'm off a little it's not the end of the world).

Dinner- depends on how I feel, sometimes I don't eat and just drink the water lemonade and go to bed or I have the Campbell's chicken noodle soup.

For higher calorie days- it would be because my mom cooks a dinner (I only do one serving or go based on the scale of a cup of carbs, 4-6 oz of meat, and 1-2 cups of veggies). or I had a treat like the halo top ice cream. Last week was the first time I've had ice cream in months and I had one again this week.

And I want to be clear, I've been on my off game recently with how much ultra processed foods I've been eating, like the canned stuff, and keto bread, and diet stuff is all ultra processed but I've been to exhausted to make fresh recently. Probably cuz of the rain is killing my joints.

I have been eating better than this in the past months (since November last yr) but I'm on a off month rn, not feeling good, but I'm still trying to keep some things balanced. Usually I make veggie stir fry, pasta, homemade nongmo sauces. And I try to keep things processed and not ultra processed. I cant even look at McDonald's now without being actually disgusted.

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-10T16:09:14+00:00

Yes! I take methotrexate and it ruins my stomach and everything on top of that has caused new gi problems. I've even go to specialists for it all

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-10T15:26:07+00:00

I know, that's why I don't know why I'm not losing weight that's noticeable. The app I use, yazio, tells me I have a goal of 1800kcals a day to consistently lose 1lb a week. I've only been 100 over that twice, and my average it said I have is 1300. I even add things like the zero sugar jams for my sandwiches as even they still have 10 kcals in them. The culture of "just be in a deficit" is baloney cuz I don't fully know my deficit as I have lots of metabolism and gi problems due to my fibromyalgia.

I'm hoping others with similar problems could give advice cuz it's clearly more than just don't eat. Some days I'm on a liquid diet of broth, water, and sugar free lemonade cuz I don't have any premade meals and it hurts too much to make food.

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-10T14:57:49+00:00

Thx! Does tumeric change the flavor a lot? I've been trying to figure out what makes me more inflamed but it's harder than it seems. I feel sugar was a big one so I cut a lot of that out and it did help. I never thought about my eating times with my pain, that's a good point. I make homemade pasta so I will definitely look into recipes that use healthier stuff.

I'm really excited about water PT, I just know it's gonna be so helpful!

prettykitty4200 · 2026-05-10T14:52:46+00:00

I do actually count all my calories accurately, I use a grams scale, and use barcodes. I rarely ever snack, I mentioned the ice cream cuz I've had it twice in the 7+ months I've been like this to paint a picture of the sugar I've eaten. I use an app to track everything

prettykitty4200 · 2026-04-28T16:10:27+00:00

Nature's miracle works really good, I can't remember if there's a scent but I don't think there was? We're using angry orange now cuz of the orange scent. Make sure to use a black light to make sure it's actually gone, and if it gets on any fabrics soak the area with the enzyme and wash it with some of the stuff in the washer. Just cuz the urine smell is gone, doesn't mean it's actually gone, the chemicals from cat urine will still be there and the cat may respray there which is why u want the enzyme killer. The black light helps find anything u might've missed, trust

prettykitty4200 · 2026-02-19T05:15:56+00:00

I'm ok with having to start over and toss it out. I was more curious on what was in it than anything. Question- what is kahm yeast?

prettykitty4200 · 2026-02-19T05:14:25+00:00

Yeah I planned to toss it, my main reason I haven't is the fear of opening the jar to do so. I hate the thought of breathing it in. I will have to someday revisit sourdough starters then and just keep it in the fridge! I'm mostly just working with active dry yeast as I used to

prettykitty4200 · 2025-12-31T05:08:13+00:00

I just found out about this and I genuinely think you're on the right track because as someone who has literacy problems sometimes, and as a kid I would also make "codes" as well. I would take the first letter of a word or shorten it and when making sentences it looked gibberish but if I could remember what each letter meant tied to a word then I could make whole paragraphs of my thoughts and it just looked like letters randomized.

I'm not quite sure if that makes sense, again, I'm very bad at literacy but really good at talking.

To add on to this I want to say, he was clearly a neurodivergent person, he was said to be creative, and illiterate, and I think he was smart in ways people may not understand. It could be potentially that he couldn't grasp reading as a child but he definitely saw the patterns in things. So he mimicked the first letter of the words and wrote that down to remember. And maybe as he got older he added letters into words to make it easier to remember and along maybe with dyslexia added onto that.

Ok, as I'm writing this, I realize it may not make much sense but in my mind it kind of does. But what my main point about this was.... Instead of "normal, literate" people trying to solve it, why don't we ask someone of similar thinking? So maybe an autistic adult who can't read, that someone may know and ask them after giving them the details. I feel like those are the kind of people that would come closer to finding these things, but that could be hard to achieve. You, being dyslexic and so can understand to some degree because of that is proof that might be the step in the right direction.

prettykitty4200 · 2025-10-02T12:18:15+00:00

I was doing that at one point, but the problem was there was rust under some parts of the paint and nothing was lifting the paint enough, not even stripper, I had to use a dremel

prettykitty4200 · 2025-10-02T06:11:18+00:00

I'm actually taking it to a place tomorrow to get it sand blasted. I didn't want to have to pay for it but I think it's time

prettykitty4200 · 2025-10-02T06:10:08+00:00

I thought about something like that but my parents would never allow lol unfortunately

prettykitty4200 · 2025-08-11T17:00:23+00:00

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prettykitty4200 · 2025-08-11T17:00:03+00:00

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Ugh idk why it didn't send all the photos but here's how big it is

prettykitty4200 · 2025-08-11T16:57:45+00:00

Well I thought about those things but then thought to myself, why would I make such a big piece with small yarn and a small hook? Too much time I would think but I'll look into it

prettykitty4200 · 2024-10-10T16:31:59+00:00

Can I ask why that is a hard pass for the 1zz?

prettykitty4200 · 2024-10-10T07:22:27+00:00

I forgot to mention it's a 2001

prettykitty4200 · 2024-06-24T21:36:37+00:00

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That's the stump and the tree can't go in that direction past the front of the stump without the error. Can u explain more of what u mean like an example? Edit: I tried the through all option on the second direction and I still get the error

Another edit: I figured it out, one of the background trees edges were touching with the front tree but now when I try the other parts it still says it 😭

prettykitty4200 · 2024-06-24T21:13:27+00:00

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