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<\/a>Scissors<\/p><\/div>\n
Lately I’ve been remembering my mother by sketching objects in Inkscape that remind me of her. My mom worked on a heavy duty sewing machine quite a lot when I was a kid. She always had a fine set of scissors that I would use from time to time for really horrible-for-scissors tasks, like cutting wires, and she would get really upset. Now that I have fine tools of my own, it makes perfect sense why she was so upset. In this and many other ways she taught me to appreciate delicate instruments of creation and work. Thanks, Mom!<\/p>\n
tags: mom, memory, scissors, cutting, respect, tools, Inkscape, drawing, 365, wacom, open source, creative commons, freedom<\/p>\n
Lately I’ve been remembering my mother by sketching objects in Inkscape that remind me of her. My mom worked on a heavy duty sewing machine quite a lot when I was a kid. She always had a fine set of scissors that I would use from time to time for really horrible-for-scissors tasks, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[230,244,1648,365,411,562,599,1117,839,865],"class_list":{"0":"post-5796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-creative-commons","8":"tag-design","9":"tag-drawing","10":"tag-graphics","11":"tag-inkscape","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-open-source","14":"tag-portfolio","15":"tag-tools","16":"tag-vector-based","17":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1vu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5791,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/11\/02\/311-of-365-is-a-peppermill-inkscape-drawing-food\/","url_meta":{"origin":5796,"position":0},"title":"311 of 365 is a peppermill #Inkscape #drawing #food","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-11-02","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 As regular followers know, I lost my mom on Sunday. 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