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I made three posts here not too long ago, and they seem to have been eaten... ah well.

Who would have thought Gatchaman and Plastic Canvas could go hand in hand? I've been doing plastic canvas since I moved to to West Texas four years ago. It wasn't until San Diego's Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets guru Jason Hofius mentioned making cookies for the 2001 comic con that I combined the two elements (Gatch and plastic canvas, not gatch and cookies). I did a run of the G belt buckle coasters in 2001. In 2002 it was a birdhead (very simple). Last year I didn't go to con but I have some Galactor symbols made. The patterns were all hand drawn by me and slowly I've been converting them over into a plastic canvas pattern maker on my computer. Some of the coasters are a bit more labor intensive than others, but I won't elaborate unless someone is interested. There are pictures of two of them over at Wendy Dinsmore's Gatchaman site in her costumes/crafts/miscellany area. I'm also into cross stitch. And again I've combined cross stitch and Gatchaman in a unique way. Hobby Ware makes a crosstitch pattern maker program that lets one take a picture, upload it, pick the # of colors they want to use (up to three hundred), then instantly generates a pattern in both color and symbol which you can print and stitch.. I've done one: the bird scramble symbol on Wendy Dinsmore's links page (with her permission of course -- always always ALWAYS ask permission before borrowing pictures off someone's site). That too is on the same page as my coasters. Currently I'm working on another picture of Condor Joe (borrowed from Wendy's condor joe shrine with permission), and have a 24 inch by 24 inch piece from the cover of the Gatchaman symphonic suite (from my own jpeg collection) which I want to start very soon. So there you have it. My own personal labor of love. If you have questions, PM me or leave a message here.