Monday, July 18, 2011

Crafting with Keywords

Current Location: Mom's house, Diamond Springs

My family recently decided to hold a craft swap with each other.  In order for us to have some influence over what we end up getting, but still be surprised, we each wrote down at least 25 keywords for someone else to draw from.  At the time of the drawing, I had well 35, and I keep coming up with more.  I figure if I add them to the pile now, they'll be there for the next time we do something like this, right?  My current count is up to 83.

In order to test the combinations that were likely to get, I tried drawing several (okay, a lot) sets of 3 myself.
  The very first one I got was the amusingly nonsensical ethereal Red Delicious SNERG!
Here are some others that seem inspiring:
Hellboy retelling Ursula Vernon
archaeology mysterious steamer trunk (sounds like something for my "Archaeological Proof of Time Travel" series)
art nouveau robot mixed media
elfin viking oriental rug
dream reading ceiling tiles
costume Harajuku land of Faerie
waste-reducing wind-up castle
Star Trek intellectual humor here be dragons

plus a couple where the third word didn't so much work
white elephant strap hinges
iron rose antlers
Father Christmas Wicked