This was my dollhouse, purchased in the last 1980s. My mom painted it and added wallpaper and floor paper. My dad and I added the shingles, and the roof has a hinge so you up the front portion. I believe it came in natural wood. I believe my mom said that it was a brand that was used in preschools because it was so durable. Do you know the brand or model? Where might I obtain something similar?
The first photo is from when I got my nib, the second is some practice, and the third is a sign for the door to my son’s room, because he’s at the age where he really wants privacy.
I used the beautiful 32-pound paper by HP. Does anyone have a suggestion for a good free template with darker lines? my printer seems to printing the templates I could find too faint. Also, I find the size of the practice letters to be really huge and more difficult. Any suggestions on that front?
Also, the paper of my copybook sucks and bleeds through. What writing instrument can I use?
I am living through a period of enormous stress. I have three young children (including three-year-old twins) and we just moved house this last week still aren’t rosy moved out, and we’re flying my parents tomorrow - I’m exhausted. But it was so lovely to wake up early and try out my new paper with my Copperplate book. What a meditative hobby this is ☺️
This is a Koh-i-noor holder with a Zig G nib that i picked up at Blick’s. The paper is Clairefontaine Triomphe, which didn’t bleed through and barely ghosted, but I do see scratches 😂 but I might need special lined paper - or paper that i lay down over a template. What paper should I order for practice? Regular printer paper feathers and bleeds.
I also ordered an oblique holder from Tom’s Studio that I’m waiting on. I want to learn Copperplate. I ordered the Platinum permanent ink for my refillable fineliners - is that ok for my dip pen for now? Or do I need calligraphy ink?
Any free/cheap resources or suggestions welcome!
I’ll admit that I dislike the idea of AI and the various harms and risks that represents, so I could be biased. But I also am openminded and have been intermittently curious about how AI could help me with various projects or even whether AI could replace me (a high school English instructor). I have never used it to grade student essays not just because it would be unethical but because it can’t. But from time to time I will see what it can do and whether it understands what true, multilayered analysis is. In my course, we emphasize deep thinking and careful consideration of specific text. Chat is really not good at either of those things.
So far it absolutely sucks at anything generative or evaluative - anything beyond basic internet search. It is so weird in its limitations. it forgets things within a chat. It hallucinates lines from the text that are not there, and it is way off base when it comes to judging student work.
I have my students handwrite everything, and I take their phones from them in case they’re tempted to use them in the bathroom - not so much because I’m afraid they will cheat. I have found that those who I suspect have used Chat while in the bathroom still produce written work that is not strong. I collect their phones because I believe trying to go on chat to “brainstorm” merely wastes time and works against them.
Recently I also used the paid version of ChatGPT to try to design our closet. I submitted floorplans and all of the measurements of the components we wanted to use. It was very time-consuming to prompt, and the end result was still off by 4 feet. I would correct that one thing, and then in the new iteration a previously corrected mistake would be wrong again. I finally ended up drawing it out to scale myself using and then resubmitted it. The rendering is still wrong, but it was closer. In the end, I realized I should have just used the IKEA app and that I wasted a huge amount of time trying to generate a pretty image because it ended up being wrong anyway. The whole thing reminded me of the silly mistakes the robot girl would make in that old sitcom “Small Wonder.”
Not too long ago, I asked it to help me with a weird issue I had with my taxes. It walked me through the steps on the tax portal, and later my husband discovered that I had done it all wrong.
The only thing that it can sort of sometimes do is transcribe student handwriting, but even with that I have to be really careful because it can make assumptions.
I guess I just don’t understand how this thing is so hyped when, in my experience, it simply sucks. We have an AI expert at our school, and she’s always telling me that I didn’t set up the prompt right. But when she prompted something for me in a proper project folder with resource docs, it was still just as time-consuming as me doing it by myself, and again, made mistakes and screwed up my instructions.
So my question is: am I wrong? Do any of you find yourself wondering how AI can replace us if it also really sucks after all this time?