I needed something to protect my shoulder from sunburn, so I went to MacPherson Leather and picked up $10 worth of leather scraps and miscellaneous hardware. Three hours later I have this buckled, contoured, flexible bit of shoulder armor. The contouring is not great, but leather stretches so it’ll work fine.

Some day I’ll make that white-leather-and-faux-fur armored laser rave angel costume. Maybe I’ll tackle that this fall when I get back from the burn. Blue lasers are cheap now, so I can simplify the backpack optics and just use two of them.