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My tradition is that on Aug. 1 and Dec. 1, I do a self-assessment, mostly of things, but also of my life in general :)
A sort of “what do I need to make this work?”
I am not expecting presents, but if you have these things, I would love to trade you one of my extra woozles for this woozle, for example :)
I should note that I am currently allergic to: metal, all food and drink that are not cheese or beer (most of the time), and wool-against-my-skin (so, for SCA, mostly fine, modernly, mostly not).
I totally would not turn down a partner of the male variety, and a permanent job, but I’m not expecting my friends/family to find me these things
I pin things I covet over here:
https://www.pinterest.com/gargoyal2...
- MOTIVATION: I work very well when rewarded with tiny prizes. Cookies, beads, etc. I NEED (OMG NEED) to do several things, like edit and publish my chapters.
- Help cleaning and sorting. As ALWAYS.
-I have a big pin-board above my desk. I’d like some small prints/posters/cards to put up. Shiny stickers are good too. Seasonal or just super awesome led lights (preferably that plug into a USB).
-Sprinkler hoses (NOT SEEPERS! The ones I want are usually green, with tiny holes on one side, and brass fittings). I need LOTS of these. Other garden stuff would be good too (rolls of orange fence, bags of potting soil, that kind of thing)
-New-to-me professional-ISH clothes:
- - Carhartts pants (38 waist 32-34 length, double front) (or other respectable pants)
- - Belts (36 inches of usable length) I love studded belts, stamped or tooled patterns, etc.
--vintage or otherwise fantastic bandanas. Black, red, green, grey. I especially love four color ones or roses patterns.
- - Black cardigans (spectacular is best: beading, patterned knitting, embroidered, whatever) (medium)
- - PATCHES and things to customize my cardigans (cool patches, studs, buttons, etc). I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS PLAN OMG PATCHES!)
- - button down shirts in ridiculous patterns (owls! skulls! crazy plaids!) (women’s extra large or men’s large, bigger is better, as I wear a cardigan over them)
-Assistance getting/moving/storing the pellets for this winter. I’m not supposed to lift things that weigh over 20 lbs, a bag of pellets is 40. Math says I should not unload dozens of these and stack them.
-10 eyelet doc martens (European size 41)
-Riveted cooking pot we can actually eat out of (so, steel would be nice, and it has to hold water)
-brewing ingredients (malt especially, I want to brew some ambers)
-Vintage embroidered small tablecloths and runners (lace, embroidery, I also prefer ones that are NOT on a plain white background)
-games! (hive, takenoko, Castle panic, blood rage, galaxy truckers, tiny epic galaxies, camel up, etc.) This site has lots of suggestions http://defectiveyeti.com/gggs/ and a lot of these sound amazing!http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/168847/final-results-20-most-anticipated-games-2014 while THIS sounds like it might lead to terrible chaos in our social group https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941136212/iron-and-ale-0 (I have carcassone, settlers, time's up, and the other classics)).
-wool CUTTER blanket. Densely fulled, color is less important. Holes are FINE, but needs to be thick and solid in the usable bits. Ideally, black, red, white, or green.
-star wars things (or other geek/nerd t-shirts or fabrics, thumb drives, purse, etc)
-research books (see pintrest) I AM SO OBSESSSED!!!! NESAT, Ruralia, any cool books or articles really
-pillowcases, novelty or embroidered vintage. Cotton please. Non-white background preferred, but whatevah if the decoration is awesome enough.
-HATCHET. A VA hatchet.
-VA documentable hatchet-box hinges (iron, VA)
-QUERN (yes, actual working one, not made of cement, I’m going to eat the flour I make!)
-Projectors. Apparently I lost my best one and my mini backup. So, I need projectors, sigh. They have to be good quality and pretty tough. I’m hoping OSUsed has a pile I can get for cheap, sigh.
-teenyest weaving cards, bone or antler (1 inch on a side)
-Jewelry I can wear (plastic rings, amber necklace w/round beads, dark grey pearls for a necklace, drop earrings are fine, as I can sub out plastic ear wires, etc.)
-Cute BLACK cotton fabric to make skirts out of (3.5 yards if 40 wide, 1.75 if 60 wide, flannel or quilting fabric is fine, old sheets are GREAT). Plaid is GREAT. Red or green is also good, but not as good is black or grey.
-Cotton lace (for above skirts. 3.5 yards). I prefer black, but white is okay.
-Polish pottery (patterned stoneware). I really like Unikat.
-my favorite china patterns are Hearthside Buffet and Gdansk Bistro Fredriksborg. I prefer the 8 inch plates :)
-bells (medieval/VA/roman)
-cotton sleeping bag (cotton cover and fill please)
-Glass headed pins, either vintage or newly made
-Interesting booze, cheese, sweets, pickles, etc. I love smoked flavors, for example
-VA glass beads
-Wooden trenchers
-Round VA brooch for coat
-DVD or digital copies of movies (Indiana Jones, 5th element, any other action movies)
-Birchbark boxes
-Teeny silver bowl for drinking out of
-A hurdy gurdy
-Cardweaving in wool (dark colors, I'm just to lazy to finish MY projects, hah). I need enough to go around my torso 3 times. A documentable pattern, but simple is 100% fine. It is going on DARK brown wool.
-A big auger, like 1 3/4 or 2 inch bit on it it has to be SHARP and usable, no “vintage” ones that are so rusted they won’t cut. :)
- wooden skiis or snowshoes (we'll destroy them, so not nice ones!)
-Giant stoneware teacups (tall, not wide!) handmade best. YES, I CAN make them, I don’t want to!
-Big ceramic mixing bowl for bread (mason cash) OR any of the adorable little Mason Cash bowls ones they put out recently :)
-Really cool ribbon would be awesome!
-Adze/gouges (for bowls and spoon making)
-Good brand (Wusthof!) paring knives
-Plaid wool for an apron dress, even plaid, dark colors (min 2.5 yards if 60 wide), medium to heavy wool
-Soft, long, warm, scarves. I wear them at events, and also to work. Not itchy, red, green, black, grey, patterns are awesome.
-I’d like some new shelves, and a small table. If you see some narrow, and/or shallow, shelves, I’d like to know! I need a tiny shelf (3 feet tall, 8 inches deep, a few feet wide), a tall shelf (6-7 feet, WOOD), a narrow and shallow shelf less than 6 feet tall.
-Supplies: yarn to knit, spectacularly odd quilting fabric (my current favorites are one with tiny carrots on it, and one with dinosaurs formed out of constellations). Dye, minerals for paint or makeup, brewing ingredients. Cascade 128 superwash is aaaaaaahhhhhmazing. I'd also love cones of yarn for WEAVING!!!! Or even just some large-ish hanks to weave new belts/garters/etc out of. Wool fabric in herringbone or diamond twill (of course, duh). Shawl amounts, hat amounts, or garment amounts would all be awesome.
-spiffy glass things (little drinking cups, beads, spindle whorls, glass headed veil pins, etc). I also love some modern fine glass works, like fairly small necked amazing vases!
-Dreamfit cotton sheets (queen size, brown would be best, blue or green is fine)
-Interesting medium size bits of fabric for hair covering and aprons. I know, I’ve asked for this before, but I use them all the time! I need about 1.5 feet by 2 feet for a headcovering. Wool or linen, interesting weaves preferred.
This is the "I don't know Gwen well enough to pick out the woozle she really wants, but I know she wants a woozle" section :)
First, go look here: https://www.pinterest.com/gargoyal2...
In general: I prefer second hand or hand made or supplies for me to make things :) New is NOT important to me. Second hand, handmade, found-in-the-forest…that’s PERFECT. In fact, preferred. For media, random copies are awesome (ooooo, do you have RESEARCH articles?????? ooooooooo. I would dearly love Viking Age research!). I use technology extensively, so digital copies are great. I love to MAKE (cook, knit, sew, quilt, can, ferment, spin, weave, etc). I really only knit with dpns. I also love to learn and experiment :) I love vintage clothes, 50s rockabilly sundresses are AMAZING! I also adore Star Wars anything. I love to garden, mostly edible things (I have a few flowers, like columbine and roses, but mostly vegis). I like to decorate for different seasons, with wreaths and garlands and linens.
I am obsessed with jewelry (though I never end up wearing bracelets, so rings, earrings, and pendants are best). I am currently allergic to metal, so…jewelry requires some creativity
Visual themes I like: Colors: Black, grey, dark red, green, brown. Blue is okay, but not awesome. Though I might sorta like it, I'll never wear anything very bright or very pastel in a mundane setting. In the SCA, in addition to my usual colors, I wear a lot of celery green, bright red, and rust orange/red. Animals: cats, hedgehogs, butterflies (my device is a green butterfly), salamanders, frogs, turtles, chickadees, owls, jellyfish, squid/ocotpi, dinosaurs, mushrooms, moon, bluebirds, blue birds, snails, Plants: POPPIES!!! Orange California poppies : ) , borage, rose, columbine, oak (especially acorns), holly, strawberries, cherries.
I love bluegrass and traditional northern European music. I generally like anything with a punk element, metal is also good. I like obscure folk fusion (Tyr, Brigid Boden, Tempest, etc).
Tastes/foods: I’m allergic to caffeine, I can’t have whole nuts, ground nuts are fine but not a treat. I LOVE: BLACK CURRENT!!!! RASPBERRY! PEACH! ROSE! almond, vanilla, scotch, ANYTHING smoky or smoked, chanterelle mushrooms, any other mushrooms. Unusual flavors are awesome, I like bitter flavors, herbal flavors, and interesting combinations. I adore hot sauce, especially habanero. And boozes! I am very interested in tasting a variety of types of vanilla (Madagascar, Tahiti, etc) and flavored salt. I’m excited about smoked paprika, or any other interesting spices. I am also highly entertained by new local alcohol, there are a lot of interesting breweries, wineries, and distilleries. I’m a huge fan of odd kinds of cheese as well. I love gummy candy.
Things my kitties would enjoy:
Catnip toys
A crappy old tablet or digital picture frame that plays video. Pyra loves to watch youtube videos and catch digital fishes. I am not so enthused about her doing this on my laptop that I need for work
Flea drops (well, they enjoy not having fleas, not the actual drops)
Elvie would like some CUDDLES PLEASE. I am busy, she would like more loves.
A waterproof, outside kitty-cave with a HEATED inside. Either a light or a heating pad that has wiring/plug that’s safe to leave plugged in during Oregon wint
A sort of “what do I need to make this work?”
I am not expecting presents, but if you have these things, I would love to trade you one of my extra woozles for this woozle, for example :)
I should note that I am currently allergic to: metal, all food and drink that are not cheese or beer (most of the time), and wool-against-my-skin (so, for SCA, mostly fine, modernly, mostly not).
I totally would not turn down a partner of the male variety, and a permanent job, but I’m not expecting my friends/family to find me these things
I pin things I covet over here:
https://www.pinterest.com/gargoyal2...
- MOTIVATION: I work very well when rewarded with tiny prizes. Cookies, beads, etc. I NEED (OMG NEED) to do several things, like edit and publish my chapters.
- Help cleaning and sorting. As ALWAYS.
-I have a big pin-board above my desk. I’d like some small prints/posters/cards to put up. Shiny stickers are good too. Seasonal or just super awesome led lights (preferably that plug into a USB).
-Sprinkler hoses (NOT SEEPERS! The ones I want are usually green, with tiny holes on one side, and brass fittings). I need LOTS of these. Other garden stuff would be good too (rolls of orange fence, bags of potting soil, that kind of thing)
-New-to-me professional-ISH clothes:
- - Carhartts pants (38 waist 32-34 length, double front) (or other respectable pants)
- - Belts (36 inches of usable length) I love studded belts, stamped or tooled patterns, etc.
--vintage or otherwise fantastic bandanas. Black, red, green, grey. I especially love four color ones or roses patterns.
- - Black cardigans (spectacular is best: beading, patterned knitting, embroidered, whatever) (medium)
- - PATCHES and things to customize my cardigans (cool patches, studs, buttons, etc). I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS PLAN OMG PATCHES!)
- - button down shirts in ridiculous patterns (owls! skulls! crazy plaids!) (women’s extra large or men’s large, bigger is better, as I wear a cardigan over them)
-Assistance getting/moving/storing the pellets for this winter. I’m not supposed to lift things that weigh over 20 lbs, a bag of pellets is 40. Math says I should not unload dozens of these and stack them.
-10 eyelet doc martens (European size 41)
-Riveted cooking pot we can actually eat out of (so, steel would be nice, and it has to hold water)
-brewing ingredients (malt especially, I want to brew some ambers)
-Vintage embroidered small tablecloths and runners (lace, embroidery, I also prefer ones that are NOT on a plain white background)
-games! (hive, takenoko, Castle panic, blood rage, galaxy truckers, tiny epic galaxies, camel up, etc.) This site has lots of suggestions http://defectiveyeti.com/gggs/ and a lot of these sound amazing!http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/168847/final-results-20-most-anticipated-games-2014 while THIS sounds like it might lead to terrible chaos in our social group https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941136212/iron-and-ale-0 (I have carcassone, settlers, time's up, and the other classics)).
-wool CUTTER blanket. Densely fulled, color is less important. Holes are FINE, but needs to be thick and solid in the usable bits. Ideally, black, red, white, or green.
-star wars things (or other geek/nerd t-shirts or fabrics, thumb drives, purse, etc)
-research books (see pintrest) I AM SO OBSESSSED!!!! NESAT, Ruralia, any cool books or articles really
-pillowcases, novelty or embroidered vintage. Cotton please. Non-white background preferred, but whatevah if the decoration is awesome enough.
-HATCHET. A VA hatchet.
-VA documentable hatchet-box hinges (iron, VA)
-QUERN (yes, actual working one, not made of cement, I’m going to eat the flour I make!)
-Projectors. Apparently I lost my best one and my mini backup. So, I need projectors, sigh. They have to be good quality and pretty tough. I’m hoping OSUsed has a pile I can get for cheap, sigh.
-teenyest weaving cards, bone or antler (1 inch on a side)
-Jewelry I can wear (plastic rings, amber necklace w/round beads, dark grey pearls for a necklace, drop earrings are fine, as I can sub out plastic ear wires, etc.)
-Cute BLACK cotton fabric to make skirts out of (3.5 yards if 40 wide, 1.75 if 60 wide, flannel or quilting fabric is fine, old sheets are GREAT). Plaid is GREAT. Red or green is also good, but not as good is black or grey.
-Cotton lace (for above skirts. 3.5 yards). I prefer black, but white is okay.
-Polish pottery (patterned stoneware). I really like Unikat.
-my favorite china patterns are Hearthside Buffet and Gdansk Bistro Fredriksborg. I prefer the 8 inch plates :)
-bells (medieval/VA/roman)
-cotton sleeping bag (cotton cover and fill please)
-Glass headed pins, either vintage or newly made
-Interesting booze, cheese, sweets, pickles, etc. I love smoked flavors, for example
-VA glass beads
-Wooden trenchers
-Round VA brooch for coat
-DVD or digital copies of movies (Indiana Jones, 5th element, any other action movies)
-Birchbark boxes
-Teeny silver bowl for drinking out of
-A hurdy gurdy
-Cardweaving in wool (dark colors, I'm just to lazy to finish MY projects, hah). I need enough to go around my torso 3 times. A documentable pattern, but simple is 100% fine. It is going on DARK brown wool.
-A big auger, like 1 3/4 or 2 inch bit on it it has to be SHARP and usable, no “vintage” ones that are so rusted they won’t cut. :)
- wooden skiis or snowshoes (we'll destroy them, so not nice ones!)
-Giant stoneware teacups (tall, not wide!) handmade best. YES, I CAN make them, I don’t want to!
-Big ceramic mixing bowl for bread (mason cash) OR any of the adorable little Mason Cash bowls ones they put out recently :)
-Really cool ribbon would be awesome!
-Adze/gouges (for bowls and spoon making)
-Good brand (Wusthof!) paring knives
-Plaid wool for an apron dress, even plaid, dark colors (min 2.5 yards if 60 wide), medium to heavy wool
-Soft, long, warm, scarves. I wear them at events, and also to work. Not itchy, red, green, black, grey, patterns are awesome.
-I’d like some new shelves, and a small table. If you see some narrow, and/or shallow, shelves, I’d like to know! I need a tiny shelf (3 feet tall, 8 inches deep, a few feet wide), a tall shelf (6-7 feet, WOOD), a narrow and shallow shelf less than 6 feet tall.
-Supplies: yarn to knit, spectacularly odd quilting fabric (my current favorites are one with tiny carrots on it, and one with dinosaurs formed out of constellations). Dye, minerals for paint or makeup, brewing ingredients. Cascade 128 superwash is aaaaaaahhhhhmazing. I'd also love cones of yarn for WEAVING!!!! Or even just some large-ish hanks to weave new belts/garters/etc out of. Wool fabric in herringbone or diamond twill (of course, duh). Shawl amounts, hat amounts, or garment amounts would all be awesome.
-spiffy glass things (little drinking cups, beads, spindle whorls, glass headed veil pins, etc). I also love some modern fine glass works, like fairly small necked amazing vases!
-Dreamfit cotton sheets (queen size, brown would be best, blue or green is fine)
-Interesting medium size bits of fabric for hair covering and aprons. I know, I’ve asked for this before, but I use them all the time! I need about 1.5 feet by 2 feet for a headcovering. Wool or linen, interesting weaves preferred.
This is the "I don't know Gwen well enough to pick out the woozle she really wants, but I know she wants a woozle" section :)
First, go look here: https://www.pinterest.com/gargoyal2...
In general: I prefer second hand or hand made or supplies for me to make things :) New is NOT important to me. Second hand, handmade, found-in-the-forest…that’s PERFECT. In fact, preferred. For media, random copies are awesome (ooooo, do you have RESEARCH articles?????? ooooooooo. I would dearly love Viking Age research!). I use technology extensively, so digital copies are great. I love to MAKE (cook, knit, sew, quilt, can, ferment, spin, weave, etc). I really only knit with dpns. I also love to learn and experiment :) I love vintage clothes, 50s rockabilly sundresses are AMAZING! I also adore Star Wars anything. I love to garden, mostly edible things (I have a few flowers, like columbine and roses, but mostly vegis). I like to decorate for different seasons, with wreaths and garlands and linens.
I am obsessed with jewelry (though I never end up wearing bracelets, so rings, earrings, and pendants are best). I am currently allergic to metal, so…jewelry requires some creativity
Visual themes I like: Colors: Black, grey, dark red, green, brown. Blue is okay, but not awesome. Though I might sorta like it, I'll never wear anything very bright or very pastel in a mundane setting. In the SCA, in addition to my usual colors, I wear a lot of celery green, bright red, and rust orange/red. Animals: cats, hedgehogs, butterflies (my device is a green butterfly), salamanders, frogs, turtles, chickadees, owls, jellyfish, squid/ocotpi, dinosaurs, mushrooms, moon, bluebirds, blue birds, snails, Plants: POPPIES!!! Orange California poppies : ) , borage, rose, columbine, oak (especially acorns), holly, strawberries, cherries.
I love bluegrass and traditional northern European music. I generally like anything with a punk element, metal is also good. I like obscure folk fusion (Tyr, Brigid Boden, Tempest, etc).
Tastes/foods: I’m allergic to caffeine, I can’t have whole nuts, ground nuts are fine but not a treat. I LOVE: BLACK CURRENT!!!! RASPBERRY! PEACH! ROSE! almond, vanilla, scotch, ANYTHING smoky or smoked, chanterelle mushrooms, any other mushrooms. Unusual flavors are awesome, I like bitter flavors, herbal flavors, and interesting combinations. I adore hot sauce, especially habanero. And boozes! I am very interested in tasting a variety of types of vanilla (Madagascar, Tahiti, etc) and flavored salt. I’m excited about smoked paprika, or any other interesting spices. I am also highly entertained by new local alcohol, there are a lot of interesting breweries, wineries, and distilleries. I’m a huge fan of odd kinds of cheese as well. I love gummy candy.
Things my kitties would enjoy:
Catnip toys
A crappy old tablet or digital picture frame that plays video. Pyra loves to watch youtube videos and catch digital fishes. I am not so enthused about her doing this on my laptop that I need for work
Flea drops (well, they enjoy not having fleas, not the actual drops)
Elvie would like some CUDDLES PLEASE. I am busy, she would like more loves.
A waterproof, outside kitty-cave with a HEATED inside. Either a light or a heating pad that has wiring/plug that’s safe to leave plugged in during Oregon wint