Ugh
Well, a lot has happened. I'm coming up on three months after my impression of the Human Clamshell and the Hospital Stay from Hell. I haven't written very much for a while, but it's been mostly boring and hanging around at my mum's while my gut takes its sweet time healing. I'm feeling pretty frustrated at present, largely due to not being able to do anything very much and having limited energy but still mentally able enough to get bored as hell. Also I'm not sure I have any interest in staying on here, but I'd like to keep some kind of blog going, if only to blather a bit on it. It'd be useful to have a better facility for photographs and links, I think. I do a lot of talking about craft stuff I'm doing and it'd be nice to have pictures of what I'm working on.
Other stuff has been sliding along. My aunt has invited my mum and I up to Wales for Christmas, which will be kind of nice, except we'll be travelling over half of Yule, so that I will end up on the other end tired and in no mood to do any kind of ritual, which is a real pain in the ass. At least I will be able to go to the Octagon carol service before we go. I've agreed to do a reading for that, but getting to chapel has been hard - it's okay when I was in Norwich, the bus was about 15 minutes, but now it's an hour each way starting at 9am and it's a lot to do on a Sunday morning. I do miss it, though.
Ye Gods, I'm so boring I'm boring myself. I think it's the combination of living at Mum's and still not being able to do much, though I've signed up for silversmithing next year, seeing as I always enjoyed it and I could use something to do that's not fibre related. I've still got a couple of project ideas I had that combined techniques from other disciplines with silversmithing - one was using basketweaving, one was papercutting, one was cross-stitch(though I've still got some technical points to test out on that one). I was also thinking it was time I tried out making a box. I like the idea of a square box with a cutwork insert in the lid - I considered an octagonal one to start, but the complexity of filing the joints to precise 45 degree angles made me want to cry. I might set a cabochon in the centre of the lid. Depends what's fire resistant and looks good. I'll think about it further once I start back at classes in January.
And then I have the patchwork quilt I've been working on for years in Christmas prints - green, cream and red. I worked out yesterday it'd take about 300 rounds to finish it, and I have about 60 so far. This is going to be taking a while.
Other stuff has been sliding along. My aunt has invited my mum and I up to Wales for Christmas, which will be kind of nice, except we'll be travelling over half of Yule, so that I will end up on the other end tired and in no mood to do any kind of ritual, which is a real pain in the ass. At least I will be able to go to the Octagon carol service before we go. I've agreed to do a reading for that, but getting to chapel has been hard - it's okay when I was in Norwich, the bus was about 15 minutes, but now it's an hour each way starting at 9am and it's a lot to do on a Sunday morning. I do miss it, though.
Ye Gods, I'm so boring I'm boring myself. I think it's the combination of living at Mum's and still not being able to do much, though I've signed up for silversmithing next year, seeing as I always enjoyed it and I could use something to do that's not fibre related. I've still got a couple of project ideas I had that combined techniques from other disciplines with silversmithing - one was using basketweaving, one was papercutting, one was cross-stitch(though I've still got some technical points to test out on that one). I was also thinking it was time I tried out making a box. I like the idea of a square box with a cutwork insert in the lid - I considered an octagonal one to start, but the complexity of filing the joints to precise 45 degree angles made me want to cry. I might set a cabochon in the centre of the lid. Depends what's fire resistant and looks good. I'll think about it further once I start back at classes in January.
And then I have the patchwork quilt I've been working on for years in Christmas prints - green, cream and red. I worked out yesterday it'd take about 300 rounds to finish it, and I have about 60 so far. This is going to be taking a while.