Why are they 'so expensive?'It's a good reality check, both for people who don't try to earn money from handmade goods and those who do ( Read more... )

Does anyone local have an easy to set up 10 ft by 10 ft canopy/tent/shelter thingy? I need one for June 5, and I'd rather borrow than spend $100-200 if I can avoid it.

Originally posted here: http://hrafn.dreamwidth.org/509798.html. Pick your poison and comment there.

Which, if you are local, you probably already know about. So let me tell you again!

First, we are open for memberships FOR REALS and we have December classes up for registration.

Second, I - well, I am teaching (or co-teaching) a couple of those classes:

Make Your Own Artificial Tree, because when Gui and I were going over ideas for December, ( Read more... )

More info about what's going on next weekend. Besides me panicking about setting up and being around hundreds of people I don't know in unfamiliar surroundings and oh my god what will I eat and should I wear this skirt or that one?

I have lifted the post below in its entirety from Cat Valente, so all phrases like "who is me" are her, referring to ( Read more... )

I cannot reach:

-my mail host
-certain parts of FB
-my blog
-various and sundry other sites, like Flickr

Yet I can get to DW and LJ and FB's main page, and parts of the Googleverse, and and and.

And I wanted to go update the blog, BUT NOOOOOOO.

So I will write about it here instead. Or first. Or something.

So there's a con coming up soon ( ( Read more... )

What I would like to do this evening ( Read more... )

I'm taking a clothing making class, which has meant taking all my measurements and getting a pattern and all that jazz ( Read more... )

Two posts, which I'm not excerpting from because they are worth reading in their entirety, and also I am feeling lazy about it:

Class and handcrafts, with lots and lots of detail in the comments about the real actual cost of crafts often looked at (by people who don't do them) as trivial and just not worth much. Most of the discussion is on ( Read more... )