I have been wanting a "pocket" like the ones in the Norrbotten folk costumes from 1912 for a while now. Tonight I realized that I need something semi formal to wear to K&H's wedding in not quite two weeks. Since folk costume counts as semi-formal or formal wear, I am using the excuse to make myself one. However, since I don't actually come from ( Read more... )

(finally making time to post about this)

Last weekend was a fun adventure--Mom and I drove Thursday evening as far as my friend K's house, which took five hours, because we dropped lord_kjar off at the airport on our way out of town. Twice. (We got to the airport the first time, and he said "Where's my back pack?". It was right where he left it, on the ( Read more... )

Today was reasonably productive--I managed to finish putting away everything from the event, did four loads of laundry, and spent a fair bit of time on projects ( Read more... )

When I first met lord_kjar he was wearing a lovely second-hand red wool tunic which is just enough too small for him, especially in the arms, that it gave the illusion of him being much younger than he is--since he looked much like he had only just had a growth spurt and become too long for the tunic. However, the fabric is gorgeous, and I have long wanted ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the final exam for the Swedish class I have been taking. I was not as prepared for it as I might have been, since I wound up missing a fair few class meetings due to travel this term, but it mostly went ok anyway. I did have problems with one section, which was meant to be testing us on our abilities to use the correct reflexive or ( Read more... )