Merry Christmas! Hope everyone had a nice day. ^_^

It’s been a somewhat busy week so it’s nice that I can relax now. Monday evening, my brother and I dropped by neoangelwink and loudnbothered’s place for a few minutes so I could give them their card and present. Tuesday was a business meeting and lunch, which went a few hours, followed by a little last minute shopping. ( Read more... )

I finished a crochet project but haven’t taken a picture yet. I also had my first experience trying to steam block a crochet piece, which entails stretching and pinning it to the proper shape, steaming it, and leaving it for a while. It turned out to be quite effective for turning an irregular blob into a rectangle ( Read more... )

Ugh. I made the little empire-waisted bodice from the doll dress I was crocheting and it doesn’t even come close to closing over the Barbie doll’s bust although I used the sizes of hook and thread specified. It’s like an inch too small. o_O; I went back to check my stitches and it looks like I crochet too tightly, I’ve got one more stitch per inch ( Read more... )

Working on some stuff to distract myself from the craziness of the stock market these days. I started crocheting one of those doll dresses I posted last time, the one in the middle of the pic of 3 pink gowns. It’s moving along and I finished the shawl part earlier. ^_^ I got a couple of huge balls of white crochet thread yesterday and I’m working ( Read more... )

Well, I’ve redone most of my cosplay.com gallery now so maybe I’ll actually catch up with posting photos there soon. Still have a couple of albums and costumes to add plus a bunch of older photos that I never got around to uploading like nearly all of the PSOH group stuff from AB. ^_ ( Read more... )

There was a pretty bad thunderstorm here overnight and at the time, I figured it was worse than usual but nothing too out of the ordinary. Turns out I was completely wrong ( Read more... )