I recently lost my favorite customized mint tin, a vintage-NYC design. For various reasons (mostly because I was testing out new techniques) I wound up re-making that tin at least three times over the last couple of years. Hence my reluctance to do it yet another time, at least until I'm 100% sure it's lost for good ( Read more... )

My plush kipper was picked as a Featured Project over on Craftster! I've made Hot New Projects several times but this is the first time I've been picked for this. Well if that doesn't just make my week ( Read more... )

...I'll be back for breakfast.

(No. 10 in my series of soft toys.)

Meet Harry.


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I managed the first new bits of writing I've done in over a year*: two Red Dwarf drabbles! (Take a look at the whole page...it's a lovely little collection from various people.) Don't know if I'll be doing more fic, but I really enjoyed getting to play around with words again.

[* "The Dusk Descending," much as I love it, doesn't fully count as new ( Read more... )

I've just realized that I just missed one one-year anniversary of my first stuffed toy, completed a year ago yesterday! That was the little stuffed bat, stitched from an adorable pattern by Carolyn Vosburg Hall ( Read more... )

No. 8 in my series of stuffed toys.

My recent Red Dwarf-watching binge--yes, I gave in, I'm a new-minted fan--got me wishing I had a goldfish or two. Thing is, I'm terrible at keeping fish.

So this was the best I could do.


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One interesting fallout of my new-found fondness for Red Dwarf (yes I gave in, I've gotten all the way through Series VI by this point) is that I can now go back and re-watch all of The Brittas Empire, much of which I admit I watched the first time around with considerable use of the FF button.

Sort of like what happened to me with Wilde, which I ( Read more... )

Because I can't get over how adorable these two are. It also marks the first time that I've ever truly gotten interested in an established couple (not that I've anything against established couples; I just tend to gravitate towards UST). I'd never seen The Brittas Empire before and just recently caught up with it. It's probably not a fandom I'll ( Read more... )