The embroidery on Mari’s tippets went much better once I’d interfaced the ground fabric and put it in a hoop. Got the work done, the tippets constructed, and the lot in the mail by the end of March. Even got Thomas to take pictures, and will post them if he ever sends them to me.

Working steadily but not nearly fast enough on Regencies for Costume ( Read more... )

One of the peculiar side benefits to working for a biomedical testing company is the periodic opportunity to sell your bodily fluids for cash and continental breakfast. The even weirder corollary is that they pull the phlebotomists from the regular-employees-that-happen-to-be-licensed, so it may well be your software engineer or QA analyst doing ( Read more... )

Equally useless in the morning, but somewhat less frantic than last time. Unfortunately, the traffic was worse and I got there barely in time for the lecture. Which was incredibly entertaining, despite being entirely 19th century. This week was about Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, or more accurately it was about ( Read more... )

Survived the Ball, saw the Star Wars exhibit, slammed right into Thanksgiving.
( My Holiday Weekend )