Self-care Saturday
Bought some fir and spruce essential oils; the fir is a re-stock and the spruce is new. Sometimes I wonder, do I really need fir, spruce, pine, cedar, and cypress oils? Then I decide yes I do, they're all slightly different from each other. Just like I need orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, grapefruit, bergamot, and yuzu. They're all citrus, but they're not all the same.
Started re-reading Piranesi, because ever since I mentioned it a couple weeks ago I couldn't stop thinking about it. Unlike Susanna Clarke's doorstopper of a debut novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (1,006 pages), Piranesi is pretty short (245 pages).
Went to World Market for incense, but they didn't have any that I liked. I should just buy some Nippon Kodo online; even their budget brand, Morningstar, smells much better than that janky Indian stuff. Not only does it smell better, but the sticks are pure incense without a wooden core. So instead I bought 3 small scented candles. I also bought bags of dark chocolate Tim Tams and matcha Quadrattini, because have you even been to World Market if you don't leave with vaguely exotic cookies?
I want to make my next cross stitch project some mini designs, because the tarot card designs I've been doing are pretty big. I don't think I've put anything in the photos for scale, but they're much bigger than an actual tarot card, probably 5 or 6 times bigger. I found a pattern seller on Etsy (TheStitchPatterns) that had lots of mini designs, and they were having a sale on bundles of different patterns. I bought a bundle of about 80 fine art patterns for $11.99, and printed out 5 different Van Gogh ones to start with. Because the patterns were so cheap, and since I don't need to buy any floss--I'm just going to use my existing stash, I'm sure I can find close enough matches to anything I don't already have--I decided to spring for some of those 6x6" squares of aida stretched over frames. I just have to be very careful to center the designs, otherwise it will bother me way too much. I bought a 3-pack each of white, black, and oatmeal. I wonder if I could use gold acrylic to approximate a frame around the edges? I'll have to play around with that.
Made a year of the rabbit collage.
Started re-reading Piranesi, because ever since I mentioned it a couple weeks ago I couldn't stop thinking about it. Unlike Susanna Clarke's doorstopper of a debut novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (1,006 pages), Piranesi is pretty short (245 pages).
Went to World Market for incense, but they didn't have any that I liked. I should just buy some Nippon Kodo online; even their budget brand, Morningstar, smells much better than that janky Indian stuff. Not only does it smell better, but the sticks are pure incense without a wooden core. So instead I bought 3 small scented candles. I also bought bags of dark chocolate Tim Tams and matcha Quadrattini, because have you even been to World Market if you don't leave with vaguely exotic cookies?
I want to make my next cross stitch project some mini designs, because the tarot card designs I've been doing are pretty big. I don't think I've put anything in the photos for scale, but they're much bigger than an actual tarot card, probably 5 or 6 times bigger. I found a pattern seller on Etsy (TheStitchPatterns) that had lots of mini designs, and they were having a sale on bundles of different patterns. I bought a bundle of about 80 fine art patterns for $11.99, and printed out 5 different Van Gogh ones to start with. Because the patterns were so cheap, and since I don't need to buy any floss--I'm just going to use my existing stash, I'm sure I can find close enough matches to anything I don't already have--I decided to spring for some of those 6x6" squares of aida stretched over frames. I just have to be very careful to center the designs, otherwise it will bother me way too much. I bought a 3-pack each of white, black, and oatmeal. I wonder if I could use gold acrylic to approximate a frame around the edges? I'll have to play around with that.
Made a year of the rabbit collage.