Baby!Scorpius' Beauxbatons uniform did not have any hope of coming out. The fabric was slippy, slidey, wrinkled if you looked at it, resisted tailor's chalk, and deformed at every attempt to mark or cut it. The entire piece of fabric would have had to be--carefully--fused to a piece of lightweight interfacing before pattern pieces could even come ( Read more... )

*spent the past week watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy with the oddsprings, who were suitably enthralled ( Read more... )

Was watching M*A*S*H ( Read more... )

Most of you by now know how I answer my cell phone, and why--but just in case, see my phone answering formula here. To my relief, it seems to be sinking in, in most quarters. I get one or two unwelcome calls a month now, instead of several per week--or per day ( Read more... )