Just checking my Etsy shop stats this morning -- it's the best I can do for now, since the beginning of the semester means I haven't had time to knit OR photograph any of my pitifully-few new things to add to the shop ( Read more... )

I found two sets of nifty old Czech glass buttons in a shop called kalliedesigns on Etsy--little squares in a creamy pink and intense French blue. Had some fun matching them up with yarn . . . everything's in the shop, http://www.squirrelmoonknits.com


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I've been dinking with this thing for quite a while--trying to get the self-striping colors to match up on the sleeves and body--and the whole time, I was absolutely sure I was knitting a 60cmish kind of size.

Imagine my surprise when I finished seaming the pieces and, um, not so 60cmish after all.


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. . . love it. Okay, not the heat: that's miserable, even indoors with the AC cranked down. But the freedom? Oh, yeah. Good stuff. It was lovely to have the 12-month administrative contract's salary, but having summers pretty much all to myself honestly is worth the pay cut ( Read more... )

However, the post office just called to say that I have an express package from Japan to pick up (why, no, my post office does not bother to DELIVER express packages except on normal route schedules, but at least they let me know there's something waiting for me). This will be the big box from Celga, so I guess we're about to find out whether ( Read more... )

Nope, instead I'm having an oldskool Saiyuki anime marathon (omg, I could listen to Ishida voice Hakkai 24/7 and still melt every time he says a line) and putting some stuff in the Etsy shop. The current "Baligate" debacle is making me think that I might want to have a venue somewhere else, in case Etsy really does turn into eBay Lite. With that ( Read more... )

. . . and all that jazz.

In the big TA-DAH!!! news, I liberated this awesomely gorgeous old-school guy from eBay. I think his name is Dare, though occasionally I look at him and say Elie instead. Hmmm.


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I don't know that either these names or these looks are permanent, but let's give them a whirl, hm?

Giuliano is capable of being both demure and, well, not.


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I been doing me some buying in the Marketplace. It may be some kind of reaction against the recast/bootleg furor: a way of expressing my trust in known-quantity, experienced BJD collectors who sell some of their dolls from time to time and who have an established record of fair dealing and honesty. It may be my late-winter/early-spring ( Read more... )

At this rate, I'll feel justified in buying more yarn one of these days . . . ;-)

Peanut Brittle: the yarn is wool, handpainted by DyeabolicalYarns on Etsy

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