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Today crafting took a bit of a back step due to my needing to catch up with my cleaning. So by 11o'clock the bathroom, kitchen and living room with adjoining stairs and hallway were cleaned. This did lend itself randomly to making my crafting a bit more organised as I cleared away all the things that I no longer required. Now I have neat little ( Read more... )

Having started a lot of projects yesterday I felt the urge to finish something today. So I set about looking at the crafts that could be made as efficiently as possible.

I dipped the Hedgehog spines a bit more. They might be ready or I might need one more grading of colour. I've not quite decided.

I then finished the Rabbit Hat which by a slight ( Read more... )

After last weeks MOT shocker I had a weekend with Bats and Zoo and lovely people. This week I decided to make myself a todo list and start on the pile of crafts I had that needed getting done ( Read more... )

I took my mock up apart and used it to cut out a load of pieces that I've now pieces together. Made sleeves of flowiness and put the thing on. This is the point when I realised that I had made a slight error. I had underused the seam allowance ( Read more... )

So I have actually managed to be organised for this Maelstrom and all, Yes that is right ALL, my sewing is actually already done. *Smug* This is of course ignoring the sewing of armour to trousers which I always do at events ( Read more... )

A troll named Sue

I started a new rpg game a while back with a vague idea of being something different and breaking what other people have called my tendency to have short characters (Halflings and such). Well actually I just went "oooh trolls! Sounds interesting..."

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I get the urge every now and then to challenge myself and make something I needs in a very short space of time. Usually for larp but also for random other occasions. Often this will, due to time constraints and my ability to find a pattern I like, involve me taking apart something that I've worn out and like in order to replicate said piece of ( Read more... )

So midnightoak and lucian_albrecht are coming this evening so that we can enmasse travel down to Monmouth tomorrow for gran's celebration of the big 90 ( Read more... )

Today was an ish day at work. Meaning I was only thereish mentally for most of the day. The rest of the time I was sitting with Kerrigan composing yet more Artificer Poetry which will no doubt be aired at somepoint ( Read more... )