A bit towards the talks about fannish cross-stitching... but does Shakespeare count as fannish?

My progress on the Shakespeare sampler by Yvonne Horn:

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I finished watching the Takarazuka version of Twelfth Night and enjoyed it a lot. They've got the right spirit for this play, I think. Also a bonus: Viola and Sebastian do kind of look like one another. Orsino is young and coltish and amusing, Viola is very nice, but unexpectedly I most loved Sir Toby. Unexpectedly - because he turned out to be ( Read more... )

I am having a spontaneous weekend/holiday in the middle of the week (I started early? We're to have that Ridiculous Holiday on Friday). I think I needed that ( Read more... )

Apparently my characters are going to have a row. Good for them; not sure whether it's good for me, and whether I will manage to finish this story. I'm surely going to try, though ( Read more... )

For all my chattiness, I am a rather secretive person. And I am at my most secretive when learning something new. Because I am afraid that I'll just start things and never finish them, and that's nothing to boast of. And also because I am a rather slow learner, and baby steps are nothing to boast about: the only situation where you can go all "Look ( Read more... )

I finished the job ( Read more... )

I am not a very good knitter. I am also not a very good doll owner - I can never manage to make doll stuff I would like to make - but still I try.


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Feeling really, really down. As in, nothing seems to give me pleasure, and I feel myself unnecessary, directionless and generally a waste of space ( Read more... )

Spent Sunday cross-stitching (I bought a new kit and started it right away: photos  of my daily progress are here - picasaweb.google.ru/taelle/AutumnComingRuYi#) and watching Criminal Minds, catching up with season 5. I have now watched up to 5.08 (and decided I don't want to end the day by 5.09) - and they were good, but 5.07 reminded me too much ( Read more... )

Haven't done the state of cross-stitching post in a while.

Weekday project:


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