( crafty things I've been up to for the past month or 2 )

( pictures and such )

One of the things I've discovered over the past couple of days during brief periods of procrastination was this site: Spoonflower.com. This place lets you design and create short-run (3 yards [1 meter] or less) fabric.

I've ordered a swatch (an 8" square) of some quilt labels I designed, to see how stuff looks and feels before I commit to making ( Read more... )

It seems the Turkish shoe manufacturer that made the shoes that were hurled at President Bush has received about 300,000 orders for the Model 271 shoe, now renamed "Bye-bye Bush."  His normal sales of that model of shoe is 20,000.

In other news, the bird feeder we put outside our office window at work has attracted a lovely pair of cardinals and a ( Read more... )

So I have a website where I tout my various skills, and every once in a while, I get an inquiry about airbrushing something. Well, today, I've been in negotiations with a professional wrestler from the UK that needs a new pair of pants. Spandex pants. With dragons painted on them. Like the wrestler RVD. (Like I'm supposed to know who the hell "RVD ( Read more... )

I'm back to the grind again after a week of unpaid work around the house. I probably got 25% of the things I wanted to get accomplished done.

I have to come up with magic and rituals for the coven retreat this coming weekend (this weekend didn't seem so bad when we scheduled it last November, but Geebus!, it's incredibly inconvenient right now!), ( Read more... )

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The weather continues to disappoint after that tease of a few warm days a couple of weeks ago. We haven't broken 70 degrees since then. Mostly it's been in the 40's and 50's during the day; coat and gloves weather, and we still need to heat both houses, as we're at or below freezing at night still.

In the true spirit of procrastination, I've ( Read more... )