All the serious updates will have to wait, since I feel like doing a meme.

( Meme time! )

I haven't done a proper update for ages! It just that I've been extremely busy with work and sewing and studying and etc. However, I thought that this could be a good time to show a little something I did back on August.

My bf and I decided to attend a medieval handcraft market in the end of August, but the problem was, that neither of us really had ( Read more... )

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.


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I've been spending the last three weeks sewing the cap of St. Birgitta, as pictured in in the article by Camilla Luise Dahl and Isis  in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4. Earlier, the cap of St. Birgitta was considered to be alike with the men's coifs,  but Dahl and Sturtewagen argue quite strongly, that the cap is actually similar to women's ( Read more... )

The best Twilight comic ever!

This summer I'm working as a museum guide at the Seurasaari open-air museum in Helsinki. My work is basically to guard the museum houses and tell people about them. I get to do all kind of handicrafts all summer and enjoy the weather. Plus I have really nice outfit, a traditional Finnish folk costume (not a canonized national costume). I just had ( Read more... )

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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon ( Read more... )

My friend and my sister are coming here today for sleepover with lots of food and romantic comedies. However, I would much rather be by myself, cleaning the house and shortening three pair of pants I bought couple of weeks ago. What's wrong with me?

I decided to try to cheer myself by writing a little bit about my portfolio work for the craft science as a minority subject. I'm actually quite proud of it, considering how little time I had to do it. Of course, I didn't get in, but that's quite alright since they only accept two students per year.

Sooo, I decided to do the gown of St. Elizabeth of ( Read more... )