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This is Clothesprog's fault.
1. What are your favorite materials to work with?
Wool, because of how it can be steam molded and shaped, Silk taffeta because it's just so yummy.
2. What is your dream event or photoshoot opportunity?
I'd like an early 17th century chateau to be able to have a photo shoot with all my Musketeer-age costumes.
3. What is your favorite tool to use?
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I carry a postcard around with me. No, not a real, touch-it-with-your-fingers-look-with-your-eyes postcard, but a visual memory, from a Christmas long ago.
It was so long ago, I have trouble remembering if I was 7 or 8 or 9; my sister was old enough to talk (barely!) so I must have been around 8. My father was in the Air Force, so we were used ( Read more... ) -
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We performed an act of magic last night. We started with a dead tree on a stand, to which we had previously added lights. It took us several days to get the mental energy to perform the final parts of the spell, which involved two large boxes of ornaments and several hours to put them on the tree, but at the end the plain dead tree on a stand ( Read more... ) -
First day of Holiday Lockdown
Today is the first day of our 14 day Holiday Lockdown. Both of us, both daughters, son-in-law, and extra adult child-for-the-holidays, are going into deep quarentine until Dec. 23, with the idea that at that point, we can all 6 of us spend the 23rd through the 26th together and even hug each other. I haven't hugged my children since the first ( Read more... ) -
Easter
Being a good Wiccan girl, I don’t usually celebrate Easter, but this year the themes of death and resurrection are very fitting. And so to all of us, let us celebrate the hope that the Darkness will fade and the Light will eventually prevail. -
Books as building blocks of the psyche
Blame Cupcake_goth for this post. Her post on books as the building blocks of one’s taste in genre fiction percolated in my little brain and morphed into books as the building blocks of one’s psyche. Specifically, my psyche ( Read more... ) -
Decisions, decisions
I either need one more week or no customer sewing this week. I have a perfectly good outfit to wear to the Vampire Masquerade Ball, but I want to make something new. I have 5 yards of a lightweight red and black brocade that I want to make a skirt and bolero to match the vest I made for W out of it. I also need to make a black brocade waist ( Read more... ) -
Helps if I sign in....
I've been moping for days that it seems as dead here as LJ's become, when it occurred to me to check and see if I was logged into my account. Sure enough, I wasn't, and upon signing in, there you all were again. So glad. I know I don't post much, but it really makes me happy to read all of yours. -
A more cheerful post
I had a perfectly lovely time at the SCA Arts and Sciences/Rapier Championships event this weekend. I started out more than a bit down, but that soon changed. The event was in a hotel right on the ocean beach and our room had a view over the dunes to the water, which was lovely. The only flaw was that W had to work until 8 pm, so I traveled with ( Read more... ) -
Just a quick update
My father died Jan. 12, 2018, after an 18 month battle with lung cancer. He was ready to go, had told me that he had accomplished everything that he wanted to in life, and thanks to an experimental treatment, we had the summer and early fall before he was too weak to do much, and I spent a lot of time with him and got to say everything that I ( Read more... )