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I am jumping ship to dreamwidth, as, it seems, are most people.
I don't know if I will use it in the same way as I used livejournal (partly because DEAR GOD it is a terrible looking website and also I don't know who else is actually going to use it), but at the moment I will hope that it will fill the hole.
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So this is a little bit random, but I think I have identified the maker of a piece in the V and A. Well, not identified as such, because they had her name (Miss G M Hart), but suggest nothing else by her is known. Having done some googling and article reading and census hunting, I think she is Gertrude Mary Hart, who married Frederick James ( Read more... ) -
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I think kindness is my favourite virtue. It's so easy to be kind and yet it can make a huge difference to other people. I worked for the catering company of an arts venue in Farnham for a couple of years while I was at university. There was a regular Thursday night even for which I worked the bar. Most of the people who came to that event were ( Read more... ) -
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My grandmother died today. She would have been a hundred in June. I'm sad that I have been thinking "what a pity she didn't make it" rather than being glad of those things that she did have. A life so long has many sadnesses but also so much that's good. She had three children, the eldest being my dad. She was married to my grandfather for ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a while since I posted much of my work, so here's a glance at what I've been up to recently. As always, I have things up at Etsy.
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Doing custom pieces is good. It kicks me into working even when I don't want to. Also, I tend to fill the period of nothingness when waiting for the etching to happen with doing something vaguely useful. So today I have made two pieces (well, technically three, but one was a bit of a failure). One was another Curious Crow ring (like this) for ( Read more... )
