wheee!

[extemporanea]

One batch of marking down, two more to go, four hours' sleep last night. I am high on sleep dep and the incredible relief of killing the shambling monstrosity that is a foot-high stack of Frankenstein scripts. Also, it's bucketing with madly unseasonable rain, my garden is happy, and I'm all exuberant with the simple joy of damp. (See Childhood,

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[tngr_spacecadet]

I feel better now.

Also, the courtroom door today vaguely reminded me of the Tardis. I took a photograph of it. My advocate may think I am odd but he is young.

[extemporanea]

So do I - the contents of my handbag may make strong men blanch, but at least I am not alone in my Tardis fixation.

I love your icon, btw.

[origamitiger]

I am thinking of a meme where you photograph the contents of your hand bag. I dislike carrying a bag and mine is quite large to fit in my walking stick.

[extemporanea]

Blog Your Handbag! the new craze. Actually I think simply listing the contents is more fun, but then I'm a word-person rather than a picture-person.

It aamuses me no end that my Evil Landlord always categorically refuses to dig in my bag for anything, even if I've explicitly instructed him to do so. He fears the bag. I don't know why - everyone knows that bag-alligators are a myth.

[mac1235]

You don't keep false teeth there? Ugh! The memories...

Men and handbags?!

[first_fallen]

Yes, whenever I ask Phleep to bring me something from my handbag, he just brings the whole bag. He maintains that he can never find things in my handbag. Amazing how he always manages to find the box of sweets :).

I don't have a bag alligator, but I do have a little frog keyring that croaks loudly when you open his mouth.

[anonymous]

I'm totally with you on the Stuff in my Handbag thing, and am on a constant search to find one that doesn't look like a Mom Bag but still has enough anal-retentive compartments so I can find everything. Plus it must have a long enough strap to lay crossways across my body, so I don't mess up my back carrying it around.

You're the only other person I've met who also routinely has a tape measure in her purse.

I've actually seen a set of interconnected pouches to keep in your purse, so you can put all the small bits in them, and then transfer to set to another purse (if you're the type who has different purses for different outfits or whatever). While I don't go that far, I'm definitely a fan of the "little pounches inside the big purse."

Mine sounds similar to yours, only replace "kumihimo" with "knitting needles." I also have to have my Palm and keyboard, so I can work anywhere (and have my Books to Buy list at my fingertips!).

Cheers, Dayle

Kumihimo!

[first_fallen]

I have a book on this that I bought aaaages ago. I've never learned as I don't really need curtain ties (the only use I can see for them) and I don't tend to go around in Japanese tradition dress. What do you do with your thingies (obi-jimes?)?

Re: Kumihimo!

[anonymous]

Largely cords for SCA awards--our Kingdom has a goal of giving out all medallions on handmade cords.

Lacing or couching for any kind of garb. (At least, I'm not picky. Lucet is fun, but I prefer to do kumihimo, and I've never learned fingerloop braiding, and if anyone actually is picky enough to say "Hey, that's a Japanese-style cord on a cotehardie, I think it's their problem, not mine!)

Drawstrings for handmade bags, etc.

Eyeglass holders.

To wrap presents (I'm currently doing a white-and-silver one for an award cord, but I keep thinking it looks very Christmassy).

Pretty much anything else you'd want a cord for. :-)

Cheers, Dayle

[anonymous]

"This was meant" - clearly you mean the knitting? Or the handbag? (Both.)

I share the Handbag Bug, and the desire for it to contain everything I could possibly need (including knitting) and then some (more knitting? spare yarn? all my tools). The fact that I am an Official Purveyor of Knitting Goods means I have to battle temptation from Purveyors of Knitting Bags at every turn. Frequently I fail. Beloved keeps suggesting that I shouldn't really be stocking too many bags, because "no knitter would ever want more than one bag". Really, you'd think he'd never met a woman.

signed,
"*So* not Anonymous"

[egadfly]

I could never find anything in the jam-packed space

Well, there's your problem, then: all that jam.

(Someone had to say it.)

[extemporanea]

Good heavens, I never thought of that. *feels silly*

Alternatively: you loon!