I finished my apron, and it is folksy femme-tacular! It's made of muslin, with a drawstring tie. It has two pockets, each with a pencil-size side compartment. I crocheted the lace with some cotton thread, and the faux embroidery is drawn with fabric markers. I got the designs from an old communist-printed manual on Hungarian folk embroidery ( Read more... )

Snagged from ps238principal. These are too brilliant. Must share.
Some "remastered" Quicktime trailers for you: "The Shining", which is by far the best of the lot. Then there's a new look at "West Side Story" and a much darker version of "Titanic." Amazing what editing can do, eh? :)

For the last several months I've been itching to own, and wear, an apron. Not a modern, functional apron, like you might wear while cooking in a bistro, doing leatherwork, or weeding the garden. No, I want a frilly, embroidered, ultra-femme Donna-Reed-meets-Romanian-folkdancer apron. With pockets. I want a kötényI prefer wearing skirts, but I'd ( Read more... )

( Parades, Art, and a review of Eternal )

( Cut for sanity's sake! )

Woohoo! We're hitting the road in about an hour, and driving straight through to Atlanta. Then we have to check-in at registration, get our parade passes, check into the hotel, change into costume, and hit the Emerald Rose "An Evening in Bree" concert ( Read more... )

Top 10 reasons why I prefer to paint digitally, using Painter and my Wacom tablet:

10. I can paint in whatever attire I want, and not get it covered in paint!

9. I can paint with my hair down, and never accidentally dip it in my paint palette as I bend over.

8. I can paint with watercolor, pastel, oil paint, ink, and acrylic all on the same ( Read more... )

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I'm finally making my own mood theme! Yay ( Read more... )

Yup, this pretty much sums up my day. Got this in my inbox from the co-worker in charge of maintaining this accursed piece of software...

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