The road to Helheim is paved with good intentions.Call me Sela. Call me Rusilla. Don't tell me I can't pick up a shield or a spear, don't tell me I prefer kitchen or hearth, don't tell me I want to play a "different" game, or that I'd be more willing to work in a company that caters to my inherent feminine need to have children ( Read more... )

Crossposted just about everywhere... I don't have any pics to speak of yet, all on my MIL's computer and she's in Sudan so who knows. But here's some impressions.The Desert, I ( Read more... )

I felt guilty for a while that apart from work (where I write all the time), and the occasional other random thing, I haven't been writing much ( Read more... )

Here's our day at the Spoutwood Fairy Festival.

How was your first of May?

:D

This is the new yarn. If I can get more I may; right now it's just 10 skeins. This is "Roane" and "Tam-Lin." Up in the shop soon, just wanted to show you guys the total smooshy gorgeousness.



I have a life outside yarn, I swear...

I'm actually about to close the yarn club out - by tomorrow I'll have a full group plus a couple of extras - actually more than I thought would sign up, which is wonderful.

If any of you want in and just haven't signed up yet, let me know ASAP and I will hold a couple of spots for you.

So first and most importantly, it is my lovely wife's birthday today. Happy hippy hoppy birthday, kimatyza!!!! I love you!!!

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Second, the yarn club is filling up... over half the spots are spoken for already and I can't really do much over 10 people I don't think. Whoa! I'm really excited. I've seen a draft of Mary Anne's folktale, and it's ( Read more... )

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From the comments:

"One of my favourite songs. Reminds me of a girl friend when I was young. My mum went to see the statue of the Lorelei on her rock in the Rhine.

She said It's a bit pornographic. Then again, I don't suppose you would crash your ship for a nice girl in sensible shoes."

OK, here's what I've got so far.

Kepler - parchment tan and dark ink brown
Curie - radioactive green. WHAT?
Hawking - deep space midnight blue and chrome grey
Newton - apple red and dark ink brown
Sagan - deep space midnight blue and Cosmos logo orange
Goeppert-Mayer - computer paper green and dot matrix grey

LOL

OK, make up some more.

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