Now... as may or may not be public knowledge, I'm engaged to the lovely niwikki, who is a cast member at the Southern California Renaissance Faire. She's expecting me, once I'm on the appropriate side of the Atlantic Ocean, to join her in this - not that I have any objections at all. Such whimsy is worth enjoying even without spousal encouragement ( Read more... )

My mum's been getting Croft Mill's catalogue since forever. Certainly as long as I can remember. It's a wonderful catalogue, as much for the rambling descriptions of the cloth you can buy as for the cloth itself. They're put together audio-typed from a bloke with a Dictaphone, and it's been the same bloke all along; a typical example runs along ( Read more... )