Man, these shows. They give me all the feels.

( Young Justice spoilers )

My jump rings arrived yesterday! I promptly dived into the first of the three projects I got rings for - a Byzantine weave copper necklace. It's the same weave as my anklet from a couple weeks ago, but this time since the ring size is correct, what the weave was designed for, it's much tighter and more stable and looks much better!

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Got the tote bag done! I'm very pleased with how it turned out - I'll transfer my stuff from my battered old purse over to the new one after lunch!

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So thanks to spending my morning finishing the new JD Robb book, (which was awesome, btw), I got a later start on the bag than I'd planned. But I still managed to make some nice progress! (And took the opportunity to rewatch the Star Trek 2009 movie while I was at it!)

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I got fabric last night to make a new tote bag to use as a purse - mine is falling to pieces. The pattern is actually the first pattern I ever made, and it makes a great purse for a pack rat like me. I'll start working on it after I get some chores done, so there'll be in progress updates coming!

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So I've decided to follow joyfulfeather's lead and start making chain mail jewelry. In order to play around with it and see if I enjoyed it enough, I picked up some cheap jump rings at Michael's, a couple pairs of pliers at Joann's, and played around a little with the Byzantine pattern from the chain mail book joyfulfeather loaned me for the weekend.

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Holy crap, I did not expect to get almost all the way through that bag today. It wasn't exactly a hard project, but with strap and lots of pockets, it added up to a lot of little steps. (And a few lightly scalded spots on my fingertips, because I have trouble with irons occasionally ( Read more... )

I've decided to start using my LJ to post pictures and other information about the sewing I've been doing and the jewelry making I'm planning to do. Hopefully I'll actually keep up with it this time and it'll give me a handy repository of things I've made and how I've made them! I'll also post pictures of some of my past projects as I go ( Read more... )

Well, it's kind of annoying that they couldn't just air this last night, but I get to watch it now!

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Time for the rank pen. There's gonna be some fantastic bulls bucking tonight!

Also, am dead tired and horribly red from the airshow today, but it was worth the inevitable pain tomorrow just to see the Blue Angels. They are AMAZING.

But I may discuss that in a different post. For now, PBR!

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