Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Mending




This doesn't really count, but if I wait for a real project it'll be weeks before you get an update.





To procrastinate working on my novel last weekend I did some mending that's needed to be done. The first was my Gryffindor robe - during the release of Deathly Hallows in July one half of the clasp came off. It should have been an easy fix, but I ran into a small complication when I found a rather large spider nest on the inner lining.

Luckily it came off with some vaccuuming (which Gracie Cat did not appreciate it) but I did check the rest of the robe just in case there were more. Damn spiders.

After that it wasn't too hard. Just pinned the clasp in place and hand sewed it back on.



And then it was done. Huzzah! And since I had the sewing stuff out, Andrew asked me to put the patches on his Kung Fu uniform too. Anything to not write. :D

I still have a set of opera gloves and a blouse to mend as well, but I haven't gotten there yet.

I did get my pictures for the wedding scrapbook in the mail yesterday, so hopefully I'll get to Michaels this weekend and I can get started on that as well. I still need to order the honeymoon pictures for that scrapbook.

Why the blog isn't getting updated

So, I wanted to apologize, as you probably won' t get many updates in November (although hopefully one will go up later today) - any November. And there's one word to describe why:

NaNoWriMo

I am one of those mildly insane people who sit down every November and write 50000 words. This is my fifth year, and I've gotten to the point of the month where I wonder why I do this to myself every year, and wonder why I am forcing myself to write 2000 words a day when I'd really rather be playing video games, or staring at the wall, or anything really, and begin to despair of keeping up the pace.

But I will, because it means I'll be done early and then the rest of November will be mine, bwhahahaha.

I am a writing nerd. I have a little portable writing table with folding legs (which will become an art project in late November or early December - it is unfinished and I am sick of splinters) and special writing gloves to protect my wrists. It is all extremely nerdy and if I remember I will take a picture of it later.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Coming Soon!

Hello, and welcome to my crafty blog. I've just made it, but I shall be starting to post updates as I get around to it.

The point of this blog will be to showcase my art/costuming projects, of which I normally have one or more of in process at any one time. Frankly, I think the people over at my normal blog (located at http://kandybar.livejournal.com) may be a little annoyed when I babble about such things, so I'm going to separate them out and put them over here.

I've never used Blogger before but I have read other people's blogs on it and I find it to be a nice, professional looking site, so I'm pleased to be here.

Real content coming soon!