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[Jan. 18th, 2011|09:31 pm] |
I'm making myself a Giornea (thanks for the fab website, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) mc_cadieux!), based mostly off The lady in pink
In the FIVE minutes between deciding that I really ought to cut the dress the width-wise of the fabric and then it would just skim the floor and setting it up and cutting my silk (no going back), I managed to forget that. It's now just about ankle length, instead of just skimming the floor length.
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Does anyone have any better recovery methods than "shove the fabric in a corner on the couch and retreat into a good book"? (I want to wear this in 2 weeks, at Dance Moot |
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| Oops |
[Oct. 30th, 2010|10:05 pm] |
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Went online with the intention of doing somethings (updating here w our holiday, sending some SCA email and reading some blogs/web comics), but only managed that last one! |
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| this is the life |
[Oct. 5th, 2010|07:44 pm] |
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JL is reading a magazine, E has her megablocks, and I'm catching up online. :) if only every evening could be chilled like this. |
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| For luis_mw |
[Sep. 28th, 2010|09:52 pm] |
40 baffling movie plot-holes:
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/40-baffling-movie-plot-holes
(yeah, I know: no posts for months, then all you get is a stinking link that might as well be a Facebook update! Just goes to show how exciting things are around here. Oh, I did wing a top-down pattern for knitting mittens, rather than the standard cuff-up pattern...) |
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[Jul. 29th, 2010|08:47 pm] |
I have a small boarder on the garden to act as a flower bed (really small—it’s a 1m by circa 4 or 5m strip, and “border plans” on the BBC garden website tend to be about 2m by 6m!) Every so often I get excited about it, and do some weeding or put some plants in. When we first moved in, we put in a bunch of bulbs and a white flower, but only the Gladiolas (and the mysterious, white-flowered shrub) have survived. This spring, after BT kept tromping around in there, I got all keen about it (basically, I said to myself that I ought to MAINTAIN the flowerbed if I was going to get all defensive about it). I weeded it, and put in a packet of pansy seedlings, some sweet pea seeds (better late than never! No flowers but I have seedlings…), and an impulse-bought lavender flower (it was labeled as good for moist soil). The weeds grew more than I had time/could be bothered weeding, so I got some mulch. I’ve managed to have time to weed properly and mulch half the bed, and that half is easy to maintain. It’s also more inspiring to pull weeds out of a barked area than out of soil, for some reason. Hopefully, I’ll have time soon to put the mulch down on the rest of my flowerbed. Also, the pansys are a bit bug-eaten, but haven’t died (mostly).
I’m getting way-too excited about this garden, and have plans for moving the gladiolas to along the fence, putting in my sweet peas in a timely manner next year, and adding Bluebells and daffodils (or some other spring bulbs) and Devil’s-bit Scabious (moisture-tolerant plus long lasting plus good nectar source) and trying Irises again in the form of Yellow Flag seeds. Plus maybe a rosebush. We’ll see if this excitement exists at the proper time to plant things, and we’ll especially see if I have the time and weather when planting-time comes! I’d really love it to be a pretty, year-round border that’s good for bees and buterflys and has lots of flowers in the summer and interesting plants in the winter and is low maintenance… but I know that it’s hard for a garden to be all things, especially a tiny wee one that I’d like to be both formal and informal and and and. I think in reality, I’m putting in a spring/summer garden, and it’ll just be boring and dead over the winter. Still, if it can be pretty over the summer next year, I’ll be happy.
And because no wittering on about a garden is complete without a photo...
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| Reading! |
[Jun. 24th, 2010|10:18 pm] |
I bought a Motorola Milestone(1), and the first thing I downloaded was the ebook reader Aldiko. See, Jean-Loup has another Android phone, and I really enjoyed using Aldiko to re-read the end of Anne of Green Gables (I started it online when I was DESPERATE to read it but we went to visit his folks before I could finish(2)), and for my introduction to HP Lovecraft (not sure what took me so long to read him...)
The first book I read (possibly my first download, too, but I'm not sure) was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as I hadn't read it since I was a child, and even then I'd read Through the Looking Glass so swiftly after that I've muddled the two (Disney didn't help, either)..
I'm currently reading The House of Mirth, and am itching to start Polyanna but suspect I should try and only read one book at a time.
I've downloaded much of Jane Austin's novels(3), and the paper copies can stop taking up precious bookshelf space...
I was DELIGHTED to see that most of the Oz series was on there, too-- another long lost childhood favourite to revisit! likewise, my phone now contains (among others) A Little Princess, Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (I read Little Men on Jean-Loup's phone at Christmas). I'll also be giving a go to Frankenstein and Dracula.
In closing: are there any classics that people recommend I try to find?
(1) Moto Droid to y'all in the US
(2) I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I no longer mind reading things on screens-- I used to seriously prefer having a paper copy to read, but Anne of Green Gables wasn't so bad...
(3)including Le Cinq Filles de Mrs Bennet as I think I've read it often enough that I'll be able to follow along in French and the idea amuses me :-) |
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| for hiddenshallows |
[Jan. 18th, 2010|10:57 pm] |
I aten't ded.
(just busy and antisocial. More later.) |
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| very sad |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|06:20 pm] |
Today was a gorgeous sunny day. It was also my last day of maternity leave. So what did I do? I sat inside all day waiting for a courier to collect the faulty travel system*. The window was 12-6 (we had other packages due today from "7:30 to 6" so I couldn't even go out in the morning!). It is now 6:17. An angry email has been sent.
*the handle came apart when I tried to close it, after 7 months of normal use. |
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