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Oh, and I made some stuff weeks ago and never got around to sharing!

This is my new hobby—cords. You take seven various ribbons or smaller cords or strings of beads or whatever, and you pretty much tie them in a complicated knot. I’m considering making myself a belt if I can find long enough ribbons, but for now I’ve found a great use for them!

Daja looks darn good in orange, doesn’t she? I get the distinct impression she likes more manly clothes, which in this case suggest shirt and tunic. She probably doesn’t wear this in the smithy, though.

This is actually two separate tops, and looks really spiffy.

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Current Mood: awake

I have been practicing making wire jewelry for two weeks without hurting myself! I think this is a record.

I like making chains more than I expected, too. Once I get a little better at jump rings, I think I’m going to make a couple of belts for Kuen and Daja—Kuen will look good with a silver one over her blue tunic, and I’ve got a few fabrics for Daja that’d look good with copper.

Of course, I’ll have to make the clothes first. Sewing hasn’t been happening lately—partly because I’m lazy, and partly because Mom has been on a sewing jag of her own and I don’t want to get in her way. I’ll stick to metalwork for now.

I’ve already made some nifty bead rings, but I’m not ready to start on pendants. But I’ve got a lovely little rock collection that’s sitting here waiting to be messed with. We’ll see how it goes.

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: David Byrne ~ Good and Evil

I’ve been meaning to do this photostory for some time now. Y’all may laugh at me, but by god I have these dolls and I’m going to PLAY with them.

The Great Pony Caper
The roommates find themselves in peril of a pony infestation! Will they be overrun? Tune in to see how they solve the problem using wits, cleverness, biology, a montage, and EDIBLE BALL BEARINGS! Learn amazing … well, let’s call them “facts” … about ponies! Marvel at the number of belted shirts! You’ll laugh! Hopefully you won’t cry!

Director’s Commentary:

Do excuse, once again, the dreadful lighting. I was just starting to figure it out on my OLD camera.
Amber, it turns out, is all about the dramatic poses. If she had it her way an orchestra would play a sting after every sentence she spoke.
The silly shirts the twins are wearing are meant to be a little off from ordinary fashion, since they’re from a different universe with different fashions. (Danny’s is officially known around here as the Crest Toothpaste shirt.) However, that María is wearing an odd kimono-inspired shirt makes them look even more silly.
On the other hand, I command you to admire the hell out of Loke’s pants. I am very proud of her jeans. Very proud. I DON’T SEE ENOUGH ADMIRING.
It helps to hum the “Montage” song from Team America when you scroll through the baking montage.
My old ponies need some serious fixing up if I ever want to mess with them again. I’m actually not at all interested in collecting them, so you could cross out a couple of those things on Loke's chart. However, I’ve seen some interesting pony mods online and may be tempted into that …
I don’t know if it’s quite clear, but Loke is finishing the puzzle when they go talk to her. She’s the focusing type. She also really, really doesn’t appreciate that it’s missing a piece.

Hope y'all like it!

Current Mood: silly
Current Music: Cat Stevens ~ Another Saturday Night

What I Learned Since The Winter Solstice:

The presidential power transfer takes place automatically at noon, unless you’re on the Fox Network.
There is a fourth-cone mutation in humans that makes some people (the articles claim only women for reasons of chromosome, but I have a dude friend who says he came up positive on the test) see more colors than ordinary people. They’re called tetrachromats. Dude, that’s awesome.
On a related note, that’s why some male birds do not appear to be the fancy men you would expect male birds to be: they are, but in the ultraviolet range, since birds are default tetrachromats.
No matter how low you go on clearance pricing, people will always ask if it’ll go lower.
Some people are honestly convinced that it is difficult to break even $500,000 per year. This is because they count nannies, private schools, chauffeur/bodyguards, and thousand-dollar dresses as necessary expenditures.
Baby skunks are born naked, but with black and white markings on their skin
There is a difference between a bulldozer, a digger, and a front-loader.
Lining a bodice is much easier than hemming the neckline.
The Motion Picture Association of America is weird—it’s run like it’s some kind of Sooper Sekrit Undercover Organization, when it’s really just a bunch of pissy, uneducated people with no real guidelines of psychology or sociology sitting around censoring movies.
Snow days aren’t always good. Man, I hate being a grownup.
James Earl Jones was briefly given the role of Gordon from Sesame Street. This gives one the opportunity for so many entertaining speculations …
Skilled noodle chefs can very quickly flip hundreds of noodles out of a blob of wheat dough.
The problem of girls bullying each other and the way they do it stems, once again, from society’s refusal to see girls as people with conflicts and feelings, so their anger is forced to be passive-aggressive. This also explains a lot of Mormon culture, incidentally. (ETA: 10cents pointed out I was oversimplifying here. We're just starting to study this sociological phenomenon, so I expect other factors will be found as well. This is a big one.)
Semi-finalists in the ~~Captain Crazypants~~ L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest cannot re-tweak their stories and send them back in. Not surprising, really.
Colossal squids are distinct from giant squids in many ways, but one of the badass ones is that they have rotating claws instead of suckers.
A mele ma’i a song devoted to a particular person’s genitals in Hawaiian. If the person’s really influential, their genitals might even get their own name. Nether bits: powerful and entertaining.
Squeaking brakes are not always a sign of worn out brake pads, but they are always annoying.
Terry Pratchett’s young adult fiction kicks ass.
That feeling of numbness that people report on some antidepressants is highly unpleasant.
One of the reasons my mom gets bugged with my sleeping schedule is that she actually tries to be quiet while I’m sleeping. I told her emphatically not to bother.
Chaos theory is a description about how small margins of error in predicting equations build up as steps are repeated, which can even be affected in simple systems.
You can get sent to therapy just for being a cloud cuckoolander—but that’s if you’re so much of one that your entire interaction with others consists of it.
Curling a doll’s hair with curlers and a dunk in some hot water works spectacularly well.
The wrybill, a New Zealand Plover, is the only bird known that has a beak that bends to one side. (Always, it turns out, to the right.)

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: John Fogerty ~ Proud Mary

Well, it’s been a bit longer than I expected, but I finally have

gondolinchick01’s Christmas-ish present ready! Only a month and a few days late—better than never, eh?

Meet Tris, a decidedly not American Girl!

This is Trisana Chandler, from Tamora Pierce’s Circle Of Magic and The Circle Opens series and companion books. In her world, magic is an everyday phenomenon, a skill some people are born with but have to develop. While her world has a somewhat medieval level of nonmagic technology, magic is used to enhance it so that they can use things like security systems and prosthetic limbs.

( Want to know more? Read the books! Or this! )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: The Daily Show

Today I’m working to get the rest of the doll Halloween album ready. I’m not sure why Halloween albums have suddenly become the big thing, but screw parties or trick or treating or making your own costume—I come for the silly doll antics. I’m hoping the antics in this one will be good—I just had a great idea for more antics.

So I’m down in the family room, sewing, with my Aliens DVD playing.* Loke’s costume is almost done, and that’ll be almost everything I need for this crazy album. Then I get to go sew more—

gondolinchick01 and I are taking a sewing class at The Finishing School. It’s an odd little place, with rickety old sewing machines and a wall of hodgepodge fabrics, where six girls take beginning sewing. I’m glad I’ve got a buddy with me, because it’d be weird otherwise. I’m finding some real gaps in my knowledge, although a lot of things Mom has taught me or I’ve just picked up. Plus, I get to make a pair of pajama pants tonight!

Hell yeah, alien queen on screen! Lay the smackdown on that bitch, Ripley! Try to kill her with a forklift!

Okay, back to sewing.

*And once again I’m reminded Brent Spiner might’ve made a good robot trying to become a person, but you can’t beat Lance Henriksen’s performance as Bishop The Artificial Person. You watch it the first time and are like “That creepy bastard is so going to turn evil” and then you watch it the second time and you see there’s all this understated pathos in Bishop—we don’t know how artificial people are treated in this world, but it doesn’t look good, and he’s a kind of beaten-down sad robot who just wants to be loved. None of this has much bearing on the main plot of the movie,** but when he looks a little confused after he realizes he’s made something sort of like a joke, it always makes me happy.

**Which is summed up as “HOLY FUCK SOME ALIENS.”

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Aliens!

Barbershop Quartet Day
National D.A.R.E Day
Liberation Day (Uganda)

My brain seems to have gotten ganged up on by muses.

I have become a crafty little bugger.

This spring break I made a few Sculpey projects, as well as a crazy-quilt dress for my doll Kuen. And now I’m in ceramics and jewelry classes at the Craft Center. Eric and I spent three hours wedging and then prodding our clay into pinch pots and coil pots (throwing starts next week!) and generally making a big old mess.* I’m also carving away at some lumps of wax right now, which may or may not become jewelry for another class, and a few days ago I bought a small Moleskine book where I could draw and label various objects from some of my concultures.**

It’s all part of my eternal quest to be interesting. We’ll see if it works, or if I just wind up with dry, carved-up hands. Ah, the dangers of creativity.

*After which he graciously gave me a ride home, because it was raining. Thanks, Eric!

**I may be crafty, but I’m still a dork.

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: America ~ Lovely Night

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