I'm currently in Stockholm staying with one of my amazingly awesome swedish fighter girl friends, Elfriedis / Karolina. Today is my last day in Stockholm, and the time has been great! I've only spent a few days here, but that is probably for the best since she has a very small apartment and I don't want to wear out my welcome, but it does mean that ( Read more... )

I've finally decided to enter SWAP or sewing with a plan! Thanks to A, I have been exposed to this contest for several years, and been tempted to enter every year. She completed it the year before last I believe.

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I try to be one of those people who live life to its fullest. It's not that I don't think about the future, it's just that I try to not put things off in the certainty that I will need things later that are more important. With the passing of our dear friend, Ian Cnulle (Greg Frank-Weiby), several people have mentioned the importance of this to me ( Read more... )

I've had several people tell me that in order to become a knight in An Tir you have to first be a squire. I've also had some people tell me that is not true. There have been knights and squires on both sides of this so far from what I've heard in casual conversations. If you are a knight in An Tir, do you consider this to be the case? Why? If you ( Read more... )

Looks like I'll be driving down to Great Western War by myself. I suck at long-distance driving since I tend to get really tired and head achy, so I'll be leaving a lot of extra time to do the drive. I need to be there on Tuesday the 4th before it's too late for merchant set up, so I'm considering leaving sunday in the early afternoon ( Read more... )

My ex is having to sell the house in Newberg and is moving into a condo downtown, so is looking for a home for both of his dogs. He may decide to keep Rasputin, but if not she is the one that I'm really looking for a good home for since I largely raised her. If I could handle having a large dog I would... but she's always been Hank's dog and I ( Read more... )

I would love to start doing photo posts at least a couple of times a week of what I make every day. But since that isn't happening (at least yet), I'll at least post about it when I have time.

Today I did blacksmithing demos at Philip Foster Farms. I made a couple leaf-shaped key-chains and a bottle opener. Which I promptly used to open some bottles ( Read more... )

I have been a verra busy girl as usual, doing many fun and crafty things for both fun and profit! Many pics to follow.

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I'm excited about actually being around to garden this year. I do some every year, but since I've been moving around so much it's been limited for a while. I have no plans for moving, should be around the majority of the spring, summer, and fall, and have space to do pretty much whatever I want. However, the space is sort of daunting. I don't want ( Read more... )

Hey hive-mind, I want pics and references for viking era wool combs. Please help? I wanna make some... it seems like a fun project. I saw a pic of some in Nialla's spiffy book, and now I can't find any pics of extant ones.