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[edithmatilda]

Still not done any Scary Hard Bits in bookbinding. I am doing a fair bit of reminding myself that if I fuck up any stage of it, and I probably will because I am pretty sure it's quite hard to make an entire book, this is perfectly normal and that is how learning things works and I should not flee in shame or cry in a corner. Derek the Master

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[alryssa]

Derek sounds like a genuinely Nice Bloke, and is deserving of yayness.

I suggest 'Davros' for the next book, but that might inadvertantly cause its own destruction, so perhaps that would not be wise. Perhaps Irving would be more appropriate and less menacing.

[edithmatilda]

Derek is completely win. You can tell everyone in the class utterly loves him and that is part of what makes the whole thing so cosy and unscary.

I may decide the name of Book Two by Eljay poll. That will be conclusive.

[alryssa]

Derek wins therefore my complete approval for making a Mim less scared and comfortable.

LJ is eminently useful for polling public opinion then totally ignoring it. It is almost like being President.

[kbk]

I am signed up for metalwork. It starts on Thursday. There will be Welding. Not immediately, I'm sure, but at some point. Eee!

[kbk]

Obviously the initial intent of that comment was to go, yay, tools and doing things and getting out of the house! go, us!

I am glad bookbinding is going well and is not too scary.

I would not be awake at this hour but the cat got out and was noisy so I let him in to sleep on my bed and he kept moving around and now I am thinking of going to do things this morning because I am damnably awake. Sigh.

[edithmatilda]

Dude! Metalwork! That is actually on my long-term covet list with woodwork but bookbinding is clearly enough awesome for now and I shall have Vicarious Welding, hurrah. We are Craftswomen in spirit already, I can tell.

I should learn electronics off the Internet as an excuse to buy a soldering iron and then make overpriced jewellery to sell to cybergoths. We could totally run a successful business on this basis y/y? Not that I assume goths are particularly prone to buy expensive things, except that I completely do. Imagine what saleable terrors your metalwork skills could create!

/me makes hubristic plans for a scary light-up book.

[kbk]

Ooh. Ooooooooh.

Light-up book would win big. Or it could say hello (or, like, beep welcomingly, I dunno) when you opened it. Or...

/hubris

[twofootsmall]

Book the Second should be named Adam. Adam the book. And they should both be decorated with rainbows.

[edithmatilda]

He will be my Quotations Book I think. I have not had one of those for ages (since I was about 14) and it is one of the few things you can do with a blank book that helps overcome the scary Blank Book intimidation. It can have clever bits out of books and clever things people say online and random overhearings. Like a commonplace book for shameless gossips.