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This week has been Interesting Times. Some congealed scrap of necrotic afterbirth stole my wallet on Tuesday. Thankfully, I managed to cancel my cards before they could be used (and holy fuck, the Oyster website is not among my favourites), and am now just waiting for the replacements. I'm using my cane again, and have switched up to diclofenac after falling in the street - the bruises on my knee and hip are the same size as my hands, and that brings me up to four major joints in a state of not-working. Stairs are also not among my favourite things right now, and I'm just *waiting* for a wrist to go too. Safe money on my left, as then I'd not be able to use my cane, and that'd just be par for the course this week.
Thing is, the being unable to go out (because some putrid rectal growth walked off with my wallet, and because that'd mean stairs and public transport) has kicked me into creative mode. Of a kind, at least. I've been stashing up good fabric for a while now, but this is the first time I've actually sat down and made something I'm truly happy with. Photos will be along tomorrow when I can pull them off my camera, but it's essentially just a pretty plain messenger bag and wallet. It's terribly pretty, and I am rather fond. I tend not to put up pictures of my craft stuff, even when it's been a saleable piece (and I've sold a reasonable amount too), but I'm damn happy with this. There's stuff I'd like to improve, of course (and I've got more than enough material to do so too), but sewing's never been my best craft - I'm a knitter for the most part, with occasional forays into jewellery. Also, no pattern, just guesstimation and first principles. Again, messenger bag - hardly complicated, but I've not really used a sewing machine since pre-uni, so I'm sticking with the proud theme.
Thirdly - intended acquisitions. I need a new laptop. Not as a main machine, but because when I amble off around the place, I want a machine to take with me. Because I'm intending it to live in my bag, it has to be small, light and tough. Because I'm me, it has to be cheap. This is the one I'm thinking of getting. Has anyone heard negative things about the Asus EEE? Other than the miniscule hard drive, of course.
Also - I really need a new tattoo. I'm getting a pair of hydrogen atoms on my heels - the stylised Bohr model similar to the version used in Watchmen, but more to appeal to the science geek than the comic one. I would have gone down to the tattooists today, but a) see above and b) somebody kinda set that area of Camden on fire last night. I'll try and talk to them next week. Browsing through BMEzine, I came across this, which is what I've wanted for so long, but been utterly unable to explain in either words or otherwise. That style, in white, spiralling down from my shoulder to my ankle. Now I just need to get in good enough shape to make a good canvas for something that pretty.
Thing is, the being unable to go out (because some putrid rectal growth walked off with my wallet, and because that'd mean stairs and public transport) has kicked me into creative mode. Of a kind, at least. I've been stashing up good fabric for a while now, but this is the first time I've actually sat down and made something I'm truly happy with. Photos will be along tomorrow when I can pull them off my camera, but it's essentially just a pretty plain messenger bag and wallet. It's terribly pretty, and I am rather fond. I tend not to put up pictures of my craft stuff, even when it's been a saleable piece (and I've sold a reasonable amount too), but I'm damn happy with this. There's stuff I'd like to improve, of course (and I've got more than enough material to do so too), but sewing's never been my best craft - I'm a knitter for the most part, with occasional forays into jewellery. Also, no pattern, just guesstimation and first principles. Again, messenger bag - hardly complicated, but I've not really used a sewing machine since pre-uni, so I'm sticking with the proud theme.
Thirdly - intended acquisitions. I need a new laptop. Not as a main machine, but because when I amble off around the place, I want a machine to take with me. Because I'm intending it to live in my bag, it has to be small, light and tough. Because I'm me, it has to be cheap. This is the one I'm thinking of getting. Has anyone heard negative things about the Asus EEE? Other than the miniscule hard drive, of course.
Also - I really need a new tattoo. I'm getting a pair of hydrogen atoms on my heels - the stylised Bohr model similar to the version used in Watchmen, but more to appeal to the science geek than the comic one. I would have gone down to the tattooists today, but a) see above and b) somebody kinda set that area of Camden on fire last night. I'll try and talk to them next week. Browsing through BMEzine, I came across this, which is what I've wanted for so long, but been utterly unable to explain in either words or otherwise. That style, in white, spiralling down from my shoulder to my ankle. Now I just need to get in good enough shape to make a good canvas for something that pretty.
