While JD and I were visiting his relatives last week, I mentioned to my sister-in-law, R (JD's brother's wife), that I'd been thinking about making a stuffed toy dragon. R thought this sounded like a fun idea and offered me the use of her sewing machine and stash of fabric scraps. I drafted a pattern on sheets of 9x12 drawing paper, then got to ( Read more... )

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Some years ago, probably about five, but maybe six, several of my friends here on LJ were involved with and excited about a particular H/G-oriented HP fansite. They encouraged me to submit some of my HP fanart to this site. I participated in one or two of the monthly art challenges at the site, then submitted a couple of my existing pieces. The ( Read more... )

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This morning when I signed into the website of the company for which I do contract editing, my performance rating was up to 87%. Only later in the day did I think to myself that I should have made a screenshot to post here as a "blast from the past"... and by then, my most recent job had been reviewed, and my rating had gone down to 86% :(

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