There's a small area of beach down by Bangor pier where by some combination of currents and geography there is always loads of glass and broken china.  Lots of it looks pretty old, all worn away round the edges by the sea.  
I've been wanting to do something with the stuff for ages, so I thought I'd give it a go with wire-wrapping like Gwen taught ( Read more... )

I made a necklace (and matching bracelet). It was meant as a birthday present for a friend. But I can't stop wearing it. Oops. Fortunately her birthday is in May. Is it cheating if I keep it for myself until then?


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My friend Sarah has been enthusing about this abandoned warehouse she's discovered that she wants to explore.  This January we finally got down there.  It was so much more than an old warehouse - a huge factory complex which once employed 2000 people, just rusting and falling apart in the rain.


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Last week I purloined some metal owls from xanthalanari's jewellery stash, because owls are awesome. 
This weekend I made some earrings.  I didn't have two matching pieces, so they turned out in two different colours.  (The owls swing within the larger pieces). 

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I'm really bad at having good ideas at bad times. 
For example, while I was trying to work on NaNoWriMo I had an amazing inspiration about how to hide undead at Maelstrom, and while I was trying to get to sleep two days ago, I had an inspiration for a piece of creative writing about my D&D character.

What Geoffrey Did on his Holidays

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I've had a busy weekend. 
We went to Chester en masse to finish off the Christmas shopping and have a meal out with Raun and Iestyn.

I think most of my Christmas presents are sorted bar a few that are still in the post and a few more I have all the parts for but have to make. I need to mail a few things myself though.

I also tried out the flexible ( Read more... )

So I finally finished NaNoWriMo, and three days early at that.  Well, I say *finished* - I mean I got past 50000 words - but I haven't actually finished the damned plot.  I waffled too much at the beginning when I didn't know where I was going yet.  I reckon if I write the end and cut out all the earlier waffle, the whole thing might come to around ( Read more... )

Still working on NaNoWriMo.  Richard has stopped because he was behind and it was causing him too much stress (legitimate reason) and because his writing wasn't good enough (stupid reason).  After all that's hardly the point, and also I read his stuff and it was way more carefully written than mine.  So I got pissed off and told him if he was ( Read more... )

I was mooching around the canteen at work getting myself a cup of tea, with two colleagues sitting a short distance away. 
I hear Pete say to Maxine "I'm so bored of this place.  It's all so dull.  Hey - wiffly_shwoo - you should dress up as a tree more often.  That'd totally make work more entertaining."
Maxine - who is not on Facebook and thus has never ( Read more... )

I've been behind on my intended word count because I hardly wrote anything on Thursday as we went and played board-games with Griff and Ceri, and then we had D&D on Friday.  However I've been working on it over the weekend. 
I am now on 26006 words which means:

• I've managed 2000 words a day on average (which I was aiming for)
• I've written more than ( Read more... )