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May. 10th, 2013 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lighterthanairLast weekend before the surgery! I really am at the point where I just wish it was done and over with. I'm impatient, and having to wait is just stressing me out. I slept poorly last night, in spite of caving and taking a sleeping pill, and I strongly suspect that it's because the surgery was on my mind, getting closer with each day but it's still not here yet.
Still no luck finding my camera's battery charger. At this point, I really don't know where it could be. I've looked in all the likely places. I've looked in a number of unlikely places. And I still can't find it. So I'm stuck with a useless lump of machinery when what I really want to be doing is going outside and taking pictures of the new leaves and budding trees and sprouting flowers.
Speaking of buds and sprouts, I managed to mess up the slow cooker by accidentally burning through part of the cord. (Don't ask; suffice it to say that I can be very stupid sometimes.) Not being able to keep using the slow cooker due to its new status as a fire hazard, I've decided to at least keep the stoneware pot from inside and turn it into a mini herb garden. Can't afford the dirt at the moment (does that make me dirt poor?) but it can be used inside, too, so I might be able to coax a few tasty things from it, at any rate.
Definitely getting back into the sewing groove, with an urge to make a bunch of tote bags. I mentally devised an easy pattern the other day and tested it out with some scraps, and it worked pretty well. And also gave me a cute miniature market bag - 2 inches square, not including the handles, and it was too fiddly to make gussets but I've got the idea down and I know the pattern works, so that's the important thing. I think I have enough material to make about a dozen lined small tote bags, and by small I mean about 12" square (again, not including handles). I'll probably end up cutting out the pattern pieces some time over the weekend so that I can have them ready and at hand if I feel like sewing while recovering from surgery.
Hopefully this will mean I can open my Etsy store again soon. I miss doing crafty stuff, and I miss knowing that I might occasionally make a few bucks from it. And I know I don't have a use for a dozen tote bags! That's the downside to loving to sew and knit, I think. I want to make more things than I have a use for, and if I only made what I had a use for, I'd make things so rarely that there wouldn't be much point. And sometimes I want to make the same thing over and over and over, and end up with many versions of the same piece, and what else can I do with them but give them as gifts or try to sell them?
Slowly catching up on my backlog of reviews, though the surgery's going to be a kink in that plan. I'm down from needing to write 24 review to 16. Of course, that isn't counting the books that I've read since coming back from my giant blogging hiatus, but for the moment, I'm pretending they don't exist. One step at a time! But the surgery means I won't be posting for a bit, and will be relying on some helpful guest posters until I feel up to sitting up and typing again for hours at a stretch. Hopefully that won't take too long, but who knows, at this point?
I keep missing certain icons and then remembering that oh right, paid account expired. When I get back to work and have spare money again, I'm going to buy 2 years worth of time here, just because I can and so I won't keep forgetting why features keep disappearing. :p
Not sure if this will come before or after I buy myself a 3DS and a new camera... Ah well, much like with my book reviews, one step at a time. No sense planning all this stuff now when I can't do it, because something's liable to come up between now and then that will blow all said plans to pieces.
Still no luck finding my camera's battery charger. At this point, I really don't know where it could be. I've looked in all the likely places. I've looked in a number of unlikely places. And I still can't find it. So I'm stuck with a useless lump of machinery when what I really want to be doing is going outside and taking pictures of the new leaves and budding trees and sprouting flowers.
Speaking of buds and sprouts, I managed to mess up the slow cooker by accidentally burning through part of the cord. (Don't ask; suffice it to say that I can be very stupid sometimes.) Not being able to keep using the slow cooker due to its new status as a fire hazard, I've decided to at least keep the stoneware pot from inside and turn it into a mini herb garden. Can't afford the dirt at the moment (does that make me dirt poor?) but it can be used inside, too, so I might be able to coax a few tasty things from it, at any rate.
Definitely getting back into the sewing groove, with an urge to make a bunch of tote bags. I mentally devised an easy pattern the other day and tested it out with some scraps, and it worked pretty well. And also gave me a cute miniature market bag - 2 inches square, not including the handles, and it was too fiddly to make gussets but I've got the idea down and I know the pattern works, so that's the important thing. I think I have enough material to make about a dozen lined small tote bags, and by small I mean about 12" square (again, not including handles). I'll probably end up cutting out the pattern pieces some time over the weekend so that I can have them ready and at hand if I feel like sewing while recovering from surgery.
Hopefully this will mean I can open my Etsy store again soon. I miss doing crafty stuff, and I miss knowing that I might occasionally make a few bucks from it. And I know I don't have a use for a dozen tote bags! That's the downside to loving to sew and knit, I think. I want to make more things than I have a use for, and if I only made what I had a use for, I'd make things so rarely that there wouldn't be much point. And sometimes I want to make the same thing over and over and over, and end up with many versions of the same piece, and what else can I do with them but give them as gifts or try to sell them?
Slowly catching up on my backlog of reviews, though the surgery's going to be a kink in that plan. I'm down from needing to write 24 review to 16. Of course, that isn't counting the books that I've read since coming back from my giant blogging hiatus, but for the moment, I'm pretending they don't exist. One step at a time! But the surgery means I won't be posting for a bit, and will be relying on some helpful guest posters until I feel up to sitting up and typing again for hours at a stretch. Hopefully that won't take too long, but who knows, at this point?
I keep missing certain icons and then remembering that oh right, paid account expired. When I get back to work and have spare money again, I'm going to buy 2 years worth of time here, just because I can and so I won't keep forgetting why features keep disappearing. :p
Not sure if this will come before or after I buy myself a 3DS and a new camera... Ah well, much like with my book reviews, one step at a time. No sense planning all this stuff now when I can't do it, because something's liable to come up between now and then that will blow all said plans to pieces.
