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Moderately crafty today
Jan. 2nd, 2024 08:41 pmAfter having to get up an hour earlier for two days in a row (so that Mum can attend to Mass via television) I managed to oversleep today. Barely 15 minutes, mind you, but those 15 minutes were sorely missed during the rest of the morning!
Nonetheless, I managed to do some crafty stuff today. I cut out the lining for the Christmas quiet book (thin felt pages need some padding between them) and used double-sided tape to put them together. Still not sure whether I'll hem the pages with cross-grain ribbon or simply edge them with blanket stitch. Both solutions have their advantages and disadvantages; I'll have to decide about the way of binding first.
I also worked a tiny bit on the songbook; really just a little bit and stopped as soon as I no longer enjoyed it. I find that I don't manage much in one setting. Perhaps all that hectic work before the fair led to a minor burnout craft-wise. Ah well, my crafting mojo will come back eventually.
In the early afternoon I managed to get some writing done: half a scene for a later chapter for "Crisis on Aquarius", a mostly Classic BSG story that I've been planning ever since I had finished "The Lost Warrior". I'm not sure it will go anywhere, but just being able to write was a relief.
Mum cooked Sauerkrautauflauf today, but in the end we decided to have leftover soup and slightly petrified Christmas cookies for lunch. Which means I won't have to cook for the next two days, yay!
I had a lazy late afternoon, reading fanfic and playing Solitaire on Methuselah the laptop, and then started researching baby books on YouTube, since I'll have to produce two of those by April. I think I'll use this video as reference, although my books will be quite different, since I can't get my grubby hands on those cute paper kits. But I've bought two kits last year, one for boys and one for girls; not my favourites, but they'll have to do. At least the books appears simple enough to make, and that's an important factor. The important factor right now.
So, that was the day. No social life for me, but plenty of needful activities and crap telly, so I'm not complaining... much.
Nonetheless, I managed to do some crafty stuff today. I cut out the lining for the Christmas quiet book (thin felt pages need some padding between them) and used double-sided tape to put them together. Still not sure whether I'll hem the pages with cross-grain ribbon or simply edge them with blanket stitch. Both solutions have their advantages and disadvantages; I'll have to decide about the way of binding first.
I also worked a tiny bit on the songbook; really just a little bit and stopped as soon as I no longer enjoyed it. I find that I don't manage much in one setting. Perhaps all that hectic work before the fair led to a minor burnout craft-wise. Ah well, my crafting mojo will come back eventually.
In the early afternoon I managed to get some writing done: half a scene for a later chapter for "Crisis on Aquarius", a mostly Classic BSG story that I've been planning ever since I had finished "The Lost Warrior". I'm not sure it will go anywhere, but just being able to write was a relief.
Mum cooked Sauerkrautauflauf today, but in the end we decided to have leftover soup and slightly petrified Christmas cookies for lunch. Which means I won't have to cook for the next two days, yay!
I had a lazy late afternoon, reading fanfic and playing Solitaire on Methuselah the laptop, and then started researching baby books on YouTube, since I'll have to produce two of those by April. I think I'll use this video as reference, although my books will be quite different, since I can't get my grubby hands on those cute paper kits. But I've bought two kits last year, one for boys and one for girls; not my favourites, but they'll have to do. At least the books appears simple enough to make, and that's an important factor. The important factor right now.
So, that was the day. No social life for me, but plenty of needful activities and crap telly, so I'm not complaining... much.
