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[wiseheart]

I got caught up in the addiction one of my colleagues - also an addict - calls the paper love. Which means creating small (or, in her case, not so small, since she's into scrapbook work) items of paper, just because we can and because they are beautiful. Like every other addiction, it requires lots of spare time, which I don't really have, and a pretty penny for tools and materials, which I fortunately can afford. Tomorrow I'll hit the Aldi supermarket, as they're going to have packages of patterned cardboard and origami paper on sale, as well as sets of pattern cutters. Another colleague asked me to buy such a set for her, too. The madness spreads. ;)

Another madness I've fallen for is Nespresso craft. Meaning the recycling of the used capsules, by removing the coffee rests and making various things out of the small metal hats. I did a number of Santas and angels for Christmas; for Easter, bunnies and chickens are planned. A (male) colleague gifted several hundred used capsules on me - right now, I've cleaned out about two dozens or so. It's going to be a long process, but perhaps I can cajole some of the kids into helping me with them again. Last time they had great fun with all the dirt.

Still, I've managed to type up the rest of Arthur's quest today and sent everything to my long-suffering beta, the gracious lindahoyland. And I even wrote a few pages of my Camelot/Merlin x-over, tentatively titled Magic Mirror, for the lack of a more original title. It's fun to write, although present tense stories are always more tiring for me, I don't know why.

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Your crafts sound fun.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That they are indeed. :) And, unlike reading and writing, they can be easily executed in the teachers' room, with half a dozen noisy colleagues around.

[sammydragoncat]

You have been busy! It's great that you have so many outlets for your creativity.

I would think that cleaning the nespreso pods would be tedious, hopefully you can get some of the students to help clean them.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is pretty disgusting, too. Fortunately, some kids enjoy poking around in the mud, so I'll probably have some help. *g*

[artemis10002000]

Both of these new hobbies sound fun! Are you going to be sharing pics? I'd love to admire what you created!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure how many pictures my scrapbook can hold, since LJ drastically reduced the space there and randomly deleted practically all the photos from my French trip a few years ago. But I hope a few more will fit in.

[artemis10002000]

That's fine! If you can't you can't, no helping it.

I like to use these free image uploaders like image upload or direct upload. I wouldn't trust them to store the pictures reliably, but they work well enough for just-for-fun sharing of pics.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use them, or how to make an account or whatnot.
It's not a storage problem, as I always save my photos onto a CD, just the sharing part would be nice. If I weren't such a horrible techno-wheenie, that is.

[artemis10002000]

http://awesomescreenshot.com/04647upna0
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http://awesomescreenshot.com/07a47uq48b
http://awesomescreenshot.com/02747uqaaa

Made you a little visual guide which might clear it up! All the other upload sites work by the same principle

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'll give it a try when I'm feeling brave. The problem is, I'm always so scared that I might screw up. Not the computer generation I'm afraid. :(

[kln1671.livejournal.com]

New hobbies are ever so much fun.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I always liked to work with paper, hence the hand-stitched cards, but now I'll have the chance to be even more creative...

BTW, do you still have a special place in your heart for Tour of Duty? In the recent years I've managed to buy the whole series on DVD in Vienna, I was thinking of you when I re-watched it.

[kln1671.livejournal.com]

I do still have a special place in my heart for ToD. It was my introduction to the wondrous world of fanfiction. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Even after all those years, it is still one amazing show. I've based one of my recurring SG-Atlantis OCs on Zeke Anderson.

[kln1671.livejournal.com]

Zeke's a fantastic character!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

That *was* a good show! It was one of a couple complex, ambivalent shows/movies about America and the Vietnam that came out fairly close together. It seems we were finally far enough away from the events to be able to look at the whole thing with a broader eye. Tour of Duty was my favorite among the movies and TV shows I saw: the ambiguities of the whole thing and their effects on the people involved came through well, I thought.