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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

[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.