bookbindery and housekeepery:

I have been contemplating posting things when I'm not near the computer, and not doing so when I am. Did I mention making a raised bed two weekends ago? The squirrels keep digging up one pea at a time and then moving them over a few inches and dropping them again. This can't be good for germination...

Last weekend we spent saturday wandering the world because it was nice out and grauwulf was avoiding his homework, and discovered a new age shop in downtown Linthicum, tucked behind one of the smaller buildings of shops where it sits just about directly below the Christian/angel bookstore. We resisted buying a small coffee table which we could have adapted into a doll-sized row boat to play "Lady of Shalot" with the resins, but this is quite all right. Sunday I went to a nice doll meet in Baltimore, and completely failed to take pictures.

This week has been fairly low-key, although I finally got rid of a few packages yesterday (including the one for the swap that has been irritating me) and I'm dancing around starting the project that's on my to-do list as "Sequiney Death" (I'm still dithering over the appropriate thread choice) and actually making grauwulf more fencing shirts. Soon...

Also various profound thoughts which mainly boil down to a) people who insist that other people ought to be having children irritate me, and b) here I am making value judgements about invasive plants, and I belong to the most destructively invasive species on the planet. Sigh. And the neighbor's house may be up for sale again, which means that we're once again looking at someone coming in and cutting down all the shrubs that the birds live in. I've ordered a native shrub assortment through Fairfax County which my mother has agreed to play frontwoman on, but it'll still take a year or two before anything I plant now is big enough to be nest-ready.

Here, have some pictures of Tisquantum: (I finished his sweater, and then discovered that the silly shiny witch boots I'd gotten for Lady are long enough in the toes to fit him. So of course I've been *cough* ordering other doll boots, because one pair is never enough...)



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further ephemera

A steampunk Twelth Night in Philadelphia next month. Sounds interesting, but there aren't any matinees (I'm not sure I fancy driving two hours home after a play that starts at 8) and while I'm quite fond of the play, I've also seen it several times.

Thirteen ways of looking at Facebook (which almost makes me want to log in for the first time in months to represent on Rosemary Kirstein's fan page. Although I haven't yet managed to track down & read her books, despite being told they're quite worthy.)

A social variant related to my depressing ecological thoughts. from Making Light (sum up: we, the privileged, stand upon the shoulders of the oppression that has made us privileged in our society, whether we or our ancestors were party to it or not... you should read at least the initial post, if not the comments; it's a good thing to add to the mental balance, and not too painfully expressed.)

Vintage men's nightcap from Knitty (also, if you haven't yet seen the programmable bag from the current edition, you should wander over and watch their video demo)... grauwulf has tentatively promised he might be convinced to wear this at Pennsic or somesuch, should I make one for him. I've also just downloaded the google books version of the 1840 book it came from, and am delighted to find one of their plates devoted to a comparison of flat (patterned) & finished shapes of gathered sleeves. Also it appears that straw braiding (for hats) involves the use of brimstone among its incidental supplies. Now I need to find a PDF editor so I can print it out without all the blank pages.