Crafting & shopping

[janestarz]

I bought the kit and accompanying instruction DVD back at the quilt show, but last Monday I finally got around to actually playing around.

anemoona once gave me a nacklace and matching bracelet in rock crystal. I hardly ever wore them until this year. At one point, I tied one on each entry point to my room in Mierlo, just to keep the bad vibes out.
Ahem.
In any case, since I wore the bracelet so often the elastic it was made with started to grow older, more dirty and deteriorate. I decided to buy the kit at Bead Spider and see how far I'd get.

Pretty far, actually! The instruction DVD was simple and helpful and within no time at all I had a new bracelet:

Now I'm trying my hand at some bead-wrapping, which isn't yet going so well, and some light macramé. It kills my shoulders, is what it's doing. So a small break, until my new semi-precious gem beads come in.
Also, I should still have the unakite leaf beads Steelweaver once bought me, and now I know how to make a bracelet or necklace I might as well use it! All I need is to find them in the multitude of boxes I packed and have stashed in various places.

In other, shopping related news: I went over to HEMA, armed with my colour chart (all cool, muted colours that will suit me) and bought a big armful of new basics. Their long- and shortsleeved shirts are awesome, and every season there are some new colours out (gotta catch 'em all!). I was actually looking for a vest, but I picked up two. There's a pile of emerald, violet, petrol and even a pinky grey that doesn't yet have a name (although 'taupe' might work) basic shirts, shiny shirts, sparkly shirts and t-shirts that need folding and adding to my cupboard.
(For the men and people who don't speak Colourese: green, purple, blue-that-looks-kinda-greenish and grey shirts. Some have glitter.)

All the brighter and more yellow colours will go into a box, and will be used as under-clothes for my larp costumes to free up some closet space, unless I can make someone happy with grass-green short-sleeved HEMA t-shirts in XL?

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Comments

[anemoona.livejournal.com]

Goeie tip! Ik heb net zo'n armband van Jaspis (Jasper) en inmiddels heb ik ik het elastiek al een keer vervangen. Maar hij blijft lubberen en ik ben erg bang dat ik hem een keer ga verliezen. Een sluiting is beter.