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Crafting & shopping
Nov. 21st, 2013 07:03 pmI bought the kit and accompanying instruction DVD back at the quilt show, but last Monday I finally got around to actually playing around.
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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?
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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