Just Create - Terra Cotta Edition

[silvercat17]

Answer me these questions three, ere the other side you see:

WHAT have you gotten done?

WHAT are you working on?

WHAT do you need encouragement on?




(look, I feel silly posting the same thing every week, I might as well lean into it)

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[silvercat17]

I haven't gotten much done this week, with good reason (haven't felt good, cuz it's shark week). My office is a DISASTER. I did part of the work on my RenFaire cloak - Mom lined the hood and I the little bit of hand stitching necessary. I need to hem up a bit in the front because it drags and add a closure.

I bought some fabric. Some to do a ten minute project (enclosing in the bottom of some furniture where Heidi sleeps so she doesn't have to hide on the couch or behind the couch). The rest is to make an eight foot long squid plush, which I may scale down a bit. The fabric is loud and it's going to be awesome.

I've been doodling monsters for a Digimon-esque comic idea. I need to scan one of them because I started it too small to put in the detail I need.

I've been meaning to write a blog post for a few weeks showing off some small sewing I've done and being a general update.

Edit: Actually I did do some things: I've reread three Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher books in prep of reading the newest one (one to go). Unfortunately I've read them in the middle of the night instead of sleeping because my sleeping schedule is incredibly fucked up

[kellan_the_tabby]

YAY sewing!

[alexseanchai]

woot sewing!

giant squid!

[friendlydangernoodle]

giant squid plush sounds super cool

[kellan_the_tabby]

this week has SUCKED but I've been doing basically as little 'work' as possible, in favour of resting & other things that help me recharge, so the last couple days have seen slow improvement ...

& then yesterday I managed to have my first Woods Day is MONTHS, & y'all, I REALLY need to prioritize that more than I've been. I feel SO MUCH BETTER today.

I'm not gonna dive right into trying to get a zillionty things done every day again, because I've learned THAT lesson the hard way, but yesterday I got a pendant & three pairs of earrings done, & so far today I've done a bunch of website tweaking & put some (HILARIOUS) cat pictures up on my Patreon. I'm hoping to get more Patreon posts written up, do some dishes, & maybe -- I HOPE -- finally do a batch of lip balm, cos I am WAY behind on that.

tbh I don't need encouragement so much as I need someone to remind me to do things like 'eat' & 'have some water' & 'maybe take a shower' & 'go the hell outside it is gorgeous today' >.>

[silvercat17]

Fucking mood. Why is the basic stuff sometimes the hardest?

[kellan_the_tabby]

RIGHT,,,

I need a KEEPER is what

[silvercat17]

SAAAAMMMMEEEE

[kellan_the_tabby]

OH the one thing I've been doing a lot of is sewing (thanks Silvercat for reminding me!), cos it's mostly good for my brainparts. This week I patched a hole in the butt of a pair of shorts I made a bunch of years back, & added some fabric to the side seams of a shirt I love so it fits more comfortably, & then I embroidered a bunch of it, added a patch just for decoration, embroidered all over THAT, & lastly, added some decorative buttons. I'll post pics at some point but I'm wearing it right now.

[alexseanchai]

have you had water in the past hour? food in the past six hours? shower in the past two days? been outside yet? 🙂

[kellan_the_tabby]

<3

Just finished a thing of water BUT it would probably be good if I refilled it! & yeah it's time to stop NOT having lunch & instead, have lunch.

It is, alas, too wooshy for outsides today. It is often wooshy here, which, alas, makes it harder to do outsides.

[friendlydangernoodle]

I have found that there's a nice corner in my backyard that's not so bad even when it's wooshy outside. Nice spot to hang out for a little. Maybe eat breakfast there. Maybe you can find a protected spot like that?
Or hang out near a window at least. Seeing outside is better than nothing.

[kellan_the_tabby]

if it's not TOO bad I can get out in the woods, there's a couple good spots, but when it's this wooshy it is Bad for Headparts, alas

[angelofthenorth]

I've got my sewing room set up :)

[kellan_the_tabby]

Ooooo yay, happy workspace!

[alexseanchai]

🎉

[friendlydangernoodle]

Hooray! Whatcha gonna sew in your new sewing room?

[angelofthenorth]

Principally embroidery, and maybe a quilt....

[friendlydangernoodle]

ooh nice, nice

[angelofthenorth]

https://sites.google.com/view/miriamsembroidery/home has some of my work on it

[friendlydangernoodle]

ooooooh, I like the celtic cross. great colors. very pretty.

[althea_valara]

I finished my second needle felting project this week. It's a pink bunny!

I am slowly working on a hat, which I could actually use some encouragement on. My first try was way too big. I dropped down in yarn size and waaaay down in hook size, and IT'S STILL TOO BIG! I did accidentally add stitches; I'm supposed to have 90 after the decrease round but I have 94. I need to decide if I want to rip back and fix the stitch count issue, or just fudge it and do more decreases.

I also worked a bit on a blanket. I really need to get moving on it, as it's a graduation present.

Finally: yesterday morning I woke up to a really nice comment on one of my AO3 works. That made my day.

[silvercat17]

Argh, it's so annoying when things don't work right. You can do it!

[alexseanchai]

doing more decreases is a lot less hassle, but it won't fit the same, probably. I expect it'll be more roomy if you do more decreases than if you go back and fix the stitch count.

you've got this!

[coragem]

i planned a story on tuesday. in six hours. with no breaks.

did i write said story? not yet.

i'm kinda in the need of encouragement to leave the bed these days.

[kellan_the_tabby]

i'm kinda in the need of encouragement to leave the bed these days.

this is a BIG fuckin mood

[alexseanchai]

ugh yeah sympathy

I bet it's gonna be a good story though

[friendlydangernoodle]

we can all get out of bed. I believe in us. she said to herself, willing it to be true.

[coragem]

today i got out of bed at 8am. i ate something, then i went back to bed...

[friendlydangernoodle]

you got out of bed! at a reasonable time even! good job. eating is good.
maybe you can hang out in bed and then get up again in a bit. what are you going to do when you get up?

[coragem]

i will probably eat some more, as it's almost lunchtime... then i will set up a community here on dreamwidth that i've been wanting to create for a long time, and afterwards maybe try to do something related to writing, maybe some graphics as i've been very discouraged about writing. how is your day going?

(i love your icon, btw!)

[friendlydangernoodle]

Thanks! Dusa is the best <3

I have accidentally stayed up all night because what is a sleep schedule. On the upside, I have written more in the past few hours than I have in a long time, so that's cool. I still haven't figured out how to write the beginning of this story, but I managed to get started by starting in the middle.

Sounds like some good stuff you have planned! What sort of community, if you don't mind sharing?

[coragem]

I don't remember the last time I stayed up all night, but some days I have been going to sleep at 2am even taking my meds at 10pm.

It's a music community! I'm trying to get more friends into Dreamwidth, so I thought of creating a comm in which they can share what they are listening to. It probably won't work, though, but in any case, I will have some place to post about what I like listening to.

[friendlydangernoodle]

I am very new here myself, brought by a friend. This is the only community I have joined so far.

I don't generally think that much about what I listen to. Been a lot of the Transistor and Hades soundtracks on repeat in my garage while I work. One of my friends has gotten really into sea shanties recently and I am rediscovering my love for them as well.

[alexseanchai]

I made double chocolate banana bread!

I am actively working on: "Transposer", which is a one-shot I will hopefully finish today or tomorrow; "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", which had better be a one-shot and for which I need to either ditch the setup for a thing or get over myself and write the thing; more like spears than hearts, which I think I got stuck because Alya is not in fact the next PoV character—the question, then, is who is, and the choices may be Alya's siblings, Alya's mother, and Lila—and which I think I have an ending for now; where the firelight fades, which I left off in the middle of a tense moment and am not sure how to get rolling again, augh. I also want to be working on the podfic for Socchan's Your Flavor and on my pechakuchas for vexercises.

I could use encouragement on…something of the above? idk

[kellan_the_tabby]

banananananana bread!

also YAY WRITING, YOU CAN DOO EET

[alexseanchai]

is nom

(bit too sweet for me to eat much of at once though, augh)

🙂

[kellan_the_tabby]

>.>

i could eat some tho

[friendlydangernoodle]

I made it out to the garage today after around 2 weeks of barely being able to get out of bed, and finally made some progress on a woodworking project. I am still really struggling with how to do the next step though. I decided to attempt miter joints on this project, and have been having a hard time getting them straight on my practice pieces. The miter sled I made for my table saw was a disaster; officially declared it a failure and disassembled it today.

Yesterday I started an outline for what will be the first story I've written in years... if I can manage to get started actually writing it. Having a very hard time finding the words.

[angelofthenorth]

I found that when I ran out of distractions the words just came, when I was in that situation.

[friendlydangernoodle]

Decided to stop trying to start at the beginning, and got some of the middle part written! Only a bit more than a page, but better than I've been managing for a long time.

[kellan_the_tabby]

YAY woodworking! Miter joints, I'm impressed, I'm still working on the whole 'cutting two pieces of wood to the same length' part.

... which hasn't stopped me from building a tiny house on wheels/portable craft show booth, which, now that I think of it, is a bit concerning, but it hasn't fallen apart yet, so.

[friendlydangernoodle]

I am definitely still learning myself. Mostly everything I know has come from youtube, nobody's actually taught me anything.

Once I've actually done the joints, we can be impressed lol. I'm still having a hard time figuring out how to cut them evenly on large pieces with my little table saw.

Good job making a thing that hasn't fallen apart! Always a nice bonus when it doesn't fall apart.

[kellan_the_tabby]

I learned some basics from my dad when I was a kid -- he built the house I grew up in & definitely wanted a son to pass that on to. I was as close as he got, which was closer than he thought, so I got to help him out with some projects. But yeah, anything past that has been youtube at best & 'fuck around & find out' at worst. Or at least most exciting.

I figure if I make a thing & it doesn't fall apart, excellent! Anything past that is bonus.

[ryl]

Done: got the oil changed in my car.

Working: the Complicated Cross stitch. I finally fixed the swan's beak and now I'm working on the
rest of the body. How can such a small bit be so troublesome? Oh yeah, it's mostly 3/4 stitches. *headdeskheaddesk*

Encouragement: I really need to dig the herb garden.

[illariy]

I wrote 3 penpal letters and prepared one swap for sending out. This is a lot more than I had hoped to do!

On the downside, I really need to focus on exam prep as my exams are on 26 and 31 March and I am pretty certain that unless I turn this boat around, I am woefully underprepared and will fail both exams. As expected, that attitude does not help me study... I think I am going to email my contact at the psychological info centre for students for an earlier appointment. First one was on Friday, second one is supposed to be the day after my last exam but I think I need an earlier one. We shall see what they say, if they even have time earlier.

I also read material and did exercises for a psychotherapy study I am participating in. It was moderately helpful but I am glad I got it off my to do list at least.