December 10th, 2009

cross_stitch [whitestitch]

05:07 pm - Questions about costs I used the info at Ghost Stitchers as my base for the charges, but I would like to ask you all also. I just finished my LULOC project that I was doing on commission. Well, once I figured up the costs it came to $146. My labor was $123 & the framing was $85. Well, there was 12,395 stitches & I charged $0.01 per stitch. Is this too much? The break down of charges are as follows: Kit: $14.95 Floss: $2.40 Labor: $123.95 Framing: $85 Shipping: $5.00 I also had to re-chart the words at the top to say what they say instead of "Love Me Love My Cats". ( Pic Below ) Current Mood: aggravated

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cross_stitch [meta4life]

02:52 pm - Final Hummingbird, and progress check on Olde Santa Just one last peek at the Hummingbird bellpull now that it's assembled. ( No, for real this time, honest! ) Current Mood: still sick Tags: finished piece, wip

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kajafoglio

12:37 pm - My New Purse! Yay! Okay! I've taken pictures! I probably won't manage to do this every time someone sends me something, but I'd really LIKE to, and I'm overcompensating today... I got this incredible, hand-dyed purse in the mail yesterday, from nocturnalpurple , whom many of you probably know from her posts here. You can see her DeviantArt page here: http://unokitsune.deviantart.com/ It's lovely and big, and I have already taken it out for a test-run. (Last night was the kindergarten concert.) It has a window where I can add the latest artwork to show off (she included some of her own with the purse!) and big pockets for phone, etc. It's not only hand-dyed, but all hand-sewn, and from her own design. Here, without further ado, is Monsieur Thrifty, helping me out by modeling the purse: M. Thrifty and I don't take the greatest pictures on the fly, but we do our best. Thank you again for the bag! Current Mood: pleased

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xinef

03:30 pm - Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling | George Monbiot | The Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling

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kajafoglio

11:22 am - Coping with the Generosity of Others... So... people send me presents. This befuddles and thrills me. And I don't deserve them at all, because I am the absolute WORST (wurst? mmmm...wurst. ) at sending thank-you notes. And the reason I'm bad at taking the five minutes it might take to write a thank-you note? Oh, get this. I just worked it out myself. I procrastinate with them, because I'm so terrified of getting it "wrong." I am usually so bowled over by whatever it is I want to say "Thank you" for, that I have no idea how to express my true feelings properly. (Gosh, I'm such a sensitive little snowflake!) So I usually go and get it über-wrong by freezing up and not doing anything. Well. THAT'S productive, no? No. So, I'm going to turn over a new leaf! Yes! (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...) I'm going to do my thank-you's right away, even if I don't do them right. And to all of you that I have frozen up on in the past? I am sorry! I love the stuff people send me. It's just that...well, I'm kind of terrified of the World. I'm working on that. Current Mood: embarrassed/amused

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jenavira

12:52 pm - crap. Just checked to make sure the buses are running...and they're running 30-45 minutes behind. And I have to be at work in an hour, but it's too late to catch the 1:00 bus and the 1:30 now probably won't get me down there. I have to drive downtown in this crap aaaaaaah

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unknownbinaries

01:31 pm - The fire in my head has taught me well that time is short. PSA: Local folks, not_hothead_yet has a dog that needs a new home. In short, she's jealous of her kids, wants lots of outside time, and one-on-one with mommy/daddy, and she's too old to realistically be adopted via most agencies. The no-kill shelter they got her from has no room to take her back even temporarily. If you or someone you know might be interested, let me or her know. In other arenas, work blah blah surprise commission needs to be finished today, blah perfectionism re: already-likely-finished things, blah blah fuckety blah lots of writing to do blah. Haven't even begun the Lilith piece yet. Keep putting off using the woodburner. Really hate the one guy's voice in the Swedish lessons, not to mention that the woman's pronunciations are easier to hear, and am continually avoiding that. Totally entering this. I've now got until March for the Immanence of Myth, and I feel I need to enter that because somewhere along the line I became afraid to share that part of me, here. Painted the Azathoth star-spiral on the back of my hoodie to try out the fabric-paint pen I got (huge success). I tried to get rid of the thing in the interest of dressing better. And maybe dressing more 'grown up'. That interest didn't last very long, though if I get a better hoodie, maybe a long one that actually buttons (my fuzzy grey sweater one does not, anymore, as it's from high school and I was a twig, then) or one that simply fits me better, the painted bits of this one are getting cut out and pinned/riveted/sewn to the new one. It's bloody chilly again, but bright and clear, probably a good day for a walk. Might Have to go up to the coffee shop later. Forgot to give my credit card payment to D to mail, as well as the cat-sitting keys. NEVER MIND. He remembered both because he's MAGIC. Might go anyway. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: LUXT-Spite Tags: clothes, forgetting stupid shit, psa, work, writing plans

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cross_stitch [ptica_lastochka]

08:59 pm - Evening Sun. Finish! Anchor. A bed of flowers basking in the evening sun. Designed by Mary Dipnall. Fabric: 16 ct white Aida. Stitch Count: 184W x 264H. Finished Size: 11.50 x 16.5". ( Read more... ) Tags: finished piece

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cross_stitch [grey853]

12:47 pm - JUST CROSS STITCH subscription scam I subscribe to JUST CROSS STITCH magazine and have for a while. Recently, I received a letter from billing services about subscription renewal. At a glance it looked legit, but when I read more carefully I noticed that the price was nearly double a regular subscription for two years and there was no place to check for just one year's payment. Being suspicious, I checked the contact info against the JUST CROSS STITCH info online at http://www.just-crossstitch.com/contact.htm Nothing matches on the bill with what's online, phone numbers, addresses, nothing. I called the contact number for the magazine directly and apparently there's a big snowstorm, so no customer service there. I called the main number for the media service and the woman said that I should disregard it because it was fake, that they'd been receiving calls about it for a while now and even the support manager had received one. She'd researched and gotten nowhere as to how this scam has gotten hold of subscription information. I told her they should be calling the Attorney General or something. If the scammers hadn't been so greedy and used the real prices instead of inflated ones, people would've been writing checks and been ripped off. As it is, I'm willing to bet there are still a lot of people who have already done that. I think they should at least put a warning on the website about the scam. Meanwhile, I'll put the word out online where I can. So beware if you get a notices about subscription renewal from: BSA POBox 61001 Reno, NV 89506 Number 1-866-732-5851 Current Location: home Current Mood: angry Current Music: "Back to Black" by Amy Winehouse

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xinef

12:11 pm - Mathematically Correct Breakfast -- Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel Mathematically Correct Breakfast -- Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel

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cross_stitch [yacoba]

10:18 am - It's not the pattern maker, it's just me. I've discovered a slight problem with my pattern maker. Once I print out my pattern and I begin stitching it I start thinking, I bet I could have made this picture better. I've been getting a better feel for creating pictures with a great amount of detail. ( Whiskers WIP ) Current Mood: contemplative Tags: wip

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nelle816

08:46 am - That's what you get for waking up in Vegas Joel Moore seems to be everywhere. I've seen him hanging out with Zachary Levi on twitter. I see him regularly on Bones and now just saw him in a Katy Perry video. Is anyone else slightly disturbed by how easily her lyrics get stuck in your head? I think my video card is going out. The screen keeps going black and only a restart will bring it back. The noisy fan however has finally stopped, so it may very well just be too warm in there. I'll have to have Tom check it out. Since I went and posted last night, I can't really think of more to post today. The plan? The plan is work and then maybe off to Tom's for TV since we got snowed out on Tuesday. According to the local news sight, we got 12" of snow in downtown Waterloo. There was wind yesterday though and so it has blown around into drifts. Lovely fun! I think I will go out and shovel a bit. Well actually. Barb just called and said if I wanted to come in early to make up time I could. That's her nice way of hinting that I SHOULD come in early and help her out. So off I go to shower, dress and pack snacks for a long day at work. I'm pretty sure she's not going to let me out of there early, but since I've lost a day and a half, I'm not going to complain. Toodles! Have fun and write about it so I have lots of fun things to read when I finally get home tonight.

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cross_stitch [bethct]

08:45 am - Can anyone help me with the fabric viewer please? I cannot get my image to load!!! I am so frustrated :( I told mom and mom-in-law that I want gift cards for Hanukkah so I can finally (yes, finally I am doing it!!) but fabric for Nora's E. I played with the image and erased some of the background, so I want to use the fabric viewer, but it is not uploading my image. Where are the tech savvy stitchers? HELP!

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cross_stitch [my_mundane_life]

01:43 pm - Dustbowl page 3 Hi all. I'm not doing any cross-stitch until I've finished writing a book I'm working on but a while ago I finished page 3 of Dustbowl. Eventually getting round to posting the pic :) ( Page 3 ) Current Mood: hungry Tags: wip

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katybean

04:51 am Hey, thanks so much for the V-gifts on my journal. You know who you are! Loves to all of ya!

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littleblueghost

09:21 pm - What does fainting feel like? Just curious. The other thing that happened was I rode a little more and then stopped on the footpath, out of the traffic and ended up on the ground somehow. No idea how. So I have very ill coloured bruises pretty much everywhere on my legs. I also have a massive bruise on my arm from something I did to myself while cleaning... sigh...

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sinanju

12:04 am - The End of An Era I got an emailed notice from Livejournal today that my paid extra userpics would be expiring soon. Rather than buy another year's worth of extra pics, I deleted 70 out of 100 pics. Why? I'm not playing in any livejournal RPGs any more. I bought the extra pics specifically for the ability to use additional icons to identify my RPG character posts with an image. In the case of my favorite characters, I had a variety of icons to represent different moods or attitudes, depending on the content of the post. I spent several years having a great deal of fun writing characters in a number of games. crossing_lostrp (and the sequel, fandom_isle), primarily. That game was incredibly entertaining, at least for those of us playing it. Take a random but ever-growing assortment of characters from various fandoms and dump them on the island from LOST, throw an endless parade of increasingly bizarre adventures at them--and then sit back and watch the fireworks. It was a blast! But I also played a number of other games as well. Some didn't last long. Some barely got started before folding. Role-playing game campaigns are notoriously short-lived, especially online. They're ephemeral to begin with, and when life gets difficult, when you have more things to worry about than you can manage all at once, they're often the first thing you give up--and rightly so. But it means that a game is always at risk of having key participants vanish (with or without warning), either temporarily or permanently. When they work, though, they're great fun. I spent countless hours reading and writing in these games. I got plenty of practice at writing dialogue, action (violence and sex, both), crafting characters--everything but plotting, really. (It's hard to practice plotting a story when the tale you're telling is open-ended and other people are involved as well.) I can look back on a lot of what I wrote and feel pleased with the result. And it reinforces what Dean Wesley Smith has told me about writing. We...no, I won't speak for anyone else. I wasn't writing for posterity. I was writing to entertain myself first, and my fellow players second, and any lurkers third. I wrote fast, I wrote without editing (much), and as a result I wrote voluminously and for the most part, I think I wrote pretty well. And I enjoyed the hell out of it. But that's all behind me now. Not just because I'm spending my creative energies on my original fiction, though that's a part of it. It's also because, well, as I said, these things are ephemeral. My favorite games eventually ran down. As have all the others. I'm sure there are many, many other games going on out there and lots of people are having fun with them. But I'm never going to find the same mix of inventive fellow players again. I can't capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. In fact, it's the loss of that outlet that was probably partially responsible for my getting back into writing original fiction. I really missed writing so much when my games began to fall by the wayside. To some extent, I could carry the ball all by myself. I was writing two or three (or more) regular PCs of my own in most games. I could (and did) often carry on whole threads among my own characters. Sometimes I'd borrow other characters, sometimes background NPCs available to everyone, sometimes other peoples' PCs, either with permission or because they'd been abandoned in mid-scene. But after a while that began to chafe. If I'm writing all the parts anyway, what do I need other people for? I could just as easily write solo all the time. Then I don't need to worry about whether I'm writing "Fred" the way his owner would like. I can do what I like with him, including killing him off if it suits my purposes. So I began thinking about writing original fiction again. And so I have. And I'm enjoying it. That doesn't mean I don't sometimes miss those games. But they're a part of my past now. Which means I don't need all those icons. So I deleted them. Current Mood: sad Tags: role-playing, writing

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nelle816

12:20 am - Tuesday Wednesday Happy Days! Yeah... I've watched a lot of TV today. There were other things I probably should have done, but TV seems to keep winning out. I did try to vacuum some more. I did do some dishes with Travis and swept the kitchen floor. We also cleared 2 feet of show out of our drive way as well. I also made a darn yummy dinner. Pumpkin Turkey Chili sounds pretty weird, but it was really good. I did add a can of black beans because I don't really consider something chili without beans. I used up the last of the pumpkin puree that was in the fridge from the Wicked pumpkin. It was really good and Travis liked it. So I snuck veggies in on him... muahahaha! Kim called earlier, and I guess she got a lot accomplished today. She got her Christmas cards done. And worked on some of the projects for gifts. I did finish up my boss's Christmas present, but it took all of 10minutes. I bought her one of those ceramic coffee cups that looks like a white coffee shop cup with a silicone sipper lid. It did come with a silicone sleeve, but I made a cloth one from a pretty fabric and embroidered a B on it for her. I decided that that will be my gift exchange gift since it is within the budget, and I'll give her a gift card from Panera in a card as my personal gift for her. She had gift cards for coffee shops on her list, but I know Panera is the only one that will easily let her fill her own cup. I checked out KWWL to see about closings for tomorrow. Sure enough, the Waterloo public schools are closed again tomorrow. That means no YWCA again. Hawkeye Community college is also closed and Trav is pretty sure that means he doesn't get to work either. Staying home is nice, but it really hurts the paycheck. On a different note, I also played around with my phone today and figured out how to get music on to replace my MP3 player at the Y. I can't wait to try that out. I also figured out how to upload pictures to my computer, so that should save me some money on my phone bill. It has been a learning experience. I'm watching Dark Knight with Travis now. Heath is scary brilliant and it is sad to think that this disturbing role was his last. Tony DiNozzo mentioned Brokeback Mountain today on NCIS as well, so I had a couple thoughts of him. Well enough rambling. I've got one more load of dishes to do and then I think I'll take Rachel Morgan to bed. Or Karsa Orlong. I can't decide. Sexy red headed witch or haunted barbarian warrior?

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December 9th, 2009

jenavira

09:20 pm - Criminal Minds: The Slave of Duty ( in no particular order ) This is the least stressed Hotch has looked since season two. I suppose when you've hit rock bottom... Tags: criminal minds

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waiwode

09:35 pm - If you never hear from me again --- -- then the wind got me. It's blowing so hard outside the whole building is shaking. Being at the eighth floor on the windward side has an exciting side benefit. So if my building topples? It's been real, it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun. Today was Shooting Day ... the annual trip out to shoot the fun stuff (pistols, SMGs, shotguns) in abysmal weather. I kind of like shooting in the bad weather ... if it was sunny and nice then everyone would want to go. Screw that. (That being said, if we're shooting in good weather, I'm there too). This "using LJ" thing is kinda neat. I might do some more of it soon. Doug.

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