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Miscellanea and Army Boots
Today's yard sale haul:
Community yard sale in Millersville:
$3 - Prism Adrenaline Stunt Kite with all parts, accessories, & heavy-duty carry case (I would have paid this for just the case; I have been wanting a kite quiver.)
$1 - PlayHut Magic Flyer folding kite
$.50 - America's First Ladies Dover Coloring Book - which has mostly made me really want to do a set of pages from the "Empresses of Barrayar Color-Your-Own Flimsy Dolls" book (which could totally include Alys and Cordelia and Kareen because the First Ladies one includes other hostessing relatives too.)
Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy (purchased mostly for the illustrations of alchemical drawings.)
St. Albans Episcopal Church -
$.50 - F.W. McNess 1930 Cookbook - so far the recipe I want to try from this is "Butterscotch puffed rice bars" but I am terrified of attempting home-made butterscotch.
$.35 - chocolate cupcake with blue sprinkles.
H.O.P.E. sale -
$3 - Combat Boots - so I keep an eye out for cheap, sturdy walking boots that more-or-less fit me, because I figure if I'm not going to find any I really like anyway, I'm not going to pay more than $10 for them. And I was iffy about these because I've never gone with any that are that high in the ankles and it looks like they're trying to be combat boots, but then I got them home and looked up the label, and turns out they're Belleville 390 Des Hot Weather Tan Combat Boots Army Uniform Policy Compliant from a US Military supplier, so I appear to have ended up with actual, honest-to-goodness combat boots, which is kind of awesome. And they have absolutely no wear in the soles.
$.25 - Little Known Facts About Bundling in the New World pamphlet by A. Monroe Aurand Jr.
Free - two packs of cards for making card weaving decks if my first one wears out.
St. Philip Neri Catholic Church sale -
$2 - mid-calf-length classic brown trench coat with removable wool liner, like new - because there is, once-in-awhile, a winter occasion where an emerald green cloak just isn't appropriate. This has a label in it that says "Christian Dior Weather Wear" but having looked up old Dior trench coats online in an attempt to date it and seen the prices, I'm just going to assume for my own sanity that it's counterfeit. It is very warm and fits and makes me feel like a hard-boiled detective, anyway. Also: it's a double-breasted coat that buttons either way, so I have learned that given the choice, I by default button on the men's side.
$1 - Anokhi resist-printed cotton dress - this is cut to exactly the same pattern as all those authentic medieval men's tunics I was learning about at Pennsic (right down to the underarm gussets) plus it's blue-and-white to match the sample tab-woven belt I made a couple weeks ago! So wear it with one of my pairs of indigo-dyed 1/2 twill cotton pants (*cough*) and that's one more outfit of half-assed SCA garb.
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Oh yeah, speaking of tab weaving: I did a sample tab woven belt with some random skeins of polyester worsted weight yarn, just to play with figuring out how patterns work. There are still some bits that puzzle me, but I think I've at least got the basics. I did it with a cut-down deck of playing cards that were probably ready to be retired and the warp strung around three c-clamps on a picnic table. (The c-clamp looms I saw described online seemed to be mostly using 2 clamps, but I realized that with three or more I could set up a basic band-weaving loom like the one I was taught on, and get over twice the length, so I did.)
It is on the right in this photo. Yes, it does have "Ave Mundus" woven in to the middle -- what else would one write when testing a new way of programming alphabetic output with punch cards? :P
Next to it in the picture, if you're curious, is a lap-woven mat. I mentioned buying a lap weaving frame a few weeks ago, and I went ahead and finished off the project that was already threaded. I enjoyed it more than I expected? Lap weaving essentially makes thick, open-weave mats where, instead of intertwining the warp and weft, you tie them together with a separate thread at every intersection. It mostly makes trivets in my experience, but this one is currently being used as a seat cushion.
The backdrop is the quilt I am hoping to finish soon. We found the top, backing, and five colors of coordinating yarn in the things of Miss Mary after she passed, and I have no idea what her plan was, but I decided to quilt it by embroidering flowers using the yarn. And, for the record? Buillion-knot roses are really annoying to embroider with a yarn needle. (They look cool, though. And very, very yonic. I'm tempted to just go ahead and embroider a vulva and get it out of my system.)
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Did I mention we got flooded out last week? We got flooded out last week. We had about an inch of water in the basement (which has never flooded before - we're up on top of a hill) and three small bridges near our house flooded over with major damage; two are still closed, which is really screwing up the traffic patterns. Also somebody drowned in the friendly little creek that goes right below our house, which ): Best I can figure, we had about half of our average yearly rainfall in about three weeks, most of it in steady downpours. We just finished putting in new flooring in the basement on Thursday.
Dear Earth: Can you please wait at least until January before we get a blizzard? Thanks.
On the upside, I realized that lots of closed roads means space to roller-skate. On the downside, I have learned that while I can still skate in a straight line indefinitely, and turn pretty well, I have forgotten stopping, and when your first stretch of skating is down a 10° grade into a construction site... well let's just say I'm glad I remembered where the ditch was mud rather than sharp rocks.
Flooded basement, and particularly the fact that the tenant down there is living in what the Internet diagnoses as Level 2 Squalor, has really kicked me forward into cleaning up and cleaning out, too. So I'm enjoying that, and pondering my relationship to clutter.
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Oh! And I am clearing out my desk/office area today. So to join the "save the post office" effort, anyone in the US who wants 'something I found in my desk area' - might be a postcard, might not - mailed to them can PM me a mailing address.
Community yard sale in Millersville:
$3 - Prism Adrenaline Stunt Kite with all parts, accessories, & heavy-duty carry case (I would have paid this for just the case; I have been wanting a kite quiver.)
$1 - PlayHut Magic Flyer folding kite
$.50 - America's First Ladies Dover Coloring Book - which has mostly made me really want to do a set of pages from the "Empresses of Barrayar Color-Your-Own Flimsy Dolls" book (which could totally include Alys and Cordelia and Kareen because the First Ladies one includes other hostessing relatives too.)
Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy (purchased mostly for the illustrations of alchemical drawings.)
St. Albans Episcopal Church -
$.50 - F.W. McNess 1930 Cookbook - so far the recipe I want to try from this is "Butterscotch puffed rice bars" but I am terrified of attempting home-made butterscotch.
$.35 - chocolate cupcake with blue sprinkles.
H.O.P.E. sale -
$3 - Combat Boots - so I keep an eye out for cheap, sturdy walking boots that more-or-less fit me, because I figure if I'm not going to find any I really like anyway, I'm not going to pay more than $10 for them. And I was iffy about these because I've never gone with any that are that high in the ankles and it looks like they're trying to be combat boots, but then I got them home and looked up the label, and turns out they're Belleville 390 Des Hot Weather Tan Combat Boots Army Uniform Policy Compliant from a US Military supplier, so I appear to have ended up with actual, honest-to-goodness combat boots, which is kind of awesome. And they have absolutely no wear in the soles.
$.25 - Little Known Facts About Bundling in the New World pamphlet by A. Monroe Aurand Jr.
Free - two packs of cards for making card weaving decks if my first one wears out.
St. Philip Neri Catholic Church sale -
$2 - mid-calf-length classic brown trench coat with removable wool liner, like new - because there is, once-in-awhile, a winter occasion where an emerald green cloak just isn't appropriate. This has a label in it that says "Christian Dior Weather Wear" but having looked up old Dior trench coats online in an attempt to date it and seen the prices, I'm just going to assume for my own sanity that it's counterfeit. It is very warm and fits and makes me feel like a hard-boiled detective, anyway. Also: it's a double-breasted coat that buttons either way, so I have learned that given the choice, I by default button on the men's side.
$1 - Anokhi resist-printed cotton dress - this is cut to exactly the same pattern as all those authentic medieval men's tunics I was learning about at Pennsic (right down to the underarm gussets) plus it's blue-and-white to match the sample tab-woven belt I made a couple weeks ago! So wear it with one of my pairs of indigo-dyed 1/2 twill cotton pants (*cough*) and that's one more outfit of half-assed SCA garb.
***
Oh yeah, speaking of tab weaving: I did a sample tab woven belt with some random skeins of polyester worsted weight yarn, just to play with figuring out how patterns work. There are still some bits that puzzle me, but I think I've at least got the basics. I did it with a cut-down deck of playing cards that were probably ready to be retired and the warp strung around three c-clamps on a picnic table. (The c-clamp looms I saw described online seemed to be mostly using 2 clamps, but I realized that with three or more I could set up a basic band-weaving loom like the one I was taught on, and get over twice the length, so I did.)
It is on the right in this photo. Yes, it does have "Ave Mundus" woven in to the middle -- what else would one write when testing a new way of programming alphabetic output with punch cards? :P
Next to it in the picture, if you're curious, is a lap-woven mat. I mentioned buying a lap weaving frame a few weeks ago, and I went ahead and finished off the project that was already threaded. I enjoyed it more than I expected? Lap weaving essentially makes thick, open-weave mats where, instead of intertwining the warp and weft, you tie them together with a separate thread at every intersection. It mostly makes trivets in my experience, but this one is currently being used as a seat cushion.
The backdrop is the quilt I am hoping to finish soon. We found the top, backing, and five colors of coordinating yarn in the things of Miss Mary after she passed, and I have no idea what her plan was, but I decided to quilt it by embroidering flowers using the yarn. And, for the record? Buillion-knot roses are really annoying to embroider with a yarn needle. (They look cool, though. And very, very yonic. I'm tempted to just go ahead and embroider a vulva and get it out of my system.)
****
Did I mention we got flooded out last week? We got flooded out last week. We had about an inch of water in the basement (which has never flooded before - we're up on top of a hill) and three small bridges near our house flooded over with major damage; two are still closed, which is really screwing up the traffic patterns. Also somebody drowned in the friendly little creek that goes right below our house, which ): Best I can figure, we had about half of our average yearly rainfall in about three weeks, most of it in steady downpours. We just finished putting in new flooring in the basement on Thursday.
Dear Earth: Can you please wait at least until January before we get a blizzard? Thanks.
On the upside, I realized that lots of closed roads means space to roller-skate. On the downside, I have learned that while I can still skate in a straight line indefinitely, and turn pretty well, I have forgotten stopping, and when your first stretch of skating is down a 10° grade into a construction site... well let's just say I'm glad I remembered where the ditch was mud rather than sharp rocks.
Flooded basement, and particularly the fact that the tenant down there is living in what the Internet diagnoses as Level 2 Squalor, has really kicked me forward into cleaning up and cleaning out, too. So I'm enjoying that, and pondering my relationship to clutter.
***
Oh! And I am clearing out my desk/office area today. So to join the "save the post office" effort, anyone in the US who wants 'something I found in my desk area' - might be a postcard, might not - mailed to them can PM me a mailing address.
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