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Kimi
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Dec 15 2017, 9:27am
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Crafts and Creations - an occasional thread.
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(A link to the previous thread here).
With the holiday season rapidly approaching, I though it might be a good time to catch up on what all our crafty and creative TORnsibs have been up to. Are any of you making gifts, or your own decorations? I'll be contenting myself with making a batch or so of my homemade chocolates.
My main creative outlet continues to be my writing, and yesterday I was reminded yet again of something I really should know by now: when a section simply refuses to work, there's a point at which the right thing to do is to get up from the computer and go for a walk/run/swim/whatever. When I finally threw up my hands and did just that, I'd barely gone a dozen steps before the solution came to me.
Over to you, crafty friends!
The Passing of Mistress Rose
My historical novels
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Dec 15 2017, 1:06pm
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of the festive fabric 'parcel' wreath I've made, but it's very straightforward and looks attractive - a great way of using up oddments!
Drat - link to similar one didn't work. It's lots of little stuffed rectangular 'pockets' of fabric tied with ribbon so they look a bit like bows, then tied onto a wreath ring in a random fashion.
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Dec 15 2017, 2:04pm
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Several years ago I linked to a Twelve Days of Christmas calendar that I had made for my kids. We still use it, even though they are kind of getting too big for it.
Here is the link to the post on TORn. A couple of the links in the post no longer work (Bible verse website and manger template), but all my links to the pictures of the project do. Sorry for all the photobucket ads. Must be why I hardly use photobucket now. 
Anyway, have a Merry Christmas!
I am SMAUG! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, STRONG!
My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears!
The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, death!
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Kilidoescartwheels
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Dec 15 2017, 7:37pm
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I finished making a shrug for my younger daughter, sorry but I've got no picture of it. It was kind of a Christmas gift. I got my older granddaughter a beginning crochet kit & look forward to showing her some things! Also, last night I met some of my neighbors at a HOA meeting. One young lady is quite pregnant, due Jan 1st; now I have an urge to make a baby blanket, LOL! I'll let you know.
Check out my new book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521753377
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Dec 16 2017, 11:38pm
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I took longer than intended to finish the owl socks, and didn't get much dyeing done due to yarn supply issues.
No finished sock pictures, but here's my terribly trendy hand-dyed holiday yarn.
Destined to become fancy holiday socks, but not quite "Ugly Christmas Sweater" level festive. Unless I decide to use it for the Krampus socks, because that would look just sooo delightfully wrong! ;)
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sherlock
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Dec 19 2017, 12:09pm
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on a good walk or run. I always come up with the best ideas. I tore a tendon in my ankle this summer & I haven’t been ablle to walk much. I miss it,
I make cut out sugar cookies & paint the decorations on them. Today I’m making chocolate chip cookies. I love to cook. I made mushroom barley soup for dinner last night & my granddaughter’s friend seemed surprised that it was good. I told her I don’t mess around.
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grammaboodawg
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Dec 26 2017, 4:41pm
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When you hit the wall, a walk-away definitely works :D
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I'm SO glad your walk and hand-throwing worked :D And that chocolate sounds wonnnnderful! *slaver, slurp*
Well... I'm afraid my garage roof is one of my on-going projects. I haven't been able to work on it since 2014, but I'm still planning on adding to the picture and finishing the capper (new shingles the length of the top of the roof).
For the one or two people who haven't heard the story, I needed to repair damage done by raccoons chewing a hole in the corner of my garage roof, repair the rot I found during the repair, and I desperately needed new shingles. NO money for that! So I ran around to yard sales, habitat for humanity shops, damaged goods from Home Depot, and what I found in my garage to find some shingles. I ended up with 7 different shapes, sizes, and colours of shingles. I was going to do a patchwork pattern on the roof, but then decided to do a Middle-earth picture instead that I worked on during the summers of 2013-2014.
I have some repairs to do since the old tree next to the garage fell onto and broke the corner of the garage messing up some of the shingles during a wind storm/blizzard Christmas Eve in 2015. Nothing too terrible, but yet another step before I can move on with making additions to the pic. The nasty part was I had to climb on the snowy roof with my chainsaw to take the weight off the roof, and I was just returning from the doctor's office with strep throat ;) It's all about the timing!!
Here's a slideshow of my plan and progress up until April 2014. Family and life demands pulled me away; but I'm determined to finish it this coming summer! I'm already working on cutting out the shingles for the design.
...I'm going to tweek Smaug's tail. I don't like that it doesn't follow an obvious path of where it starts and ends (pardon the pun).
...Add more to the greenery around the outline of the hobbit-hole. Shape it a bit more. It needs a bench... at least.
...Put a boat and other items around the lake to make it more apparent of what it is. Maybe make the broken corner of the roof into a waterfall by extending the grey shingles over the edge and dangling down a bit shaped into a waterfall?! hmmmm....
...I really want to add a wizard and hobbits somewhere. I have ideas; but it's still gelling ;) P'raps something with a cart?
We have been there and back again.
TIME Google Calendar
6th draft of TH:AUJ Geeky Observations List - November 28, 2013
4th draft of TH:DOS Geeky Observations List - May 15, 2014
5th draft of TH:BotFA Geeky Observations List - January 30, 2015
TORn's Geeky Observations Lists for LotR and The Hobbit
(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Dec 26 2017, 4:51pm)
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