Rae Roy

Arts & Crafts  With Drag & Balls done, a crafting break was needed to focus on reclaiming my home. That didn't last long. I did try a little crochet, but I found I was missing stitches on both sides of my table runner and I wanted to rip it way back to where I hadn't screwed it all up. This is a common and annoying thing with crochet that I don't have in knitting. I can easily find the spot I screwed up in knitting and it's often fixable unless I did a totally wrong stitch rather than have a missing one. If I accidentally add, I can just combine two to get it back to the correct thing. I decided to restart the project in knitting and I plan to do the border in crochet. It gets more cool the more I think about it. I felt absolutely insane while I was taking the whole thing apart , but in just a couple of days, I already had a third of what I had before. I would be doing the main portion in garter stitch because it lays flat. Then I planned to block it before doin

Arts & Crafts  Well, the shorts were being a pain in the butt. My sewing machine did not like the two fabrics I was trying to join together. Fabric glue wasn't sticky at all. I had to hand sew the four wide stripes on. I decided to just tack them every inch or so like this: It held them while letting them move with the shorts easily. I was scared to drill a hole in the green clay stone I made, but it thankfully turned out just fine. After an appointment in Kanata/Stittsville on Tuesday, I dropped by deSerres to get more soft clay to make the other 4 Stones of Power. There are many more, but I'll add those to my necklace sometime after the event. Having the 5 was the important part. Then I finished the shorts and nearly finished the shirt. I added lettering to the front of the jersey shirt. It needed ironing to set the lettering and more glitter glue to be done. I did the glitter glue while I had downtime and during the window where I couldn't iron it for about 13 hours.

Arts & Crafts On Monday, I was able to get a large chunk of my cape done. I worked on it again on Wednesday as Tuesday was a driving day. On Friday, I accepted that the liner fabric just wasn't working. I pulled it out. I had other costume work to do and only a week to do it in plus getting my makeup together and a prop. There just wasn't time to fudge around with it anymore.  A trip to Michaels was in order on Saturday for modeling clay, wide white ribbon, and felt, glitter glue, stencils and fabric markers. Then I finished a large chunk of my costume prep including a number for my back that is meaningful for the character that I am crossplaying: Of course, it absolutely needed glitter glue. There will be more added after I sew it onto the shirt. I made pieces for the ring, but I didn't like the "nut" or the "glue" portion, so I decided I would make a necklace with the five power stones and eventually add the others to it. They could be separated wi

Arts & Crafts I've started working on the cape during TV time instead of playing Minecraft . It's the best idea I had for finishing it on time. But I hit a roadblock. The clips I often use for holding two pieces of fabric together instead of pins couldn't handle a silkier textile. I tried a wooden clothes pin, but it frayed the silky fabric slightly. The plastic clothes pin didn't damage the fabric, but it was so big, it was impracticle. Despite having come across my pins recently; I couldn't remember where I had put them. Frustrated, I put it down for a moment. Then, I realized that I did have something I could try: An unusual use for bobby pins, but they seemed to do the trick. Reasons why I put resourceful on my resume... But then I was having trouble with the thread knotting up and getting stuck. A break was needed to calm down. I brought it with me to North Bay, but I felt too sleepy to work on it most days. Decluttering & Minimalism My goal for this we

Arts & Crafts OK, it's really time to get moving on my cape. I'm away for one weekend and have events most weekends. It and the shorts shouldn't take long. I just need to sit down and do them. And I'm struggling to do that. Fours days in a row of stuff to attend distracted me from the cape. Right now, I feel like I just need to finish something to get that motivation to finish other things. Decluttering & Minimalism  I'm starting a digital declutter because Google keeps complaining about the space I don't have. I'm going through old notes and trimming them. I'm also changing their file types to further reduce the space they consume. I don't want to pay for storage. Gaming & Streaming  On Thursday, I decided to replace my keyboard with a more expensive 60% keyboard that was on sale at Canada Computers. It's also really quiet. The cheap one I got from Amazon constantly added extra letters and it got very annoying. The new one is also ra

Arts & Crafts  I did not work on my cape at all. I did visit Michaels for some items I've been wanting for awhile like a woodburning kit. I also found this kit for $5 on clearance: I know Hama beads didn't work well for me, but I love Wonder Woman. I have no plans to make this anytime soon. Perhaps in the winter as it's very large and I'll likely want to frame it. Decluttering & Minimalism  My hats have been gathered into one clear bin. My music stand has been moved to another location for now, so I can practice more often. Gaming & Streaming  In Minecraft  this week, I finished my garage, I started several cars, I built an arboretum, I built the bulk of a museum, and I mined a ton of gold. Goal Setting & Tracking  Arts & Crafts: Get cape 50% complete. Decluttering & Minimalism: Place all headwear into one container. Get set up better to practice recorder. Gaming & Streaming: Build an underground garage to house my cars in Minecraft. Make sev