Weekend Retort. Sorta.

[ickaimp]

So the Healthy Family lady is here and helping us make a toy for Xan involving a water bottle and various things that float and sink in it. But we had to think of things to put into it.

Enter... Crazy Auntie Icka!'s Bag O' Holding™

From the bag:
1 plastic water bottle
8 clear plastic beads
1 fake turquoise bead
13 fake jewels
1 mini rubber pirate devil ducky
1 broken lanyard
1 luggage lock (minus key)
1 hopper popper painted like a yellow baseball.

-the last three didn't go in. Surprisingly, 3 of the beads float, the rest --including the rubber ducky-- do not. *pokes bottle* The grown-ups are confuzzled. Waiting for Xan to wake up from his nap to see what he thinks of it.

Anyway. We were going to do a Murder Mystery this weekend, but everyone was feeling very blah, so we called it a dead weekend and didn't do much. I curled up and got some writing done. Two longfics down to the final scenes! \o/ Yay for clearing backlog!
Did stop by Savers and got a new skirt for free because of the fist-size hole in one seam. A few minutes mending and it's as good as new.
... Am continuously amazed at how few people seem to know how to mend or sew these days. Out of curiosity, Scadians and Tiffany aside, how many people can sew? How many can't? (I can hand sew, but blow up sewing machines. boom, thread and bobbins everywhere. s'not pretty.)

Ficcage: DC/MK - Marry, Shag, Throw off a Cliff

Comments

[kahlii.livejournal.com]

I can do a bit of hand sewing. Made hand sewn stuffed animals for my grandparents for Christmas. Also do machine sewing to make cosplay stuff (as can be seen on the top of my lj). Not too sure how good I would be at mending, though. >.>

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

I can occasionally be coaxed into making rag dolls (I have a Kaitou Kid one that I travel with), but if you can hand sew, you should be able to mend, it's not that big of a difference.

Despite the fact that I'm in the SCA, I still can't make clothing. I can cut, pin and do hems and such, but to make the full thing? Nah-uh. The few cosplay costumes I've done have been handsewing as well, but it's been because of the fabric or style of the costume. (Larva from Vampire Miyu and Naraku from Inuyasha, which was massive amounts of shag fur)