Saturday snippets - day 15 (year 2)

in which our plucky heroine feels slight inklings of a desire to learn new things and revisit former SCA research trails...

but for now, simply getting through the everyday, gradually making progress towards eventual clarity of space and thought will have to suffice. I did manage to get some very small plum trees from the backyard dug up and sent across the street to the new neighbors. My weekend goal is to clear off one small additional flat surface, to start the samara earrings for Neighbor Girl, and to enjoy the online company of friends and family. Somehow, I keep getting sidetracked with knitting rainbow things for Little Kumquat, which, while amusing, is not currently needful...

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The brackets to hold my Couroc tray on the wall have been slowly taking shape from assorted wood scraps, carefully cut and sanded and glued together. The hardware ordered last week arrived, and the smallest wood screws are VERY TINY indeed, much too small to be of use for this, they may instead be useful for Caer Cardboard. The medium size screws (¾") however, are like baby bear, just right... and will serve to attach the wee angle brackets to both the wooden supports and to the wall itself. Now the next step is to finish the wood in an unobtrusive black, and though I have no black paint, I do have some Jacquard "Dye-Na-Flow", which is a dye-like acrylic paint, originally purchased by accident, but should work well in this context according to the manufacturer. Stay tuned for further progress reports...

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I splurged, and ordered two (slightly different) fat quarters of this fabric, to make some baprons for Little Kumquat. I couldn't resist... the colors, and the playful (and non-gendered) motifs on the fabric made me smile so hard (and it is "dark" enough for food stains not to be as obvious)

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March SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	Kestrel kuspuk	darned Totoro gloves	recycle bin
2	6 jars orange marmalade	power bar kitchen	random books
3	5 jars applesauce	power bar workshop	recycle bin
4	horseradish	long power bar computer	extra apples
5	charter #1	rain capelet binding	3 baby plum trees
6	Black Ice cardigan	new mask elastics	-
7	charter #2	new mask nosewires	-
8	6 jars sumo marmalade	alter An Tir knit top	-
9	rainbow baby cardigan	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude friends that include me in their plans