Peacoctopus

A 30" chainmail necklace in the Byzantine weave is laying on a dark brown table. The chain is a mix of bright aluminum and stormy grey, and the pendant on the bottom is a 1" diameter coin embossed with a bear head.

Closeup of the Byzantine chainmail weave necklace and the 1" diameter coin pendants embossed with a bear head. The chain is a mix of bright aluminum and stormy grey colors.

A friend commissioned a 30" continuous Byzantine chain for the pendant he bought over the summer. Mangled the hell out of the final ring up towards the top because the space was too tight for even my smallest pliers 🙁 Thankfully it doesn't show, and grateful that my friend doesn't mind.

Good morning. For anyone that needs to hear this:

Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob.

Thank you for this. It helped my daughter begin to unwind her spiraling anxiety thoughts, and thus helped her to recover from the meltdown she was in. She's still learning how to punch her anxiety brain, but this visual gave her the chance to take a much needed deep breath. Seriously, thank you.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh..."

Yesterday my spouse and I escaped the 100+ degree heat by staying inside and replaying couch co-op Divinity Original Sin all day. It and its sequel are probably our favorite couch co-op turn-based RPG; I think this is our 3rd or 4th playthrough. Always a fun time!

I love everything about this!

Photo taken of our tv screen: a black-and-white image of actress Diana Millay reading a book in front of a large fireplace on the set of "Dark Shadows" from 1967. Her character is a phoenix-type being who dies by fire every 100 years and is reborn. When we hit the pause button, the flames of the roaring fire she was sitting in front of just happened to take the shape of what looks like a small figure of a person with wings outspread.

Continuing our Dark Shadows rewatch and had to pause during an episode. We hit the pause button as Laura Collins (the Phoenix) was sitting in front of a fireplace, and noticed we just happened to catch the flames in a vague phoenix shape. A fun coincidence; couldn't have timed it better! 😄

Two chainmail bracelets sitting on a wooden table. The bracelet on the left is made with bright aluminum jump rings and green, blue, and black stretchy rubber rings, and is woven in the Box Weave pattern. The bracelet on the right is made with bright aluminum jump rings with bright yellow and pale green beads, and is woven in the Beaded Shaggy Loops pattern.

Made a couple of bracelets as teacher thank yous, each in a color scheme the teachers like. I always panic a little when making bracelets as gifts for other people, because I have to guess at how big to make them and worry they won't fit. At least the one on the left is stretchy...

A section of a necklace woven in a weave called JPL. It is black, grey, and silvery, and the three colors gently spiral around themselves. Not pictured: matching 1" long earrings.

A section of a necklace woven in a weave called JPL. The rings are shiny pastels in blue, lavender, rose, yellow, and green; there are three rings of one color before changing to three rings of the next color, and so on. Not pictured: matching 1" long earrings.

(Kinda blurry) close ups of the two most recent necklaces I made using kits from Blue Buddha Boutique. I'm going to offer them to my daughter's school for their yearly auction (last year I made dice bags). Pastels are generally not my thing, but I'm really loving BBB's pastel rings.

One of these days I will learn that obsessively refreshing the tracking status on a package will not help the package to arrive any sooner.

Proud of my son for getting his drivers license! Now he can drive himself home after his midnight shifts which in turn means I'll be less sleep deprived overall. We both win 😄

An orange cat sits on a brown table, and he is surrounded by pieces of the board game "Wrath of Ashardalon". His right back leg is up in the air parallel to the table, toes spread wide as he bends his head over to lick at his foot. The tip of his pink tongue can be seen just to the side of his foot.

"I lick my foot at your silly board game!" Chaos, you fuzzy little goofball, you certainly do live up to your name :)

Hearing the joyful, boisterous laughter from the next room as my gen z son introduced his gen z friends to M.U.L.E. on an Atari 400 mini made me so very happy (it's one of my all-time favorite games). They genuinely loved it and plan on playing again the next time they're over :D

An exceedingly annoyed orange tabby sits and glowers in his black mesh carrier. He can't believe his nap was so rudely interrupted for this vet visit nonsense.

The indignity of being woken up from a sound sleep, stuffed unceremoniously into a carrier, and hauled off to the vet for a routine check up. So rude! He is clearly plotting his revenge.

(Check up went great; he's relatively healthy for 14!)

That turned out fantastic; great job!

Beautiful work!!

Some of my earliest memories are of listening to The Doctor Demento Show with my family. My sincere thanks to the Doctor for the countless hours of demented fun he brought to us all. I hope he enjoys his retirement to the fullest ❤️

just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.

There are some well-meaning organizers who have set up FB events and the like for protests against Trump's traitorous regime. Do NOT RSVP to a protest on social media! Don't help the fascists by creating handy opposition lists for them to hoover up. This is the 21st century so fight smarter.

We only rate dogs. This is Chewbacca having a spa day. He's trying to relax. Please give him some privacy. 13/10

It's definitely on my to-do list! Probably a skirt of some sort, and a maybe matching bag if there's enough material left over 😁

This is a fun watch! And, it got me thinking about some ideas for my vintage Star Wars bed sheet and pillow cases that have been sitting lonely in a closet for decades 😊

Thank you so much!! I love it, too; it's gonna get a lot of use for sure 😄

The binding, ties, lining, and back panel were made from a vintage pillow case my spouse found in an old box when he and his brothers were going through a bunch of old family photos. Why there was a pillowcase in an old box of photos is anybody's guess, but it worked perfectly.

I wanted the fabric bits to be as misaligned and chaotic as possible, so I intentionally offset what would have been vertical lines had I been making a quilt. If I could have figured out a way to make the horizontal lines offset as well, I would have.

An 18th century-style tie-on pocket laying on a brown table. I used a quilting technique to make the bits of fabric look like mosaic or stained glass. The fabric colors are mostly light blues and purples, with some yellow, pink, and orange sprinkled in. There is white ribbon sashing bordering each fabric piece, and the binding and ties are also white. The pocket measures 14" long, 7.25" at the top and tapering out to 10" at the widest part along the bottom. The pocket opening is 7".

Made myself another 18th century-style pocket, this time with the vintage fabrics from a charm pack from @stephaniecanada.bsky.social 's www.backroomfinds.com . Everything but the sashing is vintage fabric, and I've got enough squares left to make at least two more pockets in different color ways 😄

Applying bias binding and lost a game of bobbin chicken <5" away from the finish line. Refilled the bobbin and finished sewing only to hate how it looked. Ripped the whole thing off and will start over. I know I'm still very much a beginner, but thus far bias binding and I do not get along at all.

A pale orange cat with yellow-green eyes and a green collar sits atop a speaker. He is sitting next to a small crocheted dumpster fire as he gazes out a window that is out of frame.

Our beloved Chaos turns 14 today! He's still quite energetic and playful, although he also demands much more lap time than he did when he was younger. And yes, he absolutely lives up to his name :)

Maybe I should call it imitation sashing (?) since the ribbon is covering the seams of already stitched together pieces instead of being in-between the seams (again, not a quilter). Regardless...I need _way_ more ribbon 🤦‍♀️