Halima-Linda

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Handspindles on drying rack

The whorls now have their third coat on both sides. A few spindle shafts have their first coat, as a test of the method. If the latter dry smooth, it'll reduce some of the potential fussy work.

Called a bruise. If there ever was one.

Democrats... expressing gratitude???? They are flying a false flag.

Wood handspindles

Stash of spindles ready for finishing. Most are for a potential order, and the rest will start showing up at both SCA and fibre events on the Island. Maybe at Crown, if I get pre-orders to make the ferry cost worthwhile.

Something for me to look into!

There's power in art, in creativity, and that's why the fearful and the bully want to stifle it, to destroy it, to take it away.

YouTube video by Charlie Angus Canada Defies Trump With Citizen's Army - FAFO !!!

Drones? I still have manual dexterity... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWk2...

Sometimes Beaverton's satire hits far too close to home!

My chiro masks when she sees me, even if just a surgical type. I left her an N95 in a baggie last time; I'm curious to see whether she will use it.

Red Japanese maple leaves in a mass on the ground

I suppose the seasons have truly changed. Or changing. Leaves have fallen. Garlic is planted. Pondering the stack of unread books.

No photo, but I should've gotten one... or several. I've been struggling with archery for a while, and decided to make a major change in how I hold my string hand. Yesterday was my very first score of 70 pts in a Royal Round! The season ends the 31st, so... aiming for 80+ pts regularly, next year!

It's the paranoia that's the problem. When you can no longer trust what you see and hear, what will truth and facts look like? People become the pawns of whoever can control what people believe.

"Was"??? Is! Still dying, and Long Covid takes your life while leaving you mostly breathing. Even without LC, the organ damage accrues and will take you down in a few years, "unexpectedly".

The book sounds like a good one, though.

That is a long way to say, "Just take it to a mechanic." Twits.

Do it anyway, because it's the training of the muscles that matters. 😄

If the presence of the Oxford comma makes them think it's "ai", that says much about their lack of writing skills. Proper use of commas lends clarity to the written word!

~ One from the Oxford Comma Clan

I and my artisan friends are no longer mailing purchases to the US. If customers cannot pick up their orders... well... we lose sales, but better than losing hand-made goods to an outrageous act.

This is so wrong!

Awesome!

Books in a range of colours, being soft-bound leather in traditional long-stitch, with visible sewing on spines, in three sizes. Variety of closures. No two identical.

I bound some more journals, and this time included sizes I've dubbed Octo and Sexto, to go with Quarto. Fold a sheet of copier paper in half crosswise and then lengthwise for Quarto size; fold again for Octo, and again for Sexto. Soft leather; waxed cotton long-stitch; 72 leaves/144 pp acid-free.

Standard FIFA target with arrows

I occasionally take photos to remind myself that, not only can I do this, but have done it at least once!

I'm coming back to this for remedial language lessons.

Good. Let the skepticism continue to grow. We cannot trust a tool that is being used against us.

I grew an "indigo" one year, and it was pretty tasteless. What is your variety?

Oh, by all the hells..!

Looking forward to more!

I am sorry: I feel this NOVA l PBS video, July 21/25, ("Watch a computer science professor demonstrate how easy it is to make a convincing deepfake") is important enough to share. Be careful about what you choose to believe, especially on-screen, any screen. www.facebook.com/share/v/19Ri...

Truly wise words! Not only to appreciate the beauty, but to create art in whatever way you can... which need not be beautiful to speak to your soul.

A språng pair of wool garters for Maminka, two bands of yellow ochre, white, and royal blue.

A cord of silk kumihimo, with one spiral of royal blue, and the other of alternating ecru and sage green for John.

A språng section of dark red and green on cream; background of notes.

Working textiles lately: språng garters in wool, under-3; archer's armguard in silk kumihimo, 16-strand; new-to-me språng pattern, trad Finnish, under-3 mirrored.