BraceOfPeacocks

The number of things I ordered for my seed starting racks "directly" that came from the 'Zon anyway -.-

The hardest part is probably the boning channels and I think an absolute beginner using sew-thru boning (which I think the pattern calls for) would probably do okay. I use spiral steel bones for the extra support so I have to adjust the channels slightly. Overall super easy to adjust.

Autumn Stays | Sewing Pattern and Instructions This pattern is a digital download!The Autumn Stays Sewing Pattern is a digital download sewing pattern and instructions to make a set of front laced stays! Printable on A4 and Letter Size PaperPatter...

I forgot how fast this pattern goes from a pile of fabric to clothing-shaped. If my back wasn't messed up, I could probably have finished all the machine-sewing in an afternoon.
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*Ren faire, not rental. Jesus Christ autocorrect is on one.

A selection of fabric and motions for a sewing project. Working in a clockwise spiral: yardage of navy cotton with a print of mermaid silhouettes in sea foam, blue powermesh interlining, a blue-green watercolor texture mermaid scal cotton. Pale blue laces for the shoulder straps and the front, royal blue satin trim, spiral steel bones.

A dear friend has the same problem I do finding stays for the rental/fantasy fair that fit her chest so when she's here to visit next week I'm surprising her with a pair of reversible mermaid-themed stays interlined with powermesh instead of twill to accommodate a heat-related condition 😸

Both the title, and entire content, of my hypothetical TED talk

Scenes from Ivor the engine. A man walks across a landscape. The words a ghost story have been added

The signal man from Ivor The Engine

Ivor going in a tunnel

A lady arms outstretched from Ivor looking like she’s crying out

The Signalman (Postgate, 1976)

Gotta get my rooms looking right for people to possibly get snowed in at our Vampire game this weekend 😩

1) haul Christmas box off to storage unit
2) read over the next lessons that just unlocked in my online courses
3) drag a bunch of cardboard to the dumpsters

Ooo this one has been on our household list for ages. I should get on that.

And then sitting in the aftermath, watching who is wringing their hands the most or loudly proclaming who you can "really trust" and starting my mental countdown of how long it takes before we all find out you're no different, not really.

Apparently, I'm too cynical and paranoid, but you would be too if you'd spent most of your adult life finding out over and over and over again who people really are. Grifters and predators all the way down.

What games are on your run-list, Steve?

#MementoMoriMonday 💀

A gorgeous cadaver effigy 🦴

📍St Mary's Church • Tenby ⛪

#Wales #History

Irish moots, how the hell do you say the name "Ossian"? I've tried looking it up in various places and a) the pronunciations vary wildly and b) the comments are all like "no, this isn't right". Help?

I'm the only staff GM at my job who provides content warnings for my sessions on the sign-up sheets and your books make it VERY easy to pull out those warnings for my players. Brindlewood Bay in particular has been great at this.

Ah crumbs, sorry 🤦‍♀️ time for coffee I guess. I also hope to play/run it someday!

How was it?

It was a tie between this and the time I significantly concussed myself while rinsing hair dye out of my hair 😅

Broke a teeeeeeeny tiny bone in my wrist while packing up a rental tent while I was working at REI. It hasn't been right since.

My mom had broken the same bone in the same wrist the year previous lifting a patient's head to position them for a scan.

I am just a store GM standing before game publishers at large, asking for the NUMBER OF PLAYERS your game works best for to be featured prominently in your game descriptions. I need to be able to tell people how many players each session can run for🙏 Please.

In all seriousness, if anyone knows any queer-friendly writing/social groups around North London please let me know, every one I've found so far either imploded or had weird vibes

Why the flu season is so bad and how you can protect yourself We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant known as subclade k is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. Public health officials say this c...

We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l

Superman burns a message into the moon. “Do good to others and every man can be a Superman. Superman (Clark Kent)”

Happy New Year. Bring this energy to 2026.

Signed up for a second non-credit course! Gonna take a super basic grant writing 101 type course along with my admin professional cert course. I am going to get a big girl job this year, I swear to god. I can't stay at the game store.

Working retail in NYC always makes it feel like I'm cheating at these somehow but: I once sold Dame Helen Mirren a truly fascinating number of travel-sized bug lotions when I worked at the REI in SoHo. To this day, I wonder where she went after that purchase that she needed that much bug lotion.

Line drawing of a room full of people in uproar, falling over each other, and running to escape through a door and up some stairs from a sheet-shrouded apparition on the right holding a candle. Behind the being a boy can be seen holding it up on a wooden pole.

"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres"

Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent

#EdwardGorey at #Christmas

The soles of the damned return!

Writing the Occult: Events All about the

Looking for someone to do a talk on the "romance of graveyards" - why our gothic hearts love them so much, any tales regarding love, death & cemeteries, etc.

It’s for Writing the Occult: Love & Death which is, naturally, on 14 Feb. All online. Kicks off 1pm UK.

writingtheoccult.carrd.co

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