My computer is now completely dead. If you need to contact me I shall have intermittent access to web-mail, but I can't access anything anyone has sent me recently, so if you were expecting a reply, please resend!

NO BIDS YET

Camera I found on ebay by accident - starting at 99c with $11 postage in Australia

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Voigtlander-Bessa-Vintage-Folding-Camera-Leather-Case_W0QQitemZ120434596834QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Vintage_Cameras?hash=item1c0a761be2&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Lots more material added

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/sets/72157619482642082/

I have uploaded the first lot of photos to my flickr account with details and prices.

Fur Fur Fur! - 12 items currently available and more to be added soon.

100% rabbit ready for your medieval or costume projects.

Brown, Grey, Tan... some are flawless coats you could wear.

I hoarded these during my early re-enactment years, but haven't done anything with them for a while. You may remember when I lined hats with fur as well as the collar of my wool cloak. They're beautifully warm!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/sets/72157619482642082/

You are welcome to ask questions here or over on flickr.
Tell your friends if they're interested.



I am about to add some other fur bits and pieces and accessories! Keep checking back!

Aimee Majors art leads me to Google Oiran, which leads me to Audrey Kawasaki's beautiful art, which makes me want to draw... but my journal is stuck at home!

What inspires you?

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I am totally inspired after finding custom on demand printing for fabrics. YEP! Make your own fabrics!! What a brilliant service. Now we just need the Aussie dollar to get a little healthier so I can afford the exchange rate. I wonder how much postage is...

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/2009/04/custom-on-demand-fabrics/

I got the bottom of my steam punk skirt finished today... 15m of lace down... I think... I forget how much is left... And I hate the way this fabric dissolves into little balls of fluff! Seriously irritating!

Anyway... its blogged on my website linked below.

Steam punk skirt lace

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Animania was photographed and put online in a gallery on news.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/gallery/0,23607,5038212-5007151,00.html

And who should be first up... What a familiar face!! It is level4chaos!!

I tried needle tatting tonight and found it to be faster and easier than shuttle tatting! If you're interested follow the link.

I also added a little widget to my site that lets me post this from my site. Hopefully this isn't as annoying as the twitter feeds though. I don't know if I will continue with the x-posting of my craft stuff to LJ or keep LJ for personal stuff only. Time will tell.

Needle Tatting

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Actually it is how to make one. Thought some people might be interested in this

http://www.instructables.com/id/Awesome-led-cube/?utm_source=leader&utm_medium=ledcube_leader

I made one.

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/?p=135


I made that!

Kuromi says: Fly with me to the new Blog

I spent all day today transferring it into its new little home, despite how much I love Joomla... *sigh*
But the plus side is that now everything has tags and is in the one "blog" category instead of being painfully and badly catalogued.

Also I spent most of last night playing with Kuromi images. So Kuromi is now official mascot for a little while.

I am contemplating mucking with my website again. I am not really satisfied with "blogging" into joomla as there is no support for tags and if I write something about a new topic I have to create a category for it to keep things organised. I am thinking about making my website purely for articles again and either installing some blog software or starting up something on blogger. I don't want to use LJ unless i was to create a brand new user for it.

What do people who are doing blogs think about all the different options. Do you like to read peoples websites, blogs on sites like blogger or LJ?... do you have particular favourites? (not favourite blogs, but a preference in type)

I don't know. I did create a blogger, but I haven't been using it. The one downside there is I haven't been able to find how to search all the blogs on blogger. Though that is pretty easy on LJ. The comment systems are pretty much the same for either I guess.

Should I create another LJ, or use the blogger, or install new software on my website so it is all under my domain?

Also... I want a tatted mask... and I have too many hobbies!

OMG I need a break from this now...

That is the bottom frill complete. I now have two layers of lace to do while attaching this layer to the next bit of velvet.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/3355563469/

I literally feel like I have been doing this all day. And I kind of have. I started measuring and cutting at about midday. I was gathering and pinning this before dinner and then worked fairly solidly on it for the past two hours too. I used up two bobbins of thread on it as well!

An approximately 4.5m long velvet strip with 10m of gathered lace being attached... WIP for the last X hours..?

This is the start to my steampunk lolita with this part being the very bottom ruffle. The lace needs to be gathered because this is attached to the very bottom. Unfortunatley this strip is not gathered onto the next one so I need to gather 10 more metres of 5.5cm lace and 10m of 4cm lace for the next layer.

Oh I do love to pick projects with lots of frustrating, time consuming "fun" parts. At least I don't need this till July.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/3356220682/

http://www.costumewardrobe.com/blog/?p=28

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29577744@N06/3353600700/

urgh... I wanted to cut out my steampunk which has been waiting for me today as well, but I don't think that will happen tonight afterall. At least I got these guys done while watching Iron Chef. They have turned out pretty cute!

At least I am not the only one getting annoyed at the blogs I am following getting clogged up with twitter crap!
*wonders how many twitter posts to put up with before starting to cull feeds*

http://jeffcroft.com/links/2008/apr/21/twitter-in-your-blog-blog-posts-in-your-twitter-ping-ping-ping/

A fibre diet?
Nope... not for your bodies... for your stash! This woman actually weighed her entire stash, and then reweighed 12 months later to see if her stash had lost weight!

Check it out

http://www.pintangle.com/journal/2009/1/9/fiber-diet-weigh-in.html

This is my new favourite song: