My air plants arrived today. :D So I gathered materials to start assembling the lantern terrarium. (Start with Photos: Fairy Garden Lantern Deconstruction. Continue with Photos: Lantern Terrarium Assembly Part 2 Testing the Fit.)

( Walk with me ... )

I measured a hem for K's cape, and then stitched the hem (no photo).

Then, I knitted one last baby hat from the current skein, and only had a tiny bit left over.

[ID: A knitted baby hat in pastel variegated yarn, with the very last bit of the skein to the right. End ID]

Article Link [here].

While I recommend reading the whole article, I'm also going to place a summary copied from tumblr (og post here) under a cut.

( How Crunchyroll is ruining its subtitles, how we got here, and why it matters. )

Considering the average Dreamwidth user probably remembers when Crunchyroll was a piracy site, as well as the golden age of fansubbing, I'm wondering what people's preferred solution for monopolization, and subsequent decrease in quality, of official anime streaming is. Should we focus our efforts more on pressuring Crunchyroll (and streaming services at large) to fix its subtitles, or on re-invigorating and suporting fansub groups and fansub culture?

I made a layered or waterfall junk journal as a birthday gift. The theme was Sir Matthew Bourne's ballet Edward Scissorhands More about this: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/652811.html

Final Day of the challenge! I picked up a string of fimo discs, not sure what to do with them, but I rather liked the color (and the price).

Realized when I was looking at this shell pendant that it might go very nicely for a coral sort of look. Added in glass seed bead spacers to make that work and then some glass studded metal balls for a bit more zing, and a reflective water angle.

Along with Vampire Princess Miyu and Ghost Sweeper Mikami, I've been watching some Shaman King and Ajazukin Cha Cha, which stars an adorable magic apprentice named Cha Cha and her mishaps when conjuring anything, dealing with monsters and vampires at times.

The dubbed version aired on Cartoon Network in another country, not sure if it ever did in the US, but there are some episodes uploaded at YouTube if interested.

So Happy Halloween and all that, I'm going back to my own thing.

Day 29

I FINISHED stitching the little mouse ornament! I COMPLETED a cross stitch project! (While sick, even!) Where's my ticker-tape parade? :)

[ID: A completed cross stitch project; a gray mouse wearing a turquoise scarf; stitching the word JOY in red thread on white fabric; Holly leaves in dark green thread are stitched at the top and bottom of the mouse. End ID]

Now, it needs a little bath, and then to be formed into the ornament.

Day 30

I didn't really know what to do this day; I didn't really want to start another cross stitch ornament, nor did I want to knit a baby hat. I decided to darn the second sock of a pair of boot socks that were wearing thin. The raining season is coming, and to wear my boots, I need my boot socks!

[ID: A gray sock with the heel bottom darned in dark yarn. End ID]

Title: 'Poor, Pretty Fool'
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: Original Fiction
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Disturbing concepts; mild innuendo; brief violence; character death
Notes: Using Challenge #24: Fairy Tale AU. Crossposted to ficlet_zone and genprompt_bingo.
Summary: Her curiosity had planted such intriguing scenes in her imagination.

( Poor, Pretty Fool )

The enamel and glass pin seemed very 1920s to me, and I wanted to match the soft look. Added three kinds of green glass bead, both stone looking and frosted glass.

I was originally trying to decide whether to glitz it up with the larger metal beads and glass studded balls, or to use metal drums to bracket some clear glass and make it seem more wing-like. Ended up deciding to do both!

Had a few of these bright copper skulls left over from two other strands, and was trying to think of something different to do with them than the usual creepy fare.

I had a strand of multisize orange and black beads which seemed a good Halloween counterpart. I added in some matching copper stars and some semi-metallic painted glass ovals to give it a little glitz.

Day 27

I had a headache all day with a bit of a scratchy throat; looks like the cold I thought I was over, wasn't. All I got done was 16 rows on a baby hat.

[ID: 16 rows of pastel variegated yarn on a purple knitting loom. End ID]

Day 28

A very low energy day, because yeah, I really wasn't over that cold, ugh. One of the kids needed a jabot for a costume, and instead of talking to me to see what we could fashion with the TONS of supplies we already have (TBF, everyone involved was at least a little under the weather and not thinking well) they bought a POS shirt/jabot combo that cost way too much at S***T H*******N and was non-returnable. I spent far too much time separating the jabot from the shirt, and then pinned everything back together to be sewn up by NOT ME.

[ID: A white jabot,pinned for restitching. End ID]

And a bit later and a bit calmer, I finished the baby hat that I started yesterday.

[ID: A knitted baby hat in pastel variegated yarn. End ID]

Picked up these balls recently while shopping for crimp beads. I loved the color and their A/B shine. Ditto with the smaller balls which were alternately a light blue or lavender depending on the angle. I thought the size of the main beads was best offset with a lighter set of beads, as I didn't want it to look chunky. The metal coins and tubes seemed a way of slimming it down a bit.

I loved the colors of this butterfly, it had a very 1970s vibe to me. Decided to mimic the colors in different strands for a fluttery sort of look. It's rather sparklier in person but the camera didn't really pick it up.

I knitted a baby hat during church-via-video (the household, and especially the usual driver, is still sick, though I appear to be better).

[ID: A knitted baby hat in two colors of variegated yarn. End ID]

When that hat was finished, I didn't have enough of the purpley variegated to use in another hat. The pastel variegated yarn cake had come un-caked (larger cakes sometimes do fall apart) and since I was going to be pulling yarn from both ends for the next hat, I had to re-cake the yarn.

[ID: The first photo is pastel variegated yarn cake that has fallen apart and become a tangled mess; the second photo is a re-formed pastel variegated yarn cake. End ID]

Later in the evening, I knitted another baby hat, using the pastel variegated yarn, because I needed to do something with my hands while binging more Camp Cretaceous.

[ID: A knitted baby hat in pastel variegated yarn. End ID]

Title: 'The Great Gian'
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: Wayne & Shuster
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to spook_me
Summary: The Great Gian is "great" no longer!

( The Great Gian )

Had a final set of the candy corn from Jo-Anne's closing. Added two different stone balls in orange shades, and some glass Ebeads for a simple Halloween look.

I completed the backstitch on the body of the mouse. Now, there's just some fine details to finish, and I should be done with this piece by the end of the month!


[ID: A cross stitch project in progress, showing a gray mouse wearing a turquoise scarf; Holly leaves in dark green thread are stitched at the top and bottom of the mouse. The entire mouse is now outlined in backstitch. End ID]

Been catching up on Vampire Princess Miyu as a way to go with the Halloween thing without doing too much about it. Its still haunting, and it has become one of my all-time favorites. I'm hoping to finally finish the series and the OAV which I also watched way back then on VHS.

(In fact, that was the first time I began watching it.)

I'm also watching episodes of Ghost Sweeper Mikami with the same goal of finishing it up as well.

Anyone here also watching Horror/Supernatural themed Anime this month?

More little slides for bracelets that I couldn't otherwise use, so turned them into dangles and decided to use them in a pattern here.