FIRST
Rix-scaedu is holding a call for prompts. Prompting is free; tipping gets more wordies.
and ALSO
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lilfluff has written an Addergoole fic, the sequel to
Rabbit Hole!
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anke is asking: “Does anybody (besides me) have and art or writing related projects scheduled for February?”
Go tell her; I know several of you do!
http://crowdfunding.livejournal.com/391177.html
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First, a pretty Icon. Thank you, @inventrix!!
Second, guys, we MADE FIRE!! We finally got the wood-burning stove installed and MADE FIRE! There was some smoke and some mess but then fire happened! (the seam on the pipe popped but we got it put back together).
Remembering how to start a fire is, it seems, like riding a bike. You let the memory muscles take over and it works.
And, while our house is not at all set up to be entirely heated by the stove (It’s on the high end of a slightly-sloping downstairs, for one), it certainly helped, and we have lots of scrap wood & half a freecycled ruined barn and grapevine galore to burn, and that’s a lot cheaper (i.e. free) than heating oil/kerosene, which are stupid expensive.
Window is almost done. Next… painting the utility room (woo). 🙂 And the accessory parts of the bedroom.
Signals to Boost!
The Kickstarter is up for Plunge Magazine. Guys, I want to write for this magazine! Help make it happen?
Rix_scaedu wrote me a lovely erotic story , because she’s an awesome friend.
clare_dragonfly had an awesome Garden of Prosey! Read all the stories!
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We ordered blinds for the Giraffe Room last night (Cellular/honeycomb shades, to be specific), so we’re down to “make the moulding fit, paint everything again, and find/install a light” for livability. (Also, the shades arriving, though chances of someone peeking their head in our bedroom window are pretty slim)
Slowly getting picked up and organized. Slowly. I come home from work pretty exhausted at the beginning of the month.
Art is happening all over the place, in less sleepy news! anke is still taking free sketch requests! And shadows-gallery is holding a $5 character portrait day.
ysabetwordsmith has also posted her list of poems from the January Fishbowl…
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The tiny creek that
drains our land is frozen, its
voice stilled: it, too, rests.
Okay, it’s a culvert, not a creek. But it’s still frozen. Winter is here!
House stuff has moved to a crawl; there’s a lot we really can’t do in the winter. We installed a closet rod & shelf in the closet – making the built-in cabinet will wait till spring, when we can stain & poly without killing ourselves. Soon, I think, we’ll have the window finished, and then we can sleep in a bedroom!!
We bought granite tile to go under the wood-burning stove, and when that arrives (around the 7th), we can make a hearth board, then have a chimney person come and install the stove, and then we will have firefirefire.
Christmas was wonderful, hanging out with my folks & the dog on Xmas eve, cocoa with capriox, then Holmes with T. on Christmas Day (we skipped going out to Chinese and had pizza the day before instead). New year’s was quiet – mostly knitting. I’ve been knitting a lot.
ysabetwordsmith wrote this lovely poem to my prompt in yesterday’s fishbowl.
anke‘s free small art is still open! Go prompt! She’s specifically asked for non-tipping prompts as well as tipping, so don’t be shy!
Rix_scaedu has posted the roundup from her call for prompts. If you haven’t read them, well, read them!!
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So, the carpet guys are, right now installing my Awesome Giraffe carpet. Yay!!
And I made the garbage guy’s day this morning – I was wearing my Kitty Ear hat because my other hat was in the car, and it’s raining (raining! in December!) – and he gave the biggest smile. My Kitty Ear hat has Very Big Ears…
The window in the bedroom is making me throw things. We spent ~ 4 hours on it Sunday, another hour on it yesterday, and it will probably take another hour to three hours BEFORE I get to painting it.
The window is plumb and square, you see, because Father-man and Spouse-man and I installed it that way in early October. The walls are neither, and the exterior wall is of a variable thickness.
What’s more (note: the moulding I picked out, primed, and painted, as a start for re-doing the moulding in the entire house, is 2-1/4″ wide), the window is in a corner, ~3″ from the wall. On the top of the window.
That wall buckles out, though, so on the bottom of the window, it’s… well, closer to 2″ from the wall. With some creative casing. So new moulding.
Which means on the other side, to match the gap, we needed to add some drywall and scootch the wall in closer to the window. Which means more mudding and more painting.
Which means we might finish the window on Christmas, which has me a little frustrated right now.
What’s more, when T. pulled off the moulding on the door, to see what we had to do there…
…the door is lots neither plumb nor level.
*headdesk*
(but I have my carpet!!)
skjam wrote a microfic to my prompt… ’tis awesome.
I’m about 1000 days behind on reading LJ/DW, so if I’ve missed something, please let me know!
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I’m into work stupid-early this morning because there’s, in theory, a VIP coming in at some point. On the other hand, I get to leave early too!
This weekend was awesome! Saturday was a lot of housework – finishing painting the trim, moving the old sink out of the utility room, that sort of thing – not as much painting as I’d wanted but still productive.
Sunday, we took a long drive (go to the bottom of the lake, turn right. Go to the top of the lake, turn left. Go over the top of another lake….) to a place called The Wizard of Clay that does awesome pottery and has for over 30 years (My parents have housewarming gifts from there).
On the way back, we hit a few wineries, including Four Chimneys, which is a teeny tiny winery with some really awesome wines. I <3 living in wine country!!
In other news…
ysabetwordsmith has posted some more poems from the fishbowl, including “The Leaning of Life”, from my prompt.
clare_dragonfly has posted some more fiction from her Garden of Prosy, including The Other Side of the Gate, from my prompt.
meeks has posted a sketch dump, including a sketch from my story “Creeped Right Out.”
and
anke is calling for prompts, with a theme of “horror or dark fantasy”
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An informal survey of my friends suggests that this week is fired.
Love to all of you, and the weekend is coming.
On my own front, I managed to give myself a shiner (black eye) (well nearly) by walking into the back of a bike rack. Ow! Missed my eye by less than 1/2 an inch… glad I’m not shorter!!
(The sort mounted on the top of the car, sticking out the back by a couple feet…. grumble)
In positive news, I FOUND A PLUMBER!!! So soon, I will be able to shower and then we can have carpet and maybe be in the new bedroom by the end of the year!!
This weekend I shall paint trim, and maybe start on building the closet.
meeks has posted a preview of an illustration she’s doing for Mother-Tongue by jjhunter.
ysabetwordsmith is hosting 2011 Winterfaire at her journal.
(very belated) If you haven’t checked out HaikuJaguar‘s bazaar, I strongly recommend you do so.
ysabetwordsmith‘s Fishbowl will be this coming Tuesday. The theme will be “chocolate and other foods.”
And my Giraffe Call will be two Saturdays later, 12/17/11. The theme will be “Gifts, gifts, and the Gifted.”
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Good morning. My throat is raw, but that doesn’t stop me from typing!
This weekend was full of painting (trim for the bedroom, inside and out) and mudding (bedroom), shopping (bulk food store, mostly for spices (we were out of cinnamon) and the Asian market for garlic to plant (yes, we decided to go with store garlic and hope for the best). It was also the Giraffe Call and working on nano, hindered by my body continuing to declare “sleep time now!”
This week, I am hosting at ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
poetree; if you’ve been reading 1000 years or so and there’s a poem of mine you like & think I should share, please let me know.
Michikip is hosting a Free Icon Day!!
cluudle has been posting some delicious fiction; go read!
And ysabetwordsmith has up a poll for fishbowl themes
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Yesterday, a 70F day in mid-November, I stayed home sick (actually sick, but mostly a mild office cold I was trying to beat before it was no longer mild), wrote 3500+ words, over 2100 of which were for my Nanowrimo, and sorted the last of the apples.
I need to get back into the swing of house stuff before it’s too cold to do anything, but the plumber prospects are at least looking up.
Newest house weirdness: it appears that, sometime along the line, someone actually taped the drywall corners…
…wait for it…
…with masking tape. *facepalm*
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ysabetwordsmith is taking ideas for future fishbowl themes here.
And if you have not yet read her epic Igor’s Creature, I strongly suggest you do so now. Right now. Go. I’ll be here when you get back.
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meeks has worked her magic again, and it’s thematic to my nano!
Go see her sketch of Autumn, updated.
(and on LJ).
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And Rix_Scaedu has two amazing new pieces up:
Tales Behind The Verses: Between Eighteen and Nineteen – Part 1 and Astrith.
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