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snowflake buttons and flying castles
Apr. 17th, 2011 09:34 amThe past week was one wherein ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
archinonlive had to work late most days. By "late" I mean that he got home between 20:00 and 01:00 each evening, but still had to be out the door to head to work between 04:00 and 08:00 each morning (some days he was working at sites 2 to 4 hour drive away, which adds a fair few hours to his work day). As a result we didn't get as much time together as we would have liked, so it was a delight to have the weekend come round and get to spend time together.
Friday evening we went out and bought some wall mounted shelf supports and then mounted them in the dining part of the kitchen so that we now have a place to put the sewing and art supplies, we hung my hanging pot rack, and then after filling the shelves and racks we curled up on the couch and I worked on a sewing project while we watched a movie, Race to Witch Mountain. When I was a small child I really loved the Escape to Witch Mountain movie, and I also really enjoy Zena Henderson's People books, which I think inspired the movie, so I was curious to see what was different in this remake. My, what a compare and contrast opportunity for people interested in popular culture. It amused me to see that the place names were the same (and the Winnebago), but pretty much everything else had been changed.
Saturday was a full on day. We spent the morning shopping, and came home with yarn for nålbinding projects, another shelf to add to the sewing shelves, some kitchen toys, including a delightful castle cake pan, and groceries. Having found the pan it was then necessary to bake a pound cake (you know the sort--one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour--very, very tasty!).
We also made a fruit salad, a green salad (grated carrots, sliced cucumbers, tomato, spinach) and a loaf of castle bread (which we forgot to photograph). Then, since we now have room in the kitchen again because the sewing stuff is on shelves, we celebrated by doing some casting.
I now have 13 snowflake buttons to put onto my jedi-inspired robes we made me some weeks back. Alas, my attempt at using his camera resulted in only one sort of usable photo (note tiny bit of casting sand still on this one), but I think the buttons are cute anyway.
We managed to get most of the seams finished on the robes, and half of the buttons attached, but then it was after midnight so we did yoga and went to sleep. Today is fighter practice, folk music, and folk dancing. Wednesday we leave town for the long train ride to southern Sweden for a gaming convention.
archinonlive had to work late most days. By "late" I mean that he got home between 20:00 and 01:00 each evening, but still had to be out the door to head to work between 04:00 and 08:00 each morning (some days he was working at sites 2 to 4 hour drive away, which adds a fair few hours to his work day). As a result we didn't get as much time together as we would have liked, so it was a delight to have the weekend come round and get to spend time together. Friday evening we went out and bought some wall mounted shelf supports and then mounted them in the dining part of the kitchen so that we now have a place to put the sewing and art supplies, we hung my hanging pot rack, and then after filling the shelves and racks we curled up on the couch and I worked on a sewing project while we watched a movie, Race to Witch Mountain. When I was a small child I really loved the Escape to Witch Mountain movie, and I also really enjoy Zena Henderson's People books, which I think inspired the movie, so I was curious to see what was different in this remake. My, what a compare and contrast opportunity for people interested in popular culture. It amused me to see that the place names were the same (and the Winnebago), but pretty much everything else had been changed.
Saturday was a full on day. We spent the morning shopping, and came home with yarn for nålbinding projects, another shelf to add to the sewing shelves, some kitchen toys, including a delightful castle cake pan, and groceries. Having found the pan it was then necessary to bake a pound cake (you know the sort--one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour--very, very tasty!).
We also made a fruit salad, a green salad (grated carrots, sliced cucumbers, tomato, spinach) and a loaf of castle bread (which we forgot to photograph). Then, since we now have room in the kitchen again because the sewing stuff is on shelves, we celebrated by doing some casting.
I now have 13 snowflake buttons to put onto my jedi-inspired robes we made me some weeks back. Alas, my attempt at using his camera resulted in only one sort of usable photo (note tiny bit of casting sand still on this one), but I think the buttons are cute anyway.
We managed to get most of the seams finished on the robes, and half of the buttons attached, but then it was after midnight so we did yoga and went to sleep. Today is fighter practice, folk music, and folk dancing. Wednesday we leave town for the long train ride to southern Sweden for a gaming convention.
