That’s a very lovely table, you’re very talented!
Started out as a coffee table with sliding dovetail joints, but because of a fatal error, it became an end table. 
I’m working on some Christmas spider ornaments, but they’re from a craft kit so I don’t know if that counts. They’re probably going to be for a friend who likes spiders.
Only 10K words to go until I have a continuous first draft of the novel-in-progress. That’s 230K words written already.
And I am now so much better than I was when I wrote my original trilogy, I intend to line-edit the crap out of it. I can’t let it stand the way it is.
Frankly, thinking about it makes me tired.
Very nice, Chefguy!
I’m going to take this opportunity to boast about my miniatures. I finally girded up my loins to make a stab at some polymer clay modelling, and made some apples to go with the carved wooden tableware I’d made so far. I still need to refine the dishes a bit more and paint them.
I plan to keep the foodstuffs Victorian for now, so next I’ll do some carrots and maybe a roast chicken, but there’ll be no soda cans or Twinkies in my dollhouse kitchen, although I’ve seen some very convincing tutorials for that sort of thing as well. When I’ve got enough space to include a garden, I’ll put whole veg in the ground instead of just the tops sticking out, so you can actually pull up a whole carrot or beetroot or whatnot out of the soil. The thought makes me squee with glee.
Apples in a bowl with a toothpick
(that’s like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with a pipe wrench, only different)
I’ve been making a couple of book covers for some self-published authors. It’s been quite fun, and the response has been very gratifying. Can’t show you them yet, unfortunately, but eventually I hope I’ll be able to link to the books for sale from an ongoing web page.
Nice work, Dunkelheit!
Dunkelheit, that is going to be the coolest dollhouse ever. I wish I had one like that growing up. (I lost mine in Hurricane Hugo, which is why I’m paranoid about making sure all the things are inside before a storm now.)
I’ve decided that my writing goal for April will be finishing up the first couple of stories in my Skyrim fanfiction. Really I’d like to catch it up to where I am in the game, but I’ll have to see how much I can get done first.
Textile-wise, I’m going to continue to continue on my cross-stitch. I hit a major snag when I had it halfway finished and realized that the top and the bottom weren’t going to match up. :smack: This time I’m finishing up the center figures first before I go on to the border stuff. I keep meaning to take a picture of it; I’ll try to do that when I get home this afternoon.
I think you fight with it less if you use spacer bars designed for three strands, like these. You should be able to find spacers at regular ol’ craft stores, too. You could still use your daisy beads on the ends of your stone beads.
If you use spacer bars, you could also use jelly cord to string it and end up with a stretchy bracelet. Then you wouldn’t have to use a clasp to finish it.
I wanna see how it turns out!
April is National Poetry Writing Month. That leads to NaPoWriMo where the goal is to write a poem a day for the whole month. That’s my upcoming personal creative project!
Every day? Every single day? Aaagh.
Garrison Keillor is running a contest with cash prizes for one poem. Maybe I’ll take that challenge. Except it’s due, like, now. (April 4) See here.
I find it a really good exercise. Gets your brain going!
(Er, they don’t have to be GOOD poems. 
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Well, that goes without saying…
Thanks! 
This thing is made of plywood and would be extremely fragile if I hadn’t fortified it considerably with extra wood to brace it and hold it straight. So it’s definitely not for children or for playing with outside. I do intend to make some ‘fairy houses’ for the garden that will live outdoors all the time, I hope I can find some big rolls of birch bark somewhere for that, and there’s lots of moss in my flowerbed that will be useful there as well.
There are other photos of the house on the Instagram page, I wish you could sort photos into albums there, but they’re all in months more recent than last August when I started building it. The best photos are since December, when I finished the structure and started building the furniture. I plan to replace the silly plywood stuff with proper furniture someday, but only as I find suitable and affordable pieces that I really like. I’m just now waiting on a package from Canada; my erstwhile motherinlaw found a small collection of things being sold on Craigslist and had them sent to me, so I’ll be able to turn the other half of the attic into a sewing room.
Here’s the photo of the fairy cross-stitchI promised.
Here are my wildlife and landscape photos, which is my chief hobby:
Woooooow! Those are fantastic!
Been to Alaska, I see. A couple of those look like they were taken at the McNeil River.
The bears were at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park.
Neat, crisp work!