Oh nice, what's the food plan? Or is it a surprise?
We'll be having crispy hawaiian tofu tomorrow which is just about my fave food in the whole world, husband is also doing the cooking (he actually does that every day because he's one of those weirdos who enjoy it). Still very much looking forward to it though, not having to cook for myself never gets old!
For anyone who enjoys seeing how the sausage is made, OP also has some devlogs up on YouTube, I've been following for a little while. https://youtube.com/@PaahtimoGames
Congrats on the release!
Definitely a lot of horror elements in the few I've read (Children of Time + sequels, Cage of Souls). I've only just scratched the surface, the man is a writing machine, but it does seem to be a trend so far.
He blends genres a lot and even his own work is kind of eclectic and all over the place, but his worldbuilding and the ability to take a totally alien concept and make it utterly believable are just top notch.
Everything about this is wrong in every way.
Shame on you, Sainsbury's.
Genuinely did once get hired to do some design work for "Facebook but for dogs".
They paid me money and I got to put photos of my own dogs everywhere as placeholders and look at them all day so whatever.
Honestly so much stuff I don't even know where to start. The world is amazing!
Blankets, bubblebaths, colouring in, making a mess, making stuff out of mess, chocolate, jigsaws, road trips, snowy days, macaroni cheese, exploring new places, playing games, giving and receiving hugs, dancing just because, wearing big whooshy skirts and making them go whoosh, cuddling dogs, cake, rollercoasters, ok you probably get the idea.
Also I got to go on a reeeeally big boat this year, that was awesome.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/17097990
Behold the socks that created my obsession! These were actually the third pair I knitted but the first ones that made me understand why knitted socks are so great.
The pattern is the classic Hermione's Everyday Socks, and the yarn is a special blend of all kinds of things including silk and bamboo, bought as a souvenir from a shop called Yarnia in Portland during a big US road trip we took in 2015. You can sort of see the different strands in it in this pic here.
These are my lucky socks. I wore them to job interviews, I wore them the day I got accepted into uni, and I wore them for confidence whenever I was doing something scary.
Alas, after years of heavy use, one of them has a hole in the ball of the foot and I expect the other one won't be far behind.
So given that for once I've managed not to overburden myself with Christmas crafting this year, I think my project for the holidays is going to be to learn how to fix these. At least they'll be usable for wearing around the house, and given they're 8 years old that's pretty good going really!
(Please excuse the wildly different colours from one image to the next, this was a long time ago and I did not know how to camera)
Behold the socks that created my obsession! These were actually the third pair I knitted but the first ones that made me understand why knitted socks are so great.
The pattern is the classic Hermione's Everyday Socks, and the yarn is a special blend of all kinds of things including silk and bamboo, bought as a souvenir from a shop called Yarnia in Portland during a big US road trip we took in 2015. You can sort of see the different strands in it in this pic here.
These are my lucky socks. I wore them to job interviews, I wore them the day I got accepted into uni, and I wore them for confidence whenever I was doing something scary.
Alas, after years of heavy use, one of them has a hole in the ball of the foot and I expect the other one won't be far behind.
So given that for once I've managed not to overburden myself with Christmas crafting this year, I think my project for the holidays is going to be to learn how to fix these. At least they'll be usable for wearing around the house, and given they're 8 years old that's pretty good going really!
(Please excuse the wildly different colours from one image to the next, this was a long time ago and I did not know how to camera)
Oh yeah I don't care. My videos go up on PeerTube as well, don't make any money there, just enjoy sharing my crafts with people really! I won't deny the bit of extra cash is nice and it definitely helps afford stuff for new videos, which I struggled with sometimes before getting monetised. But that doesn't take much, anything else is just a bonus.
You'd probably get a different answer from someone who's into it like a proper business and trying to grow grow grow.
I maintain that this sock pattern looks extra weird half-finished and unworn, even compared to other socks. But it's also been really easy to just pick up and do a couple rounds at a time during quite a busy week, and you know what I'll just even up those messy gusset stitches at the end.
Dug out another half done sock too from probably a couple years ago, so you'll see that one soon. And after the talk of suitable gift knitting the other day I'm thinking of doing a couple pairs of slipper socks too. So...yeah. Sock month ahoy π
How are we all doing this week? Let us know what you're working on, that we may ooh and aah appropriately!
I was missing about 19 colours for Errol, and that's far too spicy an all-at-once purchase at UK prices.
So instead every time I'm down in town for something unrelated I just nip into the craft shop and pick up a few, thus hardly spending anything at all!
It totally saves money and I will not be taking criticism at this time.
*puts on sunglasses*
My time to shine.
Ok so in terms of Lemmy communities, I have a list of a load of them here although admittedly some have since died off and I should probably do a trawl for new ones (adding that to my weekend todo list as we speak).
On Mastodon, there used to be a server called artisan.chat that was great for this, but it shut down and most of us moved to either wandering.shop or sunny.garden so the local timelines there are a nice place to find people (the former is much bigger than the latter, and also has a lot of writers).
I'd also recommend checking Fediverse Explorer on occasion to find people who aren't federated with your server and therefore aren't showing up in your Mastodon search. Example search for #knitting.
My craft account gets a decent bit of reach among fibre crafters so if you're looking for anything specific in that area hit me up and I'd be happy to boost or otherwise get some more eyeballs on your request post. Likewise with my other account for gamedev, and if you are interested in game projects / art then again the local feed on that server is great as well as peoplemaking.games too.
PeerTube has a surprising amount of creative / maker content but it's hard to find because of the weird way they handle federation. fedi.video tries to get round it a bit by curating videos from across PT into playlists, often creative-themed, so you might find something there. There's also makertube.net which is as the name suggests focused on attracting that sort of thing, but it recently got an influx of retro gaming YouTubers flooding everything with their massive backlogs so you might need to dig a bit more than usual.
Hope some of that helps!
Being welcoming to people in general goes without saying. But we're specifically in a thread about encouraging more women to join and making them feel safe to do so.
Turned my sock heel today, and given how many people we seem to have here who fear trying socks because of the heel this popped into my head.
Shut up it's been a stressful day and I amuse myself...
We went on a cruise this summer. There was a pizza place that served by the slice, I assumed it was one of the food options that cost extra so avoided it all week. Day 6 of a 7 day cruise, I found out it was free all along.
It's been three months and every day I think about how much pizza I missed out on.
Look at me, ma, I'm famous!
To scupper something is to ruin it, prevent it, etc.
"We wanted to have a BBQ, but the rain's scuppered that!"
Never thought about it before. Now it looks weird written down π
Thanks, definitely genuinely esteemed Academy Award nominated (but not this year) character actress Margot Robbie!