Nina
I tend to avoid baking and im being quite hard on myself in regards to a diet atm so not really keen on eating carbs and sugar...
When I do bake its normally a victoria sponge, i've made a few and not messed them up too badly so far.
Dead Set. Written by Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame about a bunch of contestants in the Big Brother tv show when the zombie apocalypse kicks off outside. 5 episode mini-series.
Yeah, i decided against those as when buying cheap its at least hard to make a bad lump of metal vs a more intricate tool. The manual setters are at least cheap but I was having a look at the bigger lever machines and they are more reasonably priced than I had assumed so may invest in one soon.
Thank you! These were all done with manual setters, the little anvils and rods and a hefty rawhide hammer. I'd love to invest in one of those big lever presses, I live in terror of mashing a rivet or snap and not being able to remove it.
Thats really kind of you to say. I'd actually love to have a brand and store of my own as a side hustle one day, my artist friend has already agreed to swap me a logo for a choker! I'm really enjoying it still, so many things to learn.
Thank you! I started early in March so just under 2 months now. I make a lot of my own patterns too, but this was somebody else's pattern, once I get an idea of how the construction works I then like to draft my own so I'll likely work on my own pattern for them soon.
I'm working my way up to bigger items as I accumulate more tools, hardware and skills. I'd love to make a bag but I've mostly been using offcuts up until now which have been ideal for making bracelets and accessories.
Made a fun little spiked leather bracelet
Windsurfing. Cold, wet, miserable, bored of falling off a stuggling back on and picking up the sail. Not for me.
Tricky... I finally got my first NHS appointment the other week and have to wait up to 12 weeks for the second one with a psychologist where they will actually give a dysphoria or incongruence diagnosis and (hopefully) start me on my journey. It has been a long time coming, I'm scared and apprehensive - I have a lot of internalised hatred and denial I have to overcome and I need to work hard on actually accepting myself but at least it feels like there is actual movement now.
On one plus side I was chatting to my friend's wife the other day (I'm very much not out to anyone yet) about our mutual love of all things pumpkin spice (found a pumpkin spiced oat milk in the supermarket) and got sent a "#basicwhitegirl' meme in return which made me happier than she could ever know...
Pipster
joined 6 months ago
April (I'm going hard mode trying not to think of -a and -e ending names)