Otter Necessities

Yes, long-time no-blog. Guilty guilty guilty. Not posting doll clothes on another website after all, it turns out that it’s just a poor...

Long Weekend of Page Layout and Other Natter I took a snow day last Friday, and had Monday off (Lincoln’s Birthday), so I got a fai...

I’ve talked to the chair for this year’s floodplain manager’s conference, determined that I do have a set of information I thought I needed...

Not a lot has happened the last couple nights in the way of work on books. Last night I pulled the trio of covers I wet down and put in the...

My mini book press and cradle arrived today!  Merry Christmas, me! My larger book press has four screws, and springs to keep the top p...

My cover boards for my Kipling books, cotton/linen tape, spine reinforcement fabric, and fine linen thread came today!  Nothing photogenic, ...

I got a bunch of booklets done, and listed on Etsy, which also includes taking pictures, figuring out costs, prices, and getting them in my ...

Booklet production continues apace.  Starching fabric heavily with spray starch (two passes, ironing between) then gluing it like paper...

The craft fair at Xap’s office yesterday went pretty well. Lower total sales than the Fremd HS craft fair, but the whole thing was only 2 ...

Err, oops, I fell off the internet, blogging-wise, again.  At the end of October Robin left the nest to go to work for Werner, and hasn...

My idea for storing skirt hikes is successful. They were already on (essentially) very short belts in a bin in the front entry, so I scroun...

When I last posted, I had made pretty good progress on the dining/work room. It’s still pretty much at that point - there’s a floor, the fl...

I didn’t get much more sorting done in the dining room during the weekdays last week. But on Saturday I slogged through stuff on the floor,...

Remember how on Sunday I said that the first step on the project to re-arrange the dining room was to go through all the stuff on shelves a...

Oops, got a little behind blog-wise. Labor Day weekend I finished changing out rings on belts, listed them on Etsy, and got them put aw...

A good chunk of Saturday morning was diverted from doing things Robin and I had been planning on by a sudden need of brush-clearing to find...

Last week over the course of a couple evenings I finished the giant pile of skirt hikes, and updated the Etsy listings with the new quantit...

Oh my goodness! *Another* Post?!?  Yes, yes indeedy. It was a busy weekend (and the last two posts were written toward the beginning of las...