Miscellany

[taimatsu]

I spent Sunday afternoon and most of Monday in London, seeing family. It was rather nice, and I got fed big pieces of meat and hugged a lot, and for the first time managed to refuse to go to church when everyone else did (which is a good thing). My brother is about to go to university (Cognitive Sciences, Leeds, in two weeks or so) and I gave him the fruits of my accumulated wisdom on the subject - such gems as 'Take drawing pins,' and 'Make sure you have some silly clothes to wear for costume parties and the like'. I still have to find him some small present-like thing to mark the occasion. Not sure what yet, thoughts welcome.

Have finished the beading on the sunhat, which looks nice but doesn't stay on my head too well. I have too much hair. Besides, it's barely sunny any more. I made a black velvet choker the other day, which I am very pleased with, since it only involved sewing a beaded applique thing to a ribbon and then attaching a fastener. It looks like it should be worn by someone in a cloche hat and a sheath dress with geometric designs on it. The beading on my yellow vest top is also almost done - just one tiny bit of red left. I'm really worried it will stretch too much when I wear it. I have nearly finished my mouse toy too, but I can't work out how to do whiskers. If I use thread the ends will unravel. :(

Robert will be home soon, and is not playing bridge tonight, which is nice. (The reason - his partner is ill - isn't nice, but tis cloud at least has a silver lining.)

Opinions, please: if I were a female Shakespearean character, who would I be? Name, play, and reason - comment away!

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[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Miranda from The Tempest. You have the right sense of childlike wonder about you :)

Also, try thickish (embroidery?) thread with knotted ends for your mouse. Looks sort of rustic but would do the job.

[imc.livejournal.com]

How big is this mouse? There's such a thing as `invisible' thread (it's meant for doing mending jobs when you don't have the thread to match the colour of the thing that's being mended) which is a single strand of translucent nylon (I think) and it strikes me that this would work quite well for whiskers on a reasonably small mouse.

Hamlet (Ophelia) Daisy

[barnacle.livejournal.com]

I have nearly finished my mouse toy too, but I can't work out how to do whiskers. If I use thread the ends will unravel.... Opinions, please: if I were a female Shakespearean character, who would I be? Name, play, and reason - comment away!

Ophelia from Hamlet, for the line "I would give you some violet, so you'd whisker all when the thread was dyed."

I thank you.

[juliet]

I still have to find him some small present-like thing to mark the occasion. Not sure what yet, thoughts welcome.

When I went away to university, my sister bought a shiny box & put a variety of useful/silly things in it (a notebook, some shiny pencils, silly bendy straws, bubble-blowing mixture, pack of cards, one of our old toy cars, half a pack of cigarettes, a Mr Men book, that sort of thing). I've still got all the stuff. I thought that was ace, & did a similar thing for her when she went away. She also wrote things on odd pages through the notebook for me to find, which was nice :-)