I started off thinking it was The Bangles... then I had to go back and reread the first two panels.
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I started off thinking it was The Bangles... then I had to go back and reread the first two panels.
Do you have a factory downtown???
It’s imprecise, but 27 would be starting to veer towards 30-odd.
It’s 8 pm on a Saturday night. R is out visiting a friend. Should I: A) get stuck in with more cleaning down in the workroom B) watch a movie and start a new drawing C) movie + finish socks that have been on my needles 10ish years D) play video games If your reply involves movie; recommendation?
Ouch, the poor thing.
Princess Pīata has decided that she will be safe from the storm under the pile of bedding folded up in her chair from when family stayed a couple of nights back. She keeps looking up at me as if to ask if she should be alarmed by the flashing light and loud crashes.
Yes well I wasn’t to know what was coming!
It’s just arrived at my place. It’s like the sky exploded and spat ice everywhere I had to pause the tv because we can’t actually hear it.
Hail!
Lightening!
Thunder!
Also, the live music they have tonight is great. I’m in my car about to drive home and I can hear the bassline for Seven National Army coming from the school hall.
Well I just put a dent in my Christmas Shopping (and my wallet)! It’s on until 9 this evening, then 9-5 tomorrow. Also: we’re very light on market bookings this season, so it might be November before the next time you can browse our work in person.
At a loose end in the Hutt this evening? I’m heading along to this. It’s not like a normal market, I won’t be behind a stall, just wandering and admiring the pretties and acquiring fudge. If you go, and spot me (not hard, I’ll be the one wearing a mask) please feel free to say kia ora!
Life hack: it works for hot chips too, and way less messy than par-boiling.
I have done that before. I have also done that then wrapped them in tin foil and put them in the woodburner. That was really good. And somewhere I have a recipe for samosa stuffed potatoes, and I will find it for you if you would like.
I reckon a can of Black Doris Plums might do nicely...
If you have eagle eyes, you may notice that there are prints of my newest artworks on display here - the very first outing for my new Pōhutukawa and Kiwi on the Couch illustrations.
One of the lovely things about the Pinehaven School Arts and Craft Exhibition is that they take care of everything! I dropped our stock off a few days ago, they display everything nicely, so all that’s left to do is turn up for the gala opening. Elisabeth will be there around 6, you can come too!
Oh no, you poor thing!
Me sitting on my couch being glad I wasn't organised enough to have the new business far enough along to sign up this year. I hope at least it's warm for you, 'cos the weather is nasty out there today.
Folks, I can now reveal that the Trump/CoC economy has come for my job. Another job has not yet forthcome so now would be an extremely doubleplusgood time to commission yourself (or a loved one) a painting. Here is a very small selection of what I can do
I’ll see if I can find it somewhere. Might be time to renew a membership at Aro Video!
It’s always been a thing on my to-do list to come back to, but I never quite got around to put it out there as a thing I do. But yes, I really enjoy drawing cats and dogs as well as birds. 😊
Here’s a few examples (I haven’t done any for a while, but I’ve really wanted to start doing them again)
Me?
Haha, it’s now so firmly ingrained in my head as either one or three words that much like its presence in the map, that thought never occurred to me.
Wishing you, your son, and all involved in his care today the very best of outcomes. 💞
Missing hemisphere.
Our 7th Form Classics teacher tried to play us this as an introduction to Satire (Juvenal) but the video (actual VHS because yes, I’m that old) wouldn’t play past the first few minutes. So instead we watched The Simpsons (that might have been homework). I’ve still never watched Dr Strangelove.
Somehow I missed that. 1 is compulsory, no matter what else you are adding, it must start with that.
Me doing a double take at that name... but that is not my cousin.
2 or 4, but I’d also suggest Marmite or blue cheese. If 1 is honey that is also acceptable.
Paper resist in progress!
#Kai Dinner.
Update: flash do happened last night and the dress was a hit! #sewsky
That’s properly impressive, well done you! 🤩
Hmm. I have butter, and golden syrup, and ginger. Does it also require sugar? I might be out of that.
I don’t like the taste and they tend to give me nasty stomach aches, so yeah, haven’t tried them, and they’re on my avoid list now. But the gas bottle home delivery service is awesome! Which reminds me I need to return the empties.
But I would also vote for Barkers. Not least because when I contacted them after noticing their lemon and lime cordial contained grapefruit, they created a second version that doesn’t (the citrus one). (The yelling grapefruit man from the weekend blocked me, so I think it’s safe to mention that.)
The Oh Bubbles ones all have artificial sweeteners s far as I can tell. Their chat bot first said all natural flavours, then no aspartame when I reminded it that sweetener is not flavour, then when I pointed out that some of them listed sucralose, but not all listed the ingredients, it ghosted me.
I will never apologize for a post
@growfromhere.bsky.social will know!
Is that Ward Island? (Or as I like to call it, a boa constrictor who has swallowed an Elephant)
I can’t remember the brand either, but I think it was either DB or Lion Brown.
Those three days of spring were nice while they lasted.
This was from the “That man deserves a [beer]” ad series, wasn’t it?
by Adam Hillman
If the aim is to get your work in front of people as a marketing exercise, and you don’t necessarily expect sales (but it might spark commissions), and if the cost isn’t too high, then it might be worth it.
Remember when they used to say consignment stores were a risk because “no skin in the game”? It wasn’t true for consignment stores (you don’t make sales, you don’t get commission, you can’t cover overheads) but I’m a bit leery of renting space, because they make money off the vendor before sales.
Worcester Bar is definitely somewhere my sister went. I'm not sure it was still around by the time I was old enough to hit the town. At 18 I could go places that had dining (we did sometimes buy some hot chips at Ministry) but I was very young looking so had to wait until I was 20 everywhere else.
Yeah, I was a bit young at that point... still at Primary School in 87 (F1). But my sister might have been there while I was babysitting for her in 89-90.
800 people!! I don't think I ever saw more than a handful there (I would have first gone in 1993). The Ministry was far more my scene though.
I'm thinking this must be just a few years before my cousin became a fixture on their karaoke...
And then there was the Billy T James version...
Guess how we came up with the name for our new business... I should give all the credit to Ryan, because he is the one who thought of it.
I believe @dairymannz.bsky.social will be able to tell you all about this...
It was tough cheese in our house!
Nah mate, you're dreaming.
Oof, that was rather frustrating after such a strong start. Wordle 1,537 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This is Aotearoa. Sideways rain is known to happen. Especially around the lower North Island...
*sudden* rain. I don’t even know where autocorrect thought it was going with that one.
If the promised aurora doesn’t show up this evening because of the down rain, I may be able to console myself by remembering that we did get this very pretty rainbow.
We have the same one! Except ours is full of charging cables and other random cords. It’s very useful.
One might even reply facetiously that it’s even possible to find one with them all in alphabetical order.
A rosella just flew past my window. Rosellas are not one of the 4 endemic parrot species in Aotearoa. They’re still very pretty though.
Hey yeah, here's some news! I'm still The Sewphist, and I always will be... but now I actually own a company with my beloved R, and we'll be selling both of our art, as prints and on homewares and gifts. We're bringing production in house where possible, so yes to NZ Made! Give us a follow maybe?💙
Is it possible you’ve put it on backwards? And once you’ve got it installed, and your fabric in place, have you manually pushed the front of the foot as far back as it will go? There will also be some associated stitches that need to be selected, depending on what type of button hole you want.
Oh I saw videos of something similar in action a couple of months back. That looks so neat!
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I feel this one big time. We went over to Eastbourne yesterday. When I was really sick my mum came to Wellington for my birthday, and we took here there. She fell in love with the mosaics on the footpath, so every time I went after that, I’d send her a photo of one. Now they remind me of her.
Yes. Always practice first though, because it’ll feed differently with different fabrics, how many layers etc. And I can never remember if it goes back or forwards first (important for your leading edge).
One of them ran out of ink 😭
I’m not affiliated, we don’t use it every week, but it’s such a good in between of a meal kit delivery and having to think about what to cook all the time. We usually jump online when we feel like we’re getting into a food rut (I’m sure you’ve noticed how often we eat 2 minute noodles).
Seriously, if you haven’t checked out Appetise.io yet, you really ought to! It’s not a meal box, you still have to do your own food shop, but it suggests recipes and creates a shopping list for your choice of supermarket (NW or Woolies) which you can either take in store or use to order online.
#Kai Dinner.
Oh, thank you so much for the tip!!!
We're not quite ready to launch the website yet... but we do have a date coming up for that. In the meantime, we're going to have a selection of art, tea towels and coasters at the Pinehaven Art and Craft Exhibition this weekend. I got a sneak peak yesterday, and if you're local, you should go!
Hey yeah, here's some news! I'm still The Sewphist, and I always will be... but now I actually own a company with my beloved R, and we'll be selling both of our art, as prints and on homewares and gifts. We're bringing production in house where possible, so yes to NZ Made! Give us a follow maybe?💙
Both printers now working, except of course I've had so many misprints on the paper printer that I am going to have to toddle off to The Warehouse and hope they have my ink cartridges in stock.
It worked. Well, something is obviously corrupt with my Fresco exports at the moment, but I finally twigged to open the files in Photoshop and that is now behaving for me. I hope.
Right, I need to head down into the workroom and try and wrangle a printer into submission. Wish me luck!
Da da dah da dadadudadah!
I can’t recommend this enough and while I openly admit my bias as Proud Aunty, it really is an awesome book and a great read and what else do you want to know??? 😃😃😃👇 (Also patiently waiting for Book 2! 😅)
You are in for an absolute treat in the prison scenes.
I feel like Paddington 2 was even better than the first one, so you’ll have a follow up too if he likes it.
Will you do Paddington next, or is that too modern?
Here’s my latest quilt finish. Freehand cut, drunkards path blocks, improv pieced. Free motion quilted on my domestic sewing machine. #quiltsky
I was on the verge of blocking myself, but I earned a block from him with that one. He tried to tell you that the list was small, and there was nothing hormone related on it. I’m ok with being blocked for that. His doubling down was quite spectacular.
There is rather a huge irony that one of the only words that ever appeared on my spelling list to learn for weeks on end was… material. I think I was competent at garment construction before I could spell it.
Actually, having watched the series now, I think it would flow forward rather than down, before bouncing back.
Physics suggests that they would follow the path of momentum (downward?) for at least a short moment after landing and then I think they would bounce back up for balance?
Hello. I’m on tamoxifen, which is an oestrogen-inhibiting drug used to treat hormone receptor cancer and as a way of trying to prevent recurrence for survivors. It very much is on the list of potentially affected meds. Would you please stop with the unqualified, unrequested medical advice now?
I’m hoping that’ll be the case. If it comes to that, it’ll either be that or getting an EcoTank that uses the same ink bottles as the one I’ve just converted to sublimation (so I have a full set of non-sub inks sitting around as well).
I got a few things printed after the first few uninstall/reinstall attempts. But now it’s happily pushing through large image files as blank pages. Next step is seeing whether I can do a factory reset, and if that doesn’t work, buying a new one. Of course I just put a new ink cartridge in.
Thanks for the clarification, which is in line with what I understood (because the compound comes from the tangelo side of the citrus family tree, where nothing about hybridisation is as simple as it seems).
I left some printing until the last minute. Everyone knows how this is going for me, don't you?
In short, there is a world of difference between saying “X is completely safe” and “hey there’s new evidence that X might be safe for some people. Maybe have a chat to your doctor to see whether it might be ok in your circumstances.” /soapbox
And if I come across as strident, it’s because I know people who died because they didn’t know that the seemingly harmless* supplements their well-meaning friend gave them was stuffing up the effectiveness of their chemo. *Vitamin C and other herbal remedies are not as harmless as you might think.
