Memesheepery

Six names you go by:

1. Angelia
2. Angel
3. Mom
4. Miss Angelia
5. Sister Broadsword of Reasoned Discussion
6. valarltd, Valar, Ltd.

Three things you are wearing right now:

1. jeans
2. long-sleeved purple tee
3. black gloves

Three things you want very badly at the moment:

1. More time in a day
2. a warm house
3. a royalty check (it's overdue)

Four people who will fill this out:
Not a clue. Knock yourselves out
1.
2.
3.
4.

Two things you did last night:

1. Wrote
2. grocery shopped

Two things you ate today:

1. grape-nuts with 1% milk
2. a crunchy PB&J on 12 grain bread

Two people you last talked to on the phone:

1. Meredith Ochs and Chris T. (call-in show)
2. Mudd

Two things you are going to do tomorrow:

1. Work
2. Cook

Three favorite drinks:

1. water
2. tea, unsweetened if cold, 1/2 tsp sugar if hot
3. Coke

Four goals in my life:

1) Raise my kids to be decent people
2) Make a living from my writing
3) See my grandchildren
4) Retire and have all the time I want to write and crochet

Books to 6

Books
1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Reread. Audio

2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Reread.

3) Jubal Sackett by Louis L'amour. Audio. Not bad but getting very farfetched. Starting in Carolina, marrying a Natchez Princess and fighting a mammoth in the foothills of the Sangre de Christo? Uh, I was with him until the Mammoth. Also, not interested in more books where all the malke characters have names but only one female character does. "The Punka Woman" and "Keokata's woman" were fine once, but these women were there ALL the time. They needed names.

4) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Stephan King. TSTL. The first thing you do when lost is STAY PUT. Beyond that amazingly good, very creepy. Very much old-style King,

5) The Tao of Willie. Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin. Entertaining and wise, I found myself taking it in small doses to better digest. If nothing else you'll come away with a few new jokes.

6) Captain Blood. Rafael Sabatinni. Turn of the century swashbuckler. Very fun. The remake MIGHT be good if they stick close to the book.

My first Steampunk piece

These garters are from 1895.

I'm doing them in black thread and on a slightly larger hook (5 rather than 7) so it doesn't take a million rows to get around my thigh (22 1/2 inches). It's 2 iterations per inch.

After I master the pattern (and get some callouses, thread crochet EATS my fingers) I may try them with beads at the center of each x.

BPAL: Al-Shairan

Al Shairan: The enemy of God, also named Iblis, He Who Despaired of the Mercy of God. Al-Shairan is the leader of the Jinn, a tempter who whispers false suggestions to men enticing them into evil and perfidious acts, and is the sworn enemy of all of Adam’s children. His scent is fiery, bright and thick with sweet sinfulness: clove, peach and orange with cinnamon, patchouli and dark incense notes. (Excolo)

Vial: Cinnamon and patchouli
Wet: Cinnamon and clove, hints of oranges and patchouli. I expect the patchouli will get out of hand. It usually does. But right now, I love this.
Drydown: cinnamon
Dry: Hello peach and patchouli. The cinnamon is tempering things so the patchouli doesn't go dirty. The peach is cleaner than DEPRAVED's apricots. Not getting clove or orange. A very red scent, not the deep red of LUST, but a bright fiery red.
2 hours. Toned down to a sweetly spicy scent. Not much throw. Almost gone after 8 hours.