Self-Intro

[lusentoj]

Hey everyone, I'm that one guy from Sweden who didn't do any crafting last October! Starting tomorrow I'm moving to Japan for at least a year and won't have internet at home, and so far 80% of my Japanese friends are old people, so I'll probably be doing a lot more crafting. Thanks to moving, I've realized that "handicrafts" are just "things you do because you have to", they're not a special activity you set aside time for. For example, I can't go over the weight limit with my suitcase so I cut off the hardcovers and page margins on all my books and their weight got cut in (almost) half; now I've gotta craft myself some new covers for them or I won't even be able to tell them apart.

For this autumn, ignoring the book covers I need to make, I bought a non-electric hand-held sewing machine (which works great by the way) and plan on using it to make pillow / futon / etc covers out of secondhand-store fabric, because storebought bedsheets are expensive and not cute one bit!

As for my other interests, it's mainly languages (Esperanto, Japanese, Faroese, Chinook Jargon...) and I don't eat processed foods so I cook a lot out of necessity. Crafting-wise I like making stuff that's useful and not too hard for me to make, I'm almost blind so I get frustrated with having to "see" easily.

Introduction

[taxcha]

Hello! I'm Natascha, I live in Indonesia. I work a full-time desk job in a small office. On my free time, I alter obsessing over online activities (fandom stuff & making graphics like icons) with offline activities like making arts & crafts with traditional media. For now, I'm on the online side most of the time. I'm in K-Pop fandom and I want to continue learning Korean for it (I took classes before but I didn't continue).

I love all kinds of arts & crafts but currently focusing on paper craft and abstract art/painting. I was active on postcrossing site, I use postcard as a tiny canvas for my mail-art and send them away! I have a crazy amount of washi tape collection and I use them to decorate my cards/notebooks/journals/whatever.

I lived in Japan for the past year and I just came back to my home country this summer. The postal system here isn't as reliable as Japan and I kind of lost my motivation for postcrossing. I plan to do one mail-art every day for this NaCraMaMo to revive my snail-mailing activities! Also my sister just came back from Korea and she bought me so many postcards, I need an excuse to start sending them out. I can send a postcard for anyone in this community if you guys don't mind sharing your RL address with me :)

Day One!

[ladythmpr]

I've been working on this Mystery stitchalong. It started at the beginning of July and was supposed to be done by the middle of August. I was almost keeping up with the timeline, until at the end of the fourth week. I discovered that I had put in a three sections one stitch off. Ugh. Then I got caught up with kids' things and the beginning of school, and I finally got back to it, and finished week 4 last week.

I've slowly been working on week 5. I got this far yesterday:



And Then I discovered that two of the letters were off by one column, ugh! Today's project was to frog all the mistake and put it back in properly.



(OMG, does my phone camera take crappy low light pictures.)