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.