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Hi all! I am your erstwhile community maintainer and cheerleader. I'm a Domestics Goddess (if you have to manage 5 different diets and preferences and still manage to eat mostly the same meal, you ARE a goddess!), and parent to nearly 12-year-old-twins. I've been dealing with injury, surgery, and mono (and getting ready to jump down the ME/CFS rabbithole) for the past YEAR. I've picked up a few new hobbies, though; I've learned to loom knit (mostly hats and fingerless gloves, but I'm branching out), and darn socks and do decorative mending, and I continue to bead and cross stitch when my brain has the spoons.

As for projects from me, you're probably going to see a lot of knitting, a lot of yarn washing and winding, some WIP finishing (I have a lot of cross stitch projects that need washing, mounting and framing) and probably some mending, because all of those things take less spoons than jewelry design/making and cross stitch counting.

I hope others decide to join in this month!

ladythmpr

October starts the day after tomorrow, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! We were very sparse on participants last year. Is there any interest in this year's challenge? I'm going to participate; challenges seem to get me going, at least for as long as the challenge lasts, and some crafting is better than NO crafting!

Post an intro, and some goals, however half-assed. I'll see you on October 1!

ladythmpr

I'm not, not really. But October starts in 5 days, whether we're ready or not.

The world is still crazy, and the pandemic isn't gone by a long shot, and in many ways, I think I'm still just getting through the days.

I rise to the challenge though. Come join me in any way that the challenge makes sense to you.

Please post an introduction, and let us know what you might work on.

ladythmpr

Holy moly, I thought it was STILL March!!!

I've not created much this year. Honestly, it's been a year of just getting through it. However, I think I'm still going to do the challenge anyway.

Come join me in any way that the challenge makes sense to you.

Please post an introduction, and let us know what you might work on.

Current Mood: determined

ladythmpr

Hi, and welcome to NaCraMaMo!

(This is mostly recycled from last year.)

I was (still am) a maintainer over on nacramamo over on LJ. I have been little on LJ since their new TOS took effect. The LJ community nacramamo seems deserted. But since October started YESTERDAY (in my neck of the world, anyway), and I have truly loved the challenge of crafting every day in October, I decided to create a nacramamo community on DW. I might be the only poster, but we'll see how it goes.

If you decide to join me in this October challenge, please post an introduction - who you are, what crafting you like to do, and what crafting you think you'll do this October.

Please use tags! I'll try to seed the tags, but if you don't see a relevant tag, create your own.

Have fun!

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.

ladythmpr

Hi, all you challenge crafters! I'm one of your community maintainers. You can call me LadyThmpr, or LT, because I don't use my real name on my blogs. My primary hats this year are SAHM to twin almost-six-year-olds, household goddess, gluten-free baker, and a (hopefully more frequent) crafter and artist. My main crafting interests are cross stitch and beading. I live in the SF Bay area in California. I tend to binge-watch TV (SF, police procedurals, movies, Giants baseball) while doing my crafts. I read science fiction commuting to and from my kids' school and in the 10 minutes I manage to stay awake once Ive gone to bed. I'm (re)learning Spanish.

This year during NaCraMaMo, I have some jewelry sets I want to complete that I think I didn't do last year, get my website up to sell my arts and crafts, and do finishing work (wash, iron, back and frame) several cross stitch pieces and four latch hook pieces. (This looks a lot like Last year's list!) Also, I'm going to finish cleaning and reorganizing my office/craft storage room.

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