Stuff and things

Finally got around to posting this year's wishlist on holiday_wishes!


Managed to finish up the gifts I was making for my niblings: Two book-pillows! One of Elder Nibling's parents shared in early November that said nibling had fallen asleep on a book, and I decided then and there to make something softer for falling asleep on 😆 I've got a bunch of half-inch craft foam laying around for a project that never really went anywhere, so I repurposed it for this project. I cut a foam cover, and four foam pages. I then cut and sewed enough fabric for what was basically a pillow sham with external lips for the foam cover, and sleeves for all four pages out of a different pattern; with the sleeves done, I attached them to the cover with a Japanese book-binding technique, and everything was done! (...This is the short version, with all the mistakes edited out.) Elder Nibling's book-pillow was dinosaur themed, because dinosaurs, while Younger Nibling's book-pillow was ocean themed, because their name is also nautical in nature.

Upon seeing the book-pillows, SIL insisted again that I need to enter something in the state fair. Luckily, I actually wrote down the steps for the book-pillows, making it slightly more plausible. It helps that I've also got an idea for another one with actual book content in it. (There's some fabric that's in rainbow with the ASL alphabet on it at Joann's that I really love, and I think I can get Shel Silverstein's ASL-and-drawings-and-written-phrases poem transcribed onto a good number of pages for just such a project...)

Acquisitions:
- Lots of random crochet hooks and a Mandalorian amigurumi kit
- What If 2 by Randall Munroe
- Above by Leah Bobet
- The Raven Boys and The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- The complete Steven Universe collection
- Sailor Moon season one, part one (with the new Viz dub)
- My Hero Academia season four, parts one and two
- Various amounts of chocolate and other random bits and bobs