Started on the legs of my baba yaga hut. Modeling the legs on a cassowaries legs not chicken legs, cause cassowary legs look primeval.

Post a cover of book you love from the 90's.

Today I got to spend time at the pottery wheel. Practicing different forms and trying for consistency of wall thickness. Still a lot to practice. I am reasonably happy both the results. I do tend to be too ambitious for thin walls. It gets to the point the clay can barely hold its shape. #pottery

Starting a new project in ignorance can sometimes be a blessing. I learned to knit making a custom made fair isle pattern touque. Apparently that is not normal. Fuck normal, I prefer weird. I miss my HHGTTG inspired Frankie and Benji mouse touque. Now that I know it's hard, I'm Intimidated. Doh.

A couple things from the pottery classes I took. We were encouraged to experiment with multi layer glazes. #pottery

I have hit the point where I only truly know what day of the week it is by what podcasts dropped into my release feed. Must be a Thursday. As I get The Friendly Atheist podcast and a Beyond the Bastards podcast. Happy Thursday everyone.

Three separate attempts at snatching a FB marketplace loom in three weeks. I am destined to be the second person to reply. That 12 shaft loom would have been sweet (even if it was toggle and not foot treadled). #loom #weaving

With all the garbage going on, I really didn't need Catherine O'Hara passing away. My second favorite SCTV character was Lola Heatherton.

Made a little pot for a small carnivorous plant. The inside is an oxblood red underglaze, and the blue details pattern I am calling Cormorants on parade. #pottery

Reading up on extinction burst theory. Gawd, I hope things don't get much worse, before they get better.

I'm so tired from work, I'm too tired to do any of my hobbies on my day off. Construction Plumbing may pay well but its a tough damn trade on a 50+ year old body.

Installing the skulls around the fence of baba yagas hut. All posts get a skull but one. My favorite BY tale has bone gramma out played by a young maid and forced to loose one of her skull lanterns. #pottery #babayaga

Redoing my glaze tile board. New tiles and a pretty frame cause why not. #pottery #ceramics #NERD

Today i am greatful for my local Langely Farmers Market (fruit and veg grocery chain). Often I find they cut a couple of their cabbages in half. As a single person a whole cabbage is toooooooo much cabbage. #groceries #cabbage #toomuch

Not bad for a non potter. Made a candlestick with a 16th century Islamic vibe. Need work on underglaze technique. #sca #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #pottery #ceramic

My favorite inspirational poster.

Messing about with home made underglaze transfers. The quote is from some centuries old treatise on urine colour analysis. #sca #TirRigh #AnTir #ceramics

If you see this, post your art with animals. #ArtShare #animals

Working on my blue sunshade, complete with a semy of 8 pointed voided stars (Populace badge of Tir Righ). Based on a small background detail of a 12th century illumination. #TirRigh #mysca #antir #sca

Got a scroll for my tents/encampments, and I got started working on my Kalkan heraldic shield project. #sca #MySca #TirRigh #AnTir

I am starting a new project that is adjacent to my reed screens. Kalkans. A small domed shield made of spiral bound reeds/rods. There are a lot of them in museums, but not a lot about how to make them. Researching museum photos and starting trials on binds techniques. #sca #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir

So even before the next tent project I am going to jump ahead and do a blue awning for my disked bells encampment. Found what I think is a blue rectangle with decorations, red ropes, and poles. I think mine will be Azure, semi of 8 pointed voided stats argent. #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #tents

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Made a tablero board using leftover reeds and indigo dyed wool roving. #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #indigo #reedscreen

I fully support CUPE and their continuation of job action. No Work Without Pay! #AirCanada can eat a bag of dicks!

Finished my felted hat. Will eventually replace the band, but it will do for now. The next hat I make will require a proper hat block, as the pot i used ended up a tad too big. #mysca #antir #tirrigh

Just another aging Gen X slipping orthotics into a pair of converse. #genx #orthotics #converse

Next possible tent could be based on this lovely example. Except no horses, and a yurt ring with poles I stead of a market umbrella. #MySCA #TirRigh #AnTir #tents

My warp threads really bled into my wool felt. Making a new hat #MySca #TirRigh #AnTir #felt

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My 8ft red timurid empire tent pole while pretty wasn't up to snuff, so I decided to make a new pole. 3" sewer pipe and pillar style candle holders are what I'm using. Same technique I used for my 6ft tall white tomurid empire tent. Go girthy or go home. #mysca #AnTir #TirRigh #tents

I may have a migraine that's trying to end me, but I can still sit on the couch with a cold cloth across my head and still felt some wool with my feet. The original use of a reed screen. #antir #tirrigh #mysca

Took the new sunshade to the Barony of Lionsgate Champions Tourney. It worked out pretty nicely. I only have a few tie straps left to sew onto it. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, as it doesn't fit with my more Timurid persona. We'll under a hundred all in. #mysca #tirrigh #antir

So I just soaked the sunshade tarp in silicon dissolved in naptha. Should dry clear and make the tarp full on waterproof. If you try making your own silipoly tarp. Buy dishwasher gloves. Do not rely on latex gloves. My latex gloves broke, and I now have webbed fingers. #mysca #antir #tirrigh

I think I am going to leave it as a sun shade. Also trying to make it so I can assemble it with ground spikes for when we have events indoors. #mysca #antir #tirrigh #sca

The long delayed one the cheap shelter project is back on. #AnTir #TirRigh #sca #mysca

Since my mom's passing, the only joy I get from mothers day is inevitably one of my young coworkers asks what I've got planned for mothers day. I yell. MY MOMS DEAD. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME! Then I get to watch these young guys squirm. So much joy.

Thank goodness this particular folly is essentially done. The reed screens last weft reed was placed at Salon Artificum, thus ending 4 solid months of putzing around. An edge binding and some card woven straps are left. 14ft long... oof. Taking a week off. #TirRigh #mysca #AnTir #reedscreen

Last minute tweaking for my display at Salon Artificum next weekend. It's crunch time to finish any write ups, and cover the modern. 5x8 feet is not a lot of space. Lol #sca #mysca #AnTir #TirRigh #reedscreen

I did the math. My reed screen is longer than a museum screen with the same reed count Museum piece is ~1100 reeds / 284cm (9'4") My screen is ~1100 reeds / 378cm (12'4") So my reeds must be larger, or the screen artisans are choosing narrower reed size. #MySCA #tirrigh #antir #reedscreen

My mason bees are being productive citizens of my yard. #masonbees

Progress on my reed screen The indigo and madder (lac overdye) turned out even better than I anticipated. I do wish I went with a narrower plain reed strip on the edges. There will be a binding strip sewed over it, but it's wider than I pictured in my head. #MySCA #TirRigh #AnTir #reedscreen

The reed screen has begun. 26" of plain reed before the coloured section come into play. I read that the reason for the plain section is to protect the fancy section when rolled up during transportation.

My reed screen display needs a good background. So quickly building a single panel khana yurt wall. Painting it with milk paint barn red cour. Salon Artifum is less than a month away. #mysca #TirRigh #antir #reedscreen

Cloud city. Taken from the 21st floor looking at New Westminster

What five writers made you? 1 Douglas Adams 2 Terry Pratchett 3 TE Lawrence 4 Agostino Ramelli 5 Peter Alford Andrews

720 wool wrapped reeds. That puts me a little over halfway done. This reed screen is going to be biggly. #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #sca

Let's see what Wikipedia says...