EXCHANGE INTERFACE

I went back to my "2024 goals" post here and discovered that I indeed got some of my goals achieved!

2024 goals
1. Complete rough draft of The Nullifae: Agent of Change. (And it can be very rough. But she has to have closed the portal and Dion has to have offered her a job. I know how these scenes go, I just have to write the other scenes before them.) - DONE: and it is indeed very rough
2. Finish The Gathering Clouds (MCU: Psy-Changeling AU)
3. Get the roof repaired - DONE - and the ceilings repainted.
4. Produce apricots. (I have no idea how to prompt this. Really no idea.)
5. Finish and/or make 12 quilts/major fabric works. (clothing and curtains both count) - DONE

That's 50%, right?

Finishing the Gathering Clouds is still a pipe-dream. Apricots were unsuccessful (so were mangoes), and I think getting the ceilings repainted is going to be an expensive proposition. Trying to find anyone to do anything right now is an expensive proposition.

And here's the dozen quilts finished (most of them made in previous years but only FINISHED finished just now:

( images, one two many lots )

And there are two more that have come back from te quiter and now need to be bound. *sigh*

So I have two crazy days this week. TWO! *laughs like the Count on Sesame Street*

Thursday night, I have my cousin's wedding rehearsal and friends are going out to dinner and trivia after. It's also the day Bridgerton S3 Part 1 comes out.

I don't think I'll be staying up late to watch it, but a couple of episodes here and there would be fun. The fandom will undoubtedly be somewhat splodey in all directions at that point, I'm hoping there will be a few points of sanity among them.

Saturday lunch, I am eating with some friends, and then the cousin's wedding in the afternoon. Thankfully, the 'family reception' is a couple of weeks later, so it's not all on the one day.

Still trying to work out if I should try to rush-job a quilt for them. Except that if I did a quilt for them, I should probably do one for Cousin E (her older sister) and her husband, too. You know...25 years later...

Still a bit up in the air for design and style and all that. Mind you, I have plenty of fabrics and cuts and colours and patterns to use - I just want something simple and uncomplicated - and easy.

And, of course, there's work all week. I'm slightly terrified of the refund function which looks like it's going to be an absolute NIGHTMARE to adjust. But I have checked the requirement: the thing goes live on the 1st July. And yes, we want as much time as possible to be testing and checking for errors and fixing things, but that's six weeks compard to two. PHEW.

Supposedly, also, it's "7 days, 7 stories" week. And Kate/Anthony week for Bridgerton fandom. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Not even close. *sigh*

The Guardian: US Maternal Mortality Rate is more than 2x that of Australia

How Rick Warren of Saddleback Church became an egalitarian

I really want to buy this pattern it's so freaking pretty! I should. But I have dozens of other quilt patterns that I still haven't and *sigh*.

Webcomic: Boo! It's sex!

Trying to sell things is an absolute nightmare for me. Nobody ever wants to buy stuff.

Still haven't heard from the windows guys. I suspect it will be April before they contact us, and the work won't be done until May... Also, I don't think B1 quite realises how much dust and dirt and stuff will be there.

Also, she's had a difficult client, one who was supposed to be done back in, oh, January. It's now mid-March and B1 is starting to think that the only way she's going to get away from this client is to quit her agency. Which...the client is certainly a problem: both anxious to get the best that the system can offer without comprehending the limitations of the support workers...or their right to a weekend.

A dozen calls from Friday afternoon until Sunday night!

Facemask Sewing Pattern with variations

Free Bag Pattern that I'm making my mother for Christmas

Coal Seam Gas around Narrabri - they're calling for counters to the proposal to CSG in the state's north. Guys, can you ping me daily to ask if I've read the example submission? And then once I've read it, ping me to roughly put something original together.

Since I can't seem to get anyone on instagram to comment:

One of the cousin quilts - a basic Penny Patch quilt.



Is it too busy?

ETA: Second layout

Here, have a quilt:

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Have a rec:

series: Get Ready For It
author: Philyra
fandom: MCU
characters: all of them, but the POV characters are Pepper, Maria, Natasha, Darcy, Skye, and Steve's mom (yes, you read that correctly).
premise: The characters of the MCU are all involved in an NHL hockey team - the New York Knights. Pepper's the owner, Maria is the first female player in the NHL, Natasha defects from Russia, Darcy is the PR handler, Skye is an employee of Stark Hockey Technology, and Steve's mom is a nurse and enthusiastic supporter of the team. Most of the MCU characters introduced up until AoU make an appearance, although the focus is on the women in the organisation and the players on the team.

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Have a snippet of fic:

( probably defunct given current rewrite )

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Have some pet pics!

( all the animal sisters )

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I'd post the amazingly postcard-y pic that I took of the Opera House on Friday morning as we sailed into Sydney Harbour, but I don't have it available to link to from LJ.

*hugs*

You are the first to see this apart from my quilt group (Who I sent a message to last night, because I just wanted to sit and stare at it):



If you're wondering why it's called "Plain Jane", google 'la passacaglia quilt'.

Saw Black Panther on Friday night. Excellent movie, it's up there in my top picks of the MCU entourage. Might go see it again at the local non-chain cinemas.

Wrote a little.

( Quilted a lot. )

Spent all of Sunday on the edible garden trail that was on this weekend up in the Blue Mountains (about an hour's drive away). That picture? Was the last garden the group I went with saw (before we went to see the site being created by a member of the gardening group), and she had politicians' faces cut out from their electioneering boards and stuck on the scarecrows! The Potato Brother scarecrow was particularly terrifying.

Did a little gardening between when I got home and sunset.

Monday morning, I'm back in the office and mildly exhausted. That was a pretty big weekend.

Today is gonna be the day...

It's kind of nice not having to go to work. However, the mortgage and the bills loom.

I'm thinking about taking up aged care with a local Christian organisation to have something in the gap. It's not what I'd prefer, but it would be income. I've done 'in between' work before - mostly office management for a week or two while someone was on vacation - but aged care is new. It wouldn't be actual carer stuff, because that's best done by people who know what they're doing. It'd just be cleaning houses and bathrooms, which is not something I like doing.

In the meantime, I have to remember not to keep spending like I have disposable income.

It's kind of difficult; right now, everything is ON SALE! I have already bought much fabric and many clothing patterns and I must keep myself from buying more.

My current table of non-quilty WIPs:

( too many things )

One lined dress, one pair of shorts in voile, and the Fireside Bowl bag (pattern by Sara Lawson of Sew Sweetness in her Big City Bags book).

That's not counting the two quilts I need to make by May for the Sydney Quilt Show...

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But today, I have to get some winter veg out into the garden - broccoli, cabbage, caulis, and brussel sprouts. Or, if they're still seedlings, I need to get them into a planter box so they can grow a little larger and have a chance against the slugs that have begun to invade the place again.

UGH. SLUGS.