Okay, you're friended :) (Too much odd coincidences going on not to friend you, lol, though I have to confess to being very hermity, with a tendency to retreat even from LJ, every once in a while.) I saw after I clicked on your pic to make it bigger that the beads you used weren't flat like mine, but they are very similar looking in the smaller image.
I've given away most of my best sticks, too. I've made about fifty but I only have twenty or so actually with me, now...I sold a few, too. I take pictures of ALL my stuff though, before I let anyone have it :)
Yeah, I feel bad for rambling in Meri's journal...she'll check her email and see a million messages and none of them will be aimed at *her*.
I'm very bad as an artist, not because I don't have the potential, but because I am lazy and entirely self-taught. I often don't even research stuff...I had to look up 'tigertail' just now to make sure I knew what I was talking about. Yep, that's what I put those on :) I've never seen silk thread available in the store I shop at, but I'm sure they must have it somewhere. Though wouldn't you have to knot it an awful lot to get the beads to stay in place if the hole is large? My Celtic Dryad...the silver beads have quite large holes.
I can sew, too...but as evidence of my laziness, I've never studied it or taken real lessons...I just decided I wanted to make my mother a winter coat for her anniversary, so I got a pattern and did it. It looked awesome, but because I didn't know enough, I got an inappropriate type of fabric that wrinkles if you so much as breathe on it. :/ Otherwise a success, though, even the lining. But I sabotage myself, being lazy in the beginning and not doing a lot of research on material and technique.
Got to confess, at first I thought the charm bracelet was an earring-nosering linked thingy (don't know what they're called) because I thought the pin on the end was a stud earring. I wondered how the heck you could stand to have something so heavy attached to your nose, lol.
I only have...I think three of the HOME books. I did actually read them, though...but only once through. You know what bugs the heck out of me? I once read in one of my books Tolkien's reply to some fan's questioning of Legolas' masculinity, wherein Tolkien got annoyed that they perceived Legolas as a fairy-boy, and he protested that Legolas was as strong as a young sapling or something like that...and I have NEVER been able to find that passage again! It might have been in his Letters, but I haven't found it.
The guy who worked on LotR (the movie of course) on languages...I'm pretty sure I knew him at a (Tolkien) newsgroup in 1997. Semi-related factoid there, not of much interest but I gaped when I saw his name on the credits for the movie. HE was a super Tolkien nerd, lol...I don't think anyone could beat him. He went so far as to make MONEY off his fanboyism. :D David Salo...I'm not sure, but I really think that was him. The guy I argued with about Balrogs on the newsgroup, whose specialty was language, his name was David, and someone named David Salo worked as a consultant for language on the film. I really think they are the same person. It'd be cool, anyway. :) (Everyone was always asking him to make sentences and stuff for them, lol. Poor guy, but he loved it.)
I have GOT to stop talking. (PS: you might not be that much older than me, since the Sil was first published in 1977, I think...I'll be 29 at the end of May.)
Also...I suck at calligraphy. Horribly. My handwriting bites, too.
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I've given away most of my best sticks, too. I've made about fifty but I only have twenty or so actually with me, now...I sold a few, too. I take pictures of ALL my stuff though, before I let anyone have it :)
Yeah, I feel bad for rambling in Meri's journal...she'll check her email and see a million messages and none of them will be aimed at *her*.
I'm very bad as an artist, not because I don't have the potential, but because I am lazy and entirely self-taught. I often don't even research stuff...I had to look up 'tigertail' just now to make sure I knew what I was talking about. Yep, that's what I put those on :) I've never seen silk thread available in the store I shop at, but I'm sure they must have it somewhere. Though wouldn't you have to knot it an awful lot to get the beads to stay in place if the hole is large? My Celtic Dryad...the silver beads have quite large holes.
I can sew, too...but as evidence of my laziness, I've never studied it or taken real lessons...I just decided I wanted to make my mother a winter coat for her anniversary, so I got a pattern and did it. It looked awesome, but because I didn't know enough, I got an inappropriate type of fabric that wrinkles if you so much as breathe on it. :/ Otherwise a success, though, even the lining. But I sabotage myself, being lazy in the beginning and not doing a lot of research on material and technique.
Got to confess, at first I thought the charm bracelet was an earring-nosering linked thingy (don't know what they're called) because I thought the pin on the end was a stud earring. I wondered how the heck you could stand to have something so heavy attached to your nose, lol.
I only have...I think three of the HOME books. I did actually read them, though...but only once through. You know what bugs the heck out of me? I once read in one of my books Tolkien's reply to some fan's questioning of Legolas' masculinity, wherein Tolkien got annoyed that they perceived Legolas as a fairy-boy, and he protested that Legolas was as strong as a young sapling or something like that...and I have NEVER been able to find that passage again! It might have been in his Letters, but I haven't found it.
The guy who worked on LotR (the movie of course) on languages...I'm pretty sure I knew him at a (Tolkien) newsgroup in 1997. Semi-related factoid there, not of much interest but I gaped when I saw his name on the credits for the movie. HE was a super Tolkien nerd, lol...I don't think anyone could beat him. He went so far as to make MONEY off his fanboyism. :D David Salo...I'm not sure, but I really think that was him. The guy I argued with about Balrogs on the newsgroup, whose specialty was language, his name was David, and someone named David Salo worked as a consultant for language on the film. I really think they are the same person. It'd be cool, anyway. :) (Everyone was always asking him to make sentences and stuff for them, lol. Poor guy, but he loved it.)
I have GOT to stop talking. (PS: you might not be that much older than me, since the Sil was first published in 1977, I think...I'll be 29 at the end of May.)
Also...I suck at calligraphy. Horribly. My handwriting bites, too.