Karen at Silver Seams

Had that a few years back (probably coming up on it again in fact) and I got the Special Philly-Area Version of the instructions, which had "WATER ICE, EXCEPT RED" penciled in on the oft-copied original, which was hilarious to me as a new-to-the-area.

(it's what everywhere else calls "Italian Ice")

Well, here we go again.

(Residential zoning in Wichita was funny; one reading of it could be that you can't park ANY truck on a residential street, including our little bitty Toyota... which, EVERYONE in Wichita has a pickup, you gotta park them in the street sometimes!)

Nice! We had a neighbor who was an independent trucker and just parked on our street. It actually wasn't an issue until it was (I think a tree came down while he was away and the utility trucks couldn't get into the alley to fix it?) City made him move after that.

I found a use for some of the surplus! 👁️

A diagram of how to assemble a necklace but they've used an isolated image of a hand showing a small capped tube, with a water droplet in midair. E6000 will ooze but not drip, and again the cap is on!

If my E6000 drips like that, and with the cap on, I'm asking for a refund Fire Mountain.

The neat thing about this is that this is two of these plus a big clear tackle box and some other bits, condensed down to this. Gonna print at least a couple more trays for the last types, and probably another lid or two so I can break up the stack (it's heavy!)

(and yes, I keep looking at your stuff and going "I wish I wore jewelry," but I am scruffy-T-shirt-and-jeans all day every day)

And I could 3d print claws (and horns) and paint them with colorshift and all, but there's just something satisfying about glass. Even though unlike jewelry, the eventual owner isn't really gonna touch it much.

When they got discontinued I grabbed up as many as I could, though the single-sided ones (I forget the name; AB on one side and opaque on the other) I could part with because I like my dragons to be symmetrical. I thought I could live with the half-and-half but I cannot.

Almost out of black though.

Anyway uh @peculiarityshop.bsky.social , @toadcialism.bsky.social , if you ever run short of a color of Gemduos or Diamonduos, feel free to shop my collection, I will never live long enough to use these at two eyes per dragon. 😅

Eight trays full of glass beads and cabochon eyes for art doll dragon making.

Approaching "open a bead store" levels of Czech glass. 😬

A fifteen compartment tray with mostly tiny (5mm) glass "talon" beads. Two colors are full to the top.

Printed a deeper one but realized I only need it for two colors, which would take up three compartments if I put them all in, so I'll print another shallow one for the rest and a bigger-compartment one for the white. I'm about two thirds through the tackle boxes, and this is SO compact now.

Another tray of glass and plastic eye cabochons.

Still more eye cabochons, from 16mm down to I think 6mm.

Send help.

Two more organizer trays filled with eye beads, claw beads, and gotten beads for dragon making.

Filled that one, working on more.

A bead organizer with 7-10 grams of beads (sometimes upwards of 50, or 25 dragons) in each of about forty colors).

At two beads per dragon I am not going to live long enough to use up all these beads. 😬

Machine-embroidered sentiment: "that moral arc's not gonna bend itself."

Wish this wasn't more apt than it was when I made it a few years ago.

Update to the update: Ko-Fi gave me basically the same response: "oh but we gotta be where the community is."

Think I'm gonna move to self-hosting.

Update! Patreon says they have to be on X to give people quick support. I told them that didn't fly, because they're not on Bluesky as well. I pointed out that @ko-fi.com was, though I didn't let on that Ko-Fi ignores replies here.

Update! Patreon says they have to be on X to give people quick support. I told them that didn't fly, because they're not on Bluesky as well. I pointed out that @ko-fi.com was, though I didn't let on that Ko-Fi ignores replies here.

(I am going to have to open the machine up and find or replace that felt gasket, but that's Bonus Kid's 400e and it's not on a stand right now anyway)

# machines cleaned/oiled: 2
# screws dropped into the bowels of the machine: 1 (Janome owners know the one!)
# screws dropped on the floor: 1 (five or six times though)
# felt gaskets missing(!): 1
# screws missing/left over on completion: 0
# machines dropped while putting back in place: 0 (barely)

You just gotta pop over to my house, I have a little one for the plastic snaps and an interchangeable one (though not the *big* big one) for everything else.

Embroidery software preview of an "ice scraper" design.

Been taking a little post-holiday break from design testing but I guess it's time to get back to the embroidery machines.

Very much hoping the answers are going to be "oh, we just haven't removed the link off the front page" but we'll see.

Opened a ticket with Patreon; going to give the first two a chance to respond here first.

Not quite sure how to contact Michael's; they have a general 800 number but (1) I hate phones and (2) I sort of doubt the phone tree/firstline support has that in the script.

Starting to remove suppliers that are still on X, The CSAM/Non-Consensual Porn Site, so I need a replacement for:

@bigzfabric.bsky.social
@ko-fi.com
Patreon
Michaels(!)

because the political shenanigans were bad enough but if you don't draw the line at CSAM I don't know what else to do with you.

Five days of traffic in a bar chart with a very tall center finger. I mean bar.

Ko-Fi traffic is unnecessarily rude this week!

A stubborn hard drive power cable disconnected so abruptly that I slammed a knuckle into the metal frame of the case. Bled all over the executive washroom, had to pop my head out to tell the CEO's assistant to call 911 if I didn't get the bleeding stopped (I did, drove myself to doc for stitches).

The fluffy yeti with three friends: a smaller, shorter-haired one with a darker face, a coaster-type version in upholstery vinyl, and a teeny vinyl one that will become a pin.

A lower angle showing that the big one has embroidered hands and feet but its fur is so long it completely covers them.

My phone is all or nothing when it comes to pink; you can see the face a little better on the other (less fluffy) ones in other colors.

Also the fluffy one really does have hands and feet... somewhere in there.