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Here's a meme from this post over at 3weeks4dreamwidth

Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.

I'm not a huge fan of memes, or poetry, but I do want to post more during 3W4D and I do occasionally indulge in found poetry, so here goes. Here's the first 20 songs with lyrics from my 'Liked music' playlist on YouTube Music.
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In my spinning session the other day I listened to Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights? and really enjoyed it. The despair of living under The Idiot, the slow crumbling of society, the recurring phrases, were all great analogies for the world we live in now.

I've recently finished this Life of Colour art board, a etched MDF board which I coloured in with acrylic paint pens. I'm really happy with how it turned out.



Now I just need to rearrange the walls of my craft room so I can get all this art I've been making out of the cupboard and put it on display.

Amongst all the exhibition preparations I've been planning for another favourite event that's in a few months - the start of spinning season and then Tour de Fleece! I do fibre prep in the warmer months when it's too hot to hold wool in my hands for hours. Here's what I've been up to.
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March is National Crafting Month over on allbingo. I'm going to play along with the given 5x5 grid. Here it is:

(Yes, I posted these out of order. No, I don't know why. Yes, I will probably do it again).

It's 3 months out from the Canberra Spinners and Weavers annual exhibition and sale and I'm focusing on making stock to sell. I thought I'd include some of my design thoughts and process as I do, not to show off or promote stuff to sell, but to show that I'm just doing dumb stuff until it works. Anyone can do what I do, and more importantly everyone should be out there doing dumb stuff with their hands and their brains. The world is now not only on fire, but filled with creations that can make things but they cannot make at. Because art requires intention, and that's something Al doesn't have (yet). So use your hands and your brains and make things our techno overlords cent replicate.
( I, for one, do not welcome our new overlords )

I love buying craft kits. It's something about the contained project with instructions, all that stuff I don't have to brain. Which is weird, because I've never bought knitting or weaving kits. But, like every other stash I have, I 'm trying to work through my craft kits.

First up is this frankly adorable dinosaur foam clay kit.
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Gotta love Australia.


We are ice free though, so that's something.

goals_on_dw has a goal of Community Thursdays, where people post their activity on communities around DW. I don't have the bandwidth to commit to weekly posts, but I would like to do regular archives of what I've posted around DW. Feel free to explore or comment, or steal the idea for yourself. (Tip: You can find your posts in communities you post to by adding /?poster=[yourusername] to the end of the url.)

booknook

• Review: Arms Race: And other stories by Nic Low
  
• Review: A Chorus, Divergent anthology
  
• Review: Buzzing by Samuel Sattin with Rye Hickman
  
• Review: Library Extension app
  
• Review: Jinkies and Minority Monsters
  
• Review: It Will be Hard graphic/visual novel

everykindofcraft

• Christmas gift - cross stitch project bag
  
• Quilted door hanger
  
• Wrapping up
  
• Christmas stocking

prototypediablerie

• Spin Art #3 - Tornado
  
• Spin Art #10 - Stranded/strung foreign object
  
• Spin Art #2 - Autowrap
  
• Spin Art #1 - Racing Stripe
  
• A new spin

voiceinmyear

• Review: Havoc Town
  
• Dueling podcasts: 13 Minutes and 16 Sunsets
  
• Welcome and rules

You know what's cool and fun*? Puttering around doing life and then getting reminded that we actually, not that long ago, all went through a traumatic, life-altering pandemic.

I was sorting through my storage cube of sewing bits and pieces, putting all the alike bits together rather than having a box of chaos. Then realised that I've apparently been hoarding mask elastic.



There was a wild time in 2020/21 when there were no masks available to buy so people started sewing their own. Including me. That lead to a complete absence of small elastic in craft stores. You could no buy it for love nor money.

And then merely a year later is was on clearance. (Repeatedly, it seems.) And I've been buying it because you never know what fresh hell is around the corner.





*not actually cool or fun at all.