Absolutely fabulous, darling!

 Here's an updated picture of my Dalek cross stitch.  I can't believe that it's been almost a year since I started it!  Wonder if I can get itfinished by the 29th?

 Day 5
I like to make things.  I'm not very prolific, but I love knitting, crochet and cross stitch.  I've dabbled in all sorts of crafts but always return to those three.  I've been knitting and crocheting since I was six and used to knit a lot of my own sweaters back in the day, but I much prefer smaller things now.  Baby clothes are pretty much ideal :)  It's taken me ages to track down some pictures, so please do clicky!

( Crafty stuff this way... )

Happy New Year, y'all! 

I was going to make a huge laundry list of resolutions but then I read a tweet from Stumptous, one of my favourite bloggers from days of yore.  

If you're a "self-improvement" junkie, resolve to do a "fixit fast" this year. Just stay with the awesomeness you ALREADY have & are.

This struck a bit of a chord with me.  So, this year I will mostly be maintaining my current levels of awesome.  Which isn't to say that I'll be sitting on my arse doing nothing.  I'm going to gild the lily a little but not utterly kill myself (or make myself feel like a failure) by making lofty goals.

Here's to awesomeness!

I like this idea a lot!  Multi-fandom recs over a fortnight.... a very good thing :)

On the subject of recs: glammetalkitten recommended this Batman Beyond Yuletide fic to me, and now I am recommending it to you all!  Blue Monday (gen).  A lovely plotty story with great characterisation.

And a belated Merry Christmas, a cool Yule and Happy Holidays to my lovely flist :D

I signed up for smallfandombang last month, did I mention? I'm not sure I did.

I've never done a big bang before---I can remember being seriously confused when I came back to LJ after many years of absence and saw all these stories tagged with bigbang.  I thought for a couple of days that people were really, really into The Big Bang Theory!

As big bangs go, this one is nice and small.  To go along with the name, I suspect.  It's 10k, which would make the finished story the longest thing I've written since my attempt at NaNo in '03.  (I think I managed about 20k before giving up.)

Today I junked my original idea and embarked on a new and slightly crack-tastic one.  I'm blending Hawaii Five-0 with various and diverse fairy tales.  There are talking mice (who would rather learn police procedure from 80s cop movies than a manual), poisoned pineapples, an unlikely Sleeping Beauty, troll bridges and more!  I've managed 3k today, which has absolutely stunned me.  I can't remember the last time that words poured out like this... it's brilliant!

(This is also my first foray into H50 fandom.  I am slightly nuts, I think.)

I am re-watching s3 of due South.  The more I watch it, the more I see distinct similarities between RayK and Danny from Hawaii Five-0.  Those two bicker as easily as they breathe.  Epic snark.  I wonder if there is a crossover lucking out there...?

In case anyone is interested, I have started slowly archiving my writing over at AO3:

http://archiveofourown.org/users/Allana

I remember reading rumblings about AO3 years ago, so I'm pleased to see it has come to fruition!

Also, this morning I got up horribly early after next-to-no sleep, dragged my carcass onto the bus and went to the eye hospital for my screening for a drug trial that was supposed to be a shoe-in (or however you spell that, my American fails me), and promptly fell at the first fence.  My right eye has insufficient vision to meet the criteria for further screening tests, so it really begs the question of why my doctors got my hopes up in the first place.  And between dealing with that bitter disappointment and a child who will not stop fucking WHINGING about EVERYTHING, I am about ready to put my fist through a wall. 

Wow, it's been an absolute age since I last posted on LJ.  I don't even know if anyone still uses LJ apart from glammetalkitten 

Lucas is growing like a weed, despite going through phases of eating bugger all.  We're waiting to find out what school he'll be going to and should find out in a month.  It's crazy to think that in a few months he'll be starting primary school!  (And at some point I should try to get my head around the English educational system which makes no sense whatsoever to me.)

My brother and his girlfriend had their first baby this month---Caitlin Lily---so I am a proper Aunt for the first time, and I will shortly be an aunt-by-marriage for the second time as Dave's sister is about 32weeks with her second.  I have been crocheting some cute little baby things and not feeling broody at all, it has to be said.  I am grumpy enough with one child, so I hate to think what I'd be like with two!

I've been catching up on loads of TV series that I missed at the time.  I finally got around to watching S1 of Alias which I loved, despite the rather predictable ending.  I started watching S1 of Supernatural yesterday after watching most of S4 (or was it S5) on-demand and really enjoying it.  I must say that Sam has not improved with age, whereas Dean has.  I was also quite excited to discover that Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays their dad.  I love that guy!  Dave and I have also started watching Sanctuary via LoveFILM and we're trying to unearth the Battlestar Galactica miniseries so that I can start re-watching the whole thing; I dropped out mid S2 I think and I'd like to find out how the whole thing ends.

I have also been crafting little bits and bobs for around the house.  Neither Dave nor I are particularly keen on emptying rooms to have them painted, although we will have to at some point, so I have taken to making bits of wall art.  Of course, it would be even better if I could get them hung up :P  I may have to get busy with a hammer and nails... I am still waging an intermittent war on clutter but I suspect that I might need a total personality transplant to achieve a clutter-free existence.  I think I am just a messy, messy person.

Incidentally, in case anyone has spent two years worrying about whether I got Dave's cake mended and completed, yes, yes I did.  And it was awesome.

Lucas is very excited. Batman has collapsed on the windowsill. (He's not a party-person.)


"Bertie buuusssssss!" says Lucas. Phew. It really does look like a bus.

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