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feng_shui_houseA couple days ago doc bro emailed me to ask if I could look for & send him Dad's Bluejacket Manual.
I said certainly, if I can find it, because I thought, hey, it's a book, I have plenty of books. I found it in the first place I looked today and I opened it, and... I imagined I heard my Dad's voice and felt his hand on my shoulder and actually got teary eyed*. Not an hallucination, you know, just a memory out of nowhere. And the book is exactly the sort of book I love best. So I emailed doc bro explaining why I couldn't bear to part with it, and he understood.
The Bluejacket** Manual is the 1940 edition of the US Navy's training guide for sailors. It's an awesome book, fascinatingly readable, and with photos (the US Flag had 48 stars at the time!) and easily understandable lessons in all sorts of useful things, many of which could be adapted to fic for atmosphere, if I ever write again. :^)
I cut off the waste fabric on the latest sampler (they messed up and sent 17 swatches instead of 30, leaving a big unprinted piece), wrapped it around the book, slid the book out, and sewed a bottom hem on the fabric, then put the book back into the fabric and sewed a cord drawstring through the top of the bag before I put the book back in storage. Give it a little extra protection and love.
*I do not cry easily. I was the ONLY person in the theater when they showed 'Love Story' who did not cry. I was 14. I have always hated being emotionally manipulated. :^)
** A bluejacket is a sailor. I believe both the US and English navies use(d) the term, dating back to when sailors did have blue jackets.
Very strong gusts again today. I only did a little yardening- I gave the secondary tomato patch some plant food, added some more salvaged tree branches as supports, with salvaged cement sprinkler rings at the bases, and salvaged selvages from swatch collections tying the tomato plants up. Then I salvaged some pathetic marigolds from the salvaged recycling bin planter and transplanted them around the tomatoes.
This is why I can't throw anything out. Nearly everything gets repurposed. :^)
Have no idea how much longer it'll be before it's ripe, but probably will be much smaller than a grocery store fruit so I am checking at least once a day.
There's 2 of these guys in the bougainvillea now. And it's regrown to the point I need to trim it again!
It was SOOOO windy today that a line of turkey vultures were passing overhead, and a gust must have caught this one because it came down to little higher than the roof of my house and passed right over me. And it LOOKED AT ME. There's definite eye contact going on. It probably was staring at my camera and wanting to be sure it wasn't anything dangerous.
And then I came in and did some designs.
Yesterday I did one for a contest themed 'Mandalas'. I googled and decided I didn't want to do either the elaborate people & symbols original versions, or the boring modern circles of flower petals version. So I wound up getting out my colored Sharpies and googling peacock feathers, and drew one feather and turned it into a mandala-ish? It's pretty anyway.
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6219378-peacock-feather-mandala-by-eclectic_house
Today I remembered I'd wanted to make a color palette based on the Bayeux 'Tapestry' (it's a crewel embroidery), and spent quite a while color picking and deciding. And then I recolored 4 of my designs to make new ones in the BayeuxPalette. I think it works really well. There are 9 colors including one for the linen fabric.
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221868-bayeux-argyle-by-eclectic_house
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221593-bayeux-chevron-by-eclectic_house
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221574-bayeux-delft-by-eclectic_house
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221560-tesselating-t-chevrons-bayeux-by-eclectic_house
And now I'm done. I think I'll put on a DVD and do some hand sewing.
I said certainly, if I can find it, because I thought, hey, it's a book, I have plenty of books. I found it in the first place I looked today and I opened it, and... I imagined I heard my Dad's voice and felt his hand on my shoulder and actually got teary eyed*. Not an hallucination, you know, just a memory out of nowhere. And the book is exactly the sort of book I love best. So I emailed doc bro explaining why I couldn't bear to part with it, and he understood.
The Bluejacket** Manual is the 1940 edition of the US Navy's training guide for sailors. It's an awesome book, fascinatingly readable, and with photos (the US Flag had 48 stars at the time!) and easily understandable lessons in all sorts of useful things, many of which could be adapted to fic for atmosphere, if I ever write again. :^)
I cut off the waste fabric on the latest sampler (they messed up and sent 17 swatches instead of 30, leaving a big unprinted piece), wrapped it around the book, slid the book out, and sewed a bottom hem on the fabric, then put the book back into the fabric and sewed a cord drawstring through the top of the bag before I put the book back in storage. Give it a little extra protection and love.
*I do not cry easily. I was the ONLY person in the theater when they showed 'Love Story' who did not cry. I was 14. I have always hated being emotionally manipulated. :^)
** A bluejacket is a sailor. I believe both the US and English navies use(d) the term, dating back to when sailors did have blue jackets.
Very strong gusts again today. I only did a little yardening- I gave the secondary tomato patch some plant food, added some more salvaged tree branches as supports, with salvaged cement sprinkler rings at the bases, and salvaged selvages from swatch collections tying the tomato plants up. Then I salvaged some pathetic marigolds from the salvaged recycling bin planter and transplanted them around the tomatoes.
This is why I can't throw anything out. Nearly everything gets repurposed. :^)
Have no idea how much longer it'll be before it's ripe, but probably will be much smaller than a grocery store fruit so I am checking at least once a day.
There's 2 of these guys in the bougainvillea now. And it's regrown to the point I need to trim it again!
It was SOOOO windy today that a line of turkey vultures were passing overhead, and a gust must have caught this one because it came down to little higher than the roof of my house and passed right over me. And it LOOKED AT ME. There's definite eye contact going on. It probably was staring at my camera and wanting to be sure it wasn't anything dangerous.
And then I came in and did some designs.
Yesterday I did one for a contest themed 'Mandalas'. I googled and decided I didn't want to do either the elaborate people & symbols original versions, or the boring modern circles of flower petals version. So I wound up getting out my colored Sharpies and googling peacock feathers, and drew one feather and turned it into a mandala-ish? It's pretty anyway.
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6219378-peacock-feather-mandala-by-eclectic_house
Today I remembered I'd wanted to make a color palette based on the Bayeux 'Tapestry' (it's a crewel embroidery), and spent quite a while color picking and deciding. And then I recolored 4 of my designs to make new ones in the BayeuxPalette. I think it works really well. There are 9 colors including one for the linen fabric.
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221868-bayeux-argyle-by-eclectic_house
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221593-bayeux-chevron-by-eclectic_house
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221574-bayeux-delft-by-eclectic_house
http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/6221560-tesselating-t-chevrons-bayeux-by-eclectic_house
And now I'm done. I think I'll put on a DVD and do some hand sewing.
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Date: 2017-03-06 03:41 am (UTC)It also wouldn't be off the mark to describe it as a graphic novel.
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Date: 2017-03-06 03:45 am (UTC)Graphic novel with footnotes! At least some of the little stuff at the bottom has meanings that add to the context of the main body of the story.