galadhir: a blue octopus sits in a golden armchair reading a black backed novel (Frost)

It's Daughter's wedding next year (2025 - made up sci-fi year.) And she's decided to have a 'high fae' theme for the do.

Specifically, she said 'you know the party that was going on in Mirkwood, that the dwarves kept trying to barge into? The one where they would hear the distant music and smell the delicious smell of the food, and see the fires, and yet when they would run toward it, it would disappear entirely and leave them lost in the darkness under the trees? Yeah? I want this to be that party.'

Which I think is awesome and I understand completely. I also would have loved to go to that party - and now it seems I shall!

Daughter and Fiance have been crafting table settings and invitations and many other things, and she put a picture of one of the table centerpieces up on her instagram. It featured moss and stones and sparkly lights and skulls, and I think looked really cool. But Parents-in-law claimed the skulls were morbid. Despite initially going 'it's your wedding, you must have what you want,' they are now going, 'but not like that.'

This made me determined to lean into the skull theme. (It's an ancient magical forest, how could it not have skulls?)

DH has made his own 18th Century style coat (in black, with large blue cuffs) and leather top hat, but I had not made anything for it, having already bought a very floaty dress and a lovely faerie coat.

So I was feeling bad about my level of effort, and decided to make myself something to wear on my head, instead of the traditional 'mother of the bride' hat.

And it had to have skulls.

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And - in explanation for the title of this post and the plaster I have around my thumb in the photo, I did drip hot glue on myself and when I took it off again a section of skin on my thumb came with it. The answer to the question in the title, it turns out, is 'too hot.'

Sock Fox

Mar. 20th, 2021 03:17 pm
galadhir: a blue octopus sits in a golden armchair reading a black backed novel (daniel's eyebrows)
In a fit of "I haven't been able to dance for over a year and I'm so bored," I went on Etsy and searched for craft kits. I was looking for something I could do in the evenings, when I was tired and stupid, so it needed to be easy.

I found this:

A Sock Fox craft kit - a paper bag with a picture of a jaunty fox, and a striped stuffed animal in front of it.

And I thought that was pretty cute. Plus, I happen to have several pairs of socks with holes in the toes. I do darn them, but I was not going to pass up the chance to get a pattern with which I could make a cute fox out of a pair, AND a bonus pair of un-holey socks for me to wear.

So I bought the kit, wore the lovely red-orange-yellow striped socks, and made the pattern out of a pair of differently-striped socks that I didn't want to darn.

So here is my Arctic fox.

A white, pink and blue striped soft toy fox with button eyes and a green ribbon around its neck.

He needs a name, but naming is not one of my areas of expertise.

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