What I do for fashion

I forgot to mention that I went to the Renaissance Faire one last time Sunday with my parents. My dad called me up at 2:30 Sunday afternoon and said, "Want to go?" I said, "Um, where?" He, as if talking about visiting an old friend we've all known for years, said, "Ren." Silly dad, Trix are for kids.

And another comment that concerns the Ren Faire: pickles. I want to talk about vikings peddling their pickles. Yes, you read that right. Picture a man in fur and a viking helmet, wandering up and down the lane with a bucket in hand, shouting, "Try my juicy pickle!" Dirty, dirty. But toward the end of the Faire, I started to think, Wow, a pickle sure would quench the thirst right now. And they're crunchy! And the vikings walked by again. "Try my juicy pickle!" About thirty seconds later, I saw a little girl — couldn't have been more than 12 years old or so — chomping down on a large pickle.

I couldn't do it.

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I had a marathon crafting session last night. No knitting was involved. Instead, I broke out the beads. After having read an article on DIY Life praising The AntiCraft for having a "cheeky attitude." Having read The AntiCraft for quite a while (hence the link in the sidebar), I already knew this and loved Renée and Zabet for it.

The article mentioned this necklace: Henry VIII's Wedding Gift. As it was from 2006, I didn't remember it at all. (Work-induced short-term memory.) I clicked on it and thought, Eh, that doesn't look to hard. I could probably crank that out in a night. Because when I start on beading projects, it's best to get them done in one sitting; the second sitting rarely ever happens.

I got back from my parents' house at 10:30 after screwing around and having helped bathe the dog. I popped in a movie I'd never heard of — Bell, Book and Candle (made in 1958, it's an interesting little movie about witches) — and got to work. I finished the first, "set-up" tier a little while before the movie ended and decided that, since there were only two more rows to the entire necklace, I could probably get it done in no time.

Ha. Only. Those two more rows and the accompanying weaving in of ends (four of them) took me until about 3:20 a.m. I'm bloody exhausted and my brain hurts, but I'm wearing a hot necklace today.