I have GOT to stop using the wrong edge of my new super-sharp bendy blade before I wind up slicing my finger all the way off...

Meantime, new submissions in the near future! Like, actual things that I actually made for people because I wanted to instead of because they paid me! I mean, making money is great, but making gifts is far better for the soul. Yay!

Photos from the wedding
The relevant pictures are on pages 11 and 14.

I didn't actually get to see it because I was busy trying not to be sick and they cut into the cake before I managed to make it over to see. Thank goodness for the insane amount of pictures that were taken...even if I quite wish a few less had been taken of me. But whatever. The cake looked rather nice, and the bride looked amazing, and I got to spend time with some of my best friends, and that's really all that matters to me at this point.

Now that that's over, I have a stack of new stuff to post and really will get around to replying to stuff stacked up in my inbox soon, I promise.

(Cross-posted to LiveJournal)

I'm in a complete funk at the moment for reasons I won't go into here, and one of the things that makes me happy at times like these is doing things for other people. So, because I apparently don't feel like I'm making enough Hogswatch gifts for people these days, I've decided to offer the following little contest/literary scavenger hunt thingie:

I'm writing my paper for Medieval Literature, and I keep envisioning Jamie Bamber, Jane Leeves, Carole Ann Ford, and one of the Gators' former center/forwards.

The first person to tell me what two texts I'm writing about gets her/his choice of either a Sculpey figure or a box of homemade cookies (like the ones I made for Captains Savvy and Chaotica). Starting tomorrow, I will add one hint every day until I get a correct answer.

Now, back to my paper, after which I will be almost done with this semester and able to reply to some of these comments and such that have piled up lately. Happy hunting!


UPDATE: Captain Savvy asked a very good question that didn't dawn on me when I dreamed this up during one of my brownie breaks (I finally got some baked ^_^), so I've decided to clarify/modify the rules in the following way:

1) Participants are allowed one guess per 24 hour period. Because I don't feel like worrying about time zones and working out the times that comments are posted on DeviantArt and all that, I will base said 24-hour period on the time between postings. So, if Biz Op guesses at 8:03 tonight, then she can guess again at 8:03 tomorrow night; if Hillary guesses at 10:47 tomorrow morning, then she can guess again at 10:47 on Tuesday morning.

2) Because there are two texts involved, there will be two prizes. I considered offering cookies for the more well-known one and a figure for the more obscure, or letting the first person to guess correctly choose, but there's really no reason to worry about that; it's not like I've only got one box of cookies and one Sculpey figure. So, the first person to correctly identify the first text gets to choose a prize, as does the first person to identify the second. If someone identifies both, that person gets any combination of the two prizes. If you want two boxes of cookies, so be it.

3) As it's Hogswatch, I am willing to giftwrap prizes and/or ship them to someone else, if you want to use it as a free shopping trip sort of thing.

And now it's time to get back to the paper. I've got to learn to FOCUS.

12/15 Hint #1: My class is called "Studies in Middle English Literature," but my professor assigned a small handful of Latin texts (translated, thank goodness...) to show the literature that might have influenced the Medieval works we studied.


UPDATE: Another new rule - I will answer one question per person per day, so long as it is asked in either the comments here or on the LiveJournal entry. I reserve the right to refuse to answer any question I deem too specific, but I will try to vaguify as many of these as possible.


12/16 Hint #2: The poems are both retellings of much older stories.


UPDATE: The fantastic identified the first text as "Apollo and Daphne" from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Far from resting on her laurels, though, she rather surprised me with her second post of the day. Is the Supertemp going to win the whole thing?


12/17 Hint #3: Just over three months ago, I posted an entry on my LiveJournal account about my professor and mentioned his last name. Something tells me this is just about over, now.


And it is! Captain Savvy's research classes may have seemed pointless and interminable at the time, but today they have paid off...in so much as they helped her to win a hunk of clay that will probably break before it gets to her. She correctly identified the second text as the "Pistel of Swete Susan" (or Susannah, as my professor mysteriously called it on the syllabus), an anonymous fourteenth-century poem based on the thirteenth book of Daniel...which I found out after a somewhat heated quasi-argument with my sister and one of her church buddies is not in Protestant bibles. Oh, apocrypha...

For those of you still pondering that bit about the Gators, the star basketball player the two years UF won the NCAA title was Joakim Noah. I know this only because Hillary and my parents would always freak out a little when we happened to be in Steak and Shake at the same time as him, and because I used to get stuck behind him walking down one of the narrow sidewalks on campus when I was trying to book it from one class to another and he was leisurely strolling along with his girlfriend, who was roughly 2.5 feet shorter than him.
Anyway, point is, Joachim was Susan's husband.

Thanks to all who participated, and I'm pretty sure there will be another opportunity to win some more garbage next time I need something to keep my mind off of how much I hate engineering.

Or something. Really I just wanted to quote the Brig.

Anyway, this is just a quick update to say that, between grad school apps and MicroP labs and so on and so forth, I got some stuff made for 's birthday on Wednesday and therefore have things to show off in the coming days. And I may be getting another commission for the cross stitch shop soon, so that will be good.

Meanwhile, I have had no time at all to work on Who figures, but I will most definitely be getting back to that just as soon as I can.

The cake topper is done, the buttons are done, and I would be back on track with my Who project, if not for bloody school. But that's an old tune, and I'll not make you listen to it here. Point is, I don't know when I'll next have anything to post, but I'll try to steal a few moments here and there to get something done and keep myself from going completely mad. I've just finished "The Five Doctors," so I'm definitely in the mood to be working on Two and Three and Susan and all of them...