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There is nothing that makes me more aggravated than having a long list of things to do and suddenly falling ill. Getting hit by an inner ear infection only two weeks from my deadlines took 5 days of crafting time from me.

I'm nothing if not stubborn and focused when on short deadlines however. That and I seem to have an insanely high hit rate for things I make up as I go along.
( An Example of such a success )

Ok, the sewing machine is still in the living room but I blame this on having to wait for a delivery man by which point I decided I may as well take in the machine on Monday.

So what does one do when you can't do the sewing machine?

Well I decided to start with adding spines to a hat for the hedgehog look. I think maybe a few more spines to help round it out a bit but it is a good start.

Then I moved on to sewing shut the foxtail I made a while back as it seemed silly to have left it that long.

I also, after a reminder from midnightoak, added the ability to carry a candle and matches to my calligraphy bracer.

And then becuase I get really twitchy when I see ideas that haven't been completed yet, I tried my hand at a mole nose. I had trouble to start with but eventually I managed to get it to sit right.

After all this I was unsure what else to do but with scraps of leather now lying about and having reread the Winter in the Willows setting I decided to create some tokens for trading.

Having started a lot of projects yesterday I felt the urge to finish something today. So I set about looking at the crafts that could be made as efficiently as possible.

I dipped the Hedgehog spines a bit more. They might be ready or I might need one more grading of colour. I've not quite decided.

I then finished the Rabbit Hat which by a slight miscalculation ended up being about half an inch too small for my head. Not that that was important as such.

I also finished the hat I plan on using as a base for the hedgehog spines so once they are done I can get that out of the way as well.

Then I decided to work on my bracer of calligraphy things. I think it worked. Though am not sure the pen looks right so might swap that for something else.

All in all a semi productive day. I can't quite get enough energy together to work on something else as well despite knowing that tomorrow I'll have to do a lot of cleaning to catch up.

My energy levels I blame on the wierd dream I had with a dryad that could heal people, but needed to get energy from the blood of her victims which she then cast revenge spells with...Not sure what my brain was up to there.

Today was an ish day at work. Meaning I was only thereish mentally for most of the day. The rest of the time I was sitting with Kerrigan composing yet more Artificer Poetry which will no doubt be aired at somepoint.

I came home to the task of finding a craft I could fit into the small space before slimming world and the cinema. So I decided to take apart and resew one of the four men's shirts I bought on the basis that their shirts are more military colours than what I can find elsewhere. In an effort not to feel like I was wasting my time I picked the least nice shirt to start with. Turns out I had to do a little more adjusting than I thought and, despite removing almost 3 inches out of the back of the shirt it's still longer than the front...

I've now got it finished in what can roughly be said to be 1h 20 mins and it well sort of looks fine...I can't really tell seeing as I am still lacking in that rather useful thing 'A full length mirror'. Ah well at worst it looks a little untailored and at best I have some shirts I feel happy wearing out instead of my nice ones. I've worn worse fitting shirts to work and with my expanding waistcoat section I can hide ill fitted bits.

Now on to one of my other 12 projects that I started...or was it 14? One of them has been completely abandonned as I am without the right tools the rest as getting there bit by bit.

I know most of you will no doubt find me rambling on about how much I've done rather boring but for the one or possibly two who are interested I'm documenting it anyway :P

So I managed to get one more thing done before I went to bed, filling the herb bottles. I almost forgot that I needed salt but saved myself at the last moment. So go me there is stuff to flavour the bbq with. I've also picked out what material to make the herb bottle holder out of so I can sew it later today.

This morning to make up for a slight lack in enthusiasm yesterday I made two new eyes for my mask, reglued some loose feathers and checked that my armour still fit. The armour looks quite alright for something that is a little big and I just need to trim round my arm so that it doesn't buckle so much when I bend it.

I also filled the charcoal sack and ended up with black all up my arms and on the top of the sack too so it looks even more IC. I'm a little worried that I haven't brought enough charcoal but I think that is more because I wont have a huge bag to fall back on. Shouldn't be a problem anyway. I didn't use that much last time.

Right to my training.