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One last bead post for 2012
Dec. 31st, 2012 05:50 pmWe close the year with a colossal fuckup, lol. Explanation in a bit. First, progress.
Sorry about the picture blurries. Still working on the light situation in my room. It's... not ideal. Also experimenting with hanging the stuff on the wall for pictures. So far not so much a success. Anycrap, its looking fine there. 'Course this is after I spent a couple hours cutting and ripping out about two rows (and almost an entire day worth of work) because in my excitement in finally reaching the top row of little musician dudes, I miscounted how many beads over the first one was supposed to be and well fuck everything about that- pretty much all the counting thereafter would have been fuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. In retrospect I probably could have altered the pattern a bit to fix it, but meh, at least one rip-out is sort of inevitable in this sort of project. Now that it's done I'm okay about it, but ugh, it was PAINFUL having to tear the mistake out. Moral of story, count and recount and recount before stitching! >_<
Still happy with this project though, despite the setback and really really psyched about getting to the interesting bit of the pattern finally after nearly what, two months of work? Even having only a fraction of it done, it looks pretty awesome, and goodness knows doing this for hours on end has given me a fabulous excuse to catch up on tv series I've fallen behind on - just finished up season 2 of The Borgias, earlier I'd finally caught up with the last season of Sons of Anarchy and am about to jump into the last season of Mad Men. Still I look back on how when I started this thing and I was all "yeah, I'll totes have this done by New Years!" ha ha nope, not even close. At this rate, we're looking at April for a completion date, especially if I slow progress on this down enough to make room for some other irons I have in the fire - namely working on Guardians and Gods via the 750 words project. I'd like to get back into the habit of writing something fictional every day. Hell these days I'm even out of the habit of just writing something about my life every day, which is weird for me, but that's the way of the nets - long form social journaling is truly going the way of the dodo. Which isn't to say I won't keep doing it. But anyway. This damn story needs to get out of my head and onto "paper" and out into the world and I need to sit on my butt and make that happen.
Between rows of beads, anyway. :)
Sorry about the picture blurries. Still working on the light situation in my room. It's... not ideal. Also experimenting with hanging the stuff on the wall for pictures. So far not so much a success. Anycrap, its looking fine there. 'Course this is after I spent a couple hours cutting and ripping out about two rows (and almost an entire day worth of work) because in my excitement in finally reaching the top row of little musician dudes, I miscounted how many beads over the first one was supposed to be and well fuck everything about that- pretty much all the counting thereafter would have been fuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. In retrospect I probably could have altered the pattern a bit to fix it, but meh, at least one rip-out is sort of inevitable in this sort of project. Now that it's done I'm okay about it, but ugh, it was PAINFUL having to tear the mistake out. Moral of story, count and recount and recount before stitching! >_<
Still happy with this project though, despite the setback and really really psyched about getting to the interesting bit of the pattern finally after nearly what, two months of work? Even having only a fraction of it done, it looks pretty awesome, and goodness knows doing this for hours on end has given me a fabulous excuse to catch up on tv series I've fallen behind on - just finished up season 2 of The Borgias, earlier I'd finally caught up with the last season of Sons of Anarchy and am about to jump into the last season of Mad Men. Still I look back on how when I started this thing and I was all "yeah, I'll totes have this done by New Years!" ha ha nope, not even close. At this rate, we're looking at April for a completion date, especially if I slow progress on this down enough to make room for some other irons I have in the fire - namely working on Guardians and Gods via the 750 words project. I'd like to get back into the habit of writing something fictional every day. Hell these days I'm even out of the habit of just writing something about my life every day, which is weird for me, but that's the way of the nets - long form social journaling is truly going the way of the dodo. Which isn't to say I won't keep doing it. But anyway. This damn story needs to get out of my head and onto "paper" and out into the world and I need to sit on my butt and make that happen.
Between rows of beads, anyway. :)
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