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Continue reading →: Guns and ships
Spies! Shipwrecks! Crown jewels! And a yellow silk dress… From the inestimable Sara Lamb: “A master craftsman is not one who makes no mistakes, a master is one who can repair mistakes so no one else knows they happened.”
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Continue reading →: By George
I think this is working again! I’ve been traveling a lot, and otherwise swamped, and hadn’t gotten back to fixing the last bits of site moving chaos. Okay, honestly, I hadn’t noticed the bit preventing me from logging in until I tried to wish the velocikittenraptors a happy third birthday.…
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Continue reading →: Museums and books
A petition to save a textile museum (and here’s a great deal more info from Katrin): The Textile Museum of Lyon is threatened with closure, which undoubtedly constitutes a major asset catastrophe. The indifference of the city of Lyon and that of the Ministry of Culture and Communication make possible…
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Continue reading →: Upcoming classes
Look at that! A great heap of new frame looms! Those are part of my preparations for the Fiber ArtsFest to be held in Huntingdon, PA, on September 18 and 19. What am I teaching? This! And this! And this! And this! Look like fun? You still have time to…
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Continue reading →: Happy Velocikittenraptor Day!
Two years ago today we brought home a pair of curious creatures. They were so very tiny!
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Continue reading →: Odds and ends
I’ve been saving things to post, some for rather a long time, and I’d like to get them cleaned up and out of my way. Pennsic Fiber Arts Pavilion: For those of you in the SCA, Fiadnata is organizing a pavilion at Flaming Gryphon’s camp in Block W-07 for all…
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Continue reading →: And now we are two
My babies are two today! It seems like just yesterday they were tiny and cute. Now they’re large and gorgeous.
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Continue reading →: Welcome to town
Hi April! Welcome to town, lovely to see you again. Oh, yeah, March, the door is that way. Don’t let it hit you on the way out. April, my dear friend! I missed you! Look, I got you flowers! Or maybe you got me flowers. It’s so hard to tell.…
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Continue reading →: Lovely things
Indoor springtime! I decided I wanted to start seeds successfully this year, and after investigating all the options, I decided to purchase the fancy shelf unit from Gardener’s Supply. I went kind of crazy ordering seeds during a snowstorm (there’s no way I can fit seven kinds of heirloom tomatoes…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
