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Crafting for the Craft patterns:

First we have the bracer pattern:

Complete with rune, World Tree (which will be interlaced when I’m done on the actual leather), and set with two wolves… this bracers will be using a 4 buckle closure and a series of round spots set towards the top.

This is a gorget:

This is a pattern (for the front [...]

The Sheriff needs a new book cover…

…so I made “him”** one:

Latigo being oiled and waxed works on a different ruleset and toolset than veg-tanned leather.

Burnished and stamped front piece, inlcuding BIG star concho…

…double buckstitching on the sides and BIG bling on the top and bottom. It makes a nice back-up weapon in a pinch

**there is no Sheriff. This is [...]

That’s a whole lotta cow ass you got there Mister…

…why thank you.

The weatherman has announced the “official” welcoming of Tornado season.

I’ll stay inside today TYVM.

That’s latigo btw for those that don’t know. It’s a very resilient, super tough oiled and waxed leather. Strips of latigo are used on western saddles to hold the girth in place(the part that holds the saddle on the horse—that [...]

Legislature and other uses for duct tape…

YA author is going the distance.

You can read about Carrie’s candidacy for Maine State Legislature here .

…and more about Carrie’s books here.

Or just stop by her LJ (up there).

***I have an outstanding claim to running Carrie’s coffee mess if she is ever elected as World President.

Sticketh the forketh…

Added the sheen sealant and filigree corners.

Done:

And done:

***currently fitted with a 410 pg trade paperback FYI.

Fun project… time to make some patterns.

Modified gorget piece coming this week…

It’s wet! No touchie!

Pausing to eat. ZOMG thank you Chinese place for speedy delivery. I was going to go start eating my leather projects…

Yesterday’s pause point:

…and today:

You don’t have to have book cover envy… that’s NOT a commissioned piece *wink*wink*… I have the sheen sealant and some nifty hardware to add on after lunch — mmmm lunch

Dith Pran, September 27, 1942- March 30, 2008

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday, his former colleague said.

“I’m a one-person crusade. I must speak for those who did not survive and for those who still [...]

It’s called craft for a reason…

There was someone recently who was feeling a little blue about getting rejection letters from agents regarding a manuscript.

So I shared with them this little piece of info… here’s the first thing I ever carved:

It is by every definition of the word, HORRID.
But it was a first. And you can’t expect to be Al or [...]

Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern — I am listening.

I’m going to attack this bit by bit. I’m going to try to control my temper. No promises. You are more than welcome to link to. At a minimum please pass the video along.

But first a video presentation of an anti-gay speech given by Rep(R) Sally Kerns – Oklahoma:

 

Still with me?

Now, it’s time to rip [...]

Public Service Announcement

This is a pony named Jynx (okay she a 15.1hd TWH) that was bought in October, 2007. This pony needed groceries:

This is a pony on groceries…who knows who her “people” are”

This is her gelding buddy Max, also bought in October, 2007. This pony needed groceries too:

Feed them, love them, groom them, give them a job [...]