getting my crafty on

+ today, instead of prepping for the weekend, i watched too many hours of youtube learning how to make victorian "puzzle purses" — which is just a fancy way of saying making an origami letter/square. 

with girl's birthday being this friday, i wanted to do something different than a normal card. i have a pink clover blossom/leaves that has been drying in the flower press since spring. with just a TINY trim, it will fit on the inside of the VPP....that, along with the decoration, will be something i think she'll dig. 

example of VPP:

sorry. big pic that doesn't seem to want to go down in size.

i like most of the design of ^, so i may swipe the general idea. 

+ tomorrow we're heading to the ceramic's co-op meeting. i'm taking our clay and our glazes to make sure they're OK to use there. since everyone there fires with other people's work, making sure glazes and clay are uniform is important. 

i refuse to be the one that fucks up and has a piece explode in the kiln. 

+ it's been so cold the last two days that i have struggled to go outside. :( doctor and mister said that when you start losing body fat, keeping warm is harder. does this mean i have NO body fat? because i feel like i'm freezing in 38 degree weather. 

[note: the answer to that question is a resounding NO. there's fat there. lol]

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