Saturday's Coming - And So's The Big Event!

What will you be doing on Saturday morning while you wait for Amazon to deliver Harry Potter? Come to Team Wench's Prepare for Fair Yardsale! Located just a mile off the DC Beltway, we're going to have lots of wonderful things for sale at prices you'd never see in the stores or at the Renfaire.

We've got:
- Two all-metal sewing machines. Still working, and liable to outlive us all! Strong as horses and easier to care for.

- An antique treadle sewing machine. A real beauty, and with an intriguing box of attachments.

- Antique laces and trims. Antique jet and shell buttons.

- Modern laces, buttons, fasteners, and trims. Soutache! Sequins! Piping!

- A full pirate wench costume (shirt, bodice, belt, skirt, petticoat, in shades of white, burgandy and forest green) size 14.

- A sage green Irish dress with gold-tone fasteners, size 20-22.

- Hanks and bags of bugle and seed beads, in just about every color of the rainbow.

I'm even donating some of my old competition costumes at firesale prices. Maybe you don't want to wear them, but oh, the things you can have if you buy them and take them home for parts! Six yards of white fur trim. Panels of hand-painted silk and satin plenty large enough to work into a bodice. Yards of hand-worked bead trim attached to a ribbon that could easily be shifted to some of your garb.

All this, in addition to baskets, sewing patterns, fabrics, and - for the non-faire folk among you and your friends there are also all sorts of goodies like:

- A Japanese-style jewelry box, still in good enough condition to be a little girl's present.

- A white synthetic suede couch slipcover (machine washable, if you want to make a "suede" costume out of it.)

- A tan-and-white cotton armchair slipcover (machine washable, with more than enough fabric to make nobles)

Come down to Berwyn Heights and see! Full directions at the Team Wench website

Wednesday Morning (personal edition)

The spam will be ending soon, I promise. I just didn't want to have a Prepare for Fair ad mixed in with the personal stuff.

Exercise
Well, I managed to make a workout mix so intense I couldn't keep up. Someone in better shape than I am might be able to do it, though. I'm going to have to work my way up.

( The Gaelic/Folk Mix )

Y'all might as well vote, I'm going to keep this up...
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Aaaaaand we have our first asshole posting uncut, unwarned Harry Potter spoilers on a huge community with only the most tenuous of "But it's on topic, really!" connections. (Not going to bother with a link as I'm sure the mod will remove it, and hopefully ban the schmuck as well. ETA: Yup. Gone between my writing this and hitting "post.") No, I didn't read the list, once I figured out what it was. No, what I caught didn't ruin the book for me. Yes, I do think there's a hot place in hell for wankers who like to piss in the pool.

And frankly, yes, I think Bloomsbury and Scholastic should hang their heads over turning this into a circus for the last several books, because it's hardly like the buggers weren't selling in the first place. All those millions on "security," and newspapers worldwide are discussing how to download the sucker.

The only reason I'm not going offline is because I won't have time to read through the 4000 messages that would accrue by the time I finished the book. And I have faith in my f-list.

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I've learned more about joining yarn from this post from who_knits than I have in a year and a half of knitting experience.

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Hilarious parody of Order of the Phoenix movie.