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Long time no post. :shrugs: Been living my life, unhampered by illegal mandates and life-threatening injections.
I've revamped most of my wardrobe - my embroidery machine has been earning it's keep lately.
I finally decided to fulfill a life-long dream - I am now learning Russian. Why Russian? Because I don't trust the news media to correctly translate. Plus, it's a beautiful language, and even more beautiful culture. (Cyrillic was VERY easy to learn to read, BTW. I can puzzle out the *sounds* of words, but I need a lot more learning before I can call myself fluent. Fun - and it keeps my brain active!) I started with the free Russian Made Easy Podcast, and their "Cyrillic in 3 Hours" (it took me....much more than 3 hours!), then signed up for the paid Russian Accelerator Course. I also have an Udemy course, but I don't like the instructor's style of teaching - at least it was on sale! :shrug: I caught RA on sale, so...I'm happy with it. The kids are helping me - they have me try to translate some of their video games, and Himself has gotten really into Slavic Folk Music. He wants to start learning Russian, too, but doesn't have the headspace for it right now.
Himself has become interested in Tailoring - he has self-drafted a few shirts for himself, and even sewn them up! He's now dabbling in cordwaining....it makes a mother proud!
Herself is on self-drafted casual lolita dress number....6? 7? She's also done a nice Goth-Loli. Not my taste, but she's done a great job.
I have finally come to grips with some of the intricacies of my Embroidery Machine. I finally stitched out a multi-hoop project; it isn't perfect, by ANY means, but I learned a LOT. For example, I didn't know that my machine could shift the hoop over to perfectly align a pattern - I had been manually removing the hoop, readjusting the fabric, and trying again. (To be fair, the manual has 1 small paragraph about this - no details, and neither of the books I have mention it. :sigh:) I'm in the middle of multi-hoop project #2, and...well, it's going VERY WELL. очень хорошо! :lol:)
Life is good - G-D has watched over us. As He promised He would.
I've revamped most of my wardrobe - my embroidery machine has been earning it's keep lately.
I finally decided to fulfill a life-long dream - I am now learning Russian. Why Russian? Because I don't trust the news media to correctly translate. Plus, it's a beautiful language, and even more beautiful culture. (Cyrillic was VERY easy to learn to read, BTW. I can puzzle out the *sounds* of words, but I need a lot more learning before I can call myself fluent. Fun - and it keeps my brain active!) I started with the free Russian Made Easy Podcast, and their "Cyrillic in 3 Hours" (it took me....much more than 3 hours!), then signed up for the paid Russian Accelerator Course. I also have an Udemy course, but I don't like the instructor's style of teaching - at least it was on sale! :shrug: I caught RA on sale, so...I'm happy with it. The kids are helping me - they have me try to translate some of their video games, and Himself has gotten really into Slavic Folk Music. He wants to start learning Russian, too, but doesn't have the headspace for it right now.
Himself has become interested in Tailoring - he has self-drafted a few shirts for himself, and even sewn them up! He's now dabbling in cordwaining....it makes a mother proud!
Herself is on self-drafted casual lolita dress number....6? 7? She's also done a nice Goth-Loli. Not my taste, but she's done a great job.
I have finally come to grips with some of the intricacies of my Embroidery Machine. I finally stitched out a multi-hoop project; it isn't perfect, by ANY means, but I learned a LOT. For example, I didn't know that my machine could shift the hoop over to perfectly align a pattern - I had been manually removing the hoop, readjusting the fabric, and trying again. (To be fair, the manual has 1 small paragraph about this - no details, and neither of the books I have mention it. :sigh:) I'm in the middle of multi-hoop project #2, and...well, it's going VERY WELL. очень хорошо! :lol:)
Life is good - G-D has watched over us. As He promised He would.