frog princess

My new product development! Mills and Boon wallets o'romance. I'm really pleased how these turned out, although the vinyl is a real bitca to sew. Thank you , toscas_kiss, for the lend of the special grabber foot. Total lifesaver.



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I also found some awesome mouldy paperbacks today, all old Sherlock Holmes covers that have a bit of potential. One of them shows Holmes gripping a cock in one hand, round the neck.

Also, I might (no, I mean, I AM going to) be doing nano tomorrow with emungere. We have a plan! Sort of.

A moment of adorableness from the Shanghai Masters tennis:

( Rafa and a fan )

A little interview pre Shanghai, where Rafa says very firmly that it's always better to have Roger there.

Late as usual, I'm finally fiddling around with my dreamwidth account trying to set it up all nice. I'm louiselux over there too if anyone wants to add me to their reading circle. I'm going to keep reading here as my main fandom thing - I just don't want to miss out on stuff over there too. eta: I'm going to crosspost once I figure out how to do that.

I watched Merlin yesterday. ( Spoilers... )

Rafa lost at the tennis yesterday, although I had to miss watching it. In fact, he was crushed by Marin Cilic 6-1 6-3, and then afterwards said that he was mentally 'not there'. I find this kind of sad and worrying, but maybe it's nothing more than him having had a largely crappy year of injury and disappointment, and now he wants it to be over. Roger is still out of action, presumed babysitting while Mirka takes the credit cards on holiday.

daegaer totally inspired me to make these, for she knows the ways of excessive manliness. Now you too can sport manly ejaculations!

I made these originally for her birthday, but then thought other people might like them too so I put them up on my Etsy shop.





This way to bigger pics of manly Victorian badges

Back from the northern lands. connotations was great. It felt a little different this year, maybe because there were slightly fewer people attending, but I really liked it. As usual I failed at attending many panels and instead maximised my walking on the beach/lounging about/fangirling/drinking times. Bliss.

I spent Saturday morning walking in the sparkling clean sea in the sunshine with new_kate, then we sat on the sand and drank lattes and really had a focussed discussion about how pretty everyone on Merlin is, especially Bradley James and his awesome haircut. Then we went back down to the beach again on Sunday, where me, new_kate, daegaer and mandragora1 had giant muffins in the cafe there. Saturday night we all got Moderately Tidy (with some stunning dresses and dramatic decolletage!) and had a special Park Hotel meal. "Special".

I do love the Park Hotel - it never learns its lesson somehow. I asked the waitress on Friday night if there was a vegetarian option. I wondered if she'd ever been asked this before from her blank look. "There's... veggies," she said. Um, yeah. Also, our bathroom ceiling lifted off its frame every time we opened the door and the hot water for our shower was missing. I managed to keep my thin summer sundress on at all times despite its being autumn in northern Britain, because the hotel likes to keep its temperature setting at 'heatwave'.

Things that got pimped at me that I want to follow up: Charlie Jade, Psyche, something fides showed us at about 4am that has got 'State' in the title. Also saw the first episode of Flash Forward, which looks v much like a replacement for Lost. Oh yeah, and I want to investigate the read it swap it website, which graculus pointed me at.

Also, I decided on the beach that nanowrimo is ON this year. ON in big flashing red letters. It will help me focus back on writing and set time aside to do it every day. *fisty pump of determination* I need to think about what to do.

"A beautiful wholesome bag, designed to put you in mind of innocent youthfulness, log cabins on grassy mountainsides, and Grandfather."

All the time I was making this I was thinking of that BBC childrens tv series that was possibly made in alliance with some Swiss tv company, and Heidi was an adorable curly haired moppet with a piercing voice. My mental notes on Heidi go: Heidi - is shipped away to (or poss from? or both?) log cabin on grassy moutainside with Grandfather. Grandfather dies? Other plot points - don't know. Ending - don't know.

So anyway, it was the US Open final last weekend, Roger vs Juan Martin Del Potro (from ARG). It was a great match, 5 sets of tussling! Roger didn't win it though, mostly because he forgot how to serve for almost all of the match and anyway Del Potro-- hugely tall, mumbling, sort of overly hairy round the facial area-- was too good. Rog was very serene at the ceremony, which was great to see. There was no drama, for once. I mean, Roger has won a lot. Like, A LOT. Two slams this year already and now he has kids, so he's got other things in his life. So I think five US Opens already seemed enough for him.

It was a momentous occasion - only two other people have won a slam since 2003 when Roger began winning them. When you think about it, that's a ridiculous statistic. I really thought Mandbot would have a chance this time, but the wheels fell of that in the fourth round. Del Potro snuffled damply during the ceremony. When asked afterwards what he might spend some of his £1.25m winnings on he said: "Probably some cheesecake for my birthday." Not even a cheesecake shaped like a sportscar!

Also! Roger was in a bad temper for most of the match-- probably because of that slightly annoying inability to serve at all-- and he swore at the umpire! Three times! I just keep watching the Youtube over and over. I never heard him swear before at all. It's like the best thing ever.



I'm going to Cornwall tomorrow so I'll miss the Davis Cup antics: Spain are playing Israel, UK are playing Poland, Switzerland are playing Italy.

It's the end of the road, for now. Thank you everyone for following this story! I'm probably going to edit and repost this as one long fic over the next few days, just to soothe my tidy mind.

Title: Rafa's Diary - days thirteen and fourteen
Pairing: Fedal
Warnings: worksafe
Notes: At some point later niennah will be posting from Roger's POV. Yay! The first instalment is here.


day one day two day three day four day five day six day seven day eight day nine day ten day eleven day twelve

( Day thirteen – Saturday )


( Day fourteen – Sunday )

Title: Rafa's Diary - days ten and eleven
Pairing: Fedalish
Warnings: worksafe
Rating: G
Notes: thanks to emungere for looking it over for me!

day one day two day three day four day five day six day seven day eight day nine


( Day ten – Wednesday )


( Day eleven - Thursday )

My internets came baaaaaack. :D

Title: Rafa's Diary - day seven & day eight
Pairing: Fedalish
Warnings: worksafe
Rating: G

day one day two day three day four day five day six


( Day seven – Sunday )

( Day eight – Monday )

Here's more, slightly behind schedule. Hey, at least I can't get jossed. :)

Title: Rafa's Diary - day three & day four
Pairing: Fedalish
Warnings: worksafe
Rating: G

Day one Day two

( Day three – Wednesday )


( Day four – Thursday )