Regalo lampadario vintage funzionante

Regalo, con ritiro in zona Varese (potenzialmente anche Como, ma con tempi più lunghi), lampadario di linea vintage, appena staccato dal locale dove era in uso (e quindi perfettamente funzionante)

Attacco per le lampadine normale E27.

!Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️ #mastoMercatino #mastoRegalo

Regalo cintura di velluto nero basata sul cartamodello della cintura edoardiana di Black Snails Patterns, taglia 34 europea.

Zona Varese / Como, eventualmente ci si può accordare per Milano.

È realizzata in velluto nero a coste sottili, foderata di cotone, con teletta di cotone non adesiva e steccata con fascette fermacavi larghe. Chiusura con tre ganci e occhielli sul retro. La lunghezza della cintura, allacciata, sono 66 cm.

Vorrei che qualcuno me la togliesse da davanti, perché si sta prendendo gioco di me e del fatto che io non abbia fatto un mockup — o almeno controllato le misure del cartamodello — prima di realizzarla.

Quando dicono che la taglia 34 è per una vita da 66 cm, con un pollice e mezzo di riduzione, intendono che la misura finale della cintura è di 63 cm.
Senza lasciare spazio per il corsetto stesso e i vari vestiti che si stanno indossando sotto la cintura.

Quando me ne sono accorta ho spostato ganci e occhielli il più possibile, ma non è bastato, sopra ai vestiti con cui la volevo portare arriva *quasi* ad allacciarsi, ma non ce la fa. Probabilmente ridendo di me e dei miei sforzi.

Ovviamente si possono rispostare gli occhielli nella loro posizione corretta per riportarla alla misura finale di 63 cm, ma allargarla ulteriormente è più complicato.

Abbiate pietà di me e fatemi dimenticare questo episodio increscioso senza dover scavare una buca per sepellire la cintura, che le stecche non sono biodegradabili :D

!Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️ #mastoMercatino

The dreamstress / scroop patterns is having a sale on printable patterns

I've always had great experiences with her patterns

from her blog she looks like a good person

the article contains a picture of a day old duckling, if you don't care about the patterns :D

thedreamstress.com/2024/06/its…

#sewing #historicalSewing

It's the midyear Scroop Patterns Sale! - The Dreamstress

It’s midyear, I’m in Hawai’i having a long overdue visit with my parents, AND 10 adorable khaki campbell ducklings hatched yesterday.

^{The Dreamstress}

I've just asked @Diego Roversi to buy a diamond for me and for some reason he told me “you don't need it”

the diamond: leroymerlin.it/prodotti/utensi…

(it's a diamond-tipped chisel, for walls, and I have to admit I currently don't have a use for it)

when the alarm clock woke me up Draco had just proposed to Ginny

out of desperation, because she had been found to be the other half of a macGuffiny prophecy that involved saving the world (and a bit of pureblood prestige in the process)

and now I will never know what her answer was!

Today there is what I believe is the pride parade closest to where I live, so of course while I'm ready to jump on a bookcase to hide from the noise I'm also doing studies in different techniques to paint rainbows

(no, it's just a coincidence, but I just noticed it and it felt appropriate)

(this is still work in progress, and most of the point was trying out techniques and materials)

Things I will never stop doing: translating Elfenbeinschwarz as Elvish bones black, and expect it to be extracted from real bones from real elves.

Now, I do worry a bit about the fact that elves are supposed to be immortal unless killed, so extracting said bones would probably require violent death, but they are going to the Halls of Mandos and then reincarnate in a new body, so they are going to eventually be ok? maybe?

ok, maybe it's better if they extract the pigment from random inanimate carbon sources :D

Dear paintingverse,

when I decided I wanted to try #painting with #acrylics I bought a few 20 ml tubes, because I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new hobby, even if the price per liter was significantly higher, and I expected to only paint on A6 / postcard size, like I do with watercolours. They weren't metal tubes like I was used to in the 1800s :D but transparent plastic.

And then I got into myself some ideas on a bigger scale, and now I'm buying *huge*¹ 120 ml tubes. However I've found that the smaller tubes are quite convenient to use when painting on small scale on a cramped desktop, which is something I'm not planning to stop doing.

Does anybody have any experience with refilling smaller plastic paint tubes from of bigger ones? Is it even doable? If it is, I'd expect it's better to use the same brand/line/colour of paint, and possibly to avoid a complete refill, and only doing limited amounts at a time, to prevent wastage in case the biocides fail at their work and there is spoilage.

Also, I'm thinking I could either try to refill from the opening, or cut the seal at the bottom and easily refill from there, but then I'd need a solution to close it back in a way that doesn't let air in.

I guess that the alternative would be to buy empty metal tubes of the kind used by people who make their own paints, but that's too easy, right?

¹ I know :D

Today I need to do things that require quite a bit of washing of hands.

I have a big papercut on the base of my thumb.

The. Pain.

(and I don't even remember how it happened)