Janelly's b-day

[ladyjanelly]

Yesterday was my b-day.

evolardnek gave me a painting of Jensen that she and her friend painted and bought me a red-velvet cake, :)

nikwdhmos is getting the two stumps dug out of othe front yard and letting me buy roses (I know, doesn't sound too romantic, but it's all I want).

Went to Amtgard and saw a sign for a fabric sale on the way there.  Paid $25 for about $200 worth of fabric.  Mmmm, Silk.

spar30threw me a BBQ.  Okay, it wasnt for me, but it was a ton of fun anyways.  

Rath gave me a knife, but it was a "just because I like giving stuff to people" gift and not a b-day gift.  

I had tasty tasty martinis and played with a sand-blaster.  Etching metal is so incredibly cool.  I want to play with all my resources to transfer patterns onto friskett now.  Dude, and I bet I could use a liquid mask too and get smooth-flowing intricate designs.  Oh, and I wonder if I can put ink into the sand-blasted parts before the metal's sealed with clear enamel.  I really really want plate armor with my oak-and-leaf heraldry now.

Comments

[embroiderama]

Happy birthday! I'm glad you have a good one.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Thankyou thankyou. It was fun. :)

[jellicle.livejournal.com]

Oh man, it was your birthday and I wasn't around for the party!

Happy belated birthday, sweet darling! Thank you for being the wonderful person you are!
I wish you all the good things in the world, joy and happiness!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Heh. That would have been cool. I think some of my LJ friends and some of my real life friends would get along pretty nicely.

Aww, thanks for the sweet words. I appreciate it.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh happy birthday! Sounds like you had a good one! Any time you get stumps taken out, and you don't have to do it yourself is a good day!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

*does the b-day dance*

happy happy joy joy. Those stupid stumps were harshing my squee, man. I'll be glad when they're gone.

[prfctdaze.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a good day :-)

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

best belated birthday wishes to you!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Thank you ma'am. You're so sweet. :)

[kentucka]

eek! happy birthday!! *smooches*

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Mwaaah!

Thanks!

[hrh-anm.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday Lady J!
I hope all your days are filled with the best life has to offer.

[hrh-anm.livejournal.com]

What kind of knife?

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the happy wishes.

The knife is just a pretty-pretty box-cutter, but it's all fancy and cool. The old ladies in my watercolor class were all impressed.

[hrh-anm.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, old ladies can be hard to impress when it comes to weaponry. :)

[kizmitbastet.livejournal.com]

I feel bad I didn't know it was your birthday or I would have said something. It was good seeing you at the barbecue. We don't see people often enough, so when I get invited to a social event, it is usually a good time. Anyway, good seeing you and happy belated birthday!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

No problem. I'm pretty low-key about b-days and stuff. It was great seeing you too. You guys should come over for bad-movies night or something sometime. Or just you if the boys are busy. That'd work too.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Happy Belated Birthday! I'm glad you had a nice one.


Etching sounds like an interesting hobby. My family likes doing things like that, too, and amongst us we cover a wide variety. My sister makes jewelry; our brother, and our dad are both very good artists. My mom does crafts galore-it's intimidating how much she can do, from quilting to tatting and everything in between. I mostly stick to embroidery, when I've the time (ha!). Between the lot of us, we get around creatively, but I don't think any of them have done metal-working. There's been a bit of pottery and statuary and such & my mom's thinking of trying stained glass.

I'm always on the lookout for patterns that transfer well to cloth, as it's difficult to get embroidery patterns-most stores have cross-stich, instead, which I find tedious in the extreme. *is annoyed* I've got several pattern books for free-hand stitchery, but a pre-printed pattern is *so* much easier to work with. For one thing, it lets you stop when you need to and pick it up later much more easily!


When you say "knife", do you mean a kitchen knife, or one for collecting? I love blades! I've forcibly stopped myself from acquiring any, because I do *not* need to add a bunch of swords, knives, stilettos, rapiers, broadswords, claymores...hell, bows and arrows, too...to the already monstrous collection of books and cd's that I have to tote around when I move. *sighs*



I'm not one for the martinis. Margaritas, now, I can get behind.



Happy B-day again.




Pesti

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Etching was cool.

I'm a craft-a-holic. I do costume design and sewing, watercolor and pastels, jewelry beading, leather tooling, a tiny bit of embroidery (and I totally agree that cross-stitch is the devil).

Could you make your own cross-stitch patterns? Maybe get that iron-on-transfer paper for printers and photoshop whatever you want?

Oh, the knife is just a super-fancy box-cutter, really, but it's shiny and red and sorta sci-fi looking and really impressed the old ladies in my watercolor class. :)

Spar makes the tasty martinis, like appletini and some thing with cranberry, and the blue ones. super-tasty.

Thanks.

[cal-j-fielding.livejournal.com]

I missed your b'day...i'm so sorry.

Happy Belated Birthday, hope you had a good day.