A New Start

Not much to report this week....here it is

Work
Started a new job and felt pretty much like a spare part - and probably will do until I know more about the subject matter.

Where I went
Unfortunately I haven't been anywhere much this week, apart from going to work. Went shopping on Sunday and bought some stuff from Crabtree and Evelyn and Neal's Yard.

What I made
Continued with the crochet lattice scarf, and did some rows of the mohair scarf while watching Battlestar Gallactica. At metal clay class on Thursday I made a cork clay shape for next week's class (when we'll be using the clay syringes), and made the shapes for and constructed the diamonds and stars pendant which I'll be firing next week. The class pretty much packed in at 9pm when people noticed that it had started snowing, and wanted to drive home before it got too bad. My car wouldn't start at all, but luckily one of the security guards helped me to push start it before I had to call out the AA. I also took a break from the Floral Filigree beaded scarf and started my Black Heart square stitch cuff. But the variations in the size of the seed beads I'm using means that it is all over the place, and looks far too wonky. So I'll have to cut it up and try the bracelet again. I'm going to buy some delicas and make it using them.

What I read
In the spirit of reading something a bit different from my usual reading material, I read The Painted Man by Peter V Brett. It's a fantasy novel set in a world where the darkness is ruled by demons, and the vastly reduced human population cower nightly behind magic wards. Towns and villages are few, and hardly anybody travels anywhere. Will this state of affairs continue, or will a few brave souls take on the demons...and win? Well of course they will! The first of a trilogy, it wasn't at all bad for a fantasy story, and I will probably read the next two when they come out.

What I learned this week
That latex "dental dams" can be put to surprising other uses.