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2 miles today; 3 miles total. Cross The Water on a plank bridge.

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Steampunk progress:

* Made the leather pouch
* Painted two of the gears Marcy gave me bronze, for sewing onto the pouch
* Finished the gear necklace, using [livejournal.com profile] botmo lampwork beads that arrived today. (OMG, such pretty beads!)
* Planned out the hair ornament. (Spiky titanium gear behind my ear, with bead hanging down from the holes. Just need to figure out how to get it to stay up...)
* Formulated plan of attack for the parasol. (Big spiky gear on top. Boo yah.)
* Decided to go ahead and wear the Cleavage Corset, as a) I like the way it looks, and b) Lady Cordelia is a woman of Scandal as well as Science. I may change my mind if I put it on and am at risk of falling out of it, though.

I still need to:

* Get started on Pav's hat (and, ideally, find a feather for it, because that would be awesome, especially if I paint it gold, like the feather of a clockwork nightengale).
* Figure out whether I'm going to bother with a walking stick
* Affix the painted gears to the pouch
* Re-cloth the parasol and hook the big spiky gear to it
* Make the hair ornament
* Contemplate whether I can do a wrist bracer intended to hold my Victorian mechanical pencil (thank you, [livejournal.com profile] ceph!)

I also need a better organizational system for my beads.

(The BPAL scents Kataniya the Clockwork Woman and Mechanical Phoenix are excellent for steampunk inspiration.)

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Continuing my theme begun at New Year's of drinks that taste like candy bars, today I made an Almond Joy. 1 part Amaretto, 2 parts chocolate liquer (Cask and Cream Chocolate, in this case), 2 parts coconut rum, plus milk/cream/half-and-half to taste. Tasty!

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Also, MMP was awesome. More on that later.

All in all, not a bad day, even with the Evil Head Cold of Ultimate Peril.

Date: 2008-01-04 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fairnymph.livejournal.com
That Almond Joy cocktail sounds delicious! I bet it'd be really good with coconut milk too.

I like the BPAL matching.

Date: 2008-01-04 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zalena.livejournal.com
I can't wait to see your costume!

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