I've mostly been working in the garden for the past few days, rather than on crafts. But since I last posted I've started the 'prehistoric creatures' square, and the phoenix cowl, and I've finished 'fingerpaints', so imma have to take and post photos. For the prehistoric creatures one I've made a shawl pin by cold-casting iron into an ammonite mould. It needs polishing now, but I can't find my polishing papers - I might say balls to it and see how the dremel handles it.
Garden-wise, I've gotten most things transplanted and my arch up. The kiwis aren't looking too happy, but apparently they do that when you transplant them and as long as they're still growing they should get over the strop. They're growing about an inch a day, so I'm hopeful. The grape is also having a strop but I'm accustomed to that - it should consider itself lucky, tbh, most people bin them thinking they're dead, instead of waiting out the adolescent tantrums. Next week I need to prune the fruit trees, so that should be fun. The snow killed all my plum blossom, so no plums this year, and the blueberries are late, but it looks like I'll have a decent crop of goosegobs, fuschia berries and chilean guava for pies; maybe some cherries too, if I net the tree before the bloody birds get at them.
Also I had my first black-out for five years and accidentally sliced a bit of my finger off, which was hilarious in retrospect but kinda slowed down the crafting a bit.
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