I finished my first leather pouch today. I’d post a picture but my camera is dead and the camera on my phone pretty much sucks so I’ll have to post one later. The pouch didn’t turn out too bad for a first attempt without a pattern. It definitely looks handmade and mistakes are obvious but it should be functional for faire at least until I make a new one. It would be so much easier to make if I could run the leather on the sewing machine but ours just isn’t set up for that and is too old to find parts to run the leather through. Maybe in time we can get a new sewing machine. If I could get some good patterns down, I think it would be neat to be able to sell leather stuffs through the Attic with Pam and Tony Camera.
Joy came up today and is staying through the weekend with us. It will be nice for Gabrielle and Joy to have some girl time together and catch up on things. We were thinking of hooking up with Dave Dittman and maybe doing dinner and a movie. John Wohlers was talking about comming up to pick up his video camera that I borrowed so maybe he’ll be able to hang out for a bit.
ta for now,
KB
Hey all,
So my skin is still peeling like mad. I’m beginning to think I should start rubbing myself against a tree or rock like a snake to help the sloughing of my epidermis.
Speaking of skin, I’m finally working with some of the leather I bought. I am attempting to make my first pouch, attempting being the emphasized word. I’ll let ya’ll know how it turns out. I hope to have it done in time for faire. My other pouches are great but they are bulky and thick (which is nice for protection of the cell phone), but I think I’d rather have something lighter and not so laterally obtrusive. Especially now that I’m in the pottery shop…I mean really I’m big enough lets not add bits that stick out even more…uh ok get your minds out of the gutter, you know what I mean. So anyway, like I was saying I was working with the leather I had brought and was trying to use a fabric pencil to layout my pattern. It wasn’t working very well. It then dawned on me that leather is pretty much just the skin of an animal and hey, I’ve got a surgical skin marker…I wonder? Yep, that damned little purple marker works wonders for my cut marks and so forth.
I’ve also been working on cleaning up my endless list of favorites on my computer. There are so many dead links and sites I really don’t need to have cluttering up my list so I’m working my way down the list and the delete button is getting quite the work out. I found this on my list so if anyone is interested in the GPS location of our house it is :
Headed to Bristol today. Gabrielle and I got our ID badges. Mine has a pic of me making a funny face, had to do it and the office lady loved it so it stayed.
We wandered a bit and headed to Juli McCarthy’s new shop and Gabrielle helped her out a bit with getting things ready, while I helped John McCarthy do landscaping and bricklaying out front.
Jess and the kids stopped by and we got a chance to chat and hang out which was nice. We even crashed the shanty BAPA class that Wohlers was in…too fun.
After leaving Bristol, we headed to Pam and Tony Camera’s house for Mitch’s birthday party. It was a great time with lots of friends. The lasagna was awesome and the smoked Gouda appetiser was delish. Pam and Tony surprised me with a Knights Hospitaller design for a shirt and vest they are working on for me…THEY ROCK!. They are also working on cavalier shirts for Gabrielle. Hurray for new garb.
We are also commissioning some work. Gabrielle found a 16th century Hungarian Princess outfit and they are going to make it for us…..so much embroidery…this is going to get crazy.
After leaving the party, we headed home but got caught in a wicked storm. It was crazy enough that Gabrielle felt better to pull over and let me take the wheel. We got home just fine and crashed into bed.
ta, KB
Walked into work today. Swiped my time-card in the computer. Took a gander at the assignment sheet. “Karl–Pod 3 trauma unit.” Picked up my stuff and walked down to my patient rooms….so what do I see….4 DuPage County Sheriffs in my patient’s room. *mental note — this can’t be good, text Gabi and make sure life insurance is paid up* So I was assigned a 30 year old guy who I actually admitted several days ago for a suicide attempt. He had taken a whole bunch of Xanax. Apparently, on my off days he was discharged and that night he tried again to kill himself, this time with Xanax, Vicodin and Trazadone about 60 pills in all. Again he was admitted, this time he is combative and is admitted in full four point leather padlocked restraints. The jolly bit of this is that he has been neglectful in paying his child support and has a warrant for his arrest. So my patient at all times has two Sheriffs to keep a watchful eye on him until he is transported to the Inpatient psych unit.
Actually, it was quite nice having them there considering my last little adventure with a psych patient. I also have quickly learned to make friends with the sheriffs. So I made sure that every set of sheriffs had refreshments, food trays and the TV remote with listings.
So much fun,
ta, KB
And now the skin peeling begins…..
KB
Owwwww..my face is a hurting today. Not as bad as I thought it would but enough to be annoying. Slathering of Solarcaine and many milligrams of Ibuprofen have helped. I have loads of little blisters all over my face, mostly on my nose, which are leaking a yellow serous fluid…yuck.
Gabrielle and I were invited out by Naomi, a friend of mine from work. She is a hospice nurse and a great soul. The three of us and her husband Paul went to Zanies comedy club in Venon Hills to see John Pinette. He was freakin hysterical.
This weekend was so strange, in that it encompassed rain, Scotland and somewhere along the road Gabrielle out of nowhere started talking about gastroenterology. All of these things were part of John Pinette’s act today even the gastroenterology, so strange.
The act was great, but it definitely cracked my face causing the need for more slathering and ibuprofen. After the show, we headed to Buffalo Wild Wings for a nice dinner.
This is a bit late but I am trying to keep this blog updated (especially for Jess — a faithful kiltedbehemoth follower). So this morning, Rich and I got back to the site and the damage to the tent was more extensive than we thought. There was no way we were going to be able to fix the tent. Surveying the other vendors pretty much everyone took damage to tents and product. We decided to make the best of it and took the tent down and faced the 90 degree fully sunny day. Rich and I were able to sell quite a bit, so hopefully there is enough profit to offset the losses of the weekend. I wish I had pictures to show but my camera phone pretty much sucks.
Right around 1pm, Rich looks over at me and says “Dude you aren’t looking so good, you look like an overcooked lobster.” He was right my face was badly sunburned (2nd degree on my evaluation at home). Unfortunately, nobody was selling hats or sunblock otherwise I would have gotten something. Of course, I didn’t bring anything because I thought we were going to be able to patch the tent. Sigh….and now the pain is setting in…the next few days are going to be interesting.
ta, KB
Hey all,
So Went to the Highland Games to help Hearthstone Art sell some pottery. Mike developed a fever so Rich stepped in and he and I handled things today. Things were going pretty well, however we were dodging some nasty weather throughout the day. Well, mother nature decided to hit us and hit us hard. Around 6:30pm we were hit with a micro-burst and Rich and I were lucky to get out unharmed. Lightning was striking all around and the winds picked up maxing out around 70 MPH according to noaa.gov. The tent collapsed and a large rip has nearly split the tent in two. One of the mug displays flew about ten feet across the tent set up and unfortunately several pieces of potter were either damaged or destroyed. We are tentatively estimating losses at a few hundred dollars, especially since several of the pieces damaged were the hand painted.
Essentially all the vendors took severe damage. There were T-shirts and souvenirs strewn all over the field. Not only were the pup pop up tents new atmospheric displays but the large heavy tents with thick hollow tube aluminum tent poles with ratcheting straps took to the air. One of those actually took to the air, poles and all and came right toward Rich and I in that 70 mph wind. Needless to say, we did the running dive to the ground to avoid getting hit then the flying pottery came…we were lucky to leave unharmed. There were people hurt and several ambulances were on scene. As we were running the MILE (literally) to my car we could see (through our wet foggy glasses) the rows of portable potties all overturned. I REALLY hope no-one was in on of those then they were blown over.
After telling the significant others of what happened. Gabrielle lovingly had dinner waiting for us and all the comforts of home at the ready. We are now safe, joking around, fed and generally feeling lucky to not have been hurt in this very scary ordeal. We are going back tomorrow early to take account of everything and if the fair is still on we’ll be there. Come on out and see us. That’s it for now cuz I’m tired and stil drying off.
Kilted 
Hey all,
I’ll be working for Hearthstone Arts this weekend at the Highland Games in Brookfield….come on out and say hi and see some cool Scottish games.
http://chicago.timeout.com/events/city-picks/60725/scottish-festival-and-highland-games
see you there,
Kilted
Karl is totally in love with this:
check out the video…it runs for 1hour 20 mins but is sooooo worth it.
ttfn