Jocelyn Worrall rules! The Craft Lady of Steel is my new heroine, displacing Catwoman and all three Totally Spies (sorry, Clover, Sam, and Alex).
My heroine (and her boss Martha Stewart)would insist that no home be without Garbage Trivets. I'll get started on these first thing Monday morning--or second thing, right after Jimmy Neutron on Nick.
Sam
Oh, damn it, Amanda, you see what you've gone and done.
Now I'm going to come home on Monday after a long hard day explaining the middle ages, and find that Sam and Andy have created garbage trivets.
Damn.
You know, I could see this as a way to settle disputes on who gets the more desirable timeslot for their course or other burning issues of the faculty-verse.
Glue guns at five paces! Decoupage brushes at ready! Craft!
Oh, I need to come work at your university. The most exciting thing that's happened at our faculty meetings of late is that we got muffins with red pepper in them instead of the cranberries I innocently assumed them to be.
And I'm allergic to peppers.
I just don't know where to begin.
I suppose with the great joy I have that I'm through with the exam process. But I'm still happy to negotiate knitted items in place of dissertation chapters (I have yarn coming for a complicated cable sweater and yarn from Christmas for a Norwegian sweater--that should count for a healthy chunk of the dissertation, right?).
There's so much more to say here, but I'll have to think on it more before I get involved in these departmental machinations.
The literary appropriate crafting death match is something I really, really think we could work in, people. And what would be even better is making the crafters do crafts contemporary to their time period. So not just a brooch that Emma WOULD wear, but a brooch authentically made using only supplies available to 18th and 19th century women who were stuck in their parlors, making brooches. Rita, Tim, and I are all doing a 19th century British field exam (more or less), and I hereby challenge Tim (not Rita, she's too crafty) to hat-making, firescreen embroidering, taxidermy, or other interesting Victorian craft.
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