Althea Valara (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
althea_valara) wrote2025-10-01 04:48 pm
althea_valara) wrote2025-10-01 04:48 pm
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Crafting & Creative Update, September 2025
Let's dive right in, shall we? (you know you are a knitter when you accidentally typo "shall" as "shawl").
[Image Description: A spreadsheet table showing the various creative things I did in September. I spent 7 hours and 40 minutes on crochet, 3 and a half hours knitting, a whopping 10 hours on my Small Web project, and 4 hours writing fic.]
That was only from September 15th. I also did over 4 hours of knitting from the 1st to the 15th, and numerous hours working on my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
smallweb project (I didn't track it for the beginning of the month, but I'm guessing about 7-10 hours?)
Folks, all this creativity has been doing WONDERS for my mood. Usually I mark the "how do you feel about today?" question in Finch as only 2 or 3 stars, but lately it's been consistently 4. I feel better about myself these days, and am starting to feel like maybe, just maybe, I *do* have the oomph to be a productive, organized adult and still do my passion projects. I still have a ways to go on that, but it feels in the realm of possibility, and that's a GOOD thing.
I completed one item this month, and that was a very basic knitted kitty from a kit I picked up at Five Below, which I wouldn't have picked up if there hadn't been a thread on Ravelry in which someone was lamenting that Five Below was selling such a thing. (1) Bwuh? I don't get their logic at ALL; (2) hey cheap craft kits LET ME AT THEM. I bought two for my birthday, the knitted kitty and a crochet Halloween Stitch, which I still need to complete. But I was pleasantly surprised at the quality for the kits! They only cost $4 for the kitty and $5 for the Stitch, and they had everything you need PLUS really good instructions. I mean, the knitting kit had instructions showing you how to do the knit stitch in the English method for both left and right handers. WOW!
smallweb: I did SO MUCH on my Neocities site! I finished porting over the FFBE Season 1 script and all my FFXIV "summaries" to date, and have finished FFXI for Bastok missions up to rank 5 as well as the first expansion, Rise of the Zilart. I'm very pleased! I'm hard at work now on FFXI's Chains of Promathia, but I've exhausted what I have the game logs for, which means I need to go on my documentation alt and play some more, oops.
Writing: FOLKS! It is rare that I write fic. ANY fic writing from me is a cause to celebrate. So the fact that I have THREE fics in the works is astounding, and that doesn't count my1character stuff. I'm having fun with the fic, but haven't worked on it in a few days. Need to get back to it. But I also need canon review, which might mean replaying some patches in FFXIV/doing a particular job's storyline.
SO yeah, VERY successful month, especially since my contract job has spun up again and I've worked 13.5 hours two weeks ago and 15 hours last week. I did all THIS and also worked? WOW. JUST, WOW.
[Image Description: A spreadsheet table showing the various creative things I did in September. I spent 7 hours and 40 minutes on crochet, 3 and a half hours knitting, a whopping 10 hours on my Small Web project, and 4 hours writing fic.]
That was only from September 15th. I also did over 4 hours of knitting from the 1st to the 15th, and numerous hours working on my
smallweb project (I didn't track it for the beginning of the month, but I'm guessing about 7-10 hours?)Folks, all this creativity has been doing WONDERS for my mood. Usually I mark the "how do you feel about today?" question in Finch as only 2 or 3 stars, but lately it's been consistently 4. I feel better about myself these days, and am starting to feel like maybe, just maybe, I *do* have the oomph to be a productive, organized adult and still do my passion projects. I still have a ways to go on that, but it feels in the realm of possibility, and that's a GOOD thing.
I completed one item this month, and that was a very basic knitted kitty from a kit I picked up at Five Below, which I wouldn't have picked up if there hadn't been a thread on Ravelry in which someone was lamenting that Five Below was selling such a thing. (1) Bwuh? I don't get their logic at ALL; (2) hey cheap craft kits LET ME AT THEM. I bought two for my birthday, the knitted kitty and a crochet Halloween Stitch, which I still need to complete. But I was pleasantly surprised at the quality for the kits! They only cost $4 for the kitty and $5 for the Stitch, and they had everything you need PLUS really good instructions. I mean, the knitting kit had instructions showing you how to do the knit stitch in the English method for both left and right handers. WOW!
smallweb: I did SO MUCH on my Neocities site! I finished porting over the FFBE Season 1 script and all my FFXIV "summaries" to date, and have finished FFXI for Bastok missions up to rank 5 as well as the first expansion, Rise of the Zilart. I'm very pleased! I'm hard at work now on FFXI's Chains of Promathia, but I've exhausted what I have the game logs for, which means I need to go on my documentation alt and play some more, oops.Writing: FOLKS! It is rare that I write fic. ANY fic writing from me is a cause to celebrate. So the fact that I have THREE fics in the works is astounding, and that doesn't count my
1character stuff. I'm having fun with the fic, but haven't worked on it in a few days. Need to get back to it. But I also need canon review, which might mean replaying some patches in FFXIV/doing a particular job's storyline.SO yeah, VERY successful month, especially since my contract job has spun up again and I've worked 13.5 hours two weeks ago and 15 hours last week. I did all THIS and also worked? WOW. JUST, WOW.
