Angel's Dress 20th November 1995

Days,
As subtle as the imprint left by an angel's dress.
As soft and sweet as a virgin's caress.
Hints and echoes of light filter through\
Fragile and precious trees of leaves.
Leave behind the world of corners and straight walls.
Fall willingly,
Blissfully,
Into a strange green, glittery, gittery, calming, peaceful waterworld.
Away from the race.
Setting a better pace.
Keeping my own space for a change.

Ship of Sleep 15th June 1996

Ship of sleep
Drift and steal
me away from the
harsh and bleak.
Take me to a land of sleep and dreams.
Deep hue of velvet blue.
Fathomless abyss of watery fantasies and emotional energies.
The navy cool whispers imagined caresses,
as soft as water,
as soft as his words in song.
Ship of sleep,
Take me to the navy cool deep
Where I belong.
Where I can do no wrong
   but only drift, drift, drift ...

What I Do 21st February 1995

I wait.
I wait to fall alseep.
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I shape twenty young minds,
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I drink coffee,
I shape twenty young minds,
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I eat alone,
I drink coffee,
I shape twenty young minds,
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I think,
I eat alone,
I drink coffee,
I shape twenty young minds,
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I feed the cats (to stop them howling),
I think,
I eat alone,
I drink coffee,
I shape twenty young minds,
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I drive (without getting anywhere),
I feed the cats (to stop them howling),
I think,
I eat alone,
I drink coffee,
I shape twenty young minds,
I wonder what I'm doing tomorrow,
I drive,
I check the letterbox and
I wait to fall asleep.
I drive
I feed
I think
I eat
I drink
I shape
I wonder
I drive
I check and
I wait ...

Time 28th March 1995

Wait ...
Wait for time.
Words are mime
and soundless.
Wipe, wipe, wipe
Wipe away the rain.
Agonise my pain.
Drawing it out a little longer.
I try to be stronger.
Time.
All mine to pass.
How long will it last?
Practice, practice, practice.
Practice that phrase a million more times. Hey.
I've got plenty of time for that.
I'll have it down pat
In no time.
Because no time
is the time when you're gone
too long
Time.
What's the time, Mr Wolf?
Its 9 o'clock, 16 minutes and 37 seconds.
Just infinity to go.
Wipe, wipe, wipe.
Wipe your face.
Here's a tissue.
Get dressed, sit up straight, listen to me!
Listen to me!!!
Can you hear me a million miles away?
Practice, practice, practice.
Practice what I'll say
On the day you finally get here, In my car as the wipers
Wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe the screen so I'm not as blind.
Just passing the time,
Just passing the time,
Just passing the time.

Water 8th March 1995

Soothe.
Soft and smooth.
Rhythmic rain
send me to sleep.
Penetrate the silence
too loud and deep.
Go.
Fast and slow.
Make the mould grow.
Grace.
Drown in your embrace.
Die.
Tears to cry.
Flood the roads,
Close the school.
Take him away,
Make me a fool.

Crab 11th July 1995

Scuttle, Fumble, Fuss.
Collect this thing, set it down.
Turn around
and go back.
Do that again - not quite right.
Clumsy armour slows me down.
Too big claws for me to drag around.
They keep scuttling and getting in the way.
Retreat to the lair
Where there is finally peace and calm,
Residing,
Secretly hiding in
Soothing Silence
(Listen to the waters ebbing the rest of the world away).
Tongue
Tentatively Tasting.
Hesitantly Fearful.
Make this cave a sacred place
Where no one seas my reel face.
Where I rock, to and fro in emotion's watery embrace.
Riding,
Never really deciding
Where to go, what to do,
Which armour to wear today?
Forever fearful of ridicule,
Fantasised or otherwise,
In a world that is cruel
And in avoiding to look a fool
I become one.
Never content with who I am.
Who am I?
A lonely crustacean in the deepest ocean.
Fussily Scuttling.
Sillily Fussitating.
So bloody irritating.
Every minor decision
Is a major derision.
But under the deepest rock,
In the deepest sea,
Where my safe home is,
I stash away, in my private place,
A small treasure.
A tiny pearl,
A shiny shell.
The pearl, with dull lustre,
The shell, empty , but with intricate patterns.
My possesions in my sacred place.
Predictable and secure.
No surprises.
Will I grow with such a heavy and impregnable shell
for armour to protect me?
To grow I must leave the old shell behind,
Expose my vulnerable flesh.
But for the experience I will be a bigger soul,
stronger and more able to deal with what the oceans leave to me.
The death of my old shell, and thus old self,
Brings the birth of a new and stronger me.
Perhaps then I can finally be ... free.

The Cat on the Hat

What a strange day I had yesterday. It was completely wierd, I just can't explain it.

I impulsively bought this cat badge from a hand-made market in Darwin in late 1996.

In 1996 when I was insane, I went to a hand-made market fair that in my delusion I thought was the "real" psychic expo, not the other one that was on in town on the same day. I impulsively bought this badge that I saw. My memory of the day was so strange, it was as if people recognised me, like I was like famous or something! Bwhuahuaahua, so hilarious.

"True Love is not self-destructive"

Anyway, at one point I wrote a fevered message on the back of it. But this message was very clear. It simply says "True Love is not self- destructive". I've kept it handy, this badge, I don't know why. I put it on my hat today. Lol what a Crazy Girl in a Crazy World, am I.

Find Yourself.

Find yourself. Where are you? Did you look? A never ending search of self-fullfillment. Its a journey. Look around, where are you? You are where you are.

You're welcome.

Find yourself. Its a journey.

Addon Bug Removes DH with Special Letters

ÃⱮßëŗŦħóřʼn is removed from the guild by Geminda

Its been found that an addon bug on Guild Master toons kicks any new Demon Hunters with special letters in their names. It is not known which addon causes the bug, but it is definitely there somewhere in the scripts and the HTML things. Special letters will be removed, we're going to build a wall that keeps those pesky letters out of the guild, mark my words, I'll never let you down.

How is it known that this bug exists? Well, we have our sources, reliable sources, like this article you are reading right now. Some guy recently said "Americans are tired of experts!" He was an expert on how much people are tired of experts. People elsewhere in the world are also probably tired of experts. We're going to make Bloodlust Great again, mark my words, etc etc.

The reason the bug addon exists is because those special letters, the ones you need to make your unique name because you are a special snowflake that can't stick to using the 26 letters of the alphabet the rest of us mere mortals are forced to use, is because they are damn annoying and inconvenient. They are the bane of my administrative existence. Following is a list of things that happen when you have a special letter in your name.

I can't find you in the roster. If you have a special letter your name does not sort in alphabetical order, and in a guild of over 700 toons that makes you hard to find. The worst is when the special letter is the 1st letter, I can not see you there at all. You are hanging out at the end of the list in a special club with all the other special snowflakes. If the 2nd or 3rd letter of your name is special and the 1st letter is very common, its also hard to find you.

I can't send you mail. Sometimes I get lucky and I can type in the 1st few letters and the game suggests a name from the roster, but usually I can't send you a letter.

I can't add you in the calendar. If we have an event in the calendar which is for Raider rank only, and you get promoted to that rank after it has been created, I can't then add your name to the event.

I can't invite your alt if you ask me from battlenet. Yes, I have a big bunch of peeps in my battle tag. Often these people whisper me from battletag for a /ginvite for their alt. I can't simply click their toon name like I can when I am whispered ingame. I have to open up battle tag, look at the name of your new toon and type it in. Some names are onerous, long with wierd spellings that are not easily pronounced. If these names have a special letter in it, I can't invite the alt. Please whisper me from ingame so I can just click you.

Why can't I just memorise the 5 extra digits for each special letter in your special name? You are expecting me to go find out how to write the letter and then add the extra 5 digits and enter them just so. It often doesn't work that easily. I then have to memorise this extra set of digits for your special name. I then also have to do that for every other unique snowflake in the guild with a different special letter. How about you do something for me, and just think of a name for your new toon that doesn't have a special letter in it? That actually sounds easier to me. A letter requires a single keystroke. That is how I type, I shouldn't have to pause and enter 5 more digits to write one single letter. That is horrible.

The reason you want to try and think of a name for your new Demon Hunter without special letters in it is because your GM is a volunteer, largely there to just help organise the funs for a bunch of strangers who are virtual friends that never meet IRL. If your GM asks you for help with something, its probably for a good reason, and will make their job a little easier while they are organising said funs. Please remember the past time is also suppose to be fun for everyone, even for the guild master.

Why are only Demon Hunters being removed by the addon bug? Because now is a new opportunity to avoid the annoying letters on a bunch of alts that are about to be made from scratch. If you find your Demon Hunter removed at level 99 or 100 and you really want it to be in the guild, it won't be too hard to delete and reroll. Now is the time to do this. I'd rather not ask people to spend real money getting name changes, or actually kicking old toons with the special letters. Because I'm actually not that much of a pyscho control freak bitch and won't do that to you, mark my words, I'll never let you down.

Hey, if you get this far and have actually read this, would you mind doing me another favour and adding a comment down below pretty please? Thanks heaps <3 <3 <3

The Prettiest Mount in World of Warcraft?

I just don't understand why there are some people out there that don't agree with me? I mean, come on! Ashes of Al'ar, the mount that drops 0.1% of the time from the last boss in Tempest Keep is the prettiest mount in World of Warcraft by far! I told my guildies so last night, when we decided to skip heroic HFC progression (we didn't get our usual heals online, we are up to 8/13H),  so we decided to get the guild achievement from Heroic Siege of Orgrimar. As it turns out, after spending over an hour in there, we have to do it on Mythic to get the Heroic achievement, d'oh!

The prettiest mount in WoW, by far, Ashes of Al'ar.

So my husband and I have the Legion beta, and someone at Blizzard had an absolute brainwave to decide to let the beta players access to ALL mounts. Yes. Including Ashes! So whenever I am on the beta, I fly my Ashes! So. Pretty. The. End. (lol!)

Pink Swirl Bunny Rug

I have finally gotten around to finishing the pink swirl bunny rug a friend asked me to do for a new baby. Its taken me a couple of months, I found it really hard to pick up. But now I'm really glad its finished! I used 4ply luxury Australian wool from the Bendigo Woollen Mill and a 3.5mm hook, and the result is just over 80cm wide. Yippeee!

a pretty pink swirl bunny rug for a baby girl

Female Orc Hunter Transmorg Sets

Having trouble finding something for your female orc hunter to wear? Here are some outfits I have put together. They are what I call modest and I think they have understated style! Perfect for a fashionable female orc!

trailseeker chest, gloves, belt, shoes, kilt of Pandaren promises, netherstorm shoulderguards

Oversized ogre hauberk, frozen forest kilt, nexus strider mantle, rift stalker guantlets, wild plains belt

Gatekeeper's embrace, netherstorm shoulerguards, gloves of the savage hunt, sovereigns belt

Here is the Bloodlust set, which got the most comments, but a bit too attention seeking for me!

White Female Hunter Transmorg for WoW

I was searching for a white outfit to transmorg onto my alliance female NE hunter, and had trouble finding it. I finally found out that the Impenetrable set is white, but its quite revealing! I was unhappy with her butt cheeks hanging out, so I found another pair of pants that are white, the bonelink pants. I think it looks good!

the Impenetrable set's legguards are a bit revealing ....

The impenetrable set with bonelink legguards looks better!

Little Lavender Sachet, FREE Pattern

I woke early this morning and decided I needed to try making a lavender sachet to include in a woolen bunny rug package. I used the vintage inspired square as an idea, I didn't follow it exactly, just did an eight petal flower then turned it into a square. Then I made another square but this time didn't fasten off, but sc around the edge on three sides of the two squares forming a bag. Then I went around the top in dc, then scalloped the top edge. Finally, I made a chain to weave in between the dc of the second last row to form a drawstring. Yay! A lavender sachet!

the lavender sachet will be filled will lavender to help protect woollen rugs from pests

Little Lavender Sachet FREE Pattern
2mm hook and 4 ply cotton
Vintage Inspired Square, make two, fasten off the first one, do not fasten off the 2nd
1. 3 ch, sl st into 1st ch to form loop, 4 ch (form 1st dc and ch sp), dc ch 1 into loop 7 times (a wheel of 8 spokes)
2. (sl st into next ch sp, 2 ch, 3 dc into same ch sp, 2 ch, sl st into same ch sp) repeat for every ch sp (a flower of 8 petals)
3. 3 sl st up to centre of next petal, 1 ch sc, 5 ch (sc in top of next petal, 5 ch) repeat for every petal, sl st into 1st sc
4. 3 ch, 5 dc into same, (3 ch sc into next ch sp, 3 ch sc into next ch sp, 3 ch sc into next ch sp, 6 dc into next sc at top of petal) repeat for each corner, 3 ch sc into next ch sp, 3 ch sc into next ch sp, 3 ch sc into next ch sp, 3 ch sl st into 3rd ch from start of round, fasten off 1st square, repeat for 2nd square but do not fasten off
5. lay the two squares on top of each other right sides facing out, sl st to 3rd dc of 2nd square, sc in each dc of BOTH squares, 3 sc into ch sp of BOTH squares, etc around 3 sides of two squares to form bag
6. 3 ch dc into next around top of bag, sl st into 3rd ch
7. (sk next dc, 5 dc into next, sk next dc, sl st into next dc) repeat to end
8. ch 30, fasten off loosely, weave the chain through the dc of 2nd last round to end, undo the fasten off and finish with a couple of sl st to form drawstring, fasten off and weave in ends

Pretty Angel Baby Blankets

I've made some more angel blankets, just following various ideas, not really following any specific patterns. I did a border on one but not exactly happy with it. I think they look better with simple borders. Maybe I will remember that for next time ...

three pretty angel baby blankets ready to be sent off

this one used a 3mm hook and Patons Big Baby 3 ply rainbow and a simple pattern

this one has a fancy border, which might not be as nice as a simple one, this was 3.5mm hook and 4ply yarn

Apricot Angora Shawl

I started making this shawl about 6 to 12 months ago and finally wove in the ends yesterday. Its simply beautiful. I used a 4mm hook and some apricot angora that has a slight soft fuzz to it. I don't know if anyone will ever wear this, I am not a shawl wearing girl myself, but I just made it for fun. Its nice to make beautiful things. I followed a pattern I found on Ravelry.

Pretty Shells Angel Blanket

I just spent the day making this angel baby blanket, I was inspired by a pattern I saw on Ravelry. I didn't follow the pattern but I did use the photo for the idea. This took me about 4 hours to make. I used a 3mm hook and 4ply acrylic yarn, and it turned out to be slightly larger than an A4 piece of paper.

stacked shells angel baby blanket, 3mm hook 4 ply acrylic yarn.

Two Angel Blankets

Happy New Year! I'm so sorry for not posting in nearly 6 months, but I have had a break from my crochet projects while I play World of Warcraft! My guild has turned into a raiding guild, so there is lots to do! But yesterday when checking Facebook I stumbled across a charity that wants angel baby blankets so I thought I'd make a couple and see how they turned out. I made a blue one and a pink with white one.

here are two angel baby blankets I made up quickly, it was fun

the pattern for this Easy Baby Blanket is on ravelry, I used 8ply yarn and a 4mm hook

Myrtle from my craft group taught me this little love hearts blanket pattern, one day I might write it down, I used 4ply yarn and a 3mm hook.