My handbag is going to die

Yaay! Normal service should be resuming on my internets soon - apparently the phone line coming into our building was composed mainly of rust, so no wonder it's been acting like dial up for months.

Today's crafty post is (yet another) Trekkie thingamabob. It's probably an idea that would have worked better on a red t-shirt, but I had a red beach bag and I wanted to do this, so to hell with logic!

   

Aaargh. Crush. Stomp

It seems quite appropriate to post this custom Bowser piece right now, as life pretty much feels like a hellishly difficult boss level at the moment. But this is pretty, and I'm rather proud of how it turned out. So here's 7 by 7 inches of cross stitchy Mario fun (buyer's tag pixellated for privacy).

Extreme close up! Because I am really happy with how neat my stitching is on this piece.

Crafts! Some random geeky bags!

These were made ages ago as colour tests for new paints. I should get them up on my etsy site soon - I've already got about half a dozen shopping bags of my own, what else am I going to do with them?!