Posts made by Auspice

why am i not the owner of a snek

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

No Lion or Red Heart or Berocco for me.

I buy Lion/Red Heart when I make stuff like cat toys. I have a single skein of red rn I've been working through for a couple years for both cat toys and testing patterns for people (also a good use of cheap yarn... I don't wanna be tearing out stitches on good yarn!).

I don't mind some mass-produced yarns.

In fact, there is an ACRYLIC I like. But then, I crochet a lot of blankets and blankets need to be washed and I will never doom anyone (including myself) to handwash a blanket (well, okay, I mean, I am working on a madelinetosh blanket but there are always exceptions).

Stylecraft Special DK: https://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/yarn/stylecraft-special-dk-all-colours
(I haven't found a US seller with it, but this shop has amazingly affordable shipping to the US.)
It's affordable. The color selection is AMAZING. And for an acrylic? It's as soft as cotton.

I highly, highly recommend if you're making, a) something that has to be washed often, b) something for someone who might be stupid about handmade stuff.

ETA: when I say affordable I mean I bought enough for a blanket for $32 shipped.

I have ... 2? skeins of Noro I bought just because it's Noro.

I know people who hate Noro because 'it has sticks and stuff in it'

Oh you mean because it's obviously handmade

fuck you I'll keep my noro over here.
and I love the fact that holy shit I saw a picture of something Noro and was like 'hmm it's clearly Noro and one of these three particular types' AND I WAS RIGHT.

this is a strange thing to be proud of, right?

@tek Looks like Noro? I'm guessing... Kagayaki or Silk Garden? Maybe Kureyon but it doesn't look thick enough.

lololol I was posting as you updated.
I know Noro too well.

@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice It needs a pinterest one with some glorious cu$$$tom-made artisan cabinet that is full of literally everything, flawlessly wound, with an assortment of things you haven't been able to get since 1930 artfully assembled in front of it.

Probably with a link to 'ideas to store your supplies on a budget', just to rub in the comedy factor.

or just a stack of printed-out patterns

I just send out dozens of resumes a day and assume every single one will never get a reply and go to bed insanely depressed.
That's MY coping method.

Me: "After I leave, you'll have to learn what grammar is."
Coworker: "Grammar? That's that stuff those college educated folks use."
Me: "No, no. It's what you put under your cheesecake."

Our coworker just slowly sat forward and put her head in her hands. He and I have been in rare form today.

@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice That is awesome. I ended up getting a couple of their 'multi-section' not-actually-floss-boxes recently to wrangle all of this stuff. I think they were about $5 each? They're almost twice the size of the typical floss box, and have the little adjustable dividers in them. Not so much travel friendly, but super handy for sorting things.

Also, when in the fucking hell did generic floss boxes in the old traditional style get to be $5+ each?! They used to be perpetually 99 cents a piece all the time not even 10 years ago or so.

hell just earlier last year they were only like, $3.
who tf knows.

@surreality

I haven't actually looked at the tin... but I don't doubt you. The girl leading our cross-stitch group gave out a bunch of that etoile at our last meetup because she was keeping the tin. Soooooo.

I ended up buying, one of my last trips to Michaels, a scrapbooking case that I discovered is the perfect size for traveling with cross-stitch. It was $2 after sale + coupon. It's a snap-case, deep enough (just!) for q-snap. So it fits my project, my notions bag, and a baggie of bobbinated floss. It had everyone going !!!!! WHY HADN'T I THOUGHT OF THAT.

Shit, I didn't think of it until I saw it. All along I'd been stomping around Michaels thinking 'you bitches why don't you have project bags.' (All along, all of us had been using gallon ziplock baggies.)

I wanna go back and buy a couple more of these. They stack amazingly.

Welp, hey, they did contact me.

yadda yadda we love your credentials we think you're great but we aren't interested

trying to be woosah and tell myself that it's because the universe is gonna give me something else great

while trying not to think about how that job would've paid me half again what the job I've been in does.
and how after I pay rent next week I'll have enough for my car payment OR my other bills and then ???????????

@surreality

I have a bunch of 'nfc what this is' floss and I use it for embroidery since all my embroidery is just by feel/color. Whereas my cross-stitch is (so far because I have not yet ventured into making my own) by charts and other peoples' designs and I need set sizes for aida and... yeah, need DMC.

(That said if you ever want to get rid of some non-DMC... cough.)

DMC I'm set. I think, in the group I'm in, I have the 2nd largest collection. I inherited my grandmother's cross-stitching supplies, so I have DMC older than I am! (There is a girl in our group who just last month proudly announced that she now has at least one skein of EVERY DMC COLOR THERE IS. It's kind of stunning, really.)

But yeah, non-DMC isn't a bad thing if you do non-cross-stitch.
If you do just cross-stitch it's maddening because some of it just does not play nice with aida.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

the complaint I heard was that it's "not in episodic fashion".

this was the #1 complaint I heard about Discovery too.
I get it. Trek was episodic. Whatever.
Whateeeeeeveerrrrrrrr

If that's the only complaint you can pull out of your ass, fuck off. It's a bad complaint and you should feel bad.

@Vixanic said in The Crafting Thread:

I've just recently started making bead jewellery as a hobby, simple stuff like flat spiral and hugs 'n kisses patterns.

Anyone on here have suggestions of decent places to find pretty patterns for free/not much moneyz?

Craftster sometimes has patterns.
You can adapt patterns from other stuff (like if it's flat-beaded things on a bead loom, check out friendship bracelet patterns and adapt those).
Just straight google and you might be surprised what you find!

omfg

tiktok was mentioned on here the other day so I gotta share this.
Look up 'just_jenoah' right now. This kid and his parents are recreating scenes from Into the Spiderverse and it is perfect.

I feel like it's kinda unlikely at this point.

The process, as I was told, is:
-> resume -> phone interview -> test -> Hangouts (video) interview -> in-person interview

During the phone interview, I was told if the person who reviews the test likes it, I'd hear back within a day or two of submitting it to schedule the Hangouts (video). I submitted that on Monday. It's Friday.

MAYBE something did come up, but 'a day or two.' Ehhhh.

I mean, this is for a full-time/permanent technical writing position that pays surprisingly well at a company has really great benefits and is highly-rated across the board on a number of sites. I am sure there's tons of competition (writing jobs are some of the first to go these days when companies cut costs).

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Every company should send a rejection notice if they aren't gonna proceed after they interview you. Even if it's a form letter they just hit a button and have auto-emailed.

But if you take a test (coding test, writing test, whatever) for them? Then they abso-fucking-lutely should do this. It should not be a week after I interviewed and then spent a weekend on what was probably about ten hours of work on a writing assignment without hearing word.

This is bullshit.
You can spend two minutes to either acknowledge receipt, let me know you won't proceed, or scheduling the next interview.

Some companies take weeks to make a decision on who is going to move forward, especially if they have something intensive like that. You might not be out of luck yet!

During the phone interview I was told I'd hear back 'a couple days' after I sent in the test.

It just always reminds me of this time when I was being walked out after this interview and the guy went on, at length, about how I would absolutely, definitely, hear from them and gosh, he hates it too when companies never let you know and he would personally make sure I heard back one way or another and...

I mean this fucker went on for a good two, three minutes about how he would absolutely follow up, whether it was good news or bad.

I never heard anything.

Every company should send a rejection notice if they aren't gonna proceed after they interview you. Even if it's a form letter they just hit a button and have auto-emailed.

But if you take a test (coding test, writing test, whatever) for them? Then they abso-fucking-lutely should do this. It should not be a week after I interviewed and then spent a weekend on what was probably about ten hours of work on a writing assignment without hearing word.

This is bullshit.
You can spend two minutes to either acknowledge receipt, let me know you won't proceed, or scheduling the next interview.

@Aria Uggggggh. I understand.

All three companies I've worked for (the one that fired me in Feb, the gap job, and my current company) haven't provided my tax info yet. I'm so fucking annoyed. I usually have my taxes DONE by now.