I took pics of the workshop, but I haven't been able to edit them so I can put them up. Or the pics I've taken of the new projects I've finished: a leather pouch (on commission, and paid for... woot! ) and a mug (Awaiting payment, also woot).

Sadly I haven't been able to edit the pics because my computer is dying a slow painful death. I'm having horrible memory issues, and it's the motherboard not the RAM chips themselves (of course, cause why in the world would it be something I can fix?). I can't run any of my image editing software, WinAmp crashes constantly (do you know how stupid it feels to sit in front of a beautiful set of speakers wearing shitty headphones wired to your iPod?), trying to play games would be a sad joke, and I can only browse for a short bit before I have to close Firefox and reopen it to clear the memory a bit.

In better news, there's a good chance I'll be able to fire up my forge for the first time this week. I have almost everything I need to put together something rather nice, but the first fire is probably going to be some bricks on the ground to test a few air inlet configurations. I still don't have a blower, and I haven't gotten the supplies to build a charcoal retort (I'm making charcoal by the "snuff a campfire and hope there's something decent left" method right now), and I'd like to get my hands on some clay to mix up adobe to line the fire pot (which has been far more difficult than I'd expected since the only reasonable quote I got was from a fill-dirt place, and they wanted a ridiculous minimum order) but I have what I need to make fire and heat some steel & I have a crappy anvil and no shortage of hammers, so I'm happy enough with that for now.

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