Happy crafty sweetie

...is very happy, having unwrapped a 10kg box of carve-able stone from J, aryanhwy's other half.

It's beautiful white with pale brown striations, and silky smooth to touch and already cut into workable blocks. The most tedious part of doing moulds is squaring off.

It's not quite soapstone, but some type of stone suitable for carving that J can find very affordably in DE. They used it at Raglan, to make the hourglass token for their Highnesses, for Duncan and Eibhilin's 'make something cool at the event' challenge.

Robert, gloating over his new treasures:  'I'm importing stone from Germany for pewter casting...just like in period!'

So he's set for the holiday.

I've received my delivery of further soapy supplies, so I can make still more soaps and toiletries, but now with added colours and textures. My friends will be very, very clean this year.

We also got our Bah Humbug shirts in the mail - Wychwood brewery has the best label art going, and I love their silly shirts. My real favourite is of the Wychwood elves roasting a reindeer at Christmas time, saying 'ho ho ho...' in their typical mischievious way...

So we're both wearing the shirts at work today.