Simultaneously, I mean, of course. Since radiantwterror has confirmed receipt, I can now discuss the Hufflepuff scarf (and bonus item) that I made. ( Pics & usual long-winded story under here. )

Having completed the knitting, I was left to launch into the final volume of the series with no distractions. Some of you might remember that I didn't much like Deathly Hallows the first (and second) times around (uh, spoilers if you haven't read the book yet. It was kind of fun re-reading those comments though, heh), so I was a bit trepidatious about tackling it again. However, as you might expect, time has softened my judgment. Basically I'm more willing to recall that the whole in-story universe is, you know, fictional, and so let pass some of those extremely implausible and convenient plot devices that bugged me so much initially. Now there's really only one particular thing that continues to annoy me deeply by not conforming at all to the rules that Rowling set up. Well, that and the fact that the epilogue remains stupid and clumsily-written. Definitely looking forward to the inevitable big action set-pieces in the final movie, though!

Well, not yours, but...yours to admire? I have to admit I'm rather pleased how it came out:

Though it does look a little lumpy and wrinkly in this picture. (As is habitual with me, I didn't block it, and also I didn't have the actual DSi to put into it to fill it out for the photo.) Still, the lumpiness just makes it more cuddly.

I got the chart here, but there seems to be quite a vogue of NES controller crafts. I don't quite get that nostalgia (my family never owned one, although I realized while doing research on the NES for this project that we did have the Asian version, the Famicom, complete with Famicom Disk System), but I figured it was appropriate—I mean, they're both Nintendo products. Also I suspect one reason this particular design is popular for cases for other things is that, unlike most controller designs since, it's a simple rectangle in shape rather than having a bunch of curves and protuberances.

And that's my sharing for today. I think I might try to get a better picture of the case when it's actually on the DSi...

What the hell, Rod Blagojevich? (pdf link)

Oh, Illinois politics.

Wow, since LJ increased the number of userpics for permanent accounts, I can now have up to 195.

Why the hell would I ever need 195 userpics?! I know some people would love to have that many, but I've been sitting on a hundred for a while now and I don't even use most of those.

Okay, another slow day at work...um...soon(ish) I will go home and play some more LittleBigPlanet. So...yeah.