An odd title for an introductory post, I know. Welcome to the Hammerstrike Crafting Emporium! (I may or may not turn this into an actual business enterprise, we'll see).
Pardon the lack of visible projects at present; I'm working on gathering any and all evidence from prior projects as well as current ones. For those who don't know me, I am a nerd. A HUGE nerd, all vertical challenges aside. A little over a year ago, I became a LARPer. Live Action Role Playing, for you uninitiated folks out there. I also love comic books, Batman, reading in general, and Nutella. I'm an amateur artist, writer, seamstress, and handywoman. If you could see my parents' garage, you'd understand how it'd be impossible to grow up here without learning your way around a power tool or two (or ten). My parents are big believers in "If you can't find something to fit your needs in the store, make it." and "If it's cheaper to make it, do so." These tenets have been a large factor in my Do-It-Yourself tendencies.
I've made prints, posters, bookshelves, restored a steamer trunk, refurbished a desk, sewn several costuming items for my LARP character, built a deck, redecorated a living room from top to bottom, customized several vinyl toys (Munnys), and a myriad of other things. I'm always looking for a new project to try - currently I'm in the midst of altering a modern jacket pattern into something more medieval for my character Bryndis.
I recently purchased a dress form to hang my in-progress projects on, and it's made a world of difference in sizing items and being able to see how it will look when it's finished. I'm a big visual thinker, so this is a very helpful tool for me to have.
As introductory posts go, this is pretty short; it wouldn't be any fun if you learned all there was to know about me in the very first entry, don't you agree?
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