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At the moment, I'm doing some work in brass sheet for the New Year Eve's Thing. It's very much like playing with Meccano: form the net of an object, drill it out at the points where it needs to be fastened, bend it up into shape and screw it all together. The item in question is taking shape, slowly but surely (I've done the most complicated bit, so now it's just a case of fitting the other three sides and wiring the workings together). Good clean fun. Except the metal shavings, which get everywhere. Wish I had a workshop, not just a second bench in my bedroom...
So it goes. Not everything is metalwork at the moment, I'm also looking at refurring my character mask for maelstrom over the holiday. To that end, I wandered to FabricLand on Western Road today, who have the most amazing selection of esoteric fabrics ever. After dithering over which of about five white fur fabrics I was going to use, I ended up taking a roll of a nice deep-pile fake fur to the counter, where the woman running the store cut me a suitable length of it. If you've ever worked with fur fabric before, you'll know what's coming next: it immediately shed an immense amount of fur where the scissors had cut through the strands. In her words, it looked like we'd whacked a muppet. :)
Oh well. Christmas shopping is done, presents are wrapped, and now I'm heading home, to Worthing, to be with my family for a few days. As the wise man said, we are in the heart of midwinter, and festivals abound. Whatever you celebrate, have a good one.