The Bluestocking Women’s Pub - Where Everybody Knows Your Username

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome to the Bluestocking Arms, the home of good company, excellent drinks and delicious cakes which magically have no irksome contents like gluten or sugar or calories or the kind of alcohol that causes problems - but you wouldn't know

Food and drink are served by a keen staff of gerbils, and other animals such as capybaras, quokkas, etc., also fulfil vital roles, while looking cute AF.

New Bluestockingers always welcome.

Looks like very upmarket decking to me, Marie, therefore you'd expect it to be outside.

Wish me luck, everyone, I'm about to start marking.

While I'm not into model-making, I had occasion to shop for some doll's house size food items, & my goodness, there are some beautiful & surprisingly realistic things out there. At 1/12, would they be the right size for Marie's pub? Or are you going to make your own?

Oh, & good luck, Magpie. 💙✅❎

Thanks, Android.
The idiosyncratic scale is based on the size of foam panels available from online craft shops!
So I think it's nearer 1:24 which is my preferred doll's house size anyway.

I always try to make everything myself, with a few bought-in special touches.
I didn't even attempt to make gerbils and capybaras, and was delighted to find some online which are more or less the right scale.
The capybara is a bit over-scale but hey, there's a lot of heavy lifting to be done so we need a big strong capybara!

Part of the fun of model-making for me is looking around to see what's lying around the house that could be turned into something -
Swash's pirate ship on the mantelpiece, for instance, is off a keyring from the National Museum [it's a ship famous in Irish history called the Asgard].

I'm having great fun, and I look forward to the Grand Opening - maybe in a week or two?

Now who should we invite to do the ribbon-cutting ceremony? Silly question, eh?😀

@MarieDeGournay I'm looking forward to the ribbon cutting, I've got my camera ready!

Some of my previous photographic work in leiu of a CV:

Well, the feedback is minimal, but I've done all the marking!

So I posted earlier about using copilot and I asked for an image that was a unique interpretation of my new name!!!!

Another go - not surprisingly MN software was a bit unsure about this one

Interesting!!!

I wonder why the AI rejected it the first time? It's just a perfectly normal image of a mumsnetter!

Not sure why I have got 3 heads 😂

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I suppose I could eat 3 teacakes at a time though....

Steady on!

Off with a couple of scofflaw heads!!!!

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Just brilliant Boily 😂

I’ve just seen the Woolly Hugs appeal post for squares for a blanket for Swashbuckled, what a lovely idea from someone here. The information from Swashbuckled about Bear is extremely moving. Sadly my frozen shoulder means I can’t knit any more (I wasn’t very accurate anyway!). I’m sorry that I can’t contribute. Worth a look if you haven’t already seen it.

Thanks. Bear sounds so lovely.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5350941-woolly-hugs-desperately-sad-news-we-are-afraid-making-a-blanket-for-lovely-swashbuckled-whose-son-has-tragically-died

I've contributed to a couple of Woolly Hugs blankets before, & I'd be honoured to do something for Swashy.

Someone posting there has offered to do a blue stocking and a galleon.

I wouldn't be able to comply with the strict rules on which yarn to use, even if I was a good knitter, so I'll stick with thoughts and prayers.

I usually do squares with a flower appliquéd on, so that’s what I’m planning to do for Swashy.

I think I'll need to order some wool...
I'm wondering if I can manage an image of a bridge. Should be possible.

Hahahaa!

I found an old portrait of you, Boily, from an early thread. This is the where you're having a scan and you suddenly realise you are actually MADE out of Tunnock's! Not much has changed 😄

I am also going to try to make one with an appliquéd blue stocking on it.