Alright everyone, I need you all to keep a secret. Pinky promise!

I am going to break the timasomo rules.

Nobody tell the timasomo police! Please!

I am already working on a project that couldn’t wait for October. It’s only partially finished, so there is still some to do. And I feel like people here might enjoy reading about it.

I am working harvest at a winery. There were some opportunities to get my own grapes, so I am going to be making my own wine! I have two different batches that I will probably be blending together. I’ll save most details for when the sharing posts happen, but for a small spoiler, I was able to get a bunch of Zinfandel grapes, and some very small Cabernet Sauvignon berries from the sorting lines.

Sorry I didn’t know where else to post. Would it be okay for it to be finishing a paper to publish or making significant work on my dissertation? Those would both have been started though.

Other options I’ve considered are working on my blogs, making myself healthier, writing a new paper completely and submitting it, etc

Edit: thank you for all the kind messages :)

I'm going to dabble in a bit of ring making. I will give 9 to kings of men, 5 to dwarves...

My wedding band is wood and bronze wire with a cyanoacrylate (CA) protective layer - basically fancy superglue. When I got it, I knew it was unlikely to last for my lifetime, so I was expecting to replace it around the 5 year mark as a milestone item. Unfortunately, the finish has chipped significantly over time and the wood is beginning to take minor damage as a result.

Since my 2 year wedding anniversary is near the end of this month, my plan is to make a new wedding band that will ideally last until the 10 year mark. I've been partially inspired by Alec Steele, brands like Midnight's Honor, and a puzzle ring I picked up at the renfest recently, but I will ideally not be taking any particular designs in their entirety. I've acquired some 12-gauge stainless steel wire for prototyping and some cold work, if one of those ideas catches me then I'll buy an appropriate length of silver wire instead. If a forged design ends up working better, then I'll acquire some basic stainless steel (I've mostly worked with basic carbon steels) that I can use to replicate the design.

I have plenty of ideas, but none actually written down so far. Since most of it is iterating on ideas, I didn't want to get too much done before Timasomo started!

Ok! I have one big project I want to finish up and some of it is greenfield for me. I've kind of written up a kids story, but more accurately I made a whole punch of linocut prints and had a skeleton outline of a story I wanted that ended up not really being compelling. So, I want to rewrite the story - maybe with some input from folks here! - resort the prints I have made and make new prints for any new or changed story elements. I also want to make the font I teased at a month ago, and finally I want to bind the whole thing so it's a real, genuine book. Absolute stretch goal would be knitting a cover as big pink sweaters is a theme throughout, but I've never knitted before, nor do I know how that would end up looking.

I’d like to go through a solo journaling RPG (specifically one called Creation Myths) and turn the output into a short story, with a few accompanying pieces of artwork that I’d create on my iPad or on paper (TBD), and post it on my blog as well as any other fitting medium. There is always a vague “write more” goal on my mind and doing this would help me add something tangible and more than a blog post to my portfolio. If this qualifies, I’m in!

I'm going to attempt to get a gaussian splat + composited model viewer set up in Godot, with some functionality to view and jump between POIs and/or inferred camera locations.

This is going to date me, but I used to love this tool called Photosynth that Microsoft discontinued from way back in the day. I think it'd be really useful for letting people walk through museums, for example, that they're unlikely to ever see in person (especially if it can be done in VR w/WebXR). Could also be nice for documenting some sites that're being demolished or destroyed so that they can be preserved, in some way, for future generations (e.g. historic buildings, old growth forests slated for clear cutting) and also to preview what could be there (e.g. walking through proposed buildings, looking at them composited onto the landscape, previewing views from parks, etc.).

I'm making wine! (and also maybe making some token progress on the radio kit I never finished last year, bleh)

I've been getting into small-batch winemaking lately. I've made some kit wines that turned out okay, and I've also tried wildly winging it with a few other batches (with expectedly inconsistent results; some were great, others were undrinkable trash). This time I'd like to follow the set process of the kit wines, but using all of my own ingredients, and see if I can bring some consistency into my process.

The juice I ordered won't show up until the 5th, so fitting it into October will be a tight squeeze, but I think it can work as long as bottling counts as "finishing touches".

I work for a retired furniture and cabinet maker who keeps telling me I can use the shop for any personal projects. Earlier this year I bought an antique tiger oak desk. My husband had the great idea that the television could go on it and I could use it as one of my monitors. I should not have listened, the tv is a monster. I’d like to make something in the same style as the desk, that sits on top of it, that the tv can be up and out of the way and the monitors under it. I don’t know what the name of that something is, just what I want it to look like. I don’t have much furniture making experience, but my boss is willing to show me how. I’m super excited for this project!

Most likely my project is going to be late because I’m currently in a different country until mid October, but I will show my work, however far I am, when show ands tell comes up.

I have a small project I want to do this year, which is to write a blog post reviewing all of the spec fic I read last year that was also published last year. I did this for 2024 at the start of 2025 and it was a great way to keep track of recent favorites, so I'd love to do this again before the year ends (and hopefully be more on top of this during 2027!)

I had to dig through my comment history to see if I had ever posted these before. Time flies...

Back in 2024 I tentatively expressed interest in joining Timasomo and working on some polymer clay figures. Apparently I got sick (I have such little memory of 2024 due to events of 2025...) and had nothing to show. Last year I didn't join Timasomo but throughout September/October I worked on a little polymer clay Fuecoco holding my best attempt at Percival's weapon (a character from Granblue Fantasy) as a gift for an online friend who mains that character in the fighting game (and is pretty highly ranked? I don't know, I don't do fighting games). I wasn't completely happy with it but it was cute enough and had that personalized charm!

Then, of course, the package was stolen off his porch. Photos I took before I packaged him up are all that remain.

oh, and then the breakup happened right after. I've had plenty of ideas of things to make and no real willpower to try again!

Anyways, it's that same friend's birthday again soon and I'm thinking of either making the same Pokemon with some Final Fantasy Dragoon garb (...or just the iconic spear weapons, the armor sounds way too out of my league) as that's what he's mained in FF14 since the olden days. Not sure!

Finally - another online friend, but this one is getting married in November and I won't be attending the wedding. I'd still really like to make something small and personalized for the couple though. I have many ideas and quite possibly not the skill and time to execute, but will see how I feel after the birthday gift?

My goal is to build and paint at least one miniature for a Warhammer 40k army and/or Kill team. My idea is to do an ork version of the Leagues of Votann called "Legumes of Waaaghtann". They will be highly sneaky and thus painted in pink. Lore-wise I imagine them to be a band of Orks that took over a fallen squat stronghold and managed to convince the semi-senile Votann core that they were legitimate. To start I want to take a box of votann and print some ork heads to swap out. I might go with a kill team box if I like the models better.

I'd like to participate. Years ago, I built a LMN-3 DAW based on a Raspberry Pi. It's a fun little machine, but I've always wanted to build a custom case for it that has speakers, and augments the basic functionality that already exists. I'm going to spend this month building it and putting it together...so my project for Timasomo will be the case for the LMN-3.

My big project this month is getting my office in order so I can go back to sewing and work through my mending pile. I have 13 items that need to be mended (not all clothes), and it's driving me crazy.

I'm also working on hand-stitching my English Paper Piecing (EPP) project together after this year of cutting the fabric out, punching out the hexagons on cardstock, and gluing the fabric to the cardstock, it's now time to make the fabric (been working on it all summer) that I still have no idea what I want to make with the finished EPP. We'll cross that bridge when we get there, I guess.

I'm finally going to start putting together my family's recipes in a cookbook as well. I have plenty of online time where I can just type out the recipes we like and use regularly. I will need someone else to translate my great grandma's cookbook since it's hand-written in Russian, and while I can read printed Cyrillic, I cannot read cursive.

EDIT: I forgot, I also have an almost finished embroidery piece that I just need to get done. It needs like three more leaves and it's finished. I'm going to force myself to finish it, maybe this weekend.

I have a kumiko woodworking kit I’ve been meaning to do for…quite a while now, so I think I’m going to try to get that done.

Ultimately I want to include it on the door to a coffee/tea cabinet, but that will require a track saw or table saw I don’t currently have access to.

Since my current creative outlet is working on my little Minecraft mods, I think it's time to make one more. You know, give myself even more ongoing maintenance.

I want to do something with stained glass panes, making them more like stained glass windows. The idea is that you'd make a frame block in one of a few set shapes, then fill in each section with different colours of glass. How will you make the frames? Don't know yet. How will you fill in the sections? Don't know yet. How will you change a section? Don't know yet. What happens if a side connection of the pane is made/broken? Don't know yet. That's all to figure out as I go.

I'll have some decisions to make early on about how to do this. I don't think I want to make it data-driven so other mods could add new glass types or frame shapes, which means that depending on how many possible combinations there are I might be able to use blockstates to render everything rather than a custom block entity renderer (like I have to for my Tiny Flowers mod). If there are too many combinations then I might have to use blockstates for the frames, then render the glass itself separately.

Quick edit: I ran some numbers. I'm using blockstates for the frames, then custom rendering for the glass. The number I got is large enough that it runs into precision issues and I can't trust it anymore. This is entirely my fault for reaching for JavaScript to do maths.

I'll be targeting Minecraft 26.1, though at the end/after the month I'll bring it forward to whatever version is the latest. I don't plan to port this back any further, since porting Tiny Flowers 2.0.0 back to even just 1.21.11 has been a massive pain.

Oh, and I need a name. Preferably before I create the project repository. I want something related to the craft of making stained glass, so the first thing I need to do is research (or outsource to the lovely folks here ;D).

Quick edit: currently thinking of "Leadlight" as a name, since that's another term for windows ("lights") with lead ("lead")

I'm joining in. Got potentially two goals:

1. JUST FREAKING WRITE AGAIN AND GET OUT OF THIS MENTAL WRITING RUT—

2. Start doing the Godot classes I bought on Humble last year. Because I need to learn, and I also may be getting involved with a project for a friend.

...and also, avoid the temptation to just make some giant building project in Pokopia. That game is great for creativity (seriously some of the builds I've seen are WILD), but it's still a game. I want to make something more real.

To expand a bit on the writing goal: got a bunch of fan fiction I've been neglecting. And I may also just finally port an old fic (over 10 years old!!) from DeviantArt over to AO3, possibly clean it up. Meant to do it years ago, but... I made the plans right before my dad died, so yeah c': I may post a mild revamp alongside the port, since my writing skills have naturally grown a lot after 10+ years. Heck, tempted to just do a full rewrite as an original story, too.

So I plan on making an alarm clock for my wife, that will become her Christmas present. Her requirements for an alarm clock are:

1. Not her phone
2. Allows her to choose the music (she currently uses an alarm sound in her iPhone, so it is musical but not a song)
3. Does not require an app on her phone to use

In researching, she realized the alarm clocks that match this criteria are more expensive than she would prefer. Using a Raspberry Pi, I think I can make one that easily meets her criteria. My goals for the month are:

1. Source parts. I am wanting to find brass coloured buttons to match our nightstands, and aliexpress seems like my best option so far. The 7 segment display should not be too hard to get a good option
2. Get the code set up. This should be a relatively easy Python script, so am not too concerned about it
3. Get a working speaker setup
4. Build the basic wooden box for it

I do not plan on doing the stain on the wood until after Christmas. I need to label the buttons, and am unsure how best to do that at the moment. So I am thinking of waiting until after I gift it to my wife, so that she can provide input in that part.

I've tried to join in the past, but didn't get too far in my commitment. This month I'll keep things simple. I'll do a gouache portrait per week, in a postcard format (4x6in). That's it.

Oh no, October arrived too fast, I hadn't decided what to commit to yet!

I think I'll try music again, I haven't written anything in months, and I did start to feel the urge to create.

The only issue is that I no longer have my music software set up, so I'll probably dedicate this weekend to that. I also want to challenge myself to work with Linux-native software only, this should be a nice constraint and I'll also get to skip setting up Yabridge and all my VSTs again.

I'll start simple - write a 2-track single. I've been enjoying a lot of Solence and Autumn Kings lately, so maybe some electronic rock would be fun to explore? Although knowing me, I'll find my way to house and hip-hop beats very quickly so I'll have to pull myself out of the comfort zone. We'll see!

I'm here for roll call! I said this in the other thread but! I'm going to be making nail polish. (Last year I was painting my nails lol, this escalated rather quickly!)

So... This is a bit embarrassing but I'm hoping that posting here will help motivate me a bit more than I have been in the past. Last year, during Timasomo I started writing a novel. I know, I know call the 🚨 𝜯𝜤𝜧𝑨𝑺𝑶𝜧𝑶 𝜬𝑶𝑳𝜤𝑪𝜠 🚨. Well, maybe it's okay because I started thinking about writing a novel, and not writing it, really, which is why I never posted about it. One year later, and I'm pleased(?) to say I'm officially.... 20,000 words in... So I have a long way to go.

To be perfectly honest I'm not expecting to get anywhere near done this month. I'd like to maybe double my word count - not that I'm overly obessing about word count - but honestly I'm just posting here because I think I've done all the thinking one tiny brain can possibly do.

The truth is I'm not a very confident writer and I feel that everything I write is very amateurish, and this gets in the way of actually writing, as opposed to re-re-rewriting, so I'd like to use this push to actually get some words on a paper. This is my first ever serious writing project so I'm not really expecting it to be good, but I'm so in love with the idea that I just want to write something that I can be proud of enough to force all my friends and family to read.

I think I will be doing my first sewing project with guidance from my wife! It will be my renn faire costume for when I go in late October!

[from the shadows] Psst --- I'm on the run from the 🚨 𝜯𝜤𝜧𝑨𝑺𝑶𝜧𝑶 𝜬𝑶𝑳𝜤𝑪𝜠 🚨 because I never finished mine from last year

But this year I feel pretty good about my chances: I'd gotten a new psychological evaluation, new ADHD meds, and I actually have finished (!!) pieces (plural!) of craft over the summer instead of the usual trail of abandoned half projects and unused new materials / tools. If I am caught I'd like to appeal to the judge on grounds of mental health and to submit my application this year as parole condition.

This year I'm going to make at least one more piece of sashiko embroidery, and make some kits to sell at the local holiday market at the end of the month. I kinda figured out that no one really wants to buy any already made crafts but folks sure love making their own.

I am going to be working on new music + music video! i also might have the first episode of a docuseries ready, which is what the music was originally for. i don’t want to get too big eyed but it would be cool to have all of it done by the end of the month.

I'm tentatively going forward with this. I've had to drop out of all previous Timasomos that I've participated in due to external factors. I'm gambling on that not happening yet again.

I'll be trying to make a roguelike/lite mod for an old game. (Should be trivial to figure out which one, but that's not important right now.)

In a fantastic start to this year's event, I have not managed to find time to even post here!

I am going to be making some furniture. Kid is struggling with Bed at the moment, so I'm upgrading their sleeping space with some smart lights and a nook and a comfortable leaning bit (and a secret compartment, because what kid doesn't love having a secret place!). I have a vague sense of how it will work, I need to do some measuring and get a proper cutlist drawn up so I can source the material and so on.

All of us have probably seen bird feeder "house" - the thing you put out to feed birds in the winter. Well, I've had a few already and all of them end up the same, they are just cheaply built and don't last long outside.

I decided to change that. I'm fed up with cheaply built bird feeders and went on to build my own. As I have quite some imagination, I build the image of the new feeder in my mind. This is great, but sometimes you have to know things and not just imagine them. So I opened up FreeCAD that I use for modelling part to 3D print and made a model of this thing. I will be building it from wood, but the 3D model helps me to get everything aligned and read out needed dimensions etc.

As the new feeder is quite abnormal (in my opinion), I started calling it Hotel Ritz, as, you know, the birds will be feeding from kinda luxury house.

Like last year's Timasomo, I'm cheating here as well. 🚨 𝜯𝜤𝜧𝑨𝑺𝑶𝜧𝑶 𝜬𝑶𝑳𝜤𝑪𝜠 🚨 I have already cut down most of the wood, I have made a few things, but there is a lot to do. My wife would love to have this feeder house built before winter, Timasomo is the best time to finish it.

I have been working my way through boot.dev's DevOps course, and have made my way onto the first self-directed project. I've decided I want to make a little tool that I'd actually use in real life. Initially I wanted to make a TUI character sheet for D&D in Python, but the sheer complexity of the task was absolutely overwhelming. I don't play D&D as a player much anyway, so I pivoted to making an initiative tracker instead.
🚨 𝜯𝜤𝜧𝑨𝑺𝑶𝜧𝑶 𝜬𝑶𝑳𝜤𝑪𝜠 🚨 The work is already started, and I have the bones of something together already. There's a lot more to do, but I suppose honesty is important about my starting position. I would estimate I'm about 20% of the way through the endeavour? Anyway, that's what I'm bringing to the table this time around!

Good Timasomoing everyone, I can't wait to see the results!

I was thinking about what I wanted to write starting the 1st but didn't want to commit until I had a sense for what it'd be. Which now I do. I'm going to write He and Me - a superhero lovers-to-enemies story set looking back after the end of the world. As of commenting I'm a few pages in.

Also, a smaller thing I want to get done is to make a quill. I have this big Turkey Vulture feather I found a couple weeks ago and I want to figure out how to make it into quill. I feel like it might be too thick to be a good quill, but something I can at least prove as usable once and then keep in a pot as decoration.

Whoops, a few days late, but whatever. I am building my first electronics project. I am a computer toucher of some vintage and power level, and therefore sometimes need to interact with devices that only have Serial ports and expose Serial consoles. But there's no nice way of really interacting with these devices, at least not really. Yes, there's DB9-to-USB cables, but they've always annoyed me and they exclude stuff like Cisco RJ45-Serial, which I do need more often than I'd like.

So I'm building a solution to this: A little box with USB-C on one end and DB9, RJ45 and a terminal block on the other so I can connect to most Serial devices and talk to them with a little app running on my computer. This won't directly connect to the Serial port, but have the smarts inside the box, so even if something breaks, I'm not exposing my computer directly to whatever comes out of the machine I'm connecting to. It'll have fully controllable pins so you can define pin patterns for even esoteric devices that don't adhere to an electrical standard of any kind, and will of course be fully open source - although I doubt that it'll actually work that well.

I'll call it The Second Amendment, because I believe a well regulated Serial Console, being necessary to the security of a free home lab, and the right of the people to connect to open ports shall not be infringed.

Alright I have some travel coming up this month but I'm going to try to get back into music after (unsuccessfully) trying last year. Gonna try to work on a new song and dabble around a bit! Will see where it goes.

Still not sure what I am gonna do exactly. I want to definitely do Ludum Dare as it's coming in a couple of weeks and it's also one of the last ones that are gonna happen. But besides that I'd like to do something else creative, we'll see.