Ah, 2012. What a mysterious year. The holidays are finally over. The exotic desserts, roasts and bottles of liquor have been consumed. Friends infrequently seen have all disappeared back into their daily lives.
I worked my last six day work week and finally had time to catch up on housework today. Work is all talk of inventory and budgets and profit ( Read more... )

I meant to post about a lovely Thanksgiving dinner, but my beloved Great Aunt ( who has always been more of a grandmother to me) had a minor stroke this week, so many plans were derailed. Since she lives alone, we're not exactly when it happened but she was incoherent on the phone the night before Thanksgiving and was extremely dehydrated when she ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving always makes me think of my paternal grandparents. I always hated Christmas and Easter as a child, so Thanksgiving was the one holiday when I saw my entire family and it was just about being together. It's still my favorite traditional American holiday even though we are too scattered now. This year it's just me, Machaelle and ( Read more... )

it happens at 3am. Which is why it's nice that I'm feeling a little better. You know, so I feel up to working really late and only getting four hours of alien-invasion nightmare-filled sleep until I run myself into the ground again. :D Thirty-eight years and I still haven't changed. But I do play with dolls more now than I did when I was a little ( Read more... )

Somewhere in trying to get my account's default language back to English, I upgraded to a Plus account. This means I see annoying ads. If you also see annoying ads, let me know, because I have no desire to inflict these on anyone else. Not sure if it's worth it for me to upgrade to a paid account considering how little I post, but perhaps being ( Read more... )

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Well, face-up on the new St. James might get wiped before I finish it. That's what I get for rushing in without a palette, I suppose. :P And for stopping to go eat barbecue at Maggie's place for the second half of the day instead of just plowing through. :D

The latest jewelry release prep has resulted in the usual byproduct of a few more doll ( Read more... )

I'm just going to skip the trip to Tokyo for now because otherwise I'll keep procrastinating and never post here again. Suffice to say, it was the best trip yet and I hope I don't get cancer sooner than I expect to as a result of going there.

On the dolly front:
One step closer to getting St. James put back together. Mods and most of the piercings ( Read more... )

Something unexpected, something serendipitous has happened in my dolly world! See, I've been terribly dissatisfied with a certain someone for quite some time now. He's the only one who hadn't lost the baby fat in his face. His resin hasn't matched in so long I'd quit taking color photos of him. No amount of cajoling could induce me to work on ( Read more... )