Some time ago I decided I didn't want to post an entry if it was solely for the purposes of complaining about stupid things. I had no idea that it would result in a near obliteration of my posting habits! But I am glad I decided to take that step, I was spending too much time time here, and not much of it was quality time. And so often, when you ( Read more... )

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Starting on masks for Mardi Gras finally, after much tidying of the studio. (Still plenty of tidying left to do though!) There will be a Mask Market this year in New Orleans, although it is a long time since we have heard from the Mask Store that sells our creations--I hope they (and all our inventory!) are alright. Last October they said they were ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if the one-eyed kitten was quite the note I wanted to start my day on.

kgw news has a better photo, but you have to jump through some hoops to access it.

I have given up on the US Citizenship application. I just don't have the records to be able to fill out the work history section. They want to know every single job I have ever had in the last 5 years, complete with exact start month and end months. All I have is an incomplete collection of 1099s and W2s, and 1099s don't give any info about what ( Read more... )

The 50 mask order is finally complete! It's been four weeks since I started them, and boy it has been an insane four weeks. Hell, it has been an insane six months!* We actually did some rough calculations and it looks like we made more stuff in the last six months than we made over the preceeding two years combined. Eeep! (And I sure wish our bank ( Read more... )

Yesterday was insanely productive ( Read more... )

It is odd, but recently I have been getting a number of emails written to "Monika" instead of "Monica", and from people who should know better. Perhaps "Monika" just seems like a more suitable name for an artist? It's a touch more elegant, or exotic perhaps? I can also see it being one of those names where a person becomes identified by their first ( Read more... )

Good music keeps bad TV away:

http://www.music21radio.net

Great selection of world music, lots of good remixes too.

In addition to making masks this evening, I'm also gold-leafing crowns for the big masquerade ball order. I wonder if crowns will be in demand when the Narnia film comes

I finally bought the quill-style pen I had been craving, along with a nice variety of nibs. And it turned out I already had a number of different colored bottles of the right kind of ink in amongst my art supplies! (I used them as dyes to airbrush the phoenix puppet years ago ( Read more... )