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Still hoping some of my stuff sells from my forays into stores this season. Besides the money, it'd be nice to have a proper 'in' at the galleries. But hey, got a few dolls into my first juried show, that's nice.

Thought I'd swing by before Black Friday came and apologize that it's going to take me awhile to get through the impressive backlog on my watch. Sorry guys.

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So there's the problem, and me and technology don't get along very well, so if you've any ideas, please leave them here. And use small words...

Oh, and I can't edit my features much because dA isn't letting me browse my own folders or gallery. Any ideas on that one?

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So next question, anyone know any good sunburn remedies?

I was antiquing the last two days. Thursday was supposed to be warm and cloudy, and it bucketed down instead. (I bought an old men's leather jacket to avoid hypothermia ) So of course, I dressed for chill and rain today. And BOOM whipped by the heat and an ass kicking case of sunburn on my arms. (Yes, I'm a wimp, I normally avoid sun.)

So, ideas?

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Between car and laptop issues this has been a bloody expensive year already.

]]> *magpie-poet http://magpie-poet.deviantart.com/journal/24534485/ http://magpie-poet.deviantart.com/journal/24534485/ Fri, 01 May 2009 16:54:47 PDT [link] ) in case anybody who picked up my card at the show decides to visit.

Spent the past week working on paperpiecing. I forget what a pain it is till I start again. I've averaged one square a day when working on them all day. *grrr* But they look nifty... I need to be institutionalized, but they look nifty...

Still looking for ideas on the care and feeding of ethiopian opal if anyone has head anything...

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Closest I've got to ther news is that I'm doing an Earthday Celebration craftshow with at [link] So if by any chance you're a New Englander, stop by

BTW- anyone know anything about ethiopian opal or how to stabilize it?

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Take care guys, and enjoy the coming of spring

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What am I doing wrong?

Oh, and is anyone else having issues going through their own gallery and sorting things?

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I got my first email relating to the earring class I offered to do for an adult ed program. I gave them the info, now I've got butterflies!

Any suggestions for teaching? I've taught friends, but never strangers.

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Edit- Thanks for the tips, and apologies. I missed the news about the relevant to interests virus thingy and clicked, so I'm not sure if anyone is going to be getting junk from my way now. Sorry! I'll also take tips on how to stop that as well as on photography!

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I'm somewhat ashamed of myself that I've no dramatic projects to share. I'll try to get on remedying that. I did make well over a half dozen scarves such for next year's family gifts based on instructions I found when looking for ring tutorials...does that count as something?

Hope everyone is faring well and has gotten over the worst of holiday hangovers and bills.

I'm trying to blow through deviations and such, but you know, I forgot just how dam slowly DA is moving these days.

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Uhm, yeah. Besides that fact that if somehow you've missed her work that needs to be remedied *now* She cites a rather worrisome law due to come out early next year. Go, encourange, sign, get angry.

And [link] kittyvane has more info and related links. And a proper, rather elegant entry.

This whole thing is making me think that while I loved plenty of mass produced toys growing up, some of my favorites were handmade ones that I've still got, and if this law goes and goes haywire, lots of kids are going to miss those memories. One more connection to other people made a little more distant...

*sigh* It's the holidays. I work retail. I've been sick for all my vacation time this year thus far. That tells you all you need to know about my mental state. The above article did not improve it vastly.

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Hope everyone else just had a fantastic day even if it wasn't a day off

In honor of black friday, I'm trying to actually upload a bit onto etsy. Yay for updates.

Take care everyone, have a safe, only mildly insane weekend, kay?

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Been spending a rainy afternoon working on updating my ETSY shop, still don't have even a small percentage up, but it's a start! Figure this way it'll be up through the holidays. Not enough light for photographs today.

Also trying to catch up on my library books. I think I OD'd. *sigh* I keep passing the 'new' shelves every time I go in to borrow DVDs. So every week I walk out with another stack... Not a junkie...

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So just a reminder, many of my dolls (except for those already claimed by divine bird ) are for sale, as is much of my jewelry. So note me if you're interested in anything. Holidays are coming. (shudders the retail worker) Bulk rates available

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And I lost my subscription.

I just paid for one again, so it damn well better be up and running again soon. Wish I could say I was off for anything of interest, but nope. Just was too ticked at DA's usual lack of help with technical issues and my own inability to get any projects to go well. Or photograph well. Was also hamprered by that whole MS update not getting along with virus protection. There were warnings online, but gosh, if you can't get online that's hard to check. *facepalm* So yeah, failure of a summer but hopefully I'll eventually catch up on pretty art and find suitable distraction...

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Seeing as I've already helped my mother go through a disturbingly large amount of photos and tried to help her balance the lighting a bit it's sort of a case of locking the barn door after the horse is out. Thought I'd ask though. I was trying to get some decent prints of my dolls and wraps and such to have a bit of a portfolio going, but what looks fine to a bit light on my laptop looks too dark on my parents pc and I've no clue which would be more accurate to the printed page. Ideas or tips anyone?

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[link]

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Had two standouts, one of the jewelers at the craft show was really fantastic (seemed like a nice guy too, chatted for a bit) he just had an unusual style, made me think of the mesoamerican empires. His website's [link] I'm not big on all of the stones, but the guy has some serious wire control skills. My other standout was a bit of an impulse buy at the antique show. Old watch, supposedly 20s. Looks like a watch stuck in a crystal marble. The front is magnified with a glass half sphere, ditto the back. So you can see the movement. Has a band around it with a loop. Anyone know anything about watches? It's the first I've had that you need to wind, and it doesn't seem to be keeping time so well, but I don't know if they need to get back into the habit of functioning after not having been wound for sometime, or if I ought to hit the jewelers to see if I can get the guts cleaned. Ideas?

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Okay, I HATE cellphones.

BUT I have a tracfone for emergencies.

BUT I can never get reception when I need it.

My time expired. Lost a full hour because I couldn't stand the cold long enough to use it up.

How do I tell if their service just sucks, or if the phone sucks?

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What is the SIMPLEST way for someone absolutely awful with technology to design a functional and not god awful ugly website?

A friend tried to give me an utter basic in html and despite that being idiot proof I still buggered it up, and the little I got done was ugly to boot. Ubersimple editing of photos is the best I can do.

Are there any free programs to design a half okay site? Cuz right now all I have is an address lent to me by keyla.

Please, any help would be good, taking into consideration I'm waaaay stupider than the average bear.

]]> *magpie-poet http://magpie-poet.deviantart.com/journal/15065460/ http://magpie-poet.deviantart.com/journal/15065460/ Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:03:30 PDT It behaved beautifullly this weekend. Yay.

Now to buckle down and do some stock for the show.

Went to a butterfly conservatory. Small but beautiful. Expect to get a mini deluge of photos.

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Since I've a friend coming from out of town I've been cleaning this week. Tried to salvage my garb, not going so well, the skirt I tried to lengthen shrunk a bit in the wash (yes I used cold!) and I'm still having trouble with ubertarnish (my skin is just toxic, I swear). I have some nicer fair costume jewlery as it were, but that doesn't go wiht the peasant/wench look. So, I get all I can done, and pack away as much as my craft crap as I can. Which makes for an excellent reminder just how much junk and how many WIPs I have.

Then find out she needs to fix up her garb. Which is fine, but it means I'm going to have to haul everything out again.

That's the last time I try to be good and clean for company!!!

(Of course, the dusting really had to be done...)

Ah, but to my request, everyone be really nice to the weather demons and hope for good weather for us, last time this friend came we had storms all weekend and couldn't get to the fairs. (I think of Clavin and wonder if burning leaves would work as a sacrifice, but they're too wet right now...)

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To my shame I had to go online to look it up, I'd forgotten who sang it and was thinking Marvin Gaye. Oops.

"For What It's Worth" (1966)
Buffalo Springfield

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

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Finished one of the wedding gifts in time, the other is about 6 mos late. But they're out of the way and hopefully their new owners will enjoy them. Nearly crippled myself trying to finish that one in time, and work isn't helping on that end. (Or any. really. Except for adding to the let's make Sandra more prematurely grey fund.)

But yay, I'm allowing myself more online time and am back to my various non deadline wips as soon as I get the materials and the pain in my wrists to calm down. (I'm not sure which is gonna move slower!)

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Work keeps getting worse, and me sending out more and more resumes is still not getting me anywhere.

I'm just so bloody annoyed (and tired and angry etc).

I spend the whole freaking day since I got out of work writing cover letters (I'll take hints on those too if anybody has some- why can't they teach us useful things like that in HS rather than say, typing on antiquated programs or calculus?) and then my mother comes and demands my presence, asks how my day was, I tell her, then she tells me that I'd better start pounding the sidewalks. What the FUCK does she think I'm doing surrounded my want ads and printing my resume?

So I have no good cover letter for the job I want most. *sigh* I've only been at it two hours.

ps- Is anyone having trouble with not being able to reply to cmments? It keeps flipping out on me.

pps- Everytime I go to reply it does the having a problem try in a few minutes thing and goes grey. I just realized it's been sending the replys though it says it hasn't. HUH?! Anyone else having this issue either? I swear the site's mad at me for not spending enough quality time with it!

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I think this is the credit gods punishing me for subscribing another year...



Alrighty, another shout out for help.

1- anyone with an ETSY shop having issues? I'm trying to load smallish jpg format photos, and it's telling me I'm submitting an incorrect format, not an image file? I tried reformatting to gif and png just in case, same issue. Any ideas anyone?

2- still in search of suggestions for good wire cutters and more wrist friendly pliers if anyone knows of any.

3- anyone here do much with papier-mache? Sucker for a fixer upper that I am I picked up an italian carnevale mask that well, met an unfortunate accident. The few fractures in the face I can touch up with paint no problem. But the poor thing's jester hat type top was totally destroyed. So suggestions for useful sites, types of adhesives, types of paper, any of that would be awesome.

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1- anyone with an ETSY shop having issues? I'm trying to load smallish jpg format photos, and it's telling me I'm submitting an incorrect format, not an image file? I tried reformatting to gif and png just in case, same issue. Any ideas anyone?

2- still in search of suggestions for good wire cutters and more wrist friendly pliers if anyone knows of any.

3- anyone here do much with papier-mache? Sucker for a fixer upper that I am I picked up an italian carnevale mask that well, met an unfortunate accident. The few fractures in the face I can touch up with paint no problem. But the poor thing's jester hat type top was totally destroyed. So suggestions for useful sites, types of adhesives, types of paper, any of that would be awesome.

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The big snap was apparently half the jaw of my flush cut wirecutters. So all you jewelry folk out there. What are the best quality tools you've used. I've been doing this long enough I might as well splurge and get the good stuff and spare my wrists that much, or at least put them on my holiday list...

So, suggestions? Please?

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Okay, finally found a number to call and I got my delay.

So everyone cross your fingers my call in the next few weeks/months doesn't conflict with my three day weekend mini vacations I have planned to meet with friends through the fall. And keep thinking of ways to get me thrown off the jury.

I'm really relieved, but I'm still kind of fried from freaking out about this. I know it's silly, but there you go. I've been having nightmares about it. (As well as the usual work ones.)

So trying frantic last minute projects for the con. We'll see if any of it pans out. Feels like a lot of spinning wheels and getting nowhere. You forget how long each thing takes till you have a dealine.

And after the con, last minute HP crafty stuff for work. Last book, last party, gotta make it the best. (Hey, it's retail, I need to take my pride in it where I can )

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Which my company will not pay me for.

It's in the middle of my vacation.

Which I took so I could try to sell my dolls at connecticon.

And if I deferr it I can't deferr it again so have to worry about missing my friend's wedding this fall and fucking up any chance I have of starting a new job.

FUCK doesn't cover it.

I was trying to go to bed at a half normal hour tonight.

Not gonna happen.

Have to try to compose letter and hope it reaches the right person and the judge pretends to give a fuck.

Then cross fingers.

And not sleep.

My dad suggested I ask how serious a crime I need to commit to never be eligible for jury duty ever again. Or at least use it as a threat against any particularly lousy customers.

How come some people never get called and I get it twice in a few years?

Why don't they get people who'll at least get paid.

The cheap bastards didn't even reimburse my parking costs or pay me for showing up to selection from last time.

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Even better, it's Federal duty.

Feels like a joke really, the government gives you only three weeks notice-there's no reason to cut it that short, then tells you to reply in five days.

Oh, and the pull off form that you have to send back? It doesn't fit in the envelope they give you to send it back it....

If it were funny it'd be a great joke.

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Anyone here have hotmail? I haven't checked my secondary account in a month, so I checked it today to find it empty and reformatted. I still got in, but all the stuff I had in there is gone. Like story discussions, site passwords I can never remember (including this one), links, the only contact info I have for some people. Is there any way to get this back?

HEEELLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

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Two more files, tried to submit, it brought up an error screen and told me to select the file by clicking on the thumbnail. Click on the thumbnail of the file. Won't acknowledge it. When I delete it it asks do I want to delete it, but doesn't see it to select it.

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*gentlemen are exempt at this time

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Okay, should I be worried yet? The last two files I tried to submit I got told they were corrupted, then the other three versions just wouldn't load. It was like the page kept freezing... Does this sound like a pc issue?

Even odder, today one of the files that wouldn't show as loading yesterday was sitting there waiting for me when I went to submit deviation today...

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Just found out a college friend started a new webcomic, I liked the last one, so figured I'd try to help her reach a new audience

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Gosh, morbid enough?

My big excitement was finding a Wegman's supermarket when I got lost. No. Really. Highlight of the day. (Jenn, I figure you're the only one here to get that. This one was all upscale and stuff...)

Visited family on LBI. Nice antique places, if you're an east coaster it might be worth a trip in a month or two (when more places are open.) Awesome fresh fish.

Oh, and now a serenade with an old poem I found on my hard drive. A few weeks out of season perhaps.


I've been remiss in my duty, figured I ought to move the features closer to the top.


1- The amazingly talented but so nice you-can't-in-fairness-be-too-jealous She has so many skills it's hard to get a fair sampling! (Her gallery is also a good place to get your HP fix.)





Erm, what to say besides patience intensive and a fantastic eye for color?

2- A fellow sparklie junkie with lots of lovely jewelry and some cool fractal work I love fractals, don't get how you do the math bit of making them, but hey...

I'd lose count way too quickly, so hats off on this one. (And I agree on the blue shades too!)
Looks like a blast to try, elegant results.
It's purple. And jingly. Nuff said.

3- My former late night diner buddy and fanfic companionin crime who needs to get back into her writing

Classic.
Too cool. But I already have too many bags of my own. Post more...
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You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.
The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

What Tarot Card are You?

Take the Test to Find Out.


I'm blaming for this one. I went to go look at her newer sculptures and got totally sidetracked SO for all this isnt' my thing, it amuses me. But it makes a nice distraction from dealing with the credit card companies. *sigh*


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~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 weird things ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) I scrunch my nose when I tear up lettuce for a salad. Totally involuntary.
2) I like almost exactly the same colors I did when I was little. (Black came a bit later.)
3) I can't bring myself to write on a blank piece of paper, I need to doodle on it first.
4) I avoid catching my own eye in the mirror.
5) I'm more intimated by those shorter than me than taller.
6) I panic each time the phone rings.

(I know I'm strange, so I don't know why I had so much trouble coming up with 6 weird things...)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~6 things I love ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) Walking alone in the woods at night.
2) Watching the snow drift down infront of the streetlights late at night when I'm cozy in my pjs.
3) Bailey's
4) Curling up and rereading a well loved book.
5) Driving just to drive and forget about the world.
6) Getting snail mail.

I'm not tagging anyone, but if you haven't done this one yet and want to, consider yourself tagged.

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At this point I'm feeling like I fuck up everything I touch. This week alone I've messed up jewelry and doll alike, can't remember the last time I painted a half okay face, and even irredemably screwed up my first tenuous foray into costume in ages. We won't go into the wedding gift quilt I'm ready to burn or the fact that I need to finish it to start another one...



Come on guys, help me think of something that I can't screw up, please?




I swear, I will get to proper art reviews once looking at finished projects dosn't make me want to scream.

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But since I ought to have a baby quilt done for the shower next weekend, I've gotta get going regardless...

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Apparently it's double submitting journals too...


I'm still having issues with devart not showing properly. Unlikely to have anything finished anytime soon. Projects misbehaving is one thing, clumsiness is another. I had two days in a row off (very rare) and though, great, I'll try to get stuff done.

Lo and behold, I go out, lose my footing and end up rolling down some cement stairs. It's not pc, but I love my leather jacket. It took a good edge of the fall off, so I'm bruised, but pretty lucky. No blood loss. For me that's fairly good Screwed up wrist and elbow, shoulder, etc means I shouldn't be typing either. But I was going stir crazy trying to just watch tv. Had to do *something* and this seemed a lesser evil than my other hobbies. Still, anyone got good tips besides frozen peas to lessen swelling?

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still alive, just crafter's block. nothing's coming out quite right.




oh, new customer story though- a coworker had someone looking for a book by jfk called pride and prejudice. uhhhh....

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Why can't I have useful or affordable hobbies like a normal person?!?!

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sooooo not ready for the holidays.

don't get me wrong, i was half finished with the presents part by january or march. only my difficult to shop for father and grandmother left to go. (and mother, but that's more trying to do crafty gifts on the sly, which is a year round battle!!!)

soooo not ready for the ladedah attitude of we're the only group in this country, agree with us, celebrate our holiday or shut the hell up. my company also ended up taking more of that tack than usual this year, and while i'm trying to quietly change things in our store a tiny bit, i really need to figure out who i can complain to in corporate without getting fired.

also soooo not ready for the what do you mean you can't get that in time, it was on oprah, or the well, it's a christmas book and it's red, why don't you know the one i mean, or the you're going to ruin my holiday if you don't find this book/cd/game.

i need some zen sort of mantra, but all i can think of is curling in a ball and i don't think mentally chanting fuck off counts as a zen mantra....

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Gearing up for a show with

Hopefully i won't totally drive her upt he wall with "how do i do ____?" Last time I did a show I was young enough to pull of the I'm cute, buy from me thing.

Camera still dead, borrowed my mother's, which has a serious macro issue. (namely, lack of any good one)

Okay, anyone remember how to find out your password? I can't remember mine, so can't log onto devart from my *gasp* almost up and running laptop with my new images.
Tips?

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one- why is it acceptable for a black woman to call me racist for not having a section of books only by black authors, whereas if i went into a store looking for books by white authors only i'd be shot? (besides, if you called it african-american they might have to let white south africans in to?) or to ask me what color the author is if you don't know? for the record, unless there's a photo in the back, i have no clue what race the author is. occasionally i'm not even sure on what gender...

two- the odder one. i was rereading an old terry pratchett book and in one part a character mentioned a guy putting weasels down his trousers for entertainment. which called to mind a part of a neil gaiman short story where said event occured.---is there some odd brit cultural ref here that i'm just totally missing? or are the authors i like just very strange? (okay, i'm aware that's probably true either way, and since they're friends i guess it could be a running joke...)

i finally get two days off in a row without requesting it, and what happens? my cold gets worse. it's not like i'm dying, just sore and cranky and sound like i've the plague. got odd looks from customers at work. can't get to sleep. so apparently it'll be an even longer while before i get anything good posted. *sigh*

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tried some mail to break up the sewing irritation. (thanks for the offers of help, i splurged and bought a new bodice, might try to do patterns off it, but will be bugging you guys too) and damn it's tough on the hands. (and i'm seriously cranky because i spent more than i planned to and yet didn't get enough links to finish my first necklace. grrrr...)

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so, since the weight loss attempts tend to end in failure and depression, any of the sewers out there have some good tips for fitting patterns?

(oh, and also quasi historically accurate styles that you don't have to wrench your back to lace up?! i tried like six bodices on today and i'm still sore from all the damn twisting to lace up...)

on another sewing note, a good chunk of my etsy listings expire this month. so a number of the dolls are up at seriously reduced prices right now. doll costumes are so much easier, you can make the body to fit i wish do it at home nick and tuck were as doable...


my denim purses are also at reduced prices and free shipping too. (come on, you know you want a last minute summer style bag )



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