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Sep 11Daintier Smarter Favourites; Four Eyes
Daintier Smarter is my tumblr for collecting images of fashion & style inspiration.
None of these photos belong to me. All images are credited at tumblr.
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Sep 11Summer Sessions 2011: Session Ten
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What is The Summer Sessions?
The Summer Sessions is a project organised by Magen Toole with the help of Melissa Dominic, bringing authors, poets, photographers and artists together under a common theme: A desire to create. This year’s project consists of ten people, in different stages of their careers and creative development, from different cultural and educational backgrounds, who agreed to be interviewed and interview one another, with the goal of cross-posting each others’ interviews in our respective blogs. It’s a project about knowing who’s in our community, and giving back to that community by helping one another promote our own work.
SESSION TEN: MAGEN TOOLE, INTERVIEWED BY BERIT ELLENGSEN
Drawing on a familiarity with the anxious and the alienated, weird and dark fiction Magen Toole takes some time to discuss her work, her favorite movies, and her love of bad television. Find more of her writing at her website eonism.net
1. Tell us a little about yourself and your stories.
I come from the Texas plains with an arts background, a love for Star Trek and a need to tell stories about people in otherworldly circumstances. I’m all about character dynamics and interactions, drawing on the supernatural to explore the duality of human nature and concepts of fear in the modern world. My stories are kind of a grab-bag of genres, from the weird to the romantic, the creepy to the surreal. I like to think that makes me entertaining, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see if there’s any truth to that.
2. Do you have a specific style or genre? If so, what would you call it or define it as?
If I had to call it a style, I’d say it was minimalism within reason. I like to be as brief and concise as possible without selling my ideas short. Give my characters just enough time and space to tell their stories, and cut out all the fat so the reader is left with the purest impression of my idea. It may be layered with other metaphors, other imagery to flesh the world out, but I hate to waste time on excess detail or diversions. I’ll never stop to talk about the drapes or that summer spent backpacking across Europe. The reader can take what he or she will from the story, just so long as I feel they got the best of what I could give them.
On the other hand, I really don’t know what genres I write, most days. I’m often published in weird tale, horror and dark fiction magazines and anthologies, so I guess that’s the clean answer. I just like to tell stories about people faced with the horror of the world around them, the low-volume dread of loneliness, of alienation from others, of separation from safety and detachment from reality. I usually represent that unknown threat with a monster, whether real or imagined, because giving a fear a face makes it palpable, even if you don’t understand why.
3. Is there a message or theme in your work you want to convey to others?
The message varies from story to story, but the theme in my work usually revolves around people struggling against their surroundings. They usually feel out of synch with the world, estranged from others, just outsiders looking in on their particular circumstances. There’s almost always a sense of separation for my characters, taking the form in a person or a singular goal, manifesting as a longing or obsession that fuels their actions. My characters are incomplete, unfinished, and afraid of what they might find if they go looking for what they need to fill that void. The worlds I build for my characters are scary places, populated by monsters and the subtle horror of the mundane modern existence. I can’t really blame them for being afraid.
Having dealt with social anxiety most of my life, I’m well-acquainted with that sense of fear and alienation. It’s easy to write, because I think the modern world makes us feel alienated in a lot of ways. Most things in our lives seem colder, detached, powered by the instant gratification of technology. My generation is still adapting to the world we’ve come up in, with iPhones and Twitter and the fifteen-minute cable news cycle. We’re still sorting out our place in history, and the jury seems out on whether or not we’re going to succeed at all. So I think I like to tell stories about outsiders, because as a reader it’s easier for me to relate to characters like that.
4. What have been your biggest influences?
Good movies, super hero comic books and bad television. Good movies from guys like David Cronenberg and Tarsem Singh, and genre movies from guys like Rob Zombie and Robert Rodriguez, that taught me there’s more than one way to tell horror stories. Super hero comics taught me about adapting mythology and hero folklore traditions to modern audiences, and how to use simple symbols to talk about grand ideas. Bad television, well, that’s just fun. Some of my favorite actors do bad television, and do these amazing things with these terrible scripts they’re given. Like making gold out of oxygen, they make me believe in these characters they’re playing even when the writers have slacked off in the staff room, make me care about these tiny lives they lead. They taught me about sleight of hand, and how a little humanization can hook an audience into a story, no matter how silly.
5. What are your current projects?
At the moment, I’m kicking around ideas for an apocalyptic alternate history series based around the first half of the 20th century, revolving around World War II. I’m working up the lives of the Four Horsemen, four people called to service at the beginning World War I to end the world, and their travels across the planet leading them toward the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I’m also workshopping and preparing for my next novel White Bull, the second in the Casey Way Trilogy.
6. I know you have written a novel that you just completed, Flesh Trap. Can you tell us what it’s about and what plans you have for it?
Flesh Trap is a psychological horror and dark fiction novel, looking at how the things we do to ourselves and each other leave holes in the world so profound that others can be pulled in. It centers on the life of Casey Way, a sarcastic, caffeine-junkie insomniac library cataloger who is being haunted by violent visions of his dead rapist father, suffering under the weight of his father’s sins for twenty years. One part mystery story, one part psychedelic trip, it follows Casey, his boyfriend Joel and step-sister Mariska as the anniversary of the death of Casey’s father approaches, increasing the frequency and brutality of Casey’s visions. They come to find that Casey has become the center of a series of deaths, disappearances and attacks, all stemming from a mysterious box that begins following him. With each character working the story from their own angle, their own perspective and motivations, the mystery leads Casey back to his childhood home and the scene of the crime, as he’s forced further and further into his own fractured psyche to confront his father and also himself.
I’m planning to release the novel as a free-to-read serial beginning in September. I have an awesome team of volunteers that are helping me put together the website, illustrate the characters and key scenes, and assemble the soundtrack. It’s going to be a mixed-media project, art and music backing up the novel chapters. I’m really excited about putting this together.
7. You have said in your blog that you find it difficult to write when you’re happy. Is there anything else you find particularly challenging about writing?
I usually find myself scratching my head over how to portray horror in my stories. The horror I enjoy as a reader or viewer is largely psychological, examining fear from a more clinical, cerebral level rather than through gore and scares. Not that I don’t enjoy my schlock-and-awe movies, because I have my favorites like everybody else, but I like to explore fear as much as possible without automatically going to blood. This is why death and the fear of dying is rarely ever a source of dread in my stories. Most often my characters are afraid of living with something, be it a choice they’ve made, or a loss, or a larger truth they’ve discovered along the way. Which is scarier? That’s what I have to ask myself every time I sit down to write.
8. Can you tell us about your future projects?
I’m working on the second and third books of the Casey Way Trilogy, expanding on the concepts and themes of the first book, respectively titled White Bull and Nightmare Child. Those are a ways off at the moment, as I’m still getting the first book launched. In the meantime I have plans for a collaborative vampire novella. I’m keen on exploring the idea of the vampire from a more traditional folklore standpoint, making them more of a predatory species than the aristocratic or tragic romantic figures they’ve become. The novella focuses on a race of vampires that came out of a nomadic gypsy society in Eastern Europe, spreading across Europe and to the Americas in the chaos following World War II, living by the strict mythic traditions of their ancestors in a lifestyle akin to that of Hasidic Judaism. Living like a cloistered religious community, with well-organized means of procuring and distributing blood through human trafficking, vampires are able to live among the people they feed on with little scrutiny from law enforcement.
I’m also working on a bizarro novel about a man who loses his tongue to an aquatic parasite that lives in his mouth, communicating with him telepathically and leading him on a hallucinatory, vaguely criminal joy-ride toward self-improvement.
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Sep 11All your thoughts, they rot
Self portrait. 2006ish?
I was looking through some of my old files & thought I’d gather up some random things to share. This mostly consists of: self portraits, art, photography, & lots of silly things. I’m quite bad at recalling when most of these photos are from. They range anywhere from 2001 to 2007ish, I’d guess.
Naked ice cream cone baby. Those of you that know me from the livejournal days know all about naked ice cream cone baby. She used to have her own webpage & I’ve even got a tattoo of her.
Daisy head self portrait. These are three old, old grainy webcam pictures from when I was 16 perhaps. Later on, I put them together in this silly little self portrait.
A vector drawing that I did of Billy Corgan for a project in college.
Portraits in the playground. I think I was around 19 or 20 at the time.
I made this for fun and posted it at Livejournal Secret. It was in reference to an inside joke that I don’t remember anymore.
One of my most favourite pictures of Fritzie.
Me & my peeps.
I used to make completely pointless webpages with little to no content. I just enjoyed designing weird things.
Me & Zoe Keating after a Rasputina show.
Zombie-ish me. My favourite part about this is that the file is called bakeyouacake.jpg
Me & Fritzie
Cute octopus vector
During the height of my obsession with horror movies. Note my Devil’s Rejects shirt & Planet Terror poster.
More experiments in vector drawings – Deer girl.
I made these necklaces during my Simon Pegg phase.
Lotsss of old webcam pictures. These all range from when I was about 15 through 19ish.
More naked ice cream cone baby.
More cute vector art.
The humans are dead.
At one point, I owned all of these baby dolls. I wish I still had them all to give to my daughter!
Leopard print hair
Listening to Zeitgeist
The Tale of Rupert and Cornelius!
We are lambs.
Bubbles
I made these necklaces during my REPO! The Genetic Opera obsession.
Chunky me & Bill Moseley
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Sep 11Summer Sessions 2011: Session Nine
via eonism.net
What is The Summer Sessions?
The Summer Sessions is a project organised by Magen Toole with the help of Melissa Dominic, bringing authors, poets, photographers and artists together under a common theme: A desire to create. This year’s project consists of ten people, in different stages of their careers and creative development, from different cultural and educational backgrounds, who agreed to be interviewed and interview one another, with the goal of cross-posting each others’ interviews in our respective blogs. It’s a project about knowing who’s in our community, and giving back to that community by helping one another promote our own work.
SESSION NINE: REBECCA BLAIN, INTERVIEWED BY J.A. PAK
With a love of nature, animals and tea, fantasy author Rebecca Blain shares with us a little bit about her work, her world, and her thoughts on coffee-drinkers. You can find more on Rebecca at her website and writing blog.
If you could change one thing about your own writing, what would it be?
This is a hard question. There are so many ways that I could improve my writing. If I had to pick one, however, I would pick my tendency to repeat myself when I describe things. That, and my flaw of forgetting to write down some important details I know but the reader doesn’t!
You are a passionate tea drinker. Now V.S. Naipaul claims that he can tell whether a writer is male or female by just reading a paragraph. Can you tell if a writer is a tea drinker or coffee drinker? What are the tell-tale signs?
Oh my. If I had to give a knee-jerk reaction, you can tell the tea drinker as the person who stares at the mugs and cups as if analyzing them. Cups make a difference with tea. Not so much with coffee. I also identify the coffee drinkers as those who look glassy-eyed and ready to quit existence after not having a hit in an hour. The more zombie they look, the likelier they drink coffee, in my opinion!
If you could distill your writing into tea, what kind of tea would it be? And what time of day would you drink it?
I think my writing would be a flavored white — I think the type of white would be really determined by the day of the week. Sometimes I’m a smooth cup of white coconut creme, smooth finish and a great start. Others, I’m a white mixed with chamomile, a rough start and leaves an interesting aftertaste on the tongue. As for the time of day, I would definitely be an afternoon tea. Mornings are for chai and a swift kick in the rump. Or a nice breakfast tea.
You concentrate your fiction in the fantasy realm. If you were given the chance to fashion the world you would be born into next, what would that world look like? Can you write a paragraph for us as if it were a novel, knowing you would be an inhabitant? And who would you be? What role would you play?
Oooh ho. This is a tricky question. I’ll start with the who I would be and what role I would play. I don’t think I would really want to change who I am right now — I like what I do, and I like my dreams. Even my fantasy worlds steal from the real world. It is the hardships of our life and world that make us who we are.
That said, I would rig things so that people were more considerate to the planet. It makes me sound like a hippy (I’m not, really), but I enjoy blue skies, mild sunsets and clean waters.
How does one put into words the perfect world? It is my own, but fewer cities, cleaner cities, nicer people and fresh air not tainted with smog. If I had to make one change, it would be to encourage people to be more understanding of other cultures, religions and skin color, however lame that sounds.
(Who am I kidding? I would be Queen of the Universe and everyone would be my minion. Go, slave, fetch me some tea — and don’t screw it up!)
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Sep 11Summer Sessions 2011: Session Eight
via eonism.net
What is The Summer Sessions?
The Summer Sessions is a project organised by Magen Toole with the help of Melissa Dominic, bringing authors, poets, photographers and artists together under a common theme: A desire to create. This year’s project consists of ten people, in different stages of their careers and creative development, from different cultural and educational backgrounds, who agreed to be interviewed and interview one another, with the goal of cross-posting each others’ interviews in our respective blogs. It’s a project about knowing who’s in our community, and giving back to that community by helping one another promote our own work.
SESSION EIGHT: M. RAOULEE, INTERVIEWED BY CHRISTINE DANSE
Full of wit and practical wisdom, science fiction writer M. Raoulee takes some time to discuss her work, her dolls, her beading, and everything else in between. You can find more about M. at her Livejournal.
1. What, primarily, do you write?
Trashy science fiction and fantasy, often with a side of porn and/or snark.
1A. Science fiction and fantasy! There’s a large genre. Any favorite subgenres?
Well, right now I have an interest in slice-of-life science fiction, which I would like to take a moment to blame on Hitoshi Ashinano. I’ve written a lot of adventures the past few years, and I guess I felt like something a little more mellow. I say adventure, but I’m not much of an epic person. There’s just something that burns my toast about “YOU ARE THE ONE WHO MUST DO A THING, YO.” I’ve always wondered about what the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary worlds are like. In my hands, the answer appears to be “ridiculous”, but I’ll take that.
As for what I’m doing writing non-epics in the most epic-prone genres ever, I’ve never been accused of doing things the easy way. And I’m fine with other people writing epics and such. Can you imagine a world with no high fantasy battlefests? I don’t WANT to.
2. Where, primarily, do you write it?
n the fearsome hell-dimension which exists in the back of my sock drawer! Well, I wish. I have an antique vanity facing a window and one of those laptops that’s so huge as to be thoroughly UN-portable. Oh, and all this stuff is in the room I rent, to the right of a shelf full of dolls and a painting of the human incarnation of fluorite.
3. The question I hate to answer, but love to ask: are you a pantser…or plotter?
Why? That is a good question! I used to be a hardcore pantser. Genius of spontaneity and all that. And sometimes, if I have a deadline, I will still pants the everyloving crap out individual scenes. But, as a pantser, it wasn’t very often I saw the ends of stories and I much too gradually came to realize I was never going to get anything done without something resembling an outline.
I have to be able to physically move plot points around which results in these OneNote tabs that look like QED worksheets. For very long, complex stories, sometimes I resort to taping colored notecards to my closet door.
4. Who are your primary inspirations for writing?
I am going to take a moment to excerpt a conversation I had with GreenJudy about that very thing.
> Corny as it may be, things come to me in dreams. Often, I’m dimly aware
> that I’m dreaming and have the some say in what’s going on. I can ring
> room service for a movie, but I only get to pick the genre.
> Or, I’ll overhear a thing. “That is a phone that has seen better days”.
> What of this phone? I beheld not the phone. But, my brain wanted to know
> about the phone and filled in some info on it’s own. This is where my
> most nonsensical notes hail from.
> But, more and more, I find myself engineering scenes. I want to
> accomplish X. What is the best way to do this? Oddly enough, this is
> where a lot of my jokes come from, [when I'm not pantsing them].
> All three of these states have to balance out for a good scene (and I do
> outline by scene).
> Say, the T-rex story. I was dreaming about doppelgangers and soldiers and
> Umi no Aria, only things went horribly wrong, as tings are wont to do.
> This stuck itself to some of my notes that had been otherwise
> languishing. And then I thought: this is a great excuse to write about
> miniature dinosaurs as pets. How would I work one in? You know what would
> be funny? If one SAT on the main character and made T. Rex noises in his
> face. Wait, what noise does a T. Rex make? And then, I posted in LJ [posing that question].
> Plotting and writing work like this for me.
> Plotting makes more stuff / writing walls off the new stuff / revising
> purifies the stuff.
> I think it’s like making vodka and being hopelessly bad at it.
4A. I think I’m going to frame “Plotting makes … purifies the stuff” and hang it on my wall! That’s the essence of writing for me, right there. And what about literary role models–who are yours?
Well, I already ended up name-dropping one before you asked. Oopsie. I want to disclaim before I say anything else that I think there’s a difference between liking a book and looking up to the author. Meaning I dig a whole lot more books by a whole lot more writers than I’m about to list.
-Umberto Eco: “I felt like killing a monk”. Is there ever any better reason to turn out a massive tome of a novel? Plus, he writes what he damn well pleases, which is what he knows, which may well be everything awesome ever.
-Mark Danielewski: Supreme lord and master of fucking with the audience.
-Hagio Moto: Created to shonen-ai genre in comics and otherwise made a career of filling women’s comic magazines with hard sci-fi and comics about ballerinas if she damnwell felt like it.
-Tanith Lee: has written more imminently readable books in her life than most companies put out over their entire existences.
5. Can you tell us a bit about your current work-in-progress? (Or works-in-progress, whatever the case may be.)
Let me see. I have a novel I keep meaning to revise with some modicum of seriousness, but it weighs about ten pounds and I have, in fact, killed scorpions with it. In the drafting department, the T. rex story ate a bunch of my other outlines, so I have this cute little soft sci-fi slice-of-life tangle of stories going on and very little desire to move on at this point. Oh, and there are two pet ideas which follow me around: the serious one and the not serious one. The serious one I did try to write once and botched. I have no idea how to even outline the not serious one due to a certain prevalence of lying and alcohol.
5A. Well, if you’re going to make us wait that long for literary goodness…do you at least have a prize snippet you’re willing to share?
Is it Tuesday? No? Well, here’s one anyway.
Later that evening while he waited for some bread to rise, Nel emailed Tasso at his “best for social agendas” address, to see if there was anything he absolutely wouldn’t eat. He would never have the chance to do as much with a restaurant patron, but he figured: now, while he could. Now, before he’d mentally assembled a menu.
Tasso wrote back almost at once, and it was then that doubt crept up on Nel. Just a little doubt, no more harmful than a dropped fork, but well-founded just the same.
I like: black olives, green olives, red olives, items which contain any of the aforementioned olives.
I don’t like: bran; things that taste how grass smells; breakfast cereal; foodstuffs produced by members of the Musa genus.
And here where Nel had bet himself that likes would be all about pizza, Chinese and Bereit lunchboxes (Bereit still flinging its cheese-drenched cuisine across the galaxy despite a heavy backlash in the culinary world).
Musa turned out to bananas.
That, and the request he’d started out with? Not much to go on.
What really threw him though was the part about grass. Nel knew how grass smelled: he lived in the middle of some pretty serious grass. But, he couldn’t translate that aroma into a taste. He’d been trying to work on that skill. In fact, he’d probably been working on it when he should have been studying for algebra. It got to annoy him that while he knew what Tasso was getting at, he couldn’t have expressed it better than Tasso already had.
So, he clattered down the outside steps of his apartment complex and made his way across the parking lot to the communal yard where he got down on his hands and knees, and shoved his face in the grass for a big, gushing smell of the stuff.
His tongue reacted to the scent. Stirred, though there was no taste per se.
The grass smelled remarkably like grass.
“Nel?” came Ms. Chicklace’s voice, and Ms. Chicklace’s pink and black flats intruding on the grass he had engaged. “Are you alright?”
“It’s for school,” he sighed. “I got this hypothetical client who doesn’t like the taste of suburbia.”
“Ohhh. In that case, I would make sure not to hypothetically serve him macaroni out of a box. That’s about the most suburban thing ever,” and she laughed a little, one shoe brushing the other. “Not that you’d dream of it.”
“I gotta start somewhere. Hey, did anybody loose their keys?”
6. What is your goal or dream for writing?
I’ve wanted to be published since I was nine. Failing that, I would at least like to leave behind a readable version of the not serious pet outline above. Why? Because heroic atheist lesbians, that’s why.
7. Well, that’s a great reason! Your profile says you write in the nude. Is this a metaphor for baring yourself to the world through your writing? Or am I just looking too far into that?
Even as I type this, my pants are on the other side of the bedroom! It’s hot here. I don’t have much of a choice. But, I do have a problem expressing myself verbally. The mind and the mouth do not sync up for me. It’s not as bad as it used to be since I’ve had people INSIST on getting to know me lately. I still get a hell of a lot more across in writing.
8. Ya know, we Floridians believe in something called “A/C”…
I absolutely cannot stand to do nothing. I go stir crazy if I can’t be making or doing something. But, I only have so much space, so miniatures work for me. Well, I have been beading more human-sized items lately, but I still sew around 1/4 scale most of the time. Also, I was raised in a family where everyone cooked, so I love-love-love to cook. My favorite thing to make is literal soup du jour where I grab whatever we’ve got and try to turn it into tasty soup. I also make killer risotto. Seriously- it’s got about a half pound of butter in it. Don’t eat it and then go get a blood test.
Some other media I’ve messed around with include Friendly Plastic, Angelina Film and plastic canvas. If I get in the mood or there’s a special occasion I will do cartonnage, which is those fabric-covered boxes from your grandmother’s bathroom. Great results, but you will trash daylights out of your workspace.
8A. Friendly Plastic, Angelina Film, and plastic canvas? These sound like great band names…but something tells me they’re not musical groups.
I would listen the hell out of a band called Angelina Film.
Friendly Plastic, also known as Polycaprolactone, is a plastic that’s moldable at 140F. Fantastic Plastic from back in the 80?s was similar, but everyone may rest assured the newer version is less carcinogenic. In fact, it may have medical applications. Anyway, you can dye it, get ink all over yourself and use it to make miniatures or cabochons.
Angelina Film similar to cellophane. You heat it, it sticks to itself and gets all iridescent. The fun part comes when you glue it to an armature first. Oh, but there’s lacquer involved too. Lots of lacquer. Everywhere. Still fun though.
Plastic canvas works up like gigantic scale cross stitch, but you can make three-dimension things out of it too. Say, doll furniture. I know that particular application had some fans in the late 80?s, early 90?s. This material in particular may be dismissed as tacky, but anything’s tacky in the wrong hands.
8B. Do you find that any of these other pursuits fuel your writing? Do any killer soups du jour show up in your stories?
I did actually end up writing a character who beaded into one of my Halloween porn fests. Very sparkly bonking ensued. And I THINK The Soup That We Don’t Talk About in one of my more current projects may be a relative of one that got all weird on me the other day. Protip: frozen pork and frozen giant chicken breasts may be indistinguishable in the depths of the freezer.
9. Tell us a little bit about your dolls. Do you build them? Just their accessories? Both?
I have a collection of Asian Ball-Joint Dolls, otherwise known as those overpriced resin things. I do not have a theme for my collection. Oh, you know, now that I think of it, I know what my pantsing went into. Anyway, I do like fantasy-themed dolls, but I don’t buy those exclusively. Also, a lot of writers will get dolls to represent their characters. I have two out of two dozen, and one is actually a reverse character doll- I based the way the character looks on the doll. The rest? They don’t need refining and motives and backstories. They just need tiny dashikis and to be hung in palo verde trees for pictures. I did try to build one at one point, but it went badly.
10. And I need to know about these beading kits you’re putting together.
Oh, my goodness. I should get you some coffee or something. Long story alert.
These people who have INSISTED on getting to know me are all regulars from my local bead shop. I had not had any corporeal friends in years before I met them. Originally, I would just stop into this shop occasionally for doll props, but they wore me down and got me having conversations and making human-sized things.
The economy still being made of suck and fail, we decided we would invent some kits for our bead store to sell online so it can stick around. And we would do it with Tila beads, which are square, have two holes and make for a pain in the ass 99% of the time. I had this idea that I would use them to make bigger, ornate square units that could be assembled in different ways. This went over way better than I ever thought it would. I ended up teaching it to a bunch of people, who did their own takes on it.
Two months later, we’re tentatively expecting three design variations in five colorways each once we get the directions finished and the materials together. I have learned so much. I mean, everything from how to write good directions to the fact French Brittany’s turn into balls when they lie down. It’s really been an wonderful, though occasionally frustrating, experience and you had better believe I am going to pimp the living daylights out of these things once we have them to sell.
Oh, and I got put in charge of naming the different colors, which has been LOLerous because everything I know about naming fashion items I gleaned from 80?s Avon catalogues.
CD: M., thank you for joining me! It’s been a real pleasure! And greatest of luck with those bead kits. Is there a link we’ll be able to find them at when they’re available?
Oh, thank YOU. I’ve really enjoyed this exchange myself. And goodness knows I need some luck. Anyway, the kits should be available online at http://www.cosmopolitanbeads.com/ . I’m trying to set it up that people who order online and mention Shipwreck Light get at least a special thank you note. Lynda kinda shot down my free porn idea.
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Sep 11I’m just trying to walk with you between the raindrops
Nice things;
Mentioning deja vu too much ♥ Mocha drinks ♥ Watching “Medium” ♥ Kitty-cat Jack’s squishy belly ♥ Making brownies with homemade chocolate chip peanut butter frosting ♥ Working on organisation ♥ Baby’s kicks & punches ♥ Sookie-cat curled up on the recliner ♥ Taking photos ♥ “Hobo with a Shotgun” ♥ Chadu & I started taking birthing classes! ♥ Jewish cats ♥ Some of my art is going to be featured in two upcoming art shows! ♥ Smashing Pumpkins Record Club ♥ Watching “Mad Men” ♥ Looking forward to my baby shower ♥ Making a baby registry ♥
