I had a longer night than normal last night. From a small fuss with the Fiance... to... well, a spooky event that sobered me up to the point I put my drink in the fridge, double checked the lock on the door and scrambled into bed.
punk ass. I can see you over there just waiting for your chance. It was a bitch ass move to make the Fiance's boots a half size too small, but those little things are the only thing you better fuck with this November. Bitch.
Well I am back to just as normal for me as I can get. The muscle pain is gone and well my appetite is not quite still there yet, it's recovered as well as can be expected.
With the recovery came being able to double down on work again. How much you work you ask?
Allow me to breakdown my orders for you.
Order #1, what's left of it anyways:
A green coat
A light browns coat
A messenger bag
Order two:
2 Toothless (yeap, cute little bugger)
Order #3:
A Ma Cobb hat
A dark blue and black scarf
Order #4:
Another Ma Cobb Hat
Order #5:
A large green shawl
Order #6:
Three Christmas stockings
Order #7:
Dolls (though how many of these I'll be making I'm not sure yet...)
"That's a lot of work there..."
Well kinda. I have all the patterns, I know what and how these are all going to look like (save the messenger bag, I keep changing my mind on it.) However I've also got pictures I need to take, and my fiance is never home long enough to doing nothing for long enough to get drafted.
I need a kid... Well... maybe not. I need more space, which we're going to get when we move to Arizona. Which means more cooking and baking (yay!). And I digress....
Anyways, that means you guys who take the time to read here, may be getting stuck with cheat articles of pictures of projects as they are coming along and videos of cute stuff. Maybe some prepping or survivalist videos if I can find some I like. (Yeah, key term there.)
Sadly I do not have any Samhain plans (pronounced Sow-in) aka Halloween for you mundanes. I'm fairly certain it'll rather simple, spiced cider and a good meal with the Fiance. I'm rather content with that actually.
Anyways, I hope you're all having a good week, a great Thursday and I'll see ya'll Saturday.
Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy some more coffee, and then get cracking on work.
Almost back to normal from Thursday kicking my almost-non existent ass. All that's left is the small meals I'm eating around 4-5 times a day, mild fatigue and some still serious back muscle pain. I'm just over here thanking the Gods that it's not spasms (!!!).
Been thinking about either doing an auction on the Jade Rose Zen facebook page or doing a "12 days of Christmas/Yule" flash sale event and having about two things a day.
Either way, I'll be cross posting to Google + plus as well and here to the blog. Among everything will be some of the really popular stuff, like the dolls, shawls and blankets, but there will be some surprises in there too. =)
In the meantime, I'm going back to bouncing around youtube listening to music, working on orders and sitting in my comfy chair.
In the meantime, here's something I found today. Enjoy:
So I managed to be able to watch some television yesterday and on top of that, with the fiance too!
Mike Rowe's "Somebody's Gotta Do It" on CNN on Wednesdays.
I love you Mike.
I dearly love his body of work and the foundation that he's started to get people back into infrastructure jobs as those have suffered greatly at the hands of this "You have to have a college degree to get anywhere" bullshit.
Then it was several hours of Alaska: The Last Frontier on Discovery channel.
I seriously heart the Kilcher (sp?) family. I love Alaska, I love that raw hard edge homesteading and I love the fact that so much of that show makes me either laugh from memories my parents told me of, I've been in that situation at one point or it was just amusing.
To be honest, I think most of you folks take being able to laugh for granted.
Like today, I woke up and my headspace is not quite right today.
I don't really know why, I didn't see anything that was even remotely a trigger, but I'm fighting the urge to crawl back under the covers and it's not because I'm tired.
But I have yarn and music and I'm chilling still in Phoenix. The place is just that much better that I know I'm going to be all right in a few hours.
So it's just this today. Enjoy being able to laugh.
Rabbit hole.
And for those of you who know me, know these tend to be interesting.
Before I jump in, hello to those of you from Jason Colavito's site. Hi Jason! LOL. In case you haven't noticed, I write about whatever I want and what I find interesting. Either way, welcome and I hope you enjoy my articles.
Okay rabbit hole time.
So, here in the last couple days my nose has been in my crochet and my ears on youtube listening to music playlists etc.
"Why not just listen to the music you have on your laptop?"
Because I have a bad habit of losing track of time and forgetting to eat. The transitions between video make me pay attention to the time.
So, this one user popped up. Pandora Journey.
Most of the music is from video games (I'm not sure folks know how much computer animation has been advanced by video games, but it's an enjoyable rabbit hole, I can guarantee you that if you like learning about that kind of thing) however there are singers that were popping up in the pieces that I liked how they sounded and had never heard before.
Also were most if not all of the artwork that was associated with the different pieces.
Oh.
MY.
GODS!!!
For a long time I used to stay on top and up to date about space, science fiction and fantasy art. Then I got sidetracked. (FUCK YOU PTSD!)
I started hunting down images. The several bits I do here will here highlights of different artists that I just now became aware of. Today is Jan Urshel.
He has an amazing variety of artwork.
Examples?
Observe.
Just.... :)
And to cap off this article, here's one of the pieces of music that has really stuck with me from that channel:
