Hello faithful readers!! How are you all doing?? Holiday panic setting in? I am ordering all my gifts online. Most are probably going to come from Etsy for sheer convenience. That they take paypal is the low bar I need cleared this year. Last year I had all my gifts purchased by the end of November! And I supported small businesses downtown. This year I’m not setting foot in a store.
Cool things for the New Year! I want to grow my subscriber list!! SO, coming January- once the holidays are over- I will have some prize packages! Simply convince your friends to subscribe to my newsletter and you will be entered into a drawing for a prize package of art! Each friend will be worth one entry! So the more people you can convince to join my madness, the better your chances will be! There will probably be two packages to choose from- Pokemon and NON-Pokemon. And the winner will get to pick which one they want. The caveat being that nothing I do pans out… but if it works a bit I think I’ll do it more than once. But not too frequently… I do need to try to sell artwork.
I would also love to hear back from people on what they want to see in the newsletter! Things like bird photos are not really on the table though. Mostly because I can’t control that! But like more art? More doll photos? Group photos of dolls? What I’m reading? What I’m watching? Look, I know I don’t have a lot to offer…
Now, on to the whinging!!
Things I would like but will never happen:
1- Collaborate with someone in a book. Now this might just be something I THINK I want. I might be too stubborn and too much of a control freak to let go and work with someone on a project. But I’d like the chance to find out?
2- Play a tabletop RPG. My personal preference would be Vampire The Masquerade because I love vampires. But any storytelling game with some dice and a system I don’t need to know algebra for would be cool.
In food news: As usual everything continues to get worse. Costco doesn’t have the OR the Hippeas Vegan Whiter Cheddar puffs anymore. As most of you know there is TINY range of food I can eat and now MORE is gone. At least at a price that is affordable. I am not surprised I am just really depressed. This happens all the time. Everything in my life shrinks and gets smaller, and worse and narrower. It always feels indicative of my life as whole. Because the few treats that I dearly look forward to always go away. Everything I love is slowly stripped away.
Anyway, PICTURES!! Working on a couple drawings I want to paint in acrylic. The last one failed. A lot. I’m going to throw it away it’s that bad. I think I’ll just not experiment on these two new ones.
It’s going to take a while to get a sincere start on them. I’ll try to post more as I go.
And the epic of the doll that was mailed from Canada, to me, was NOT delivered by the USPS, got sent BACK to Canada, where is was sent to me AGAIN- FINALLY MADE IT HOME! Kiki has her new body! The resin match is stellar and I’m really impressed with the engineering of the Honey Delf 31 body!
On that note, here are pics NOT of Kiki! LOL! But of Sathariel, one of my OLDEST dolls! She’s a Dollmore Sweet Wind Memory Torrie. I maned her Sathariel because I thought I’d make all my dolls demons or soemthing and give them a story just like everyone else on Den of Angels. Turns out I’m not that sort of collector. My dolls don’t have elaborate backstories and relationships or their own novel and they aren’t based on a story I’ve been “working” on since high school. So now I just name them whatever I think they look like. But Sathariel is stuck with Sathariel! She’s also my only doll with any damage! Her pinky finger snapped off some years ago and I glued it back on but it just fell off again. So she just has four fingers on one hand.
Fun fact: Her wig glows in the dark! But I can’t get good pics of that.
Anyway! That’s it for this week! See you all next week! And remember! Sharing is caring! (I fucking HATE that shit- but I also need you to try to convince your friends to subscribe to this shit… it makes me looks fancy like I’m a real person or something!)