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‘TIS THE SEASON (to buy myself stuff)

Well, oops, I didn't exactly update more frequently this month, now did I? And here it is, almost Christmas. What have I been up to lately? Why, Christmas shopping, obsessive nail polishing, drinks out with friends, and one… epic… Christmas party later (never seen so many hungover people the next day at the office, haha) it's now December 21 and I really have nothing to show for myself except an empty wallet and a surprisingly clean house.  My mom's side of the family is coming over to my house for Christmas Eve so there has been a lot of cleaning and organizing going on, and I'm just not a housekeeping sort of person so the whole process has been deeply annoying. 

Anyway, here are some things that I have come across in my Christmas shopping and internetting that hopefully Santa*** will stuff under my tree.

 

HOLY CRAP GUYS this Michael Kors rose gold watch is effing amazing and I want it so so bad! Too bad I never told anybody I wanted it! Penny and I were at Stoneridge last week and I dragged her into the Michael Kors store so I could try it on, and it's even more beautiful in real life. It's also not as expensive as I thought it would be – clocking in at $295 at Nordstroms. I'm not saying that's cheap, but let's be real, I've spent about 10x that on yarn and beads (just in the past couple years). If I save my pennies, I think I could get myself this beauty within a couple of months.

 

I don't know why I like this gold sequined top, I just do. I have acquired not one, not two, but THREE sparkle sweaters in the last year, so maybe there is hope for me yet. 

 

 

I love this beautiful necklace – I'm really into agate and other stones right now, I have some sliced geodes that could be fashioned into a similar looking piece. Maybe you will soon see an Anthro-inspired necklace from me! 

Okay, that is all. I guess maybe after the New Year I will be more interesting. Until then, though… if I don't update… have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

 

***Re: Santa, I was apparently terrified of him as a kid (I don't remember this), and once caught my mom stuffing the stockings ("Momma… is there a Santa?" *deer in the headlights look* "Ummm….. nooooo." I was about three.) so ours was not a household that  believed in Santa. I guess that makes us a little different type of family; everyone I knew growing up did the whole Santa thing. And you know what? I never felt like I was missing out on anything – the magic of Christmas was never lessened for me as a kid. I guess also if you grow up religious, the whole Baby Jesus vs. Santa thing is kind of confusing. 

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Oops, Radio Silence

Well, I didn't MEAN to not write in here all month, but hey, it's November – at least I had a good excuse. It was budget season at work, and I've been participating in National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)… and I successfully finished my novel! This was the tenth year I've participated and the seventh finish. This year I wrote a straight up science fiction story, which I'd never done before, and man let me tell you, it is pretty ridiculous. It needs a massive overhaul – plot threads, characters, etc. were dropped willy nilly in favor of others, there's a kidnapping and a space kraken, telepathy and a cliffhanger. With no explanation.  It's terrible. I kind of love it. If I ever go back to it and am able to fix its many, many problems, it could actually be pretty cool!

Anyway, expect to see more posts in December. Well, you know me, always thinking I'll update and then being too busy. But budget season is over as of today (the office consumed SEVERAL bottles of champagne after work this afternoon) and I'm not writing a terrible novel with space kraken so you just never know. Plus! I'm finally sitting down and making some stuff from all those bead show hauls I've managed over the past few months.

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving; ours was particularly delicious for some reason.

And in four minutes it's December! Where on EARTH has this year gone?

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LATELY

I haven't updated in awhile, because I've been super busy, out of town, and violently ill! (Not in that order.) Three weeks ago I found myself standing in the bathroom completely bewildered as I threw up EVERYTHING ON THE PLANET, then spent the next week with a cold. Since then I visited up in Sacramento with Malvina and Sam (and ate gourmet grilled cheese from a food truck on the side of the road) and visited down in LA with Sarah and her family (and went to the Los Angeles Zoo! and took a nap – and saw my old friend Rhoda from high school for the first time since 2002!)

Since then I've been to Ikea, sliced my hand open and done a ton of laundry!

My life, it is glamorous!

Speaking of glamour, here is a prototype of bridesmaids jewelry and headpiece I may or may not make for Malvina's wedding, set in a historic former speakeasy:

I hope the girls like it, we'll see. I kind of want to go with a twenties/art deco/flapper theme, but just slightly – don't want to go overboard. The jewelry will be pink since we pretty much decided to go with black dresses and pink accents.

I have some other ideas as well (they have an art deco themed collection of jewelry parts at Michael's right now) but I just haven't had time to work on anything.

This weekend is the Bay Area Bead Extravanaganza, and so Janelle and I are headed out to that. I am getting a holiday bonus randomly early so I will have a little extra money to spend.