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• 14:07 Happy Thanksgiving! Take a break from #nanowrimo and spend some time with family. #
• 14:34 I am annoyed, looking for a used car. So far 3 out of 3 cars I've inquired about have been scams. #

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Thanksgiving was the best in years, or so it seemed to my goldfish of a mind. Aaryn and Grandma came over to the house for dinner. We played umpteen rounds of tiles, a.k.a. Rummikub, as the name said on the box. Belgium waffles for breakfast, huge Thanksgiving meal. Very exhausted now, but best of all: I crossed 50,000 words on NaNoWriMo!

That's right, the half-brained plan to write a novel within the confines of a single month is now an accomplishment that I hold proud. I'm ecstatic, really. Well, it hasn't sunk in, yet. I told Aaryn in the car while I was bringing her home. I told my family when I got back to the house. Everyone's pretty psyched. I'm partly dreading the "what do I do next" thought. I think that I'm actually most open to going back and reading to see what I actually put down, right away, which I know goes against what I should do, something else.

Go me. :-)

Dinner is eated, the guests have gone home, and THE KITCHEN IS CLEAN.

Thanksgiving PWN.

Our third annual Black Friday sale starts at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, with sale prices of up to 75% off! Phantomwise Tarot pendants are on a last-chance clearance sale, at $20 off, and neckvines will be 25% off. We're also offering free first-class mailer shipping -- anywhere in the world! -- on orders of $50 or more.

During the afternoon, I'll be doing at least two Twitter contests -- follow wyrdingstudios and watch for the announcements!

From 6 p.m. to midnight, our Earring Extravaganza returns - 1 pair for $12, 3 pairs for $30, 12 pairs for $100.

And on Cyber Monday, I'll be doing an all-day Instant Gratification Monday, from noon to midnight, with special surprise discounts... and I'll be unveiling something new as well!

All good people,
come and gather around.
Be welcome, one, and whole.
We're gonna lift each other up
in the name of love,
gonna feed our hearts and souls.

All good people,
come and gather around.
We're gonna feed our hearts,
feed our souls.
We're gonna lift each other up
in the name of love.
Be welcome, warm, and whole!

--s00j , today.












The most amazing part of this is that there's NO way I can fit all of you into this entry without breaking something.

Love you all, my colorful tribe, SO MUCH.

Twelve hours after that last post, I'm in pain from standing up in the kitchen literally all day. Food was worth it, though. Details to come tomorrow, but here's hoping it was a wonderful day all around (whether you're celebrating Thanksgiving or just Thursday).

THE MUMBLES
THE DUST LEFT BEHIND
Mumbling Release

When I first wrote about this band I was shocked by the lack of interest, which bordered on derisive suspicion. They bravely announce themselves on their business card as Gothic Orientated Piano Rock, which is far more modern and interesting as a concept than the majority of bands around. It seems quite obvious to me that if a band is using vocals and keyboards without any reliance on familiar crowd-pleasing norms and forms they need to have great songs to even force their heads above the surface. The Mumbles have plenty of great songs and while it may seem a relaxing variant on Gawf with a drum machine, it’s not really that either. James Ward and Robert Cowlin are coming out of a different drainage system, as close at times to Cult With No Name as they are Goth standards, but in their weirdly modest way they’re close to the album of the year here. So I wasn’t going senile, thank you, you simply weren’t paying attention.

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( Have fun storming the castle! )
And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^

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• 10:52 RT @CapricaSeven: Anya on T'giving: "To commemorate a past event you kill and eat an animal..." Happy Ritual Sacrifice, everyone! #
• 10:53 @neverwear jumpin' jelly beans, do you ever slow down? #
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• 11:21 @KatzMoney it was Fauxtown, sir. #
• 12:28 I'm thankful we have the choice to be better people than the right to say whatever we want allows us to be. #
• 13:22 Now I make my homemade cranberry jelly. #

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I'm thankful for many things. I'm thankful I can walk pretty well on my own now. I'm thankful that all the tornado damage repairs to my house are finished, and my house is my own again. I'm thankful that my husband will be coming home from Singapore soon. I'm thankful that the Indian boarding school my parents work and live at was not attacked, despite threats made. I'm thankful for stories sold recently. I'm thankful for not having to deal with two urgent day job projects simultaneously. I'm thankful for cats to entertain me when I'm home alone. And I'm thankful for friends to spend Thanksgiving with.

I've been avoiding all things Gaga, suspecting I'd be hooked, sooner or later. Now I've seen the video for "Bad Romance," and, well, it's happened. There's such an weird and wonderful mix of influences here (The Eurythmics, Bowie, Nomi, Nina Hagan, Queen, Lene Lovich, Grace Jones, and, well, it just goes on and on). Wow.



The Lady can sing.

Kid #1 has just inhaled half a pie. I caught myself yelling "Chew" and channeling my grandmother's admonitions about choking. I think I am a real parent now.

ETA: He's eating again. This takes us up to 3 plates of food and a whole pie.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021024.html

Teenage boy: No, man! She like... can't get out of bed, because if she stands up, the baby will like fall out.
Teenage girl: What?

--St. Luke's

Am having such fun with the uke.. er, the *new* uke that is. For a year or so now I've been droolng over a pretty pink ukulele, made by Vintage, a perfect match to my much loved Pink Lady guitar (see icon). And I've been good, despite its low price, because I've not been much in an instrument mood, and especially not ukes. But now I am and oh look, there's a nice online shop with pretty pink ukes and it could arrive by Tuesday.

It did.



Am now proud owner of the Itty Bitty Uke which is very nice, very pink, is clearly the baby brother of my guitar and has a lovely sound, as I'd hoped. My other uke is quite loud, thanks to being solid wood and with a deep body, but that makes it a little uncomfy to hold after a while. Itty Bitty has a mellow tone and a shallow body, and is being very friendly, I've not had chance to play much until today, with feeling so drained, but settled down this afternoon with the rather excellent Ralph Shaw tutor video I got ages back and have learned some nifty tricks and slides and some new chords, whee!

I've got to admit it's been a mite hard for me to be thankful this year, for many reasons that aren't worth sharing here.

But to see at least two entries where people have said that they're thankful for *me*, well, that gives me lots of pause. And finally gives me courage to give thanks, even when there's so much that I'm patently *not* thankful for right now.

So, I give thanks for:

-Wonderful times this year with friends new and old, at home and abroad. I tried to write out the list, but it was just hopelessly long. To know I have that many wonderful friends is humbling and wonderful indeed. Thank you to everyone in London and Leeds who made that trip great, to the Team Seattle crew who made Dragon*Con a con where I finally enjoyed myself. Thanks to friends at home who have still kept in touch and who treat me like a queen every time I show up begging on their doorsteps. :)

-Several of my dear friends fighting serious illness are still with us. Keep fighting, ladies! You are the champions!

-Even if it ends soon, I had a year to think only of writing. I can't forget what a great miracle that is.

-The husband, of course.

-My most excellent agent, literaticat.

-The continued discovery of great books and the librarians and teachers who keep on bringing it every year.

-My husband's colleagues, who have really been supportive and helpful throughout this year.

-The chance to live in a beautiful place year-round and experience all its seasons.

-Laughter and silliness.

-The lessons of history.

-My sweet critters.

-Food, glorious food.

If I think of more, I'll add it. But just thanks, everyone, for bringing the bright to an otherwise difficult year.

I have a 5ml of Voodoo Queen that is half full (literally, it is mid-label. Pictures on request.).

I can't wear it.

The label is clean and nice, no stains and the oil has been cleanly decanted.

Would someone like to swap with me?

I am most interested in Pumpkin King, Sandalwood SN (either one), The Wild Hunt (sure, sure, I'm dreaming) and Leipreachan but I'm open to suggestion!

(In non-bpal perfumes, I'm interested in Profumum Santalum just now)

Last chance!

...is to create a Facebook fanpage for him, of course. So, erm..what do you think I ought to put on a Facebook fan page for P'tah?

• 22:13 @rajanyk I am sorry to hear that. I wish you and your family the best during this holiday season. It's tough... #
• 09:54 The autumn mists of Hona Lee have enveloped the silent city. #

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Warm dry home; helpful, hot husband who smells good; fat black cat; swimmy blue fish; wonderful editors; a marvelous agent; amazing publishers; super-cool boss; the Eden Moore books earning out; Boneshaker continuing to do well; distant family having a good time without me in better weather than I’m presently experiencing; a secret clubhouse that serves the world; friends who swing by with goodies today; friends who would totally swing by with goodies today if they were in town; friends who are in town but have other plans; friends who express the wish that I were back in their town; Trader Joe’s meat selection and “wine country” chicken salad; Tofurkey (shut up, I love it); candy-colored hair; shiny black boots; a big brick tower; reading recommendations; independent booksellers; chain booksellers; libraries; book-loaners; book readers; new wool coat with a hood; having about 1/3 of my holiday shopping finished already; fuzzy hats; too much work because it’s far better than not enough work; one vehicle which works and is fun to drive; Etsy; novelty tee shirts; The Gap’s revamped selection of jeans; Christmas travel plans; new work-out music; CuteOverload.com; McKay faux-chicken seasoning; Advil; pixelated socks; leg-warmers (even though I didn’t appreciate them the first time they came around; Coke Zero; six different styles of goggles; out-of-town conventions; in-town conventions; tights on sale at Nordstrom Rack; new headphones that keep my ears warm; uncommonly good cover karma; fingerless gloves; plastic cutlery and paper plates; sorted, itemized receipts for everything; hand sanitizer that smells like lavender and chamomile; footie pajamas; Google; cheap red wine; thrift shopping; PBS; good reviews of my books from people I don’t know (and to whom I am not related); my paper shredder; a pack of wild cards; and cheese.

[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]

late night statements

marine: welll, i'm sort of walkinng the plank
erv: you should get back on the ship, maybe go downstairs
me: i'm walking the underside of it

Enter The Haggis ~ Down With The Ship

Like ships in a squall we rise and we fall
We're plotting our course throught waves
Some masts are tall with sails so strong
Others are tossed in the gale
We try to stay dry with salt in our eyes
No moment to rest or complain
The moon isn't far a clear sky and stars
Red sky at morn on your tail

I'm not going to stand on the end of the pier
I'm not going to let you go down with the ship
Raise up your anchor it's time to set sail
And I'm not going to let you go down

Like ships we were made to dance o'er our graves
One false move and we could be thrown
Buried alive before our due time
To rest at sixty below
So jibe while you can if there's danger ahead
Stay on your course if you will
I'll throw you a line as waves start to rise
Bail as your ship starts to fill

To those who left, thank you for staying as long as you did. No blame, no bitterness, no judgment. I'm not easy to deal with and I don't blame you.

To those who stayed, for whatever reason, thank you. Even if it's just to see what I do next. I am much more human that I used to admit, and I need friends, and I need kindness and happy times shared, and without you, surely, there wouldn't be any of these.

To those who returned after leaving, thank you for your kindness and your forgiveness.

To those who checked in silently despite leaving, thank you for still caring.

To those who condemned me, thank you for standing for what you believed in.

To those I have wronged, thank you for being a better person than I.

To those who have wronged me, I forgive you. Not a one of you is guilty of anything worse than being a human being. I encourage you to continue being one.

To those who are grateful for me, I am most grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Click here for sales!

Just bumping the sales post a little. Still lots of bottles and decants available.
(Note-there may be a delay in sending some things or replying to posts as I am currently a little bit sick, some kind of winter cold thingy, it's not nice!)

I also have some bottles up on Ebay which end on Monday, including Pumpkin IV from 2008, Harikata, All Souls 07 and more.

Prices lowered!!! Gluhwein!!

Thanks for taking a peek :)

After Brad DeLong pointed to John Keegan's public statements on David Irving, I decided to go read Richard J. Evans's Lying About Hitler, which analyzes Irving's written and spoken work in pitiless detail. I heartily recommend it, both to those interested in how historians actually work and to those who enjoy knife fights.

Briefly, in 1993 Deborah Lipstadt wrote Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, an early book about Holocaust deniers; she called out Irving as one such. In 1998 Irving sued Lipstadt, and her British publisher Penguin, for defamation; he offered to settle with Penguin for 500 pounds and the withdrawal and pulping of the book, while making it clear that he would not withdraw his case against Lipstadt. Penguin, bravely, refused these terms.

The defamation lawsuit of 1998 was Irving's attempt to suppress academic speech: he wanted to force a fellow historian to withdraw her work of history. This point is important because various historians, including Keegan, described the suit as Lipstadt's attempt to suppress Irving's writing, 180 degrees from what actually happened. Lipstadt merely defended herself against Irving; given the constraints of defamation law, she was required to do so by proving Irving to be what she had called him.

After you've read Evans's withering dissection of Irving's research methods, you cannot call Irving a historian; he is at most a controversialist. Irving has a habit of citing only half of important statements [1], of misquoting and mistranslating statements that go against his thesis [2], of ignoring evidence that contradicts him [3], and of misinterpreting context-bound statements as if they applied outside their contexts [4]. After the close of the trial, Irving's reputation as a historian was completely, and appropriately, destroyed.


John Keegan was forced, against his will, to testify for Irving. After the trial concluded, he wrote his take on the proceedings for the Daily Telegraph. Unfortunately, the only online copy of Keegan's article is on Irving's own site; given Irving's habit of eliding text inconvenient to his purpose, this text may well be incomplete. I link to the Google cache for the article.  In this article, Keegan says:
Keegan provides no explanation of why Lipstadt was unreliable on Irving or any other subject. By contrast, Irving's historical work had been under attack by many reputable scholars  since the publication, in 1977, of Hitler's War, which Keegan had called "Irving's greatest achievement... indispensable to anyone seeking to the understand the war in the round". Keegan's fellow-Englishman, Hugh Trevor-Roper, called out one of the linchpins of Irving's argument as self-contradictory. "[He] commented about Irving's claim that Hitler was unaware of the mass murders of Jews carried out by the SS while at the same time intervening to save Jewish lives that: 'One does not veto an action unless one thinks that it is otherwise likely to occur' " Many of the scholarly arguments cited in the Wikipedia article to which I link came up again in the Irving trial. (Much of what I've said here is cited to Wikipedia, simply because Wikipedia is open-source and Dr. Evans's gripping book is not; I've verified much of it, including the four earlier citations, in Evans.)

Keegan "suddenly realized" a position Irving had been stating in print since 1977, a position to which Irving had devoted several books, one of which Keegan had reviewed.

The trial, to which Keegan claims he paid attention, made it clear that Irving's "all-consuming knowledge" was in fact based on ignoring and distorting information inconvenient to him. You cannot accurately call a man an archivist when his business is to misrepresent the data he catalogs.

Here's the crux. All of the proof that Irving in fact distorted the facts, consistently, and based his distorted reasoning on these distorted facts, has sailed right over Keegan's head. Keegan claims that Irving's only fault is in the conclusions he drew from the facts, and refers to his letting his "youthful resentments" bubble up.  (At the time of the trial, Irving was 58, Keegan a mature 64.)  More to the point, there was ample evidence presented at the trial that Irving believed exactly what he said, and had said it repeatedly, both in public and in private.

Here's Keegan's conclusion.

Deborah Lipstadt, the woman whom Keegan sued in order to silence, is dull. Nobody wants to read her. Keegan is interesting, and if he only learns from this case [learns what? This was a man of 58 who had been denying Hitler's knowledge of the Holocaust since 1977, and the Holocaust itself since the late 1980s], will continue to be worthy of attention.

This essay is shameful. I have no idea why Keegan preferred Irving, a man who made grave, repeated, and deliberate historical errors to which Keegan himself admits ("That did not imply endorsement of Irving's view that Hitler did not "know" about the Holocaust until October 1943. That view was "perverse", I said."), to Deborah Lipstadt, unlike Irving a trained and experienced historian who submitted her work to peer review. It is clear that Keegan did prefer Irving, and continued to do so after the evidence proved him to have backed the wrong horse.

Keegan should be ashamed of himself.

Note: Do not even consider debating  the historical fact of Hitler's murders of Jews, Slavs, Communists, and other 'undesirables' here. This entry was originally posted at http://jonquil.dreamwidth.org/902427.html. comment(s) on that entry.

Apparently my favorite Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers number, from Carefree, has gotten the chop, so I can't repost it here and talk about why Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers remain one of my favorite screen pairs of all time. (Hint: because they are awesome.)

Also, good news: the movie was slightly better than I remembered, because at least Fred wasn't the guy who clocked Ginger. (The rest of the movie makes no sense. Never has, never will. There is a whole song about yams! There's nowhere you can go from there!)

Instead, I will show you this awesome miniature clip-show of them set to Cake's "Love You Madly," which gives the casual passerby a sense of what they could do together (hint: ANYTHING THEY WANTED, THEY WERE AWESOME).




ETA: This is on my mind because the Turner Classic Movies channel is having a Fred and Ginger marathon today, for anyone in the US who feels like tuning in and enjoying!

Just a friendly swaps and sales post. Here are the basics:

• BPAL, Nocturne Alchemy, Conjure Oils, Pixie Potions and a few tidbits from other e-tailers!


• UK to anywhere.


• Goodies with every delivery. :)


• Buy 5 for the price of 4!

All available through my journal, I Still Honour My Art. Thank you!

*there is free shipping on all orders of $32 or more!!! shipping is $3 in u.s. (w/ d/c) or $4 international and i include frimps. please make note on the payment of what you have ordered. please spend atleast $10 not including shipping.

freebie bottles (1 bottle per customer must spend atleast $18 pre ship)
sassy autumn/november roll-on 5.5ml from fourseasonsfragrance.com -sugary lemon and bergamot, orange, raspberry and sweet toffee-caramel which swirl into a drydown of silky sweet vanilla musk.
heaven and earth essentials: red velvet - 70% full Red Velvet Cake FO, Sandalwood FO, Amber FO, and Buttercream FO
starring fragrances 15ml eau de parfum spray bottles: tuitty fruity holiday swirl - tuitty fruity berries and a swirl of gingerbread
the romatic - fluffy white marshmallows, white cake and a dash of gooey toasted marshmallows
velvet moon bathery (this place has closed up)full size roll-ons in:
belladonna and forbidden

**all bpal bottles 1/2 - full take $2 off and all less than 1/2 take $1 off**
BOTTLES: FULL
hellboy bottles:
trevor bruttenholm - $18
abe sapien - $18
plague of frogs - $18
MORE BOTTLES...
AF6 proto - shoulder $22
berry moon x2 - shoulder $12.50 each
black moon 2006 - 75% full $12.50
ebisu making love as two octopuses look on - above label/under shoulder $17
ivanushka - minus 1 decant $14.50
l'estate - 80% full (minus 1ml) $23
lotus moon (very pertty label)- minus half an imp $12.50
machu picchu - (aged) cobalt bottle under shoulder/above label $9.50
penitent magdalen (salon) - top of label minus 1ml $14.50
pph21 (proto) - 90% full just above label top $20
raven moon - shoulder $18
snow glass apples - two imps worth $8.50
toxin - (label says vintage) shoulder $24
unheavenly city (convergence) - (back up) shoulder $22
chaos bottles! $10 each
strange attractors III:
dcv: fruits flowers & a lil soap leads to a nice drydown
edge of chaos IV:
MCCXXIV: starts off as lemon cookie and then morphs completely on me... then nothing i can really identify sorry :(
cccv: is that cola? sweet with fruits and flowers into neck sounds strange but the drydown is pretty nice

bpal misc:
l'autunno atmospheric 4oz. - $14 **if you buy this you also get villa diodati proto squirt (about 75% full) and a smaller full 2ml squirt of snow white atmos. free**

DECANTS: **buy 4 get the 5th free on all decants**
hearth 2004 (the hard to find leather/cherry tobacco one) $6
pl81 proto - $6
snake charmer res. x2 both 2008 $5 each or both for $9
wkap joyeux noel - 95% $4
wkap conservatory tableaux - $4
death of autumn - $3.25
smoky moon - 95% $3.25
litha 2009 x2 - 85% $2.50 & 98% $3 or both for $5
swan maiden 85% - $3
F5 - 85% $2.75
tamamo-no-mae 65% $2.25

1ml decants i have/had multiples of:

gluhwein - x2 $6.75
bat of wealth - $6.75 x2
trick #2 - $5.75 x3
trick #1 - $5 x3
violens - $3.75 x4
kroenen - $3.75 x3
dog days of summer - $3.75 x3
perilous parlour - $3.50 x1
coxcomb - $3.50 x1
pancake breakfast - $3.50 x1
norn's farmhouse - $3.50 x1
the emathides - $3.25 x3
ctv dorian - dorian and maple syrup yummo!!! - $3.25 x2
man w/ phallus head - $3.25 x4
dark chocolate cherry $3 x3
faiza - $3 x2
marotte - $3 x3

~arcana~ **both for $15**
philtre : adoration - into neck $8
each to each (htf) : into neck $9

misc. bottles $6.50 each or **any 3 for $18 or all 8 for $41 shipped!**
~possets~ inez (kitty)- into neck
perpetual motion machine - into neck
the persion melon - shoulder
~violette market~ mr. fezziwig - into neck
~cobalt blends~ drifting orb 85-90% full
~nocturne alchemy~ christmas in aswan - into neck
3 seasons of egypt shomu - into neck
~good judy~ lainey - neck

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Blonde: So what is this drink anyway?
Creepy guy: A roofie-coolada. (sinister snicker)
Blonde: Oh. Okay! (laughs)

--Virgil's, W 44th St

Man-made-up global warming.

“Obama pardoned the presidential turkey today. That was appropriate. I don’t think, however, that he should have bowed to the turkey.”

Feeling much better this morning, and off in a few minutes to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family.

(I am once again relying on TIVO to record the Giants - Broncos contest tonight, so no commentary about it here, please. I probably won't watch it until tomorrow).

I have a lot to be thankful for. My readers, my friends, and most of all Parris.

I hope all you reading this are similarly blessed.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Harvest festivals resonate strongly for me: the tradition of feasting well and making merry once the last of the preparations have been made for winter. The sense of building up a blaze of joy and thanks to carry us through a long night. The celebration that comes at the end of long work and preparation, the moment when you feel secure you've done what you can to shore up against what is to come.

The moments when you count your blessings and are thankful for everyone.

I am so thankful to my family: just for being themselves, but also for the support they've given Andy and me over the past year, whether a shoulder to lean on or a way to pay our bills. I am especially thankful to my mom for planning my wedding so well, to my Poppy for always being a kind and strong support, to my dad for always giving me whatever help he could. I also give thanks for my wacky, complex, beloved brothers who enrich my life with theirs.

I am so thankful to my friends: just for being themselves, but also for their remarkable talents and generosity. As always, I offer especial thanks to my dear cadhla, copperwise, crowley, void_dragon, and worshipper. These wonderful, amazing people are so often the building blocks of my sanity and heart-health. My life would be diminished without each of them.

I am so thankful to every one of you who helped me by supporting my cyber-funded projects or commissioning something from me to keep Andy and I afloat this summer. Your generosity literally means the world to us. I know that graduate school has prevented me from fulfilling some of my obligations to you, but I will. I most certainly will.

I am grateful to be in graduate school, pursuing my academic dreams. I am grateful to have been published in this past year. I am grateful that both my husband and myself are employed. I am grateful we have two beautiful, mostly healthy cats. I am grateful for all of this and so much more.

Most of all, I am grateful for my husband Andrew. He has been one of my best friends for thirteen years: we've been through transcendent joys and sorrows deep as the abyss. We've quarreled terribly, stopped talking to each other several times, written mad poetry to each other, and loved without caution.

And that was all before we married.

He has been a part of my life for nearly half my years on this Earth - I am so ridiculously grateful to look forward to that proportion changing, until I can tell our future children that more of our lives have been lived together than apart. He is my starfall knight, my welcome wolf at the door, my comfort beyond question.

(I love you, Andy, my darling.)

So, yes. Be grateful for all you have today, everyone! Let gratitude and light and love lead you through the months to come.

For those of you wondering, I have arrived safely in Minnesota. It is cold. And there was a moose.

Amongst all the other wonderful things I am grateful for this year, I am grateful to Amber and Mitch, our dear friends from St. Louis who surprised us at a show in Indianapolis earlier this month. This video demonstrates only a tiny example of how awesome they are, and how happy they've made me.

Dreadful time to do a sale - I forgot how fast the time of year creeps up on us!

Sale contains Prototypes from Cobwebs II and III, a bunch of LEs and a few GC - bottles and imps.

( the slow selling of as much of my collection as I can bear to let go! )

Paypal only. Postage will be from Australia. I'm not really interested in swaps, unless you're going to the Trunk Show this weekend, or you've got Parker Lily.

really bad time for a sale, but sale! (reposted with the correct price caps!)

WKAP floather (minus one imp) - $16
WKAP leaf strewn couch (minus one and a half imps) - $15
morpho (1-2 imps in bottle) - $8
Gemini - $15
couple consulting an enpon - $22
lovers in a ricefield - $22
man with phallus head (1/2 bottle) - $12
man with phallus head - $25
giant vulva - $25
WKAP blackberry jam and scones (around 3 imps in bottle, but the label is entirely stained) - $12
a fit of artistic enthusiasm (minus 1 imp) - $16
coxcomb (1-2 imps in bottle) - $5
WKAP conservatory tableux (one imp in bottle, this arrived with a label that's damaged) - $5
lilith and the jarocho (1-2 imps in bottle) - $5
jingu (1-2 imps in bottle but the label was stained from shipment) - $5
sekhmet v5 - $26
rubedo v4 - $26
nigredo v7 - $26

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Raffle is for rares like MB Underpants, Voodoo Queen, Skadi, Ice Queen, Lughnsasad, F54, and Jingo-Kogo!

Sale contains Prototypes from Cobwebs II and III, and rares (like Leiprechan, Fruitcake, and Anaconda)!

Paypal only. Postage will be from Australia. I'm not really interested in swaps, unless you're going to the Trunk Show this weekend, or you've got Parker Lily.

Sale post is here@my LJ!

I'm feeling thankful for all kinds of small things, and, as it happens, I've got a lot of spare small things that I'm not using.

I have four imp/decant six-packs to give away, each is half GC and half-LE -- I'll ship them anywhere to anyone (though I admit I'd prefer to gift them to newbies), but you have to tell me at least two things you're really thankful for today.

Me? I'm thankful for a lot of things. :)

EDIT: First four mixed packs are done -- but I have discovered another four packs lurking in my (theoretical) swap box. These ones are all GC, though some are unimpables (Gaimans, Salons). Keep being thankful! ^___^

Edit: One left. :)

Thanks for participating, you guys. <3 Much love for the BPAL community and all the joy it has brought me over the last two years~!