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Was there a significant event in your life that helped define who you and caused you to re-evaluate your priorities?

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2 actually.

My house burning down when I was 18.
Which taught me the impermanence of posessions, and that in the end, that idea you have of privacy is pretty much an illusion in such cases. Which even if your house doesn't burn down and you then have random strangers going through your stuff to chuck or clean it, still happens when you die. The world picks up your skirt, while exclaiming 'peekaboo' and is not kind about what they see.

Along with the lesson that: In the end, don't anticipate someone helping you, because often, when you need it, no one is there to you help you but yourself. Case in point my calling for help into the dark cold night while I struggled to haul my cat and grandmother up a hill away from my house while barefoot at 4 am on a cold February morning.
Always be prepared.

The second, and more recent, has been my nervous breakdown.

Which has led me to reassess many aspects of my life.

I am currently working on de-cluttering and simplifying my life to aid with stress reduction. Along with other behavior modifications to keep such things from happening in the future.
And of course the resultant integration of medication and therapy, two things I had vehemently sworn against up until then.

~I know it may be tempting, but please keep any peanut gallery suggestions or questions to yourself, as I neither feel like answering 'so how crazy were yah?' nor care about your personal anti-psychopharmachology rhetoric.~

Life changing events do happen, usually unexpectedly.
And they will change in some aspect how you interact with the world.
The main thing is: it's up to you how you handle it.
To quote Johnny Blaze in "Ghostrider"
"I'm trying to see if I can make a positive out of a negative."
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A huge thank you goes out to Mrs. [info]sasha_bee for giving me a coupon towards an actual paid LJ account!

Anticipate lots of new and unusual icons and quizes in the new year!

Yay!

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What’s your favorite movie quote of all time?

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"You mean the movie lied?!?"

Tied with

"It's not a bad question Burt."

And

"You think this is a costume? It's a way of Li-fe."

All from:

Return of the Living Dead
1985
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Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children? Do you think this ostracizes people who would be perfectly content to remain single and/or child-free? Is this pressure worse around the holidays?


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I don't know if society exerts too much pressure about these things, but it is there.
It's a biological drive, so I can understand.
Even if the planet is overpopulated.

And we are in essence a group animal. So herd mentality rules.
Once you place yourself outside the norm (remaining single, unmarried, same sex pairing, childless)that leaves you open for attack. Many times from the herd itself in the attempts to make you conform.

The holidays are just a time when the herd is in full force.

Where we are subjected to an endless barrage containing the message that we must have a huge family, with the 1.5 kids and obligatory partner. To drink eggnog and shit mistletoe with; while listening to a modernized version of a seasonally appropriate song that makes our ears bleed.
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I thought I'd share this informative little email I got through my subscription to The Art of Manliness's email newsletter

While it is male oriented, I figured this was info both the sexes could appreciate. Since we all have goals we want to achieve which often conflict with habits we already have.

So, without further ado....

Forging Habits of Steel: 7 Tips on Making and Breaking Habits )

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What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit?


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Whaaa?
Book banning? Really?

Is the country swinging that far backwards that this is a idea anyone other than zealots entertain?

Besides that, isn't this notion fairly antiquated? Since 'teenagers' have access to the entire internet which contains a plethora of material that could be deemed immoral, inappropriate, indecent, and most importantly, factually incorrect.

Read "Fahrenheit 451", I think it sums up the motivations and repercussions of such censorship quite nicely.
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The winter lines are making their way into the redesigned dress-better site.

Starting with some necklaces

~1 of 4. Cast resin rose heart pendant, on a hand wired bead chain. 32" long.~

More on the way!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!
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Just a few )

I'll see if I can hunt down a few more as I know I was asked to pose for a few photos over the course of the weekend, and got snapped a couple times while crossing from here to there on the main floors.
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Don't forget, House of Krypilo will have a stall? Booth? Nook? in the dealer's room at the upcoming Mile-Hi Convention
We've been working for months on merch specifically for this event!

Running this weekend
Fri, Oct 23-Sun the 25th.

~Go to the website for details on the where, how much, and whats.....~

See you there!

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Freshly canned prickly pear and black currant jellies.



Prickly pears right after picking, being given a thorough inspection by QC.
Fortunately they passed...


~In nature. Yeah those red things are edible! So are the paddles, but I prefer buying those from my local Latin market as they're bigger, and I don't have to mess with those nasty spines.~

Auntie Eva's tips for working with fresh prickly pear fruit:

A bucket, tongs, and leather (or heavy rubber gloves), and heavy bottomed shoes are necessary for picking.

The gloves to absorb most of the teenie weenie spines on them. I recommend a cheapie pair from the dollar store as mine were so filled with the little buggers I just tossed em. Plus they were pretty ratty to begin with. I still spent time picking near invisible spines out of the sides of my fingers, so be warned some will get through.

Tongs not for picking so much, but to pick up picked fruits out from a wad of thorns that they will inevitably fall into. The easiest way to pick them is to grasp the fruit, give it a twist and gently pull. The darker red-purple the easier it will be to pluck the fruit off.
Remember the rule of mamma nature: Never pick from anything that has less than 4 fruit, and don't pick all of them. I leave at least one per plant.

The bucket to put your prickly prizes into. The bucket is plastic and hence you won't have to worry about a bag slapping against your leg and all the prickers getting lodged on you or any other surface you put them on.

Heavy bottomed shoes, because well, you'll be messing around in patches of cactus. Those stickers are heavy, sharp, and want to be in your foot. Keep a vigilant eye on where you step at all times. Despite being super careful where I stepped I still had a long needle like tooth that got lodged into the side of my sneaker's rubber by a good half inch. Respect the cactus. It's not a people plant, which is why its got all those spines. Keep your contact to a minimum.

For removing the teenie prickers off the fruits themselves I read several methods on the internet. I tried them all.
Here's what I got:

Burning them off. Are you kidding? Do you know how many spines are on each fruit, and how many fruits I had?

Swishing in water, uh, they get rained on all the time. Why would your tap water be different for removing them? (I tried anyway just in case. No)

I ended up using an old piece of canvas (washcloth size is fine) that I later threw out, and while wearing thick dishwashing gloves rubbing all the small 'poufs' off the surface of the fruits, then dumping them in another bucket of water to rinse off any leftover stuff before handling them.

I did all this in my tub because it gave me the proper room for two buckets and me messing between them, and afterwards I just ran the shower for a moment to rinse any prickers out.
Worked well as I had no cross contamination of those teenie little prickers anywhere in my house.

One last tip:
Have duct tape handy. Because even with eagle eye vision you will still have a few spines stuck in you that will pinch when you brush against something. But you can't for the life of you locate to pull out.
Applying a strip of duct tape to the area and quickly pulling it off will usually remove said pest from your tender dermis.
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Krikey, now that's a long subject header, isn't it?

In celebration of Mabon/ the autumn equinox I present:

Embroidered leaf coaster tute )

Happy Fall!

Current Music:
The medieval babes-isabella
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How could the way we eat improve in the future?

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Convert all our food sources to Soylent green.


It just solves so many problems all at once.
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For you

Just one of the new fall lines.....

Available in both the Ebay store

And the Dress-better store.

And of course, Samples rack Fridays are still going on at ye olde Ebay shoppe.
Sign up for our store newsletter to get email notification of our weekly Samples auctions!

More on the way!

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One of my pieces has been included in an Etsy treasury

Treasury expires Fri!

This reminds me: I really need to unpack, photo, and list more of my works......

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