Friday, January 25, 2008

it hasn't even started yet!


I just heard the big news about blunty3000. if you don't know, i ain't gonna tell ya!

So I've been a bit busy making jewellery for a friend's wedding lately. I've already posted the pic above on deviantart, as well as more detailed pics of the crown itself.

And before I was even finished making all this (and before they've even announced it!) I've started my plans for this years Swarovski Crystal Park design competition. You remember last year: the corset, the coronet, the full set of india jewellery and about half a dozen other cute little things that blew my budget out of the water. Oh yeah, and me bugging you to vote for my stuff in the people's choice section of the competition. Well, this year is gonna be different. cos I'm only submitting one piece. And its so left field they won't make me the winner. I'll be lucky to be a finalist. But dammit this is a good idea and I REALLY wanna make it! What is it you ask? probably not. why should you care?

You'll find out in the next couple of months as it gets put together anyway, and once again i start begging for votes!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

expanding my profile!

ok, so i'm trying to raise my profile a little because i make some noice stuff and put it on etsy.com and a lotta people look, but nobody buys, so i've signed up to facebook. I tried myspace, but it was doing something weird when i tried to sign up, so i'm not happy with it. Anyway, this blog will be streamed through to my new facebook.com profile which is here!

Thursday, January 17, 2008

flowergirl incubation

that's right! my stormy is spawning a girl! yay! i claim flowergirl dibs! unless raedella needs her first of course, godmothers rights and all. oh yeah and the fact that she's more likely to become a missus loooong before i am!

So congrats to storm and dukayn, and let me know if you need help with anything for the spare room this weekend, although i'll warn you i've never painted a wall all one colour before! *wonders if a mural in the baby's room is an acceptable babyshower gift*

In other me news (cos my friend having a kid is all about me of course), i've just enrolled for the jewellery making course and am just finishing organising my new work roster and a weeks holidays before the start of term on 18th feb (3 days before my birthday which is, unfortunately, going to be the first day back in the meatroom on my new roster!). My ghenkis has expressed his concerns over the fact that i will be at tafe 3 days a week and at work 4 days a week, not allowing me any time off. I'm not sure if his concerns are so much over my stress levels or the fact that i'm going to take them out on him! To tell the truth i'm not really worried about it too much. I mean when the school holidays come along i'll have 3 days a week off and even when i am in class, i'm doing something i really want to do, i get to learn new things and be creative all day, for 3 days out of a week. after the last 6 months or more of working where i am, getting up at 6am to go to work for 8 hours then going home again, even the fact that i don't have to start at tafe until 9am is going to be a novelty (for the first couple of weeks anyway!) Anyway, we'll see how it goes. there are other people at the supermarket who came forward to take my job when they heard i might be going back to uni full-time and leave the place altogether, so i'm not so worried about cutting back my work hours if i need to. I'm just not ready to let go of a full-time income just yet!

There's also the fact that the money i make can be saved up if i don't have the time to go anywhere (although having to drive across town and back every single day is going to increase my petrol costs). I'm planning to have quite a bit saved by the end of the year, my tax return included, to start working on an internet-based business. this is something that has been on my mind for years, and has fluctuated in size from a market stall to a mansion! I think managing a website while i'm studying either the second year of a jewellery-making diploma, or even doing a jewellers apprenticeship next year, will be enough of a challenge!

take care groovers!

Friday, January 11, 2008

whats in a name?

Your fairy is called Moth Cornglimmer
She is a creator of bounty and harvest.
She lives close to crystal caverns and stalagtite grottos.
She is only seen when the sun sets on the day of a completed harvest.
She collects crystals to wear on her dresses. She has butterfly wings the colour of yellow corn.


My vampire name:
The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
Magdalene Darling
Known in some parts of the world as:
Bast of The Horned One (double-ew tee eff is a Bast?!)
The Great Archives Record:
Sworn to one more ancient than the devil.

So ok, i'm a little bored. its hard to play guild wars and eat pizza at the same time!
um, so, yeah. I think new years and christmas and stuff have happened since i last blogged. it was all good. had to work through most of it, but yay for overtime pay on public holidays. Blunty3000 (close personal friend, people! I should be famous by association!) came to town and we got drunk with another one of our dear friends Murray the Music Man (read: will busk for beer) who should be a daddy in the coming weeks, if he's not already. I do tend to be out of the loop on these things. Anyway, was a good night, and awesome to see my Blunty again for the first time in ages!

And now i am full of pizza and it is time to pwn some Am Fa and Jade Brotherhood noobs. or something.