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TODAY...no dolly piccies.

We have for your viewing pleausure: images of parrot tulips, in all their twisted glory :3

These guys really presented a problem, because they have a natural, waxy surface that reflects light in an odd fashion or appears grey before they completely unfurled...so I had to wait a day and go back when they'd opened u a bit more.

While I genuinely find pleasure in the streamlined angles of a regular tulip, after a while they all look the same. On the other hand, the parrot variety presents an endless parade of contours and shadows in which not only do the colour break but the petals do as well, feathering and curling in individually unique directions ~ they are rather like the anti-tulip tulip >D


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I present you with some of what you used to expect from me ~ FLORAL PORTRAITS!

I'm being kind to your journals and using a lj-cut AND just a pale little bud. Click below for some retina burning orange XD

T.G.I.F and all that folks! It's a fullmoon so keep your powder dry and your wits about you ...and above all, no matter what happens just count to ten and let it slide. ;)


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Yep. It's offical...well more official than it has been up to this point.

My first doll of the ball-jointed kind arrived the same day that my mother did, just prior to my leaving for SF. ARGH!!! At least she didn't have to sign for it but still...that meant spiriting the unopened box to a dark corner and waiting a week till I was back and she was gone to open it. Hard to believe I'm 43 and hiding toys that have nothing to do with smex! >D

I don't even want to contemplate her reaction to him...or any of the *cough* others. Teh Bob seems bemused with this new obsession and the girls sardonic but slightly creeped out by it *snort*...ANYway...yeah...I won't bore you with the details beyond the fact that it's been fascinating to unbox the first doll because I really had no idea how I'd react to him.

I teared-up. Seriously...I did not see that reaction coming. He was nothing at ALL what I was expecting but as I mentioned to another bjd-owner...he is 1000 kinds of wonderful. The texture of his limbs? Smooth as satin (blew my mind away that did). Dismiss them all you want but don't look to closely at them, because I really don't think you can be totally immune and once you spot *the one*...you ~ are ~ doomed.

The following are just a few images I managed to snag today when the sun finally came out. I wanted to capture his skin colour and face-up without a flash. Now I've got to choose a fabric to make a kimono out of that compliments his colouring :)

I still have to change his eyes...I have dark ebony ones for him. These glowing red, demonic coals are not quite doing it for me...but I'll get to that later.

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CDs of photos are burned off and checked.

I've written a form letter to include with them and if I have time might add a little something personalized at the bottom but seriously I'm drowning in crap around here and real life isn't just knocking at the door, it's threatening to break the darned thing down.

For our Japanese translator, Junko I will take the time and print up my favorite photo or few of her. While I am confident that her computer is capable of reading the disc, I think it would be a nice *thank-you* to send along a few images she can handle.

I then have to decide on what photos to re-shop n crop for printing purposes myself ~ ones that will be printed up and given as *gifts* to my son's two school teachers ~ he has one for half the day in English and the other for half the day in French.

And THEN....I can burn off the images from my hard drive to disc (or few. Housecleaning in the micro level so to speak.

CLICK on the piccie for a larger image.

larian asked for a view of my front hall when you walk in...this was a bit of a problem due to the glare from the flash (it was fuzzy without one....little sunlight today). But....here it is.


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Currently I am very happy with my freshly cleaned pc area. All nice, neat and dusted for the New year ~ with a fresh calendar. Everything sorted and in it's place ....for a day or two. Just click on the image for a larger one if interested.

I've done this in the past ~ asking people to show me theirs, but iron_dog did a one it one better recently for her flist and I liked the idea.

If you are curious about my surroundings and/or things in my life ~ feel free to ask me to take a photo of it and I will post it here.

Okay ~ I'm all ears. Anyone game?

I was just finishing up with my emails and commenting to Tam about the temperatures going up and snow melting....and I thought to give a glance to the awing over the back door. When the snow starts melting we get icicles on the roof that melt onto the awning and make new ones there ~ and these looked cool.

I grabbed the camera and stepped out the door to snap a few pictures. It's overcast with very little light...these would be dim pictures at best....and I was dodging droplets of icy water as I tried to get a few images without getting water on the lense ~ all the while wondering how long these things would last.

I turned, went inside and slid the door shut with a thud. Five steps to the pc, and plug the flash card in....and sooner had I started uploading the images when there was a rumble-slide-thud. The ice was gone from the overhanging. Good timing or what?

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I NEED to get to the gym.

I'm hopeful that the sprog will go with Teh Man somewhere today so I can actually go and lift some weights or I think I am going to go crazy.

One thing I hate about the Christmas holidays is the completely fubar schedule ~ and that's without throwing anything else into the mix. (and Goddess knows there are monkey wrenches being dropped like bread crumbs around this place lately)

I have things to do ~ LOTS of things ~ but I get bogged down with minor nits and then the doldrums of inaction start to work on my brain. Monday can't come soon enough for me. Then the household is emptied of family and I can get back into a routine that makes sense to my brain and body.

I have managed to post half of the cards and actually got a package out in the mail to Xan too. That only took 4 MONTHS *head desk* ~ but this is an accomplishment and I will wrap myself up in that silver lining or die trying.

In the next two days my goal is simply to get the rest of the cards and another package posted AND the Xmas decorations taken down and packed away (no one is volunteering to help with that I've noticed...in fact, anyone who could is making themselves incredibly scarce lately) ~ then I really REALLY need to do a bit of pencil drawing ~ I'm getting itchy for it. I can't decide on what...a sultry Captain Jack Harkness or just a merman or an angel but DAMN IT I want to draw! But I dare not start another project before I finish this card business. Then I am free to sit down for a day and scratch at a piece of paper.... and then back to the curtains and *glances at piles of reptilian fabric*....riiiiight....those other projects that need to be sewn together within a month for a birthday party.

It's all good. *nods to self*.

*stretches and listens to shoulder blades snaping n cracking*.... It will be better if I can get to the gym.

....and I'm throwing out the rest of that cookie dough. I think I've eaten 2/3rds of it (as predicted) and need to remove it from my life.

**EDIT: NO. I'm not getting to the gym today. Teh Man will be out all day, as will the teens so I'm parent on duty for the sprog. I hurt so much I could cry from lack of working out...fine. Can't be helped. Xmas tree comes down first ~ hauling shite up and down 2 flights of stairs with 90 degree turns will be the exercise. *pouts*

He DID go to the market and brought me flowers and a dozen apple fritters. (.__(.

Makes it really hard to be annoyed with him.

*munches on sugar rolled, deep fried appley goodness*

...my heart is warmed by his gesture. My ass though...is not impressed. >__<

*WAILS* MONDAY WHERE ART THOU!!!???

....*totally ignoring common sense which is screaming like a banshee in her head & proceeds to stuff 2nd fritter into mouth*

Anyway....I forgot to share these. When it's cold my windows get all furry and very cool with ice:

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