Going on an unresearched impression garnered from manga and anime, it seems that in Japan gifts are more highly thought of if handmade by the giver. Here in postmodern America it seems to be the opposite (the direct recipients of the following excepted), so as one with a very limited income whose outgoing love language is gifts, I try very hard to ( Read more... )

It's Lent, and that's no time for sweets! Which makes me want them more and linger over polymer clay dessert jewelry on Etsy. So while we await Easter, here are some sweets and fake sweets I made that are much more suitable for other seasons:


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This was my coord for Easter Vigil this year:


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Happy Easter! It's the Easter season until Pentecost. Here are pysanky I've made over the past few years, slowly improving little by little.

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Merry Christmas! Here are a few Christmas tidbits:


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I wanted a better way to store my brooches than a jewelry box where they'd jostle on top of each other and get scratched. So I took these cheap plastic picture frames:


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