It is with great regret and incredible amounts of frustration that I am going to tell you this: There won't be holiday cards this year, not even late ones. Distractions, commissions, show-applications due, computer death, and general year-long burnout all contributed to this-not that these are an excuse but that there are reasons why I would look ( Read more... )

So. Apparently all of my best ideas come from novelty postcards bought at museums.


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I have been wandering about the internet tonight, trying to get my enthusiasm back for paper craft. And I . . . think I may have done it? I have an overwhelming urge to draw articulated paper puppets at any rate, which counts for something. (Regrettably, articulated paper puppets may have to wait another year ( Read more... )

A splendiferous package arrived on Saturday - custom handspun from gnomegarden.etsy.com!


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Look, let's not even. Just. I-. Life's been busy. Atrociously so. Here is a card. It is for a holiday. Let us pretend that holiday is today. We shall speak no more of my complete lack of timing.


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For a multitude of reasons, this year's [Generic Winter Holiday] cards are unavoidably going to be um. New Years-ish, at the earliest. But it is heartening to know that you can still sign up to get one. Consider it my Solstice gift to you.

dreamwidth | livejournalThey are fortified with extra nerdiness this year ( Read more... )

Also, it must be time for the . . .

Fifth!

Annual!

Genuine & Authorized!

Von Strangehours!

[Generic Winter Holiday] Post!

Signups!

Exclamation!The phrasing remains unimproved upon, so let's just call this a tradition and be done with it ok? (Also, cut-n-paste is easier at three-forty in the morning than coming up something pithy and original ( Read more... )

USPS, I am so sorry to break it to you like this but-

I've got to be honest with you. The staff at the New River Gorge visitors' center have made quite an impression, you see, and . . . You're no longer my favorite government agency; the National Parks Service is ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, a wee little package* showed up on the doorstep. It was belated birthday Polaroid goodness, courtesy of [Bad username: nonsequitania.livejournal.com], thank you! Exciting! Not just exciting but meta-exciting; clearly I must take pictures of it.


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