I just got thirty-four POUNDS of beads.

(Okay, a few of those pounds were packing materials and tools. But mostly beads.)

There was not enough room on my workbench to unpack all of them at once. I've been unpacking and sorting and putting them away for over an hour, and I've only gotten through maybe a quarter of the shipment.

I just realized that I'm going to have a frighteningly large pile of BPAL waiting for me in Florida. Something like... ten bottles, maybe?

*does the happy perfume dance*

Eeeeeeeeee tattoo SHINY!

Tanya is currently emailing me the second round of sketches for my tattoo, and it is so much more gorgeous than I expected. So many flowers! And two fairies! And shiny and pretty and SQUEE!

*dancedancedance*

Shiny!

Also, mine. *glee*

*glee* I just won an eBay auction for 100 bath bombs.

For the whopping sum of $52.

And they're supposed to be every bit as good as the Lush bath bombs, if not better -- but for less than a dollar each, even with shipping. Also? Three hundred and fifty different scents.If I go missing in a week or so, check the bathtub ( Read more... )

I have chocolate-flavoured lipbalm. Scharffen Berger chocolate-flavoured lipbalm, to be precise ( Read more... )

There are three artists all of you need to know about. I strongly suggest that you buy things from them, because their prices are reasonable and their work is lovely and everyone needs some original artwork on their walls. Not to mention that supporting independent artists is a very good thing to do.

Erin McCauley does some really gorgeous ( Read more... )

*dancedancedance* Our flights are booked, our rental car is booked, and we splurged a bit on an absolutely gorgeous room at a really beautiful and luxurious B&B in the Garden District. Given that that we've taken exactly two vacations in the five years we've been together -- both of them weekend trips to inexpensive places very close to home -- ( Read more... )

*glee* I just got a giant bag of books. Seventeen of them, to be precise, for the whopping sum of $1.70. Bless the NYPL and their ongoing booksales at the branch libraries. I usually snag one or two good things from there every time I go to the library, but today I hit the SF/F jackpot ( Read more... )

Day Two of the transit strike. I'm not going to go into the politics of it, because I'm either going to piss people off or be preaching to the choir, depending on which side of it you're on, and ... yeah. Don't need to go there. I'm tired of hearing about it, frankly, and I've done all the ranting I care to do already, so ( Read more... )