Better, and still busy.

[merimask]

 Well, stuff is slightly happier in the house.  It's funny how teen angst just blows away like dandelion fluff.  Wait 24 hours & most things seem to resolve themselves, affirming my thinking that most teen woe is way overblown.  

Meanwhile, still working like a crazed christmas elf.  I finished these last night.   Copper & Black dragon heads...

& yep, they're up on Etsy already, of course.  I'm experimenting with the eyes; usually I use green but I just kept picking up the bag of turquoise glass beads...I couldn't resist.  What IS it with me & turquoise/brown combinations this year?   I've always liked it but I'm totally drawn to it these days.  It's becoming my "thing".  *shrug*

lol...last night I was saying how much I want/need an i-Pod Nano (I'm using a first gen Shuffle...it holds about half the songs on my list plus it is getting old & quirky).
Greg:  "What color do you want?"
Me:  "I dunno...aqua?  The red one?"
Greg:  "And what if you've been naughty?"
Me:  "Santa can give me a coal-black one."

It occurs to me that "naughty" is a relative term.  It'll be interesting to see what color Santa brings me.  The Apple Store Online is shipping & engraving free, by the way.  :::BIG FAT HINT:::

So here's my house with the Christmas lights & a little bit of snow.

My shrubbery...it's twinkling!  Merry Smurfing X-mas.

I think we ought to have an entire entry dedicated to our holiday decorations...what do you think?  golden_meliades, I know you don't do holidays but you DO live in an awfully pretty, snowy place.  We could call it a seasonal picture celebration.

I think maybe in a couple of weeks, I'll post a "Seasonal Pictures" entry & we can all share pics of whatever...Plastic Fantastic trees or holiday villages or whatever gets you guys in the mood for the season.  I want to see what everyone is doing for the holidays.  :-)

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

I'm actually planning to institute a seasonal card-sending tradition, though I'm not going to ask people to do it as well...they can if they want to. But *I* am going to send cards/letters to people at the start of every season, with seasonal themes. I LOVE the change of the seasons...artistically speaking at least. (They're mentally and physically difficult for me but I think they're beautiful.)

I think that having holidays to look forward to is something that helps people break up big blocks of time and maybe even coaxes them through bad or boring times. I've never had that but I can manage something different.

I can easily take some winter-themed pictures, no problem there. We have an abundance of snow-laden trees. :)

I have a knock-off MP3 player...I'd like a shuffle because it clips onto your clothes so lightly and doesn't bang up and down as you walk/jog. But I'm in no hurry, my knock-off works fine :)

I love the copper and black, it's very striking, rather natural looking, somehow.

[silverontherose.livejournal.com]

I like the turquoise better than the green in these darker dragons. It's more arresting in appearance. Glad the teen furor has died down. You know, in a couple of weeks she won't even remember it.

My Christmas pictures won't look any different than autumn because it's 70 freaking degrees here. Gorgeous weather, yes. But I want some chili and hot cocoa weather!

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

Wow, that dragon is awesome... how big is it? It's hard to tell.

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

That dragon is soooooo pretty! I love the copper!