My sense of accomplishment is tempered by the fact that I have a big splotch of black dye on my nose

[merimask]

Well.  I finished those masks.  Eight little half masks...because they're relatively inexpensive and I know they'll sell out at this weekend's show.  They look good too.  I did a bunch of little dragons and a bunch of celestial masks.  One was a casualty of the fact that I'm the Mom of a teenager...it crisped in the oven while I yelled at Charlotte over some infraction.  I don't yell often, but when I do it consumes me and distracts me (I blame all that French/Italian/ European blood)...and so my poor mask is no more.  I had to throw it out which HURTS. because by the time I bake it I've already spent a couple of hours on it.  

Oh well.

Today, I got yet another wonderful package...this time from  smillaraaq!    She bought some koi nobori for me from Ginza and they are JUST what I wanted.  I hung one outside right away and it looks so festive.  The other will go on my wall, with my butterfly kite from Thailand.  It'll be a very international, fluttery wall.

She also sent some requested daruma dolls.   I bought one for Charlotte in San Francisco, never thinking about myself and I think I'm the one who really needs one!  Also, my Mom-in-law LOVED it when she saw it and hasn't stopped talking about them, so the second one will be hers.

Thank you to my f-list, again, for being especially sweet this week.  Gift packages from smilla, moonphased, and golden_meliades...I hardly know what to do with myself!  Lovely things are in the works for all of you...I've just been too busy this week with all the unexpected shows (and articles, and trips) that have suddenly cropped up.   Rest assured boxes marked "Merimask Designs" will be heading out soon.  I just hope you like your gifts as much as I like mine.  :-)

*sigh*  Going to bed before 4 am?  What luxury! 

EDIT:  OMG Read this if you've ever known a bad doggie.  SO funny.

Comments

Bad Dogs

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

I want you to know that you just broke the entire legal department with the bad doggie link. I'm tracking it making it's way around the department by the maniacal giggling emerging from offices and cubicles...

Re: Bad Dogs

[merimask.livejournal.com]

That story is hilarious! Greg and I have been saying "...NOOO! You be stealin' my sweet potato!" at random inappropriate moments because we're weird like that.

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

Sorry about your crispy mask and OMFG that bad doggie story is hysterical! XDDD

[merimask.livejournal.com]

My mask turned into a raisin. :-( Woe.

That bad sweet-potato eating dog! I don't know why but for some reason I think it must be a yellow lab. Every one I've ever met is a starving food hound.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

A lab? Heh. And here I was thinking "GOTTA be a sleddog" because my Jake, like so many mals and huskies other than your fussy boy, had the indiscriminate appetite of a goat, right down to eating things not normally considered edible. (Although there was the time Zeus was obsessed with digging himself sleeping wallows in one of the flower beds, which led to the often-fussy Biscuit somehow deciding that hyacinth bulbs were WONDERFUL chewy treats. Crazy animal!)

[indigos-angel.livejournal.com]

lol

Well, the dog thing made is currently on it's way half way around the world. Gads that was hilarious!!!!

Good luck with the show, and yeah, I'm sure I'll burn something while lecturing to my kids at some point. Oh wait, been there, done that. !!!YAY!!!!! I'M AHEAD OF THE GAME ON SOMETHING!!!!

*LICK*

[merimask.livejournal.com]

That dog story absolutely slays me. It rings so true! The little boogers...

Argh...I so rarely crisp a mask that it still really BOTHERS me when I do it. Grr.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yay, glad your package arrived safely and was what you wanted! I'll probably be going back there to get a koi for myself to celebrate when the last boxes are finally cleared out of the living room. ;)

I still need to sift through all those moosedog pictures for references for you...just have not had the time and energy to poke through my twisty maze of unthumbnailed photo directories. Sooooo much to do...

And the dog link is hysterical -- best Crazy Dog story since the infamous Dogs In Elk! Sweet potato? WINTER SQUASH? what a goof. Reminds me of the time I caught Jake in the yard, playing a solo game of catch with a moldy potato he'd dug out of the compost heap.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

LOOOVE for the koi. I might actually order one of the really fancy ones you mentioned...just as a treat.

Yes yes! I need pictures of your doggie. ;-)