i swear i'm alive...

just been really busy with stuff. had several weeks of being busy trying not to get sick and trying to get things ready for friends visiting for sakura-con. now i actually have time to myself! for the first time in the past year i don't have any solid plans until months down the line. no impromptu trips possibly on the horizon or anything of the sort. i'm just floating along with the only definite things being work monday through friday and a trip in july. that's it. it feels amazing! right now i have a ginormous pile of stuff that has been being put off for the past year: photos to get edited and up; books and manga to read; webcomics to catch up on; dolls to get prettied up...i can actually start working on it!!!! :D sooooooooooo excited!

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*blush*

sometimes it's amazing what your friends will say - even if you haven't really talked to them in a while.

"Meeting Darby who turned out to be a better friend than I've ever thanked her for."

<3 you too brian.

a small happiness

something personal i feel like sharing as it makes me feel good beyond belief: my dad found 3 large plastic tubs full of stuffed toys in our garage today. these consist of a small portion that are my parents, nearly all of my brother's, and at least half of my collection. nearly all were made by my grandparents. they are extremely precious because of this and because of the love put into their creation. mind you, they have been missing for 10 years. yup, missing. i thought my batshit crazy grandmother (the same one who helped make them in the first place >_<) had either tossed them or taken them off to the thrift when she was here while my mom was in the hospital for a few months. (swear to whatever powers there may be, the woman is batshit and created a "game" - even left a note to my parents about it - for my parents to find stuff that she's squirreled away about the house. yes, many things are still missing and many still being found as in the case in point.) i was so happy when my dad told me today that he found them. he was dumbfounded as he thought they were gone forever as well. anyway, just felt like sharing my small happiness.

two years along...

so today is the two year anniversary of winter and azerian arriving. currently they are stuck away in my doll bag as i've been kept busy the past few days. that's okay though, i've decided to postpone the yearly pictures for this year as one of my dolls is out being done up.

yes, that's right, azerian is home! he arrived back on january 25th and has pretty much been hogging demaius's body ever since. i missed him so much and am so sad that he is currently still blank. i don't think i'm going to be sending him out for quite some time just because i have a ton of other dolls to work on, and i really want him home for a while.

as for the one that i'm delaying photos for...well...chade is currently away with candygears for a complete faceup and body blushing. she's working on him and, once he returns home, i will be taking the photos. the delay shouldn't really be more than a few weeks, so that is okay in my book. i've been in the process instead this weekend of working on the various pictures that i have pending. i've managed to pull all the photos off my camera from the past month or so and have been working at making sure that i have all the shoots set out that i need to get up from the past year. that should get me through until chade is back. :)

i will have to try and post again this week and recap what fun i had this past week, but for now, i need to get going! so much to do, so little time! <3 all my dolls and can't believe that i have 23 (including floating heads, not including various extra bits) home and am waiting on another! (oh yeah...waiting on bodies for the three floating minifee heads and a mnf rheia! more about that later!) taaa~

wishes for fishes

right now i'm wishing for a bunch of things...but, well, if wishes were fishes i'd live in the sea. ;) most of all i just wish that azerian would be sent back to me. i've been trying to get him sent back for a bit now and...nothing yet. i'd love to have him home and to be able to just move on with him. i've a bunch of other dolls to work on but haven't had the time when motivated. thinking about it just now, i've not really done much of anything with working on the new ones since sending him off. :(

if i were able to get him home, i'd have to concentrate on getting him a body, then good hair and an outfit. right now i'd be getting him the type 3 delf boy body. i have a wig for him, but it isn't so great...so i'm thinking maybe this would be good for him:
i was also thinking that maybe this outfit would be great for him:

would still need to find him some nice boots...

*sigh* i am waiting on a head to arrive though! i purchased a head from a friend and she will be shipping it out to me this week. :) yay! new doll! (well...will still need to get her a body...but yeah...still exciting!

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