Friday!

So glad that it's Friday! :) And we have End of the Work Week Wisdom!

"It's like Sgt. Pepper marries the Civil War, while shagging Victorian England on the side."
--Kerry I'm a lemon now... so wear goggle's, regarding my new coat

This is seriously the best quote I've heard in a long time, and it's about my coat (see yesterday's post if you are confused)! It's also not a bad description of steampunk, oddly enough. :)

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In other news, we had a wonderful EtsyRain meeting last night, and I have stuffs to do now. First project on the agenda is to make some photo boxes, as I have been wanting one for a while, and Julie asked me to make one for her, in exchange for the bottle caps that she is giving me. So rock on! :)

I've also added another craft show to my agenda: the second Punk Rock Flea Market. Even though I didn't sell anything at all at the first one, I'd like to give it another shot, and Ambika said she'd split a table with me for this one. So I'm up to four craft shows in the next three months. Whee! :)

(Don't worry, I'll talk about them plenty before they happen, in case you're wanting to attend! :) )

Not my idea of a weekend

I love my weekends, so I always really hate it when I have a cruddy weekend. It started out Saturday with me being grumpy, so I went shopping for a while to improve my mood. That worked, but then that evening, at game, I started feeling really ill, so we had to leave early. By Sunday, I felt physically better, but was very tired and pretty much in a funk all day. I tried to make the most of it by getting a bunch of crochet done, and that seemed to work. Today, I'm feeling fine physically and emotionally, so I seem to have shaken whatever this ickiness was.

I suppose, in the end, it's better when this stuff hits me on the weekends, cuz it doesn't do so well when I'm at work and either feeling ill or out of sorts.

This week, I need to get a lot done. I'm hoping that my bottle caps will arrive in the mail in the next day or two, and I'm picking the other ones up from Julie hopefully on Wednesday. I have five more belts that I'd like to get done before Saturday, along with a few more hats. And there's a couple more articles to write. So yeah, true to form, I'm overloading myself with stuff to do. Oddly, that will probably slightly improve my mood, because I'll be busy. I'm sure that having a project to work on at work today has been helping me stay happy this morning.

I also need to make a decision on which of two tattoos I want to get next... Jerome told me that I should get one before Christmas, which wasn't necessarily part of the plan. So I've got two ideas in mind. One is definitely much cheaper than the other, but the location where I want to get it may be a problem for healing. The other idea is bigger and thus more expensive, but it will be an easier location to heal... except that it's on the side that I normally sleep on.

There are all of these little things about tattoos and healing and such that you really don't think about until you've gotten one or five. :)

Swimming in bottlecaps

While I may not end up with as many as this guy (Günter Offermann, who has 103,000 bottle caps in his collection, making him the world record holder for most bottle caps owned by a person), I'm getting a whole bunch of bottle caps... :) Julie, who makes mosaics when she isn't making the cutest monkey jewelry in the world, offered me a bunch of bottle caps when she saw my bottle cap belts at the Fremont Market. Since I've gotten a couple of custom orders for belts and have been making more for the Punk Rock Flea Market, I'm taking her up on her offer.

I also decided that I should buy some bottle caps from glittersniffer (partially because I love her Etsy name!), to give me a whole bunch of variety in my bottle caps. From what I can identify in the photos, it looks like I will be getting a lot of Canadian beer bottle caps from glittersniffer, which will contrast nicely with the likely American bottle caps that I will get from Julie. So I will be all set to make a whole bunch more bottle cap belts! Hurrah! :)

(Oh yeah, I suppose I may need some more belts, eventually... :) )