A Much Needed Update

It's been far too long since I've made a post.  This new job takes up most of my time.... cause you know, it's a full time job.  I hate the job, but it pays pretty nice like. 

So I hate snow.  that snow storm Nemo we had:  Can.  Not.  Deal.  Snow is one of the many reasons I:
a) want to live in an apartment, and
b) want to live in southern California.
Snow's great when you're a kid, but once you have to dig out your car to get to work at 6am it's no longer fun.
There's been progress on the whale.  I'm now at a point where I have to change colors and meet the two colors to blend them.  I don't want a harsh separation between the tones, from medium to dark, it needs to have a nice smooth transition.  These transitions drive me nuts, I did this with the buttons for the background and it took me hours just to pick and choose the right colors and tones and even then I am limited by the supplies themselves.  I started work on a new pair of horns, this time a set of rams horns.  Those were a bitch to flat pattern because they spiral up and out.  I got the left horn structure completed, now I just need to finish the right one.
Wicked fair was this past weekend!!  Woot!  I made a paper mache and cardboard top hat... and then didn't bother to wear it.  It was kinda silly looking and it didn't fit well.  It was very last minute and I'm not broken up over it.  Lets face it though, it's cheaper than buying a nice one and I get to paint it in whatever colors I want.  Marina had her kimono panel which, despite the small attendance, was super fun.  Except for the shoes.  Oh my god those shoes were pretty but so very painful.  So this happened:

Photo taken by Kassandra Leigh <3

 I love the photo taken of us in Marina's kimono.  The photographer is Kassandra Leigh, she's this little pixie of a girl who shows up in a Latex mini dress with a short fur cape and knee high socks.  She's drop dead gorgeous.  It was like 29 degrees F outside and windy as fuck while she's taking photos and I'm just trying to keep the kimono closed (I'm on the left).  We were on this wooden pier thing that went out into the pond outside the hotel, and Marina hops up onto the railing and we are praying she doesn't loose her balance and fall into the freezing cold pond.  Apparently there were people watching us through the windows of the hotel and were hoping she didn't fall into the water too.  As we were walking back to the room, we were walking single file and kinda shuffling,
 and it reminded me of the Mikado by Gillbert and Sullivan.   
Yeah, kinda like that but without the outdated gender and cultural stereotypes.  I was singing this in my head the whole time!  I think this, and the swap meet on Sunday were the highlights of my weekend.  Other than that I felt mostly bored at Wicked fair.  It was difficult to navigate and there was no map.  The vendors were all over the place, there was no Dungeon set-up this year, I missed all of the performances cause I either didn't know where they were or missed the time slot.  
So I swear photos will get posted of art eventually, but the cord and the battery charger for my camera have disappeared.  Again.  Once those are found I have a whole lot of photos to upload.
That's it for now.
See Ya'll Later!
~Amy

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