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Dead Winter's Night (Formally Bright Eyes)
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If there's one thing that annoys me, it's the snobbery in dollshouse forums and online discussion groups. One forum run by a very famous UK based dollshouse company was destroyed by the back biting and trolling of its members, (it no longer exists because people quit using it), an American one had some argue with me over a company I bought flooring and roofing tiles from (I'd bought from the wrong one!),
I really should do some proper webpages rather than just posting here, but I don't have the time to mess around with html right now.
Crafting update: Finished doing my first handmade journal (still needs stuff to go in it), but the book is bound and together. It took me so long because I was nervous over if it would work or not and had to change the spine of it so sew the pages in as I couldn't get the needle through. It's probably a bit amateurish, but as it's my first one, I'm pleased with it. (Not made handmade books since I was a kid.)
bright-eyes
3 years ago
The 24th scale dollshouse just needs the roof on now, tiles and some scenery scatter. Of course, there are still some bits and pieces of furniture and the like to get so that it's finished completely, but the majority of the difficult parts are done. I need to find a little dragon or something to give it some life.
One of the things which has been holding me back with improving on my art is not having reference material to practice with, so today I've started going through an old natural history book of mammals, published when writers, artists and publishers actually made books for kids and laymen readers that aren't Dorling Kingsley types. As a child and teenager, I had lots of books like that. Today was the turn of the
I'm going to attempt to read one of them - partly because of the subject matter, and partly because the publisher wants a review. I felt like I couldn't disappoint them. If I get around to writing a review, I'll post it in the blog section on DWN.
It's too hot... I have some books to read from Netgalley - probably too many now, but with the heat it is very difficult to concentrate on them. If I complain about cold, wet weather this winter, please remind me of this - at least in winter I can function to some extent, and it's been too hot for poor Max to go out for his usual walks too.
So, my partner still wants to move. Looked tonight - the properties that he'd be interested in are either age restricted - which means I can't live there, or we'd have to get rid of Max, or they are in some scruffy area of my town that's far, far away from the places where I can take Max for walks. Yeah, I hate it here, but without a £100,000 (at least!) where we can buy a home out right, it's not going to happen.
I've got access to some books before they are published at NetGalley. Was surprised, to get approved since one request was declined and I thought they all would be, so hopefully I'll have some happy reading!
bright-eyes
3 years ago
It's also made my day a bit better because this year has been difficult money wise because of the vet bill from last year. It's almost paid off, but it's meant I've had to miss out on things that I didn't want to, so at least I get to do some reading. Wish I found it last year because I could have had some new books to read with all the pandemic chaos.
Been looking all over for the TV remote, including moving the sofa - couldn't find it... Found it in the cutlery drawer... wtf?
The anthology which has Kevin Hearne's The Chapel Perilous, is worth getting, because there are some good authors in it - R. A. Salvatore, Naomi Novik, Terry Brooks, Carrie Vaughn, Tad Williams... The other's I've not heard of, or not read before, so hopefully they will be good, too. It's refreshing to find an anthology with Urban Fantasy in it that isn't full of romance authors.
another rudely deleted my account as soon as I joined it and a facebook group run by a company won't approve my request to join. I don't get the attitude of these people. With the economic downturn at the start of the last decade and now Covid not allowing fairs, etc, to take place, you'd think that they'd be happy with the customers they have and be more welcoming of people to the hobby.