I have so many books. I collect them, they're my treasures that I greedily pore over.

Click those for closeups and tell me if you want to borrow any!


Are you impressed? That's not all, either -- I have three or four boxes at my 'rents' house.


And kmiotutsie sent me a present for my birthday!!! I'm not one to care about when a present arrives, especially if it's something as awesome as this. Purple + glass = two of my favorite things in one! I love glass, that's the real reason I bead. I like playing with glass... it's so beautiful. Did you know that it's actually not solid? Over a long period of time, it will flow down with gravity. Anyway, here's the awesome ornament:
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I really like that first photo, it seems so artistic to me. And that round thing is a mirror that happens to be refecting a painting I did that is hanging on the opposite wall.

misemifein2 also sent me a fantastic present a while ago, and I just can't get a color-accurate shot of it, it's almost exactly vivid violet, somewhere between these two shots:
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Thank you so much Kat and Kate! And Anika and Kyra too, I haven't forgotten yours! I have the best LJ-friends ever.

I made some awesome earrings and took photos of me wearing them:
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The first one is blurry, but shows off the sparkle -- hard to catch in a photo.
For some reason I really like both of those photos of me.

And here's two of me wearing my new favorite hairdo:
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(I know, polka dots, ew, but there were pink rhinestones that I tried to peel off and they left their backs on the sticks... still, better than pink.)


Kanika hiding under a rug -- she wiggled herself underneath it.