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also, just to round out the day I'm having....

my father is in the hospital with elevated blood pressure and chest pains. apparently they ran a bunch of tests on his heart and it seems to be okay, thank god -- doctors seem to think he's going to be fine -- but it's still a worrying situation, esp. as his father died of a heart attack. please, send whatever good thoughts or prayers or whatever you do his way. we don't always agree on things, but he's my dad, and I love him.

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In happier news!

This weekend is Christmas Present Synthesis Weekend (since the ebay packages with all the craft supplies to make them with have begun to trickle in). I have:

* pocketwatch gears
* beautiful spiral mainsprings
* gemstone chip beads
* lengths of chain
* scrap silk
* watercolor cotton in two colors
* organza in three colors
* velvet in four colors
* four different kinds of leather pieces
* odd little charms

...and more miscellanea coming, including a set of leatherworking punches. (I need to get some hardware -- bead wire, needles, that kind of thing -- from actual stores this weekend, but ebay has proved to have both a more interestingly esoteric selection and cheaper prices. Whee.)

Since I can deliver family presents in person, and presents for friends largely in person (since we'll be back in LA shortly after Christmas, so I can hand-deliver to both local and California friends), I expect that my holiday package-ness will mostly be components coming to me rather than presents being mailed. Heh. (The other advantage of hand-delivering is that I don't have to have everything done three weeks before Christmas, which is, er, now.) Plus some of my presents and present elements will be edible.

I need a crafting icon.

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Thud.



It's not done -- the whole of it will probably be 90,000 to 120,000 -- but I'm happy with my start. Yay!

And an excerpt -- very, very rough:

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