Tis me im still here and cleaning out the old dusty secret passage leading to my Enchanted Folk presence. I'm still over on Facebook too but there is not much to speak of. I suppose this is just a hello to see what kind of activity is still here.

happy fall to all the true fey lurking about!

Today is a very sad  day. One of our greatest authors and illustrations died today of a stroke; Maurice Sendak 1928-2012. He was a troubled man but the true essence of his work shined through the darkness. His wild things were the inspiration for Ludo and his work meant a great deal to Jim Henson, and to me and to millions of his fans. We miss you Mr. Sendak, more than you will ever know.

Hello everyone! So sorry I have not been on here in a while. We miss you Be!

Things have had the bad faeries looking for more ways to torture me. Now it seems I have serious back problems. I am still trying to progress with my beading though and I have made a few new pieces. i'm trying to come up with a pattern for a seed bead owl next. Now if I could just pick up my painting again too. And work on my website too, good heavens where does the time go?

Sigh, till the next

I hope everyone had a good holiday season.

Things have been crazy here and between holiday events, work and the expensive disasters with the house I have not had much time to post.

I think the goblins got into our air conditioning unit outside and destroyed the motor and some creeping bad faerie got into the pipes at the back of the house and destroyed them, rusting them completely. Ended up being an expensive job to fix the whole lot of it . I don't know what posessed the builders of our house to put the wrong pipe in there in the first place but apparantly the naughty faeries found it a ripe target for mayhem:

It was an odd day during a week when the weather cant seem to decide whether to be cold or hot and the wind was blowing in unpredictable gusts, and wouldnt you know it a big gust of wind came up and the weather turned bad when my father was out working in the garden. He wasn't finished and a little weather usually doesnt bother him so he goes to get the hose and turn on the water and the whole spigot broke off in his hand! bloomin faeries!

Gaww!  What a holiday. But I have to say now at years end, if there is one thing I have learned this year through all the strange happenings it is how much people should support and believe in one another. Especially those in a position to train or mentor. In my life I have only had two people who really believed in me and realized certain talents and traits and wanted me to suceed. And this year I have seen the stark difference between what it is like now and how it was like then in those two snapshots in time.

I do think the muses call to us at odd times when we are working at something unrelated. I don't know why I had the urge to make needle felted penguins with santa hats this year but I did and they were a hit. Perhaps further omen that I am better off doing creative persuits than my "normal" job that makes megar  money. I spent a ton on myuki beads and findings this season and so I think I will make a resolution do do more beading, felting and writing in the new year. I discovered a music artist that does epic pieces for tv and film so  I am letting their songs be the inspiration for my writing.

I hope every enchanted folk has a happy and blessed new year!

I have been doing beading, honest I have! I've just been too tired to do more than one pair in a sitting. Work has me stressed out and tired, even when I am home, because of the stress and the nasty co-workers. I can't go into a bank or even a store to make a transaction without getting harassed or having something bizzare happen. It must be All Hallows Eve approaching and some sort of bad energy. Ugh. Even one of my more friendly co-workers said the same about bad energy.

But happily I sold a pair of my Skelly earrings! (see photo in my gallery. Sorry it is a bit out of focus) It paid for some of the supplies. I hope to make more. I am trying to get a haunted house pair finished by halloween. Then I will have to get to my regular 6 and 8 mm beads and crystals and trinkets together to make something nice. I am still going through a HUGE seed bead fettish though that I may not totally recover from :P

Listening to music on Youtube has lightened my spirits some so I suppose I can face an eight hour shift today and Sunday. I highly reccomend Origa (who sings among others "Lullaby" and "Rise" one of the theme songs from "Ghost in the Shell" anime. her voice is very nice.)

So much for my reading tonight (trying to read a book on PHP programming) its 2am and I need to get up at seven. Yikes!