So many things have happened since my last update: New job, new city, new state, new life. I don't feel like I've accomplished any art over the last few months, but as things begin to settle down, the art is slowly coming back into my life.

This week marks my first forays into the internet market. I've started an etsy site (www.etsy.com/shop/MidnightMarionette) which I encourage people to check out. (Yes, shameless marketing.) I'm only uploading a couple items at a time. This is for two reasons: 1) it takes me a really long time to come up with item descriptions and 2) the more updates, the more site traffic. If I were to upload everything all at once, I'd flash up on the main page for a day rather than popping up on several days.

Thank you to everyone who is still watching me, after all the craziness in my life has kept me away for so very long. ^_^

I haven't updated this site since 2007, which is quite a shock because normally I keep up with things like this.

My college is hosting a craft fair and so I decided to have my own table. I'm not very good at having a table, but it was a lot of fun to make necklaces and I hope to have a real live website up and running in the near future. Until then, some of my designs have be posted here. ^_^

Life has been insanely busy!

Since my last post, I have gotten a new job at a veterinary clinic. I love the work and am constantly learning new things. In October, I started a second job filling in at a costume rental shop for the Halloween season. If I was opening at the clinic, I was closing at the shop, which sometimes meant 14+ hour work days. O_o In between all of that madness, I finished the groom's costume for a wedding, a copy of the groom's costume for someone who saw him all dressed up and had to have the same outfit for himself, a panda bear costume for my niece, and a Tinkerbell costume for my other niece. Four costumes in one month is a record for me! I hope I never have to do it again.

Speaking of costumes, the pictures of my early costumes have been trashed. You wouldn't have wanted to see them, anyway. Trust me. Looking to the future, Terra from FFVI is currently being worked on, as well as a Katamari cousin and two characters from Children of Mana. More info when it becomes relevant.

On a completely unrelated note, I have a writing deadline for the end of this month. No, it's not NaNoWriMo. It is a time honored tradition that I submit work to the writers' workshop at Norwescon and the deadline for that just happens to be November 28th this year. Considering I thought that I had until the end of January, I'm totally going to have to cram my process into a tinier package. Wish me luck!

Updates are going to be very irregular, and very late.

My father died on the 6th and his service was on the 13th. I'm still out of sorts and won't be updating much until life calms back down.

I *said* I was going to upload more pictures, turns out my other pictures are gone.

I *said* I was going to post detail construction shots of Latouni, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

I *said* I was going to take commissions this summer, and I still am.

I'm just not able to do anything right now. So I thought I'd update you all who watch me on what's up with my slakerness: My dad is in the hospital. It is extremely serious. Because of this situation, I have put everything else on a kind of holding pattern as my home and supplies are in one state and my dad's hospital is in another. All the things I said I was going to do will still, someday, get done, it just won't be soon.