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I guess I haven't been keeping up with my LJ in a while. I don't have any less to say ... but life has had issues. My kitty is having a health crisis, and I have been spending a lot of my creative juices on t-shirt transformation (I think my new passion is making t-shirts into something fancy).

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Today is photo day, I guess - LOL  Anyway, I have this old Lillith Fair tshirt that I got *way* back in '97, I think?  It was the first year of the Lillith Fair tour.  Today, while clearing off the book tub, I found it again.  And low and behold, it fits me again.

I don't know if I will wear it.  It is really old, and I don't really wear high neck shirts anymore.  I have been thinking for a while about doing something crafty with it.  Maybe cutting out the pieces I want to keep, surging the edges in a really cool colour (and in really tight stitching so that it wraps around) and stitching it onto a new shirt.

But then I thought, what will keep this dilema from coming up again in a few years?  So, I have been thinking maybe a totebag would be the way to go.  Those never really go out of style.  I could probably find a plain organic cotton tote fairly easily.  Put the image on one side and the concert line up on the other.

I haven't really decided yet, and I am fully open to other ideas.


--Phae

Phae Wear is now open for business! Hooray! I am so glad to be done with that for a while. I looked at my design ideas, and I have 11 new designs that need to be made and added. But that can wait.

Hooray for doneness!

--Phae

Inspired by Mattie ;)

By the end of this year I will be done working for Superstore. I will have a better job, making better money. I will have quit my current job or have cut down to working one night a week.

That is the big one. I will also have moved. The place we went to see today was actually pretty small. It was nice, but we don't think it is really big enough for us. So, we are going to go back to one of those rental agency places to see if they can find us anything. We haven't given notice yet, so we have the luxury of time.

Also, over the last few weeks, my sleepy muse has been stirring. I intend to get some projects done. I am going to make my mask (the one that was half-started at Halloween). I am going to get a digital camera and I am going to start painting again. I am going to finish at least two OOK Barbies ... my first one is going to be a little sprite bathing in the dew of a crocus, and the second will be a dryad. I am going to finish updating my webpage too.

That is about it. My weight goal is to get down to a size 14, but I don't see that being too tough once everything gets back to normal.

I think that those are the goals for the year. I think I can manage that :)

--Phae

Well, I have it mostly sanded down (and all the stickers removed). Unfortunately, it is built a little more sturdily than things today are (being as it is over 20 years old, I shouldn't be that surprised), so there will be no 'popping' out of the front panel. I am a little sad to have to paint over the Winnie the Pooh design that has identified my toybox for so many years.

(for anyone out of the loop ... see, Here)

There are a mountain of pictures of it, tho (and of me when I was small and cute). So, I think that I will just find my favorite one and frame it as a rememberance of what it looked like way back when.

I have some ideas for designs ... I have designed my own Psyche butterfly for the top (which will be covered by an altar cloth, but I intend to make it look nice all the same). I am thinking of going with elemental/seasonal designs for the back lip ... and maybe something similar to this:

http://www.goddessdesigns.com/images/Goddess_Images/G101-G110_border.jpg

for the front panel (just the tree goddess, not the rest). I had originally wanted to just buy the stencil and use it, but I refuse to pay the same amount for shipping that the stencil itself would cost (someone needs to devise a Canada/US postal exchange that won't cost an arm and a leg ... it isn't that far away).

Not sure what I will do for the sides yet. I still have time to think about it, tho. I think I will pick up the base color today, and get going on the first coat of paint.

--Phae