Dreams on Fire.

I've been a pretty busy bee lately, but I decided to check in really quick and give you guys a glimpse of the hat I kept talking about....

My camera's pretty shitty at getting detail, but this little blue beauty will be spectacular when I'm done. I wasn't expecting it to be so labor intensive, but my imagination knows no bounds.

Each rhinestone is handset, and this is just the base; it's nowhere near completed. It'll easily be another month or so before I'm done.

Anyway, back to work. Have to go by the suite to change the title (I think I'll nix the "esquire" bit), got more listings to do....

Like this one....And this one...

さようなら! (Sayonara!)

Kumquat.

Been super productive lately... put a lot on my plate. Got a suite address, thinking of adding a title next to my name for flair (is there a female version of "esquire"?)

Gotta have one more talk before I decide concretely to have a stand-alone site... Page design can be fun but tiring.

Hell, there were many revisions to this page before I found it suitable for viewing... and it's still pretty basic. That's probably my only hurdle right now.

Mannequins, hat completion, jewelry, and the market.

Lord, just let me have a nap.

Cyclone.

It's been preached to me time and again that good traders trade without emotion.

That I need to just look at my balance "as numbers" instead of, you know: food, security, and comfort. It's a hurdle I've yet to cross.

There's a direct correlation between my attitude of the day and how my trading went that morning. That said, I've been in an excellent mood :) A stock I was sleeping on quadrupled...

Chickadees: It's long overdue that you look out for your OWN interests instead of waiting for someone to do it for you.

Fell back into routine, stopped by the used book store again. Found an awesome library discard on Shintoism (Do I trade for security or material things? Can I give it all up and live in the mountains, among nature, one step below the floating bridge of heaven?)

Get one, get rid of another.

I was wearing low-rise jeans and (unknowingly!) exposed my crack to every passerby... Meh.

They needed some excitement in their lives anyway.