Commission-ing:

The muses struck the other night, so I’ve got one commission down!

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A quick Pinterest search for custom Fins yielded far to many mandalas for my taste, so I thought I’d go with a more Polynesian-inspired theme for Mac’s fins. I had a lot of fun researching Tikis and Polynesian textile patterns, though I ended up not using much of the textiles, sadly.

My original plan was to have the Tiki look more like the traditional wood, but I had to wipe it because the Brown wasn’t standing out enough from the dark blue and went with white outlines instead. I realised too late that I could have gone with orange, instead of brown, but I like how it the white makes the statue look like it’s glowing.

I’ve been having a lot of fun working with markers and non-traditional surfaces. Give me more, universe!

Potterhype

Unpopular opinion: I’m not a huge fan of Rowling’s constant adding and expansion of her universe. I Love the Harry Potter series, don’t get me wrong, and I will most likely eat up everything Warner Brothers throws at me, but it just feels like she’s writing fanfiction of her own work and making it canon.

I watched, “Fantastic Beasts…” last weekend. I enjoyed it, but it left me a little underwhelmed. It had had pacing issues, and felt a little disjointed. I did, however, fall in love with Queenie.

The movie might have been meh, but it has rekindled my hype for all things Potter. Timely then, that I should find this photo when I was cleaning my files the other day. It’s from our friends’ cosplay-themed wedding a couple of years ago. Note our matching Resting Bitch Faces. We look like Dumbledore’s just awarded Gryffindor the House Cup. Haha!

I’ve been in a bad head space for a while now and I could use an excuse to run around in house robes, but I’m also not in the mood to people.

What a loser

Guess which anal retentive has bought and wrapped half of her Christmas shopping?

In my defense, I needed to get these as soon as I could because I ordered them online and didn’t want shipping issues if I ordered to close to Christmas. I’d get all my gift shopping out of the way now if I could, but I do need to wait for my 13th month to come in. But you know, I’m poor. :))