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I am going to make something today. I am done with sorting the cabochons. The only pile of unsorted beads I have is a baggie of random reds, and I am not touching those until I have done. One. Firkin. PAIR.

I am going to make earrings until I am sick of it, or I have sample examples of each of my pride flag earrings firkin DONE. Whichever happens first.

Then, and only then, will I indulge my OCD aspect and sort out the very last set of unsorted beads that I have. I have to consult with Beloved about which particular set of colours is easier to 'shop for my shop pictures, but I'm bound to play around with the other findings I have and come up with something fun and pretty. I plan on having an assortment of styles, from the discrete and glittery, to the wild and out there.

And I have to concoct a clip-ons FAQ. If you know someone with pristine lobes who wants to wear earrings, but doesn't want someone to stick a needle through their flesh... please encourage them to ask me [either here or on my tumblr] anything at all that concerns them about clip-ons.

I know I have the standard set [Does it hurt? Am I wearing them properly? Why do you have "NUMBER available" on some earrings? What's the benefit of clip-ons versus earrings? Nobody noticed me wearing my bling, what is up with that? and so on] but I need to know if there's anything else people want to know.

And since I already wrote my words today [an attack of the colliwobbles at 2AM] it gives me some work to do towards my other goals.

Tomorrow - I am taking a "me day" which means my blog and Instant will be supremely late [unless I wake up at Fuckoff AM again]. I plan on doing a lot of not very much at all and just soaking in inertia all firkin day. Those emotional batteries need charging.

Chaos is due to seek help in Maroochydore again. And it's one heck of a long-ass trip there and back. The sooner that the nearer clinic has help for her, the better.

The metallic sharpies have a nib width that's too wide for legible printing, so Beloved and I went on an emergency run to Officeworks by way of Spotlight for something a little narrower. So now we won a double brace of metallic gel pens that are, quite frankly, made of

I really want to be able to start making earrings on Monday. I have a plausible workspace set up. I just need to sort all my beads, findings, and whatnot before tomorrow.

If I can put in a minimum of two hours' work a day on designs, then that means stock in abundance. I know that if I put in too many hours at jewellery, my body pays for it.

I'm in the last stretch of bead sorting. Which means that I've

Miss Chaos is turning eleven in a little over a week. Her fondest wish is to see Steam Powered Giraffe. That's more than a little beyond our means, right now.

The best I can do for her is to fill her iPad with as much Steam Powered Media as I can.

Her second prize, "purple sparkles", is going to manifest in some hand-crafted jewellery. As soon as I find something suitably purple and sparkly. Fellow relatives are welcome to find as many

Today's a relatively quiet day. In that I get to spend a majority of it at home and writing.

BUT, I'm also taking the family to get stuck in the arm this afternoon.

Not something to look forward too, really, but it's something that must be done.

On the scrattle news, thirteen of my nineteen separate parcels are on their way from Asia to me. I should be able to track them, come next week. Alas, since it is free postage, I