Christmas in the air...

So, recently, I haven't used my camera much. I just find it so much easier to pull out my phone. But did I mention my phone has been having an issue lately? The lock button doesn't work! So unless I plug  or unplug my phone, or someone calls or texts me, my phone won't light up. 
So I broke down and pulled out my big girl camera.
I'm so glad I did. 
I am definitely going to be bringing it out more often! Abigail and I also did a craft that I documented, but I haven't even really looked at the pictures yet! I'm so bad.
Plus I am getting sick AGAIN so I haven't felt like being on the computer much. Forgive my absence. I am a horrible sickie. I am going to go to the doctor today. I think. I am tired of coughing so hard I think I'm going to break something. Maybe I will have something interesting like bronchitis. Or pneumonia. Then maybe all those people who made fun of my cough will feel bad.
Doubt it. :P
Photo dump time! 

Is your house decorated this year?

Freebie Friday: Christmas Clipart!

So you know a bad way to wake up?  A cat biting your toes. I don't recommend trying it at home.
But despite that happening (for the second time.. Loki wants me up early, I guess) I am in a pretty good mood!

(It might be that candy bar I had for breakfast. Who knows?)

Do you have plans for the weekend? I hope I can get the rest of my list of gifts bought! (If my bank allows)

Oh, and then there is this:

So I will probably be pretty busy.

But I love being busy! It means that I am needed. And who doesn't like to be needed?

Anyway. I have a gift for you today, because it's Friday, and because I love you! 

Christmas clipart! Click on the image to download the file at full resolution. It's a transparent PNG, so you can overlay it over other things. If you have problems with this, please let me know.

In other news, I have figured out that I love drawing snowflakes! Aren't they beautiful? Something we never get to see here in this part of California. :(

I hope ya'll have a great Friday, and I think I am going to write up a post about my design process so far. But who knows. Maybe I'll come up with something more interesting!

Me, Myself, and I - September

1) When you're feeling down, what do you do to pick yourself up?

Listen to happy music, play with my cat, watch an old sitcom. I am pretty easy to cheer up, most of the time.

2)  If you had to live in a different time period which would you prefer?

I really love the one I am in, because I love new technology. But other than that, I think I would have been good in the 60s. I think I would make a decent hippie. I am very pro-real food, natural cleansers, peace and love, but I can also be very contradictory... (see below)

3)  What is the most creative Halloween costume you've ever worn?

One year I was a punk rocker.  I never could convince my parents to buy me a costume (those suckers are expensive) so I wore an old ratty Ozzy t-shirt that my mom had fixed so that it would fit me, put gloves on and one of my belts and I was good to go.

In retrospect, I think this is a more extreme version of who I already was.

(Were we all this scary at 16, or was it just me?!)
(P.S. I still love Slipknot, though.)


Funniest part of that story is that my mom did the same thing for her work's Halloween.
Psst.. Please don't tell her this image is on the internet! She will kill me.

4)  Five weird things about you we wouldn't know without being told?

1. This is my natural hair color.  I stopped dying my hair about three or four years ago.

2.  I still love 90s pop. N'Sync. Backstreet Boys.
I even listen to them at work sometimes.

3. I hate having wet hair on my skin.
When I get out of the shower I always have to put it up until it dries.
Because I am lazy and don't like to blow dry.

4. I am really hippy about some stuff (see question 2) like dye free laundry soap and using natural cleansers and using recycled materials, but I still drink soda occasionally (more and more rarely, yay!) and eat meat.
Is that weird?

5.  I have an old Photobucket account from when I was 16.
Hence where I found the previous pictures.
 Please don't tell my mother.
And please don't make me login to that account ever ever again.

5)  What would you tell your 16-year-old self?

Value yourself. Don't take everything so seriously.
And don't ever.
Ever.
Dress like this.

...On second thought, it makes for some pretty good blog posts.