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My laptop bag is nearly full so I am beginning to decorate my purse!

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My laptop bag is nearing being full on the front pocket and I am nearly out of locking clutches. Makes me very happy.

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I finally got the rest of the cards I ordered today and popped Nick and Hancock in their new cutie pink frames.

I intended to put them up above the window and put little vinyl hearts around them but I wouldn't see them all that often up there so I might put them somewhere else, but WHERE. (The other 4 cards, including the non-foil version of nick and hancock are gonna get pinned up by my desk)

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I am enjoying the new haircut thus far but it is gonna be hard to train my bangs.

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I chopped my hairrrr

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At the start of covid, I decided I really did not want to return to my day job and I wanted to make a solid go at opening a sticker shop! Specifically one that would make gaming stickers.

Pictures and some info under the cut.

I was a janitor for the FAA and I asked for much better PPE, the sort you ask for in a pandemic, this was at the start of it all and my manager just... refused to order so I quit. (my spouse made in bonus what I was making in a year lmao, so I was fine)

I've always wanted to make a go of being self employed and I LOVE planners and stickers, and for years I've been watching my fav small shops with interest so... I figured lets do this!

I spent time figuring out taxes and all that; then I found a decent cheap first printer; after I got to drawing up 10 sticker sheets with a bunch of state stickers I was working on as well.

This one was the first, and I'm not a huge fan, the lines weren't clean etc. but I spent a bunch of time testing paper, ordering from 'the competition' as it were and eventually landed on something easy to work with and affordable. I tried to figure out 'branding' and landed on something I kinda liked. Even came up with a name for the shop.

Starberry Oats.

This was another earlier one, and I'm -really- not a fan, and I wasn't at the time but I figured it would fill a little void.

Finally things I really like! And am proud of!

Fallout and Skyrim stickers! They are, of course, my most popular, as I do give them out to friends and people in various discords.

My second most popular sets! The retro goodies, I loved making these, and they were such a pain to get to print well.

Some basics, I enjoyed making these but they needed to be themed better, as it is I have trouble working them into my planner!

I LOVE THIS ONE. One of my personal favs, because it's one of my fav things to draw.

Another popular set.

And that's what I planned to open with!

Except I never did. My MIL kept moving in and out, my SIL kept having issues, life just became a lot, and I kept pushing it aside because I didn't want to open a shop and not give it a full 40hrs a week.

Then 2023 happened, and it got ugly AF. But at the end of the year my spouse and I sat and had a conversation about if I would return to work in 2024. I know the tumblr knee jerk reaction is to always have a job and always be self sufficient, because ya never know. But if my spouse hadn't been our only source of income I wouldn't have been able to take care of my mother, or in 2023 his mother. After 21 years I kinda know. Anyways my cats are getting older, I would have to put one down if I was working. An otherwise happy healthy kitty, just because it needs some extra care. Fuck that shit.

At the end of the day we opted for me to not return to work and I assessed if I wanted to make the sticker shop a real thing. And I decided after watching several ugly charge back orders on very small sticker shops, that no. I don't want to. But I do want to give stickers to people. I still want to make them. But for me. And friends.

SO this year I started back up.

Cuttlefish and octo friends. I love drawing them, so relaxing!

Also some fic stickers.

I plan to make more sticker sheets this year, planning a BG3 set, a Mass Effect set and maybe Dragon age. My hands might be shaky as shit to the point of being unable to draw many days but damn if I don't enjoy it. <3

anyways if you made it this far TY! <3

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My collection of perfume's, what I have learned since Hilary got me into them is that I really prefer gourmands by a long shot.

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I haven't built a single warhammer model in more than a year and have a big backlog to build, and an even larger backlog of to paint. But tonight I made 2 little drones and realized that putting them together with nail extensions sucks, and also I'm so out of practice!! def not my best work but that's okay, I have so many drones to begin with.

I haven't played 10th edition at all so excited to see the changes eventually when I get back into playing.

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First time I've done my makeup at night with a little mirror in many, many years. It was a struggle especially with this cushion foundation, not sure I really like it, but I'll give it one more try before I call it a dud for me.

I get my hair cut on april 1st and I am debating if I want to just... lop it all off where the remains of the bleached area starts is or if I should let it keep growing.

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I finally got the big bottle of my fav perfume, this is the third bottle of it I've had. I never cared at all about perfumes' until @utopianoverlord got me into it, now I have a little stash.

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left to right; ronso, basch, moxxy, and popcorn!

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