soc_puppet | Keywords particularly apt today

That's it. I'm officially too wiped to read anything past Skip 25 on my f'list with any sort of coherence. If you posted anything of worth in the last... *counts* twenty-eight hours or so and want me to see it, you are advised to link me to it rather than wait for me to find it.

That is to say, I finally donated my one-gallon-mark unit of blood today! \o\ Mmmm, cookies. It turns out that I am disturbingly out of practice with this whole "blood donation" thing, as I ended up feeling dizzy and almost sick-ish after the donation itself, and the near-sick-ish-ness is continuing :/ Not, of course, that this is going to prevent me from donating in the future; but if it doesn't get better after next time (scheduled in June), I may switch over to quarterly donations. Need blood and all that.

Had a good, productive Anime Iowa meeting, in which I confirmed (yet again) that I have really nothing much to do until Andrew gets done with the computer sometime in mid-July. Also discussed the possibility of selling chocolate fandom stuff as "art in the medium of chocolate" at Artists' Alley, but only with the Consuite head and so have no real info to go on (yet). Spent the rest of the time drawing pictures of bird-things and a jellyfish-thing.

Stopped over at Hobby Lobby after, since I was in the neighborhood, and managed to find not only new pearl light blue Sculpy, but food-grade custom mold making material! \o/ It was expensive, but Mom agreed later that it was a worthy investment. Am planning to make a Mokona next, definitely.

Spent some time making things that night. Specifically, carved new Sculpy Avatar Nation pendants, to kinda match Katara's inherited necklace. Got a picture of 'em here. I gotta admit, I'm a little worried about scale here :/ On the one hand, the symbols for Fire and Earth look relatively smaller than the symbol for Water (didn't have the right color for Air; was hoping for a nice orange, but both of my oranges are ugly; maybe I'll use yellow, too). On the other hand, they just didn't look right without the border, and if I didn't use a border I'd've had to make them different shapes or something (something I'd already been considering, except I couldn't think of any alternate shape for Fire or Air - maybe pentagon for Fire?). Or maybe I'd have wanted a border anyway then. Point is, the symbols look relatively smaller. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?

Planning on dark red ribbon for Fire Nation and light green ribbon for Earth Kingdom necklaces. Orange pendant and yellow ribbon for Air Nomads, though I'm beginning to reconsider there. My brother has also put in his two cents and wants a red version of Fire Nation, so I may as well make alternates in addition to making chocolates. Mmm, chocolate...

Oh, nabbed a couple of cute pictures of Conan on Saturday, too; caught him doing his water-glass trick, wherein he balances on the rim and ducks his head down to get a drink. Arthur was also a master of this. The glass featured here is half-full, and thus required me holding it steady, but he got there all on his own. It's almost more hilarious when it's empty and he's just hanging on with his toes X3 One and two. (Note: No rats were harmed in the collection of these photos.)

And that's really about it. I think I'll get back to making plans for