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[butterflydreaming]

But I'm not beating myself up for the slip. It's not like I'm doing this for anyone but myself, anyway.

Lovely little scenes and dialog have been percolating in my head, but sadly, not the right ones. But if I can't produce anything else at the end of the month, I'll probably do the Touya/Yukito piece that precedes the opening chapter of "Take Comfort". I've always wondered if anyone wondered about how that had happened.

Today is a writing day, so I'll be looking at chapter 2. If I lose interest, I might try writing the action scene that happens much later on (there was going to be a scene in Fusenkago that would have looked too much like it, so I'm relieved about abandoning that). It would certainly be something different for me. I never realized that Liliel was scarier than her sister until I thought of that part.

If not, there are a few other highlight scenes that I could do. If Key builds up like "Clow Stories" did, that would be fine -- a piece of a scene here, a dialog sketch there.

I needed to start a new pen & ink journal, so I started binding one yesterday, out of all recovered (recycled) materials: AOL plastic CD cases for the "bookboard" and some lovely 25% cotton bond that is from a ream (and almost complete ream!) of outdated City of Seattle letterhead. (L used to work for the City -- technically still does -- and she rescued it from becoming scratch paper.) I'm still not sure what to use for the book cloth. The temptation is to recreated the Clow Book look, but then it won't store well later. (Now I want to make a Clow Book with the cutout space and everything. But I've cut out a book before, and it was evil. Don't worry; the writing in that book defaced the paper.)

This morning my project is to clear off my craft space table (humorously still called the "pottery table", despite not being used for such except once or twice). That table was used/built as an altar for (probably dark) magic by the previous tenant of this apartment, have I ever mentioned that? It's just a table now, but we had some issues in the beginning. The only evil it does now is promote the collection of "I can use this later in something" kind of stuff, and the clutter is astounding. Somewhere in there is the copper tape (the kind used for stained glass) that I want to use on the journal. And the bamboo skewers. And possibly, Jimmy Hoffa, the missing evolutionary link, and the socks that disappear from everyone's dryers.

Looking at it right now, I can see:
-Joss paper
-embroidery edged mirrors, the kind for embellishing clothes
-a very large plastic bag (like dropcloth)
-a paper Sanrio bag
-a Kinokuniya plastic bag, which I believe is full of other bags
-a scissor sharpener
-a stack of AOL CD and cases
-clear glass Christmas balls, some with beading
-twigs
-embroider cloth
-a first attempt at making soles
-my bags of glues, brushes, etc w/ a quilting ruler sticking out
-a grass mat (for felting)
-several boxes of mysterious contents... rubber stamping supplies, if I remember correctly.
-a broken teacup, full of random things, of course
-and I know, though I cannot see, that all my polymer clay supplies (except my exactos, those are put away properly), PearlEx, and such, are also in the chaos

This table measures about 5'x3', yet it's capacity is amazing. And that's just some of the stuff on top of it.
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In other news, I bought a virus scan update and a software for Mozilla yesterday. Hopefully, I haven't just attracted the notice of the "imp of the perverse".