heh fair enough.

also, not so sure about the eyes.... i could use buttons. hmm....

If you use buttons with a stem, you could pull the string to the back of the head to make them look like fancy stuffed toy eyes. Though button eyed dolls are beautiful. I have a big rag doll with massive button eyes.

And I'm babbling from tiredness. Sorry, @trystan.


https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/756485285/crochet-pattern-eyes-for-amigurumi-dolls

i know somewhere i have buttons with stems, yeah.

i'm good at tired babbling sometimes you're fine.

Thanks, @trystan.

LOL I've been staying up too late working on a story. Makes doing other things hard. Like being awake. But I got another of the cute little mini doll kits that the dollar store sometimes carries, and they're for kids and actually easy to put together, so I've been working on her. Little fat blue haired dark skinned mermaid.

Tam_I_am

LOL I've been staying up too late working on a story. Makes doing other things hard. Like being awake.

oh i totally get that! that's like my november sometimes. when i'm actually on a roll with a really good story. my 2020 nano was.... not up to my par, i don't think. no one has read it to tell me otherwise there was more i think could do with it, but just .... don't wanna.

Awww. I've done... three NaNos. I don't think I could do another. The first one, the story just POURED out of me. It felt like it wasn't me writing at all, and it's a lot more complex than what I usually do, though still a simple and short story. The other two are set in the same Sci Fi reality as each other, though they're not really sequels as just stuff happening in the same reality.

And I got so discouraged when I was writing them. I was careful with spelling, had a plot going, but nobody was interested and were all praising the badly spelled, horribly paragraphed plotless things that were only written for porn.

@trystan


Dragon. https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/964073257/reversible-baby-dragon-plushie-stuffed?

oh that dragon is adorable!!

i totally get that, about the words pouring out. NaNo is more about the writing than the spelling. i'm sure my NaNos have horrendous grammar mistakes. in fact, i wanted to look up something in one of my nanos the other day (a name), and corrected a phrase that was missing a word
2018 and 2019 were related stories in the same world.... and 2016 was a timey-wimey prequel to the one i wrote in 2014.
i've done NaNo since 2011 (minus 2015), and 2020 was the first time it didn't feel like all the others. as my older daughter put it, i was trying to write a feel-good story in 2020. to me, it seems like there's so much more i feel i could do with it, but it's just not coming to me. but - many moons ago, i wrote a fanfic that i had trouble finishing, and i forced myself to finish it, and i didn't like it for the longest time. then, only a few years ago, i'd reread it, and it was actually pretty good!
the nanowrimo link in my sig is a link to an index of all my nanos i've written (listed reverse chronologically.)
we'll see what this november brings!

A doll to put on your wishlists, @trystan ? I like the poppel feature.

My NaNo stuff. I really disliked the main character in 'Sylvia' for a long time. But then people did read it, and they liked her and told me why, and I understood her better. And 'Other Trails' is that story that the writing books told me not to write... none of the three main characters are human. 'Sylvia' is also my attempt at Distopic fiction, and I lost a friend over it who was convinced I was being a racist hag.

ah very cool! i'll bookmark it so i have it for later

Which one are you bookmarking, @trystan. *SLOW this morning, yup*

the link with all of 'em

Oh! The stories.

Busy day today. Found a doll I want at the store, and then there are groceries to get. All before noon, but after ten o'clock.

@trystan

yep, the stories

Gotcha! Sorry for being slow.

@trystan.

it's fine, tam. i have my slow moments as well.

Had a panic attack at market today. *shakes head* But then I got home and successfully on the first try fixed a portabella cap in the frying pan and it was delicious.

@trystan

i'm doing my shopping online today
i'll pick it up tuesday after work

Ahhhh. Conwenient. But that wouldn't work for me.

I feel like a wrung out rag.

@trystan

it is convenient - i pass the road it's on every day on my way to and from work.

how does one un-wring a rag? {{hugs}}

Dunk it back in water. So maybe Tam needs to go for a nice hot soak in the bath 😁