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My brother sent me a pair of steampunk goggles (and an amazing book to go with them). The zip-up sweater that I am wearing is what happens when you go to the " Click this to feed shelter cats and dogs " and of course it turns out there is stuff that you can buy to also support the shelters, and I found a Nepalese patterned hoodie and well, here it is. It kind of says "crazy cat lady" but it's super soft and has made one successful trip through the wash already. My friend Prae sent me some hair models as well--this one is from RuntimeDNA and is designed for Victoria4, the model is called "Anfa" and like all her models is super easy to use. The character is Fu-minn's Ami from Renderosity.com And finally it is baking season! J has his method of keeping everything organized in the kitchen. Post-its in our kitchen means that some kind of treat is coming: Here it is! Raspberry chocolate torte, super chocolatey!

She's here! Stripey is not interested in boxes any more; the porch is full of boxes that we recently unpacked, so she is more interested in squirrels. But I was thrilled! Here Sidonia is nested in her Styrofoam: And there was a nice note from Crocus Lee with her certificate! I admit the first thing I did when I took her out of the box was not stand her up, or put eyes in her, but to pull out her hip so I could see what the string is SUPPOSED to look like--and look! It's the end of the string that goes there!! (As a side note, Sidonia is much whiter than this--I have yellow overhead lights. You can see her color best in the last outside photo.) As soon as my shoulder is better, my Katrien is going to get restrung like this. Because Sidonia stands and moves just fine: Even with no eyes, such a cute face! And even nicer in person--the resin is translucent enough the camera does not show the tiny details in her upper lip or her forehead. I love her nose, too--it is adorable: S...