I was catching up on this week’s Scandal last night and really enjoying that they used all classic Janet Jackson songs as their soundtrack. And then it dawned on me that this was Super Bowl weekend and this was probably Shonda Rimes’s way of throwing up a middle finger, seeing as Justin Timberlake was performing and all.
I’m trying to liaise with someone who is texting me from Venezuela about someone who is coming over here with the intention of working on Chris’s farm and jesus aside from the fact that my Spanish really sucks these days… typing in Spanish is a slow and painful process. Ugh.
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In one of the resin jewelry groups I belong to on facebook, someone posted that they received a threatening message from another vendor claiming that they were stealing their designs and asked for help on how to handle it.
This happens quite often in the art community. And yes people steal. All the time. Huge, well known companies rip off the work of artists ALL the time. And other artists do the same thing. A big problem is people stealing the photographs of other people’s work and passing it off as theirs. Then when someone buys the piece the receive a poor replica of someone else’s work.
That said, there are a lot of people who get accused of stealing and copying who are innocent. There are a lot of paranoid artists out there. I’ve had it happen to me. And it’s something I take very seriously. But the person in question was being ridiculous. Furthermore I saw tons on pieces on their site that were similar to others I saw online. I said as much and never heard from them again.
I just feel that it must be really exhausting to go through life feeling like everyone’s out to get you. There’s enough for all of us and you have to have faith in your work. Beyond that you have very little control.
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You have to get to the point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else.
This is go time. All planets are direct right now, nothing is retrograding until march. Use this energy wisely, focus and work hard on what you want to manifest into the physical world. Right now the universe is supporting action.
I mean I know I’m pms-ing… but I was watching The Good Place and it made me tear up. And then I watched Grey’s Anatomy and I was choking back the tears. I’m like afraid to watching anything else right now.
I had a lunch date with a fellow jewelry maker who wanted to treat me as a thank you for helping and sort of training her.
She messaged me early this morning with a weird message and said she would get back to me later. We were supposed to have lunch at 1pm. By 2:15 I hadn’t heard from her and decided to go get my hair cut and my roots touched up.
I’m pissed cause a) I’m hungry and b) I think the least she could have done was contact me to cancel. I dunno man I’m way too polite to just fuck off on someone when I’ve made plans with them.
Malcolm X and Fidel Castro meet in 1959 during Castro’s visit to the United States soon after taking power in Cuba. At the time of his visit, Castro had not yet become communist, and both he and American leaders were feeling each other out. Castro managed to charm many Americans. His meeting with Malcolm X was intended to connect two groups that felt oppressed by mainstream America – Latin Americans and African Americans.
When you decide to sleep in cause you slept badly the night before and you took the day off and then everybody and dey muddah decide to text you starting at 7 in de morning… make a girl wanna cuss.
Another note: This is in reference to the Filipino legend from Albay called “Daragang Magayon” [literally translated into “beautiful maiden”, with “daraga” meaning “maiden” and “magayon” meaning “beautiful”]
She’s a folk heroine, whose love story can be read here
It is said that her lover, Panganoron, is the clouds that surround Mt. Mayon’s peak, while she is herself the volcano, which has always been seen as remarkably beautiful in shape
It’s said that the volcano grew where they were buried together
Which is why the shape of two lovers seen in the smoke of its most recent eruption is so culturally significant.
Invest in Google, Apple the moment they’re open for trading.
By the time I’m 50 I’ll have far more than 10 million.
Fucking blue all the way. Imagine what it would be like to be 10 and still have people treating you like a kid when you have the knowledge of a middle aged adult? Plus 50 is only five years from now for me. I will give up five years if I have $10 million nooooooo problem.
I had business meeting for the past two days and I have another short one tomorrow and the question on my mind is how do people wear makeup every day? I just find it a pain in the ass to wear it for more than one day in a row. I must be letting myself go in my old age.
The single greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. Too often we don’t listen to understand—we listen to reply. Bring awareness to this. And listen for what’s truly behind the words.
There are certain situations in which one must completely surrender themself, and allow for the natural way of things to take its own course. Not all things can be controlled, and thus can only be experienced in the way that it’s meant to.
I’m sitting here trying to remember if I ate dinner or not. I think I thought about it so much that I felt like I did… but I just realised I had a late lunch and no dinner. How the fuck can I forget if I ate dinner or not? Anyway right on schedule at this time of night I’m hungry.
Chronic pain is exhausting. It definitely wears you out. You don’t realize how much energy you expend on dealing with it until you don’t hurt
This has to explain why I’m feeling so full of energy lately. Generally I have to weigh the “pain cost” of everything I do whether it be work, socializing, chores etc. Usually I can only do one of those things in a day and then I’m spent. Today I’ve felt energetic in a way I haven’t felt in years. I honestly did not realise how much I was struggling until now.
I don’t understand why almost every retailer who has ever approached me (because I’ve never approached anyone ) to carry my line wants me to either do an exclusive line for their store or somehow change my aesthetic to suit theirs.
If you like my stuff why can’t you just sell what I make? Do you have any idea what it costs me to make an exclusive line for you? Just take what I’m making or leave me alone. When I was now starting out I used to accommodate that shit. I refuse now. It has never, ever been worth it. I’m so fed up of people approaching me and gushing about how their customers would love my pieces and then demanding that I give them something different. It makes zero sense to me.
My pain is all in the shoulders and neck – does it seem promising for that part of the back? I might want to give it a go…
I can confirm that it does help with neck and shoulder pain. One day in particular I was very sore in that area and did the workout and felt fantastic after. If you click on the link you can read the course description.
I did lesson 5 today of my spinal workout. I skipped Saturday because of work and Sunday and Monday because I was being lazy. But the one thing I noticed is that even up to today my pain was almost non existent. I’ve done endless back workouts over the years and usually my pain will subside until the next day and then I have to do it all over again. This has been the first time I’ve been able to stop and remain basically pain free. What I also noticed is that even after a two and a half hour meeting and then battling rush hour traffic in the scorching sun, I came home and I didn’t feel tired. I’m wondering if my constant fatigue is just a side effect of being worn down by chronic pain. It never occurred to me before. Does this happen to any of you who have chronic pain? I’d be interested to see if there’s a correlation. Anyhow I feel amazing and I want to spread to gospel about this workout because it’s the first time I’ve found any real relief in decades and that alone feels like a miracle.
Here’s a link to the course if anyone is interested.
Hey guys, this is for you digital artists out there.
My friends have created this site for tracking your images, it’s called copypants.com.
It sucks finding people who repost your art without crediting you. On top of finding your images, Copypants acts as a middleman for interacting with the reposters. They make it really easy to send credit requests to people reposting your work.
“If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”-Jane Epenson
FACE FORWARD – Meet the Photographer Advocation for Black Beauty in the Fashion Industry: Glenford Nuñez
“You photograph what you see around and the things you care about,” Nuñez says. “My mom is a Black woman. My sister is a Black woman. These are the people I love, so I want them to be depicted in the best possible light.” He is on a mission to capture at least 100 aspiring Black models to affirm that our beauty — inside an out — is worthy of praise.
and first off, I’m 5’7, 5’11 in dance shoes, 170 pounds, broad shoulders and big hips and not small in any dimension. For a ballroom dancer, this means a lot of time spent learning the men’s parts. Especially in lifts.
I’ve had years now of guys kinda just going “lol heck naw” when told to lift me. I don’t admit this part much, but it makes me want to sink into the ground and die when every other girl can be lifted, but I’m just too big.
So this guy, smaller than me and really cute, shows up at auditions and I see this girl across the room getting tossed about like the beautiful pixie she is, and apparently I looked a little wistful because this boy asked me if I liked lifts.
“Oh. I… Uh… I’ve never really done the girls part. I’m a little big, haha…” (laugh it off, as usual.)
He looked me dead in the eye and then picked me up like a movie princess, bounced me in the air a few times, and set me down effortlessly while telling me whoever refused to lift me before was just being a lazy wimp.
I seriously doubt this boy will ever really get how much that meant to me. But, holy cow. Some faith in humanity just got restored.
This young Elven queen rules over her cold snowkingdom through this magical stone. hidden in the tower of her castle. I so love the colors in this painting.
Maybe i’m just irritable today but like why would ppl just assumed I’m available on weekends for them to come pick up their orders? I don’t get to have a weekend too? Steups.
I’m with you on this – she should pay for a replacement if she’s the one who chipped it. I purchased a “vintage” (no way was it not brand-new and cheap) kyanite ring from Etsy and the stone fell out after one wear – that was on the seller and I sent it back for a full refund. Had it been my carelessness I would have found some way to repair it.
If the stone had fallen out, especially after just one month I’d have definitely replaced it for free. But yeah I didn’t think I should bear the cost in this case
I’d ask the creator if they’d be able to repair it, for which I would PAY, because their time and skill is VALUABLE AS FUCK… and my dumbass broke it, which is my fault, and not a reflection of the craftsmanship. (I love you and will suffocate whoever this asshat is if they’re being a turd about it.)
lol love you back honey! no nobody was being a turd. someone i sold a ring to last month that had a crystal set in it messaged me to say that the stone chipped. I asked her what she wanted to do (seeing as I wasn’t sure what angle she was coming from) and she said she had no idea. So I felt really confused. Was she holding me responsible for the fact that the stone chipped? Was she expecting me to replace it for free? So I basically told her the cost to replace the stone (which included a new setting). She said she guessed she’d have to replace it eventually then and I left it at that. It was just the whole “hey my stone chipped” that had me kind of confused cause I wasn’t sure what her expectations were. It’s crystal jewelry… it’s delicate, I can’t be responsible for what happens to it when you wear it. If the setting or ring had broken I’d have fixed it for free. But I don’t think I’m responsible when you break a stone. So yeah…
If you’re scrolling through tumblr trying to distract yourself from something you don’t want to think about or you’re looking for a sign that everything will be okay, this is it. So, breathe. Relax into this moment. You’re alive & that’s all that matters.
what if you were a muggle who went to primary school with harry potter
like, maybe you knew him a little? maybe you didn’t get close to him, you weren’t his friend, but you were nicer to him than most, and sometimes you think about the skinny orphan kid with the messy hair that you haven’t seen since you were 11, and wonder what happened to him
and then you marry a wizard, and you learn exactly what happened
My depression was ONLY a manifestation of the garbage that I was going through. No imbalance for me. But I do know people who had no trauma and still suffer. ❤️
No the article absolutely supports the idea that chemical imbalances can and do cause depression. But essentially it’s saying that out of the 9 found causes of depression, only 2 of them are actually biological and the 7 others are related to external issues.
For some reason I just thought of paella. I haven’t had paella since… well I was gonna say Venezuela but then I remember I attended the wedding of a Spanish couple when I was in Geneva and I ate it there. But that was over a decade ago. There was this restaurant in Caracas called Chocolate (spanish pronunciation) that served the best fucking paella in the whole city. I only went there twice but I still remember it. See this is what happens when I skip dinner.
This was a fascinating read. It confirmed what I have long suspected about depression (mine at least)… that it is not just due to a chemical imbalance but that trauma affects your mental health in a profound and lasting way.
I met up with my very single girlfriend today who regaled me with tales of her dating woes. Her last few dates were so bad they were actually comical. It’s a good thing she has a great sense of humour and can laugh about it. I told her she needs to write a blog. Or a book. She said everyone tells her that. Yeah that’s how bad her dates are.
She also shed some light on why another mutual girlfriend seems to have been keeping her distance from me. It still doesn’t entirely make sense but she’d been dating a friend of mine and Chris’s and things went sour and they apparently got into a custody battle over us. And she lost.
The shit that grown people will argue about never ceases to amaze me.
Way back when I worked at Starbucks, we would take turns picking the Muzak channel each day so it was always different. Sounds like someone is feeling festive today!
Well it’s carnival season so almost everywhere you go right now you will hear soca playing. I just couldn’t remember if i’d heard it there before. but why not? it’s our local music
I’m sitting in the Starbucks here at movietowne waiting for my girlfriend who’s visiting from Barbados and I just realised they’re playing soca. Is that what they always play? Or is it because it’s Carnival? I never noticed before. It’s not intrusive but someone needs to come balance the levels. The treble is way too high.
You know those people who are always telling you stories about how they put the manager of a store in their place or cussed out someone in the parking lot or whatever? Like it’s always a story about how someone didn’t get the better of them? Aside from finding them exhausting, I’ve always suspected that they feel more scared and powerless that the rest of us.
I have to drop off a necklace for a client staying at the hotel where I did a pop up shop today. I texted her and waited, no answer. Called, no answer.
She told me she’s checking out at 10 in the morning.
If she doesn’t contact me in the next hour I will not be answering her call after that. Because I told her I’d drop it right after the pop up shop ended which was an hour ago. I am not driving over there after 8 and I certainly am not getting up in the morning to drop it off for her then because Sunday is my day off and not even Jesus gets me up to go to church so hard luck there lady.
My mom flew back into Trinidad yesterday and as I was sitting there talking to her she asked me what I was doing with my skin, that it looks amazing. Her exact words were, “You’re glowing! I wanna glow too!” So I showed her the essential oil healing balm that I’ve been using as a moisturizer that has made such a huge difference in my skin.
Today she told me she spoke to a mutual friend of ours and he mentioned that he had seen me recently on two occasions and used the same description, that I’m glowing.
I’m honestly not sure if it’s my skin they’re really seeing or if it’s something else, but I gotta say that just hearing that kind of feedback makes me light up like a lightbulb.
When I brush my daughter’s hair and elaborately braid it round the side of her scalp, I am doing the thing that is expected of me. When my husband brushes out tangles before bedtime, he needs his efforts noticed and congratulated—saying aloud in front of both me and her that it took him a whole 15 minutes. There are many small examples of where the work I normally do must be lauded when transferred to my husband. It seems like a small annoyance, but its significance looms larger.
My son will boast of his clean room and any other jobs he has done; my daughter will quietly put her clothes in the hamper and get dressed each day without being asked. They are six and four respectively. Unless I engage in this conversation on emotional labor and actively change the roles we inhabit, our children will do the same. They are already following in our footsteps; we are leading them toward the same imbalance.
sorry but this trend of mirror glazing on cakes does not appeal to me one bit. give me some good old fashioned fat-filled buttercream frosting, that’ll do it.
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