BPAL of the Day:
Poisoned Apple: A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.
This reminds me very much of The Hesperides, minus the candied sweetness. Also, whereas The Hesperides felt very green to me, in my mind's eye, I'm picturing a very perfect red apple-- very true to the description. This smells scrumptious-- I certainly would take a bite. As the apple top note wears off, though-- I do smell something herbal and incensy. The oleander is most predominant, the opium only coming out after the scent is completely dry and most of the apple note has gone. A lingering poison, I like that.
It's Monday, and I slept fitfully last night. I actually dreamt that I called in sick and turned off my alarm clock. Oh, if only. The weather is dreadful right now-- the wind howled all night long and nearly blew me off my feet this morning. It's cold and damp, and tonight, it might snow. Hi, weather? Yeah. I put away most of my winter clothes, 'cause, you know, it's April. I am ready to wear pretty long skirts, so if you don't mind, please raise the temperature above fifty, please and thank you.
I did take a quick trip to thecrack craft store yesterday-- in addition to more wire and a strawberry quartz focal bead, I found really fun art paper. Cheesily enough, it's called the "Happily Ever After" stack-- beautiful Ever After type prints. Florentine, arabesques, fairy tale motif. Cute, and I'm going to use it as wrapping for my jewelry. Today, I begin whittling down my currently $160 supply order to about $120, so I can place it on Thursday. It'll be hard, as you can't really cut corners with findings, and focal beads and shells are expensive.
Got through "Downloaded" last night in my BSG viewing, and ( spoiler!Collapse )
More coffee.
Poisoned Apple: A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.
This reminds me very much of The Hesperides, minus the candied sweetness. Also, whereas The Hesperides felt very green to me, in my mind's eye, I'm picturing a very perfect red apple-- very true to the description. This smells scrumptious-- I certainly would take a bite. As the apple top note wears off, though-- I do smell something herbal and incensy. The oleander is most predominant, the opium only coming out after the scent is completely dry and most of the apple note has gone. A lingering poison, I like that.
It's Monday, and I slept fitfully last night. I actually dreamt that I called in sick and turned off my alarm clock. Oh, if only. The weather is dreadful right now-- the wind howled all night long and nearly blew me off my feet this morning. It's cold and damp, and tonight, it might snow. Hi, weather? Yeah. I put away most of my winter clothes, 'cause, you know, it's April. I am ready to wear pretty long skirts, so if you don't mind, please raise the temperature above fifty, please and thank you.
I did take a quick trip to the
Got through "Downloaded" last night in my BSG viewing, and ( spoiler!Collapse )
More coffee.
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