I didn't meant to spend $125 at Ikea. Looking back on it, it was bound to happen. I was starting to have too much stuff in my studio, and not enough ways to organize it, so piles were forming. I ended up getting a white box shelf and lots of small organizers to fill it. Now my art supplies are neatly stacked on their shelves, and my makeup collection/nail polishes are sorted in their organizers in the box shelf, with two bamboo bins that hold scarves and hairbands and dance odds and ends. The printer has a place to be other than the dining room table. SO much cleaner. Happy Virgo is Happy.

Saturday morning, I was supposed to deliver a wholesale order to a boutique who'd requested one, but when we got there, the shop was closed due to flu. Poop. Turned lemons in to lemonade and struck out to scout out other boutiques to carry my work. I found two potentially interested in Ellicott City. I have two weeks to throw together sample kits that work for their aesthetic.

Missed out on Kallisti dancing at Moonlight Tribal, and was sad about that.

Today, I have resin projects to finish for custom orders. Having a hard time getting warm, though, so I might treat myself to a hot bath tonight.

So I have decided that I *am* going to start a beauty blog. I'm going to transfer a couple of more recent makeup posts from here over to there, and I have a post of drugstore beauty favorites post ready to go when I do. The only thing that's holding me up is the name. I want something that evokes illumination, or glitter, or glow, or iridescence. So far, I've had little luck coming up with something I'm satisfied with. Ironically "Addicted To Glitter" is already taken by someone named Christina, and there's a beauty blog that uses Sihaya, as well. I keep waiting for inspiration to hit, but so far no dice.

I am also growing far past impatient for Sephora to offer a 500 pt reward item that is actually interesting. Right now, all they have is a Josie Maran argan oil kit, and I AM GETTING SO TIRED OF THE OIL TREND. Like, I get it. Useful product. But one can only try so many hair oils. There has been no new 500 point reward for about three weeks now, and I am one of those people who will hold off on a purchase until I can get the most bang for my buck. And right now, I am eyeing one of the Urban Decay build your own palette kits. As much as I love my Stila In The Light Kit, I am out of the color I use most (a matte ivory), almost out of my preferred crease shade (matte fawn brown), and running low on the other two neutrals I use a lot-- but half the palette remains mostly untouched. I thought about Urban Decay's Naked palette, but it has no matte ivory, and their Naked Basics, but three of the six shades look damn near identical. So I think I'm going to build my own. At the very least, if I run out of something, I can just replace that shade rather than buying a whole new palette.

For Palette 1, I am thinking basic neutrals. The stuff I use every day. The palette I want already comes with an ivory matte, so I was thinking of adding Buck (a warm matte medium brown), Blunt (light metallic gold, my go-to shade for my lids), Half Baked (golden bronze), Twice Baked (a dark brown with gold highlight), and Snatch (light golden peach). There are a ton of other colors I love in the more theatrical range, but the need to have them isn't as burning as it is a good compact neutrals kit.

But that's like, $60 more than just getting the Naked palette and a plain matte neutral ivory, so I don't know. INDECISION.

Aaaaaanywho. Got stuff to do. Back to it!

An introduction. An envelope arrived today, fluttering out of my mailbox so that I had to stoop down to pick it up. Curiously light, sans return address. It contained only a barcode and a short request.

I’m headed down the rabbit hole.