Suffering for my art

[beelikej]

I've been longing to post more, but when I'm not working, I'm busy with my artwork for the Reverse Bang and trying (and failing) to keep up with housework (haha).

Hopefully I'll have a little bit more room to breathe in the next few weeks. I unexpectedly have to take a load of days off, after collecting too much free time in the past few months! Officially I work 32 hours per week, but I've been on the job for 36 hours for most of the time, which counts as overtime. Obviously there are no funds available to pay for these hours, so the boss ordered me to take time off. I now have almost all Wednesdays off until the end of the year and in November I'm adding a couple of Mondays and Fridays to create long weekends so I can focus on my artwork:)

I also have a vacation from December 21st until January 1st. Does anyone want to come over for fangirling or a slumberparty or both?

This weekend I've been working on my designs for the first Reverse Bang story of this year, which will go online on November 12. You may have already guessed by the prompt I made that it's hands on art; I've been doing a lot of papercutting. This morning I discovered a blister on my indexfinger, which I use to push the knife down. This also happens to be the finger I use for scrolling AND IT HURTS! *pouts*

Last week I dressed my mannequins for winter; seeing them in flimsy summer outfits made me feel cold, so I put some extra clothes on them:


It's only socks for these two, because I fear upside down pants will slide down, but trust me when I say this already feels a lot warmer than seeing them barefoot;)


If you remember: this guy usually wears nothing but a leather vest (and a Hufflepuff scarf;)


I also changed the wig of my lady-model from long red braids to blonde pigtails.


I love this sweater, but my shoulders are too broad to wear it myself.


Somehow the lack of clothes on these guys doesn't bother me. So they can stay naked. ;-)


Last but not least: a PSA. In the past few weeks my journal has been under attack by spambots. I don't know if this is a general problem, but it seems like the Powers That Be at LJ are more concerned about making yet more changes nobody asked for instead of solving this issue. I had turned on CHAPTA but that's apparently not a big enough defence wall, so I've decided to disable anonymous comments. I hate to do that, but getting over 60 spammessages a day is really pissing me off, so until I find a better way to deal with that, only people with an online ID (Livejournal or other digital identity) will be able to comment. I hope it works. But seeing as I already received another UGGboots spam comment while I was writing this post, I doubt it. *sighs* ETA: never mind, those were directed at some nickngreg posts that I'm tracking. Fingers crossed!

Comments

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

Ohhh man, I would love to come over for a slumber party, except for how it's a) right before my exams and b) the busiest retail period of the time. I am going to take a week off work near the beginning of Feb though. I was thinking of going to Berlin or Rome for a day or three, but if you have a weekend to spare I would love some long overdue fangirling :D?

Your mannequins look so fashionable, bless! <3

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

But... but... birthday *wobbly lip*

I understand bb, we'll find a way to organize a slumberparty some other time.

Those wide shoulders were made for that chocoholic hoodie;)

[sillie]

Does anyone want to come over for fangirling or a slumberparty or both?

Meee! I'd love to come over! But it'll have to be on a weekend, 'cause I'm working that first week of the holiday. :)

Your mannequins are looking good! :D

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

\o/ Mail me with dates?

Thanks:)

[sillie]

Yup. Gonna mail you right now. :D