I Told You Sooooooooooooo 🫡

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

working on a new print

finally got a photo of rani's (left) current outfit progress together with her custom made wig and horns :D plus lyn's (right) current progress as well...!! they may already look fancy and complicated now, but don't worry, there is still so soooo much fancy and complicated things left to be made, hahaha.... ^__^......;

Craftsman lovers, you must see this perfectly preserved 1922 home in Phoenix, AZ. 2bds, 2ba, 1,678 sq ft, $665k.

Craftsmans traditionally have creamy off-white walls, but I think it looks good in green. This is a very large living room.

The layout is different in this one. The typically brick fireplace flanked by enclosed shelving and windows isn't centered, so I'm wondering if the wall between the rooms was removed to open it up.

It now houses a piano and seating, but this is clearly the dining room. It has the traditional wainscoting and beautiful built-in China cabinet.

I love the Forest Green kitchen remodel. Great choice, and the understated counter color plus subway tile backsplash tie in nicely.

They also left the original door and window.

Very nice laundry area off the kitchen.

Original hallway with the built-in linen cabinet and doors leading to the bedrooms.

This would be the primary bedroom. Look at the original glass door knob on the closet.

They're using the 2nd bedroom as a home office.

Cute bath with the original vintage tub.

Awesome yard in the back with a bonus guest house on a 7,800 sq ft lot.

Check out the beautiful guest house.

Love the colors. It has wainscoting and sliding doors to the yard.

The kitchenette has a sink and a fridge, but there's plenty of room for a stove to turn it into a rental. Next to the blue cabinet, there's a washer/dryer behind the curtain.

It has an adorable little vintage tub.

Dining room.

And, bedroom.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/125-W-Palm-Ln-Phoenix-AZ-85003/67082120_zpid/

My first "profile picture"

My traveling companion has informed me that this blog needs a "profile picture" so I do not look like a "bot". This one was the most recent flattering travel photo, so it will do. My companion had to retake this a few times - pictures at the heights I enjoy flying at are evidently hard to take.

petal in the machine

#time traveler ghost who is always confused about what year it is

#we'll make it work

You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Uh.. Be Goths are doing a kickstarter to bring back those freaky lil goth dolls, but they are also now offering "blank" dolls for customs! I am also happy to see they will have enhanced articulation.

(its one of the things thats kept me from searching ebay for old ones)

The frost is back, time will tell if we will be blessed by snow or not. Some creatures are still roaming the fields, some to hunt for food some to fuel their mind by the beauty of the frost pattern.