Free at Last!

I am free because I quit my day job. I no longer slave over things I have designed, printed, folded and dispersed for others. Of course, I no longer have a steady paycheck either, but hey, sometimes you have to sacrifice. Also, of course, this means that my husband will have to support me but I believe that was in the original contract anyway...or at least the one I choose to imagine.

Now, after I clean up after five years' worth of slapdash housekeeping because of work and do the taxes, i.e., find the paperwork and deliver it to the accountant, I will have time to play dolls!

Unfortunately, a lot of that slapdash housekeeping included neglect of my doll room which shows it in the piles of boxes and bags and bins and Battat horses (too big to put anywhere except the "stable" under my computer desk/sewing table) and various more or less doll-scale stuff I have collected because I thought it had furniture-oid or other possibilities, and...you doll folk get the picture, I'm sure.

It also means that I will have time to put out the GENE magazine in a more regular fashion. Not to mention, keeping up a running commentary on this very blog.
      (repaint and photo by Terry Barner)

But the most important thing I believe this means is that I will have time to organize the Dolly Diva Designs Boutique and actually get it up and running. I know, I know. I hear the loud chorus of my long-suffering public (okay, my one follower) screaming, "About time!"

So. Let's see how much fun I can have and I'll report on it all right here!

Till next time.

Well, I did the HLAYG "newsletter" but it turned out to be more of a magazine...

so what do I mean? It's fourteen closely filled pages with many pictures, lots of color and I think, judging from the comments, pleasing the People. So what's next?

I said I was toying with the idea of going to the convention, yes? Now I'm serious. The news that generated the "newsletter" and which I didn't mention in my last post is that the Gene doll is being retired by Mel Odom, her creator, because he wants to get serious with art...or maybe that's Art! as in the Louvre. I understand that yen. So far I haven't been able to retire.

Anyway, somewhere there is My Passion. Maybe it has to do with putting words, art and print together with photographs and like that. But I like to design clothes, for dolls and for people, and I like to sew them after I have designed them. When am I going to do that? I also like to write, paint, sculpt wood with mallet and chisel...and there is my lifelong passion for MUSIC....

And then there are always dishes to wash, laundry to do, cat boxes to clean. Blehhh!

I'm going to bed it's 1:32:14 AM. It's TIME!!!