Starting April 7th we’re adding 2 days of posting! Thoughtsperations on Sunday, Tuesday & Friday on Instagram – TikTok – YouTube & Facebook. FabFierceFabled on Monday, Wednesday & Saturday on Instagram & TikTok.
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Breaking News
New Year new ….
Hiya all!
I just wanted to pop in and catch up. There’s not a whole lot but slow and steady is the theme for this year. I do overwhelm very well but it doesn’t mesh with the schedule I have had available for the past few years.
If you shop on Amazon in the US, Japan, UK or Germany you can buy a few of my Magpie Muddles designs. Currently only on t shirts but if y’all have a preference, let me know and when I have the option to expand I’ll be sure to put it on the top of the list. I wish there were more countries with the option but I’m grateful for the opportunity.
The Magpie Muddles threadless is progressing with designs. Most are hidden awaiting their release. I’m excited to share so many new ideas with you!
I will be doing the adjustments and closing a few of the redbubble shops. Magpie Muddles will remain. I plan on having at least an exclusive design or option to each outlet.
I still have my Kalamity Raine YouTube archives to get released into the wilds. Yes I know it’s been forever and I’m sure some will ask what’s the point. I want them for myself, to remind myself of the joy, the fun and the hard work I’ve had. Of course all the great people I’ve met!
I have been doing sims4 build challenges. You can see them through the gallery (search KalamityRaine). It’s been a blast and I plan on setting loose one of my own this year. I don’t know if live-streaming is a thing that will return but I can promise you I’m still around so say hi.
Thoughtsperations is back. Look for posts currently once a week. Yes the timing will increase but slow and steady is my speed limit. Being one person looking after all this and IRL things is a lot especially when I’m not fully back from my major ankle injury last April.
There’s always other irons in the fire but it’s a lot of behind the scenes work going on. My focus is getting better organized so I can interact and engage consistently. I’ve got a lot of IRL things to get in place and sort to get where I want things to be but I’m grateful for every moment and challenge.
I have one really big project I’m looking forward to starting and sharing but we’ll chatter about that more as the time gets closer.
Until then…
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xo
Lucy, we got some catching up to do….
Let’s not talk about how long it’s been… ok.
I wanna tell you I was ready to post on New Years Eve (yes I said NYE) and my world was ripped out from under me. I’m mad about that because I had my 2023 year planned out. I knew exactly what and where and when. And poof, in an instant, it was nope. Nothing I’m going to get into because it repeated 2 more times after and it’s all discussed and sorted. But I’m so angry when I had begun to recover from the first and was organized and ready to begin two months into the year, was the second….ugh. Let’s just say sometimes life is a skill testing quiz you don’t have the answers for.
And then April came. My Lola passed at the end of August 2021 (as those of you who follow me will remember) and it was my Victor and I and he was my shadow. He twisted his leg in March and began to go downhill. He passed in my arms at home at the start of April. I’m still lost without him. And then a week later because I couldn’t sit in my thoughts, I decided against my spawns suggestion of not attempting anything for a while, to start the spring setup. I fell and messed up my ankle (that had already been injured many years ago) to the point I couldn’t put weight on it for over a month. I still can’t walk properly but everything’s still attached so it’s a win.
So needless to say my attentions been elsewhere. I have managed new designs. I have set up a new shop but up until today still haven’t listed it here, whoops! So let’s at least share it here now https://magpiemuddles.threadless.com/ . Yes, my Threadless shop has designs none of the others do. No none of the other shops are gone yet. I do have plans to simplify shops and social medias. It’s really just to make things easier for all of us. I promise I haven’t begun, but when I do I will post all the info here.
I fill like this year has been humbling. Honestly I’m still trying to get my feet back under me literally and figuratively. There’s a bunch of housecleaning to do and a whole bunch of really cool things to come. I’m sorry for leaving y’all waiting.
au revoir
xo
I
It’s TAE time
It doesn’t look like much yet, but it’s my first watercolour ever. When it’s done, it’s on its way to TAE23 . Though it’s squeezing in at the deadline I’m happy to have something with the chaos that has been going on since the very end of 2022. I’m looking forward to more watercolours, more designs in the shops and much more enjoyable times.
Can’t wait to show you the finished work and update you on all the changes that will be happening soon!
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Bizzzzzzzy 🐝
Today’s been busy.
There was the creating and posting to the thoughtsperations accounts. Usual IG and YouTube Monday posts. Of course today starting late is the day I have to redo the video portion. It’s done, posted and I’m happy. Yes, I still need to update a bunch of links. That’ll happen within a week. For those of you who don’t know, thoughtsperations is a motivation / chill / inspirational / sleep / background noise mishmash of long videos for sleep or study and short motivational videos. Let me know how your enjoying the channel.
Today Parapopulous made a return ish. It’s a catch up podcast with a bonus question for y’all. Is live everywhere (more specifically Apple Music / Spotify / Deezer / Amazon Music / Google Podcasts / Stitcher and of course straight from the Podomatic feed.) It’s also up on the YouTube channel later now. See the above note about links needing to be updated.
There’s of course postings all over to catch up on and make. It’s feeling like running a marathon right now and I’ve still got things to add to my rotation. Once I get my footing again it’ll be just the norm but for now it’s going to take some getting used to.
I’m sure there’s something I’ve forgotten but we’ll get to it next time. Follow along on the social medias to keep up with the adventures.
au revoir
xo
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P.S. How are you guys liking the free background on the RainOfIris IG?
Life Inbetween
So today we got the news we knew was coming but didn’t want to hear. The doctors have given my father 3 months. Well, 6 would be a miracle and at any point if he has another breathing issue.
I guess in some ways it’s easier knowing than him just not being alive one day, hit by a bus or heart attack or something shockingly sudden. It’s hard though, knowing basically when because we all know death is inevitable and it’s going to happen, but having that date on it is almost unbearable. And having to keep up a front because he doesn’t know is even more so.
So perhaps I should tell you what might kill him first? Infection, one of a few. Pneumonia, which he’s had 3 times since November. Or dehydration because he’s had more going out than coming in, though this is the least likely. The currently in a three way tie with infection and pneumonia is the main villain in it all, lung cancer. And somehow I thought he’d beat it too.
I say too because this is his third time technically. All the previous ones each time the doctors said his chances were bad. They were really small miracles at how he fought and recovered. The first took his right shoulder blade and the muscle around it. He almost died from blood loss after he came home when his wound opened. The second esophagus, the surgery taking his stomach with it because of complications. He almost died that time with the infection because they missed cleaning out all the tissue.
Then there was an initial spot on a lung that they got. And then in November of 2018 it came back. He had the first third of 2019 doing chemo because radiation wasn’t an option. And then it started going downhill. The feeling in his hands and feet went because of the chemo. It stopped working because he couldn’t move around to circulate it. And then the infections started. And last Wednesday it was really the beginning of the end.
He had a reaction to a new medication. He bottomed out, couldn’t breath and was beyond erratic. We couldn’t do anything to fix it and 911 to the hospital was the only option. And he’s been there dealing with all the fallout of it.
And now we deal with the fallout of it. Of knowing things we wish we didn’t have to know. Trying to hold our broken hearts together. Keeping it as normal as we can to keep the unfortunate truth from from the person who is carrying and battling enough already.
Please don’t go without saying things to the people in your life, one day it’s going to be too late.
Please forgive my absence in all my things. I’ll try to be around as much as I can for the next while.
au revoir
xo
I
It’s just…
It’s just exhausting, heartbreaking, time consuming, and so much more than I can put into words.
I had plans for 2020. The things the year has given me is not at all what I wanted. I had a visit from my bestie December and January but come the start of February they had to leave and go back home. And as always when they leave, it breaks my freaking heart.
I began the new year flat on my back, and not in the fun way, with my back injury flaring up. It was a long month and I’m still not fully back to my normal. I also somehow managed to get a sinus thing that won’t go away, which leaves me thinking sinusitis because the past few years have all been like this.
The big thing is my dad. His illness is beginning to literally eat him alive. I spend most of my day with him then go to deal with the house and yard work and of course making sure my mom is looked after through all of it. It is beyond anything he can fight and it’s the beginning of the end. It’s really difficult watching the man I’ve known my whole life as strong and someone nothing could get in his way be steamrolled by cancer. He’s fought 3 times and it might not even be the cancer that does it. It’s unfair to all of us losing him like this, and it’s beyond unfair to him to have to go like this.
So folks that is why I’ve been MIA. I’ll do what I can to keep up with things with you and for you. Thanks for sticking through this with me.
au revoir
xo
I
Best year start ever
…..not!
As you may have guessed this has not been the start to the year I was looking for ( to paraphrase a well known Star Wars line ).
My back injury flared up literally when I woke up January 1st!! How rude! As usual with no rhyme or reason. I’m just getting to the point where movement isn’t completely agonizing and nearly possible. It’s been way too long and I’m getting irritated at how much I’ve been kept from doing with it. I know I should be used to it, I mean it’s happened before, but every time I go through this. I’m super happy I didn’t lose the ability to walk, like I have twice before. Or that it seems to be passing in less than a month or two, which it’s taken that long before. I just hate leaving things and y’all in a lurch.
I look forward to sitting up and getting back into things. Of course I haven’t been completely empty handed. I’ve been working on ideas for the upcoming thing I mentioned but didn’t. I’ve also started 2 new Instagrams um.yeah.lol and thoughtsperations and their respective twitters um.yeah.lol and thoughtsperations . Why I’ve added to everything I’ll never be able to tell you but I do really enjoy it all.
I have so many ideas to get out in the shops and I’m so looking forward to seeing y’all in the streams as well. Thanks for being so patient!
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xo
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And the Etsy shop is ….
open!
It’s currently 6 patterns as I type this but there will be more to come. Some will be designs I’ve created and used on my clothing and accessories. Some will be brand new just for the shop. It perhaps was not the best timing to launch but I tend to do things as they occur LOL.
I am allowing a production of no more than 50 by a sole maker because I know being a maker can get expensive. I hope you’ll let people know where you bought the pattern from so I can continue my making. Of course, no copying or selling of the pattern. I hope you’ll all enjoy them and do be sure to tag me so I can see all your hard work!
Back to the creating for me and wishes for a happy holidays to you all.
au revoir
xo
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