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Yes, I'm doing National Novel Writing Month again this year, and November is plodding along. I reached 40k yesterday, catching up finally after being behind most of the month.

www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/528… - that's me on the nano site.

I am planning on uploading some new stuff here once I hit my 50k on the novel (and also taking the pace down to 1k a day). I already made some new chainmaille pieces, and some beaded jewelery. I found rubber rings at my local bead store, which are great for bracelets without claps (I used them as the small rings in Japanese 6 in 1).

I do also have something fun with origami paper, wood, and mod podge, but seeing as how that's a gift, I need to send it out first before posting pictures online.

My computer just got upgraded to Windows 7 yesterday, and it's pretty cool so far (well, except for the lack of sound, but a sound card will fix that - and it's been an ongoing issue, not just 7). I'm still in the process of installing programs back on the computer, so far I have anti-virus, and Fire Fox installed.

But the best thing about Windows 7 so far, is they updated MS Paint a bit. It now has some fun "brushes". Not only that, but it no longer has a default file save type as jpeg. Now when I do pixel art I don't have to make sure to keep changing the file type when saving. Having it default to png is great.

I'm still working on unpacking, and stepping over boxes with stuff for my computer area. And I'm getting ready for National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo, or nano). So ya, busy busy. I do have a few new necklaces I've made, which I need to photograph yet. Speaking of necklaces, Softflex beading wire is awesome. I got one of their "trios" packs, and it's nice to work with. So flexible, and the coating on it is a bit softer than the Beadalon I've been using. It feels more like a cord than nylon coated steel wires.

Well, still working on unpacking, a few boxes a night. But I at least have my jewelery stuffs out and have been doing some beading. I restrung my Silver Drop Necklace , replacing the nylon string with bead stringing wire. The string was starting to get a bit to much slack to it, and I put a better clasp on it in the process; replacing a barrel clasp with a lobster claw/trigger. I also put a new jump ring on a necklace I made awhile back so I could wear that again.

And I made a new necklace. It was fun creating again, I was starting to miss my beads. I had three purple faceted glass beads (around 12mm), which I used some nice translucent Czech glass rounds (8mm) using Topaz and Aqua colored ones. I also used some turquoise cat's eye beads and some metal silver colored 'bugle' beads. Now I just have to take some pictures of it.

I started another necklace, one I want to mix beads and chain. I made a few pieces of beads on wire, a cat's eye bead with spacers then the Czech glass beads on the ends. I'm debating using some random chain I have around here, or if I should buy some more.

My husband and I moved into our new house, and are continuing to get settled. I finally got around to hooking my computer up, which is now connected to the internet. So I'm playing catchup on various online stuff.

Luckily it was a local move, so while we still had to pack up we could make multiple trips to take things to the house. Our cats are even happy here, Trixie the older cat is living it up with the extra space, while Maya (nervous cat) is starting to explore the house.

My craft stuff is still packed up yet, but hopefully this week I'll pull it out and get it settled. While packing stuff from my shelf I found some nice stones I'm itching to wrap.

Go read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Chapter 8 is up, and it's a good one. There's even an LJ community for fans.

Ya, I mostly wanted to test out a new journal skin, and mention Fairyland.

I made a collection of Fairyland art:
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