Aside from jewelry-making and... well... shop-set-upping... I've been happily engaged playing the latest installment in one of my favorite video game series. Resident Evil 5, a zombie-esque survival horror action/adventure game, is turning out to be a blast. Here's a few screenshots of what the gameplay looks like. The graphics are amazing.
This time around, the game takes place in an area of Africa that has become infested with the Plaga virus. Last time it was in a remote part of Spain, and before that it was the T- and G-viruses infesting the fictional American enviorns of Racoon City. This series is really making the rounds, globally speaking. Heck, in Code Veronica parts of the game took place in Antarctica.
Anyway, as you can see, the graphics are superb. The infected villagers have such realistic movements, whether walking down the street, glaring at you with arms crossed, or coming at you with axes and crossbows. It's fantastic. The gameplay is riveting. Right now I'm making my way through a creepy underground mine while my partner, the sexy native Sheva Alomar, holds a large flashlight so that I can make my way around without running headlong into axe-wielding, murderous infestees. Way fun.
Tonight I plan on making some more hairsticks for my shop. I've got a nice stock of a few different lengths and types of sticks and I'm really looking forward to coming up with designs for them. I also have some cool new silver combs and some amazing-looking crystalline leaves that I want to mix with ice-blue glass flowers and dark blue, irridescent Japanese fringe beads to make a wintry-looking design. I can't wait.
BTW, here's a pic of the earring design that I just sold. It's called "Poison Ivy."
The design went through several permutations before I finally settled on this arrangement, which i think is wicked-cool. I'm not surprised that it's the first to sell; I'll have to make another copy of them to upload to my shop again soon.
In other news, I saw my therapist yesterday and he said again that I'm making really great progress lately. I think that part of the reason is that I'm channeling a lot of the negative energy and stress into my jewelry-making... it's so satisfying to take a mixed assortment of materials and, through trial and error, turn it into something lovely. It's like taking all of my mixed-up emotions and organizing them into something manageable and integrating it all into my psyche. Very cathartic. It's also wonderful to know that my friends -- and now a customer -- enjoy the fruits of my labor. I dearly love making lemonade out of the lemons life throws my way. :)
Well, that's it for now. I leave you with this hilarious mock-ad for Merit cigarettes. Enjoy!
LOL, right?! Okay, laters!
2 comments:
Big congratulations on your first(of many!) sale. I knew you could do it. Cool earrings too by the way. And glad to see you post...I've missed you. *sob,sob*.teehee.
Aw, I just love you to pieces!!! :D I made another sale today, too... Wheee!
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