Halloween is just fun
Okay, Halloween is just fun. Those girls grew those pumpkins themselves in their backyard, $5 each!I didn’t anticipate that people would have their kids taking photos with my spooky ladies, but of course they are. 🙂
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Okay, Halloween is just fun. Those girls grew those pumpkins themselves in their backyard, $5 each!I didn’t anticipate that people would have their kids taking photos with my spooky ladies, but of course they are. 🙂
Cookbooks 30% off today! I didn’t have a lot of energy for costuming, etc., but thankfully, a pair of steampunk goggles and a dagger + pouch will carry you a long way. Possibly mixing genres a bit — but hey, when your steampunk tech fails you, a dagger is always good for back-up. Mad scientist / hobbit warrior? One of the other vendors browsed my cookbook; they’re much scarier than me. But the whole area
Worked a twelve hour day today (2 hrs resin pour this morning, 8 hr shift, 2 hr resin pour after getting home and eating dinner). Watched a show with Kevin, cried a little, he brought me tea, and is starting my bath. I’m just very tired. There’s been a lot of upsetting family/friend stuff I can’t talk about (not my stories to tell) and a death and a break-up this year, and a lot a
Kavi in New Orleans with Taylor Swift. Also with her cousin and aunty.
Sneak peek. I was talking to a visitor to the shop yesterday, who would love to spend her days doing this kind of thing. I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes small-scale crafting viable as a business. A few notes: a) Many of the folks who seem to do a lot of business are doing very repetitive work — they come up with a popular design for a candle, or a soap, etc., and
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com