Updates!

I am no longer taking commissions. I may return to it later in the year, but for now I am taking time to work on my own dolls and get back into a bit of sewing. I have a lot of small updates to make on the site, new doll profiles and pictures to add to the gallery, so there will be new things to see here and there. I will try to keep this journal updated with new bits, even if it is not necessarily about the shop.

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays -- here's to a clean start!!

xoxo

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So 2010... and this is good bye. Lately my focus has really shifted to work and sorting out who i am and what i want. I no longer have much interest in the dolls and haven't been on AU in weeks. It's in Tashy's hands and it has been that way since summer.

My dolls have been shelf sitting for ages and i just have the time for it all. Drama killed the love and the drive.

I also don't have the time or things to say to warrant keeping the LJ and i certainly don't comment any more so can't expect anything in return. So I'm stopping, no more posts from the Ote. I'll read my Flist from time to time but thats it.

Have a great new year people and i hope things go your way. I'll be seeing you about.


Amy

Inspired by karenleigh 's New Year post.

Spread the word, 2010 is the year of magic, art and beauty. I truly believe it is :D

The year of MAB.

Happy MAB Year Everyone!!

Ten years ago today, my soul mate, took me to the first place we kissed (in this lifetime anyway) and asked me to marry him. I think my answer was, “of course”. A few months later we were married, and it still stands as one of the best days of my life, followed by the best trip of my life, our honeymoon in Europa. A few months after that, I lost my dad. Not a day passes that I do not see him in me, that I don’t miss him terribly, and that I don’t ache to spend just a few hours with him. Somehow I know he is always with me, watching over me, my guardian angel. This was followed by the toughest years of our life, buying our first house, working impossible jobs, commuting. Then sometime in 2005, I had an awakening. Maybe it was the semi truck that nearly killed us during one of our hellacious commutes, but I just came to the realization that there was something better out there. Something better than struggling every day, being a slave to your job, work, eat, sleep, losing yourself to it all. We sold our house, I quit my job, I started being interested in hobbies, art, creating. I bought my first BJD that summer, landed an amazing job that fall. It was a good year. Early in 2006, Reno called. It wasn’t until the fall that we just picked up and left. I don’t think we even looked back. The last few years in Reno have been amazing, so good in fact, they make me scared inside. My weird little job turned in to an executive position in one of the top privately held companies in the US, I have a real house (heck even my dolls even have a real house), something I say daily, “I love my car”. I met the best friends a girl could have at a doll convention in 2007. They live 500 miles away, but it makes our time together that much more ‘special’ and us scrambling to plan even bigger and better events to enjoy. I love that soul mate who proposed to me a decade ago more each day, and no one could ask for a better friend and love.
I am glad I haven’t gone to Japan yet. I need to save something to write about in the next decade. :)

Happy New Year!

Don't touch!!