Today and tomorrow are “site maintenance” days: inputting some entries, switching some dates around, taking some swatch photos, perhaps coming up with a new design (I have ideas of what I want to do, but am not 100% sure how to get it done. It involves lots of pics of makeup swatches/piles, and I can't find the images I want on iStockPhoto…and I'm not the world's greatest photographer, either, so using my own materials is a “last resort”. I have pigments I can safely afford to jettison - mostly samples of this and that - but the photos of them won't be that fantabulous.)

I spent the morning swatching the Dance of Death and Friday the 13th collections from Meow. The 13th collection has more colors that interest me, being duochromes…but both collections have a goodly number of colors that have sooty bases. I don't know if that has anything to do with the metallic finishes, or if the black-base sootiness is included to make the colors more vivid…but I don't like colors that do that. After a few hours, your color is gone leaving behind the soot. If I want a black base for my color, I've got liner pencils, cream shadows, and even gel liners that I can use instead! (On the up side, it made my purchase-decisions a LOT easier.)

I haven't yet swatched the Zombies. I think I may find a few colors in there that I decide to get - at least, they looked more interesting than the Dance of Death collection. There's just a lot of colors in the Zombies, and I can really only comfortably do 13 color-swatches on my arm before I start either running out of space, or having to make the swatches thinner and thinner. Bah, the truth is I'm a little bit slow today: I think I'm coming down with something, and I've been trying to eat high-protein foods, eat “super” foods (lots of spinach and blueberries), and drink liquids (mostly orange, cranberry-raspberry, and cranberry-pomegranite juices) in hopes of fighting this off. I want to get the flu vaccine this year, and I know that I don't want to do that while I'm sick, not even a little tiny bit. So the days have been spent taking it easy, napping when I feel like it, and being extremely glad that the house holds in heat so well. I turn the downstairs-fans to 65 degrees at night, but during the day I'm able to leave the heat off. I'm hoping that next week I won't be too ill, that I'll be well enough to play with the stuff I ordered from TransDesign and the Konad supplies I just ordered from OC Nail Art.

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