All The Babies Have Been Returned To The Nest

Now I know why I hang out with witches and wizards. They can do the coolest things. I must give a huge thank you to Sylvanawood, for waving her wand and making my lost babies appear. I downloaded all of my dA favs, and now I have them all. All 420 of them!

Thank you, my magical friend. It's great to have all my pretty pictures back where they belong. I am a happy bunny.

The shop is back open, and we have no idea what to expect. Hopefully the cabin fever will bring out people, but the roads still have a lot of black ice, so it's in the lap of the gods.

Customers are arriving. That's good! Have a good one.

I Thought So....

Just couldn't resist doing this little meme. I apologise for it, even as I post it. It's just so hard, when you're an Empress, to resist little things like this. Apparently.

I'm a sucker for Tarot. Have you seen Ellygator's HP Tarot? It is lovely.

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

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Mimi-Scented Care Package

First day back to work (which means we'll only work three days this week, but oh well), and waiting in my mailbox was a care package from the lovely Mimi darling. The original to her 'Welcome to LJ' drawing (which is breathtaking), a Snape calendar which is so awesome, and other goodies. Talk about making me feel loved.

Good day at the shop. A friend came in to order a take away, paid with a credit card, and this afternoon after closing, as I was entering in tips from the CC slips, I found that he'd given us a $50 tip - on an $11 meal. Nice guy. Took some stunning photos of the shop during Christmas (I'll put them in the gallery - they are so beautiful I have trouble realising it's our place), and does lots of work at the theatre we perform at occasionally.

I'm getting desperate for a beta. I'm starting to realise that I am hopeless and even after beta-ing my own first three fics, I'm just as crap at finding my own mistake now as I was the first page of Spellbreaker. I got a chapter tossed from Ashwinder today because it was so rubbish they couldn't accept it! I had to laugh. I re-read it and I'd mistakenly sent my un-proofed copy, but I'm getting scared to send the updated one - it'll probably have more mistakes than the first one.

If you know anyone who would like to beta me, I would like to work with them. I have a beta for my original work, but she's just too snowed under to do the fanfic stuff as well, and she's not very familiar with canon. I'm getting into some trickier waters here with the two fics I'm working on right now, and I'm going to need to up my game.