A few random factoids before I go into blogging mode: (This is Gina's fault for posting the 25 Factoids on FB and then tagging me!!)
1. I found Braeburn apples in WALMART last night!!
2. I discovered that Hulu now has the first season of Rocky & Bullwinkle.
3. I've written two poems and several blogposts while I've been sick.
4. I'm still sick. Not happy about it.
5. I am trying a recipe I thought up - mashed potatoes, turkey, & cheese wrapped in croissants and baked. It's a twist on the usual 'Broccoli Braid' since Stu does not prefer eating the yummy greenness.
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On to other things...the only two things that I really want to talk about at the moment: D&D and Dollhousing. Woohoo!
1. I am dying to take pictures of my mini and post it. It turned out a lot better than I thought and I'm hoping to make more for future D&D games. I thought perhaps I would try at some point to make another dollhouse (the first one's already told me what it wants to be...) and make a bigger size Dido to inhabit it. I'm still thinking about it. I thought about DM'ing the other night and I think I will always prefer to be a character...although it would be fun to create the story. I am so looking forward to the next time we play and it's not fun to have to hear Michael and Stu's voices murmuring in the next room and not be able to hear what they are plotting!! Hmmmmmm...I'm thinking about making my own dice too but I don't know how that would go over or if it would really work. Guess I'll have to google that one.
2. My dollhouse needs some supplies before I start the job of putting it together. I discovered that I need clamps/masking tape, wood filler, stain, craft sticks, clay, paint, brushes, primer, sandpaper, and all sorts of things to finish it...thankfully someone sent me a late Christmas check and I think I'll be able to spend half of it on building materials and half of it on fun stuff for the dollhouse! I made up a list today of all the possible things I need to make. I found pictures of a barn owl I'm going to use to sculpt my own owl...and I thought up a design for a wire bird cage for it too. I don't know what I'm going to name it yet. (Not Hedwig) I'm also thinking about making little cloaks and hats and a wand and a cauldron and potions to put in little bottles (I know where I can get little bottles for cheap) and little books (like Hogwarts, A History) and I think I'm going to put in a tiny copy of The Marauder's Map and a little broomstick and...there are just so many little details! I think I'm going to paint miniature portraits, too, perhaps of Dumbledore and Snape and a few others...and I'm going to definitely have a box full of Quidditch equipment! I'm just so excited...what fun this will be! I can't wait to get started! But alas...I am at work. So I must sit here and dream. Sigh.
Maybe I'll make it Neville Longbottom's house. He became the Herbology professor and I'm going to have a conservatory in it...or maybe Luna Lovegood's house...or maybe, even though it isn't canon and they DIDN'T get married (I wish they would have, but Luna married a Scamander and I think, at least in the first draft, Neville married Hannah Abott!!) I will pretend they DID and have it be their house...or perhaps it will be Professor Sprout's house.
I like the idea of it being Neville's house...but I wanted a girl to live in it because it is so very obviously a girl's house. Hm. I will have to think about that one. I also have to decide if I'm decorating at least one room in some of the House colors. I don't like the HufflePuff colors but...I might do a Gryffindor or Slytherin. Gryffindor is the only one that really fits which is why I thought of Neville as an inhabitant.
O pish. I really DO like Neville as an inhabitant but I won't have my pretty house to be lived in by a bachelor! He won't appreciate the terrace! :p
Suggestions?
Braeburn apples are the best.
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