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I'm currently working my way through Evony. You can join me at:

<deleted>got bored and moved on to ShadowTales

I'm also on Facebook more than MySpace, FYI. If you wanna add me as a friend, just put a note in saying you are from Gaia. Thanks!

Ack! I feel so behind. I have pages and blogs all over the place now and never enough time to write in any of them. Gah exclaim

OK, I am now selling my jewelry on Etsy:
LadyJewell's Etsy Shop

A blog on Vox:
Ladyjewell's Vox-ing

Which is supposed to be mirrored on my LiveJournal page:
LiveJournal Page - Not much here yet

OK, so I have recently been dragged into the FaceBook scene. My little brother hauled me snarking and whining onto MySpace about a year ago, and it wasn't that bad. The ads get really annoying, and I haven't spent enough time futzing with it to be able to create a really good custom interface (I snodged mine off cleanupmyspace.com and customized it a tiny bit), but I'm up and limping there (MySpace LadyJewell if you wanna take a look).

Then came FaceBook, which both my brothers finagled me onto, and the layout there look really horrible. Now I feel like I need to do something to clean up my area there and make it look nice, but haven't been on long enough to figure out how to do it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Yup, I make jewelry. Any and all of the jewelry I post here is available for sale, is handcrafted and unique, and made by yours truly.

I thought I'd put up some old artwork links. Feel free to comment. smile I love comments and critiques.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff209/ladyjewell/3D%20hobbies/ADjewell1.jpg
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff209/ladyjewell/3D%20hobbies/Contrasts-test5.jpg

Just spent two weeks recovering from a gall bladder removal (surgery--ick!), so I have been laid--or propped--up for most of it with nothing to do but watch TV or read. With my Replay not working (AGAIN, darn it!!!), that meant a lot of reading time. Not exactly a hardship for me, but I found a few more books to read and some old favs to re-read.

New: Patricia Briggs--Everything I've read of hers so far, I've liked. REALLY like the coyote series (Iron Kissed is the latest, I think). She does a great job of making were-creatures and shifters realistic while still being supernatural, and making each group distinct. Very cool.

Old: Laura Anne Gilman--5 books so far (Staying Dead being first), trade paperback size (which I love), and a distinct and well-thought out magic system. It makes sense, has a framework you can actually not drive a mac truck thru, and her plots and characters are solid, too.

I devour everything from romance to scifi, mystery to horror, and mythology to manga and comics. Here are some of my favorites:

Card is excellent, tho' he tends to re-write a lot of things (they just keep getting better and better every time he does, tho'), so isn't not as prolific as I'd like. Lackey has a number of excellent series, including a few that she no longer writes (darn it!). Viehl has a number of different series. I found her through the Darkyn series and plan to work my way thru the rest of her stuff as time and money permits.

I also love Jim Butcher's Harry Dresen series (quite a bit different from the scifi series, but every bit as tasty) and his Codex Alera series, Tanya Huff's books (yup, one of her series just got made into a tv series as well--Blood Ties, which is the name of the both book and tv series), the early Laurell Hamilton stuff (first book of the Gentry series, before it devolves into a sex fest, and the first 8-10 books of the Anita Blake series, again before it devolves into a sex/relationship fest), Anne Bishop's books (all 3 series--I broke down and got her last in hardback, despite money issues...), Charlaine Harris's Grave Site and Sookie Stackhouse series, Janet Evanovich's stuff (especially the Stephanie Plum series--it's a HOOT), and J. D. Robb's In Death series.

I'm becoming fascinated by all the petitions to allow users to create avatar items. Some of these are AWESOME! Check out some of them: