From the group Anti-Fugly I created last year!
A big thank you to all my members for being so awesome.
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A huge thank you to all of those who voted for me. I was so delighted, such a great exposure and a nice ego-boost!
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I entered their contest and if you like my design, please go vote for me here:
http://www.ustrendy.com/contest/
I've submitted that little number
Warning long post ahead.
France
I spent 3 weeks in France. The trip to go was nice, I met a french woman in the plane who just spent 3 months in USA and we spoke for hours. It was cool because the time was flying as well. I also couldn't wait to arrive as I so eagerly wanted to be with my Dad.
When I arrived at my parent's, I was so happy to see my Dad and so sad to see in what pain he was. He was bedridden for almost 3 months, he had lost a lot of weight and muscles. He was at that time in the first week of treatment.
But I stayed strong and didn't cry. I didn't suffered much from the jet lag.
I discovered the doctor wasn't really treating my Dad's pains! They did give him some tylenol and that was it!
When I went to the hospital with him, I met the doctor and had to ask all the nurses around about the pain treatments. The doctor was saying that with the chemio treatment the pain would go away by itself. But meanwhile my Dad was suffering for nothing and he had to walk with a cane and was waking up every 2 hours at night!
The french system is maybe all good when it comes to costs and relatively fair and equal treatments of the sick ones. The only problem is structural. Administrative. They finally gave some more serious painkillers to Papa. With those and the treatment taking effect, the pain slowly went away and on 3 weeks I was there, I have seen my Dad walking around again, having some good nights sleep and eating well again.
The last news are pretty good. The treatment is working very well.
I was so amazed at my Dad's strenght! He was never sick in his life and then, this terrible cancer and he fights! His moral is pretty good even though my mother is such a PIA sometimes. But she is also taking really good care of him.
That terrible disease of my Dad really brought us all back together and we got rid of all our pety fights. I spent a very good time with my brother Mathieu and my sister Emilie. I am so glad we are speaking together again. I think my Dad was really happy about it as well.
I was also glad to see my granny who has been really traumatized by my Dad's cancer.
I am going back in December. I really miss them all and I wish I could be with my Dad more. But there is just no way for us to come back to France. There is the financial issue, but for me now there is something else.
USA
I have been working a lot lately. I am really happy at how my work turned out. I also have been selling quite a lot!
So all of you my dear customers thank you so much for supporting my work and for allowing me to finance my visits to my Dad.
On a side note, I am muted for a month on etsy forums. I have decided I won't come back there at all. Unless the rules change and become fair and clear. But we all know this won't happen.
So you know where you can find me. All the links to my web presence are here!
I said Mac Cain was dangerous, I don't even find words to qualify Sarah Palin. Everyone is speaking about her, she has became the main focus of the whole campaign.
I am pretty sure, trying to take a bit of distance, it is a tactic to hide the real issues at hand and divert from Obama's campaign.
As a woman but also as a living being, a part of the environement and nature, I am against Palin.
If she was to reach power, she would transform this country into a fascist one and we not would be far from seeing nuclear bombs fall from Russian sky.
She is crazy, idiotic and dangerous.
Please visit the WASP blog and help us all:
OUR ORIGINAL CALL TO ACTION
Friends and compatriots,
We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce—on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate—that has a real possibility of becoming fact.
Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present and future daughters. To date, she is against a woman's right to choose, environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor she repeatedly brought up the question of banning books), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears.
We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin's political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably benefited from.
First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.
Therefore, we invite you to reply here with a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for our nation.
Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence.
We will post your responses on a blog called "Women Against Sarah Palin," which we intend to publicize as widely as possible. Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience-the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be.
Thank you for your time and action.
VIVA!
Sincerely,
Quinn L. and Lyra K.
New York, NY
So here for the amazement of your eyes, my newest creations.
And a huge thank you to the following ladies who bought from me this last days. Their friendship and huge heart have kept me going with my creations. I hope they won't mind me "calling" them out like that. But they seriously deserve a shout out! And they are wonderful artisans.
Finally my Dad didn't have to stay at the hospital. His Myeloma is Phase III meaning the cancer is developped and that there is a tumor. Several bones are touched but not all. Also his overal health is quite good. His doctor says it is a slow developping cancer. He will have a catheter next week. Next step is starting the treatment with a combination of medications and chemiotherapy. And the autogreffe after.
This is such a nightmare. I realized I loved my Dad even more than I thought because when I think about him and his cancer, I don't think about me being deprived of his presence, I think about his suffering, about how he must feel right now, how he must be afraid and all.
I wanted to move back to France but this is materially and financially impossible. For now. I am drowning myself into work, trying to take my mind out of it, but I just can't. I just want to hug my Dad. I just want to be with him and my family. I just want to fuck away this asshole of cancer and make it disappear...
My Dad was diagnosed 2 days ago with a bone cancer called Myelome in french. I don't even have the words in english to express how sad I am and how furious too. I will do everything I can and even more to help my dad fight that disease.
This guy here is a wonderful person, and I am not saying that just because he is my dad.
It really depressed me to be far away from him. I will be in France in 2 weeks.
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
Benjamin Franklin.
1. Halloween Troll Cat "Joker", 2. House on the Hill brooch, 3. Wicked Thoughts Doll (pose 01), 4. zakka bag, 5. Murphy's Possum, 6. Blue, 7. baby swallows, 8. Olive and Bronze Peyote Triangle Choker (2243), 9. DSCN9999-, 10. DSCN0417-, 11. DSCN0420-, 12. whity, 13. Jo-Cushion, 14. 154 Tolman St. Westbrook Me USA. I Grew Up In This House, 15. Dödengrottan!, 16. Softie :)
This past month I
1/Finished the doll, she is named Helia (like the sun in greek, Helios). Available in the store:
2/Made a recycled top for my step-daughter, Muriel, who came from France to see her Dad who has been sick.
3/Went to vacations in Vermont and in Quebec. It was my first time in this part of USA, and in Canada and Quebec. It was ok. Some highs and some lows.
4/Went back to Nashville. Heat. My 33th birthday.
5/Put this awesome top on sale. Was 90, is now 70$.
We've been through a lot with hubby lately, he was really sick.
Things are better now.
When I need to relax I make dolls.
I never liked plastic dolls, barbies and so on.
The only dolls I like were:
a plush doll named Caroline when I was 2. She was a bit rotten and my dad burnt her...
a rag doll my granny gave to me. My other granny told me if was an ugly doll.
I have a weird story with dolls I guess.
I like those I make. They make me smile. They look silly and a bit scary. Maybe like me?
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Make it awesome
So nearby my place there is this big land where there were these awesome trees. They started by cutting down the trees in the front.
And yesterday, they cut down the whole forest that was behind.
My heart bleeds for all these wonderful healthy trees that have been murdered for what? Houses? Parking lot?
I don't know if people realize that less trees equal more global warming, more land slidding, more flooding, more destruction of all kind, more sun on their houses, so more AC in the summer...
For those living in Nashville, I will try and start an association to sensibilize people about all that. There are laws in the making to oblige people to replant a tree when they cut one. I want these laws to be voted!
