Why It's Not A Good Idea To Mix California Gurls With Liquids

California Gurls
they're so undrinkable
they always
get stuck in your straw
put them in the blender
still insoluble
oh oh whoa oh
oh oh whoa oh

California Gurls
not liquifyable
chunks of them
they ruin your shake
they don't melt
so solid
have to pick them out
oh oh whoa oh
oh oh whoa oh

An Awesome Transfer Tutorial

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Inspirational Tips, Techniques & Tutorials: Clear Tape Transfer

Kelly: No Text Message Break Up

Recent Features on Zibbet and LOC Design Studio

I have been very remiss about updating this blog, and really should have posted that last week I was the Featured Zibbeter on the front page of Zibbet. I'm no longer on the front page, but you can read my interview here.

Also, the lovely and talented Vicki of LOC Design Studio - who is AMAZINGLY talented and a fantastic multi-tasker: not only does she run THREE different shops, but she also writes her own blog and blogs for Zibbet! - was kind enough to feature me on her blog. You can read that feature here.

This week Vicki is featuring Barbara LaBosco of All About the Buttons on Zibbet. I encourage you to check out that feature as well - Barbara has some really cool stuff!

Music Video: Eggshells

This is a music video for a song I wrote and performed. Please rate and comment at Youtube, and pass along if you like it. Thanks!

Check This Out: Caribbean Dreams

Each week, LOCDesignStudio is blogging on a Zibbet-only store. This week that store is Caribbean Dreams. Please pop by and check out the great profile Vicki has up on her blog. Maria of Caribbean Dreams works with metal clay and gemstones and creates some really amazing stuff. It's well worth the visit. :)

Carmen Crystal Earrings by feroshkittydesigns on Zibbet

Carmen Crystal Earrings by feroshkittydesigns on Zibbet

I want to make myself a pair of these - they're one of my favorite new items posted this weekend. I'm up to 48 items in my Zibbet store - and more on the way. Making jewelry like a fiend - one of my cats needs to go to the vet. Hoping to start making some sales so I can take her.

Nietzsche Was Right: Bitter Words

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss absolutely does stare back into you. And there is no reversing that stare, no getting it to unlook. As Tom Waits famously sang, you can't unring a bell. And ask not for whom the bell tolls... around every corner a cliche' waits, and it waits for a reason. Because stronger men than myself have been around this track and they weren't hollaback girls. The last few years of Churchill's life were so dreadful that no one bothered to write them down for posterity.

You pass a certain point - not You, but Me - where there is no returning, no medication that will bring you back, no cognitive therapy that eases the anhedonia, no hope for the future, no desire to extinguish in order to cease suffering if you follow the Noble Eightfold Path of the Buddhist, no Meaning to Invent if you subscribe to Existentialism. The medications will wake you up just enough to show you that you're pretty much Fucked, but you can't take the "easy way out" because that is selfish, so you keep your mouth shut until finally, you post some unfathomable thing on a web blog somewhere that has people going "What the fuck is THAT about?" because you've been quiet about everything for so long because you've been told that you have to be positive about everything all the time, even though that's the last damned thing in the world you feel, is positive, the last thing in the world that is true, you feel like 'being positive' is lying to everyone around you, and you hate to lie, but if you don't, you'll be even more alienated than you already are, because who wants to hear it, really?

So you've been holding your tongue and holding your breath all this time until one day it all comes out in a rush and well, maybe that's not all there is to say, but it's a pretty good iceberg tip, it's enough to make some people step back and feel awkward around you, the damage is done and there you are, still not knowing what to do or what to say but at least you're no longer so much of a liar. At least you've admitting that Churchill's black dog is biting the living shit out of you with every rise and fall of your chest as you breathe. At least, for no other reason that if you didn't you were going to explode, you've said, hey, look at me, yo soy disentegrando ante de sus ojos, I am disintegrating before your eyes, I have seen things I can never unsee and I have scars that will never heal and no matter how much I try and no matter how much I wish to be, I am not like you and will never be. I enjoy nothing and look forward to nothing and they cannot fix me, and I hate what seems to be my state of separation from all of humanity. The alienation that expressing myself like this only serves to make greater.

Never marry a Narcissistic Philosophy Major. He will cut you off from your friends, destroy your soul, and then leave you in poverty to die, without even the decency to officially divorce you, and you will end up like me. Forever broken, destroyed, melodramatic when it comes to prose, a walking open wound unable to scab over, still technically married to a bastard that you haven't even seen or heard from in three years. Yet you're still saddled with all the boxes of junk he didn't want that he left behind, that must be painfully gone through, one by one.

u-1: iamamiwhoami

beautiful voice, freaky video.

My Store Is Having A Sale

I forgot to mention that now through Monday May 10 my store is having a 10 percent off sale. You have to use the coupon code KITTYMOM at checkout, and you will get 10% off your total. This is in celebration of Mother's Day. So head on over to FeroshKittyDesigns and buy some jewelry and get your Ten Percent Off, and we all win! Especially the kitties - do it for the kitties! Thank you.

Tweeting Spree

Thank goodness when you go on a tweeting spree, no one gets hurt. I just tweeted more than I care to admit. Last night I was up until 5 am, which technically makes it not last night, I guess, listing new items on Zibbet. I'm still not happy with the quality of my photos, but they are improving, at least. I have lots more items to photograph and list, so I have plenty to keep me busy over the next week, at least. But between you and me and the entire Internet, I always have plenty to keep me busy. I have a backlog of chores and things to be doing so that there is never a moment where I should be bored. I've been living in my apartment here for a YEAR and still have boxes I have not opened. When my husband left, he left me with all of this stuff to deal with. He just sort of dumped it all on me to sort through, and I've put off doing a lot of it because, well, it's a painful process. Every box holds stuff I'd rather not see again, memories I'd rather not relive. It's a lot easier to live in the now, except it's getting to the point where my now is too crowded with my then, and I really do need to deal with this stuff once and for all. Which has nothing to do with my tweeting spree, except for the fact that if I can sell enough jewelry, maybe I could begin to dream of making some sort of little nest egg, and eventually be able to afford a bed. I have been sleeping on a couch for the last two years, and it is hard on my bad back. I've tried inflatable beds, but with cats, they don't last long. And it really doesn't make much sense, because these are camping beds, they are supposed to be hardy enough for the woods, but I have a feeling if one of these beds even LOOKED at a twig it would just suddenly deflate and fly away. And I keep my kitties' nails trimmed, too. There are never visible holes in these beds. But they just don't hold their air. And there's no feeling quite like going to bed on a full air mattress only to wake up the next morning on a deflated mattress, in effect, on the FLOOR. Plus, they are very hard to get out of in the morning when they do hold air. It's no fun to be reminded how old you are, that you can't get off of what is basically a mattress on the floor. Oh, the luxury of a bed to sleep in. THAT is something to really dream about, I'll tell you.

Paul Oakenfold Feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Pussycat Kill (Hip Hop Mix)

This is an amazing mix of Faster Pussycat Kill, the song that Brittany Murphy worked on with DJ Paul Oakenfold. It's called the Hip Hop Mix and came as an extra on the promotional single, but doesn't really sound Hip Hop to me. It just sounds freakin' beautiful. You can really hear her amazing voice. The world lost a lot of talent when it lost Brittany Murphy. Rest in peace, babe.

Modern vamp gothic makeup tutorial

This tutorial is from MissChievous. I've been watching a lot of her tutorials and I really enjoy them. She does a variety of looks and is great at explaining what she is doing, and she's very creative. She also uses a variety of products and not all of them are terribly expensive - one of her palettes was acquired from ebay for around $20 plus shipping. With some of the tutorials, the artists use products that may be out of your budget, unless you can afford to pay $50 for, say, a mascara. I've chosen this gothic vampy look for today because it's a nice look and doesn't necessarily have to be just for going out, in my opinion.

LADY GAGA INVENTED OXYGEN!?

He does have a very valid point.

Mmkay, about this Xtina Bullshiz...

Here's the new Xtina video everyone is freaking out about. They're saying she's copying Lady Gaga. If they're not saying that, they're saying she's copying Madonna. I don't really give a shit. I just wanna know who has worn a ball gag in a pop video before. I don't remember either Lady Gaga or Madonna doing that. Not that I think that is groundbreaking or cool or anything. Just that no one has mentioned that and it's Friday and I needed something to post and everyone is yammering on about this shit and I figured I might as well join the crowd and yammer on too and I wanted to say something I hadn't heard anyone else say yet. So I chose BALL GAG. Also, I like the red glitter lips. Those are cool. Though she hardly moves her mouth so they must have been a bitch to do and probably don't last very long/aren't practical for you and me to try to attempt at home. It's probably industrial strength glitter that will kill you or something. Or special "don't cough during my interview you peon" glitter made just for her. Anyway, here's the fucking video.

Kingsley Makes Life Better

Sometimes life is just not going your way. It's like this a lot for me, I'll be honest. And what always helps me is to watch one of Kingsley's videos. Cause he says what I can't say, even if I wasn't even gonna say it. This is his latest video, where he cares so much he is making the video SITTING IN THE CAR. That is dedication to his craft. How many people do you know who are taking time out of their parking lot waiting to make a video to tell you what pisses them off? Yeah, I thought so. Sit back and relax for approximately two or so minutes. Let the warmth of Kingsley wash over you.

iamamiwhoiam - o

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Funny Bitch Is Funny

He rules, he just rules.

No, I'm not ITCHY

Well, the woman behind the counter at Walgreen's looked at me strangely, and now she thinks that I am ITCHY. DOWN THERE. Because I bought a tube of Monistat Non-Itching Cream. But I did not buy it for that reason. I swear.

Actually, the reason I bought it was, I have found out through You Tube Makeup Tutorials, of which there are THOUSANDS, that this stuff, if you put it on your FACE instead (yeah, uh, keep a separate tube if you're gonna use it for what it's intended for, because, EW), makes an excellent foundation primer. Sure, you can spend $15 to $30 or MORE for foundation primer, which I don't have, or you can spend $5, which I shouldn't have spent anyway, cause that is cat food money, man, but I had to live a little.

Yeah, this is my life. Buying a tube of anti-itch crotch cream is my idea of living a little. Sad, right?

But between this and Preparation H for swollen bags under your eyes, the bottom part of you does a good job of fixing the top part of you. Sometimes. Wait. Where am I going with this?

Anyway. I got a $2 off coupon for next time. Which the gal at Walgreen's handed me with AN EXTRA SOUR FACE. Like she was thinking YOU KNOW YOUR NASTY ASS CROTCH IS STILL GONNA BE ITCHY YOU NASTY ASS.

Easy, Breezy, Bushy as Hell

My Sphinx is a Jinx

Isn't it hard
when it finally hits
that your lover
is less than a friend?

And all your exchanges
are just poor counterfeits
for tender too precious
to spend?

- Sphinx, Syd Straw

So the new ADD medicine makes me tired. Which is weird because it is basically, like, SPEED. My brain is apparently a chemical anomaly. And my pharmacist thinks I am a space alien, because I asked her, is this medicine supposed to make me tired? She gave me the strangest look, and said, Um, NO, it's actually supposed to have the opposite effect. But anyway, I'm supposed to give it about ten days and see if the effect is still the same. She said it could be "paradoxical side effects", which is exactly what it sounds like. Side effects that are the opposite of what is supposed to happen.

Ah, yes. Better living through chemistry.

ADD, easy as... wait, what were we talking about?

So my doctors think I have ADD, or as it's called these days, ADHD. (In my case the H stands for Hysterical.) So I go to this web site that is supposed to give you tips, right, to manage this condition and get more organized and all that. I take a couple of 'self-tests', "pass" them with flying colors, meaning I'm apparently RAGINGLY ADHD, and then the site returns the list. It's about seventy items long.

I sit there and stare at it blankly for about two minutes.

I mean, if I can't focus, how the HELL am I gonna get through this list? I just could not. I tried to read it. I did. It said something about "You keep salad greens in the fridge, so have your salad making station near the fridge."

Excuse me. Salad making station? I have no salad making station. The kitchen looks like a bomb went off in there. This is part of the problem. What a joyous life I would have if it included such a thing as a salad making station. And my refrigerator is out of greens. Unless you count the ones hiding in the vegetable crisper from a few months ago. I ate the fresh ones already, from the ready made salad I got at the store the other day. The store that has a salad making station. Should I move my refrigerator near the store? Cause otherwise I do not see this happening, this proximity thing, at all.

After reading about the salad making station, I read one more item. It said, if you feel the urge to say something negative, stay silent.

I just can't say anything about that.

Gingers Do Have Souls

This is MoMo, the face of FeroshKitty. He wakes me up every morning, my own personal alarm clock. He is very persistent. He will do whatever it takes, whether it is running over my body at full speed, starting fights with one of the other cats, pawing at my head - whatever he can come up with on that particular morning that will work. And, of course, as soon as I am up and he's had his breakfast, he goes sound asleep and stays that way for most of the day. His bedtime is usually about five minutes after he's gotten me up. He's a little ginger, and he most definitely has a soul. Whooooooo.

Speaking of which, the premiere of South Park is tonight, and I can't stop watching this video below. I'll be making some kind of jewelry while I'm watching the episode, and while I feel I shouldn't be laughing at this, I can't help it. I was born a ginger myself, and while my hair has darkened a bit over the years, I still have freckles and find the whole "gingers don't have souls" thing hysterical. I just feel sorry for any kids that get teased at school by other kids that take it seriously. Kids always manage to tease other kids over something.

Dragonfly choices For Dawn (Custom Work)

This is what the clasp looks like

These are the crystal colors to choose from, or alternately, you could choose clear crystal with AB finish (which captures all the different colors of light as opposed to just being plain clear crystal)

Peridot AB

Light Colorado Topaz AB

Light Topaz AB

Indicolite AB

Chrysolite AB

Jonquil AB

These are the gold-plated dragonfly charms that would hang from the bracelet, as well as dangle from the earrings. Crystals and cloisonne beads would also be used on the earrings and the bracelet to match (and to add to the length and beauty of the earrings)

These are the cloissonne beads that have the dragonflies on them. I selected the crystal colors based on what I thought would go well with the colors in these beads.

aquamarine AB




this should be up with the other crystal colors but I forgot to upload it in order. We could also mix a couple of colors of crystals, I would suggest a color and a neutral, like one of the light crystals such as the light topaz or light colorado topaz and then a blue or green, if we were to do this. I can experiment tho to see what works visually based on your preferences.

Fuschia & Purple Velvet Swarovski Crystals with Czech Rhinestone Slider on Silver Circle Chain Bracelet

A touch of vintage-inspired charm meets the modern aesthetic with this gorgeous handmade bracelet. Fuschia and Purple Velvet genuine Swarovski crystals surround on both sides a Czech rhinestone slider in pink and rose, attached to a sterling silver-plated circle chain that closes with a toggle clasp. The bracelet measures 8 1/2 inches and is adjustable - just choose the circle you want to toggle and voila! Add a touch of serious sparkle to any outfit with this design - and through March 15th get it at 15% off. Visit the Ferosh Kitty zibbet store to see more images and purchase, or you can go right to the item page.