all made up with nowhere to go

I "accidentally" fell into watching journalling videos again, and omg that stuff is so soothing for my brain, and I have no idea why. Especially because most of the videos I see, the people making the spreads use things I would never consider using (doilies, lace, particular types of stickers or washi).

To which end, I have a book I made...forever ago...that I decided I would use as a collage spread book* (because, to me, those journal spreads look more scrapbooky or collage-y than they do what I would consider appropriate for a journal, but that's because I am an old man who yells at clouds). It's roughly the same size as a Traveller's Notebook, because you bet I thought about making inserts once upon a time. So it's not so big of a space to fill, and I don't have to do both sides at once if I don't want to.

And then I thought, "I need to sort some stuff out!", so now I have various folders full of various types of paper and card (supplemented from some general tidying I have been doing) that I can use for said collages.

I even categorised (some of) my sequins, because of seeing someone use some in one of their spreads. And came to the conclusion that I either need to sell or donate some, because I have a veritable mountain that I will never use. (Curse Poundland and that time they had massive bags of sequins in multiple colour sets! Like, it's nice having the different colour options, but oh boy, even if I encrusted every page in sequins, it would probably take me years to get through them all).

I also grabbed my mum's two seals out of writing sets she'd bought + the additional wax because IDK it looks cool when people on the internet do it. One has an interchangeable head, which is nice, and the other one doesn't, but that's okay. It's not like I have an alternate head for it at this point in time anyway.

I'm going to get one that is more "me", eventually. And one that has my constellation on it because I can! (hopefully; as constellations go, Aquarius isn't the most complicated, but it's also not the most simple).

...I just need to get everything a bit better organised in the living room so that I can access things when I need them, and not have to dig through layers upon layers of boxes (or whatever). And then I can collage to my heart's desire!

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I don't think many of you follow me on twitter, but in case it does collapse in on itself, you can mainly find me in the following places online (as well as here, obvs):

wordpress: rootsandbonesart.wordpress.com

ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rootsandbones

society 6: society6.com/rootsandbones

my hilariously out of date website: rootsandbones.weebly.com

I am thinking about setting up a gumroad account for digital downloads at some point in the future! I will likely only put freebies up on ko-fi for reasons I'm not going into, because they are, quite frankly, really boring.

Also I figured out a way to film stuff at my desk, and it is not great, and I am not making any promises that that will happen, but hey! I finally figured it out!

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*This is what I was wonkily talking about in the last entry, except sometimes I get carried away with myself, and also assume that because I know what's going on, so does everyone else.

I have a website!

It's here: http://rootsandbones.weebly.com/

There's not a lot on it, and I think you have seen everything on there before, but it's there, anyway. And it's way less cluttered than my wordpress blog...

(Eventually, I'm going to put a page on there about commission prices and so on, but I have to do a bunch of number crunching before that can happen).

Quick about for new friends/readers/people who have forgotten who I am:

> my name is Jae, and I am ancient (okay I'm lying, I'm almost in my mid thirties). I have an awful sense of humour.

> I have depression and sometimes I talk about it, but I always cut stuff if I think it needs/it's triggery.

> I swear a lot. If this bothers you, I will try to tone it down.

> Relatedly: I call people "dude" and "man" a lot and I do not do this because I think you are male. It just means I like you. But if you would rather I didn't, then please say so, and I will stop doing it.

> I like music. ALL MUSIC. Though the way to my heart is probably via super dramatic minor key stuff played on synths. Probably.

> video games I like: Final Fantasy (I've played most of them, except for the MMOs - XII is my fave); Silent Hill; Resident Evil; Shin Megami Tensei (DDS is my fave); Mass Effect; I also play the Dragon Age games, but am not as fannish about them as the other games I play (I'll give you reasons if you ask :) ), though I do like them.

> comics I like: HELLBLAZER; X-Men; Batman; Sandman; Mars; Jojo's Bizarre Adventure; Cucumber Quest; Namesake; Paranatural

> TV I like: Adventure Time; Avatar: The Last Airbender; FARSCAPE (SHOW OF MY HEART); Red Dwarf, The Prisoner; Puella Magi Madoka Magica

> films I like: Back to the Future; Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; Jurassic Park; Stargate; Event Horizon; Blade Runner; LotR trilogy; The Matrix trilogy; Labyrinth

> I also like languages. I can speak French (badly) and Welsh (very badly), and am learning German. I understand some spoken Japanese/read it when written in romaji (also badly - my attempts at kanji are hideous). Ideally, I'd like to learn ALL THE LANGUAGES, but somehow I don't think they'd fit in my brain :(

> I don't often grant access because honestly I don't friends lock that often any more (I used to lock my writing, but I'm trying not to do that any more. Because honestly, I like sharing things!)

> this is pretty much the essentials, but if you want to know anything else, just ask! :)

> (I'm thinking maybe I should make this a sticky entry...)

OK, so I have some new people reading this here...thing...

Hi :) Hope you enjoy your stay. You're totally welcome to kick me off your reading list if you find me too irritating (because believe me, I KNOW I can be irritating). But I hope that you won't.

Things you need to know that I didn't put in the addme entry are:

1. I'm self-employed and I work from home.
2. I look after my mum because she needs it, and I still live with her because of that.
3. I have the world's maddest cat, and I talk about her a lot (she even has her own tag!)
4. I play video games a lot, and I don't really watch TV. Right now, I am replaying Persona 4 in an effort to actually finish it (games I have managed to beat are listed here).
5. Other places you can find me on the internets are listed here.

I don't think there's anything I've forgotten, but if there's anything you want to know, just ask :)