With angelic hosts proclaim

[rolanni]

...It's raining. I'm home from work. I have two days off, starting tomorrow. Then I don't have any days off for...a while. Some folks are already starting to stress. The trick to this job is to enter into the Let's Shop! mindset with the customer and kinda close your eyes to the whole potlatch thing. Mostly easy to do; the large portion of our customers being easy going and willing to be amused. Then there are the adults who explain to you (at volume) that their child's Life!Will!Be!Blighted unless this certain item which sold out weeks ago is produced for them on the instant. Sheesh.

kinzel picked the stained glass dragon up from the glass studio today. The wings now have matching vanes (couldn't match the glass, so they put leading over the crack, then made a matchint "vane" on the other wing). My next project is to find a Heavy Duty Ceiling Hook. I'm thinking molly, here...

How's the beginning of the Season going for y'all?

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[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the glass dragon was repairable.

I haven't done much seasonal as of yet, aside from practicing renaissance and traditional christmas music with my choir. We're working on new pieces in english, spanish, french and german (only two of which I speak at all). At the moment I've got "Fum fum fum" running repeatedly through my head.

This weekend I plan to buy a wreath (real) for the front door and some greens to make arrangements in the pot on my front porch and in a hanging basket, both of which currently contain dead annuals. Living alone (aside from the parrots) and not really having space to entertain, I find I do more seasonal decorating outside than I do in.

Fortunately my current front door is under an overhang on the north side of the house where the sun never shines, so wreaths keep quite well even between the regular and storm doors. In one previous house we had a south facing front door painted dark brown. My mother hung a wreath in the space between and it baked quite rapidly in the resulting solar panel, even melting some of the plastic decorations she'd stuck in on picks. Not a pretty picture at all.

I do have a poinsettia, which I've just had to move, since it's already dropped a few flowers and brachts and I've only had it since Saturday. Unfortunately, my living room gets no direct sunlight at all, so it's been relocated to the bedroom where it will hopefully be happier near an east facing window.