Keebles World

I sure do buy a lot of patterns! I've been hitting up the usual haunts again, still on the prowl for the perfect Once pattern. I think I probably should just invest in MacStitch and make my own, but for now, I got three more Tilton Crafts, all by Daniel Kordek - the Limited Edition Aurora (which was odd for me since I didn't care for Aurora in Once, I think I just like all the purple in this): Emma and Regina from the Wish Realm: And Zelena: I'm still miffed he didn't do a Charming like the other boys, but oh well. Nothing I can do about that...Kordek told me himself he "didn't care for Charming", so there you go! I also got another Regina pattern from KPL Creative XStitch (the same store I got the Once Storybook from): She had another pattern with Hook and Emma, but it was monochromatic, and I'm already dealing with the monster that is Kordek's Hook on that front, so I declined that one. Then I cleared out my Etsy queue a bit and g...

Well, I did it. I went to Liam Duke's Patreon page, since he was the first YouTuber that I watched reaction videos from, and decided to join up for his full reactions at the $5/mo tier. What I didn't realize, once I got there, that, not all the OUAT reactions were there. I knew, via the comments on the front page, that older reviews had been removed for space issues, but I looked at Once BEFORE I joined and it "looked" like they started at Season 1, episode 03. Well, I SHOULD have actually read a bit further down. The first available post was Season 2, episode 22! Considering he is currently on Season 3, episode 16 (on both Patreon and YouTube), that's not a lot of Once. At first, I immediately dropped right back off of Patreon, but once you've paid for the month, you're there for a month. So, I went ahead and downloaded and watched the videos I had access to (even though I'd already watched the edited versions on YouTube). By about mid-day...

There is another YouTuber I've been watching, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be hanging on to him...I'm not really enjoying his reactions to Once like I do the other guys, but not for the reason's you'd think. I know I've mentioned how I can't see how people think there is a whole "cheating triangle" between David/Mary Margaret/Kathryn...I will ALWAYS see that as, David was married to Snow White FIRST, so anything that happened in Storybrooke doesn't count. For these characters, their REAL world is the Enchanted Forest, not "our world". The entire Storybrooke world was a curse and David spent the entire first 28 years of that curse in a coma (until Emma showed up). If you have seen the show, you'll remember in the Pilot episode, he was mortally wounded BEFORE the curse happened, so he crossed over into our world and probably went directly into the hospital, did not pass go and certainly did not collect $200. When...

I LOVE reaction videos, although I'm not sure why. I only typically watch them for Once Upon A Time and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., shows that, I myself have watched probably a 100 times a piece. So what is so fascinating about watching other people watch shows I can literally quote line by line and know exactly what is going to happen during every second? Probably because I can NEVER get anyone around me to watch these shows and I kind of live vicariously through complete strangers watching them. Maybe I kind of feel like I'm "sharing" my shows with these people and it bonds us in this weird way. I have been on YouTube since the dawn of it's inception, and I've gone through about every YouTube phase, although my favorite will always be fan videos, but reactions are now slowly topping out my history lists more than fan videos lately. But they seem to have their pluses and minuses. Most started out in their entirety on Patreon and, as much as I'd LOVE t...

Supernatural Exorcism... That's about as "gothic" of a frame as I could get at Hobby Lobby, but I think it works OK. I would have preferred something much darker, but oh well. I also have apparently been very lax at reporting new stash, probably because I haven't been buying much and I haven't stitched since, well, forever! Maybe, after all this work crap settles down, I can get back to it! But quite a while ago, I broke down and bought two new Jasmine Becket-Griffith's, including my ABSOLUTE favorite piece of her artwork (aside from the Disney's, of course), Strangely Lonely: I would prefer to have Strangely Lonely super-sized with max colors, but it's not out that way, so I deal with what I have. And I do own this in print form anyway, so my wall isn't missing it. I also got Vampire Dragonling: I also found a new shop on Etsy that had a FABULOUS Once pattern, and you guys KNOW how much I LOVE Once patterns! They are SOOOO hard to co...

As crazy as things have been, I almost forgot to show you that I did FINALLY get Snow and Charming framed! I also got my Supernatural Exorcism framed, but I'll have to show that later. So, without further ado (and forgive the glare), I give to you, Snow and Charming! The main mat is actually more of the color purple where my arms are and the inner color is a parchment like flesh-color that fit in well. Anyhoo, I'll try to remember to take a pic of the Exorcism one too (my brain barely works by the time I get home)...thankfully, I hung Snow and Charming at work, I just had to remember to take it in the hallway to get a pic so I didn't capture anything "delicate".

I'm not going to give a day-to-day update, but I do want to share that the shows aren't streaming an episode per day, so that probably means that new episodes of their shows will be weekly (I was SOOO hoping to get the second episode of "The Imagineering Story" last night, but alas, I guess I'll have to wait until next week!). Oh, and the home screen is now working, but I find it too busy and hard to navigate, so I found myself wandering back over to the side menu, which is ironic since on Netflix I HATE the side menu! There was no new original content added to the channel on Day 2, but the library of movies and TV shows had grown exponentially. Since I ended the first night on "Descendants 2" and "Descendants 3" isn't on Disney+ yet, I watched the DVD to finish up the series before I dived in on the channel. But then I was ready to hit the channel once again and had a hard time choosing what to watch! I began with a documentary on...

Yes, I was one of those weirdos who booked my Disney+ "reservation" months in advance. I didn't pay for the year or the three-year package, but I did schedule the month-to-month package (just in case I ended up hating it, I didn't want to get stuck with it). I should have known it would be AH-MAH-ZING!!! I rushed home from work earlier than normal last night (which, here lately, that still meant late), and it was waiting for me on my TV app screen. Granted, the home screen of the app kept crashing, but I wouldn't let that deter me, I just slid over to the side screen and those menus worked, so I had full access to all the content they had up. I had heard rumors that the first bit of content would be limited, and it was. The new content we were promised was limited to about six to nine shows, none of which were the new Marvel shows I was so looking forward to ("The Mandalorian" was there, but I'm not a Star Wars fan, so I wasn't interested...

Pic heavy post guys, so warning! Well, overall, the Ghost Tour was a total bust except for one or two key moments. You guys know that yes, I do believe in ghosts, yes, I do sense ghosts thanks to that little pesky sensory overload gene that most Aspers have. For those that don't know, most Aspers have EXTREMELY strong senses in all capacities. If it wasn't for this stupid eye disease, I'd probably have beyond perfect vision too (but, even with this, I have night cat eyes, so there is that). As my Daddy used to say when I was little, "she can hear a mouse fart in Kentucky and probably smell it too!"...he wasn't far off. But, added to that, I can also sense "energies" (for lack of a better word). It's why I can judge people's characters so well the first second I meet them, it's why I don't like specific places the second I walk into them, and it's why I know when a place is genuinely haunted or not. I should add a discla...

Guess what guys...this post has pics! I was a bit relieved I didn't have to go to the Art Institute with my Sister because we do tend to end up fighting over the time I tend to spend in the Impressionist/Renaissance time periods. I just lose track of time. And considering I really only had the two hours anyway, I was already pressed for time. I was whipping through, snapping photos left and right, thinking I would take my time and look at them when I got home. But I did get caught up with the Monet's (shock) and there were approximately four rooms of them, so I was in heaven! And I've never actually seen any of his London series in person, so that was a real treat! Thankfully, the masses were more interested in other pieces, so I had them all to myself for quite a while...and there were four of them! and, of course: ironically, my cell got a MUCH better photo of my favorite, more true to color...go figure! but they all got me for quite a while...longer than ...

The final bleach and marble story (and thankfully, it's a short one)...that sock, the one I used to soak up all the pure Clorox? The one I THOUGHT I threw away? Well, it somehow made it into my suitcase. It ruined by favorite (and brand new) Fitz from "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." shirt, a pair of jeans, multiple pair of underwear, as well as the inside of my suitcase. I was able to order a new Fitz shirt though (even though I had to pay full price for this one, the other one I got on sale) and the underwear doesn't matter, no one sees them but me anyway. It was WAY past time for new luggage, and the jeans I just wrote off. I STILL have NO CLUE how that sock got in my suitcase in the first place! I am 99.9% certain I threw it in the trash, so I don't know if my Sister found it and she threw it in with my stuff, if I picked it back up with the few toiletries I kept by accident, or if I somehow managed to pick it up with another day's dirty clothes...I jus...

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGE AHEAD FOR THOSE WITH A WEAK STOMACH This whole trip came about because my Sister had a conference and she asked me to tag along. She added an extra day so that we would have time to do some sightseeing, but in the process of planning, she ended up having to go to two conferences instead of one, so that ruined her extra day of doing anything, but it meant that I had more time on my own to do stuff. I was a bit afraid that I would end up stuck in the room the entire trip because I've been extremely anti-social of late, but once I got used to the hop-on-off bus with her, I was fine by myself. This was a good thing too because, she and I have VERY different views on art and The Art Institute was one of our sightseeing places that we were going to do together, but I now had all to myself. I was worried that we would end up fighting (as we often do in Art Museums...I tend to spend too much time in the Impressionists and Renaissance areas and she likes Modern...

Remember the purple shampoo I mentioned in the last post? Well, it haunted me BIG time once we got to Chicago. Granted, almost everything non-clothing I own is purple (I tend to wear black and shades of heather gray when it comes to shirts and jeans as a general rule), so when my purple shampoo leaked in my purple toiletry bag (which is also purple, but I always bag it in a ziploc for just such reasons) inside my checked bag (you guessed it, purple), I wasn't too worried. The bag would dry and it was just shampoo right? WRONG! Of course, that first night I wasn't conscious enough to grasp the situation of the spill and I didn't wash my hair, but I did the next morning and, because of the light-colored marble in the Hyatt bathroom, I was EXTRA careful to make sure that no purple shampoo remained in the shower so it didn't stain. What I didn't plan for was that my toiletry bag was still wet and that housekeeping would push my bag against the marble-tiled backs ...

Bleach and Marble turned out to be a recurring theme throughout my trip, and it all started the week before we even left. Hi, I'm Keebs and I was born with naturally mouse blonde hair. However, I had been professionally blonde since I was 16 years old (chlorine blonde since childhood from pools). Granted, I tried black once and a few other weird choices throughout the years but, for the majority of my life, it's been blonde. My foray into purple a few years ago (mixed with blue, and blue ALWAYS fades to green, and green HAS to grow off) meant that I had almost a year of growing off all that bad ju-ju color that was left over (covered up with a brown) and a year of my natural color. From what I've been told, you either go gray or go darker as you get older...apparently I got darker. Darker on me made me feel like I looked 10 years older than am, so I was squirming as it was and was going to switch back to blonde, trip or not. As a side note, when it comes to me an...

On our first night in Chicago, my Sister woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me to get in the bed. I was apparently standing up next to the bed, but I was bent in half and my head was laying on a pillow! I don't remember doing that. Apparently, even past that moment, all I could manage was barely crawling in the bed, without covers (a Keebs no-no), to finish out the night. What happened to get me to that moment is STILL a mystery! The night before we left, I stayed at my Sister's house to make it easier to leave (her town is closer to Memphis than mine and I wanted to leave my car at my house). So I started the night before in a strange bed anyway, and I never sleep good away from home. For that matter, since I've slept on the couch for years anyway, I'm not really used to sleeping in a bed. We stayed up late chatting and watching TV, so I probably didn't get much sleep from the get-go, but I took my meds and slept as normal when they kicked in, ev...

Work has been so nuts, I haven't had a moment to think, let alone breathe! I don't do anything when I leave work, other than watch TV and sleep, so pretty much everything else has been out of the question, especially blogging and catching up with everyone else. I apologize to everyone! Hopefully, by at least February (when this whole big work project is finished), I will be back to normal, but until then, life will just suck! I did go to Chicago with my Sister a couple of weeks ago for a couple of days (she had a conference), but I have done nothing more than move the pictures from the memory cards to the computer. I haven't edited a single one (and probably won't until February either). There were lots of total Asper shenanigans in Chicago, especially since I had about two days to wander the city alone (yep, you read that right...I wandered a city alone!), and hopefully I can share a few of the stories between now and then, because some of them are pretty funny ...

So, in yet ANOTHER effort to break my "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." obsession, I did a free trial of Shudder on Amazon Prime this weekend and watched "A Discovery of Witches" and boy, did that do the trick! I am now completely obsessed! For one thing...Matthew Goode, who I have loved forever, but it is brilliant, romantic, historic and epic, all the things I just adore! I ended up just buying the series on Amazon, as well as the books. The books are quite long and, despite my penchant for fast reading, I still only managed to get through the first one and barely into the second one yesterday (although I still watched the show twice yesterday as well, so that counts as a major distraction). The first book is the entire first series, and it fills out a lot of the gaps that the series leaves out (if that's possible in an 8 hr-8 episode series), but since the series focuses more on all the characters and the book just really focuses more on Matthew and Diana, I see ...

The Veronica Mars thing...even though "real life" is extremely difficult now too...is REALLY bothering me...so, for those who have watched it and understand my pain, I'm sharing the link to the online petition to get Rob Thomas to "fix" his mistake: A Petition for Rob Thomas (spoiler free title, but not spoiler free if you click on it) link

Well, they say that no news is good news, but that's not the same in my case. Work has been HORRIBLE. I haven't stitched a square. The new season of Veronica Mars RUINED my life. I've pretty much been in hiding for weeks now. I've been watching a lot of FitzSimmons fan videos and I've started re-watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. just trying to make myself feel better but, at least so far, I'm still in a funk, so I've been blog-absent. I just want to start my new work project, I want the new season of Veronica Mars to NOT have happened, and I want life to go back to normal, but I NEVER get what I want, so what else is new? Oh well, I figure might take a blog-break for a little while until things either die down, or pick back up, depending on which side of the coin you look at. But then again, you guys know me, I might be posting a HUGE essay on something really annoying by tomorrow!

I'm not sure if I was just trying to take my mind off of dwelling on the incredibly terrifying load of work coming my way with building an entirely new LIS system for work or what, but I did stitch this weekend, and it's probably more than I've done in a while (although still not up to my usual standards). I pulled out Maleficent (yes, I know I probably shouldn't call her that, but that IS who she is and, when I bought her from Heaven and Earth Designs, that WAS her name before they had to change it for legal reasons, so I'm sticking to it anyway because it bugs me they changed it to Evil Queen when we ALL know who the Evil Queen is and it AIN'T Maleficent!). Last time I even touched her was row 5 finish back in February 2018: And, had I not got distracted by TV, I could have easily finished the color on the page I was working on, especially since it was only 10 more rows (but I didn't)...I'm also having issues with playing Marvel Game Quest on my iP...