“Chiromancie” is palmistry in French….why does EVERYTHING sound so much prettier in French?

This vintage slip needed some repair, so i fixed all it’s little time-worn wounds. i dyed it twice with tea, once with Chai, once with Earl Grey, to give it a really mottled and antique coloring.

I stitched on many many layers of various lace trims at the hem. The embellishments are a hand-embroidered palmistry chart worked onto 1940’s era doily, rosettes of gathered lace, vintage rhinestone buttons, and a satin rose and vine applique to which i added a few tiny rhinestones recycled from a vintage dress.

At the hip, i stitched on another very old doily and some lace with little pearls, also recovered from a vintage dress. Pretty lace trim under the bust and YET ANOTHER old doily and lace rosette at the bodice.

I do so  love a doily……

More days fly by and i find myself in the thick of October already! It seems like there is always something going on that distracts me from bloglandia. Since my last visit, we have continued to rehearse with the Columbia Alternacirque. Alas, we got rained out for the September show, but we look forward to the October 24th performance with much excitement. My mister has been a really quick study, learning fire tricks…it’s been nonstop entertainment! i am still working hard with bellydance. I just took and amazing two-day ” tribal bootcamp” workshop with with the beautiful Moria Chappell.
I have never worked so hard at dance and it was fantasitc, even tho’ it nearly killed me

Meanwhile, i have been REALLY busy, stitching and making and working working working away at various projects. I’m vending at the Belladonna’s Halloween Festival in a few weeks and so i have been trying to make up a few simple things for that…..here are a few….

As well as a few not-so-simple…

I double-dyed a vintage half-slip with chai tea, and it  is very mottled and “Ancient” looking.  I added some black lace to the hem…

Then i embroidered on a couple of simple “juggling” skeletons….this took ages of course, and kept me entertained in the car while traveling to “boot camp”, and while sitting around waiting for the wee beastie to get out of school every afternoon.

I gave them button eyes, and  stitched on some lace roses and pearls for the skellies to “juggle” with. It’s silly, creepy and fun. I am extremely pleased with it.

Unbelievably, i have not gotten my Halloween decorations up!!!!  I might have to turn in my Ghoulie card! Planning to work on that over the weekend, as well as heaps more sewing that i’ve got going on! Head spinning…..not enough hours in the day to do everything i want to do! Eeeek!

Hoping everyone is having a lovely Autumn so far! I’ll be back soon!

xoxoxo

Hello, long lost lovies!

I am sure by now my long stretches of silence are what you’ve come to expect. Tiresome, i know. Hopefully some of you are still out there reading this on the occasions i DO finally manage to get something new up here and forgiving me for my constant truancy!

I am finally starting to adjust to my new routine….the beastie has officially begun kindergarten. It was rough at first….we are just not used to that much structure here in the buttonbox! I am happy to say that we have started to get into the swing of it tho’, and while we are still perpetually exhausted, it’s not as harrowing as it was at first. I am still getting used to having these long days of no-kid, and missing him alot, but now that i am adjusting to waking up early, i am become more productive again and i’ve been making lots of things and doing groovy stuff like scrubbing the bathrooms and folding laundry. Wow! It’s astonishing what you can accomplish with you are not wrangling a little monster all day!

I am also still very involved with bellydancing (i have really immersed myself in American Tribal Style, as well as Fusion) as well as working with the Columbia Alternacirque. I love it so much, and the cast is a flock of the most outrageously creative and awesome people who i am really enjoying getting to know and spend time with. It’s been great, espcially since my mister has gotten so into it all too….seeing him on stilts was scary at first, but now it’s just a normal day in the buttonbox…he’s learning fire tricks now….poi and fire eating and such. Madness!!!! Our August “Dreams” set was amazing, in spite of the Very Bad Weather we had to work around. We are repeating “We’re All Mad” and “Dreams” for the rest of the season, tho’, and i expect it will evolve and get more magical as we rework and continue to rehearse and re-imagine. If you want to see a little teaser, check it out here.

The crazy costumes and stilts and fire and dancing and bubbles and glitter were incredible…if a bit uncomfortable. The “bird people” all wore huge black cloaks and insane masks that we made…we constructed big beaks and attached them to a mask-form, covered the whole thing in shards of broken mirror and grouted it. It’s heavy and hot and really challenging to wear, but the effect onstage is creepy and beautiful!

Highly dangerous should i ever decide to peck anyone tho’! teehee!!!

I’ve been working on so many things and i want to write about it all…but i thought that perhaps if i just blog about one project at a time then it will encourge me to start writing everyday again. So the project for today is the “Poisoner’s Cami”….

This is cut down from an old slip…the bottom half was not in great shape, but the top was fine, so i hacked it off and went crazy on it. Dyed with Earl Grey as usual, and completely handstitched. I trimmed all the edges with black lace….

Ahh….the ubiquitous “arsenic” embroidery! I can’t help myself. I feel Halloween reaching out to me in the distance and feel myself shifting into creepy-mode. I embroidered my poison of choice onto a piece of black cotton and ripped it so the edges would be rough and frayed, and layered it with a scrap of black lace from an old dress. Then i made up a bunch of lace “roses” and added them, as well as some pretty, ladylike pearls to distract from the danger.

Because of course, there is danger lurking…

But i suppose it’s only fair to give one a LITTLE warning, so i sewed on a skull and crossbones charm. I am nothing if not SUBTLE, yes? (giggle)

More lace and pearls for the back so that one can look just as lovely leaving as coming. And since someone complained to me about my making everything so small all the time, this cami is NOT for tiny waifs. Poisoners have CURVES, right?

I am really pleased with this piece, and really really enjoyed making it. I’ve been all about handsewing lately, and there is something that is really pleasing to me in all those imperfect little stitches. Meditative.

So there we have it. All is well here, just learning how to live with all this change and excitement….i really want to get back to regular blogging and catch up with you all. Renata…Kim…..Bethany…..Carolina……Vanessa…..Angelina…..Gypsy…and so many more of you that i have missed so much. i hope you are all well and wonderful, and that you know i think of you all so often. Let’s play catch-up!

Have a a magical day, lovies!!!!

xoxoxo

took an axe…..

gave her father forty whacks

And when she saw what she had done,

She gave her mother forty one !

Lizzie Bourdain was of course, inspired by the infamous “unsolved” hatchet murders of Andrew and Abby Borden

Blood stain evidence? No one will ever know…..

…..And watching way too many episodes of “Anthony Bourdain’s No Reseverations” played a bit of a part in the doll-naming process, i can’t deny it. Totally crushing on ol’ nastybits Tony! Such an interesting guy with the coolest job in the universe.

Anyway! Enough about my latest crush!

Lizzie is a big girl…about 21 inches tall and as always, made mostly of recycled fabrics…i really like the intriguingly brownish “stains” on the lace and thought it added to the creepy mystery. Brocade fabric yoyos and buttons for eyes and lots of embroidery make up her loony-looking mug. She’ll be up for adoption soon!

Hoping everyone is having a grand Friday!

xoxoxo

Hello out there! (listens to echo, admires the tumbleweeds blowing around)

Yet again i’ve been absent for an inexcusable amount of time. The buttonbox has been rather bleak, to tell the truth, and i’ve really not much felt like talking about it all. But i fianlly have something delightful to blog about so here i am, telling you all about my wonderful visit with the Amazing Calamity Kim!

Lucky me! Kim has been up, spending time with her parents, who live not-too-terribly far from here. So, we decided that it was time for us to finally meet in real life. Even tho’ we’ve been talking pretty much every single day for nearly two years, we’ve never met in “real” life. Isn’t it funny how you can feel so close to a person who you’ve never “really” met? That’s how we’ve been, like sisters, holding each other up thru our various trials and tribulations, sharing triumphs and joys too. She has been a HUGELY important part of my life, so it was like magic to get to finally give her the hug i’ve been saving up for so long.

I consulted the INDESPENSIBLE Amy Sedaris masterwork on entertaining, “I Like You” to ensure that i would be the very best hostess i could be. Did looney things like getting u p a t 7:30 in the morning so i could make home made chicken stock for a Chicken, Mushroom, Spinach and Tortellini soup for our “Luncheon”….baked a loaf Italian Herb and Mozzarella beer bear, and of course, the infamous Black Bottom Cherry Tarts. (teeheee) Pulled myself together and tried to make my house presentable and was oh-so-nervous….what if Kim did not like me in real life? Oh, how i fretted. But we got along just as well in person as tho’ we’ve always been friends and everything went along wonderfully. Kim spoiled us with beautiful faerie wings (better photos of these are coming soon),and even wings for little Beastie too!

Buntings and beautiful dollies, vintage slips and a whimsical top…. her big red truck stuffed with books and fabrics and kinds of amazing stuff like some kind of magical crafty gypsy caravan. I was so nervous, happy and excited that i failed to take as many photos as i’d planned. But we had a grand day, and Kim is definitely one of the delightful people i have ever met. She came at the most perfect time…i have really been “lost” lately, and my world has been turned upside down…i’ve not been spending as much time being creative because i just have not had the energy. But Kim brought inspiration, color and much-needed joy back to me and i am so grateful that i can’t even express it. We had a fun day of visiting Belladonna’s and chatting over coffee at Cool Beans….even my mama hung out for most of the day! Later, we went to dinner at lovely old Zesto’s so that Kim could get “a taste of old Greece” and be amazed at he giant Ice Cream Cone In The Sky. Such fun! And even more fun, Kim decided to stay for a slumber party, and so i got to share my “nest room” too!

The rest of the evening was spent up in my craft room…a place that sadly, i have not been spending much of my time these days. But it was lovely to share it with Kim, and i pulled out one of my old projects-in-progress, the denim picnic quilt. This is an years-long ongoing process…i cut simple squares from all my fam’s worn-out or outgrown jeans to make blocks, then i have family and friends make simple drawings directly onto the squares that i then embroider over. One day i will piece it all together and it will be our picnic quilt…a sturdy blankie to spread out on the grass for lolling about on sunny days. I had stowed it away an not done any work on it for a LONG time, but i had Miz Calamity Kim do some drawings for me while she visited and embroidering her charming doodles has helped me occupy my self over the past few days of not-so-greatness. Color is medicine for the soul, i think, and friendship preserved with a few simple stitchings is nothing short of magic.

It was my lifeline to sanity as i sat in the waiting room, stitching a sweet cupcake with rainbow threads, trying to wrap my mind around new and unexpected words like Oncology, CT scan, and bone marrow biopsy and what meaning these words could have in my family’s life.

Kim could not have come at a better time…i needed her so much more then i knew i did.

The short version is that my Mister has been ill since mid-december. The doctor just kept throwing antibiotics and steroids at him, but whatever-it-it just wouldn’t go away. Steroids made the symptoms manageable, but it was kind of like putting a tiny bandage on a gunshot wound. We just have no idea what’s going on…at first we thought maybe Lyme disease, then maybe some kind of rheumatoid issue….but never any positive result to pin it down and treat his illness properly. So finally she’s referred him to specialists and yesterday was our trip to the Oncology center. Obviously the result was not what i was expecting . There will be more tests and hopefully we will know what is going on. Right now, i am in a fog, nothing seems real and i am so angry, and frightened. I can’t explain how i really feel in a coherent way. As scary as it all is, i am at least glad that he is on the road to getting some treatment, because we’ve just been in this limbo of awfulness since pre-Christmas. Hence my absence. Hence my totally lack of motivation to create. It’s hard to talk about it…i just have not wanted to put all this out there because to do so somehow makes it more real, maybe. I don’t know. I thought talking about my hysterectomy was as personal and as “real” as i could get with this blog, but THAT was easy compared to this. That pain seems like nothing compared to what i am feeling now. Why am i finally writing about it now? I am not really sure. It seems like i need to get it out but i just don’t know how.

So Kim was my faerie friend who brought me rainbows and hope and light at what could be one of the darker times of my life. She reminded me that a needle and thread can be the stitches that hold your heart together when you are sure it might shatter. That cupcake embroidery was the sweetest part of a bitter day. Being surrounded with her bright joyful creations is helping me hold onto some positivity and light. And her friendship is giving me wings.

Thank you, beautiful Kim. We love you, and can’t wait for your return.

Remember this? The tree embroidery that i started about a year ago?

I am thrilled to report that i am FINALLY DONE with it!

I am quite sure that thre are no fewer than one billion stitches  that make up the tree design, and if i had to calulate how many hours it took to get this thing done, i’d probably have a nervous breakdown. But DAMN it feels good to have FINISHED something. It a way, it’s kind of re-ignited my “mojo” and i feel like making things again. I have too many WIPS hanging around here, and getting the BIG one done feels like nothing short of miracle.  I’m getting back to my dollies…one Lady Wormwood for the most wonderfully patient girl i know, and a frosty snowflake skelly too, among other things. I dried out some orange peel in my oven to make the vanilla patchouli orange soap i’ve been planning, and  trying to figure out how to make my own flared bellydance pants so i no longer have to BUY them. I love ‘em, but man are they spendy. How can i call myself crafty if i don’t at least TRY to make my own, right?

Speaking of bellydance, yes, i am still obsessed!  Last week, i got bumped up to the intermediate level of my American Cabaret bellydance class, and to celebrate, i decided to finally get myself out to the tribal fusion class. This was a HUGE deal, as some of you may know, i am kind of agoraphobic and i am terrified of driving, especially at night and into areas outside my local comfort zone. However, one of my “resolutions” was to stop being a weenie and take up an Auntie Mame attitude…you know…”Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving….Live Live Live!”  So i gathered all my courage and did it, and loved it, and plan to keep on going. If i did it once i can do it again! Go me! I won’t be starving anymore!

Hoping you are all well and wonderful!

xoxoxoxo

Did you all think i was never ever going to blog again? Sorry no such luck! I’ve just been taking my down time very seriously and trying to power through the holidays with my good cheer intact. We’ve had some bumpy moments, but overall, we are still pretty joyful here in the buttonbox. I warn you now, this is gonna be long rambly post that no doubt will wind and wander into pointlessness at any turn!

We finished this one rather massive project finally…it took alot longer than i originally thought it would, as these sorts of things often do! Using the tute from Allsort’s blog for her super cute red and white advent calender, we made a red and green “secular countdown” version. Both my mister and i worked on this project together and i think it turned out to be really cute! Beastie is loving opening each little felt envelope to find his daily treat, too.

Alas, xmas is not really my best holiday, so my other mantle decor is alittle, well, awful! I insist on trying to collect Rankin Bass Rudolph stuff and my dream is to have the entire mantle covered with misfit toys someday! Raven was home this past weekend, so we fianlly go the tree up and decorated…it’s beginning to look lot like Christmas!

There is no real rhyme or reason or GOD FORBID, a THEME to it…many of the ornaments are heirlooms, others are just silly little things we’ve added on along the way, as well as the more pedestrian “filler” stuff. I am still convinced that the tree topper (which we got for our very first holiday together all those long years ago) is some form of device that my mister installed to contact UFOs to come and take him back to his people…swing down, sweet chariot, stop and let me ride..we are ready to make the Mothership Connection, baby!

Proof that we are pretty dang geeky around here!

Years ago, My Paper Crane had posted about this really cool holiday wreath she’d made with origami peace cranes. At the time, my oldest son was REALLY into origami (the kid is the McGyver of paperfolding) He loved the idea, so we made one of our own….it’s gotten a wee bit crushed and croggled over the years, but it’s still one of my favorite decorations, and a wonderful memory of the two of us crafting together! I miss him when he is not here, and he is REALLY on my mind alot right now because he’s having surgery tomorrow to correct his “impressively” deviated septum. He’ll be Raven the Red Nosed Emo, the poor thing. I’ll be so glad when it’s all over so he can breath and i can stop worrying!

Along with decorating, we also baked a pie while he was here….tart apple, ala Calamity Kim. Yum! Looks so pretty hanging out on my grandma’s beautiful vintage organza holiday apron…i still remember seeing her wear that at our family xmas gatherings, she was so soft spoken and ladylike, and always had a hankie in that little pocket….her hair was always arranged in the most spectacularly beautiful pin curls and finger waves….she was a real southern beauty.
The pie was pretty dang good too…i hope grandmama is looking down at me and smiling right now as i try sooooo hard to create some fusion of old and new traditions for my family. It’s true we are pretty non-traditional people…it’s caused a bit of family friction, unfortunately. But we love our family, and we are amazingly stable and happy. That has to count for something even if we are not doing the church thing. It really blows my mind that you can be happily married, gainfully employed, have happy healthy kids, choose to be a stay-at-home-mom rather than put your kids in daycare, etc etc etc…but still have a negative image to people who should know and love you best, just because you are alittle “different” or choose not to be part of any form of organized religion! I don’t get it. I am all about living and letting live, minding my business, and loving people for who they are rather than who i WANT them to be. Alas, not everyone feels the way i do. It’s sad.

ANYWAY, that is all i have to say about THAT!!!!

(cue Nightmare Before Christmas Music)

Meanwhile, Halloweentown has indeed been making Christmas…..i had no choice but to press the pause button on the other dolly i was working on to make this girl because it was ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT…sometimes my muse can be VERY pushy.

You may think that too much holiday joy can’t be lethal…but you’d be dead wrong!

Holly Humbug was never very fond of the holidays, but one year, she somehow found herself caught up in the joy of the season. Maybe it was too much eggnog that caused her tragic tumble into the holly bushes but the poor poor girl suffered too many punctures to ever celebrate again in this lifetime! Good thing they have great undead holiday parties too!

Holly is the first of two “holiday edition” little dead dollies i’m working on. I’ll get her listed on Etsy soon. Meanwhile, she has a frozen little sister who is demanding my attention, as well as a rather cob-webby looking absinthe sipper in the works for a certain VERY PATIENT knittin’ mad Hattress! I better get back to my stitching.

I hope everyone is enjoying the season! I’ve missed “Bloglandia” so much, and Big Daddy promised that the Buttonbox will be all pretty-fied and nice again by the first of the year. I have alot of catching up to do!

Huge hugs to you all!!!!

xoxoxox

So, i honestly should not have took the time to work on any projects for ME while i am in in the the thick of the last-minute prep for this weekend…BUT, i NEEDED to do something fun and totally ALL ABOUT ME to remind myself that crafting is a source of JOY rather than stress! Which lead me to rescuing my poor ruined dress.

This is my favorite dress, i wear it all the time. The other day i got some dishwasher detergent on it…now, i had NO idea that stuff was so bloody caustic! It bleached out a big patch and several little spots near the hem line…i was SO upset! I decided to try to rescue my poor favorite frock before it got tossed into the scrap pile. I cut out several skulls from the Alexander Henry Astral Skull print that i adore, and appliquéd them stratgeically around the bottom to cover up the bleached part, then i decided to sew on a bit of lacey fun, so i added eyelet to the hem. Viola!

There are still some spots, but the polkadot print camouflages them pretty well. I am SO happy with this, i feel like i got  new dress, even! I will be rockin’ this at Mutation for sure! My grandma would be so proud that i “made do” instead of scrapping the whole thing! And I am glad that i took a little time out ot do something nice for ME, even tho’ time is a-wastin’ and i need to be getting all my loose ends tied up for Mutation. Which i HAVE been doing….i have finished up a ton of new stuff!

Palm Mystery bag all done!  It has some issues…the lining was HORRIBLE to work with and it shifted alittle…but i still think it’s pretty and has a kind of shabby gypsy kind of wonky charm….i so wish i could get my camera to take proper macro photos so you could see the Medusa button that i sewed on…i love it!

There is a brand new batch of soap to go along with my ubiquitous Naughty Faerie stuff…

Victorian Rose and Somali Rose oils, clover honey and ground up rose petals. This stuff is rose-heaven.

And…two more little dead ragdollies all done!

Miss Madeline Usher….suffered from both a terribly unstable family-life and catalepsy…she was interred alive by her brother in the family crypt during an episode of  this death-like malady ….she escaped, but the poor girl left her sanity in the tomb, and died while attacking her equally mad brother, ending the family line of VERY bad seeds! (Obviously i was HEAVILY inspired by Poe, and the wonderful interpretation of “The House of Usher” filmed by Roger Corman and starring my beloved Vincent Price)

And here we have this very annoyed looking young lady…..this doll was a big lesson in “SEEING” my work. Normally, when i make dollies, they tell me their names and stories while i am working on them. By the time i am done, i know all about “who” this little dead dollie is. But not this time. She was done, and i still knew NOTHING about  her other than that she looked REALLY angry about something. I was stuck! Fortunately,  lovely Kim came along and helped me see this girl with fresh eyes. I never noticed that the embroidery on her face resembled a bee! So, per the marvelous imgination of calamity kim….

“Angry Amber…. The Tupelo Terror… The embroidery looks like a bee with honey to me… She was stung by bees while gathering honey for her afternoon cup of oolong souchong.”

Thanks, dear heart, you saved me from having an aneurysm over this doll!!!
Aaaaaaaanyway, here i am making a mile-long blog post when i need to be WORKING! So off i go….this is the last big push before we take off for the garden of good and Evil……no rest for THIS wicked girl until the morrow. I hope you are all having a grand and magical day!

xoxoxo

Well, i am becoming a hunchbacked, squinty-eyed over-tired crabby old lady as i stitch my way toward Mutation this weekend….i have been SUPER busy and have been trying very hard to stay focused…no easy feat for the girl with no attention span or self discipline! I am pretty amazed at how focused i am, actually. I want to have a super-awesome time like last year….tho’ i am alittle stressed since my inventory is a bit different this time, and i am nervous about how it will be received. But, as long as i feel i am doing my very best, it’s ok!

I think my favorite creation so far is the “la Luna” linen jacket.

I found this jacket in a thrift store, and fell in love with it…it was so odd-looking with the cut-out flower pattern, and it had some seriously ugly gold buttons….but i knew it had potential to become something lovely. Many hours of handstitching later, it has become “La Luna”, and i am very proud of it!

i took the big hideous gold buttons off and replaced them with reproduction vintage deco buttons…

i took eyelet lace off thrifted pillow sham and hand stitched it with some black lace to “frill up” the cuffs….

i came across the cotton lace collar in a big box of fabric scraps i got at a thrift store, the tag says “Peking Handicrafts” It was the perfect size to add to the jacket, so i hand stitched it on and put a button hole in in…..

i removed the original tag and replaced it with the La Luna” lotteria card, just for fun. Notice the tiny tag with the big “S” on it…sadly, this jacket is sized for smaller ladies than me. I tried to make it fit, but the dang thing just won’t button over my chest. Hopefully some much smaller girl will love it as much as i do and make it her own. I am SO pleased with it…it’s unusal for me to perfectly bring into reality what i imagine in my head, but i was able to do it with La Luna, and i am quite sure it must be full of some kind of magical powers, a little charm in every stitch!

i decided to try to use up some of the embroidered pieces i’ve had hanging around here forever, like these little vines…

i sewed them onto the last two “Vera” cloth napkins i’d thrifted so long ago, and made the whole thing into a big soft and floppy tote bag….

Another embroidery that has lingered too long with no purpose….the autumn tree…

becomes a simple comfy skirt….

And i am still kind of hung up on lace and beads and ribbons for cuffs…

there is TONS more happening in the buttonbox, but i must get back to work! I still have a new batch of soap to wrap and tag, bath salts to bottle, dollies to dress and and and and and….will i be ready for the fair this weekend? Who knows! But it won’t be for lack of hard work! I have been doing a ridiculous amount of hand stitching lately, and it’s making blind and arthritic…the things we do for love, no?
I hope everyone is well and wonderful… i am missing you guys terribly and can’t wait to get my Mutating behind me so i can catch up with you all! Meanwhile, LOVE LOVE LOVE to all!

xoxoxoxox

Oh, how little Limon loved to dance! Latin was her special favorite, and she loved to salsa…but what she loved the most was…the MERENGUE! She’d drink and dance the night away, until the day came when she went just a little too far. Too many sips of Limoncello and too many turns around the dance floor….but, she did die happy, drunk on joy and in love to boot!

Limon is ready for her trip to Savannah, and is impatiently waiting for me to finish her sisters so that she won’t be lonely while we wait for the Mutation Fair. She dearly hopes to meet some of YOU there too! Would you care to dance?

the torsos are the easy part…it’s stuffing the limbs that kills me! A slooooooow process! I can’t think of how long doll-making takes, because it’s a little overwhelming how many hours of my life i have spent stitching little dead girlies! But, one MUST do what one’s Muse demands, no?

And here is yet ANOTHER WIP for today. I’d vowed to myself that i would use up all the random embroideries i’ve done that are just hanging around with no purpose. This palmistry chart is well on it’s way to being turned into a purse.

I wish i could say that these are my only works in progress, but no. No, they are not. There are many others that i just can’t bring myself to look at in a public forum right now! In fact, i have no business even blogging or being anywhere NEAR the computer until AFTER the show, i have waaaay too much to do and very little time left to do it. So i’m off, to see how many of these lingering projects i can complete today! Wish me luck!

xoxox