I'm still here, ridiculously busy with new job and voice lessons and dance and choir. I do check DA daily, pretty much, but don't post much. I've just taken pictures of a beautiful cyclomen plant we have on our kitchen table and am dying to play with them and submit a bunch, but I really don't have the time so I'm just submitting the one that doesn't need any editing.

Hope everyone is well!

Waaaay back in 2004, I worked at an answering service. It was the worst job I have ever had. (Mostly because I hate talking on the phone and I particularly hate talking on the phone to strangers. Even worse that the strangers wanted to be talking to the business, not the answering service. Etc etc etc.) I spent 8 months chained to a desk with my headset cord in a grey cubicle with a grey computer screen in a grey office with grey fluorescent lights. I eventually left because my soul was dying.

ANYWAY, I spent a lot of time bored at that job (apparently, because I don't actually remember). I started doodling on the scrap paper we always had around, and then one day for whatever reason I had brought a little pair of scissors to work. I decided to make paper chain cutouts (you know, like the chains of people that kids make in the stereotype of kindergarten). The pieces of scrap paper I had were half-sheets of 8.5x11 paper with stuff on the back... so I made do. Altogether, I made about 35 of these different paper cutouts, and I expanded quite beyond people (in fact, I'm not altogether sure I started with people). Chains of geckos, swans, elephants, planets, mermaids, and Chinese dragons made their way from my scissors. Then I forgot about them.

Luckily for me, I had stored them in a folder in a drawer at some point and discovered them again a couple of years ago. I was pretty impressed at what I had managed to do with just a little pair of kiddy scissors and ordinary old copy paper! I've been meaning to take photos of them and post on DA for some time now, and didn't get around to the photo-taking part til a few days ago.

I'm not altogether happy with the photos. I improvised for a background and wound up using a black skirt of mine, which meant that if I wanted a flat area with no seams, there wasn't a lot of space to work with. And some of the photos are blurry, others are uninspiring. I'm kind of up in the air about whether or which to post. I may try again sometime with a larger background fabric so I can arrange them more artistically. But I'm quite happy about the prospect of getting them up here. I'm very fond of these little paper things that came out of such an awful time in my life!

ETA: There will be more uploaded soon! When I get around to it!

Haha, I think I was my own 3000th pageview on my mom's computer. Anyhow, yay! Oh so slowly having people see my art. I am much too tired to think of any kind of special celebration thing, so this will have to do!

Hmmm, all my most recent deviations seem to have a lot of black in them...

I promise it's not my mood! (School's almost over! Just one more exam! And then I have to find a job but I'm hoping to get hired at a place close to my house, that would be so convenient.)

From cause she said anyone can do it.

When I decided to do this meme, I hadn't realized that it was song titles from ONE artist only. So that's quite a bit more of a challenge. I indubitably have more songs by Rajaton than any other artist, yet more than half of them are in Finnish and I have no idea what the titles mean. So... maybe I'll do songs by Great Big Sea, since they're in English and I have a bunch on my computer that I can browse through for titles. I don't really ever listen to them, but a friend lent me some of their CD's so I ripped them. (Not that I mind Great Big Sea, I just... don't listen to them for whatever reason. I digress.)

RULES:
Using ONLY SONG TITLES from ONE artist, answer these questions. You cannot use the same artist I did, or duplicate song titles even if they were performed by another artist. Make sure you send a copy to the person who sent you this as well, as an "honesty check"!

1. Are you a male or female:
Scolding Wife

2. Describe yourself:
Something Beautiful

3. How do you feel about yourself?
Run Run Away

4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:
Seagulls

5. Describe your current boy/girl situation:
Recruiting Sargeant

6. Describe your current location:
Ordinary Day

7. Describe where you want to be:
Sea of No Cares

8. Your best friend is:
Jakey's Gin

9. Your favorite color is:
Summer

10. You know that:
It's the End of the World as We Know It

11. What’s the weather like?
When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)

12. If your life was a television show what would it be called?
Own True Way

13. What is life to you?
Stumbling In

14. What is the best advice you have to give?
Let It Go

15. If you could change your name, what would it be?
Penelope