picked a handful of violets in my name

Who wants a $winterholiday card?

I am screening comments to this post so people can post their addresses; I will unscreen comments that are not addresses.

Alternately, you may use either DW private message or LJ private message, or email sofiaviolet@sofiaviolet.com.

Please indicate which kind of card you would like (general winter theme, certain religious holiday, secular/commercial christmas, etc.).

( $winterholiday wishlist meme )

( the random handmade meme )

Wyrding Studios is celebrating its fourth anniversary. A large update went live earlier this evening, featuring new pieces from older series and some completely new stuff, and older stock is on sale.

I bought Toad Lily #7 for myself and Depths of Winter: red and black for Gwyneira - I mean, I will be the one wearing it, since she is fictional. But still.

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Ooh, this is live already!

Email posting is now available to all Dreamwidth users (used to be a paid feature) and everyone's icon limits have been raised: free users to 15 icons, paid users to 100, and premium paid to 250.

Other people's Dreamwidth Follow Friday posts (will be updated throughout Friday):
( listed in posting order )

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( work )

Did you get an email?? (Note to anyone reading this who isn't my mom: she's been having issues staying logged in, thereby potentially missing locked posts, so we tried to set up a notification that'll email her whenever I post.)

EDIT: Just logged into the parental account (yes I know their password, shut up) and the notification wasn't set up. So I went ahead and did that. /o\ Note to Mom: it should work from now on.


foxfirefey has written a Greasemonkey script that allows you to collapse and expand entries on your DW reading page (provided you use a core2 layout).

And my suggested feature got migrated to Bugzilla! And yvi is working on getting it implemented.

Someday, I'm going to make myself a riot prrl icon. Though I should probably wait until I've done at least a few of the exercises from the perl-for-n00bs book I got, or submitted a patch. Or something.


Work is work. FYI, a digital collection of 80+ pdfs takes a really long time to build. Which wouldn't be so bad except that I now "build early, build often" so that Greenstone doesn't eat my work again.

We had no researchers today, but we did have 197381338482892 freshmen come in looking for classrooms. Lol n00bs, although I suppose I should give them credit for figuring out where their classes are before classes actually start. (I bet we get a ton of lost freshmen tomorrow [first day of classes], a few on Thursday, and somewhere-in-the-middle on Friday [for Tuesday/Friday classes].)

Cool new stuff! In particular, OpenID users can now join communities on Dreamwidth (in order to read and comment on locked entries - OpenID accounts still cannot make new posts) and it's now much easier to link to OpenID users (<user name="sofiaviolet.livejournal.com"> = sofiaviolet.livejournal.com) (although it doesn't crosspost properly). Previously one had to link to <user name="ext_2942">.

Also recently implemented was site search. It's currently restricted to paid accounts - paid journal holders can search their own journals, and any user can search the contents of a paid community. Before expanding the capabilities of search any further, Dreamwidth wants feedback on how you want site search to work.

Reading filters are expected by the next code push (omfgyay!).


(Now let's see if this helps zarhooie squish a bug.)

Memorial Day Instant Gratification at wyrding_studios!

Gwyneira is making noises about wanting a shiny, but she won't tell me what. Might get her something to go with that gown she swears she's not going to buy because it's impractical (except that she will, because Salvatore was with her when she tried it on, and he told her she looked pretty).

Plus there was muskratjamboree and a sinus infection in there. I will be getting caught up with all of you over the weekend. If there's anything you really want me to see, you can link it in the comments to make sure.

MJ09: Awesome. I love fandom.

Sinus infection: I can has antibiotics, and I'm already on the mend.

I am officially done with my art class as of this morning, and my poetry workshop as of Tuesday (though we have one last unofficial meeting tomorrow night at Ian's apartment). That leaves one more assignment for my sociology class, and the take-home final for Women In Western Religions - neither of which will be difficult.

Then I'll have a few weeks to do nothing much. I'll keep volunteering at Dress For Success, and I might be working a little, but other than that... I'm expecting a nice big box of shiny stuff in the mail tomorrow or Saturday, so I can make jewelry again. :D And I can paint.

Speaking of... I posted this a long time ago, but the offer is still open, if you want me to send you a crafty-thing. in_sunshine, I am plotting what yours will be.

If anyone has a spare Dreamwidth code kicking around, I am looking for one. If not, or if you have it earmarked for another person, I will just wait until I can buy myself an account. At any rate, tell me your username over there, if you have one!

I haven't actually asked for anything yet, but I dig the meme. I might also reopen it later, once I get the first round done.

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The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- What I create will be just for you.
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- You will receive your item before the end of the year (or sooner).
- You will have no clue what the item is going to be. It may be a painting. It may be a poem. It could be a piece of jewelry. Who knows?*
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

* If you have metal allergies, you should probably tell me, in the event that I want to make you some jewelry - I like you! I do not want you to break out in a weird rash!

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost this meme and make and send out five surprises of your own.