Christmas coming

[winter]

It's a month to Christmas, and most other December holidays. With Tonio's condition and twice-daily medication, it'll probably be the first Christmas in over twenty years that we spend at home. All this means that in addition to the usual gift shopping (all gifts from me for family members, and all their gifts for me, since they cannot possibly fathom what I would like to get), I have to look into acquiring Christmas decorations.

To help others with the gift-shopping task:

• If you want to give someone a book, give Black Ships by Jo Graham. It's a wonderful tale with history, magic, religion, and volcanoes! Of note to people who want to support non-fail literature - name any test you want and Jo's characters pass it with flying colours.
  
  
  • The new US paperback on Amazon.com
  • The oh-so-pretty UK paperback on Amazon.co.uk
  • And lookit! It's 30% off on Bookdepository.co.uk with free global shipping!


• In the jewelry department, Astarise Designs just opened and offers extremely original jewelry:
  
  
  • Something a steampunk Phantom might wear
  • Flowers and romance that isn't cloying
  • And slightly grimmer fare

(Obligatory disclosure: I've known astarise for over half a decade, and jo_graham for a little less. The former bribes me with coffee, the latter with sneak peeks of her prose. The above is still meant with complete earnestness.)

Comments

[winter]

Just remember that various Phantoms wear various masks ;)

http://republika.pl/blog_ky_636190/1183776/tr/kuba_upior_blog.jpg - the movie mask
http://www.achievement.org/achievers/pri0/large/pri0-011.jpg - full-size mask
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/vd8PZ1sXNUA/0.jpg - Takarazuka mask
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Erik-phantom-of-the-opera-1990-798335_360_270.jpg - Charles Dance mask from the series

[astarise.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool, I didn't know that.

Being a Phantom noob, I just copied what I remembered from the film? More or less:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93/astarise2/phantommask.jpg

I'll start working on that on Monday because the mold I wanted to use for it is busy^^;; And you can totally reject it - if you don't like it I'll just put it in my shop, no problem.

Your rose is drying, btw~! It looks good.