Mathom Party announcement and Sketch-a-whenever #2.

[gement]

Instead of trying to decide, I decided on Both.

The main Mathom party will be on Saturday, February 6, from 3pm until whenever (at least 9pm). For those who can't make it on Saturday, I'll also be open for ransacking on Friday evening, 6pm to probably 10pm.

• Yes, you can drop stuff off on Friday to let it be admired and looted on Saturday, as long as you make arrangements to retrieve things in the near future.
• Please let me know if you intend to bring snackies so I can make sure there are enough snackies for everyone's satisfaction. While this isn't formally a potluck, I certainly won't complain if it turns into one.
• There is a cat in residence. I'll have vacuumed, but you know your own allergy tolerances.

Sketch-a-whenever #2. Prompt: "Giant goat ambles between two houses."

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Oh, I keep meaning to mention. Helpful tip: If you have a fountain pen, and you've filled it with the super-indelible ink with a pH of 8.5, the electric blue color that stains your skin to look exactly like an old sailor tattoo for 24 hours?

Don't suck-start your pen nib.

This advice brought to you by doing exactly that with Noodler's Bay State Blue, just before I picked up my groomsmaid tux at Men's Wearhouse. I discovered when I smiled into the hall of mirrors to see how it fit. GAH.

Helpful tip #2: If you must ignore helpful tip #1, forget to brush your teeth the morning before doing this. It all stuck to the layer that I brushed off that night. *phew*

Comments

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Does "whenever" on Saturday include around 6 pm? :)

[gement.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Post edited to clarify.

[danibearess.livejournal.com]

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So, you can brush off the Bluetooth option.

Sorry I'll miss, even 'though I'll be in Seattle Friday, Kate will 'prolly be loading me up with even more pretties to to take home Saturday morning.

Danielle

[gement.livejournal.com]

*groan*

I'm delighted to hear that you could even consider making it! (I figured you'd be far too busy making time to make time.)

[plantae.livejournal.com]

I'll probably come by Friday for drop off and pillage, and either late Saturday or on Sunday afternoon for item retrieval.

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

I'll be there on Saturday; one of my mathoms is a lot of butter, so I'm planning to bake cookies with it.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I hate to see a woman with too much butter on her hands...

Um. Sorry. Distracted. Anyway, yay cookies!

If you brought Ifrit so I could have a whiff, that would be awesome. Not a full scent party that way, but honestly my nose would probably go numb at a full evening of it.

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

I will definitely bring Ifrit. Are there any other BPALs you're particularly interested in? I've got some other Gaimans, including the limited edition chapbooks and scents, and I've got all of their steampunk scents.

[gement.livejournal.com]

As previously noted, me and perfume get along remarkably rarely. This is what I know about perfumes:

90% of them (even the BPAL) make me go "gah, flowers."

I enjoy their Casanova on myself.
I enjoy their Azatoth on Jason.

I enjoy two things I made myself, one of which is lavender and bitter lime, and the other of which was all the wood oils I could buy mixed together. (I stabilized both with vetiver.)

If these data points tell you anything I should try, I thrill to experiment a bit.

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

*cogitates*
I'll bring a few things along, then.