stuff! and things! now with more stuff!

First! Over the holidays, I ditched my Etsy shop and started hawking my wares on my own website at carolinemakes.art. This is the first time I’ve built a “real” website on WordPress.com, which is pretty funny when you consider I’ve worked there for 10+ years.

Why’d I make the switch? Well, Etsy’s increasingly draconian policies were starting to chafe a bit, and I learned I can use my printer in an automated fashion with WooCommerce. At some point I may even put up some original paintings if I can get them photographed and mocked up. Knowing me, that won’t happen until next Christmas.

Second! I got really into The Last of Us TV show over the break and started writing fanfic again. I haven’t painted in weeks; all my creative energy is going into this story that apparently has to get out of my head now. I’ll hit 50k words on this thing today. Being a single-fandom girlie for so long, writing for characters that aren’t Mulder and Scully is weird, but fun.

In that vein, I’m back on Tumblr at sixhours.tumblr.com. So if you want to watch me lose my shit over a certain brown-eyed Chilean-American actor, or whine about how The Last of Us ripped my heart out of my chest and ran over it, or join me in fawning over X-Files gifs, Tumblr is the place to be.

And I lied! There’s a third thing!

I turn 41 today. 40 seemed like a big, scary number at first, but I’m really enjoying my 40’s so far. Happy birthday to me!