kicking a$$

and falling down during it but hey, I got new boots. After over a year of looking, I found a pair of knee high black leather boots that have all the required features.

A) reasonable heels - I don't wear heels much and anything much over 2 inches makes me want to cut my feet off after an hour
B) tread - I'm sorry, tephlon or the rubber equivalent does not belong on the bottom of my footwear. Any designer who thinks otherwise is completely cracked.
C) room for my calves - 20+ years of horseback riding and 12 years of volleyball have done interesting things to my lower leg muscles. Lets just say delicate and willowly haven't described them since I was 5 and leave it at that.
D) narrow around my feet - despite what my calves think, the rest of my lower legs are quite slender. Double AA type slender. There's a reason I hate shoe shopping.

But I found a pair. I'm so thrilled. I think I might have gotten them a size too big, though, since I was wearing normal socks when I tried them on. With the thin high boot socks, they seem a little sloppy around my ankle and heel. I don't care, though. They are spiffy and zip the whole way up now and I can alway put on thicker socks. Between them and my black semi-sandal things, I'm not going to need new dancing shoes for YEARS!!!

( non-footgear related stuff )

Galleries

Also, my Elfwood gallery is back up and running. You can see it at
Jo's Elfwood and my Epilogue gallery is at Jo's Epilogue

For the most part, the art will be the roughly the same in both galleries. Elfwood has very lenient submission guidelines, so my work in progress and sketches will show up there. Epilogue is pretty strict and only my better pieces will be in that one. You'll probably just be able to go to the elfwood one and see all of my stuff, though.

None of my colored stuff is going to go up any time soon, though I may make an exception if I ever get the damn Autumn Fairy finished. Or if I start carrying around colored pencils again instead of my graphites.