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after a long time away from the juice-bar I decided I wanted to put some work into it again. We got some new mods, I made a new theme and even did the phpbb update. About an hour after I did the install, the forum went down and stayed down. I was going to try to fix it myself but due to some unfortunate events, I don't have time and patience needed to root around in php. luckily, I was able to hire someone to fix it. I'm hopeful that the board will be back up soon. In the meantime, here's a sneak from the new header.

Around a year and a half ago, one of the first pieces of pixel art that I made was a blythe doll. it wasn't great and the shading was pretty muddy. I added the caption *base coming soon* and after not making the base for over a year, I quietly removed it. Then, a few months ago mizunotic asked me about the bases in my cbox. Knowing somone was interested gave me some semblence of motivation to finish them. Unfortunately, it took an entire quarter. I'm easily distracted.

Last week, I stumbled upon a site that I hadn't seen before with so many cute pictures of blythe dolls, tutorials, guides, links etc. [click here for planet blythe] Hyperfixation mode:engaged. Not only did I finish the damn bases, but I bought a doll! I've always been captivated by the creativity achieved in photos of Blythe dolls. Maybe I'll even take some pictures of her once she arrives. (the photo above was from her listing. I cropped it and edited the bg)

it's currently farmers market season in my neighborhood. This means waking up early on saturday mornings to get delicious bagel sandwiches. I do not enjoy getting up early on the weekends but the bagels make it worth it.

Also, microblog layout refresh is currently in process.

as promised, here are all the recovered buttons from my old sites!

2002-2004

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I found some treasure troves of neopets art on archive.org last night. I almost cried when I found this one. This was my baby lupe when I was 12. I named her after my dog, and paid dragonflares in codestones to draw her for me. I've thought about this image over the last couple years and had resigned to the idea that I'd probably never see it again. I also couldn't remember the format of the neopet's name. For some reason I thought there were more underscores. I checked the pet and it looks like the og kawaii_lily was purged a decade ago. Maybe the current kawaii_lily will get purged so I can have her again in her 3rd life.

Not only did I find all that neopets stuff, I also found a ton of old buttons that I made in 2003. Apparently, I had a site called "buttonbaby". I had completely forgotten about it until I was digging in the archive of wonderous.net's directory and started stumbling upon tons of my ancient pixel art. Those will need to wait until tomorrow. I've already stayed up far past my bedtime!

more re-dos of old stuff. I still have one more to do, but I'm impatient and I wanted to post them today. Hope you enjoy! :3

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		I'm not exactly sure what I was going for in the original. Maybe it's some sort of pudding? The re-do is a rootbeer float with a dairy-queen style lump of ice cream.
		lack of contrast was a major issue with my old pixel art. this is a particularly good example of how big of a difference choosing the right colors makes. Also, the original looks like a biscuit style strawberry shortcake. the re-do is one of those little grocery store cakes. clearly, this is the better option.
		the original image was used as part of a splash page for my first website. I had a whole kitchen themed layout that I was really proud of. looking at the scribble bowl of ice cream kinda feels like looking at an old photo. More so than anything else that i've re-done. I vividly remember making it. I won't lie and say that I didn't have a quick existential crisis over ice cream pixel art. Maybe I'll write a big blog about that some day.