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12/20/2023

It's a solstice miracle, I have made it through the terrible virus. Celebrate with me tomorrow with a raffle! Preview later today! 🎃

12/15/2023

Story time! (Skip to the last paragraph for info on raffle, but you'll be missing out.) I got an email today from someone I've never heard of at my building management that said if we didn't sign our new lease agreement 6 full days earlier than the 10 days they gave us, we will owe $400 more per month! 🥳 Naturally, not wanting to be homeless in the winter in Minnesota, and definitely not being able to afford that much when we already can't afford the 13.034% increase they were forcing on us with such inadequate time to prepare, we signed the new lease. Only to find out there are new hidden fees! Which bring the total rent increase to 17.39%, which is above average for the state. A slum lord wouldn't want to be falling behind on their duties to make money for doing nothing but instilling fear into the hearts of their impoverished tenants, after all! 🤩
Not only that, but the entire new lease is basically 7 pages of how we're not allowed to decorate the apartment, have any possessions, and basically need to just stare at blank white walls and mini blinds in silent misery in exchange for all the money we make. So the next 8 months of my life are going to be undoing everything I worked so hard on to make this dump a home, so that I could find the smallest sliver of joy in the series of unfortunate events that is my life. I do not know how I'm going to survive this. Decorating is all I've got in this world. It's the basis of this account, which is the only modicum of success I've found. Seriously, it says I'm not even allowed to tape something to the wall. They consider that permanent alteration. Can't even have a fish bowl because that might damage their precious property they don't even upkeep. We aren't even allowed to use static cling privacy film without written permission. So much damage is done by static cling. Warn your friends! 🙄
Welcome to my villain era. I'm surviving on spite, and I will make it through this hell somehow. has generously donated some great stuff to raffle off! There are good people still, even when it feels like the entire world has turned hateful and greedy. So yes, look for the raffle starting Monday!

12/12/2023

Come take a peek at the Krampus corner! I made the bump chenille Krampus in a DIY on my long abandoned blog. I'd be open to making them for your collections if anyone were interested. 🎃🎅
Other highlights of this area are cards sent me over the years and the Santa vs Krampus masterpiece that made me. Krampus pulling the kid's ears while licking the forehead gets me every time 🤣 It all pairs nicely with a Kewpie Santa that has had its face smashed in! Hark the horror indeed! 🎃

12/11/2023

I just wanted to give an update since there were so many of you who reached out about my last post. There's good and bad news. Thankfully, the eviction notice was sent mistakenly, at least that's the story for now. The bad news is that they're raising the rent astronomically. I have been saying every single Christmas for the past 12 years that this will be my last Christmas here, but this year really needs to be. I've got until August to move. And obviously much sooner than that to figure out where to go and how to get there. The next month is critical to get a better financial footing before it costs even more to live in this slum. Thank you to everyone who has given to my P a y P a l tip 🫙. I appreciate any and every bit of help!
I'm going to be doing my best to downsize things that don't ever come out of boxes and things that I'm ready to part with. I think that I'll probably be using another platform to find new homes for my treasures, so I'll post when I've made a more concrete decision on that. Locals, I am hoping to have some sort of in person event. It really needs to happen soon, so here's to hoping that I can manage this!
It's really embarrassing for me to put this out there and to be in such an unhinged emotional place publicly. I hate needing help. A couple of people have generously offered to raffle their art to help me, which I have no words to adequately show my gratitude. I have lost so much hope over the last few months that things can ever get better, and somehow things continue to get worse, and I have to make it through it all. I want to believe there's another side of this that I can get to one day. If I don't have hope, then I don't have anything. So somehow I've got to find any little shred of it. I guess today starts the daily affirmations that I can do anything I put my mind to and that good things happen to me. Hopefully, one day I'll believe it.

12/06/2023

Krampus visited me yesterday and gave me my worst fears! Huzzah! In this installment of my series of unfortunate events, I present to you ending the day with a car being totaled and the only hope for getting out of a very deep and inescapable hole now not being an option to sell. Then, because why not, waking up to an eviction notice. I am sick with worry, resentment for the person who refused to help even though they could, and grief. I might need a GoFundMe, but I don't believe I'm worth it, and I don't expect help from anyone. This all feels so pointless now. It's too jolly in here for how I'm feeling.

P.S. This theme is based on the delightful 1959 film Santa Claus, which is likely streaming free somewhere because it's hard-core campy cheesefest. It's about Santa teaming up with Merlin, the wizard, to save Christmas from the devil, who is making children steal and be bad. Even Santa needs help sometimes. If you don't enjoy bad movies, avoid, but if you do, you might like it. It's jolly and fun after you've endured what feels like an hour of children singing.

12/05/2023

Gruß vom Krampus! Do you have any plans for Krampusnacht? I'm doing my best to finish up my decorating today. If I can force myself, I'll try to remember to share on for those who enjoy that sort of thing. 🎅🎃
I've been struggling a lot with feeling like I need to disappear because I've disappointed everyone, I'm no longer relevant, everyone hates me. I don't know. If you noticed my absence, I've just been doing the same dumb stuff I'm always doing, just with no internet proof it happened. It's a hard time of year for me to share anything because my decorations will inevitably make someone mad that it showed up in their feed. Whatever. I put so many hours into putting out the thousands of tiny baubles I've collected over the last couple decades, and maybe I'm the only one who gets to see it, but at least I can enjoy it while it lasts. It's a time of year that "hold onto the memories, they will hold onto you" feels extra relevant. The grief that people we love are no longer here, and the fact that it's impossible to capture the childhood magic of the season as an adult because you know too much really hits harder than ever. But I try my best. I give other people's treasures a new home in my traditions. Even if we never knew each other, somehow we're now connected by a little thing that holds our shared memories of all the holidays before. ♥️ 🎅🎃

11/06/2023

I'm taking time off to try to recover from burnout and find a way through some recent devastating news, so here are a couple of my past November trees. 🎃

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