Beautiful things!

A bit of shameless self-promotion here. I've got back rent and bills to pay, thus necessitating a sale in my eBay shop to raise funds quickly. The faster you all buy my creations, the faster I can pay off my personal debts, then invest in a fabulous new website and bring out glorious new designs! There is 15% off almost every item.http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Kalandra-Jane-Burlesque-and-RetroSo, do have a look. Here are just a few of the things on sale:...

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Dear other vegans...

... please stop saying things which make us all look mad and do nothing to help animals or turn people onto veganism.This is prompted by a recent post made by Twila Jean at The Mysterious Life of the Metropolitan Housewife in which she was attacked for wearing a vintage fur-trimmed cardigan which had been her Grandmother's in her youth, and also for making a lighthearted joke about PETA (who in my wholly unrelated opinion are a bloody joke anyway, bunch of hypocrites that their bosses and look-at-me-I'm-so-ethical publicity-seeking campaign stars...

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One year older, four teeth lighter.

Recently, a couple of things have occurred. One is that I turned twenty-four, and the other is that I went into hospital to have my four wisdom teeth and an inch-long chunk of infected jawbone (yuck) removed under general anaesthetic. The latter was considerably less pleasurable, a very gruesome experience indeed which involved chisels, stitches, a Trainspotting-style shock awakening in the recovery room, and a lot of morphine, and is the reason...

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