Dressed Lamby in this romantic outfit the other day and was soooo happy with it! She looks like she should be riding on a bicycle with a baguette in the basket. I especially love the way this beret looks with her swoopy fringe!
Blouse: YlangGarden on Etsy
Skirt: CraftyCoraShop on Etsy
Shoes: Thehandflower on Etsy
Beret: Dear Darling via Junie Moon
I myself have been happily living the beret life this winter:
My gray hairs are crazy these days. One of the reasons I dyed my hair pink back in 2014 or whenever was that I already had a lot of grays and didn't feel old enough to have them in such abundance yet. Well, it's twice as bad now. I want to try and look at having them as a privilege. I am privileged to have lived long enough for this to plague me. (BUT ACTUALLY I HATE THEM!)
Well, anyway, happy 2025... I guess?? I have been in a terrible state of dread, anxiety, and depression since the American election in October. Seriously. I have had to up a dosage on my antidepressant for the second time in the span of nine months or so. 2024 was a terrible year for me -- its saving grace being the birth of my nephew.
I want desperately to quit social media. All social media. It's literally been awful for my mental health. Which, as you know, I often reference obliquely here... but in general, Cure Touch is a safe and gentle place for me, where I post things I like and that make me happy, and not a place where I post about my trials and tribulations. I will continue to focus on the little happy things here. I am just saying. I'm really struggling with being online in the current climate. I'm a big believer in curating your online experience as much as humanly possible. But it's become harder and harder to do that on a lot of platforms. They thrive on negativity and outrage, and they shovel that crap at you, whether you want to see it or not. I want to see posts by people I like and follow, and but most platforms now show you a lot of additional random posts/tweets/whatever, and I basically never want to see that stuff. It's riddled with slurs, racism, consumerism, and so much worse. There's never in the history of social media been any tweet or post that's made me say, "This platform is free! I can never leave it!" Nothing is that funny. Nothing makes the bad stuff worth wading through. And the way AI's being jammed down my gullet at every turn makes me so angry!
It's incumbent upon me to make this change for myself; I can't expect the platforms to improve. So. I'm really trying to limit my online exposure to stuff that makes me take point after point of psychic damage as I scroll. I want to fully quit... but then where will I see the latest pics of my blorbos??? I'm not kidding. I'm literally still hanging around these places so I can keep track of what Daniel Bruhl is up to, career-wise. And so I can see pics of him. Heheheh.
Unfortunately I dropped a lot of my usual hobbies during the last half of 2024: crocheting, sewing, Blythe, video projects, beading, journaling. So I haven't been up to anything I can share here.
Here is a list of things I've been relying on the last three months of poor mental health:
- Neopets. Yeah. I very abruptly took up Neopets. I'm a complete newbie and don't know what I'm doing. Neopets is incredibly ugly to me in every way, but the dailies give me something to do other than scroll. Every day I'm playin' Destruct-o-Match III.
- Playing the guitar. It is better for my mental health than even my medication, I think. I would like to post about this further, but I have been working very dedicatedly on filling out my guitar chord notebooks.
- Babysitting my nephew. I get to see him twice a week and it's the greatest. He fills me with so much peace and joy. Really, nothing else in this world can compare. When he smiles or babbles I am transported.
- Indulging in my hyperfixations. Primarily this has meant focusing on collecting some specific figurines. Ideally I will also post more about this.
- Writing "comfort fic." By this I mean writing very niche fanfiction for an audience of one: me. I don't care if I finish it. I don't care if it's bad. It has one purpose: to entertain and comfort me.
In a very exciting and random twist of fate, yesterday I adopted an EBL Blythe off Instagram!! She's on her way to me now. I'm really hopeful I can get back into Blythey stuff this year, just for my own pleasure. Getting a new (very old) doll is definitely one way to go about that!!
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