"She calls it a mayonegg."

Happy Easter, if you celebrate it! I'm pushing 30, but of course I hunted eggs today. Sometimes I hide, sometimes I hunt! My sisters, cousins, and I are all "too old" to hunt. I'm the eldest, and the youngest is 14 or 15, I think. But we all still enjoy doing it, so we do it anyway, and I really like it when my little sister cusses me out for scooping up an egg before she can get to it.

Many of the eggs I found had these little vinyl-feeling butterflies in them, with fuzzy bodies and a tiny clothespin on the back to attach to whatever, I guess. I have no idea what to do with them, but I did put one in my hair. My younger sister's boyfriend allowed himself to be covered in them. They were clipped all over his clothes and hair!

A lot of my purple is still showing up, even though a lot has washed out! Sometime in April I hope to put in my pink.

This guy lives next door to my grandmother. I went up to him, even though I am scared of horses. He sniffed my hand, but since I didn't have anything for him, he walked off again.

I didn't post any during March because I was feeling stressed out. April has some things to get through, but hopefully some cheerier times are on their way too!

Stuff I'm liking right now:

• Bates Motel on A&E
• Hugo Naturals grapefruit lip balm

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cheered up

Happily, even though I've had quite a difficult few days, this dress I bought just for Lamb arrived today and perked my spirits.

Lamby's curls are odd to try and style! She's puffy and fluffy.

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"How rude!" - Stephanie Tanner

I went this morning to ship a deer hat to someone in Australia, and to my utter shock, the price of shipping had doubled. I paid $17 to ship a small 3-oz package in a 6x10 envelope.

To be bluntly honest, I've always undercharged for international shipping. It's always cost me about $8.50 to ship a hat to Australia and Asia, and I just take the $3.50 hit out of the price of the hat, because I really don't feel right about charging a ton of money for a Blythe hat. I know a lot of people charge a bundle for their handmade items, but I don't want to make mine any more expensive than they are, and I've always charged $5 to ship internationally.  I have been okay with taking that dent. I don't do any of this for a living.

I went ahead and shipped the hat, since I was already up there with the addressed package and declaration form filed out. But I couldn't believe it. I still can't. I actually lost money. As February is one of the most expensive months of the year for me, it was so hard to lose that ten dollars unexpectedly.

Rather than complaining, because Cure Touch is my happy place and not my venting place, I'm just taken aback and unsure of how to proceed. I don't know what this will mean for the future of my Etsy shop. I mostly send internationally. I have shipped to Australia often. I cannot imagine tripling my shipping charges. Luckily my shop is empty right now.

To end on ANY OTHER NOTE THAN THIS, I'm pretty obsessed with this strange little k-pop song that has a "country" twist:



The video doesn't really do it any favors, IMO (it is terrible), but the song itself is a guilty pleasure of mine right now!

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