BellyButton's Hermit Hut ~ Fresh out of Popsicles
 

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Welcome to my little corner of Menewsha.

I joined the site in the middle of Celes Paradi '09 and had a lovely time, but didn't really know what to do with myself after the event ended. I'd heard people talking about their "quest threads" and although I really had no clue what that was, I decided that I simply must have one of my very own. And here you are! Tee hee.

About BellyButton
I am a terribly grumpy old lady who likes to dress up and play pretends! I live in a hermit hut atop a nice hill and garden carrots in an abandoned graveyard (which also produces a lovely herd of zombie bunnies each year). I've been known to milk deer and take oatmeal baths. One hobby of mine is to discover people's secret fears and exploit them, but I usually forget what I was doing by morning. I also forget to take the kettle off the stove sometimes. :oops:

The following lovely people have given me stuff, provided services,
or just gone out of their way to make my time here more fun - thank you guys!

:heart: zumbie ~ The Newbie Closet Charity ~ starshadow2000 ~ Miach ~ Nariko ~ Aoi Midori ~ Sidhe ~ Channah ~ Roachi ~ Vicktoria Valentine ~ Lucky Duck Charity ~ DariaMorgendorfer ~ Darkeyes ~ Quest Raffle / Jurupamae ~ Bartuc ~ Jeannesha ~ Rainbows ~ Early Bird Special ~ Chikuma ~ Porkbackfat ~ Cain ~ Captain Howdy ~ Flink ~ bethanynel813 ~ Steve the Garden Hose ~ Champagne Supernova Charity ~ Wardrobe de la Sprinkles Charity :heart:

Wish List
 

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The Questy Bits


Current Most-Wanted Items:

(The will to update my quest thread?)

http://www.menewsha.com/images/items...nails/1495.gif Dove Wings (5k-6.5k) Thank you, secret Meneclaus! :heart:
http://www.menewsha.com/images/items...nails/1493.gif Raven Wings (5k-6.5k) Thank you, Jelly's Wishing Well! <3
http://www.menewsha.com/images/items...nails/1237.gif Royal Cape (2.5-2.75k) Thank you, Steve the Garden Hose =)


Desired Contribution Items
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Desired Event Items
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Lovely Commons

Everything in the event shop, yo!


Things I wish the fine and talented artists for this site would make, and which I would surely
rush out and buy at the first available opportunity:

• Toolbox, Wrench
• Big Magnifying Glass (for conducting investigations, duh!)
• Clipboard, Pencil
• Rolling Pin (Yay! Thank you pixel gods!!)
• Hair in Rollers, Clayish face mask, eye cucumbers?
• Old Londonish lamppost, Manhole cover

Belly's Journal, part 1
 

Other Goals

[x] Win an item from The Lucky Duck! (Won 50g in round 23, Won the Big BANG in round 24)
[ ] Win an item from Jelly's wishing well!
[x] Acquire a bit of art
[x] Acquire 5 bits of art
[ ] Acquire 10 bits of art
[ ] Acquire 15 bits of art
[ ] Acquire 20 bits of art
[ ] Jazz up my quest thread: make more homey
[ ] Jazz up my quest thread: add images / links for all items
[ ] Jazz up my quest thread: add title bars and stuff
[x] Find more places to lurk besides Quests Forum :D (ooh, Media/Video Game discussion!)
[ ] Obtain 2008 EI sets:

[ ] Valentine's Day 08
[x] St. Patrick's Day 08 (Thank you Quest Raffle! :heart:)
[ ] Easter 08 (this one will wait)
[ ] April Fool's Day 08 (need panties, spork)
[ ] Phoenix Jubilee 08
[x] Celes Paradi 08 (Thanks Ferra for my last missing bits! :heart:)
[x] Halloween 08
[ ] Festival of Winter Nights 08

[ ] Obtain 2009 EI sets:

[ ] Valentine's Day 09
[x] St. Patrick's Day 09 (Thank you Bartuc! :heart:)
[x] Easter 09 (Thanks to Aoi Midori for many of these!)
[x] Celes Paradi 09
[x] Halloween 09
[x] Festival of Winter Nights 09

I really need to update this thread. Hiding the old stuff as a visual reminder of that. =)

Places to Lurk and/or Chat and/or Buy Stuff!
 

Belly's Favorite Threads

Looking for a some crazy new friends? A clever shop or contest? Or simply a different place to lurk? Give these threads a gander.

Quest Threads I Frequent



Nifty Shops

• Words Will Come Poetry Shop ~ A-new-s_tory will craft & send an anonymous poem to someone for you - very cool!
• The Poo Room ~ Sidhe's Breedable poops.. quite possibly the strangest art shop in Mene.
• OH MY GEODUDE ~ KittehMEW's art shop - incredibly zany arteest who will draw your avatar with a llama, zombie llamas or other llama-related llamas.
• The Llama Farm ~ KittehMEW's breedable llamas, SUPER AWESOME!

Hangouts

• ...my monster, Appetite! ~ Fauxreal's thread for foodies. Cooking, eating, tasting, drooling.
• Night Owls ~ An insomniac's hangout, presided over by the lovely Aoi Midori.
• Sky Pirates R Us ~ I mostly visit Chikuma and Arikana here, but once in a while you might catch a glimpse of the elusive Bartuc.
• Sprinkles, Not Jimmies! ~ I go here to visit Facade and Cicadetta sometimes. They have a YouTube party every Saturday night.

Regular Contests

• Parody Mule's Parody Contest ~ Keyori's clever parody avatar contest - even if I don't have time to join, I like to watch the entries.
• Wild, Wacky, Wonky and don't forget Zany avatar contest ~ The name pretty much speaks for itself. Enter, it's fun!

Charities, Raffles, & Auctions

• Jelly's Wishing Well ~ Each week you can pay a 50g wishing fee for a chance to win a variety items.
• Quest Raffle ~ Bid to win any number of rare items on your quest list - a phenomenal opportunity, so keep checking on this one!
• The Giving Back Auction (info/update thread)~ folks rave about this, but I haven't tried it yet. :oops:

Other Neat Threads

• Keyori's Cookbook ~ recipe list & cooking talk. She seems to like bacon alot.. :lol:
• Knerd's 50 Book Challenge ~ can you read 50 books over the course of a year? Lots of folks are trying & post their lists here.

Guides & How-to Threads

• Jeryck's At-a-Glance Item List & Price Guide Links Sheet
• `F o a m 's Hair Gallery thread.
• CrepsleyKabob's Multi-Equip Item thread.
• The Mayor's Menewshan Price Guide.
• BBCode Guide - explains the spoiler bar and other cool stuff.

My exchange thread does not yet qualify as great, but it exists.

Clickables and Pets!
 

Belly's Clickables

I kept trying to talk myself out of partaking in the clickables madness, as I have no clue how it works and am afraid they will all die or something. But eventually the annoying kid inside me won with his well-articulated, "But ma! All the other kids are doing it!" argument. So um.. click plzz??@?!

• You can see my dragons on my Dragon Cave scroll.

Incidentally, maybe I should visit Dragon Cave Addicts Anonymous..




Belly's Evolving Pets

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Book List & Future Avatar Ideas
 

Belly's 2010 Book List-majigy

It's January and I have to read a ton of books for school, so I thought I might as well keep track of them and see how many I can get through. (Inspired by Knerd's 50 Book Challenge thread ~ my post here.)


In progress (bold) and soon to be:

Faces & Masks ~ Eduardo Galeano ~ 259 pgs
Tales of Burning Love ~ Louise Erdrich ~ 452 pgs
The Craft of Research ~ Booth, Colomb, Williams ~ 317 pgs (YAWN)




Want to read sometime:
Four Souls ~ Louise Erdrich ~ 210 pgs
Century of the Wind ~ Eduardo Galeano ~ 301 pgs
Mirrors ~ Eduardo Galeano ~ 365 pgs



Finished reading:
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life ~ Winona LaDuke ~ 241 pgs
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming ~ Winona LaDuke ~ 294 pgs
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide ~ Andrea Smith ~ 244 pgs
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty ~ Dorothy Roberts ~ 373 pgs
Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader ~ (many auths/eds) ~ 382 pgs
Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way ~ Charles Wilkinson ~ 118 pgs
Comfort Woman ~ Nora Okja Keller ~ 226 pgs
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices ~ (textbk) ~ 400 pgs
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology ~ INCITE! ~ 325 pgs
Keywords for American Cultural Studies ~ Burgett, Hendler ~ 288 pgs


10 down, 40 to go!

Art!
 

Art!
 

David Bowie wishes you luck in your adventures.

David Bowie cannot wait to see what comes up in your 'Blunders and Mishaps' section.

Yes, David bowie enjoys heckling people.

Your avatar is looking quite nice, btw. =3

Is really confused what David Bowie has to do with this...but...Good luck with your quest belly!

Thank you everyone!

And now that I have the blessing of David Bowie, I know that I can accomplish anything!!

Good luck! You seem like a sweet and sincere person. :D
Have fun questing, Mademoiselle!

Good luck questing Bellybutton! :) I like the outfit.

Thank you Snowflower. It makes me look dangerously wholesome, doesn't it? :lol:

Thanks you too Meh! It's always an honor when a repulsive compulsive avatar community stalker actually speaks in one's thread! ;)

Haha, thanks BellyButton. ;3
You're almost gonna get one of your shirts! :D

Good luck, Belly. :] I love your username. It makes me giggle.

I'll stick around and keep you company :D
Good luck on your quest ^^

I should start my own thread for my quest. I have a new character in mind and I really want to get some new items for it.

Yesssss Zernita.. you should! (as if you don't already have enough to do! hehe ;))

I really don't know what I'm going to do for a living around here yet. I discovered that I can make gold pretty quick on Tetris if I start at a higher level and just play like a psycho, but it drains my will to live unless I'm in the proper mood for it. I don't know if I'm brave enough to make an art shop yet.. there are some super talented people on this site.

Making money on Mene is pretty easy i find.
if you participate in conversations often or even open up your own thread like this one ^^

as for an art shop. Just because you don't have the best skills out there doesn't mean that people don't order art from you.

I'm not the best of artists, but I still manage to get customers. Mostly, it will be your friends who order from you, but it still works out pretty well.

I suck at the tetris game. I find that making money in the helicopter game is easier. even if it takes a really long time.

Oh my, I hate that helicopter game. I manage to die in under a second with a splat on the ground or "crash" into the atmosphere. Honestly, you'd think a helicopter would hover a bit. This one's more like a lead rocket.

As for art, I have some ideas, I'm just not sure if I'm willing to go through the trouble yet. It seems like a big commitment to have folks waiting on you. But maybe I'm just lazy. ;)

Yeah, my Seed shop is kind of a pain in the butt, I'm not that good at keeping up to my due dates XD

but my other art shop is alright, I don't get as much orders in it, but it's not as stressing as the Garden of Eden.

Good Luck.
I love the setup of this, how did you get the picture of the items your questing??

Hi Candy :)

To get the pictures to show without causing yourself too much grief, you can go to the shop's item listing and right click the image of the item you want.. from there you should be able to "copy image location" .. Thennnn, you go to your post and click the Insert Image button, and paste the location into the box that pops up (CTRL+V). Voila! Lemme know if that doesn't work and I'll see if I can help.

What is up?

Ohh okay. thank you. ^_^