Well, we were nervous about it because we also have very young cousins and we weren't sure how much of a pain in the ass they were going to be. :lol: But we (older cousins) ended up talking amongst ourselves so much that the younger cousins didn't get to talk much. Woops. :lol:

Yeah, nothing wrong with being at the kid's table.

Now waking up naked and hungover on the kid's table. That's another thing.

... I hope you've learned your lesson, Cherry.

@ Cherry : Lolz. xDD;; That happens with my cousins and I sometimes as well. Normally the younger kids eat really fast, and then run upstairs to play together. Which leaves us older cousins to chat about more adult things without any disturbance, hehe. >;P <3<3

@ Howdy : Oh my, how scandalous!

Howdy - That was only allegedly.

Ryl - Yeah, I know what you mean. I tend to stay at the table for about an hour at Christmas. :lol:

Yeah, I love catching up with my cousins. xDD;; <3<3 We have all sorts of interesting stories to share, especially since we live very different lives for the most part. ^^;;

It's awkward for me. I don't really have anything in common with any of my cousins. XD:

If you take my cousins on a whole, neither do I. Two are grown up with kids, two are ridiculously angsty and sullen 14 year olds (who I would like to smack, tell that no one is going to take them seriously as an adult when they're acting that way, and remind them that none of us acted so ridiculously and that's why we're taken as adults), a semi-annoying preteen, a hyper little girl, one girl a few years older than me that I get along with fine, but she generally keeps to herself, and then two boys my age that I get along with pretty well. So I mostly spend the majority of my time hanging around with the latter. :lol: But they sort of go all over the place and after a certain point it gets a bit exhausting trying to insert myself into every situation, so then I just sat on the couch and stared at my phone and tried to not feel rejected. :lol: And, wow, that was a really terrible sentence for keeping a consistent grammatical tense.

My cousins range from 14 to in their 30s. XD I don't have a problem with any of them. Some of them I haven't even met. It's just that after the general introductions, there isn't much to talk about..for me anyway. I don't like cliques..or we just don't have anything in common.

Hey Cherry, if I rustle up some kittens, can I trade you them for a corgi puppy?

Snow - You haven't met all of them? You must have a big family. o:

Biggles - nyeeee.

Would you settle for a fennec fox?

I actually looked up one time the logistics of owning a Fennec Fox. Like are they legal in Britain and all that (they are.) But it's complicated to keep them. They get bored being kept indoors, and can destroy your home.
Super cute though. Ooo, the little noises.

Yeah. That particular fox is kept in a cage overnight to prevent the house-destroying thing. My grandma has to do the same with her beagle. :lol:

Are you personally acquainted with that fox? :O

I wish! I just watched a bunch of their videos and they mentioned that in one of the descriptions. I wish I knew the fox, though... I want to kiss its fuzzy little head right between its fuzzy ears. And I would tell it it was the cutest widdle foxxy-woxxy in da whole wide world yes it is yes it is!

In other news, I finally found some nice brown curtains majorly cheap. Goodbye hideous hot pink sheers! Hello brown faux-suede! How I love you. Never leave me. :heart:

I recall Jeff Corwin had a fennec fox as a pet (I used to watch The Jeff Corwin Experience a lot when I was younger) He loved that thing.

You said your room was grey, right? Yeah, pink and grey aren't a great combination.

Awww, did he really? It's been so long since I watched his shows, but I remember he was really funny.

Yep, gray. The curtains are left over from my teenage BRIGHT BRIGHT COLORS COLORS BRIGHT COLORS thing... Blech. But now they're folded neatly in a plastic bag to donate and my glorious, beautiful new brown curtains hang gloriously. :heart:

GLORIOUS. Now I just need to figure out what to do with that antique candy machine... It's very cool, but very much not suited for this room.

Well. Maybe you could put something in it that would tie in with the rest of the room? It doesn't have to be candy, now that it's yours.

I just finished a major overall on a kind of vintage nightstand for my room. I'm rather chuffed with how it turned out.

I've thought about that, but I can't come up with anything that would go with my look and would go in a candy dispenser... The red clashes, too. It'd look fantastic in a kitchen, but the kitchen isn't exactly mine so much as it is my parents', so I can't just start decorating it. :lol: But I don't want to relegate it to the attic. Plus, it's on a cast iron stand, I'm not taking that up the stairs.

Oooh, what'd you do? DIY is so much fun. :D

Well, it was a wood veneered piece of junk, with much of the wood veneer gone, so I got some wood filler and applied it with a putty knife. Then I sanded that down so it was level with the remaining veneer, gave the whole thing a once over with some more sandpaper, and applied a few coats of metallic pewter paint. I'll up load a photo of how it turned out.

Edit: I'm working on it. It's got the kind of vintage curves of a moonbeam clock:

one of which I also have.

Ooh, sounds interesting! Would like to see it. :D I'll have to look in the morning, though, it's getting late and I'm not getting enough sleep lately.

I don't have a handle on it yet, as you can see. But that's the finished product, more or less.

I am disappoint. That sweater is all sold out. They needed to indicate that more clearly on the website.

Nice end table! Looks very cool. :D

Aww, I hate when that happens. :( It's happened to me a few times too.

Yeah. I may keep looking on ebay. I found an expired listing on ebay.co.uk (from November).
It was a size fourteen UK, which would have been baggy, but with my bust I could swing it. It sold for 21 pounds after 8 bids, so that is still better than the original price. Although I'd prefer the blue stripes, I can work with the raspberry variety they had too.
That was all more information than you needed. Whatever. I like it, but if I don't find it again, it's only a thing after all.

Do you knit? I'm sure it'd be possible to knit a scarf that looked like that with a bit of skill and planning. But a pattern for something like that probably already exists, I'm 80% sure of it. Plus, then you wouldn't even have to bother with a shirt being too big or the wrong color. It'd go with every shirt!