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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 09:31 pm Scavenging Parts
Current Mood: creative
Because I am a great big scavenger, I picked up a little cabinet the other day. Around here, one way we recycle stuff is to leave it by the side of the road with a "free!" sign on it. (Did you know that a "kaja" is a Scandinavian jackdaw? Yeah. I found that out when I visited Sweden back in '96. Hah. Maybe that's why Great-Grandma didn't like her name...*) But yes, I dragged a busted cabinet home. It was so lonely there on the sidewalk... Phil was rolling his eyes at me until I shocked him by telling him that I actually had a PLAN for it already. (That isn't always the case, sometimes I'm just thinking: "I can use this somehow! Yay!")

Anyway, it needs work, but it is just right for a base to the lovely doll house that Master Payne built for my daughter a couple of years ago Christmas. The girl wants to decorate it to look like the Haunted Mansion, but with touches of pink. (She's got that whole pink and black thing going.) We have really cute little Jack, Sally and Zero dolls that are just the right size, but the whole thing will really benefit from having a cabinet underneath for keeping extra toys and furniture out of reach of the dog. Because, you know, "Woof! Dog eat everything!"

Like I need another project. Still, I even have a tiny plasma globe--it will make a fantastic light fixture. And the Muppet Labs action figures came with some great lab equipment that will fit right in. No, really, the doll house belongs to my daughter. I just help play with it.

*Hm. Edit: I should point out that I actually like the name, especially since I found out what it means. So very appropriate...
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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 05:38 pm Girl Genius Comic for Monday December 07, 2009

<3 zZzZzZzZz--Kaja <3


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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 07:37 pm 3 Pages: The Pillars!


Approaching the Tower City, called also Terassir. I am happy with the design of this place and I hope you enjoy reading as we see more of it.

Oh hey! A few days ago I put up a new short story, The Tethered Isle! This is one I finished a few months ago, and I put it up as soon as the first donation goal was met. The NEXT short story has not been drawn yet, but donations from now on go towards its goal of 300 USD. I'll let you know what the new story is about when I've made a bit of progress! I really appreciate everyone's support with this new project! It's very exciting!

The inevitable file-formatting problem in the production of Book 2 of OoT has been solved, and the books are being printed. Will be filling more of your shelf space soon. More pages Wednesday!
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Dec. 3rd, 2009 @ 06:15 pm Girl Genius Comic for Friday December 04, 2009

<3 I finally got that Facebook page in the loop, so...uh... Find us on Facebook! (We're "Girl Genius Webcomic")--Kaja <3


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Dec. 2nd, 2009 @ 06:15 pm 4 Pages: Dranbeasts!


Four pages today; more than usual! Had to bring it to the end of this ominious little scene. As usual I'm struggling to get way way ahead in OoT, so I can tell you that I'm very excited and pleased with the coming section, and the next place we see!

The second short story is nearly paid for! We're at 159 USD as I write this. Thanks everyone! I'm very excited about this -- making more comics and defining more of the area of Overside. At this rate I will hopefully be able to put up the story with Sunday's update. See you!
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 09:15 pm Girl Genius Comic for Wednesday December 02, 2009

<3 zZzZzZzZzZz... Wha? What? Huh? It's December? ALREADY?! AUGH! (faints.) zZzZzZzZzZz... --Kaja <3


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Nov. 29th, 2009 @ 07:29 pm Girl Genius Comic for Monday November 30, 2009

<3 zZzZzZzZzZz... <3


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Nov. 29th, 2009 @ 07:18 pm TypeStyler and Steamcon
Whoo! It's been a while since I logged in as myself. (I've been logged in as girlgeniuscomic for the sake of convenience, but I finally fixed the network so that my work machine can talk to the internet again. Whew.)

My beloved TypeStyler is back! Aaaahhh! I am so very happy. Typestyler choked and died when the Mac went to OSX, so yes, it's been a while. Obviously, I've been doing all right without it, and I also like Art Text, but Typestyler was once one of my favorite tools, and I'm glad to have it back.
The only problem is that it isn't recognizing my old serial number as a TS serial number. Weird. And here I kept it all that time...

So, I am very much behind in posts. Let's start with Steamcon. Amazing! Many of my friends who are less...shall we say... into the things I like (cough, cough, manga and video games, cough) wandered through, and were later wondering out loud why they enjoyed Steamcon more than they usually enjoy conventions. That one was easy. They stripped away all the extras, and cut straight to the tasty Victorian-flavored costumes and "historically-influenced" gadgetry. And Tea. Always tea. Of course my friends who are mostly into historical costuming and vintage everything loved it. Of course they did. I loved it, too.

Next. Windycon. This will probably need its own post. Or series of posts. And I don't have much time tonight. But if I wait until I have time to write about EVERYTHING, well, that's why I haven't been writing a lot. I sort of get bogged down in the sheer volume of things I want to say. Blah.
Oh, peachy. And, in fact, now I must go deal with the real world. Back later...
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Nov. 29th, 2009 @ 05:56 pm (no subject)


A brief scene, here, featuring the second person of Æthirus' kind. Neat!

New things! Last night I finished and put up the first published Overside comic shorter than 400 pages in length! It is 14 pages long and in full color. It is a GIFT for YOU. I have a bunch of ideas that I'm not willing to commit years of time to, so I hope to expand the short stories section in future.

My plan (it is not really my plan; I stole it from Spike) is to have future stories will posted when donation goals are met; a 10-page comic called The Tethered Isle that I finished a few months ago will go online when 200 USD is reached (a total of 70 has been paid as I write this, already!).

Order of Tales Book 2 is up for preorder for a scant couple more days. Proof looks super nice; working out small issues now.
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Nov. 26th, 2009 @ 10:45 pm Girl Genius Comic for Friday November 27, 2009

<3 Happy Thanksgiving, all you USA-types out there! --Kaja <3


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Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 05:59 pm 3 Pages: You are empty-handed


T-O-E is trying to figure Æthirus out! Blackbirds are not in a good mood! All this and more!

Today I finished drawing the first short story to be put up on this site, which is called Waiting in Surya. Now all I have to do is finish coloring it and it will be up for you to read on Sunday and I hope you come by! Kind of looking forward to being able to focus more on OoT, for a little while at least.

A few days are left if you'd like to preorder Book 2, my friends. And as well, a happy Thanksgiving to you all.
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Nov. 24th, 2009 @ 08:59 pm Girl Genius Comic for Wednesday November 25, 2009

<3 ZzZzZzZzZz... --Kaja <3


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