…Kansas City, and Winston-Salem!
These are the last known locations, and Art by Christel *may* be sold out from these machines, so I recommend calling first to make sure they are in stock.

Pi Gallery
419 E. 18th St.
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816)210-6534

Urban Artware
207 West Sixth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336)722-2345

BKB and Company
1744 Pacific Ave.
Tacoma, WA 98402
(253)272-6884

Mead Public Library
710 N. 8 St.
Sheboygan WI 53081-4563
(920) 459-3400

This last week has been a struggle. I’ve been feeling especially low on energy and trying to finish up a commission for a freind of mine. It looks goo but it’s coming along far more slowly than I’d like. My limbs all feel like they are full of cement, and despite being very tired I can’t seem to fall asleep easily. Hopefully ythis doesn’t last too long.

I love smells. I can’t go into a shop that sells candles, soaps, or anything scented without deeply inhaling each one. I can’t pass a perfume counter without trying one or five out. There are not too many scents out there I do not like. Just the obvious ones like garbage, rotten eggs, dirty cat litter, perm solution, that sort of thing. I even like some smells that many others find objectionable. Tires. Gasoline. Wet paint. Chlorine. Potting soil. Fertilizer. I particularly like that musty old smell that accompanies the more porous antique and vintage items. Sometimes it just smells like dust and damp attic or basement, but sometimes it has that mellow hint of decades old cigarette smoke too, which I just love! Well that is enough odd confessions for now.

A handpainted wooden handbag. For sale on Etsy. I think this would make a lovely, and unique Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/ Kwanzaa/Festivus gift for the fashionable young lady on your list (cough cough).

I found Oreos at Walmart with dulce del leche flavored cream and they are rather addictive. At least a few times year I must have some raspberry pie. I also love Nacho Cheese Cornnuts. They’re crunchy and cheesy! Last year around Christmas they had Peppermint Roca (like Almond Roca but with peppermint instead) and if they sell it again this year I am buying as much as I can find of it.