The holidays...they're on their way. I'm trying so hard to be ready, but I'm never fully prepared. Been working like crazy, even finalized my training and am now officially a crematory operator! Or as I like to say it "funeral pyre engineer". It's like I took every goth kid's dream of getting paid to hang out in funeral homes and cemeteries and made it my reality. I finalized and passed my assessment the day before my birthday (my birthday was Nov 21st btw) and my parents came into town on my birthday to celebrate it and thanksgiving. It was a nice visit, but my birthday kind of got left on the back burner, as is the norm when it's the day before Thanksgiving, but it still kind of bummed me out.
On Nov 30th I became an auntie for the 2nd time thanks to the birth of my second niece, so now she and I get to celebrate as November birthdays! There aren't many of those in the family. She came a little early but is healthy and happy, so is her momma and she got to meet her big sister. Auntie is already trying to gather holiday presents for the 2 cuties.
December 1st we dragged out our holiday decorations and got most of them up, just haven't put up the Hellraiser mini tree of the Cthulhu mini tree because I needed their spot to take product photos.
I need to get a bunch more tiny santa hats for the rest of the skulls in the living room. As you can see, Astrid likes the cave of under the tree. We barely use our front door so we decided to put the tree in the foyer as a nice central location.
As I mentioned a bit ago, I was taking product shots, yes for more items for the etsy shop. Trying to get ready for the holidays means trying to amass more moneys.
I branched out from bath bombs a bit (though I do have more of those coming) and added soaking salts and bath teas. Also added a few more things to my ebay for any toy collectors out there that may need some cool gifts for themselves or others.
Until the holidays though, my days will be filled with funerals and gravesides, and honestly I couldn't be happier. Though I really do need to get some new photos now that my hair isn't blue anymore. A small loss (15 years of blue mind you) for the career path I never knew I wanted but couldn't be happier in.
I hope you all are doing wonderfully.
