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  • Oct 4, 2026, 3:20 AM

    @moonrabbit The details on the houses and on the roofs are exceptional. These are so beautiful, I know you're working too hard. Any other news? Has the weather been better? Has Pia been annoying Kitten any less?

    Hope you're getting some sleep 😴

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 2:06 PM

    @Star12Mt
    🙏 thank you
    no news really. husband working 7/7 and exhausted. weather is a bit better but still unseasonably warm / dangerously dry. hopefully that'll improve??
    kitten's doing ok atm (thank everything 🙇) but pia's still a pain in the arse 😂

    sleep, not so much, sigh. rough night. i'm mostly resting today though (mainly bc i'm ill, but nevermind).

    how are things there? are you feeling any calmer or just more stressed? :Blobhaj_Hug:

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 4:05 PM

    @moonrabbit I had a hard night as well. It's one of those nights when not only can't I sleep but I feel like my whole body has restless leg syndrome so I have to get up. My daughter just left for the airport and I'm probably going to have to take a nap. But I have more baskets to make. Oh I'll show you what they are looking like.

    A color photo of a rectangular cardboard box for gifts. It is sitting on a chair with a brick wall behind it. The basket is a present for the bridal party people at a wedding. There is crinkled up brown paper, which I just learned is actually called crinkle paper, as opposed to the plastic stuff we used to put into Easter baskets. Anyway,  that's on the bottom and then in a red organza bag is 1 pound of popcorn with popcorn butter salt, behind that wrapped in gold is a DVD, behind that is a package of red vines and behind that wrapped in fall leaf paper is a microwave popcorn popper. There's a tag at the top shaped like an acorn. It will have clear plastic over it tied with a bow at the top.
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  • Oct 4, 2026, 4:28 PM

    @Star12Mt
    oh wow how many of those do you have to do? the autumnal wrapping paper is lovely 🍂

    do have a nap if you need one! (and ugh to the restlessness, i know it well. maybe you can outsmart it if you sleep for a wee while now??)

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 4:52 PM

    @moonrabbit I only have to make 10 and two are done. I'm just doing one at a time because I'm so worried about mixing them up once the DVDs are wrapped. Each person gets a special DVD so I'm being really careful not to mix up them up.

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 5:41 PM

    @Star12Mt that's very thoughtful! and ah 10's not so bad. i thought you were doing hundreds :blobcatscared:

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 5:44 PM

    @moonrabbit Oh gosh no, I simply couldn't. These are just the gifts for their friends who will walk down the aisle with them. Traditionally there's bridesmaids and groomsmen. But they have people of all genders on both sides so I'm just calling them the wedding party.

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 6:39 PM

    @Star12Mt that sounds a lot more reasonable than the miles-long assembly line i was envisaging 🤣

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