The Divorce is Final

Well it was a great day on B&B as donnaho married her honeybear in front of stephbitch, and in stephbitch's own home. The "children" (all at age 40+ or close now) were there all grim faced and sad...psychopammy was there, crazy as ever dreaming of hosin down donnaho as she walked down the aisle...and stephbitch was there convinced that honeybear would have second thoughts bout marryin donnaho, coughcoughdidn'thappencoughcough...well, it kinda almost maybe sorta did, honeybear had a moment of confusion where everyone thought he was maybe wafflin, but he came to in time to day I do. The bride was radiant in a forester original gown, perfectly tanned and coiffed, and emphatically showin great boobage...

All the guests left early, the "children" going out to get drunk, at least thorny was, but at the very end before steph left she heard laughter from inside and she looked inside her old house and saw her honeybear dancin with donnaho, havin a great old time and not even thinkin bout her for even one little second...too bad, so sad, been a long time comin but the divorce is finally final...

It's been a slow week over on ATWT, however there's one bright spot and that would be juicyjanet, badbrad's old flame and mother of his daughter liberty, aka libby...there is already big trouble brewin between juicyjanet and katieho cause it's soooo obvious that juicyjanet's makin a play for badbrad...this could get interesting cause she also obviously came to town with an agenda, she's lookin to be a little like gwen's mom iris, greedy, money lovin and a ho...this is an example of a fun nucharacter, I'm likinnnnnnn iiiiiit...also this week nulily is attempting to fit right in as lily, but she is very seriously not lily...now I'll give her a couple more days to straighten it out, but she is soooo not lily...this is an example of a recast character that doesn't work...we'll see how long this lasts.

There is a light on the horizon for next week cause previews show that Nuke will be returning, and I'm also hopin that henry and vienna get involved in the juicyjanet/katieho/badbrad story cause this could become very humerous...vienna is not gonna like juicyjanet, I'm seein some problems there, meowwwwwwwww...

Which Came First

Question of the day, which came first, the mother of all bitches stephanie forester or the bitch ho brooke logan...thanks to anon poster yesterday for making me think about it and I'll try and answer...first of all I love both the characters, but I hate em, they are the way they are I think because of daddy problems early on, but that is no excuse for their behavior. I think stephanie was always controlling and manipulative and not a nice person. Brookie is needy and insecure and seems to look for daddy everywhere, she's also controlling and manipulative and partcularly uses sexual persuasions to get her way while stephanie belittles and humiliates people to get what she wants.

It is really hard to fathom that brookie has slept with all the forester men, and married em too, starting with eric now known as hunnybear thanks to another logan sister. I can absolutely understand why stephanie would hate brookie for stealin her husband because that is total humiliation for her, and then, brookie pours salt in the wound and marries ridge and thorny too, hasn't she done this six or seven times.

Of course stephanie has done everything in her power to stop brookie but with no luck, oh she wiped her up with a towel after her tongue lashings, humiliated her again and again, and was essentially responsible for brookie's rape by the bad man. They both act and react to each other by doin the same things over and over with very little result, at least not in the happiness department.

I think that stephanie and brookie are both parts of one whole, and each would not be the same without the other. There is really one heroine/villainess here and one of the best soap opera characters ever...I love em, I hate em, couldn't do without em, am always shocked at what they do...have you noticed how brookie seems to be becoming more and more like stephanie and now she's trying to control her son the way stephanie has always tried to control ridge. When Susan Flannery finally leaves B&B it will leave a huge gap, course I bet brookie's up to the task of bein the mother of all bitches, oh yeah.

Short and sweet recaps of todays soaps...on B&B katie got stormy's heart, brookie was guilt ridden cause she jumped to conclusions and yelled at stormy...I was pissed off that ridge was there, and absolutely amazed that bridget is now a heart surgeon, she's sure accomplished alot in the past two years.

Bad day for Nuke on ATWT cause poor luke had a big old fight with noah cause ameera was there, like hovering, and he wanted to be alone with noah but couldn't, so my poor luke is very unhappy right now, and so is noah, but ameera looked pretty pleased with it all as she put her stuff back in the bedroom. And, it seems that the colonel will soon be returning to oakdale, how he gets out of jail would be a great question, but look for him to cause big problemos. Got nothing on other doings around oakdale except that carly and holden keep bumpin into each other, but ya know they just don't have any chemistry, no, they don't...and looks like parker will probably end up bein badbrad's daughter liberty's boyfriend, I have visions of them frolickin at the snyder pond, katieho is bein understandin, why I don't know, paul, meg, sophie and mike are still boring, and jack is still bein an ass...

Stormy and Stormy Weather

Today was a sad day on B&B, like it really made me sad cause poor beleaguered, guilt-ridden Stormy killed himself so that katie could have his heart. Suicide is serious business and I guess I was surprised that the writers would do this story, but of course katie had to be saved. Stormy was a character we hardly knew, the big brother who raised his sisters, who shot stephanie, who accidentally shot his sister katie, and who decided it was better to save her than himself...I will admit to bein a little verklempt when Stormy was remembering the good times with his sisters...and I guess that's one less thing ridge has to worry about now.

It was another kind of storm wreaking havoc on ATWT today...carjack can't seem to stop bickering and fightin in front of the kids, and I see storm clouds on the horizon in the carly/holden relationship, all hell is gonna break loose if they hook up...meanwhile another little storm called Liberty told brad he was her dad from a union during the junior prom waaaaaaay back with juicy janet, can't wait to meet her, heeeeeeeee...so until the dna results are in liberty is stayin with brad and katieho...if I liked katieho I might feel some sympathy for her, but I don't, so I don't, feel sympathy...meanwhile margo still has a big time grudge with emily for gettin it on with prosecutor tom waaaaaaaaaaaay back when, long memory there...so margo and casey are buttin heads over bein employed by emily, another big, huuuuge storm brewin right there...once again alison and nuchris totally put me to sleep, somethin about throwin up, don't care...a lot of foreshadowing today on things to come...and a nice preview of luke and noah, looks like they're alone at last, at last...

The Smug and the Ugly

Events on B&B turned ugly today as stormy shot his sister katie...by accident...some people just create tragedy for themselves and katie is one of those people who keeps jumpin into other people's business, and if she hadn't jumped into the middle of the ashley-stormy nonstarter romance, she would be ok, but noooooooooo, once again she dove right in and ended up fightin with stormy over the gun...ok so a sane guy goes and buys a gun cause he's gonna prove to his love that just because he shot someone doesn't mean he's a bad guy...like I don't think he's really a bad guy, but I do think he's off his rocker...and obviously so does ashley...but, the real culprit here is the ever nasty, hypocritical, and super smug ridge who had to go and tell ashley all about stormy, he's another one who thinks it's okay to just dive into everyone else's life cause he's always right...and of course you can always go back to the true beginning of this, the bitch of all bitches who started this whole logan-forrester rivalry, well it's the she-devil herself, the smug and the ugly stephanie forester...

So we won't know til monday what happens but I guess they'll find a donor and katie will get a heart transplant and live a long and nosy life. Nick will fall in love with her much to bridget's dismay, and we won't even go there with what brookie will do. Maybe stormy will go to jail this time or perhaps a much needed 24/7 pheesacheeatrist ward. Maybe taylorlips can become useful once again.

Which reminds me, monday and tuesday were great brookie watchin days...the look on her face as rick proclaimed his love for and engagement to taylorlips, well, priceless, and the shock and dismay when taylorlips won back custody of babyjack was something I've been waitin for for awhile, heeeeeeeeeeeee, truly a happy dance makin show. Now if we could somehow get the self-righteous smugness off of ridge's face, we could have a really great party.

The Love Shack

It is soooooo great that Luke and Noah will be roomies...too bad ameera's stayin, but anyway it's good for the boys to have their own space, just wonderin who'll be sleepin on the couch, coughameeracoughcough...grassy knoll theory time...still not sure about ameera's motives though, she was pretty pissed off when she shoved her little black dress into that drawer, kinda like mission not accomplished, but is that because she really likes noah or because she hasn't fulfilled the colonel's mission yet...

Maybe I'm so enamored of Nuke that the rest of the show pales in comparison but the only interesting thing for me today was the first appearance of badbrad's daughter...I hear his ex, or one of em, will be showing up soon too in Oakdale...the excruciatingly boring paul-meg-sophie and now add mike to that mix story must end soon...what is it with sophie, seems to think she can change men into good guys, geez...

And be prepared soon for nulily to appear now that my beloved martha byrne is gone because cbs wanted it so, whhhhhyyyyyy, don't know but dumb move, anyway there's gonna be a new lily and they tried that once before and I'll bet it flops bigtime, like last time, and then they can crawl back to martha, hang in there martha...

And maybe most silly of all is the potential holden-carly "relationship" story, I'll call it carlyho, heeeeeeeeeee...I cannot imagine holden goin after carly ever, and apparently jack is gonna be tight with lily, think I'll call that one jackly, they're like wife swappin or something, and it's totally out of character, kinda the way ATWT is right now, out of character, out of sorts, out of ideas...I suggest more kissin for everyone...

In The Zone

Okay so usually I start my jewelry making around soap time, but for today only, since I'm up early, I'll start in the morning instead. I'm very organized but to start my process I pull out shiny bright things that catch my eye...I may have a vague idea of the direction I'm going in but usually just seeing all the posibilities gives me, um, possibilities. I start playing with color combinations, which leads to type of beads, which makes me think of chain types and color. The more I push stuff around the more ideas I get and I usually just go in the direction that suits my mood.

Sometimes I'll have a very specific idea or theme...themes help a lot when deciding where to begin...if you think summer what do you think of...well that could be many things, might be pale shades of off whites and light colors, or might be bright, vivid colors that look like blooming flowers. So many possibilities, so little time...

Inspiration is also a great way to get going. Sometimes it's something you see, or maybe a smell that reminds you of something which leads to a sort of color plan, and as you dig into the beads and the silver, and whatall you get what you're after. The chunky bracelet picture posted above is an example of inspiration. I looooooove chunky beads and when I found these I had to, had to have em, cause I could just see what I was going to do with it. This is the beginning of the zone, kind of a different kind of zone which is yippee-yay excitement, and a feeling of aha!!!

So what happens is I kind of pre-arrange the item and start working on it...that's when I get into the zone, hours pass like minutes, I am completely happy, I notice nothing except what I'm doing. I love the zone, it is a free, creative and happy place to be, and the more you create the easier it is to get into.

And then, when you're done, you can look at your piece, and on the days when it works, it is remarkable to look at what you've done and say, damn, good stuff...there is really nothing like creating something from your hands.

Makin Joolz As the World Turns

Well it's going to be interesting combining joolz making and soaps...of course making joolz is the fun part and trying to sell em is much like being in the middle of a soap opera, there are a lot of characters to get used to and drama in the forums every day. My primary showcase for joolz is etsy, that's short for eventually turning sales your way. Now etsy is a wonderful place and I love it but competition is stiff and you've got to be up to it. Time to put on my Lucinda Walsh hat and dream up some glorious ideas for world domination on etsy. If you've ever watched ATWT you'll know who Lucinda is, quirky, crusty, devious, brilliant and very rich. I'd like to see Lucinda try and sell something on etsy...go ahead give it your best shot Lucy. And just like on soaps you'll never see me doing any actual work cause it's all done in between times, in between promoting, planning, and scheming...clawing my way to the top is gonna take time. I hope you'll go with me on this grand adventure into etsydom. I've been checking out the billions of other places to show your stuff too and I'll report back, after all Lucinda's company Worldwide is not a one trick pony...too crafty for that, heeeee, I said crafty...

Luke and Noah in the Afternoon While Making Joolz for the Bold and the Beautiful As the World Turns

I have a few passions, As the World Turns, particularly the story of Luke and Noah, the Bold and the Beautiful, why, just cause it's soooo snarkable, making and selling jewelry, and did I say Luke and Noah. The easiest way to talk about em all is to combine the topics, so you'll get a mix of soap updates, the best of snarky soap observations, and what it takes to succeed in the insane world of selling jewelry on the internet. The first lesson learned about selling is ya gotta sell, selfless promotion is the name of the game so I'll entice you with beautiful jewelry pics and a linkylink to look at more on the etsy sales site, hinthintcoughcough...but mainly the pics will just be there and I'll mostly be recapping my favorites soaps and waxing eloquent on my Luke and Noah passion. I'm hopin ya'll will enjoy some havin some fun with me. Things will get snarky at times but soaps are made for that, so if you aren't the snarky type this probably won't be for you, just look at the joolz instead, heeeeeeeee...stay tuned, I'll be busy for a few days just settin it up...