selfies from the demon dimension

the salepeople are all very welcoming and nice but oh my god are people selling diamond jewelry on commission dramatic and intense sometimes lmao. my fav is an ex-detective from kyrgyzstan who unabashedly started shittalking her colleagues to me literally my first day

the back office manager and the front office girl i work with (who is almost exactly my age! she's a week older than me) are much more levelheaded and chill so they create enough of a buffer that i can sort of enjoy the chaos from afar lol. tho i did get comfortable enough w the front office girl while smoking a joint in her car after work that i was accidentally honest and told her i do not like florida very much and people are mean here, but she wasn't unsympathetic lol

however, as someone looking for ways to make a living as an artisan in france- hermes has about a dozen manufacturing centers across france and a very well-established vocational training program for leatherworkers lol they train you for 6 months, then you apprentice for a year to receive a certification from the federation of french leatherworkers before they bring you on full-time

the other day i got a great deal on a 70s singer sewing machine from fb marketplace

she's fully functional. she's made entirely of metal and weighs approximately a ton so i'm not sure realistically if i can bring her w me to france but i figure i can find another home for her if i need to

the lady it belonged to was a bridal dressmaker and her granddaughter let me raid her sewing supplies so i ended up with a ton of shit. a selection:

that's a gallon bag full of vintage lace & ribbon and not pictured is another gallon bag full of zippers, mostly metal. there's another small box full of thread too

also a ton of patterns!!

costumes & bridal

fashion doll clothes (stoked)

and then today i went to joann's and raided the patterns, so these are new but relevant thematically. i got a ton more since patterns were 80% off... i didn't even look at any other brand besides mccall before i had to stop bc i was embarrassed at how big my pile was lmao

this is the only picture of a 173k 600sqft apartment in toulouse