#tarotbear

After what seemed an interminable wait for the cards - (my order would not get accepted and every email took another day of waiting for an explanation, then the P.O. told me a label was created but they had no product to ship me for over a week!) - I finally got the card - the back of which is a business card advertisement - and the enamel pins together! 100 pins [Wizard pins] cost me $300 and 54 cards [Printer’s Studio] another $30.

The Magician card is from my male-centric Tarot - “The Everyman Tarot” (sold by The Game Crafter).  

Finally - a day without rain when I have someone to photograph me! After 30 years of use, my wizard costume had tarnished and faded bling, so I worked to retrofit, re-bead, re-work, re-embroider, and re-bling my costume (see my archive for some of the re-working in progress). I also made this non-pointy hat to wear; the pointy one always made my head sweat!. After 30 years, the collar is still standing! I posted this video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/i7_lXomqlcQ

Now to work on some wizard-appropriate footwear to go with it!

On January 2nd (no way to start the New Year!) my external hard drive gave up the ghost. I found a company that says if it’s on a hard drive they can save it, copy it to a new drive, and send it back to you (for a price), The next day I mailed it off FedEx and MYSTERIOUSLY between it’s pick-up point and hub ON A PRIORITY OVERNIGHT DELIVERY, the package was empty when it got to the hub. Sound Suspicious? I had to prove to FedEx that I actually had bought a HD! Currently have a claim in, as does the recovery company, since they paid for my shipping to not get a package. No word about how much FedEX will pay me for the lost drive. That same week (no way to start a New Year) my paper shredder died, and I dropped my phone and it broke in two! Can we say ‘Mercury Retrograde’? I have since bought a new phone, a new paper shredder, and a new external HD, which HP Smart Friends, connected, formatted, hooked up, and connected me to the cloud.