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My little place on the internet where I like to blog about products, tech, gay rights issues and whatever is going on in my life at the moment.

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Make Market 16x20 Halloween Diamond Paintings

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Make Market Jack-O'-Lanterns Diamond painting

I bought a bunch of Diamond paintings from Michaels for Halloween and this is one of the ones that I really wanted to make for myself. Someone paid me money to make it for them and so I finished making it and I’ll be framing it soon and then shipping it out to them. I tried going back to the Michael’s website to see if they had another one and naturally they were out of stock. I went to…

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Make Market Halloween diamond paintings from Michaels craft store

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DO NOT DO THIS with your diamond painting

So yesterday I was planning on making my Mushroom diamond painting from Make Market at Michael’s and also another diamond painting that I have from Temu, and I was low on the release papers and I remembered someone somewhere said instead of using those release papers from Amazon or wherever you get them, use parchment paper instead. Just buy a roll of parchment paper and you’ll be golden and…

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More diamond paintings

I received a coupon from Michael’s that was for 40% off any one regular price item and I’ve been debating whether I should just go ahead and buy another Diamond painting or not, and the reason why is because I have 12 sitting here in my bedroom waiting to be made and I don’t want to have a horde of diamond paintings that might take a very long time to get to, so I just didn’t want to buy any…

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Sunflower Bouquet Diamond Painting from Make Market

I bought these 3 diamond paintings from Michael’s for my birthday. The Sunflower Bouquet diamond painting didn’t include the DMC color numbers in the chart on the sides of the canvas, but the Mushrooms and Rainbow Surfboards diamond painting did include that. Actually, the Mushrooms has it printed on the sides of the canvas, but not the rainbow surfboards because there were no sides because it…

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Another year...

Well, another year has passed. I can’t believe time seems to be moving a bit faster every year for me. It seems like 2024 would still have another 6 months left, but no, it’s almost finished. 1 more day. What have I accomplished in a year? Well, my Etsy shop was very busy this year, busier every month this year since I started. Mainly due to a single item though. A simple friendship bracelet. I…

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The Sims Life and Death Expansion Pack

The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack I’ve been playing The Sims since the beginning when I was in my late 20’s. I’ve never actually allowed my Sims to die because I wanted to work hard on getting them at the top of their career and make millions of simoleons without using any cheats, and be able to afford a nice house big enough to be comfortable. I also didn’t want to have to start over every…

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The Librarian book series

I have another book recommendation for anyone who likes to read, and is into the supernatural. This is a recommendation, not a review. The Librarian book series by Brian Yansky is actually called The Strangely Scary Funny book series. I actually found this series when I was in the Kindle store looking for books to read and I liked the image of the first book because I thought the look of the…

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The Sims 4 on PlayStation 5 Infants

I started playing The Original Sims when it first came out. I was in my late 20’s back then. I didn’t play around with kids because I wanted to focus on playing with regular adult Sims because it was just easier. I always focus on what’s easier, and believe me it was difficult enough just to take care of one Sim let alone two Sims and a baby. From what I understand, the infants is a brand new…

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My Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7 inch Nook - Book Covers Missing

My Samsung Galaxy Tab A Nook I’ve been reading ebooks using a Barnes & Noble Nook since they introduced their first Nook ebook reader. This is my current Nook device. Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7 inch Nook. I don’t know what happened, but suddenly the book covers went missing. I searched Google for the help and it brought me to the Barnes & Noble help page that said to reboot. Well, obviously that was…

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Buttons and new light box for my Etsy shop

I have been hard at work to create nice looking listings for my Etsy shop, which means I needed to buy a new bigger lightbox, and a backdrop, and I needed to make new packaging. All of my button listings are sold in sets, not single buttons. Some sets have 12, 15, 18, 20, 24 or 30 buttons. I also have them in 2 sizes. 1 inch or 1.25 inches. I do have a couple listings with single buttons, but…

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I'm getting better at reading

Okay, I know that’s a strange title, but it’s true for me. So here’s the deal. When I was a kid, I had trouble reading. I had, and still have a learning disability, dyslexia, and ADHD. That makes it very difficult to read a novel. When I was about 9 years old, my sister had all of these books that I would have loved to have read. I believe they were The Hardy Boys and or Nancy Drew. I can’t…

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My HP Officejet printer ink issues fixed

My life partner bought me this HP Officejet 6968 printer many years ago. I don’t quite remember exactly what year, but it’s been perhaps 5 years or so. I’ve had some frustrating issues with it that I have finally figured out how to solve. So my first one gave me issues with installing new ink cartridges after I believe 2 years, and it was still under warranty. HP sent me a new printer, but they…

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Charging Station for PlayStation 5

Ok so I couldn’t help it lol. I bought a charging station for my new PlayStation 5 that’s going to be here soon. My motivation for buying this was because of my experience with my PlayStation 4 overheating. This will suck the hot air away from the PlayStation from the bottom and push the hot air out through the back of the charging station. It will also allow me to charge my controller in the…

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Playstation 5!!!

Well, I finally got my hands on a new PlayStation 5. I’ve waited for years to buy one when none were available, and now they are in stock on Amazon, so I bought one. I don’t exactly have $500 to spend, so I am going to pay for it over the next 12 months interest free with my Amazon Prime Rewards Visa credit card. I also bought the 2 year warranty, so the final total per month is actually going…

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I'm finally in Onederland

Well, it happened. I finally weigh under 200lbs. This was actually on Sunday, October 8, 2023. I was actually 198.8lbs, and my life partner told me to take a picture of the scale. I was going to do that, but I thought I’d do that on weigh in day, and he reminded me that I may not be 198.8 again on weigh in day, which was a good possibility, so I took a picture and by then I had gone up to…

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