Lily_Fairegarden

Lily_Fairegarden's avatar

Registered: 09/21/2009

Gender: Female

Birthday: 10/31

Contact

  • Add to Friends
  • Send Message
  • Trade Items

Interest Tags

Favorite Movies/Anime

Favorite TV Shows

Favorite Reads

Favorite Music/Bands

Hobbies/Interests

 

Dancing Round the Fire

My, how the time has flown.

I've been on Gaia four years now. This profile was a little dated. *smile* RL will do that, I suppose.

I'm still a bellydancer. I still participate in the SCA when I have time. I still play doumbek, boudhran and harp when I have time. While I still want to learn fire-spinning, I just haven't had the time to devout to it. Perhaps when things settle down.

I'm still a geek-girl. A P&P RPG gamer-girl. I'm still playing the Iron Kingdoms game; it's now a homerules game since Privateer Press revamped it to match Warmachine and Hordes. We're still playing it in 3.5 rules. Unfortunately that game has become a once-every-holiday kind of game since most of us are graduated and scattered with new jobs and lives. So pretty much marathon sessions during holidays and summers when we can get together. It's sad really since we've been playing that game for years with my Dad as DM. We're getting pretty epic. I'm playing in two more games at the moment. Those are weekly now since I'm graduated and home. Clerics are cool. Oh! And we've tried Pathfinder - that was kind of fun. I'm looking forward to getting to the adventure path with Baba Yaga!

I'm still pretty much a real old-school gamer. Not much of a video gamer either, although I inherited my older siblings' original NES. I haven't surrendered that yet to the younger sibs, although I let them play with me sometimes. When my sibs and I were growing up, the 'rents would play computer games with us, but they were mostly puzzle games like Myst and Syberia. And I have a sincere fondness for Doom, which I played with my older brother (don't tell Mum!) I grew up with gamer parents, who started us out with AD&D and progressed us up to 3.5. Dad's always been our GM, although my uncle has done it a few times (he's terrible at it.) One of Dad's friends owns a gaming shop, so we have a lot of modules and minis and stuff. It's a little odd feeling now to be playing at the gaming store once a week with MY friends. Also Dad introduced me to superheros with Champions when I was about three. My first superhero team were crayon colours.

I graduated last spring with my BFA, emphasis in textiles. I'm still engaged to most wonderful fiance in the world. And from the looks of it, it will be for another year before we can pull a wedding off because Julian bought me a house. It's a fixer-upper. It's over a 100 years old and, boy, does it look it! We didn't realize how much work needed to be done before we bought it, but now that we have, I foresee a lot of learning in our future. Julian is excited, but then he's not the one who is going to be doing all the refinishing of the floors and woodwork and doing all the painting. No, he's going to be learning about plumbing. And electicity. And running CAT5 through horsehair! (Oh, thank you, Da, for teaching me about tools and home repair!) It's an adventure. We're hoping to get in before Halloween, but the house definitely will be an on-going project. If we can get the bedroom, bathrooms and the kitchen in shape, we'll go ahead and move in.

For those of you who have asked about Julian, he's doing well. His heart seems to be stable and his doctor is happy with him.

I still love cooking. I do all the fancy baking for the family. I'm good with pastry and cakes. My sister and I are still considering going into something together that might involve baking and pottery. She does some beautiful work. A friend suggested we do hand thrown cookie jars and fill them and then sell them. The idea being that we would include an automatic monthly refill for a year or something like that.

My family still does a pirate haunt every year for the neighbourhood. We all have parts if we want and help with the build and everything, but things are a bit different because we're all grown up now. Julian and I are looking forward to doing our own Halloween thing in the new house. But we'll end up at the parents for the big party afterwards because it's my birthday. This year, I'll be working with a dinner theatre group during October, doing their costuming. It's really small, but it's a new start since I've been out of town for the years I've been at college. October is still my busy season.

So, now I'm graduated, working in a fabric store for now while I put out resumes to museums and theatre groups; renovating a house; gaming a lot, and looking forward to getting all my furniture and things out of storage in my parent's basement and into my own ... OUR own place together. (My parents are looking forward to that too since I'm taking up a lot of their haunting space.) My sister and I had been planning a double wedding next spring. I know that Julian and I probably won't be able to afford to do so but I'm not sure if my sister and her fiance will go ahead without us or not yet. If she does, I have a lot of work to do for her wedding gown.

And that's me, now. Check the journal for the first profile - I'm going to archive it there. I'm friendly, I don't bite. Well, hard. I don't always friend - if I can't see your profile, I don't friend. *shrug* I like knowing who is trying to friend me. But I do lots of things - I'm always busy. I love people and helping people is the best. I love my Julian and my family and my life. So, jump in and talk to me - if I'm here, I'm always willing to make new friends!


My Aquarium

Your aquarium is undergoing maintenance!

Journal

View Journal

The Fairegarden Files

Hi. I'm Lily Fairegarden. I came to Gaia to play the games & have been having fun playing with my avatar and the site. I'm also a writer-type; well, artsy in general. I'm something of a contradiction - I love people, but I'm kind of shy. So say hi!

Comments

View All Comments

GLJordan Report | 10/31/2016 11:54 pm
GLJordan
belated happy birthday
GLJordan Report | 04/10/2016 11:49 pm
GLJordan
Quote:
Been away because my grandpa died


sympathies and condolences
blueduskrose Report | 04/06/2016 7:09 pm
blueduskrose
You have my condolences. I hope you find peace and comfort and your grandfather is always with you in your heart and in your memories. Let me know if you need someone to talk to i'm more then willing to listen
blueduskrose Report | 03/22/2016 2:42 pm
blueduskrose
Hi Lily how are you? Haven't checked in with you in awhile. I don't know if you got my previous messages and were busy but I hope you have a bit more time to catch up now.
Blackrosekitten21 Report | 11/08/2015 4:18 pm
Blackrosekitten21
Happy Halloween and happy birthday or belated birthday Lily. How are you?
GLJordan Report | 10/31/2015 2:24 am
GLJordan
Happy Halloween and Happy Birthday
Blackrosekitten21 Report | 10/01/2015 7:37 pm
Blackrosekitten21
Yes Lily you have been we miss you over at J-corp! Does this mean you've finally returned?
Blackrosekitten21 Report | 08/12/2015 10:56 am
Blackrosekitten21
Everythings good. Kicking it into high gear for halloween. I'm sure you got the announcements. I miss seeing you posting with us though I know life keeps you busy and i'm glad your hubby got a job thats closer. Think your going to be able to be a bit more able to participate in J-corp now? Also I am so sorry to hear about your mom i'm glad she's recovering though. My grandma died of a stroke so i know what its like. I'm just glad i was able to see her before she passed and tell her i love her. Not that she was able to speak though but i know she could hear me. Best of wishes on your mom and do your best so that she doesn't get stressed or overwork herself.
Blackrosekitten21 Report | 08/12/2015 10:19 am
Blackrosekitten21
Hi Lily how are you? Long time no see life been keeping you busy?
Blackrosekitten21 Report | 08/05/2015 8:12 am
Blackrosekitten21
Hi lily are you going to be able to make it to halloween planning tonight? Also how are you? Haven't seen you online in awhile

Signature[url=link][img]http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e39/J-Corp/Banners/jcorp2_zps1243eff2.jpg[/img][/url]

 

Forums

Posts per Day: 0.54

Total Posts: 2883

Latest Posts

My Playlist

Recent Visitors

Markangel The Archangel on 10/29/2021
MoonSeerDreamer on 10/30/2020
zbrahh on 12/07/2019
 
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture