shriekingviolet

Initial Impression: Smells like a perfume counter. If I were to associate just one smell with the idea of perfume, this would be it. After Wearing It: Smelling this wet on my skin, I'm very much remind playing around in my grandmother's bathroom with her perfume collection. My love of perfume was found there and I always spent time sniffing there since my mom wasn't much of a perfume gal and she had only a bottle of Charlie at home. But my paternal grandmother loved perfume, wild costume jewelry, and makeup so I loved spending time playing in her room while the adults talked (and fortunately, she was only too happy to allow me). I don't remember what particular perfumes she had, but they were all heavy floral oriental scents. High on the jasmine & musk, which I definitely can smell here. I feel like I can smell some some perfumer's alcohol here sure, though I'm not sure where that'd come from. As time wore on, the musk softened and the stiffer floral notes folded back to reveal a berry scent. Not quite sure what it is exactly, I don't think it's plum but it may be. The berry note is warmed by musk and spice. It sort of reminds me of an older, far less innocent version of Bathsheba. Where Bathsheba was a sensuous, but obviously young and somewhat innocent beauty, The Living Flame is her scheming, hardener mother. She's learned the sacrifices you've got to make in life to come on top, the games she has to play, and that you can't make an omelet about breaking some eggs. There's something cynical about her, and perhaps even slightly wicked and cruel. She certainly has a hot fire burning within her, but her passion isn't for love and loved ones, but for her own brand of victory. She's cunning, loves to win and only plays for her own team. The Living Flame lasts for a long time, has a decent amount of throw and while it sweetens a bit, never loses its edge with me. Fascinating blend. Final Thoughts: This definitely wasn't what I was expecting from the description but I like it all the same. The images it evokes for me are very odd though. The feelings I get from this in its early stages are very much opposed to the tough woman images I got later. My grandmother, who was so clearly evoked while the oil was wet, was one of the kindest, most generous women I've known, so it was strange that this scent morphed into a Wicked Queen from Snow White sort of scent. But it did it seemlessly. Interesting is definitely the word that keeps popping up when I try to describe this blend. It's puzzle, for sure.

Initial Impression: So sweet it's cavity inducing, with just a touch of salt playing underneath. After Wearing It: Wow this is a great blend. I love sweet, foody scents and this is certainly a gem of one. It smells of fair food, all that lovely stuff that you look forward to getting when fair time comes close. Cotton candy and fried dough (like funnel cakes!) jump out at me most, though every now and then I'll catch hints of butter and salt too. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or not, but I'm almost sure i can smell just a bit of dust and smoke in this too, which really makes Midway smell authentic. If I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply, I could easily believe I was standing in our fairgrounds in late September. I can feel the last of summer's warmth lacing through the fragrance, the smell of the dusty concrete beneath my feet, the smoke from the trailer kitchens and the overwhelming smell of everything made to be tempting, deep fried. It inspires the sort of ravenous indecision I always experience at the fair, of having dreamed of this food for weeks and then not knowing what to buy. So I get the cheesedogs? Roasted corn? Funnel Cake? One of those giant turkey legs that look and smell so good but disappoint me every time? (so hard to resist the call of those....) Will I finally get the nerve to try the deep fried oreos/snickers bar/twinkies or will I just hang around that stand and see if I can watch someone else eat them? The choices seem endless, but money is limited and I know my stomach can only be abused so much! Goddammit is there really more than 4 months left until the state fair? Wearing Midway makes me want it all now! Midway has a lot of throw to it. I put it on right before work and I could smell it all through my shift without having to sniff my wrist or do any deep breathing. I was easily able to carry a cloud of sweetness with me wherever I went for at least 4 or 5 hours. Now at nine hours, there's not much through, but the scent can still be smelled clearly if I sniff my wrist. Which IMO, is pretty good staying power! Final Thoughts: Can't wait for this to come out. I'm going to want several bottles of it for wear and to try making wax tarts with!

Regan smells really similar on me, both are floral vanilla blends, though Regan seems a little less warm and complex. Might give it a try though if you haven't already.

Initial Impression: Very sweet, mild butterscotch note mottled with mint and crisp white flowers. After Wearing It: As I smeared this on, I was about knocked out by the rich, wet scent of butterscotch. The scent was so strong it feels solid. And then it rapidly started to fade, and before I knew what was happening it was gone. Which kind of disappointed me, because I love foody scents! In its place was a soft, fresh floral edged in mint, which was nice but I was bummed about the loss of the butterscotch and didn't give it much love.... for long that is. Soft as it was on me, Chaste Moon was very charming and very arresting. About an hour after I sort of wrote it off as not very me, I was utterly enamoured by it. It's such a pretty scent, and though it's floral, it doesn't smell like perfume at all. It's more of an environment smell. It's very fresh and clean, soft and full of light. I can smell familiar floral notes that I've picked out in other lunar blends, but they just smell better here floating in this light creamy palette and touched with mint. This is that pleasant baby smell without the powder, that pleasant fragrance of freshly washed soft skin. It's youthful innocence, and yes, very chaste. Wearing it, I kept getting images of laying on soft grass on a pretty day, eating ice cream from a cone, or being buried in pile of laundry fresh from the dryer. It doesn't smell like these things, but it represents them. It's the smell of simple pleasures being richly enjoyed. After a while the flowers faded away and Chaste Moon smelled of sweet cream laced with a very light coconut note and mint. It smelled similar to Snow White but even lighter and fuzzier and has more of a fresh air quality to it. Considering how light it is, I'm amazed at its longevity. The scent is never very strong, but it lasts and has good throw. And after 9 hours, my nose still catches it from time to time even when it's not pressed against my wrist. Final Thoughts: I really love this. Not my usual style, but I'm so mourning only buying one bottle of this. I really want to make it into a room or linen spray so my sheets can smell like this, yet I want to hoard it too! Damn!

Initial Impression: Soft, pink sweet pea, laced with sage floating in white musk. After Wearing It: Wet, Aeval smells very strongly of sweet pea. Very soft, sweet and hopelessly girly. There's something so young smelling about sweet pea. It makes me think of tea sets, bow adorned mary janes, and the charming paradox of little girls playing together, pretending to be older yet in doing so underscore their youth. I love this about sweat pea. As the blend dries and acclimates itself to my skin, the sage comes out giving this youthful floral a dusty edge. Herbal notes, sage in particular, always make me think of things that have been shut away for a while. Maybe it's because our herb cabinet at home is stocked, but so underused (we have decades old tins of basil, nutmeg, etc.) that everything seems so old that it might have belonged to other people or to another time. The sage here definitely smells like that, and mixed with the sweet pea it creates an odd juxtaposition of youth and great age. This seems very fitting for any scent created for the faery folk, who are often depicted very young looking even if they are very old. But for some reason it doesn't just smell like eternal youth, but like a facade or glamour. A being who projects youth and beauty to entice and enchant, but is more gnarled underneath. It takes ages for the tonka bean to come out, which is a shame because I do love tonka. When it finally makes its appearance it dominates what is then a very soft, translucent scent that clings to the wrist, trying hard not to fade away. The musk never really asserts itself, it's the scenery of play of Aeval rather than an actor itself. It gives the perfume a soft focus, misty quality that seems appropriate for a fairy queen. Final Thoughts: Overall I really like this. It's feminine and young but doesn't smell too young to be worn by an adult. It's a springtime floral for someone like me who's often wary of florals. My only quibble is that it doesn't last as long as some of my usual fragrances, but the staying power isn't so shabby I have to reapply every two hours. I'm glad I bought a bottle of this!

Initial Impression: Warm amber, a waxy vanilla and a hint of clove. After Wearing It: Wet this is incredibly reminiscent of O. It's the same amber note, very warm, velvety and round. There's a sweetness in the background as well as a powdery clove scent that I recognize as carnation. It's a less sexual version of O with spice. As it dries, Hod smells like a very warm, powdery amber. It radiates warmth yet clings close to the skin, like a tight but powderful aura. Very golden and thick, it glows but it a low one. Like the light from a crackling fire reflecting off well polished wood panels, rather than the blaze of the sun. It's the fire of knowledge that burns in secret, only providing illumination to the privileged, to the initiated. To those who have paid their dues. To me its very evocative of those who find knowledge the ultimate intoxicant, seductive beyond description, and who would give their most priceless possessions to be privy to secrets. It's the scent of the sacrifice given to drink from the well of wisdom. It's warm, secretive and feels like it's something that's life-giving. In the last phase of the scent, Hod morphs into something very comforting. Still very warm, but in the most nuturing way. It actually reminds me a lot of forbidden fruit in that it feels a bit cookie-ish, but not overtly so, and fortunately doesn't have any of the disturbing vibes I felt with Forbidden Fruit (which felt like kiddie porn bottled to me). It's a lightly spiced amber that's sweetened with vanilla, that together smell faintly of gingerbread or of those really yummy pink iced animal cookies that I loved in grade school, but without the hard sugar edge of the pink ice. It's foody, but not aggressively so. It's just warm, sweey and comforting and I'm absolutely in love with it. This stage stays until Hod is all but a memory on my skin. Ab-Fab it is! Final Thoughts: SO GLAD I bought a bottle of this unsniffed! At first I wasn't sure if I needed it since I had O and they smelled similar, but now I know I do. I definitely do. This scent didn't last quite as long as amber scents usually do on my skin (it was gone after 8 hours, while some I can still smell the next morning), but that's fine as I'm happy to reapply and have a 10 ml anyway so there's no reason not to! This is going to be a favorite for me!

As some of you have already found (as I released it very early this morning), there's a new skin option available to you guys. Belladonnastrap encouraged me to use some of her Alice tarot scans to create another forum design, which I did over the weekend and is now here for all of you to enjoy! I have a few other ideas (and scans) for new designs that will hopefully come to fruition in the next month. Sarah is also working on two skins, one of which (I think) she should finish later this week. I'll let you know when it's ready to be used. Enjoy!

After much unexpected (but unfortunately unavoidable) downtime, the forums have returned! Hopefully *knocks on wood* this will be the last time for a long time we'll have to move. Anyway, as I announced on the LJ, there was a problem moving the pms so you'll find all of your inboxes empty. I have all of them saved in the database, but for some reason the board software won't recognize that they're there. So while I haven't quite given up on getting them restored, I'm not sure how to fix it, so you're better off assuming they won't return in the immediate future. ETA April 4, 12:58 am: Everyone should have the messages from their inbox folders (though they're no longer sorted into whatever folders you may have set them up in). The messages in your sent and drafts folders are unfortunately still gone. And as we just moved, I'm sure there's a bug or too here or there. If you think something's missing or find something not working, please PM me (rather than starting a topic) and let me know. I'll be working on tweaking some of the settings to get things back the way they should be and it'd just be better for me to communicate issues that way. Also, Sarah (one of our mods) made a new skin for the board that you can check out if you scroll to the bottom and select the skin marked "Mata Hari." Welcome back everyone one!

Just a notice, but I'm going to be out of town from Tuesday morning to Saturday evening. I'm going to be visiting my brother and a few old friends in New Orleans with my family and won't likely have internet access during this time. If you need something from me, go ahead and ask so I can take care of it before I leave. If you need something while I'm gone, of course, any member of the mod team will do their best to address whatever issue you may have. And as I'd prefer not come home to a jammed inbox, if you need something from me that you can't go to another mod to, I'd appreciate it if you can wait until I get home to drop me a note! Every have a great Saint Pattie's Day while I'm away. Those of you whose cell phones I have will definitely be receiving a drunken text message from me on that day!

Should also note, there have been several cases where the original image was work safe but the image was replaced with something less appropriate at the image's source by someone other than the member who posted it. This happens either due to the member direct linking a picture when they shouldn't have or their hosting account was altered without their permission. If you dostore images on a private domain (i.e. not a free host like photobucket) that isn't your own, be careful and keep an eye on what you post. Even if you trust the person hosting you, you may not be able to trust the other people they host. </end PSA>

Hey everyone, since we're in our new location all of the onsite links to be found in posts and signatures are bound to be broken. Everyone who has onsite links in their sigs (ex. links to their wishlists) are advised to take the time to change the link. You can just erase the "http://phoenix.joylandpark.org/" of the url and replace it with "http://www.bpal.org/" Additionally, I will be granting reward points to people who help us out fixing the links in the rest of the forum. For every posts with onsite links you change (i.e. if you go through your old posts and change links) or for every post with a broken url you report, you will receive 2 reward points. Just send me a PM with the urls of the posts you edited or hit the report button for posts that aren't yours. It'd be helpful also, to consolidate your PM notifications to me as much as you can so my box doesn't explode. Also, if you notice anything else that appears to be broken or missing, let me know! Thanks in advance for the help! ETA: I ended up reloading the post database entirely so all posts should be current (ie, if you've edited old posts in the last month, your changes should show up) so I don't need you to PM me to let me know if you've changed something since 01/03 after all.

Sorry for the short notice, but as I'm sure you've all noticed the board has been as slow as molasses the last few nights and I'm as sick of it as I'm sure you all are. Kate and I discovered that the company that was moving the board for me half did the job, neglecting to close the board off when they saved the data to upload in another location and so we've got to move all of the posts, membership records, PMs, etc. that have been made since the 3rd of January. Horrific yes, but not nearly as bad as the year's worth of stuff I tried to move mid December so it should be more manageable and be able to get done over the course of a few days. *knocks on wood* Sure I could ask them to do it for me, but as they did such a craptacular job already and took so long to do it, I think we'll be better off on our own. So the board will be closing for the weekend as of tomorrow morning (perhaps around 10-11-ish CST? That's about 5 or 6 pm in the UK I think...) and will hopefully be back up in the beginning part of next week. Again I apologize for the short notice and will completely understand if you are unable to back up swaps, etc. in time before the board shuts down. I'll post an address tomorrow where you can email me a note to have me retrieve something if it's absolutely necessary. I'll also need anyone who may have edited an old post from before Jan 3 to let me know so I can make sure the edited copy gets transferred. Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding! Pray for me!

Initial Impression: Heavily spiced amber! LOVE SPICE & AMBER After Wearing It: First on, all I can smell is amber and spice which is such a treat because I adore amber as it suits me so well (a friend of mine even associates the smell of amber resin with how she thinks I smell naturally) and I adore spicy scents. Very heated and full bodies. As it dries, a dry grass/straw leaps out with surprising force. I can still smell the amber and spice, as well as a soft musk note that floats in the background, but the blend (at this point) revolves around this scent of dry grass. Which is very familiar to me as you will find many a vast field of dry, golden grass in Oklahoma. Reminds me very much of when a friend told me her father (who had worked in central Africa at one point) had said that the landscape of my state looks very similar to the Sarengeti, which I definitely see. After an hour or so the grass drifts off a bit and blends more seamlessly with the other notes, leaving the smell of a swelteringly hot day on the plains of the savannah. I can smell the soft musk of cat fur and spice and its very pleasing. Paints a very good picture of a lion in its natural habitat. Final Thoughts: Love this one and wish I had gotten a bottle instead of just an imp! Has good staying power, good throw and is just gorgeous!

Initial Impression: Smells like a christmas party! Mint and cookies and a bit of booze After Wearing It: Wet, the peppermint note in Spooky was screamingly obvious and while I could smell the other notes in the blend they all but cowered behind the semisweet mint note. The coconut note in it had that sort of candle wax quality to it that I recognize from The Star and Passion. Smelled boozy too, but not like any of the other rum notes I've smelled in BPAL blends before. Far less obvious and reminds me more of how you can often smell liquor in a cocktail but you might not be able to identify what kind is in it until you taste it. Nice fresh and slightly sweet but really not too foody. The foodiness factor grows in volume as time goes by, and after hour two I can finally start to smell the cocoa. The coconut loses its waxiness and becomes sweeter, giving Spooky its clear cookie vibe. Becomes more buttery too, making it smell like those lovely danish cookies. The dash of peppermint and booze keeps it grounded, from smelling too sweet. Absolutely lovely. In the final stages of spooky, the cocoa asserts itself. Definitely smells like cocoa powder rather than a chocolate bar, and was very reminiscent of the hot cocoa spiked with peppermint schnapps that my parents used to fix for us kids when I was little. Spooky was even better than I had imagined! Final Thoughts: Mmm this was so, so yummy on its own, yet it's the first BPAL scent I've really been tempted to blend with other scents. I really want to try layering it with grog or cerberus. Bliss might be lovely too. So glad Beth is rereleasing this so that I can have enough to where I won't freak about wasting it in a failed "experiment!"

Severin might be what you're after. As for searching for particular notes, quantum spice's search engine may serve you better than the forums.

Initial Impression: Strong juicy fruit gum note bathed in crisp mint After Wearing It: First on, I smell soft mint, eucalyptus and orange, which is oddly pleasant. I usually associate mint-orange combos with that awful taste you get in your mouth when you try to drink juice or eat hard candy too soon after brushing your teeth. But this was sweet and nice. Slightly medicinal, but not too much. Overtime the lotus bloomed out, making the blend even sweeter. But it never drowns out the mint, so the blend remains clear and sparkling. Despite the mint, this didn't smell frosty to me. A touch cool maybe, but not sharp enough to feel really cold. But then that's fine with me as I'm not fan of the cold! Ice is horrible in my opinion, so the lack of it here doesn't really disappointment. Final Thoughts: Very nice! Probably not something I'll wear often, but it's very beautiful and a gem in my collection.

The Full Moon that shines over the frost-rimed heart of winter. Traditional lunar oils combined with glittering snow flowers, soft breezes and frozen ferns. Initial Impression: A very muted and pale floral scent. Can smell a bit of lotus. After Wearing It: This was a very pale white floral on me. I usually don't like white florals but this was pretty nice. Cool and flowing like water, but not too crisp. I also smelled a few light melon notes, and possibly some cucumber but they weren't very prominent. Toward the end, the blend sweetened a bit and turned a bit powdery which was really nice. Thought I might have smelled lotus. All and all it was a very elegant, refined scent to enjoy. Final Thoughts: Wow that was a short review for me. I guess it was because while I liked Cold Moon, it really didn't move me and wasn't my style at all. I can still certainly appreciate its merits nonetheless!

Initial Impression: Mmm this is sweet. Smells like tea and honeyed vanilla. After Wearing It: Yummy on so many different levels! Very sweet in a vanilla sugar kind of way and just delightful. Sensual and playful, something that just wants to completely indulge itself every moment of everyday because it has no conception of tomorrow. So it's sexy yes, but more of a solitary hedonism, because going solo eliminates the call for compromise or explanation. That's the greatest love of all, eh? During the first two hours of this fragrance, Dorian smelled of murky lavender floating in a cup of tea completely saturated with sugar with a tang of lemon. So sweet, smooth and cool with a wicked quirk to it. It's not masculine at all, but it's not feminine either. It goes beyond simply being gender neutral and embodies all that is androgynous and is quite proud of its ambiguity. It's a girl in a tux and a guy who enjoys the thrill of wearing ladies' lingerie, and feels quite smug when people stare. Very reminiscent of Neil Gaiman's Desire from The Sandman series. After hour two, the lemon and lavender fade away and the soft musks take their place leaving me with something that smells a lot like Snake Oil. It's definitely the same sugary vanilla note, but instead of the spices, it's musk and a bit of bittersweetness leftover from the tea. Which is lovely because I adore Snake Oil, and Dorian agrees with me in the same way. Lasts just as long too, so this is a real winner. So glad Ted was willing to share this one because I want to smell of this too! Final Thoughts: Wish I had ordered a bottle of this rather than an imp!! This is definitely on my "must repurchase immediately!" list. So fucking lovely!

Initial Impression: Very warm scent, sweet but not overly so, and heady. After Wearing It: HONEY was my first thought, but that's to be expected. I'm such a nut for honey scents that my nose has become a very excitable homing device that (temporarily) blocks out all else once it finds it. After my excitement abated a bit, I found the blend to have a very strong ylang ylang not too which gave Skuld that sensual with a bite! tone. I didn't notice the musk notes until about half an hour after the scent dried, and even after that they basically served as just a very warm and slightly spicy foundation. Also made Skuld smell similar to O, yet definitely not as aggressively sexual. Skuld was sweet and inviting yet strangely hazy. It was like trying to focus while in a very pleasant haze of mind. Yet it also was an very unobtrusive scent, in that the scent whispered its presence instead of screaming it. It was an ever-present halo around me, but it was a bit evasive and I had to seek its presence to really enjoy it. Which sounds contrary I guess, especially for a scent with notes like this, but I think it's very appropriate for Skuld. Final Thoughts: Loved this one as much as I knew I would. But then with honey and arabian musk, how could it go wrong??

Initial Impression: Musty yet sweet woody scent After Wearing It: Wet and for the first half hour, Cerberus smelled really masculine on me. It was a strong, sharp juniper note spiking out from a musky base. I could smell some woody, bitter notes as well but I couldn't pinpoint what they were. It was a really nice scent, but disappointing, because it smelled way too masculine for my taste and is something I would rather smell on someone else. Since I put this on before running off to the movies with a friend, I sort of "lost track" of the scent for about half an hour as I was surrounded by the smell of popcorn and got distracted. So imagine my surprise when I sniffed my wrist about ten minutes into the movie and smelled something gorgeously foody. Mmmmmm lots of really warm chocolate and rum! Still could smell a bit of the juniper at this point, but when combined with the chocolate it smelled a bit minty. If I really tried I could smell the fig and the walnut, though only subtly, and the musk just presented itself as a deep warmth. God I wanted to eat my wrist! I kept sniffing my wrist so often that I started to feel self-conscious about my freakish looking behavior even though I was in a dark movie theater. But it was so yummy! Good thing I love foody scents! The chocolate-rum scent stuck around for the rest of the evening until fading about eight hours after the first application. So happy the the scent morphed from the masculine juniper scent! Final Thoughts: Such a warm, comforting blend. Would be fab for those days when you feel like you need to stay in bed because you don't think you can stand leaving the level of warmth and comfort you have underneath you blankets. I've been having lots of those days lately so this may get a good amount of use!

Initial Impression: A warm, slightly tart floral After Wearing It: SOOO GLAD I BOUGHT A BIG BOTTLE OF THIS UNSNIFFED!!! *ahem* anyway....... Wet this smelled primarily of Arabian Musk, which I've grown to love through Beth's blends. It's warm, rich and slightly spicy without being too over powering. I could smell the plum at the core, and it was sweet and juicy and slightly tart. It reminded me of a younger woman, someone beautiful and sensual, but wasn't really aware of it yet. Sweet innocence yes, but there's a bit of danger in that because she hasn't learned the strength of her own ability to draw (sometimes unwanted) attention. As it dries the plum and carnation notes really start to come out, and they strike out almost singularly, and I could alternately smell each note on its own, pulsing like flashes of light. It was like watching a dancer who had several panels of brightly colored gauze in her costume and as she twirls you are exposed to each color in a dazzling show. This continues for about an hour before the notes settle down and blend to together to create a masterpiece of a fragrance that is rich and smooth with a velvety texture. The scent is sweet and juicy without being too much, musky without smelling sweaty or animalistic, and with that lovely clove/floral twist that comes with a good carnation component. The blend stayed this way for hours, wearing very well and evenly, still lingering even as I went to bed. Fabulous! Final Thoughts: Bathsheba is such an utterly gorgeous blend. I knew from the description immediately that I had to have it, but I was still surprised by just how lovely this was upon wearing it. It has magnificent staying power, has good throw, and is intoxicating enough to tempt me to wear it every day. Will definitely be added to my regular rotation.

if you can't smell clearly the cherry I think it's unlikely to be hearth.

Initial Impression: An odd blend of spicy, smoky notes and the buttery-ness I remember from Harvest Moon After Wearing It: Wet this smelled incredibly buttery which wasn't what I was expecting from the description. Butter, a bit of smoke and dry leaves. The butter notes backed off once it was dry though, and the smokiness was kicked up several notches and some of the floral notes began to peek through. Didn't smell much myrrh, but I smelled lots frankincense which bummed me a bit as I'm not too wild about frankincense in large doses as it's a bit too dry for me. The floral notes that I could make out were the lily of the valley and the rose, which really had me thinking that All Saints would not be the scent for me as those are the two floral notes I hate the most. Disappointing because I wanted so much to like All Saints! Very fortunately, the scent morphed again after an hour or so. The myrrh finall made an appearance and drove the dreadful rose and lily of the valley notes away, creating the most gorgeous incense blend I've ever been exposed to. Smoky, deep, & rich with just the right touch of sweetness. Utterly lovely, and this stage lingered for hours until it finally faded away. Final Thoughts: While the opening stages of this blend didn't appeal to me, my bottle of All Saints' is definitely a keeper! So glad to have it!

Also wanted to note that in cases where the hijacking is a conversation between two people, please know when it's time to take it to PM! It can be frustrating for individuals trying to follow a topic to get lost trying to find where it picks up again after a string of unrelated posts. We're just trying to keep the threads more discussion oriented, since there's already a few threads devoted just to unfettered chattering.

The Randomness area has been becoming rather messy lately as the topic is just a bit TOO broad for a forum of our size, so we've added some extra subsection to help organize things better. So don't be alarmed if several threads you started or have been following suddenly isn't where it used to be. There will be lots of moving this weekend. The new areas added are for crafts (by much popular demand), an area for quizzes/role-calls/memes and name generators that's now in the intro forum, and a forum for personal matters (such as relationships etc.) that is a subforum of Randomness. I should also ask that while the mod team would really appreciate the help in spotting threads that need to moved, please wait until Tuesday to do any reports for this so we can avoid flooding poor Michelle's (minilux, our Randomness mod where most threads to be moved are likely to be housed) pm box. In other news, as a few of you might have noticed if you've glanced at the "who's online?" list, a few new mods have been added. Scylla, Clover and Heartbeast (along with Fulltiltredhead who was added a month ago, but still needs to be trained) have agreed to join the mod team and give us a hand. None have been assigned to sections or have been trained yet, so I'd hold off peppering them with questions just yet, but feel free to welcome them! Plus, tomorrow is the one year anniversary of when slythwitch opened the board and I haven't had time to develop anything to celebrate the matter. Actually started thinking about planning something back in November, but the holidays got me all sidetracked and I lost time. We'll have a proper forum-birthday celebration in mid February as that's when *I* took control of the board, promise! Have a happy weekend everyone!