Mushy the Mushroom

Recently finished the Tales of The Masks, because I couldn’t remember it all having left off on the Bio books somewhere. Also finished Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which was a fun Doctor Who-like brain vacation (thanks @Lorentz! 🫶). Currently listening to “A Prisoner, and Yet” by Corrie Ten Boom along with the Mask of Light book (I am almost certain I remember this, so who knows where I got to in the series) and physically reading a bit of Proverbs each day. I’m quite grateful to have just gotten my first earbuds and a speaker for audiobooks! My phone mic’ is semi-dead and often holding it against one’s ear becomes a problem when doing stuff, sewing or with background noise.

🙌I feel scammed because this doesn’t show up for me on mobile. 😂

Book of psalms & recently, instrumental loops of “Isabella’s lullaby”song while stargazing on the swingset. No idea what the song is from, but I don’t quite want to learn and potentially ruin the beauty of it for myself. ✨🌌🌠 Music always sounds better on the swingset, so glad to have mine back! 🫶🙏

This is pretty off topic, but I think it’s funny/cool how Māori has a special/accepting word for autism, “Takiwātanga” since a lot of Bio enthusiasts are neurodivergent. ❤️

Happy birthday/anniversary month to BZPower! I wanted to start an “art-gift” project early, in hopes of realistically completing it in time, but was undecided on a drawing subject. Then I remembered it had been two and a half years since completing my last H+M doll set/pattern. Thanks to alternative therapies and medications, my health has stabilized enough for me to put in a few hours of art most days. Big thanks to my mom for help acquiring supplies and shipping, and to BZP for accepting the dolls! This was my first fabric purchase in 4+ years, so quite a special thing to me!I have updated Instructables tutorial with details on making this larger/full size set.Time for making 4 pairs, 8 total dolls: 135 hours altogether, done over 41 days. 14 hours of cutting/preparation, 120 of construction/sewing, and 1 hour for chalk cleanup and tag making. *Pattern printing, cutting, taping and final photography +editing not recorded.*Making process vid’ instead of just spamming a billion and one photos. 🙈 My apologies for their imperfections, but I hope they can bring a bit of joy! 💙 Inexpressible thanks to all the members and staff for brightening my life so massively over the years. 💙

Michael Card worship + Music box covers. ❤️

Most recently, “Every Living Breathing Moment” soundtrack, Fernando Ortega worship, and Elenor Rigby by Cody Fry (also, what if ER could be just a contented recluse?)

Hi, welcome back! Yes, somewhat! With the blogs becoming free, some people still use them. And the BZP discord server is pretty regularly active.

An unbalanced ceiling fan + Clavier Late Night Piano Music playlist. And recently lots of worship songs because I can tolerate/enjoy some verbal music again. ❤️

So exciting to see regular blogging, like the good old BZP days! 🫶 Paper calendars for the win! oh my, what an extraordinarily interesting car class that sounds like! I didn’t know such a thing existed. Bet my mom would enjoy something like that (and me, if I could manage it with mobility limitations ). Commercial looks amazing, congrats! It must be such a thrill to be in such work. 👏

Ozonated water +copious cups of caffeinated green tea (is 8ish a day excessive?). ‘Tis the key to any form of productivity for me (can’t do coffee because cortisol complications). And copper cup (Moscow mule mug?) water for hopeful copper absorption in the setting of deficiency.🍵

I can’t follow the storyline or possible product here either. 😆But I don’t know who Jason Momoa is, so perhaps this contributes? I would guess this commercial is advertising the minifigs, or the man’s fancy sweater near the ending. 🤷‍♀️ The LEGO commercials on YouTube with families building the sets together definitely resonate better with me. 😆

“Amazing Love” by Corrie Ten Boom. Free YouTube audiobook. ❤️🙏🫶

Swing-time Spotify selections such as: Cody Fry instrumentals & some sunny songs from “La La Land”. Also, bits of audio reading from the book of Joel. ☀️🌻❤️

This summery soundtrack. ?…The dreamy summer instrumentals (Piero Piccioni and others) playlist just disappeared. 😮

“In My Father’s House” by Corrie Ten Boom, YT audiobook version.

I can’t believe it’s already June! I suppose ‘tis time to update with another entry. A small one, I do believe, as per upcoming artgifts finished stay tucked away after completion, and present ones are slow progress. As I write this bit, on June third,I am filled with gratitude. It’s the four-year-anniversary of last seeing my exfather. That dreadful DVPO court day. Unfortunately, it was also the last time I saw my grandmother, and couldn’t talk to her. She’d never seen me in my wheelchair before (as Covid, then my poor health prevented travel.) She died four months later, and I traumatically learned of this from a distant cousin’s Facebook post. I really think the trauma of the situation her son had created shortened her lifespan. For whatever reason, a home/ garden magazine subscription she sent my mom has still been showing up at our home every month. How this is being sponsored from someone (hopefully) in Heaven is a baffle to us. Anyway, onto the memories made in May. https://www.instagram.com/p/DX9d_WcFuGh/?igsh=MTgyNGZmc3Q5ZXFvMg== May flowers, meal makes and fake snake https://www.instagram.com/p/DX9ezpslmgp/?img_index=4&igsh=MXY0bnh6OHBsZXBt Getting artgifts done early + being over 108 hrs into a secret project= not currently much postable content 🙈 https://www.instagram.com/p/DYNI2R7EauW/?igsh=YTFvcHlxdDVld281 “Limelight” 2x3” 4.5hrs. In honor of KK. 🥳🎂 A @bzpgram birthday #randomartsofkindness. Started having to use wrist braces again recently. Trying to return to arts for a few hours a day is leading to severe wrist pain + bilateral arm numbness that’s so painful it’s waking me from sleep. Brace is helping the daytime pain a bit, thankfully. Guessing it’s from EDS. ❓🤷‍♀️❤️‍🩹 https://www.instagram.com/p/DYNJ4s-ERBW/?igsh=aXdheHE2NGRub3Vs https://www.instagram.com/p/DYZy7g-luGh/?img_index=5&igsh=MXdoY2YwNms1ZTU5cg== “Ethereal”5x7” 14.5hrs. + card-doodles of the adorable service dog Eevee. A #randomartsofkindness. She was such a joy to draw & am so thankful owner/photographer allowed sharing+mailing! 🥹🫶🙏🦋🐕 https://www.instagram.com/p/DYZzu7qlji0/?img_index=5&igsh=a3gxbjhnZnNwdWJr https://www.instagram.com/p/DYZ2PtFERyp/?img_index=17&igsh= A Dollywood, double rainbow, ten dollar, baby ducks, didn’t get pulled over day 🥹🙏🫶 🌈 🌈 🐤 💴 👮‍♀️ 🚙 . Found $10 bill outside TN tornado, saw baby mallard ducks and their parents in tiny pond under the bear coaster (and I fell in a bush routing a lost baby ducks back to parents 😂), we finally rode the train, and I rode the log flume since it was open this time. It’s the greatest experience to be on a rollercoaster, upside down, staring at both ends of a gigantic double rainbow! 🥹🌈🌈, Traumatized myself and mom in the teacups again 🌪️😵‍💫🫖☕️. Got her on blazing fury this time! 🙌Ended the day with riding lightning rod for an hour until closing time 🎢 . Totally filled up my disability pass slots this time and they had to scribbled on the sides 😂. Oh, and my mom wouldn’t let me take baby yoda in before due to fears of theft, so I made a chain and collar system that locks around the child’s neck and onto the back rod of my wheelchair. Way more fun to have the lil alien friend along for the day. Kids get so excited over seeing him hahaha 🥹💚 We stayed 11 hrs there + 5-6hr round trip drive time and I wasn’t destroyed after! So grateful and in shock that we get to do such things now! 🥹😭🙏 Was a lot easier on me due to: letting my mom push my chair most of the time, a sunhat because I immediately burn from plaquenil, wearing knee and wrist braces, me bringing in an insulated frozen protein icee from home to sustain me without GI tragedy while out (a lot more fun when not near-fainting from activities while fasted)+ two ice packed meals for mom, and packing my sleep vitamins to get in a nap on the way home. One of the best days ever! 🥹🦋 https://www.instagram.com/p/DYr9OpPkQHU/?img_index=18&igsh=dmJkMzdoaXo5d204 https://www.instagram.com/p/DYr-j-cEWg6/?img_index=18&igsh=dTBiYWZoYXdubWk5 https://www.instagram.com/p/DY93L28EQd3/?img_index=7&igsh=amw3dGpsaWx1NThy Plush Pham photos, as per I already was photo frolicking for a creation at the time. 🧚 💚🌲🍃🌱🌳 transport https://www.instagram.com/p/DY95IAEEWJw/?img_index=19&igsh=Z2w3eHE5aHh0YjQ0 Mom stay-vacation week. We acquired my first oil paint supplies, then had an impromptu outside-painting parting on the brick side of the home. Lots of fun. ❤️ The flare didn’t hit until two days later. 😆🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/DY96Oaikfar/?img_index=17&igsh=MWNxZTR5YmF4Mzd1ZA== (Tarp is for grass killing for my mom’s gardening.) The dreaded deed of refilling mom’s fragile heirloom china cabinet post-foundation work is done. Mom #staycation week painting party. Paint purchased August 2024 and never was used. Painting random barn stuff I found. My swingset scenery is now very #aliceinwonderland. Still a #wip When you haven’t much money, but a lot of barn things 😆. I think that’s all of the May-kes. A few in-progress side projects are about in the garden, but are in no presentable state yet. My main amusement of the moment is a larger-than-usual (for me) painting (in oils!). I somehow can’t find more than 2-3hrs to dedicate to it each day. My med therapies (and food prep + inescapable naps) take up more time than I’d like to admit. But I give thanks as I have zero functionality/pain management/life quality without them! ❤️ Happy pre-summer, dear friends! ☀️🌈☁️ 🙏🫶

😮👏 Oh my goodness, what a fantastic find! I had no idea there were shelled dinos casually free ranging out in yards like this!

I initially thought the raffle was for the head only, not a set. 🙈😆

I was waiting for something to happen after I saw the username join. 😆 I haven’t had many experiences with that, which I am grateful for. Vivid memories of my 3-5 year old self crying all night in fear after my mother had told me witches were real, but couldn’t hurt us. The only real story of such things: My grandmother (when young) was playing with an ouija board with friends. The table it was on lifted itself up and quickly flipped over before their eyes. She never touched it again. I believe this was before she found her faith. I am not sure if this is a joke topic, but if I remember correctly, “official” topics once needed to be approved by staff prior. 🤷‍♀️ P.S. Welcome to BZPower!

Congrats on the job going well! So sorry to hear of family struggles, hope things are improving. That’s great you have someone to rely on. Never seen that site before, interesting! Does your sound obsession include music reading or playing, as well? Glad to see you back here! Your entries are impeccably written and interesting.

I’m a bit afraid to comment, as I know nothing about digital art. However, these look stunning and like they took a lot of talent to create! 👏💛 So cool to see new art around these parts! Thanks for sharing with us! I see a lot of artwork on Instagram, but I think a lot of non-seller artists left due to some sort of rule where they could use your art images to train AI? I didn’t know there were so many free art tutorials/tips there before. I personally post what little I create on there, and in the blogs here (since they are free now).

I’m very sorry you experienced that! 😢 I am shocked by how brutal people are to each other on social media comments in the present time. That’s why I prefer BZPower over free range internet, since civility and single account rules are present. I’ve had a few (maybe 5-6 total) issues with people on here and the BZP discord server combined, over many years of membership. I think most of it stemmed from misunderstanding. I’m quite convinced I am autistic with ADHD (still on waitlist for evaluation). This makes me somewhat of a strange, socially inept person, and this on top of being a girl on a mostly male site has had its challenges. The good experiences and friendships have been far more abundant, though. 🫶 First one was a bit of a bullying situation with a young member. It seems as if my personality annoyed them significantly. After some insults were posted publicly, I received a threatening message that I reported at the advice of my brother. Black Six responded to that member’s threat message via my inbox. I massively surprised that was possible and grateful to be out of the situation. Edit: The member did PM me out of the blue years later and very kindly apologized. 🥹🙏 Second one was different, more recent, a member who was around 7 years older than I seemed to…fancy me, I suppose (this was when my age was public here)? And became disgruntled when this simply terrified me. Staff were very helpful with this. I don’t know what happened, but they were permanently “unwelcomed” a day before my birthday one year. I still wonder if they tried to post something weird about it. 🫣 Third one was just a misunderstanding with a friend here. Again, things got awkward due to my gender and social cluelessness, and traditional values on what is prudent to discuss. Scared me as well, but with the pain of losing trust in a friend (instead of the terror of a creepy stranger).🙈 Again, BZP staff defused the situation with the member and there has been peace since. The last and most recent two incidents were on the BZPower Discord server. I didn’t realize that Discord had an issue with predatory people, or that other servers weren’t really moderated well. First person (around a decade older than I, but I thought they were a kid/teen befriending me initially. They didn’t know my age, but many say I appear younger than I am.)had some cryptic and non age restricted adult content in their Lego server. They befriended me in DMs, starting commenting on a lot of my IG posts of photos I was in, then got weird. Asked for photos of my dog and then made a really strange comment that seemed like they were attempting to get me to tell them my address. He later deleted these DMs. This was terrifying as I had an Etsy shop and used my real return address at the time (later switched that to my brother’s apartment), so if someone bought something they could stalk me. I was too scared to tell anyone for a while, and didn’t realize I could report it to BZP staff via Discord (since the member was active in the BZP discord server) so they could watch him. I also found out he had two accounts here so reported him for that, since I could prove it. It appears that he fled the BZP server at some point after that. He’s still active on Biogram, some of my friends from here follow him and have no idea.…🫣 Grateful for block settings. The most recent run in was with a member who showed up on BZP’s discord server and was specifically targeting underage members to join their non age restricted, inappropriate Lego server. There was a drunken voice chat run by the guy with the kids on many nights. Reported this to BZP staff so they could watch out. Filed so many (hundreds of message links) discord reports and the server got multiple strikes. This led to the member and the kids he’d lured over there threatening “the traitor” (me, but they didn’t know) in a cult-like retaliation. Said they were going to unalive them. I don’t know if the server ever got fully shut down, but Discord did update their adult content rules a few weeks later. This was such a mentally draining experience. The member either fled the BZP server or was removed from it shortly after. edit: I forgot, in Feb 2025 a new account I hadn’t spoken to made a topic insulting my me and religion. was very random and strange. They were permanently “unwelcomed”. 🤷‍♀️ Overall, my experience with the Bionicle community has been very good, but I credit BZPower’s rules and staff for this. I did disable my inbox here due to an abundance of caution/fear of people getting creepy or “crushing” on me simply because of my gender. I fear I may have pushed 1 member/friend from here away unfairly due to fear of this, but I’m never certain of people’s intentions. 🙈 The unmoderated, often ruthless internet out there is something I try to avoid. Anyway, welcome back to BZP! I hope you enjoy it here, it’s pretty peaceful these days.

I would imagine snails feel the same toward us 🐌🙈. Thankful they can’t pour salt upon me 😭

Great Gastropods, such cool photos! Our NC snails don’t often have such 3D/tall shells like that, so fancy! 🤩✨🐌👏