| Selling Manga ect. | |||
| 06:40pm 18/06/2009 | |||
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( Please Excuse this Friendslist ) |
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| Chanticleer Meetup | |||
| 02:08am 17/06/2009 | |||
| Please those nearby lolitas on my friends list, are any of you coming to the Chanticleer meetup this coming saturday?? I know I screwed up the dates and had to rescedual it, please forgive me and frolick with me in pretty (and well priced) gardens. | |||
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| Selling manga | |||
| 06:55pm 15/06/2009 | |||
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Okay I'm intrested in selling off most my manga collection. All the "titles" are atleast from 8 years ago and are the "original" US coverart. Some of the series are complete some are not. Most of the books are in good quality, some are not. The question I have is, what is the best way/place to sell them for the largest gain. Preferably on LJ. Is it better to sell them as lots (organized in series) or as single books. How much should I price such items? ( list of Series ) I realize that this is a tall order but I have really very little idea. Also I'm intrested in selling my collections of original 80's My Little Ponys, but I don't think anyone on my friends list has that sort of "connections" Please friendslist, help me! |
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| The Wedding | |||
| 01:38pm 04/06/2009 | |||
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Molly and James got married this past Saturday. It was really beautiful and pretty much the best wedding I have ever been to. The Mass was wonderful and inspiring; the reception charming and very enjoyable. I got to make a beautiful wedding dress for one of my very good friends (and Godmother), as well as be in a bridal party. Both of which were a real treat and something I tried for the first time. Molly, Christina (her Maid of Honor), Autumn, and I stayed in the same hotel room the night before the wedding and had girl talk into the early hours (we almost always have boys around XD). Plus Autumn caught the bouquet XDDD The father of the bride has posted some of the wedding photos in his flicker account. Later I plan on taking Molly to one of the local gardens (Longwood or Chanticleer) to take some more detailed photos of the dress. It's hard to get good shots of all the embroidery and details durring a wedding XD Here's the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/josroa |
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| Wedding dress update | |||
| 12:10am 02/05/2009 | |||
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I figured since the wedding dress I'm working on is taking so much of my time recently (crunch time!) I'd post the design of it like I said I would. ( Silk and english net ) |
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| Mary Magdalene.. | |||
| 09:10pm 01/05/2009 | |||
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I've really gotten out of the habit of looking at the brand websites because I havn't seen anything that really wows me in a few years. Then I go to the MM site and see this:  Oh MM, why didn't I think of this?? *weep* |
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| The difference between constructive critisim and your opinion | |||
| 01:56am 01/05/2009 | |||
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I don't usually write things like this, or get in dissagreement/conversations like this, but this trend has been getting under my skin for a while. http://community.livejournal.com/daily_l ( Read more ) |
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| Hats | |||
| 03:37am 17/04/2009 | |||
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After seeing the soo very cute gardening photo post by Angel with the wonderful straw hat she's wearing, it's made me intrested again in getting a full sized straw hat to wear with lolita. I've been off and on intrested in getting one to wear, but always been put off because I feel like with my bangs and shape of face I can't pull off a full sized hat. I only have one, a cream wool cloche that I've only really worn once or twice. The only photo I have of me in it makes me look like a sleepy muppet. XD So anyway I was looking about online for hats that I think would work, and found a couple. If I could afford it I would get this one, but umm spending $160 on a hat that may not look good on me is not something I do lol Such a beautiful hat though. http://www.villagehatshop.com/hat_helen_ Ruling that one out I looked around a bit more. http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/product/r This one is really cute, and proubly a contender if I decide to get one, it's a bit...messy looking though. http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/product/p I really like the shaping of the crown of this hat, but the oblong not round shape kinda puts me off. If I was just buying hats that I would love to wear, stares at me like I'm a crazy person to be totally ignored I would get this beauty and wear it all the time. http://www.top-hats.com/1192s.htm It's already been proven that I can look good in bonnets, just the idea of a cloth bonnet still smacks of little girl to much for me (unless I'm in full Victorian period costume lol). I fully admit that one of the reason I want a straw hat is to look just a bit more like Anne of Green Gables XD Oh my do I love those books. Thats also one of the reasons I want to make my wardobe more Natural Kei. It already sorta is, but I want to make it more so. More layers, more floral prints, more pintucks, more ruffles. *swoon* I don't care how much my Mom already thinks I dress like a school marm (Hey I am one XD!) Additionally, I'm going to Martha's Rococo picnic yay! As I havn't made any true rococo gowns, and I certianly don't have the time to make one (give me a month, my renn dress took a month XD) , I'm going in lolita. My current plan is to wear the dress I made for Otakon two years ago. It clearly needs some work done to it, which is what I get for making a dress out of a completly new pattern when I don't have time to even try it on before the event. >.< I currently plan to raise the waistline, make the skirt shorter, and mess a bit with the bodice. I hope it won't need too much refinishing because I only have a week. It's not really rococo in feel at all, so I hope to accessorize it in a fitting way. If I can I'll put my hair up in a Marie Antoinette style bouffant, with roses, pearls, and feathers. I've tried it once before and it was moderatly successful, I'd like to curl my hair first if possible. As for accessories I'm thinking of this jewlery with these shoes. Green Cameo Pearl Choaker http://pupe.ameba.jp/item/9chcZjM3hIUy/E Two string pearl necklace http://pupe.ameba.jp/item/0uF5BCVHk8lx/E Large Pearl drop earrings http://pupe.ameba.jp/item/lH_RTm20WdFx/E Several String Pearl Bracelet http://pupe.ameba.jp/item/ybaH3_ofsU0i/E Carmel Colored Heels (for lack of a better shoe) http://pupe.ameba.jp/item/RpXE3cKxB8Tp/E So umm lots of pearls. If I can't get the otakon dress to work I guess I'll wear my green rose dress, which is very pretty. |
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| Thailand, part one of many. | |||
| 02:07am 08/04/2009 | |||
| ( Flying, lots of Flying ) | |||
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| Uh yeah | |||
| 01:57am 05/04/2009 | |||
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mmmm, yeah back from Thailand. Very back, like quite a few weeks back. lol I've spent the first two weeks back randomly passing out, and since then I've been working on the Wedding dress (not mine Carla!). Two more months! ack! I havn't edited my photos yet (big surprise huh?), there are like 400 + which of course doesn't include the 1/4 of pictures my camara card lost inexpliciably! double argh! I do promise to edit the photos and post them eventually, when I get some free time. |
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| Itunes meme | |||
| 02:35am 22/02/2009 | |||
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( Stolen from Carla ) |
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| What I've been, will be up to | |||
| 11:44pm 17/02/2009 | |||
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I've been trying to figure out how to mention important things that I have been up to, will be up to in a journal I almost never post to. So all subtly aside. I AM WORKING ON A WEDDING DRESS!! Umm yeah btw it's not mine haha, sorry for the heart attack internet friends. It's for my friend Molly; and the experience is both exciting, tedious, and absolutly frightening. It's edwarian inspired, and will (hopefully ack!) be beautiful. Very light cream silk underdress with pintucks and lace, white english cotton netting overdress embroidered with peonys, ferns and little generic flowers, accented with pearls and clear glass beads. All the lace used is being knitted with tiny tiny silk thread by Molly (including her veil), proving that my friends are as delightfully maniacal as me. ( Photos of the Bride and inspration ) So far I am mostly done the undergarments; they need a bit of decorative detail added. I finished the petticoat today, I don't usually make petticoats, but I didn't like any of what was available in stores. So I was drowning in organza ruffles XD It's going to be attached to the dress so currently it's just pinned to the duct tape changeling of Molly. I've also done a substantle part of the embroidery, I'm nearing the end of the embroidery for the train. It was a real challange because the netting made it unlike other projects I've done; I have to make sure all threads on the "wrong" side of the fabric hide behind the embroidery on the "right" side of the fabric. Tommorow I hope to start working on the muslin of the dresses. I use the term muslin loosly here, as I'm using some truely hidious fabrics I picked up from the dollar a yard table (now $1.50 a yard) at Walmart. I choose them based on how they draped like the actual fabric I'm using. So the fabric standing in for the crisp silk is a thick cotton that is brick colored with salmon pinstripes. Think thats bad? The replacement fabric for the cotton netting is a loosly woven teal fabric made out of something I can only describe as "fine burlap". Yeah the test dress should be horribly ugly unless you're color blind. Moving on. I'M GOING TO THAILAND!! March 4th till the 18th. I'll be going with my parents to meetup with my little brother; who is currently doing semester at sea. We will be spending one night in Bangkok, then flying to Puket, spending a night there, taking a boat to a small island called Phi-phi (were "The Beach" was filmed), spending a few days there, then back to Bangkok to meet my brother. I'm both really looking forward to it and also am somewhat nervous. I've never been to a foreign country before (other then carribian islands and Canada), also I think that certian *ahem* things that are common there are likely to distress me. Not to mention the current political unrest going on there. Hopefully the bad reactions I got from the typhis vaccine pills and tetanus shot will be the low points XD Anway, here is a list of things I am looking forward to: Warm weather, fresh tropical fruits (coconuts! joy!), Monkey beach (on phi-phi), elephants, the beautful rococo Cathedral that's in Bangkok, beatiful island veiws, thai silks (mmmmm!), inexpensive chinese lolita shoes, seeing my brother. Oh and also watching my Mom try durian (she really wants to) LOL! I will really make an effort to post photos of the trip here. |
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| Happy New Year! | |||
| 01:18am 01/01/2009 | |||
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Happy New Year, Merry 8th day of Christmas, and a good Feast of Mary Mother of God! I hope you all are having a good time. I am editing the photos from the meetup yesterday and have discovered the glow feature on Paint.net  I don't care if it's considered silly; glowy and pretty! Fear! |
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| Survey thing | |||
| 11:02pm 08/12/2008 | |||
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I got tagged by Kara to do this survey ( behind the cut ) |
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| Isabella dress, version 2 | |||
| 12:58am 03/11/2008 | |||
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| Devinat art is crazy XDDD | |||
| 01:18am 09/10/2008 | |||
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So I've been a member of deviantart for about 5 years, and in the recent years I've pretty much ignored my gallery, have posted a few things now and again, but yeah, not something that I pay much attention or time to. Anyway, a few years ago (I think), there was all this hulabaloo about the pixel artists whining about how much they hate "dollz" and how there should be a new catagory outside of pixelart for them. This rankled me for several reasons. The main one being that it seemed like a matter of taste. The mainly male isometric artists were complaining about the mainly female made art "invading" their catagory. As a person who belives in freedom of speach; the idea of something legitimate being shoved out of sight because it annoys people, well frankly it seemed like a bad idea. There was the argument that alot of doll artists use bases, but I think that could be considred a collaboration, which is frequently done by the "non doll" pixel artists, also so many isometric artists use the same "pixel dam" person base. Additionally if a doll catagory were to be made, what would be the way one could judge were things would go. If a pixel artist made a character pixel art that was very girly and it was all the artist's own work how is it not legitimally pixel art? It would have to come down to a very arbatrary judgement on style. This seems a poor way to regulate a website. So I stated these arguments in the discussion of this potential new catagory, and was argued with; and anyway they made the new catagory for dolls, outside the pixel art catagory. I decided not to raise a stink, calmly deleted all my pixel art that used others bases (that wasn't already in my scraps), and kept the remainder in the pixel art catagory. Skip to a few days ago, I've since fallen out of the "doll" scene, hardly do much pixel art anymore (mostly work on kiss dolls), and I sign onto DA to check on a comic I like. I look in my message box and find a notification that one of my pixel art peices has been moved to the doll catagory. Annoyed I checked the current descriptions of the pixelart and doll catagorys, see that there is no reason this peice should not be in the pixel art catagory and write off a complaint to the help desk that pretty much says what I have said here so far. So today I got on DA to check to see what was going on, and am shocked to see I have like 600 messages!! The peice they moved has been made into a Daily Deviation! What the heck! http://sakurafairy.deviantart.com/art/Or For those not aquainted with this sites lingo, theDaily Deviations (or DDs) is were a few (like 10) peices of art are chosen every day to get special notice on the main page. For a site that has soooo many users and so many things posted everyday this is a HUUUGE deal! It's like getting gold in the Deviantart Olympics. To make things weirder, I check to see who nominated me, it's ShoneGold, the current pixelart gallery manager. So yeah this is the person who proubly moved my peice to begin with, and who seems like would get forwarded my complaint. I havn't gotten any response to my complaint, and the peice hasn't been put back into the pixelart catagory. Very strange goings on. |
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| lolz! | |||
| 11:17pm 22/09/2008 | |||
| While working on commissions tonight I caught the reflection of myself in the window dancing to my ipod. I totally dance like the girls from "The Breakfast Club" Yeah... maybe it's all the 80's music I listen too. Yay for rythmic flailing of arms and legs! | |||
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| Pirate photoshoot. | |||
| 10:51pm 19/09/2008 | |||
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( There be large photos ahead me ruffled mateys! ) |
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| Birthday list | |||
| 01:51am 14/07/2008 | |||
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Well, my birthday is coming up on August 1rst, and I figured I'd make a birthday list. I decided to post it here, not because I expect gifts from any of you =) but rather because I always find it intresting to see what other people ask for. ( My taste? ) Admittedly I mostly posted this because my journal is very much lacking in content. I have several posts I keep meaning to make, and not getting around to it. Oh and I've been making LJ icons, and am starting to get a bit.... tense about my limited amount of icons, so if someone really does want to get me something for my birthday, a paid account would be fun. There I said it... I feel terribly greedy. lol |
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| The Dark Side | |||
| 06:53pm 21/06/2008 | |||
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Well I've finally given in and joined Poupee Girl after seeing Vivcore's amazing account. It is more then a little addicting. http://pupe.jp/profile/EAOQbn-uayCi/ Thats me, please add if you wish =) I posted what I could find on my hardrive. I'm going to be replacing most of those pictures =) |
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