Lyon~

So we did a little holiday to Lyon so that I could go to Ldoll at the same time! The drive there was a nightmare as we had barely any sleep the night before and we left at stupid o'clock in the morning for a drive that ended up being about 12 hours long... That was not that pleasant at all. But we made it to Lyon in one piece!

I ended up doing only Saturday at Ldoll as I figured that I should spend some time with my boyfriend as we were holidaying together... It was lovely- I saw some really pretty dolls, bought some things for my new girls, and unfortunately had no camera to take pictures with! I'm thinking that next year I will try to arrange a holiday round the next Ldoll as well. I did fall in love with a doll that I really do not need- it was Sseiren's Ideal lover girl- I don't think she is actually on their website yet- there does seems to be a photo that looks like her on the blog here. The problem I have with her is that she is the wrong size! She's MSD which is putting me a bit off as it is not a size Ireally want. :/ She was gorgeous though! And god was she limber! The body was absolutely amazing movement wise and it also looked beautiful! :3

As I said, I had no camera with me at Ldoll as my boyfriend was doing his stuff while I was at Ldoll, so he had the camera to do touristy things with... But I did get to play with the camera later on! xD

This was the cafe right next to the Cathedral- this just cracked us up!

We quickly popped into the movie museum 'lobby' and they had these miniature sets in the walls- this set was amazing! The whole set was filled with books!

And this was a teeny weeny hospital set- and you can see something a bit different in the reflection...

I gotta say, these guys were a bit random- poking out from the side of the river on a bit rusty pedestal. Bit odd. But they are lovely- I love the hands on these guys! 

I really loved Lyon and the area we stayed in- we weren't in the centre, so the area wasn't that touristy and the restaurant there were great! We did walk around a lot, but we had time and walking is the best way to see a city! Can't wait to go again!

I am getting impatient to get my little girls- now I have some stuff for them and I am feeling like ordering more things that they 'need'... :3 The waiting is horrible! I think I need to turn to shopping to pass the time.

EDIT: Oh jesus, all the cheese we bought just STINKS HORRIBLY!

Uh Whut?

Hi! I'm back again! I will probably disappear again at some point, because that seems to be what I do...

Things have been completely dead on the dolly and crafting front in my life for the past months- I have done NOTHING relating to those two. It makes me sad, but hopefully soon I will be back to doing something, now that I am working in my 9-5 job full-time. I am still doing evening shifts a few times a week in my waitressing job, so I only have about 4 evenings off in a week. But I will have nice paychecks because of all the work, so I can't really complain too much. As I chose to work two jobs, you know...

I do have some plans, as I have become completely obsessed with Fantine's bonnet in Teddie Films' 'Dream and Shout'... I really want one for myself, but I'm thinking that first I should make one for Pan, so that I can figure out the best way to do it- the loss of fabric will be so much less for her bonnet than for mine, when I end up screwing something up.

This is 'Dream and Shout'.

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I am completely obsessed with Paint's 'After Ever After'- I keep listening to it almost every day when I have the time. I have even sung Pocahontas's part to myself every now and then... I try to sing it under my breath, because other people may get slightly worried if I start singing about entrails... Mmm. Yummy.

And this here is 'After Ever After'.

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Can I say how much I hate traveling on the tube with obnoxious football fans? I hate traveling with them even more than traveling with a group of really drunk women. (I know this may sound weird, with me being a woman myself, but there is nothing amusing with a group of women screaming, and laughing like a herd of horses. It gets on my nerves quite badly.) And now that I have to travel to work through Wembley, I have to travel with football fans way too often. Not what I would classify as good time...

But on a more pleasant note, I went to a friend's barbeque this weekend, and we made cocktails and had way too much food. The steaks were bigger than my face, the bowl of seafood could have satisfied about 20 people, and then there was all the other extras like burgers, lamb hearts, and a few salads. All in all, a fair amount of food for a dozen people. And then the booze- it was a cocktail party just as much a barbeque, so there was quite a bit of alcohol. All of which was necessary. Obviously. But at least we had planned who was bringing what, so we didn't end up with five bottles of Malibu but no vodka, you know? And I got to make some cocktails for other people! In an environment that wasn't work. :D (Not that I don't like making drinks at work, I just hate having to rush making them every now and then when it is very busy- not the best environment to make The Most Awesome Cocktails.)

I made my macaroni and beetroot salads for the barbeque and they seemed to go down okay- my boyfriend at least really liked the macaroni salad, and the scandi-people seemed to like my beetroot salad (the salad was trying to be similar to the one we get in Finland and Sweden, possibly also in Norway, though I am not sure about that). I really need to find the perfect beetroots for that salad though, because the two different ones I have tried so far have not been quite right. Unless I want to start boiling them myself, but I think that will just end in disaster, so I would rather avoid that... xD

Talking of beetroots, my boyfriend decided to make me some beetroot risotto, as I have never tried it. It was surprisingly good I have to say. A bit sweeter than I expected, but that was probably because the beetroots used were quite sweet. But still very good. Definitely want to have that in the future as well. And I swear, my life does not revolve around beetroots. It just happens to have been a very beetrooty week.

I think this post may have gone on a bit long, and it is quite late now, so goodnight, or good morning peeps!

Bye bye beautiful.

We are hopefully getting a flat!!! Amaaaazing! If everything checks out, we will be getting a studio in Uxbridge! Yay! It's gonna be a lot smaller than we are used to, but it will make up for it by us being able to save a lot more money this way. Because hopefully by next year (if we are still together and everything has gone according to plan) we may have enough money for a deposit and we can get a mortgage to buy a house/flat! The reason we are interested in getting one, is because it will end up being cheaper to pay mortgage than paying rent... AND you can do stuff to your own home! Meeeep! I hate renting as you can't fix or change anything, and it seems like a lot of the times you'd need to fix things in order to have the place up to the standards I'm used to...

I am actually feeling better today than in a little while now. Pretty much only due to the fact that we are most likely going to get a place and because our rodent problem is most likely over. I do have to say, I feel a bit drained though as the last few days with our rodent problem was pretty tense, as it was trying to chew its way through the door to get to the living room... And the shit. It was everywhere on the floor. So not funny. But it's done with  now. If you want to read what happened yesterday, read ahead...

The following talks about a rodent dying/it being dead, so if you are uncomfortable with that, better not read this. And also be warned that I think the writing may be even worse quality than normal as I don't really feel like reading over what I've written, so it may jump from one thing to another...

Yesterday the little rat died. It had been wrecking havoc in our kitchen for about a week now, and yesterday it went into one of the traps (twice, funny enough) that the pest control people left. Gotta say, that was a horrible way to go. We had been getting really desperate in getting rid of the little thing, and I had suggested before (and last night) that if we had a bucket, we could make a water trap for the rat as it was not going into the 'conventional' traps. Unfortunately we were unable to make the trap as we don't own a bucket. And that actually makes me really sad, as I feel (maybe wrongly) that drowning might have been a slightly more humane way for the little thing to go.

What now happened instead, was that it had set off one of the traps and gotten hurt- don't know how or how badly, but what you could see, was some splattered blood on the kitchen floor. Then later on in the afternoon, (after I was unsuccessful in getting it to run outside into the garden) it got trapped in one of the traps. I found out about this because our housemate asked if I knew that the rat was 'gone' (or something- his English is so horrible at times) and then I went downstairs to have a look before leaving for a viewing in London. Unfortunately the rat was still breathing at that time- little rasping and gurgling breaths with its little chest moving in and out, trying to get air... I don't know how long it had been like that, but I think it must have taken at least 10 to 15 minutes for it to die. At least. That is a horrible way to go because it's quite likely its lungs and airways were filling with blood, as the little thing's breathing was sounding pretty wet... And to imagine how much pain it was in! I have no idea what part of its head had gotten caught, because when the trap had gone off, it had somersaulted so that it was upside down and you could not see the rat's head. Which I am glad for as I would not have been able to even look in its direction. I couldn't end its agony, because... I just couldn't. I actually can't even kill bugs properly, so killing a rat? Not a chance. So after I came back to the kitchen a few minutes later, the little one had stopped breathing. By this time I was already running late, so I left the rat in the kitchen as the pest control man was supposed to call me/come over later in the day (he'd been in in the morning and had jumped in the air like a little wuss after seeing the rat).

When I got home in the evening, obviously the man had not been over as the rat was still on our kitchen floor... Which meant that it had to be taken out. I could've left the job for my boy, but I decided that I can do it for him. I have to say, I really did not enjoy it and I never want to have to do that again. As I had no idea how 'diseasy' the rat was, I had to use a stick (ex-housemate's halloween cane?) to get it out of the house. The first time I touched the rat WITH the stick, I felt a bit sick and got shivers going through me. I just felt so bad. I couldn't lift the rat up as that would've most likely spun it around and I would've seen its little face all smushed, squished, and bloodied, and I couldn't have handled that. (I could barely look at my friend's hamster that had an accident and its eye was bulging out of the socket.) So I ended up pushing and prodding the little one across the kitchen floor and out of the door. And I kept talking to it, saying I was really sorry for having to drag it on the floor... I felt so bad about having to do that, as it was not a dignified way of taking it outside, but it was the best I could do with what I had. The horrible thing was, the little thing was by this time stiff as a board, as it had gone into full rigor and its little tail was a tiny backwards J...

But I have to say, it was a beautiful little rat. Such a nice sandy brown coat with a gorgeous white belly. I really hope things could've been different and it wouldn't have needed to go to little ratty heaven. Only if it would've been born as a fancy rat, I would've loved it, cherished it, and provided it a nice big home. But alas, it was a rodent, and it invaded our home- most likely by accident, but still. Adios little pretty! I hope you're reborn as a pretty fancy rat as you were beautiful!

I have a cough.

(I seriously apologise for writing blaaaah posts recently, but annoying things have been happening way too much lately and I feel the need to vent. There is couple pics of Xian though somewhere in this post!)

As title says, I have a cough, which makes trying to stay invisible very hard. I've been up since 6.30am in our living room, in order to see if the rodent will run out of the house if I leave the backdoor open. It hasn't happened yet, though I have only waited for 1½ hours. But I think I may be making too much noise with my cough (or it's sleeping after it's adventures last night), but I can't just leave the door open and go, because then I wouldn't have a clue whether or not it has gone out. But I do have to say, the rodent is getting extremely desperate. It's getting bolder and bolder, because I think it's starting to get really hungry. Last night it had tried to drag the cloth we keep outside the kitchen door, on the living room side, into the kitchen. And it had somehow managed to make stuff from on top of the fridge fall onto the floor- and this isn't one of those tiny little fridges, it is a proper fridge-freezer so it stands taller than me! Though that doesn't take too much. But it is almost the same height as my boyfriend.

I've mentioned that there is mold in our house right? It seems to be a horribly normal thing to have mold in the houses in England for some reason. This is the second place where I have rented and where mold just appears any time there is even a tiny bit of moisture in the air. I'm starting to get quite worried about my health as mold is massively bad for you- it can cause so many problems, and as I'm already someone who has allergies, I don't want any more problems like asthma for example... I'm really hoping that I am just a bit sick or imagining things, because recently I have started feeling dizzy when I sit down upstairs to do stuff on my desk. One of the worst places (in terms of mold) is our bedroom, as there is constantly some on the ceiling (there used to be a leak in our bedroom, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was massive amounts of mold between our ceiling and the roof). And you know that if you can SEE the mold, you've already got a biiiiig problem with it.

For some reason, I'm unable to do some changes to my blog layout- I spent some time yesterday choosing what I wanna do with it, but then I was unable to edit things in the layout section. Quite annoyed about that. So the blog will look like this until the damn thing starts working.

Picture time! I failed to upload the pics to my blog in a timely fashion, but better late than never! I had a go at taking pictures of Xian on my desk during the evening to see if I could use my desk lamp as a light source. It turned out a bit... so-so. I've only got three pictures because I wasn't very happy with most of the pictures. And as you'll notice, these ones have been edited quite a bit as I wasn't a big fan of them.

Xian has two wigs at the moment- her present day hair (red) and the hair from olden days (white). I really want to make the white one more presentable as it is a pain atm, because the weave is LIGHT BROWN instead of white, so you can see it way too much. Isn't she pretty in white though?

Damn. I dunno what I'll be having for breakfast. Cold pizza? I can't heat the pizza as we don't have a microwave and the oven is rodent-central. Pfffff... We've resorted to eating takeaways only for dinner (and lunch, and now possibly for bfast) since we realised where the rodent likes to hide. Please pest control people, come frigging save us!!! I want a home cooked meal!!! Done in a different oven though. Ugh. That shizz needs to go away. I'm off to feed myself now.

Depressing post ahead.

So unfortunately this post is gonna be all rubbish and depressing. But I'll try to get nice things out in the beginning and then move on to the rubbish...

Yesterday we had a staff Christmas party! It was soooo nice! There was a free bar, and lovely free food involved! And a guest speaker, which was slightly odd, but it was great anyway! The thing was, we were supposed to have an after-party in Soho, but the bar we had booked it for, was PACKED. You could barely move in any direction, which was ridiculous. So we decided to go somewhere else. And after some confusion and shenanigans, we decided to make our way to Heaven. And only one of us knew where it was. Hmmmm. And we got separated, which meant that the ones that got left behind, we went into the pub that was right next to us, obviously to drown our sorrows. Worked out great!

I'm pretty happy with my flapper headdress- sooo many people actually liked it! I really wasn't sure how it was, because I can't be objective with things I've made for some reason. But everyone thought it looked okay and I got so many compliments on what I was wearing! Flapperiness achieved! I might take a photo of the headdress at some point to show how it looks. :3

I took pictures of Xian today! I'll post some pics probably tomorrow as I don't quite feel like doing stuff to the pictures today. But hopefully tomorrow!


Rubbish things ahead now~

Too many things have been going wrong lately. Our toilet seat is a tad bit broken, we almost got flooded, there is mold all over the house at all times, and our latest thing to go wrong- we believe there is a rodent in our kitchen. Possibly because of the flooding. Or second possibility is that we only discovered it now, because our housemate moved out and he isn't leaving food scraps on the floor anymore and the rodent got desperate. Dunno. But it is there. Because yesterday I made something in the grill bit of our oven, and I forgot to throw away the baking paper I used on the baking tray- today I noticed that the baking paper has gone INSIDE the insidy bits of the oven, and I gotta say, that can't happen by accident, it requires work for it to get there. And when I took the paper out, it was full of holes and bite marks. Which means the the rodent is in our OVEN. :O DO NOT WANT. I don't know what to do now. There was the pest control people here earlier in the week and they set up two rodent traps, so today I just opened the grill door and put one of the traps on the door in the hopes that the rodent will come out and take the bait. I'm so tired of bad things happening- like when we called about a flat that we wanted to take, I gave all our info, and the agent said that he needed to call the landlord to confirm if we can take the place. When he called back, he said that the landlady didn't think we made enough money to pay the rent! WTF??? Either of us can pay the rent on our own! So we haven't got a place yet. And we should already be signing contracts right about now. Ugh. Sometimes I hate life.

Here's a flower to make up for me being all blaaah and whiny:

I took it during summer, and gotta say that might be one of the most heavily edited images I've done. Maybe. :F

Finding a home is a nightmare. Plus necklaces.

Ugh. Seriously a nightmare. It really feels like that the agencies have NO desire to have their properties let. =___= Da fuq? I've called so many places and they have promised to get back to me on when we could have a viewing, and then I never receive a callback! WTF? It does not make sense. And I seriously doubt that the places have gone, and if they have, it is a case of GOOD MANNERS to let the interested party to know that the property they wanted to have a look, is gone. Oh well. We'll see what we'll get. I really hope that the place I'm going to have a look on Friday is da Bomb! Cos it is in a good location and it's only £700 PCM, and it's a one bedroom with proper kitchen- no studio blah-blah about it! :3 And there is a fireplace! That I hope is actually functional!

I finally got pictures of the necklaces I made!

Weeeee! :3 Btw, that background- thaaaank you Xhanthi! She has an awesome tip for 'Quick and Easy Vibrant Backgrounds' at her blog. (That link is to the tutorial.)

Anyway, these two are available at my Etsy! Here for the green byzantine, and here for the pearl steel. The pearl one I like quite a bit as you can wear it in different styles as you can close it on any ring you want. I'm most likely going to do just a plain one with the 'Mobius balls' (I've only used three rings, so they're not very... bally) as it does look very nice on its own. But I need more rings. Again. (I used a lot of rings for my flapper headdress. Which will hopefully look okay.)

Need to do something about the layout.

Badabing, badabum!

EDIT:
FUCK. The water has risen. A lot. Getting worried now.

So I went to the dolly meet in London on Sunday! :3 Such pretty dollies! But first I'm babbling about other stuff.

So if someone in the UK has missed it, it has been raining quite a lot lately. And as I live in a town that is littered with rivers, there is some flooding action going around. Especially in our garden. There's about 10-15cm of water there. Wanna see?

Pretty eh? Our garden is the one on the left, and the right is our neighbour's garden. If it keeps rising, we will need to move all our electronics from downstairs to upstairs. And notify the agency and tell 'em we need sandbags! xS It's still alright, no need to worry, but who knows what might happen that could make it rise suddenly...

I finally got pictures of my planty things! I decided to try and grow citrus' and now I don't know which ones are lemon, and which are orange. But who cares? They are for the greenery effect. And I also decided to try and grow wild strawberries indoors! They're looking sooo pretty, but there is no strawberries yet. Might never have, but again, I don't care! Strawberry looks so pretty anyway, so not getting strawberries doesn't make me sad. :D

I have a dozen random citrus plants. xS I need to donate away some of them, luckily one of my colleagues has promised to take a few. But I still will need to donate away a few more, as I can't just throw away my babies! I raised them from a tiny little seeds! Sniff.

So one of our housemates moved away on Saturday. And he left loads of stuff here. O.o I'm a bit weirded out as he left loads of CD's, and his CD player. And lots of other random bits and bobs. That are in plain view. Very strange. And I forgot to ask if he is coming back for them when I saw him on Sunday at his leaving due. Whatever, he has well over a month to come back from Cardiff to get them. :P

Meet time, I believe! So I went to the London Pygmalion Society meet this Sunday. It was so nice, and my colleague could see why we are so into these little pretties. :3

 This is Akudem's lovely Bowie! And obviously he had to try out Pan's wig. Just because everyone should.

 JUDGE BOWIE!

 :3 This is Krowbar's beeeeautiful little girl! She is so amazing! And she has a bum to die for...

 And this is Jatzu's gorgeous Mito! I WANT HIM. NOWZ.

 And I think that's Jatzu guarding her pretty. She must've known I wanted to run away with him. My plan of dollybduction was foiled!

 Krowbar's Mr. Abs

 Star's little Mika

One of Krowbar's amazing collabs with... eh. Izzy? 

 And Krowbar strikes again with the hunk-action!

 And with this picture I actually made a Firefly reference in DoA. Dunno if anyone will get it! xD 

(Two by two, feet of blue.)

 This girl is so beautiful! But I can't remember who she belongs to, or what her name is! xC

 Jatzu's pretty Drayton boy with Pan and Aku's Bowie. Getting played with by mean owners. :P

 He so ISN'T sleeping at the moment. xD

 Bowie having a conversation with... Uh. Who's was she? And what was her name?

 Pan is getting some action! Which is in reality happening several centimeters away from her chest. I bet she ain't happy about that...

 Crab-lady! Aku accidentally called him a crab-lady at one point, while he had a lady dolly in his lap. xD

Bowie coming in for some love as well. And I'm sure Pan is up to something. (Or she's gone to lala-land.)

I think I need to have a photoshoot with Pan in her undersexywear that she was wearing to the meet. Cos I still haven't actually shown what it looks like. I made the top black and white, but then the panties are white as I don't have black lace that would be good for panties. :7 And I should take some photos of the green byzantine necklace, as I will be selling it.

Need to take some time and decide on a nice layout. This one is just until I decide what I want.

Good hearing WTF?

It's a bit annoying when you are the only one hearing sounds that ARE there, isn't it? When you ask 'Can you hear that?' and they say they can't, and look at you like you've gone mad. Frustrating. Thing happens to me all the time, and it was happening in our bedroom some time ago for a few days- my boyfriend couldn't hear ANYTHING, whereas I heard this high pitched really annoying and headache inducing 'iiiiiiiiiiiing....!' It was driving me crazy especially at night when trying to sleep. In the end, I figured out what was making the noise- and it wasn't my imagination, but our battery charger. It was making the noise if it was plugged into the socket. The only way to stop the noise was to make sure to unplug it from the socket, or take the power cord out of the charger. Eurgh. You have no idea how frustrated I was for a few days...

I am going to the London Pygmalion Society Meet on the 25th! Yay! I have this girl at work who I accidentally mentioned to that I'm into dolls, and she got intrigued. So intrigued in fact, that she is the reason I am going to the meet! She wants to see different sized dollies, as she is interested in crocheting/knitting for them, but obviously she's never seen one live yet, so I'm taking her to a meet to see a wider range of dollies than what I can offer. :D Scheewt! Can't wait! Also I'll most likely get to meet all the Oxford dolly ppl! Double-scheewt!

I tried taking some quick pics of my little things I made recently. For some reason, I feel like I shouldn't continue the matching bracelet that I already started, as I feel a bit funny today. To be honest, I've been feeling a bit weird all week. Not a nice feeling, especially because I would want to finish the bracelet. But tomorrow maybe I can finish it. Anyway, pictures of my exploits!

This choker- I have no idea what to do with it. It looks pretty okay when it is not on the doll, but then on the doll it's just... blaaah. Should I take the middle chain off? Should I lower it? Is it all wrong? I don't know what to do! xC

 

This is the necklace I made and I reeeeally like how it looks! I made the hook and the bit it attaches to all by myself, and I'm pretty proud about that! First time I did that! This is made with byzantine weave, with Czech glass beads and rings between each strand of weave. The whole thing is stainless steel and I quite like the colour of it- I might do quite a bit with stainless steel from now on and skip silver altogether.

 

I took these pictures in bit of a haste, and I don't really think they do the necklace justice, it looks so much better in person. :3

I need to get some better quality pliers if I keep making jewellery, as the ones I have are cheap and small, which were okay to try out if I liked this, but now that I want to do this more and I'm sure I will keep doing it relatively regularly, I need to get better tools. I had a damn blister on my ring finger from making the gold and silver necklace...

Anyhoo. I'm off to do something... unproductive now. I think. Adios!

EDIT.
I seriously want to do something nice for my boys birthday. Bake a cake maybe? Make some sort of starter with mushrooms? (I hate mushrooms.) Make awesome main course? Luckily I'm off tomorrow after all, so I can go shopping for ingredients. If I am to do something with mushrooms, I need to scour the Cornmarket to see if they have ACTUAL mushrooms and not just the shit white mushrooms you get in all the normal shops. I would want actual proper awesome forest mushrooms. (How the hell can I be picky if I don't even like the damn things?!!?!?)

Jazz me up.

I'm in the process of making a nice byzantine weave necklace in dolly size. Weee! I got my stainless steel rings from Beadsisters yesterday, so I was able to start doing stuff! But that meant that I put aside my choker experiments. Which was a good thing as I don't have any pink thread to do the next choker... I hardly ever have the need for pink thread, so I have none. Blargh. Need to go into town on Tuesday I think, as I should be off then, and the little sewing shop should be open. 

Pan says hi, with the first experimental choker (that you can't really see fully):

And this is the one that has been put away for the time being:

And what I am working on at the moment: 

You can see the short strands of byzantine, which will be the chain, but between the strands there will be the larger rings with the red glass beads inside the ring. I hope it looks as good as I think it will! xD

I didn't want to just make this a non piccy post, that's why the random in-progress pictures- I didn't manage to take presentable pictures of Pan with the finished choker, so that has to be for some other time.

RANT TIME.
Gooood looord how incompetent do you have to be to leave the front door open to the house that you are showing around, if your main duties in your job involve opening doors, showing people around houses and CLOSING DOORS?!?!?! AAAARGH! So, yeah, uh. We had a viewing for the house we are living in a couple of days ago, and this woman from our agency came to show this random family the house, right? Well, she came, she showed, and she DID NOT CLOSE THE FRONT DOOR! WTF!??!!? If me and my house mate wouldn't have been home, we could have been robbed blind! Seriously! How incompetent do you really need to be to not close ONE frikkin door!? But at least the next day when I called them to shout at their incompetence, they FINALLY, after about three months, called the landlord and got him to come in the next day, to have a look at the washing machine. WOW. All it took was them to fuck up and then we get the landlord to come over? Great. I hate agencies. Complete shite. I wish we could afford our own home. All we need is to win the lottery for that to happen... Sigh.

Damn. I'm annoyed again. I think I'll put some NCIS on and continue with my necklace. Aloha!

Back? Again?

Long time no see bloggy.

I've been working waaaaay too much in the past months- last three months I have been working 6-7 days a week, with 7 being the norm. Doesn't really leave much room for anything especially if you have to commute for about 4 hours a day... But oh well. My choice- need to money as we will be moving to London at the end of the year. Or to the vicinity. Depends what sorta place we find and at what price. We have quite a bit of stuff so we can't just take the tiniest, cheapest box that we can find. Need some bloody space maaan!

I managed to make a BJD necklace a day ago- I'll most likely be putting it up for sale as it isn't quite Pan's style.

It's made with silver plated and gold plated rings if I remember correctly- I ordered them quite a while ago, so I'm not 100% sure about that. And here it is on Pan:

Can't quite see the gold in that picture can you? :/ Pan is also wearing the experimental wig that I made a little while back and that still needs a trim. I'm not that pleased with it as you can see the weave a bit too much, but it's okay for some pictures every now and then.

I ordered more jewellery stuff, so I will be making more jewellery and learning different sorts of stuff! I spent part of my evening today getting rid of this wire that I have by practicing how to make wire bead chains, wire cages, etc. Obviously it turns out that practice is a great idea, as I have not done this shit before. I think I might need to get a better set of pliers though, if I am to make lots of jewellery, as I already have a blister on my finger from making the necklace and some other bits and bobs. Uuups.

My citrus plants are looking quite okay! (Can't remember if I have mentioned them before, but I started growing lemon and orange from seeds that I got from store bought fruit. I think all of the seeds sprung up which was a shock...) The three biggest ones are about 10-15cm, and the smallest is only about 2cm, which is a bit funny, as the smallest one sprung up maybe a week or two after the first ones. And all of them have been growing for... 4-5 months now? Weird. But they are looking quite nice, but I have no idea which ones are lemon, and which ones are orange. Not that it really matters, as I am growing them more for the fun of it, and to have something to look at.

Anyboo, time to go! Nighty-night, good morning, or wonderful day to all!

Why do I want you so?!?!?!

(From Adsense forum help, dunno who this belongs to)

That is how I kinda feel like.

Have have this horrific urge to get Skyrim. I don't know why but I am overtly excited about the release and I want it! But the thing is, I think my desire to get it NOW is only due to the fact that it just came out, whereas it would probably be better for me to wait a couple of weeks before buying it (kinda make sure that by the time I get it, if there has been any frustrating bugs on release, they would've been fixed already), but my brains don't want to listen to my reasoning! *Cry* I am torn! And it's driving me insane!

I'm off for the wekend which (hopefully) means that I will do some dolly clothes! :3 I'm hoping to take my little corset pattern and make something nice with that. We'll see!

I've noticed on Devart another fantastic Jessica Rabbit picture. :3 I adore it when people draw her, but I really don't know why... This is my latest Mrs. Rabbit find:

Jessica Rabbit by sakimichan

It's worth checking out her other dravings as well, as she is very talented. :3

I'm off to do some crafts now! Wish me luck!

I be happy!

I love meeting dolly people! It's so nice to get to talk about dolly stuff face-to-face with people who are into the hobby! We had another Oxford dolly meet on Saturday, and it was so much fun~ I even asked the guys if they would mind helping me with this photo idea I've got- as I'd need several SD Soom dolls for that. :3 They didn't mind, so once we do a meet with lotsa Soom dollies and I've got my red ribbon, I can make my idea come true!!! *Squee* [Side note; my winamp is playing Buffy Musical- Walk Through The Fire. Awesomeness!!!] I'm just not quite sure how I'll shoot it- the dollies are huge and I'm tiny. I might need something to stand on... xD

My boy bought two new desks for our bedroom! The idea was to get me a desk so that I can sew and do stuff out of the living room (which I completely take over if I wanna do anything), but we ended up choosing a corner desk for the computer and a matching desk for my adventures. It looks AWESOME. And the even better thing? I don't have to crane my neck to look at the screen anymore! And I don't have to sit on the bed in order to use the computer! My body sends it's thank you's to the gods of comfort! (Or whatever.)

I need to translate my chocolate mousse cake recipe into english so that I can share the goodness~ The cake is absolutely delicious, but making it is a slight hassle. Not because it's hard to make, but because there is so much dishes to wash! You need to make three different chocolate layers for it, so there's a lot to do. But it tastes better than any chocolate mousse cake you'll get in a cafe or a restaurant. (Maybe the Michelin star restaurant might top this one, but any 'normal' restaurant; doesn't have a chance! x3) But what measurements should I use? Ounces, or would desilitres be fine? O.o (Why can't UK and USA just go metric? It would make things a lot easier.)

Funny thing. I made Pan a full length dress the other day, and I measured the strap to death, to make sure it's the right length. I also tried it on to make sure it's right and it was perfect. Well. Next day when I get up and put the dress on... The strap is too long!!! What the- I swear it's Pan. She decided it's not revealing enough and she did something to it. Now I have to fix it somehow so that she won't be flashing her boobs every time I move her. Bloody exhibitionist.

I've also now made an important decision regarding my dolly family- the random floating Nanuri head WILL become the 'sexy twins'. (That's what Dorian would dub them as...) It's not going to happen for a long long time, but it will happen. So I will have to hunt for a Nanuri 08 head at some point in the future. (I dread that day... xD) But yay! I think I'll make them to be mirror twins. :3 I'll give them birthmarks around their torso and maybe feet, so they'll be on the opposite sides. That's also gonna help me recognize which is which. xD

Just to not make this a text only post, here be some shots of Pan in her new dress:

Harry Potter and sewing.

I've been listening to Harry Potter audiobooks for the last two days- I don't have them in book form, and it's awesome to listen to them while you're sewing or doing stuff. At the moment I'm listening to Chamber of Secrets, chapter 11. :3 I can't wait for Pottermore to open for everyone~ I absolutely adore the Potterverse, and Pottermore is one of the best ideas ever! x3 I'd so want to marry Rowling's brains...

I wanna play something, but I don't know what... Not feeling like Assassin's Creed even though I should get some hours on that. In a way I feel like playing Sims... But I haven't got it installed atm. Or maybe the old Ceasar III. Hmmmmmm. I would want to make a fur hat though, but I don't want to make a mess in the living room with fur bits just now.

I really want to get good at sewing dolly clothes cos I would want to, at some point, start selling them. :3 I would need to buy a new sewing machine before that though. Mine is a really cheap one that has some serious issues... I also need to make some more patterns~

 I've been sewing quite a bit in the last two days, but unfortunately the pictures I took turned out a bit blurry. And I forgot to take a picture of the muff I made. :C

For some reason, I kinda like her pose. xD

So shirt and skirt #2

I had to take a picture of this pose...

I do really like this waist 'corset'.

And the fabric makes you want to pet it constantly. xD

Top and skirt #1