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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
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This whole going-to-the-gym thing is starting to grow on me! I've discovered I have a penchant for treadmills - I tend to zone out and not realise how much time has passed, which is what I used to love about walking around New Plymouth when I was a kid. Only this way, there's less chance of being run over or raped due to my lack of attention. Win!
Trainer-man has put together a program for me, which is actually not too bad. It's a challenge, but has nothing really odious - like burpees, which Jp has to do, bwaha! I go have to do some weird squat-scuttle-jump things, which look ridiculous and make my thighs go, MERCYYYYYYYY. I was also (very tactfully) told that my ass is too big. Which I knew, lol, but now it's official! My waist hould be 80% of my hips, in theory, and mine is 77%. Only while one the hand it could mean I have a little waist, it is more likely my hips are out of wack. I was impressed, actually; there aren't too many ways to tell someone they have a fat ass without sounding like a bit of a tosser. Applause!
Anyway, me and my thighs are off to eat icecream. Mostly me, not so much my thighs. Next appointment at about 6am on friday - looking forward to it!
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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I don't know what I dreamed about last night, but it involved kittens...and I have a weird sense of loss. I didn't dream of paddy or sig, those dreams I definitely remember. So what was it? Stupid wake-up-time!!
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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WIN! I've been putting off the studylink survey callers for days, and just resigned myself to doing the stupid survey...first question was did I know anyone working at the IRD, among other places, and since I do...no survey! YES!! Nessa, you're my saviour from tele-wankers :D
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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Plans for today:
- Pick up some notions in Lower Hutt, then sew as many components of a commission as possible. Fingers crossed, I'll get either the petticoat or shirt done today.
- Meet with Mel, discuss cosplay magazine. Hoping for a title and list of features...may not happen, we get distracted easily!
- SPCC meeting, talking Christmas party/Charities wank/booze. Also possibly poo. Somehow it always comes up.
I am a busy little beaver!
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
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You know you're in trouble when your mum uses both your first names! :S
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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I've pretty much been showing this off everywhere, so here we go one more time for luck :P This is the first completed component of my comp costume for Wellington in April. Reference here: Claire from Magna Carta 2.
These are the petticoats - one black base with the lacy thing over the top. Over that will be a navy to black gradient dyed dress, a final skirt layer, then the blue flower tutu-corset-thing. Should be fun!
( ONWARDS! )
No gushing is required. But I don't want to stifle you guys, or anything. :P
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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I randomly had a look at the Horror & Macabre section on devart just now, and am all inspired to play with blood. Who'd be keen for an awesomely messy shoot? Possibly in a bathroom/toilet?
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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ashlbuylcerynbhibr MY PRINTS ARE TAKING AGES TO DRY. NOT COOL. I have to wait until they are no longer tacky to print the base colour on the 6 remaining pieces, then start tracing and re-cutting for the second colour on my print. Woodcuts are great, but fuck they take an age...and it's all due tuesday, and I have four colour layers. I'm a fucking masochist!
On the up side, I've gotten in touch with Fuse about performers at the ball, and hopefully I'll have some figures to play with and budget for soon. Finished with the Wintergarden photos yesterday and they're now all uploaded - samples ahoy!
![](http://gallery.little-noise.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13458&g2_serialNumber=2")
( More! )
I'm pretty much in love with that first one. Man, when Holgas actually CO-OPERATE they are stunning! I'm a little annoyed at how much I like it, actually - I'm not a fan of crazy/extreme angles in general, but phwoarr...and yeah, of course, Michaela just makes it POP! The first two are Holgas, rest are digital. And for anyone who's curious, Greg's suit in the last pic was made by moi - the mask was Jess' handiwork, and doesn't it look marvellous? :3
Edit: Okay, breathing in turps fumes all morning was a very bad idea. I also have no idea where the toilets are in this building...this could get messy.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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My package of silk swatches from Dharma Trading arrived! This is great, because I now know exactly what my silks will look like. It's bad, because the silk I was *going* to use is actually a bit nasty. I was going for a medium weight Habotai (China Silk), and have now decided, tentatively, to go with charmeuse. Which is Very Expensive, and I need about 6 metres of it. And also all the acid dyes to go with it. I was sorely tempted to go with a silk/rayon, and etch a design onto it, but I may have issues dyeing it afterwards; it being rayon and all.
I'm having a lot of fun with dyes, recently - two of my competition pieces involve the dyeing of interesting fabrics with uncertain results! One is lycra, which I'm moderately confident about, as it's more a matter of tinting than totally changing colour; but the other involves a basecoat of dye-of-unknown-fastness and then gradient darkening curved edges...might need to paint it on, rather than dip it, for that one. Can't wait though! I bought be a bigass stockpot and everything for the boiling of the dyebath.
My claire wig also arrived! Hurrah! ANOTHER black wig! Once this bloody course is over and done with, and WINZ have been beaten into submission/I have procured myself some kind of paying employment, there will be a whole shitload of sewing. I have fabric sitting, waiting for me, and it's incredibly tantalising...notto mention other projects.
Ah, sewing...<3 And Nessa, I sold your books: should be meeting chick tomorrow to swap goods for cash.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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Printmaking is fun! I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed it at high school - very glad I wasn't ill today too. Our assigment is to produce a bunch of prints around our chinese zodiac sign, images that represent the traits of our sign as well as our own personality. Only, we have less than two weeks to do it all, so it's a wee bit frustrating. And my work is going to look so very, very fantasy!bogan it's just silly. I might as well just grow a mullet and start wearing velvet right now. Hurr. Some fun and games with the department though; I can't actually get in unless someone else lets me inside - my swipe card doesn't bloody work. Chasing of admin people will commence tomorrow, I'm going to have to do a fair bit of work outside the normal hours of the course if I want to get it all done in time.
I'm having fun though :D And corset commission is 99% finished, just need to finish stitching the binding on one half and lace the puppy up. WINZ still suck, but nothing new there, and apparently I just won myself a gym membership in Lower Hutt. I dimly remember entering, lol, but I don't actually *want* the thing! Let this be a lesson to you all - don't enter competitions for things that you don't really want. Murphy will play tricks on you. What the hell am I going to do with this thing?!
..first person who says, "go to the gym!" gets a glare and no cookies.
Edit: Also, I think I have reached my Angus Burger saturation point. I had one today and not only was it just Too Much Food, it was kinda...meh. This is frightening! I love my grease!!
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
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You know what's really frustrating? When you have a printmaking course you're really looking forward to and you wake up at 5am puking and feeling miserable, and it doesn't stop for four hours. I also have no way of contacting the tutor. I am severely unimpressed.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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So I had an awkward experience in the supermarket the other day, and thought it was hilarious and cringey. So, I posted it to alittleawkward: http://community.livejournal.com/alittleawkward/1148270.html
What? What? Comments what? Don't tell me I have an actual disorder, you just killed the humour completely! Also, I need NO more reasons to be concerned about my brain, thanks. Grr.
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
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I have big ideas that are very exciting! I also have no way to put them into action! Yay!
Also: I'm going to have to remake my I-No costume, all I have left is the hat. If I loaned it to anyone at any point, can you check to see whether you still have it/I gave it back to you for safekeeping or not? I'm baffled, and also recoiling at the prospect of making the whole thing again.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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Just ordered a sample pack of silks from Dharma Trading - I'm excited! I'm thinking silk habotai will be best for my Nouhime costume, but I want to check the sheerness (word? Is it one?) of the fabric - I'd be pretty annoyed if it turned out to be see through. So yeah - there will be a whole lot of silk painting in my future! And I mean a LOT.
Also, HURRAH! Bill is being pitched at on my behalf! I've offered up a few copies of the book once it's all done and dusted as prizes for the comp. If they're accepted, hooray publicity, but I may not be able to enter the contest. Which will be kinda lame, but hey...I'm sure I'll survive! And it won't stop me making costumes, hurr.
Also - I'm sick of my site layout. There will be redesigning in the near future. But it may have to wait: I realised last night I will be effectively bankrupt on the first of december - I can't get extra hours at work, and studylink will no longer be giving me money. The job applying process is still chugging along, I need to call WINZ today and sort out what I can do for now. I'm hoping the fact I'm actually employed (even if not enough to be of any practical use) and my flashy design oriented CV will count in my favour, although I've never actually had to deal with WINZ personally before. Nervousness - I haz more than I need. And also a bruised ego, but that's kind of a usual thing :P
SO. POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS. I am currently making one corset on commission for a lovely lady who performs, and am open for more work doing corsets and other fancy things. All commission info is here: http://www.cosplay.little-noise.com/?page_id=231
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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I'm sick of my job, and I want a new one. Upon first search on Seek, I found two that would fit me perfectly - were I prepared to move to either Auckland or Queenstown. I am not impressed.
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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HolyshittheyhaveextraspaceintheexhibitionandhaveaskedmetodosomeprintsWHATDOIDOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Need to go talk to supervisor and figire out which pictures she's talking about, but either some cosplayers or some naked ladies will be printed and framed and hung in a public exhibition very soon! Oh holy shit, opening is friday. Why does the hectic never end with Massey?! SHIT. WHAT. SHIT.
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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Today I spent a happy few hours updating my site. I now have galleries up for the last few commissions I did, and have replaced the slideshow images with pics of costumes that I actually made. Photos of the vinyl monstrosity are here: http://www.cosplay.little-noise.com/?page_id=319
No photos of me as Wonderwoman have emerged yet - at least not that I would like circulated. Mostly I look like a sunburnt walrus, so I may have to get around to doing a proper photoshoot with someone soon. Probably Anna - she's coming up in a week, and never says no to having her picture taken, so that should solve the problem nicely!
All the shoots are no online, here: http://gallery.little-noise.com/main.php?g2_itemId=10864
and the Wintergardens shoot here: http://gallery.little-noise.com/main.php?g2_itemId=12189
I highly recommend people look at the Wintergarden ones :D Michaela's Catwoman is pretty much awesome, and Rowan, as always, looks stunning as Ciel Phantomhive. Enjoy!
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Two weeks of mixed heaven and hell are OVER. And Massey can still suck my large uncircumcised cock.
Went to Whangarei last weekend to meet and stay with Jp's folks - went very well! I am a keeper, so they say. Their current living space is amazing - there is a swallow's nest in the bathroom above the light and you can't sit on the toilet without three little heads sticking up and going, "FEED ME NOW." Photos coming forthwith.
Met all the family, who are insane and awesome, and tried some interesting breed of south african tea; then headed down to auckland. Our motel sucked. First night there, found a used condom under the bed. Not flash. Last night there we cooked epic roasts - between the 7 of us left we drunkenly polished off a 7kg leg of lamb, then the vegetables and size 14 chook (because they weren't ready at the same time the lamb was) and it was preatty amazing.
Armageddon - photoshoots went well! I'm still bushed! Some went better than others, and I'm going through them slowly. Didn't get to shag Seth Green OR Matt Senreich (shame on me), but snaffled sneaky photos of Master Green when he popped up at the cosplay games.
Cosplay halloween party cancelled - we're all exhausted and it's just going to be too much stress to pull off properly; and the venue people are dicks and upset other people. Wankers.
OH YEAH AND I GOT SIIIIICK. As a freaking dog, right on judging morning. I got an Honorable Mention for the Thing What I Made From Vinyl, and then went and hid in the car so I could sleep. Me and Jp crashed at a different motel for two more nights in a room with a spa pool that was of sufficient depth to stand in and have warm boobehs. It was awesome.
Drove home today via Napier to visit my nan, got some family gossip, and puked my way back to Wellington. Apparently the KFC in Taupo is exacting some serious revenge - crossing my fingers it'll at least trim my waist down a bit.
TO BED. GOODNIGHT.
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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Argh! In a last-ditch attempt to pull together some costumes for Geddon so I didn't look like a perv shooting people in cosplay, I tried in vain to organise an Aeryn Sun outfit...when that failed, I packed as many of my trampy black gladrags as I could, and I'll be Aurora Bay instead. I'll fit right in! :D
Arrived in Hammyhole about an hour ago, just got my rego forms off for the competition on monday, and am wrestling with whether I go to Miss Pole or not. I would love to. But I have no idea when other plans are happening, and it's a bit frustrating! Argh - I will decide later.
Thedrive up was long, and mostly uneventful - I haven't been along the desert road in years, so that was a treat. I love that route - there were still a few big drifts of snow along the northern end, and the light quality was fucking AMAZING...got some great photos, which will be uploaded when I can be bothered!
Wish me luck - I'm meeting Jp's family tomorrow, and for the first time in regards to boys and their families, I am shitting myself. Goodnight!
EDIT: why is it that the loudest campaigners against drama ALWAYS make a public issue of things?
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