Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm stuffed! I made mashed potatoes from scratch for the family, and there is even some left over. <3 There was all kinds of yummy food, and I was gonna take photos and stuff but I left my camera in my room and forgot about it. XD Bonnie will probably post some good shots in the next few days though, so I'm good.

I hope everyone's had a great day filled with family, friends, and good food. :3

Dragon Eggs

Okay, I'm trying this again. My little dragon eggs never make it past hatching. I've decided to try once more. ;3 Please give my little eggs a click!

I'm sore and cold. :O

I went to the gym with Jenni yesterday. It was nice having essentially a personal trainer, without having to pay for one. XD She walked me through the various workouts, and made it alot of fun. I like working out anyway, but it's easier when you have company. We worked our arms mostly, and then our stomachs. Then I got on an eliptical machine, and she got on the treadmill. I did about half a mile, and burned about 100 calories according to the machine I was on. It's a good start. XD My arms are sore as heck today, but my legs and stomach feel fine. Guess that means I have to push harder next time.

It's cold. According to my little Weather deally on my desktop, it's 43 degrees Farenheit, at 1pm in Texas. That's ridiculous. It's never supposed to get below fifty here. It's Texas! And of course, knowing that it NEVER gets cold in Texas, I left my warmest clothes in Virginia. Go me! I'm gonna go pout about it in my room, under three blankets, with double layers, and my dollies. :[ Pfffft I wish. I'm going to get the mail. :B

And just for the hell of it, (and cause I haven't posted any in awhile) a photo of me! ;D

Knitting projects!

So I finally remembered that I have a Ravelry account. I went ahead and finished up the details I could fill in, on the purple blanket that was my first project. You, know, this one.


I wasn't sure what it was going to be, but it ended up the perfect size for a small doll blanket. Like a throw.

Now I'm working on this.

It will eventually be a green sweater in MSD scale. So far I've got most of the torso. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do next though. I've gotten about to the armpits, in length, but I think I want to do a little more, so it's a longer sweater. :3

I still don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun learning.

White boots for Ichigo!

Ichigo's white boots arrived. :] I was happy to see them setting in the mailbox. I was starting to think they were lost in the mail. :[ Such is the problem with Airmail from overseas. It's all good though because they did arrive safely. I love the way they look, even better, in person.






And when I went to leave feedback for these, I saw the perfect boots for Seanan. I'm not ordering them for now, due to lack of funds, but I plan to get these as soon as I reasonably can. :]

In other dollie news, I spent Friday night over at my sister Faythe's place. We had fun. :3 We ended up doing a photostory of some of the dolls eating gummy foods. It was fun, and I need to weed out the pictures that didn't turn out so well, before I post them. I'll try and post them in the next few days.

I caught a bug of some sort. My friend David came into town, we hung out, and I think I caught a bug from him. I'm not sure he likes who I am now. Doesn't matter though, cause I know we'll still talk.

8 things Meme

8 Things tagged by Jenni

8 Favorite TV Shows(In no particular order)

House MD
NCIS
Law and Order SVU
Law and Order CI
Burn Notice
Eureka
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother

8 Things I Did Yesterday

Took pictures of Declan.
Watched several episodes of House MD on my laptop.
Talked for a few hours, with David.
Watched Dancing with the Stars, with Jenni and Ashley.
Leveled up some Pokemon to prepare for a gym battle, on Emerald. :B
Downloaded some cheatcodes for Pokemon Pearl.
Used those cheat codes to catch shiny pokemon. :B
Started thinking about a new outfit I want to sew.

8 Things to Look Forward to

Thanksgiving
Getting my tooth fixed. ;_;
A long over-due shipment of doll shoes(that I paid for in March). e_e
Some white boots for Ichigo, seperate from the long-over-due package.
Knit Night with Mom on Tuesdays.
Breast reduction surgery. It's a long way off yet but I am looking forward to it.
My divorce being done.
Waking up in the morning.

8 Favorite Restaurants

Bennigans, how I mourn thee. ;_;
Chili's, how I mourn the loss of your Chili Con Queso.
Ruby Tuesday
The Olive Garden
Kelly's Tavern, how I miss thee.
Taco Bell
Taco Bueno
Hardees

8 Things on My Wish List(to someday accomplish)

Go to New York Dolpa.
Get my teaching degree.
Order an FCS doll in person at the Sato store in Japan.
Order an FCS doll in person at the LA store in California.
Go to Japan.
Visit Canada and see my friends.
Visit England and see my friends.
Vacation in Ireland.

8 People I Tag

No one! Do it, only if you want to. :]

Just some shots of Declan.

Took some photos of Declan today. I thought about taking Seanan out for photos too but I want to wait a bit before I do a bunch of interaction shots with them. I'd like to have Breck home for interaction between him and Declan, but it'll be awhile before that happens. Anyway on to the photos.








And this one is too warm to go with the set, but I like it too much not to include, so there you go.


I apologize for the washed out look on some of them. x_x

MY TEETH! D:

I have a cavity. ;_; I also have no dental insurance, and no money till the first. I don't know if I have other cavities as well but it's likely. I only know about this one because I cut my tongue on the edge a few days ago. I've been freaking out ever since.

I have a total of $200 to work with per month, at least half of which I try to use for food and soda for the month. I'm told by everyone I've asked (except an actual dentist) that it will likely be a few hundred dollars. I don't HAVE a few hundred dollars. I don't have TEN dollars.

I can't ignore it either because it's a pretty big hole, and it's on the side of one of my back molars. I use that tooth alot, ya know? ;_; I don't know what I can do. Unless one of the companies I've applied at, calls me back with a job, I can't do anything. I can't ignore it either. I need to see if there are any dentists in the area who do stuff for low income, or would be able to take payments. Ugh..

I'd been having alot of nightmares about losing my teeth lately too. ;_; *flails*

Ichigo has a name! And, I sewed something. :B

Ichigo has a real name! I've always known it, but never knew what that name was, until this morning. Ichigo's real name is Cameron. I don't know more than that, and I'm pretty sure it's the name he assumes when he becomes a Real boy, but he told me this morning. I'll continue to call him Ichigo, because it's his nickname, much like Elli is a nickname for Elijah Samuel.

Christy commented yesterday that he looked like a Real boy in the photo I posted, showing off his dark blond wig, rather than his usual Angel-fluff-and-sugar self. I realized early this morning that she was right, when I was fiddling with different wigs and eyes. He threw a quiet out of character fit by simply letting the spark go when I tried to change his clothes, wig, or eyes. That's pretty uncharacteristic for Ichigo. When he throws fits, it's usually flopping, flailing, throwing wigs, etc. He sat still and just went DOLL on me. For the whole time I was messing with wigs and eyes and different shirts, he was an empty shell. When I finally conceded and replaced his rainbow eyes, and dark blond wig, his personality came flooding back.

So, when there was enough light to take pictures, I did. :3






You may notice that this wig matches his painted eyebrows nearly perfectly. It's a better match than his DEFAULT wig. That's saying alot.

And in other news, I made a sports bra today. I've had the urge to work out recently and would prefer not to do so in a normal bra, but in my size, it's impossible to find one pre-made. So, I had Jenni take me to the big JoAnns and I bought a t-shirt, and some nice wide elastic, made for athletic clothes.

When we got back to the house, I had Jenni help me move the extra desk into my room, nestled in the corner, and I set up her sewing machine on it. I'm crazy rusty using sewing machines but there was no way in hell I was gonna handstich everything on something this big.

I cut off the sleeves, finished the edges with a zigzag stitch, and then measured to see how far to shorten the shirt for a snug supportive fit, and hacked off about six inches. @_@ From there, I folded the edge over the elastic, and then folded that over again, and zigzagged along the top to anchor it, then over the bottom edge. This is my result.



Originally I was going to double up the material in the front for durability but there wasn't enough length to work with to start. This was inexpensive to do though so when it does wear out, I can do it again, with no regrets. The shirt was $5, the elastic, $2.50. Sports bras are generally (on the cheap end) between $5 and $15, so I'm happy with my end price. The shirt was half price, normally $10, so I'm glad it was on sale, or I would have had to wait.

Hopefully this will last me until I have lost enough weight and mass that I can just buy a new one. The way it's already stretching though, I just hope it lasts a month.

Candy Stripe Shorts, Pseudo Argyle Shorts, Dark Blonde Wig

Apparently I forgot to post pictures of the shorts I made for Ichigo. I call them his Candy Stripe shorts. :3 I really love the way they turned out. <3 The photo is kind of blurry but you can see the details still.


And for the past several days I've been working on these, what I'm calling his Pseudo Argyle shorts.



My eldest sister Jenni has these cute pajama pants made of the same material. In Human scale it's a cute diamond pattern, and in doll scale it looks like a faux argyle pattern. I love it! I want to make a brown sweatervest and a cream dress shirt for him to wear with these. I have the cream material but lack a suitable brown knit for the vest.

While I was feeling incredibly creative I also went ahead and cut and styled one of the wigs I made several nights ago. It looks alot like Sora's hair from Kingdom Hearts 2, where it's more blonde than brown.

Haircut! Back to the fauxhawk.

I cut and dyed my hair today. :3 It was starting to (HAH STARTING TO) look ridiculous, with an inch of natural black roots under nearly platinum blond hair. I tried to find a dye that looked about like my natural hair, but they didn't have one, so I picked a pretty chestnut brown.

Before:



And after, with a shot of how it looks in the back.




I did it entirely by myself so I'm pretty happy with how even it is in back, at least from what I saw on camera.

I'm hoping with a more conservative haircut, I can get taken seriously by potential employers. I've been taking out the lip ring and putting on a polo shirt and slacks (cause I lack anything more formal) but the blond mohawk with very obvious roots was getting me funny looks as I asked for applications here and there.