Faire started next weekend!!!

So pretty and yet I have no idea WTF she's doing.

Wedding porn. Why? Just why? I've been single almost MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE (6 months out of 349 months of living I was not single) and yet I still look at wedding porn. I never thought about getting married when I was younger, and now I think about it as something that I could plan, but as something that'll never happen - but I still love looking at other's pictures.

Cemetery Wedding Porn

Red Dress Wedding (go find the boots!) and if I ever get married can I have fire? Reception Pics

I don't even think this wedding has a theme, its just pretty and the photography is amazing.

Roller Derby Wedding that only has pictures of skates, no one ON skates.

Another Steampunk Wedding with A LOT of pictures.

Pirate Geisha wedding?

Day of the Dead reception.

Chucks!

I love everyone's hair in this one.

Cute Pink Hair on the bride.

Totally fucking AWESOME one - have to see!

Washing Your Hair - The Proper Way

For those of you with long hair: See above video (since my embedding skills suck right now).

My hair comes down to the belt on my pants. For me that's really long, but when I look in the mirror it still seems short. Anyway - I've been following that poster on the long hair LJ community and she's had a few really good videos. Scrolling through I saw a "How to wash your hair" video and thought, WTF I know how to wash my hair. Well, I saw how she did it and I tried it and, well, my hair feels really awesome!

Also, she uses home made hair tools. She takes double ended knitting needles and bends them into U shapes and ya know what? These are the best damn hair anything I've ever used!!! My friend Chris bent a bunch of knitting needles over a round thing from his workshop (no, seriously, I have NO CLUE what it was... I think it may have been a light, but a drum stick would work just fine if you were doing it yourself) and I've got a dozen awesome hair sticks.



Next thing I need to do is get some flowers and glitter and beads and work on making pretty ends for the pins. I really like them. They hold in super well and I have a few ideas for sparklie things hanging off of the ends.

Yes. Yes I am easily amused.

Random: My horoscope for today "Stories from the past help provide inspiration for your future. Talk to relatives." Um - you know - yea. I guess this makes sense.

So I think I've finally decided on what I am going to buy for this year's fair. The Vixen from Damsel in this Dress (bodices/viken).She has a pretty blue one for sale in her Etsy Shop. I need to get my measurements to her first to see how much it'd go up for my size and then decide if I want The Vixen or to go all out and get tails and removable sleeves to make more of a pirate coat. I honestly don't think I'd be able to find anything better AT the faire at my size.

I really am edging towards a steampunk look for faire, and I don't wanna go that way because, well, AZ really isn't into it. I am looking for more suggested steampunk reading. I hit wiki and found a few suggestions, but nothing I can get my hands on for my Nook. I really REALLY love the look, but I totally don't wanna love with look without knowing what's behind it.

Along those lines: I need book suggestions!

My Nook is just beyond awesome and I wanna download more books. I've become a big fan of isoHUNT. I think I've got about 125+ books on my Nook all for free (thanks CJ! Oh... wait... she doesn't LJ). I know I should read some of the books I have before I get new ones, but most of the ones I've downloaded I already have read but wouldn't mind reading again.

And I know I said this a couple days ago in another post but I'm still feeling pretty okay about life. I am happy. Actually a lot happier these last few days than I have been in a long time. There's so many good things going on and I am truly greatful for everything. I really hope I get the thing I'm trying to get, but I still have a good life if I don't. Don't get me wrong, I really really want it, and I'll probably feel like dying if I don't get it, but it's not the end of the world. Well, maybe a small part of my world, but I'm still a good person with a good life and good things will happen for me.

And on that note, I am feeling pretty tired and ready to drive home in the rain. About ten minutes ago I decided to pack up and leave when it wasn't raining, but then it started coming down like a full on monsoon. It's stopped now so off to the south side! BTW, they're predicting snow for tomorrow.

It's 48 in Tucson right now! And we had thunderstorm and TORNADO warnings yesters.

What the smurf?!? Has hell frozen over?

This is the reply from the Etsy shop:

Hi! I have never had a fiber glass rod break before. They are a 1/4 of a inch thick and are very tough. I had a customer get in a wreck with one on and the corset was just fine.

Ooooookay.

I am very torn between this top Silver Vixen Corset and The Bonny Pirate Bodice.

I like the vixen because it obviously (at least looks like) has more support. I love the longer collar and that it has a longer length, but I can only imagine my hair getting tangled to high hell with the collar.

I sent an e-mail to the Bonny Pirate checking on the things Kate suggested, but their turn around order time is longer than the other place.

Maybe I'll just go mundane the first weekend of the faire and get a few pieces and then go in full garb another time. My mind isn't really made up yet about this season. If I were to invest in either of them, I'm not really sure which one I should do. I still have a third options, but rowangolightly is pretty busy and we haven't hammered anything out yet.

As far as the faire goes I know I'm gonna go opening weekend on Sunday, and that mom wants to go this year, and that I'll probably also go with another group of people who will dress up... but beyond that I don't really know. I know Carolyn won't go with me cause, well, she won't, but I wouldn't blame her.

Sometimes I think I really should stop investing my time into faire garb until I start to feel better about myself physically.

Oddly enough I'm feeling pretty balance emotionally. Optimistic. Feeling really good about the person I am at almost 30. I'm not blaming myself for my lot in life because, well, it's a pretty good lot. Yeah things could be better, I think no matter how great things are people think they could be better, but they've been a whole lot worse and I am happy they're okay not. Yes I have my hopes up for something really great to happen soon, but my life is still good if it doesn't.

Here's the daily affirmation kinda thing... I am the perfect person for the job and will happily accept it.

I'm ready to get my Nook!!!

What do you think of the Pirate Bodice?

The last line in the description is "If you want to skip the corset and wear a bodice that will do the work for you, this is the one to buy!"

The reason why I've always been going with Irish dresses is that I hate the chemise poking out between the skirt and bodice.

I have a number of skirts (all black) and I'm pretty sure I could make a few more and a chemise, I just don't trust doing boning for my big gut on my own. Skirts and chemise I should be okay.

But I guess I only need a response if you do care.

I'm working on a thing and will be using photos of me that I've collected over the years - thing is - I don't take photos of just me. Most of the photos I have of myself include other people. Well other people and Disney rubber heads.

I am going to tell the people I'm doing this with to only show my face and blur everyone else out... unless you don't care and actually want your photo(s) used.

So if you DO NOT want your photo used don't worry, if you actually want/don't care actually let me know.

January keeps closing in around me and the month is almost over. I really don't understand how times gets away from me so quickly. I feel like just yesterday is was the beginning of September and I was just getting home from my Seattle trip.

Where I am right now is totally different from where I thought I'd be four months ago. This being the second week of January I expected myself to be living in Washington spending time with a guy who said he wanted to be my boyfriend and exploring a part of the country I've only seen a small bit of - but I'm still in Arizona playing the "do you want to date me game" with someone new I met a few weeks ago. Oddly enough I have been exploring parts of the city I have never really ventured into because I want to move far far away from the south side. I've had enough of driving an hour to and from work every day, it's not worth it in a vehicle that gets less than 20 MPG.

I have the weirdest photo obsession lately... wedding pictures. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not the marrying type, but really well done wedding photos make me smile. Check out this SteamPunk Wedding set on flickr. OMG! This Scottish/Belly Dancer wedding combination is also cool. You can tell the wedding was done at a fair, not sure about the reception. I mean - yeah - its weird me looking at wedding photos. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the institution of marriage, I just don't think it's going to happen to me so I don't spend time day dreaming about it being part of my future.

But, seriously, before I get off of this train of thought - my favorite wedding porn set and then my second favorite, Carnival Wedding. Both of them because they're the kind of people I'd love to know.

And from OBB, the most awesome wedding invitation evar!

Okay. I'm done. For someone who hasn't had an honest to go boyfriend this for the last ten years, I really don't need to be looking at this stuff. Someone stop me.

Tomorrow I've got to mommy sit. I think we're gonna go to brunch since she has an early day at work. Normally we go out on Thursdays but she has a bunch of other stuff to do.

Actually, speaking of stuff to do, I really should get my butt (and the rest of me) in bed.

So I deleted and reposted my lost post because it wasn't 100% complete. Apparently I have a comment on that post but I didn't see what it was. LJ is not e-mailing me comments.

Uhhh... whoever commented could you please tell me what it was????

Oh so cute - damn me and my big feet

These I love! Maybe not $100 love thought. Jesus - they have an 11 1/2 in wide in black - thank god I have a small bit of self control right now.

I got these after Christmas for $15 in the store. They make me a lot taller.

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Done with shoes for now...

So being a month away, and actually having friends in town who dress up again, I am starting my renn faire planning. I still want to do layers of skirts (or one skirt with layers) like this picture (( cut )

Last year I wore my sad old Irish dress and one of the grommets died on me. ( Read more... )

The dress last year was such a pain in the ass because it stayed the same size but I kept getting fatter. I want to dress up this year, and dress well.

I've always liked the Jolanta from Very Merry Seamstress but the price always made me cringe. The Serena is their least expensive Irish dress, which I just might do this year, but I feel like I'm gonna look awful (I just don't think they should have used this picture on the website). I'm sorry! I'm a self-hating fatty - I can't help it.

I don't trust myself to actually make an over dress that'll hold my stuff in place... I know that if I took the time and was patient with myself I could crank out a costume for the faire, but I just think buying something from a person/company who knows WTF they're doing (and have been doing it for a long time) would be better than doing it myself.

The McCall's costume patterns like this skirt are simple enough to figure out how to make bigger, but I don't trust myself with anything beyond that. They only go up to a size 20, and technically I'm a size 32, but I think I'll be able to figure that part out.

As long as nothing drastic happens to my work schedule I'll be at the faire opening weekend and will look for costume pieces then.

Old (60+) dyke sitting at the free use computer "I don't believe in bipolar disorder... or H1N1."

Now I try not to listen to other people's conversations at Safehouse because I feel like it makes my IQ drop, but this lady and regular are having a back and forth about what medical issues are real and which ones are not.

I'm sorry - H1N1 has happened. It's killed people! The flu (in all the different forms) is a real thing. So are mental disorders.

What.The.Fuck?

I... I have had a very merry Christmas. I'm kinda shocked.

I've spent the last few days with friends who truly TRULY want to spend time with me, I've given gifts that people actually like and enjoy, I've gotten gifts that are greatly appreciated, and spending time with my family this year was truly lovely.

Last year I think I was kind of a mess, and the year before. Maybe 29 will be a good year of my life. I have people in my life who want to be a part of my life and I don't feel like I'm being used for my house or money or doormat like qualities.

NYE I am off of work but have no plans as of right now. I work on the 1st, 2:45-11, not that I drink and have to worry about morning hangovers, and I've got a couple of events at work I'm excited to go on.

It's almost 2 o'clock and family will be coming over soon. Will have to Facebook later.

I feel pretty good about my week. I did the street fair thing. I can't believe it, but THREE people out there that I don't know own my purses. I'm really really happy about it! And they weren't even the purses I made last April for the tattoo convention, they were brand new purses I pulled out of my ass the last minute before the street fair. I basically have three months before the next one - I want to make more shoulder bags (that's what sold) and maybe some small zip up coin purses, you know, something that's five or ten bucks. I made $55 for three purses. I am kinda surprised because I thought they were gonna sell them for like $10 each. My friends I totally understand wanting them, but total strangers, just walking around the fair going, "Hey, this is cool, I want to BUY this," is just awesome!

Jason says I need to put more merit/confidence into what I do. I agree, but I like that he's the type of encouraging person that he is.

For the first time in, well, a few months I've remembered to grab my removable hard-drive while I'm sitting here at the Safehouse. I uploaded, well, a LOT of photos to my facebook account. A lot. Seriously. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40729&id=1533875575&l=abd371272c 

Oh man

I know this has been floating around for a while, but OMG!!!