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I'm pleased to announce, even my recently turned 90 great grandmother approves of my cosplay. Actually, she's the one who gave me my sewing machine! I was at my grandparents today taking advantage of their nice garden to take some cosplay photos and she happened to be staying over at the time.

The majority of the photos from today are on film so I'm going to wait till I get them developed before posting any =p. Though I refuse to get them developed at my local Kmart, they always such an awful job on even digital prints I really don't think I want to give them the chance to destroy my negatives to make badly printed photos. So I may just have to wait a bit longer. I still really want to do a photoshoot at Melbourne uni, with its lovely, appropriate buildings. _{Why do I have to go to uni in what's basically a refurbished office block? ;_;}


Now, two memes! Taken from sute_hikahika Comment with your questions and answers<3


IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me know with whom I'm friends!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Movie:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

Meme 2

The problem with LiveJournal is that we think we're close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic drawing? cosplay? other misc work? of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Last night I got subjected to the biggest load of bullshit I ever heard in my life. that wasn't a economics lecture


How did this happen?
I was dragged along to an introductory session of the "Landmark cultForum".

( cut for ranting and possible offence )

It was with some amusement that I heard that today was the warmest June day in so many years(I can't recall the exact figure), considering that today started out sunny, and then got very windy and it rained a lot. And that the past two weeks have been positively golden, it's been cold but clear and sunny. Melbourne weather is truly a mystery...but I guess we're not known as the city with four seasons in one day for nothing.

Windy days always make me think of this particular suite by Vaughan Williams, the Partita for Double Strings

So apart from musing about the weather I really haven't got a lot to sayThe fact I am waffling about the weather is evidence enough I really do have nothing to say ...I went to work today and that's about it...and am now working on an outline, and trying to think of character names for a short comic thing I'm trying to draw...I need a name derived from constellations(stars being a theme in this story), but have no idea what ones are most visible/important in the northern hemisphere, Tokyo in particular...I think I will be looking up this at workassuming there's any books left-_-

_{haha and something that's not the Pleiades or the North star...I know what it's starting to sound like here >_}

Needles broken-5
Reels of gold thread used-6
Injuries sustained-See previous post, also burnt fingers on iron and cut thumb with a knife.

...anyway, the point is, after many months and hours I have finally finished the bishop!Subaru costume! I do believe I started the costume before I went to Japan.
_{Ok so I do have to iron the cape...}

That gold thread was pure evil to sew with. Its very brittle, so it constantly breaks. The end result I think was worth it though. Oh and each reel had 1000 metres of thread on it. The thread actually cost a lot more than the fabric(of which the gold and some of the black were free, and the rest of the fabric was cheaply bought)

I'd photo spam, but I'm too tired to take photos. Did not sleep well the past two nights, because my toe was aching while I was trying to get to sleep. Why must things hurt more at night time? ;_;.

But it feels so damn good having a complete costume more than a month before the convention. In fact, I think this is a first for me^^

...and now, to start my Ashura costume...which has very little sewing at all, but armour construction, which I've never done before...

<;_;

My Friday night was really not supposed to end up being driven to the doctors because I gouged my toe open by a chair leg. It didn't even hurt that much...until I took my sock off and saw how much blood there was.

I still wouldn't have gone to the doctor but my mother was very insistent. Which probably means I really should, she wouldn't insist unless she thought it reasonably serious. She's generally not the fretful sort. Quite the opposite actually.
Our regular doctor clinic wasn't open(and nor were any others in our suburb), but the is a 24 hour clinic about 15 minutes away.
We get to the doctors and my sister explains the situation and tells them I'm a lot of pain.(and by then, I was)

I'm standing there clutching my foot and shaking. The receptionist then rather coolly asks for my Medicare card, and then gets me to recite my name, date of birth, address and phone numbers. Which ends up sounding a bit like "Sha- Shannon- Jade...etc". I then had to fill out a form.

A nurse then came and put a temporary dressing on my foot so I wasn't bleeding all over the their nice clean white floor.

It all got bandaged up in the end, I was told not to go to work tomorrow and to come back on Sunday for a new dressing and to make sure it doesn't get infected. Oh joy. The doctor seemed to think I have a very high pain tolerance. That's not the first time a doctor has said that either, so I guess I do? Either way, they expected me to be in a lot more pain than what I was. That's not to say it doesn't hurt though...

...and I'm not even terribly enthused about the day off, even though I'll still get paid and everything. I haven't gone to work since Tuesday, so I'm actually kind of bored. It's given me a lot of time to sew...I've so very nearly finished the Subaru costume, all I have to do is a little bit more gold edging, and line the cloak.

XD actually, this whole incident happened because I was sewing. I was moving my foot as I sat down to get to the sewing machine pedal, and it got caught under the chair...mmm cosplay war wounds

I

I had dreadful nightmares this morning(I'd woken up and gone back to sleep) It was dark outside and raining, even though in my dream I knew it was mid morning. It was a Friday(even though it Tuesday?) and I was logging onto my computer because I thought I had classes that day and wasn't sure. Then, there was an earthquake and everything was shaking and I was trying to get put of the house while it was falling down around me. I woke up absolutely terrified.
I was very relieved to find it was a dream...but then I tried to go back to sleep, but kept getting nervous and waking right back up again every time I heard a loud/heavy truck on the highway behind our house.

I don't normally have nightmares ;_;. When I was about 5 or so when we had first moved into this house I used to have lots of nightmares about earthquakes/the house falling down...but my mother managed to trick me into not having nightmares by buying one of those dream catcher things and telling me that it would stop bad dreams. Power of the mind hmmm? But that was what, 16 years ago? I'm 21 now...

Anyway, I was relating this dream to my mother this morning(we both have very vivid dreams, so this is a common topic of discussion in the morning XD)her conclusion was that my brothers music he was playing very loudly this morning must have subconsciously influenced my dream. He listens to that awful techno doof doof ...can I even grace it with calling it music? I didn't remember hearing it, so evidently I slept through the noise. My mother then went on a ramble about how Australia is in the middle of a big tectonic plate and therefore the worst that can happen is really minor earthquakes. Mind you there were about 3 earlier on in the year, and I only noticed one

Who knows she might even be right about the music influencing dream.

So apart from having nightmares my day was actually pretty good!(except for maybe the little children giving me death glares because their mum got angry at being told she had to pay library fines)
Band rehearsal was epic. We have a performance coming about in which we're playing dance music for old fogies. Among other things, the oldies want waltzes. Our music folders are distinctly lacking in waltzes. So our conductor was all like "Find ANYTHING in the folder that's in 3/4 or even in compound time and we'll try and make it a waltz". The end result was hilarious. (though in the end someone in the band who is an arranger said he has something at home that would be suitable) We also had to find something to play for a barn dance. I don't think anyone has ever danced a barndance to "76 Trombones" before, but they're going to now!

On Friday, I finally sat that Commercial Law exam I had been so dreading. I actually think I did pretty OK which probably means I failed miserably XD It was an open book exam, so I got some odd looks from the examiners when they saw my notes XD

So now I've pretty much been bumming around working on cosplay, drawing or playing video games, amidst occasionally working. Nothing particularly worthy of posting imagery has been done, so you're free of my spam for a little while at least. I did start sticking purple trimming to my cape today though, and some of the patterns^^

I also recently bought Twilight Princess for Wii and a Japanese learning game for my DS~ I havn't yet unlocked the lessons past stuff I already know, so its like revision but more fun! HOWEVER It has the stroke order for a couple of kana wrong which is VERY annoying.(よ and ヒ are the ones I can immediately think of but yea, annoying) Apart from teaching people the wrong stroke order in their kana, it's actually rather good so far.

Impending exam! Supposed to be studying!

Study?...Study?......COSPLAY!

Um yeah anyway, the point of this post was to spam you with cosplay progress imagery. I've now finished every thing except the cloak/cape whatever you want to call it thing.

( definite lack of study is apparent... )

I'll study tomorrow, I'm not a procrastinator. Bah looking at my notes just makes me want to draw, not care about contracts, trade practices act, negligence etc etc ad nauseam. Cept maybe for 'special relationship. We have a soft spot for that. .

Actually, this week and last week have been a bit lazy...mostly because work haven't been ringing me like they normally do. RING ME DAMMIT I NEED TRAVEL MONEY! APPROVE MY LEAVE ALSO.

I'm sorry I blame my mood on the lemon ice tea =3 Wheeeeeee~

Final point of randomness. Tsubasa.
a)wtf. Unimpressed.
b)hurry up and finish it already and then finish the other things that are unfinished
c)adult Sakura does however look quite pretty! But she also reminds me of someone and I can't think of who. I'm getting the feeling its someone from either X or RG Veda though.

Well today got very *interesting*. I had my Japanese exam today...I managed to get there, after some incident...

( It all turned out ok in the end... )

Ahh I'm quite awake despite the hour, after getting home from dinnery fun times with rowr_paintbrush The Corinthians are keeping me awake!sweet sugar content=3 XD I got tagged in this meme~ tagged by sute_hikahika

Handwriting meme

Rules:
1) write your username.
2) write your the name of two of your favourite bands/artists.
3) write "i ♥ ______". this is to see how you write hearts.
4) write the name of your all-time favourite person.
5) write the name of a recently favoured person.
6) tag six people to do this.

( because you don't already get enough of my crappy handwriting from my lecture 'notes' )

I had the oddest dream last night, it involved snow and roses and invisible cherry blossoms @_@ XD though I didn't realise how amusing the invisible cherry blossoms sounded until I was relating my dream to a colleague at work today.

=D Long weekend! I'm of a mind to get that bishop hat done this weekend, I have Monday and Sunday free...and then an exam on Tuesday. Study? Maybe? I think it can adequately be done on the train and tram adventure that is getting to the exam. Why do the have to make the exam so out of the city centre?! It takes me an hour to get uni as it is >=

Hmmm well I got my project log/reflection that I was supposed to get done finished...though not without being distracted by:

-colouring in drawings
-working on cosplay
-watching Hetalia
=playing Wii _{Super Smash Brothers yey~}
-attempting to translate an interview with CLAMP from a magazine I bought in Japan...let me emphasis attempted
-going out to Spanish resturant with mother and sister...mmm it was tasty^^
-being amused by all the emails my work and university have sent about swine flu.
-going to the shops to buy an ironing board because mum wont let me use hers any more;_;_{I wanted to work on cosplay!} This turned into an extended adventure in which I also had to take my little sister to the hairdresser and buy her that fourth Twilight book, which ended up b being sold out at all the shops in the local shopping centre. Unfortunately the bookshop near my uni had copies in stock, so I was obligated to buy it when I went to hand in my assignment. Paying actual money for that book makes me weep, but at least I got paid back...


I swear I'm not a complete bum! I worked on Tuesday...

And here's the pictures I was working on~


Lost in Tokyo by ~yoru-yume on deviantART


Wind in time... by ~yoru-yume on deviantART

D= and I've also managed to cut the thumb of my left hand on a mirror, and burn my left index finger with an iron_{working my way down my fingers...}

I can breathe a huge sigh of relief, for today I finally finished/submitted the last to major assignments I had to finishafter epic procrastination, and classes are pretty much over for the semester, except for Japanese.

So now all I've got to do write 2 dialogues for Japanese and a reflection on my industry project...what fun -_-. It won't take long to do though.

Oh and study for my comm law exam...though when my notes for the final revisionary lecture look something like this, I wonder what my chances of passing are XD.
( final lecture doodling )

I also have the spoken and written parts of my Japanese exam to do, but that will be easy <3 We did the listening part of the exam last week, and I felt very weird and stupid during the exam. I was supposed to listen to the dialogue, and answer the questions in English. I understood the dialogue fine. But then I had a complete and utter mental blank and forgot how to say it in English! It's a bit hard to explain, I hope I made sense. But then, forgetting your native language and thinking in a language you know only the basics of doesn't make sense @_@ _{and it was really simple words too, like February and shopping ;_;}

All remaining homework is being put off for am going to spend the rest of the evening happily colouring things in~ and I've also been writing, which is a bit...unusual for me

And I have to say, Tori Amos's new album is very disappointing...

Its nearly winter~ The trees in the garden are looking rather pretty at the moment, so with the help of my mother of all people, I finally took some decent photos of my Tsubasa!Subaru cosplay. I won't post toooo many photos, since chances are Clare(mah Kamui) and I will and I will take more on the weekend.(We have an assignment to do...which means anything but is likely to happen^^; ).

( Waiting in the leaves of autumn... )

My mum got all artistic on me and tried to make me pose so she could make effects with sunbeams...and then there was much throwing of autumn leaves around. They would have been interesting photos, except I'm pulling weird expressions in all of them, wondering why the hell my mother is telling my to put my hand in strange positions. I couldn't see the sunbeam ok?

http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20090518 <---It happened to meeeeee, today, except via post it notes stuck to returned books. It was highly amusing.

At least I did some of that assignment...

Otherwise I worked on cosplay =D

I fixed up most of the issues with my Tsubasa!Subaru costume, and did more of the bishop!Subaru

( bish progress photos~ )
Camera flash makes it look too shiny =0. The parts I did today were the gold sun thing on the middle layer, and the two shorter sashes. Doing all that gold pattern is so very fiddly...the patterns are cut out from solid blocks of gold fabric, and then I have stick it do the fabric and then machine embroider around the outlines...I have much stitching to do!

Was that an earthquake before? Everything was shaking... @_@

Should be finishing my assignment...but distraction is rife!
Also finished this and uploaded...explanation of it is in the notes on DA

Wait by ~yoru-yume on deviantART

Forget the superglue, I think this is the solution to all our cosplay needs!



My brother made me watch this video pretty much as I walked through the door returning home from my singular uni lecture today. Commercial law...fuuuun. Contrary to most of the youtube videos he tries to make me watch, this was actually kind of amusing.

Speaking of cosplay, I bough more pretty fabrics today for that Clow cosplay. I have everything I need now! I also got my sewing machine back(It was being serviced). So I have plenty incentive to work on cosplay, and very little to do my assignments. But seriously, who wants to write a paper on archiving?!

And what is a commercial law lecture without some sort of dubious art?
Clare just had to make her creative contributions, in the form of a puddle. Which in turn led to idiocy and a particularly emo looking drawing and a long disclaimer. And now I'm contractually bound to make Clare a birthday caek. With no floaties.
( Discharge of Contract notes...or not )

Sooo, I finally resumed reading Yami No Matsuei, and was getting excited and got up to Volume 11, finished that and was ready to rush out and read/buy the next volume...then to discover that is the last published volume, and it's been on hiatus for some years...much like a certain other mangaka CLAMP

;_;

I think the artwork for the series is beautiful, especially the way she draws hair and clothes...that and the entertaining characters more than make up for the sometimes inconstant and poorly plotted (and sometimes disturbing)storyline ...really, it's a bit incoherent sometimes. I wish I could draw like that! It's something to inspire me.

In other news, I've been working on cosplay, practising for a piano exam, and trying to evade the fact I have assignments or homework that need to be done for all of my 4 subjects.

I'm also quite traumatised by the fact the library I work for wants to get rid of 1/3 of its book collection, for no good reason other than aesthetics. That's thousands of books! Whyyyyyyy?

;_;

Obligatory "I got stimulated by the Prime Minister" comment XD

Free money. =D I have been stimulated!
Kevin Rudd even got a mention in the dialogue a friend and I had to present to our class. Sensei thought it was very funny and gave us extra marks, so now we have 2 reasons to be grateful.

XD The first thing I plan to spend it on is piano tuning though...and then cosplay...and the rest will be saved for my next trip overseas.