I'd like one small city hat or perhaps something large enough for a chipmunk to live in a la the mother from Kodocha [although that was her hair and not a hat ^^] Seems like a plan is in the works and I look forward to seeing the end result, perhaps including some tense and epic, crescendoing music and a lot of cut scenes between you, your captive, and the approaching train.
Ooh online tea shoppe! Links must be shared when awesome things are found. It is the law. ^__^
I'm so jealous of everyone who gets snow. I'm from upstate NY and lived in Buffalo for several years before moving down South and I miss the snow most of all. [And the gnocci, but that's a different story.] I don't miss shoveling it or sliding backward down a hill in the car or the whiteouts, but I miss how pretty it is and how just before a storm you can practically smell the snow in the air... Down here an inch is a big deal and they close all the schools and businesses and interrupt all the local TV channels to talk about how Raleigh's one whole snow plow is gearing up for the 'storm.' Sad.
Oh, Kodocha! I loved that manga. Didn't she have a little cuckoo clock hairstyle at some point too? ^_^ You should absolutely get a little chipmunk villa hat! That would be too darling. <3
While it is not the most stylish site, this one seems to have all sorts of goodies for a proper tea setting. It makes me want to invest in a pair of dainty white gloves with little pearl buttons on the cuffs. I've yet to dig through the whole site but I am almost certain those could be found there as well.
I lol'd so hard about Raleigh's one snow plow. That is one plus about living here: they really have this snow plow thing down really well and the roads are cleared right away, salt and sand are thrown down and they keep the roads cleared. Although we had another storm just in time for my drive home from work which resulted in a tangled mess of traffic when usually it is a pretty quick drive. Guess I'll have to speed up my work on that disintegrating raygun I've been working on in my lab.
East coast represent, yo! I am actually a Boston transplant myself. [And, actually, France before that, when I was much smaller.] Some days I miss Boston, the city, but not Bostonian people. Yum, gnocchi. There are just some things that are so much better in certain places than anywhere else, aren't there? I can't get good clam chowder out here to save my life, no matter the quality of the restaurant. [On the flip side, the Asian food is extraordinary here with the dense Vietnamese population and I've had the best Pho in my life here, even including the Pho I've had in Viet Nam.]
Hmm... are you familiar with BPAL? If you are, then I don't need to tell you how delicious the scents are and if you are not... oh boy. Prepare to have your socks rocked off. You may like this one in particular for the winter:
SNOW WHITE 2008 A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers.
I think she has every hairstyle conceivable at one point or another in the manga, although the castle/fortress one is my favorite.
I haven't been all the way through the site yet either, but it's very cute. I almost always favor Gothic Victorian to Romantic or Shabby Victorian, but there don't seem to be a lot of Gothic Victorian tea sets out there ^^; Little white gloves with pearl buttons would be so perfect for a high tea ^__^
We really do have only one or so official city snowplows. Every time that we're forecast for a storm, every local news channel does a feature where their report and the guy from the DOT is standing in front of our one giant salt pile and talking about how much it'll deplete and how worried they are that we won't make it all the way through the winter. As a Northerner, I find it all hysterical, but when it snows, plowing or not, I don't go out because the people here drive like morons in the snow. They think 4 wheel drive is synonymous with "will not have accident." It's safer to stay in. When I lived in Buffalo and Upstate NY they had a fleet of plows and salt trucks and although your car was white 9 months out of the year, getting around wasn't all that difficult.
Ah, I've visited Boston a few times and have always enjoyed it. Food is definitely a regional thing and once you leave that region, it's extremely difficult to find comparable replacements. Pizza and Italian were big where I grew up and then Polish food [mmm... perogi...] in Buffalo. Down here there are amazing biscuits, but that's about the extent of it imo, since a lot of the other things the South is known for I don't eat [pulled pork bbq, hoppin' johns, and okra to name a few.]Yum... making myself hungry now--lol
I know about BPAL and have visited the site lots of times, however I haven't tried anything of theirs yet because I have no sense of smell. When I was little it was really weak and as I've gotten older, my olfactory nerves have shut down almost completely. Ammonia is about the only thing I smell and I think that's just a burning feeing more than a scent. So I really only get perfume when I have someone to impress by wearing them, but I'm always interested in suggestions since I can't exactly test things out for myself. ^^; That Snow White perfume sounds awesome, too.
Ooh online tea shoppe! Links must be shared when awesome things are found. It is the law. ^__^
I'm so jealous of everyone who gets snow. I'm from upstate NY and lived in Buffalo for several years before moving down South and I miss the snow most of all. [And the gnocci, but that's a different story.] I don't miss shoveling it or sliding backward down a hill in the car or the whiteouts, but I miss how pretty it is and how just before a storm you can practically smell the snow in the air... Down here an inch is a big deal and they close all the schools and businesses and interrupt all the local TV channels to talk about how Raleigh's one whole snow plow is gearing up for the 'storm.' Sad.
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While it is not the most stylish site, this one seems to have all sorts of goodies for a proper tea setting. It makes me want to invest in a pair of dainty white gloves with little pearl buttons on the cuffs. I've yet to dig through the whole site but I am almost certain those could be found there as well.
I lol'd so hard about Raleigh's one snow plow. That is one plus about living here: they really have this snow plow thing down really well and the roads are cleared right away, salt and sand are thrown down and they keep the roads cleared. Although we had another storm just in time for my drive home from work which resulted in a tangled mess of traffic when usually it is a pretty quick drive. Guess I'll have to speed up my work on that disintegrating raygun I've been working on in my lab.
East coast represent, yo! I am actually a Boston transplant myself. [And, actually, France before that, when I was much smaller.] Some days I miss Boston, the city, but not Bostonian people. Yum, gnocchi. There are just some things that are so much better in certain places than anywhere else, aren't there? I can't get good clam chowder out here to save my life, no matter the quality of the restaurant. [On the flip side, the Asian food is extraordinary here with the dense Vietnamese population and I've had the best Pho in my life here, even including the Pho I've had in Viet Nam.]
Hmm... are you familiar with BPAL? If you are, then I don't need to tell you how delicious the scents are and if you are not... oh boy. Prepare to have your socks rocked off. You may like this one in particular for the winter:
SNOW WHITE 2008
A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers.
I'm a BPALaholic. ^__^
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I haven't been all the way through the site yet either, but it's very cute. I almost always favor Gothic Victorian to Romantic or Shabby Victorian, but there don't seem to be a lot of Gothic Victorian tea sets out there ^^; Little white gloves with pearl buttons would be so perfect for a high tea ^__^
We really do have only one or so official city snowplows. Every time that we're forecast for a storm, every local news channel does a feature where their report and the guy from the DOT is standing in front of our one giant salt pile and talking about how much it'll deplete and how worried they are that we won't make it all the way through the winter. As a Northerner, I find it all hysterical, but when it snows, plowing or not, I don't go out because the people here drive like morons in the snow. They think 4 wheel drive is synonymous with "will not have accident." It's safer to stay in. When I lived in Buffalo and Upstate NY they had a fleet of plows and salt trucks and although your car was white 9 months out of the year, getting around wasn't all that difficult.
Ah, I've visited Boston a few times and have always enjoyed it. Food is definitely a regional thing and once you leave that region, it's extremely difficult to find comparable replacements. Pizza and Italian were big where I grew up and then Polish food [mmm... perogi...] in Buffalo. Down here there are amazing biscuits, but that's about the extent of it imo, since a lot of the other things the South is known for I don't eat [pulled pork bbq, hoppin' johns, and okra to name a few.]Yum... making myself hungry now--lol
I know about BPAL and have visited the site lots of times, however I haven't tried anything of theirs yet because I have no sense of smell. When I was little it was really weak and as I've gotten older, my olfactory nerves have shut down almost completely. Ammonia is about the only thing I smell and I think that's just a burning feeing more than a scent. So I really only get perfume when I have someone to impress by wearing them, but I'm always interested in suggestions since I can't exactly test things out for myself. ^^; That Snow White perfume sounds awesome, too.
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