Just making a mock entry for the EGL wardrobe post! Does not include stuff I'm trying to sell (to never wear again) and some off-brand or handmade stuff, although there's some in there.

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This isn't really a tutorial of how to sew a skirt, it's more of how I made this skirt, mostly because I was too lazy to take really good photos. The steps below assume you already know how to use a sewing machine to sew a basic gathered rectangle skirt, of which there are a few tutorials out there, but I'll describe the steps briefly. Please feel ( Read more... )

This was my Halloween costume this year, Mu Lan from ABC's Once Upon a Time, which Cat told us about and which we are currently making our way through season two. I really like this rendition of her armor when I first saw it on the show, and I said, I'm going to make that costume. This costume was difficult enough to challenge me while still being ( Read more... )

I know, not much updating here, because not much has happened outside of the norm. Work is the same, stressful, full of disappointment in between stretches of being unappreciated except by a couple of drug junkies whose addictions I must be feeding ( Read more... )

I posted the rest of my photos of the trip to Australia on Facebook plus a few funny ones on Tumblr. I'd love to talk a little about my first trans-oceanic, trans-hemispheric vacation, but things are pretty shitty right now at work and I just want to sleep and forget about this shitty world ( Read more... )

I did get a cool Princess Bride glass, cute food and guts things, and this beautiful Asian ball-jointed-doll from Cat! I always loved playing with dolls, granted not in the traditional way, as I set my Barbies and My Little Ponies up to be Amazon soldiers fighting a long and epic war with my brother's Ninja Turtles and Transformers. My favorite ( Read more... )

I've been busy! But I got last weekend off to hang out in Austin with Cat for the day after her birthday and also have a tea party and it was super fun and broiling hot at the same time. We ate much good food, however, that means little coming from me who works all day and never gets lunch breaks so therefore any food tastes good.

( recap for my own memories, of which we all know I have little )

I always feel particularly lonely on Father's Day. I feel like I resemble my father the most, I heard somewhere that daughters resemble their fathers, sons their mothers, and I think it applies. In the end, I think he would be proud of me, even if most of the world isn't that happy to see me.

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