I just wanted to do a quick update, since I haven't done on in awhile.  My travel plans are go!  I'll be going on Contiki's European Impressions tour August 7th - August 27th.  I'm very excited to see all the landmarks, eat all the food, and meet new people, but I'm also happy to see that there are many lolita stores all over Europe!  There's one ( Read more... )

Since my last post, I've been checking on Ancestry.com at least a few times a week to see if there are any more hints, records, or matches to other trees. Also, I've been double checking records to see if a mistake threw me off originally. I've come to find that US records have a vast array of mistakes, and have been going about correcting them for ( Read more... )

As you might know, it's been a long time dream of mine to A) actually find out about my family history, which is very tough due to name changes and bad record keeping and B) travel not only to the places of my own origin, but really travel the world.  I finally got an account on Ancestry.com, which is going to be costing me $25 a month (FFFFFF), ( Read more... )

Alright, I've thought about it for awhile and I've decided I really want to do at least these two things this summer ( Read more... )

I had a great time at Ocean City, and I decided to be a huge dork and take about 50 pictures, which I will be posting when I get around to it (mostly of the piers, because we all know how I love amusement parks), but hte whole while I was there, every so often cosplay stuff kept popping up in my head! So, I've finally come up with a list not only ( Read more... )

I went to Zern's yesterday and, lo and behold, they had the dressform!  It has some things that I'll definitely have to work on, but it ended up being $100 instead of the $200 I'd originally thought, so I'm fine with putting some work into it.  The main problem is rust, so I'll be breaking out the Brillo pad later today.

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