It's been a while.

Happy Yule, Merry Christmas and all that jazz.

Sorry I havn't blogged in a bit. I was doing really good, but the holiday's caught up with me and it's just been one busy week. I had a really harsh ear ache. It seems to be the product of my wonky neck, a big head (I gotta store all my warped thoughts somewhere) and bad posture. Go fig. :/

Working on a couple of ponies (not here though.) Some are gifts, some are not. I will post the ones that arn't gifts as they are made. The ones that are, well you all are just going to have to wait untill they get where they are going.

Shaggy got me an iDog for x-mas (amongst other assorted things). I got am asian style purse, some craft stuff, a carry all bag and a belt from Aunti. Bartman got me a heat rock for Lina. Shaggy got his coat fabric from me (and someone to read him the directions and try it on to make sure the hem was straight.) He also got a belt from Aunti and some tools. Bartman got him a DVD.

Most of our X-mas stuff is happening tommorow and Tuesday. We are all just chillin' today. Our neiece is at her dad's house s oeveryone wants to wait for her to come over to have party.
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I miss the pigs. :( I haven't heard from the pig sitter. I am sure they are fine. She must have just forgot to call me. I don't want to keep calling her like some stalker.
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Dragon Princess

I finished the pony today. It turned out pretty good IMHO. I hope my niece likes it.

I am going to list what I did to make her look the way she looked so if someone likes my idea and wants to do something similar they can start off in the right direction. But don't just copy my pony. Think up something for your self.

I am going to use these details when I update the main gallery. I want to start keeping photo's of my other creations there as well.

TaDa




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Name: Dragon Princess
Made from: Banjo Blue (G3)
Music: J-Pop
Description:
- Body dyed dark purple
- Hair dyed very dark purple (happy accident :/)
- Blue/purple/pink dragon symbol
- Silver crown symbol on hoof
- Pink, sliver and blue accents on all four hooves.
- Silver freckles on face.
- Partial eye repaint.
- Removable white ribbon on neck and pink ribbon on tail.
- Acrylic sealer on body to make her more durable.

I made a couple happy accidents, but considering this is my first shot it didn't turn out bad at all.

Note to self: Pony hair picks up dye really really well! Better then the plastic in fact!

More pics for you. :)





I apologize about the sucky quality of the photos. They do not do her justice. I have to work on that. But as you can see she is already in the box ready to go and I really don't want to rangle her out. Maybe I can get some good x-mas day action shots.

I am already working on another one. It's very addictive :P

Not that I will take credit for the whole idea (though the design is my own). I got the idea from the tutorial here: Minty's Custom Persuasion.
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Today is Sakura Day! Sakura has lived here for a whole year. I shall giver her an extra carrot today, as she would not appreciate an extra cuddle. :( I *heart* Sakura!

Good night everybody!
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Busy as a Bee

It's been a long busy day today.

Talked to Aunti. Went x-mas shopping for my siblings, my niece and my good friend. Also bought craft supplies. (See sneak preview of next blog)

Then I came home, ate and went with Shaggy to buy fabric for his coat and some stockings.

I still have to go to Petsmart and Lewiscraft. Shaggy wants to go to Old Navy and EB.

I can't believe how fast December went!
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Here's Thursday and Friday's photos. I didn't take too many that I liked.








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But to make up for the lack of photos, here's a sneak peak of what I will write about tomorrow:



Exciting, eh!?
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More Shopping :)

And it was fun. I got a nice fake "fur" and cord jaket (Shaggy hates my white puffy one) from Limite and these pants and leggings at Old Navy. I also got a nice triangle bag for work. Most of what I got was extrememly discounted. I love x-mas sales. Guess I have to thank those Christians for that, at least.

Then Shaggy wanted to stop at EB (but he didn't find whathe was looking for), Compusmart and his personal fav Silk and Satin, and no I won't be posting what he selected.

We also picked up my train tickets.

And I have to do more shopping tommorow. I have to pick my my niece's gift. A gift for a friend. Aunti's secret santa gifts. My sibling's gifts and all the stuff the pigs will need to make it over the weekend without me. I also have to pick up a 5 day fish feeder.

Then Shaggy wants to go to the fabric store to make his Neo coat.

I have one busy day ahead of me. I did take a few photo's today. I will post them later.

Started watching Sailor Moon R again. It is very theraputic.

'Night everybody!
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Better Late then Never

Sorry for no blog yesterday. But I'll post 2, count them 2 blogs today to make up for it.

The reason I never got the chance to blog is that I spent over 2 hours on the phone with my pig sitter/good friend (who forgot my real name :/ ) and Aunti.

But to make up for it you all can click on over to this cuter then cute blog and fawn over cute animals. It's called Cute Overload. Come on Bartman, you know you want to click on it! A whole blog devoted to animal photgraphy at it's best.

I'll post yesterday's few photo's along with any I take today. It's a somewhat long process posting photo's as I have to write in raw html with this client. But when it comes to posting it is fast as hell and it's small and simple and I love it. Besides I couldn't do my mood icons without it.

Well it's the morning and quite frankly I'm not to witty in the morning, so before I bore you with useless chatter I'll just stop typing.

Though I still really need to find a good typing program. 0.o
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Of Su Doku's and Photos

Quick blog again, but this time I included photo's!

I did a Su Doku all by myself today. Shaggy is very proud of me. :)

I got a few people I knew on the dialer at work today. It was nice to talk to someone who actually wanted to talk to me. :)

My friend is resolving her problem, slowly but surely. I am happy for her.

I had a pretty good day, My back hurts a little though. I have to pay attention to my posture at work.

And here's what you all really started reading to see, the photo's. At least I know that's all Bartman is waiting for. But I didn't get any comments for the last set of photo's. I feel so unloved. :(

Here they are:



















Hope you all like them. I kinda have to stick to the same area as I take my walks before work. When I get my next assignment I'll start walking around a different park.
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Want to sleep... but must blog..

Short blog today.

No pictures. I had to go shopping for gloves and a head band so I can brave the cold during my walks. My earmuffs and gloves quit on me so I had to replace them. I got a servicable blue head band and fuzzy grey/blue gloves that match my blue scarf from Auntie (back when she had no clue what to buy me :P )

Tried to intro Lina again. I just don't think it's going to work. Shaggy said we could buy some grids this weekend to rearange the cage so she can see the girls but not have to worry about getting bitten. I think we will have to take her socailization in baby steps.

Situation with friend seems to be improving. More baby steps.

Must sleep: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Good night everybody.
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Are you sure you are alright?

Took more photo's this morning. I couldn't find as nice things to take pictures of as Friday, but I still found a few nice things. I want to retake one shot tommorow. My glasses fogged up and if I didn't get moving I was going to be late for work (or at least not early enough to get a nice keyboard. I got one that was in English and had a working num pad!)

Here's what I got today:






This one looks better real big .




Don't be fooled. These are not two photos of the same thing.


This one is for Shaggy. He keeps asking me to take photos of strange things downtown.
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I am worried about a friend of mine. I'm going to leave out details since she wants this kept confidential and she wants to keep her net handle clean as well. I feel awful for what I had to do, but it had to be done. Someone had to stand up for this poor girl. I hate to see people taken advantage of and I think she is. I think the people bothering her are playing a sick game and need to grow up.

It's one of the very few times I just wanted to stick my arm through the screen and just slap someone. I hate how vapid some people are. I hope the people got the message loud and clear. I won't stand by and let them trample a young woman's heart. She is worth more then that.

All I can do is pray that I did the right thing. I think she is stronger then they think. They think she will go off the deep end over this. I don't think she will. I supported the fall a bit. Do they think I would break such news to her without being there for her? What kind of friends/lovers do they think they are? Would they say such awful things and do such things and not make sure she is OK?
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In lighter news, Lina seems to be taking well to the pine. I can home to find it tracked in and out of the box and saw her hop in to eat hay. She wouldn't do that with the Yesterday's News.
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Dad e-mailed me today. Out of the blue again. I gave him a nice answer. It seems like we are starting the dance all over again. I feel horrible that I can't let him in like a daughter should be able to with her father. I always feel like I have to protect myself. Shaggy isn't the greatest at it. He doesn't understand how my family works or how to do the dance. I don't blame him. I had 18 years to get it perfect while he spent 18 years with a normal family, doing normal things. I think we will always have 2 seperate worlds in Windsor. His and mine. Up here, our home, is the only place they come together. the only other place they come close to is our social life. Luckily, we pretty much have the same friends (other then at work now, which feels strange) Oh well, we have our home here. That's what matters.
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New icon today! I got the scan here: A crumbling Wish shrine. But Wish rocks. You should all find your selves a copy. (it's only 4 volumes people. That's pretty good for a manga.) It's rocks.

Shop till you drop

Had one busy day today. Shaggy and I went grocery shopping then on to the pet supply store to pick up things for our zoo. Then it was off to Yorkdale for shopping and a movie.

I bought this shirt and a pair of pants I just can't find on Old Navy's site. This pair is close but make the belt loops very small ( I can't use a normal belt. But a chain belt would work.) and add a belt.

Shaggy got these. I'll have a well dressed husband yet. Last pair of pants he bought by himself are too tight. They make him look too skinny and don't look very good with his baggy shirts.

I do take issue with the fact that the Old Navy web site does not place nice with Safari. That is so uncool.

But they took a nice polaroid of us and gave it to us when we went shopping. And they gave us candy canes. So I guess it's ok for now.

Then we wnet and saw Aeon Flux. Pretty cool movie. Very short though. Felt like Margret Atwood met the Wachowski brothers. Very interesting. Like a colourful Matrix.

I liked the white veiled outfits. Though the men's "confrence" outfits were pale in comparison. They seemed to be missing something. Maybe hats? Or capes?

I am going to try putting pine shavings in Lina's litter box. Maybe she'll find them softer then Yesterday's News. If not, oh well. A small bag only cost $2 and I can just mix it into the girls litter tray.

Well, I want to wake up and actually get some housework done before work tomorrow. Shaggy would like that. So goodnight.

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Pretty as a picture

Just like I promised, here are the pictures I took on my walk yesterday morning. I got to see the most pure snow (untrampled and not full of dirt and other crud) that I have seen in a long time. I have the feeling very few others in the city appreciated the snow I wished for. But I loved it. Snow is the very best part of winter.















I had a lot of fun running around in the snow taking pictures. It just made my day. Any time I was unhaapy for the rest of the day I thought of going home and unloading all these lovely pictures on my iBook. I have more then these but these are the ones I like the most.

I think I enjoyed the snow more the the rest of my co-workers. I made it something fun. they all thought of it as an annoyance.

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I finally cleared off my desk and got to colouring in the drawing with the markers I bought last week. Here's my desk before:

And after:


It's still a whole lot cleaner then it was before. Heck just moving the sewing machine made it look better. :P

So as you can see the drawing is done (at least the manual part is) See..

All done! I am just waiting for Shaggy to hook up the scanner and install the software again! So if you all want to see a proper scan of the finished product and the balck and white sketch you all better start bugging Shaggy. :P
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Let it snow ...

Shaggy rented that crappy Mr and Mrs. Smith movie. I really don't like it.

I got my wish and it snowed. I took some nifty pictures, I shall post them later.

Not sure what I am going to do this weekend. Shaggy is pretty tired too. I guess we shall find out tomorrow morning.

I do have to find some typing software. It will help my job a lot. Especially since I keep getting crappy key boards.

Yeah, this entry sucks. But that's what we get when I post daily.

Icons are again regretably reused. But hey, I can't help my mood and it's hard to hear music over this crappy movie's soundtrack.

I'm running out of catchy titles people ... :/

Work was better today. It was post college interviews so people knew how we got their number. (The registrar, duh)

Words of wisdom from the supervisor: "Just becuase they are college graduates, don't assume they are smart!"

It was much less grueling and time went much faster.

Found a place to take walks in the morning. Since this place is near the ROM, I can take my morning walks on the Philosopher's Walk. I will bring my camera tomorrow. Maybe I can take some interesting photo's. I hope it snows again soon.

Made a new wallet for my transit pass/tokens today. It looks OK. If I make another one it will look better. I really didn't have instructions. I just worked off photos of another person's wallet. I made it out of bristol board, tape and manga scans. I will post pictures tomorrow or on the weekend.

I'm sleepy. Goodnight everybody.
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Hello, my name is...

Another short blog. I am real sleepy today.

Work was OK. Nobody wanted to be called and the dialer sucked. It called a lot of businesses. But it was still better then shoving chicken wings into a box. And it was warm. Chair could use to be improved but I'll pick up a box of heat patches and a pair of pants this weekend and all will be good.

I do get to have lunch whenever I feel and the supervisor people are nice.

I think I will try to reintro Lina and Tomoyo tonight. She may start to like the company now that I'm not home to pick her up all day.

Shaggy is happy the job worked out. He thinks it's funny.

I have to work of a winblows machine all day :/ The one program is DOS program. How low is that?

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Addition: Lina and Tomoyo and improving. I've had them together since 8:30 pm (now 9: 30 pm) They might not be able to spend the night together but this is the longest they have gone without chattering 90% of the time. *crosses fingers* Shaggy doesn't want me to keep them together over night. He fears the vet bills.

Happy Happy, Joy Joy!!

Short blog. I have been sooo busy today! That's what sucks, the more you have to write about the less time you have.

*Happy Dance!*

I got a job! I start tomorrow. It's market research. I won't write too much yet as I don't know what it will be like but I'll write a whole bunch tomorrow.

But I do get to wear pretty clothes to work for once. I have an awesome outfit picked out. And a yummy lunch.

I did get around to that walk today, but I may not for the rest of the week. I am sure once my schedual settles down I'll pencil it back it. I had an awesome walk today.

Annnnd... today is entry # 7 in a row. That's one whole week. Yay me. :)
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Why won't your die....?!

I still have this damned headache. It's day 3 now. This headache must die.

I am just horrible with headaches. I get cranky and very unproductive. I have tried everything I normaly do to kill headaches. The only thing that has worked so far is Dayquil and taking that for a headache just doesn't seem right. That and it knocks me out as well as any sleeping potion.

I have tried as much acetaminophen as as I dare: 320mg, about as much as 1 regular strength Tylenol tablet. Anymore then that and I'll just feel crappy from taking too much acetaminophen. That's what I get for never taking Tylenol like all the other teens did.

My normal remeady, sleep, has failed me. I am trying to keep myself up even later tonight in an attempt to get a deeper sleep and therefore, hopefully a more restful sleep.

I guess I should try eating some old fashioned veg food instead of my normal lazy substitutions. I'll have some beans and corn or something like that, just in case I am missing some vital food combo to make some elusive amino acid or something.

I have the nagging feeling this is food related. It might also do with the fact that even though my back is still not quite right I have to find some way to get really active, not just stretching. Maybe I'll start to take a walk everyday. It can't hurt. I know I can walk fine. It's the only activity that physio dude isn't antsy about. ('cause I know he hates the way I sit)

I bought some energy bars to help shake my unhealthy and poor fiscal dependancy on Breakfast Anytime shakes (see last entry). These are cheaper and I am pretty sure they are better for me. It's hard to compare % to amounts. My brain just doesn't want to work today.

I just hope it goes away before Shaggy's patience runs out. I hate when he gets annoyed by my not feeling well. It's not like I ask to feel like crap. I just do. I muddle through it the best I can and try to smile and be as normal as I can for him, even though it bites me in the butt later ("Well, you were acting normal half the time.") I'd rather deal with his complaining when I feel better then when I feel like this. At least my brain will work quick enough to do something about it.

I feel better today, and I have done a lot of productive things today, they just aren't very visable. Not as much to show for as a clean house I guess. It's harder to show off a nice cover letter. Especially to someone who has never really had to actually look for a job, let alone one in a big town like this.

Sometimes, I wish just for one day Shaggy and I could switch. He's always been healthy and he's always been one step away from a solution. His brain seems so much less fuzzy then mine.

Then I mentally smack myself and remember that I love him. It's not very nice to wish ill to those you love. Especially when those who love you are so very few and far between.

For those who are used to my happy shiny posts, I am sure we will get back to our regularly schedualed program, just as soon as I shake off this headache.

I told you all I get cranky ....

I guess this is what happens when I try to blog daily. Day 6! That must be double my previous record.
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Now for credits. I reused an icon today, so obviously if you wanna know where I got the screen cap then go look at yesterday's post.

The nifty scan I used for my mood is from here:


House of Black Doujinshi is a really cool doujinshi (Japanese fan made comic. Think fan fic in comic form!) review and scan site. Good place to go if you just don't know which doujinshi are worth your hard earned money.

"Shall I cast this out, this wilted rose?"

I was going to do a really cool blog on The Vanity Project a cool band feturing BNL's Steven Page.

But I have a horrible head ache and a sore neck. So I really don't feel I can do the band justice. I must be comming down with something. At first I thought that my iron deficiency was creeping back up on me. Being vegetarian it's a constant fear (not like meat ever did me any good, since I become vegetarian after I got sick last winter) So I guzzled back a Breakfast Anytime and hoped for the best. That stuff has 50% of your daily dose of iron (my multi-vitamin makes up for the other 50%). So I sat on the subway and waited for the dizzyness and aching to go away. No dice. It softened, but not much.

Usually a box of Breatfast Anytime does the trick. So maybe it's the flu or cold, maybe just a headache. Only time will tell as Tylenol makes me feel crappy. Not very helpful eh?

Not much happened today. Shaggy woke me up to breakfast in bed. Isn't he sweet? He went all the way to McDonald's and got me a McGriddle with no meat. Another reason I doubt this is a nutitional deficiency: I had an egg today. That usually balances everything out. I try to have an egg every two weeks. I have been doing pretty good so far.

Then we watched The Skeleton Key, which pretty much sucked IMHO. I mean, really could it be any more predictable? I'm not big on horror films anyway. Though Shaggy loves horror films and he thought it sucked too.

I then made my way to PetStupid (won't even give them the benefit of a link) to get some hay since my current source is tied up at the moment. She has two very sick pigs and I just don't have the heart to bother her right now. I just sucked it up and bought the expensive PetStupid hay.

But, hopefully, a change of hay will help Spinel gain weight. My pigs love variety when it comes to hay. I guess the grass is always greener in the other bag.

We ordered pizza tonight. I just feel too crappy to cook and Shaggy hasn't cooked for 2 months now, so I think he's forgotten how. We had dinner in bed while we watched Sky High.

Cute little movie Sky High. Much better then The Skeleton Key. I thought the chick who could morph into a guinea pig was awesome and Warren Peace was an interesting character. Not at all what you would expect in a superhero school.

It would have been cooler as an anime though. :P

Well that's it for today. That's all I could muster as I sit here nursing a mug of Five Alive with pedialite ice cubes. I will be surprised if all the html works first shot. It's not much, but it's something and it brings me to 5 days with blogs in a row. w00T.
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Found both the screencaps for today's icons here:

It's a cute Sailor Moon site with lots of nifty things to see.

Gods, I hope I feel more coherent tomorrow.

"Everything will always be alright, when we go shopping"

Two more icons! Yay! I hope you all like them. If you look closely I used the same j-pop idol/actress for both. I didn't even do it on purpose. I was just clicking around the site where I first heard of Chieko-san to get some scans for the album art and stumbled upon the perfect sleepy photo.

Both scans can be found here:


I frequent that site a lot. I absolutely love the layout. It's gorgeous. It's also a very good place for some real nice photobook scans. I love photobooks. I wish I had some. I have one but it's not the greatest. It's more kidish then anything. I have this one. (Scroll past the huge image.) Hint for anyone who doesn't know what to buy me for Yule. I'd love anyone who got me a photobook to bits. :D

I just got some Chieko Kawabe songs today. She is very talented. I like her style. I also find her very pretty. If you want to listen to some of her work you can download a song legally and free here.

Download.com was swallowed into the black hole that is msn. Blah!

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Shaggy and I went shopping today :) We had lots of fun. Shopping has been a chore for me since I hurt my back, but today I felt better and Shaggy was in a good mood so I had fun. Didn't feel too good on the subway though :(

We picked up his train tickets. We are waiting to pick up mine. *Crosses fingers* I may have a job by then and if I do I won't know my schedual so it's good to wait. Hopefully if we go down on the same days we can get the same train. I am sure we can get the same on there, but maybe not back. Maybe I can go home early then :P

Then we walked through the underground to the Eaton Centre. We picked up a gift for 2 of this years 3 secret santa giftees. We got the gift for my GL giftee and for Shaggy's mom Secret Santa (his autie is doing a seperate one).

After that we went to Freshly Squeezed and got some smoothies then went on to fun shopping. We went looking all over the Eaton centre for decent warm leggings and finally found some at Sears (though we didn't leave empty handed from Old Navy. We got free breakfast bars.) We also found the coolest leg warmers! I certainly didn't expect to find too many cool things at Sears. But these look super cool. Now I can wear skirts outside and not get cold. I'm happy and Shaggy is happy (he would be the happiest man alive if I work a skirt everyday)

Here's my leg warmers and leggings (and the skirt I wore to my SIL's wedding. I really like that skirt):


Then we walked to Curry's and bought some Prismacolor markers so I can start doing the colour on the drawing I am doing for the blog. They were on sale too, so I was able to get many :) I think I am going to buy what ever I need for each drawing instead of going out and buying say a 12 pack of colours I may or may not use. This means more trips to Curry's but a better selection for me.

Though that 48 pack *did* look tempting. *Sigh* but for $138.95 it's a little bit much.

Then when we got home I cooked a bit. Shaggy and I piged out on Noel Nog (vegan egg nog) and Carmel Rolls (not vegan, but yummy)
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Aaaand, before I go I'll post some photo's of the pigs being silly. I hope you all like them. :)


Sakura figured out that if she sits *in* the hay rack Ukyou can't smack her as she eats. She also doesn't have to reach up for her food. Lazy pig!


"I think I'll eat in tonight." Lina likes her new super warm sleeping box so much that she eats her veggies in it.

Good Night everybody!

Why don't you pick up your paint brushes anymore?

I was asked by a good friend to post one of my paintings. He asked why I never paint or draw anything other then anime anymore. Unless requested to (this is the same guy that keeps asking me to design tattoos. He claims they are addictive.) I stick to mostly anime self portraits. I have a very good reason why I don't draw or paint anything else: I don't have to anymore.

Art School can be grueling. All through high school and college I had to paint things that may or may not appeal to me and attempt to make them look "inspired". I basically had to make it look like I was actually interested. Sometimes this was easy, sometimes this wasn't. I spent 4 years of high school and 1 year of art school drawing what I really didn't want to draw most of the time. Anime and manga were not something that was acceptable. So try as I might to sneak some in, if I wanted good grades I had to do what was asked. It sucked.

On top of that painting is expensive. I paint *large* and large canvases can get expensive. Paint isn't cheap and I tend to abuse brushes (I also don't clean them well enough. I'm bad X3 ). So painting is an expensive endevour (at least the way I paint)

Then I'd have to find a place to put all these paintings. I don't have nearly enough wall space and my closet is already full of all my high school/college works.

And quite frankly, Shaggy seems to hate my paintings. He loves my anime drawings, but would love to pitch the paintings in the closet. Shaggy can be quite vocal in his displeasure, and as much as I say I don't care if other people like my art, Shaggy seems to be the exception to that rule. ('cause I really don't care if the rest of you like my stuff. Unless you are paying me, then I will care a lot. :P ) So there you have it.

But I do have a few paintings I like a bit, mostly from high school. So someday when Shaggy rearranges the space over the closet I will that pictures of them. I am too short to reach so you are all at his mercy.

Before I post a link to my painting I will warn you that it is a nude painting. So all you kiddos out there, if you don't feel mature enough to look at it *don't*. I feel it's tasteful. I don't paint playboy pinups. If you have a problem with it don't read my blog or click on links with warnings.

Now that that's done and over with here is my painting.

It's much better in person. There is a bit of glare I could not avoid when taking the picture.

If you have any comments please leave them *here* on my blog. If you like/hate my painting I want to read it here. I want to post a whole lot more pictures and I like to be able to go back and see what worked, what didn't and what people think. I can't do that if you IM, e-mail, post your comment on the forum or call me. I just can't keept rack of it all X/
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In other news:

I finally broke down and started making my own mood icons. iBlog has a nifty feature that allows for text substatution. So I type one thing and when I post a whole boatload of code takes it's place. Nifty eh?

So I have started making mood and music icons. It's not hard for me. It takes me 10 minutes to make one. So everytime I have a new mood or I'm listning to something different I will make a new icon.

The music icons are something I thought up on my own. By the time I have finished writting on entry I have probably heard at least 7 songs, so instead of listing just one song I'll list the over all theme of what's playing on iTunes. It may be one artist it may be a genre, who knows?

When I make enough of them I may offer them on the main site. But that may take a while. The would make good LJ and forum icons too.

Here's the credits for the scans that made today's icons:


Three days with entries in a row. W00t! Let's hope I can keep it up.

Happiness is a skinny pig sleeping on your lap.

Mood: Content
Music: None

Lina is a happy pig right now. It was very cold when I woke up this morning. Too cold for poor Lina. So I put on my robe, grabbed Lina and my laptop and trudged back to bed. Lina is now warm and happy under the blankets. She's even making her little happy noises. I love her big red ears. :)

Ukyou is napping on the bed too. Silly kitty.

I started the drawing for the new blog layout yesterday. I just have to clean up the line drawing, photocopy it, then colour it with markers. This is a new technique I learned from How to Draw Manga Vol 15: Girl's Illustration File I hope it works well. If not, oh well, I wasted 10 cents and some ink.

I really need some new markers though. First off I never had a decent collection of Prismacolor markers. I had a grey/beige pack and a basic colour pack. That's it. Two, my red, my precious precious red ran out! At the very least I need a new red marker. Maybe I can pick up a red one this weekend :) I can't finish the layout of the picture without it and Shaggy seems egar to see me drawing again.

Shaggy wants to get me a ton of supplies now. He seems to think it will help me draw. Silly boy. The secret ingrdient is angst. I just seem to have more of it in the winter the past few years.

Though it would be nice to get some Copic markers someday. I'd like to see if there is much of a difference. If not I'll just stick to Prismacolor. Or maybe Chartpak. I have a nice Chartpak blender I bought in college when I forgot my Prismacolour one at home and needed it for class.