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So we all know what origami is.
And this dude makes origami out of money. 1dollar butterfly?
Check it out! XD

I was turning right when some evil bint in a huge red van stared me down and cut me off from one lane over. She very nearly crushed my tiny car flat but I lucked out. I followed her to the parking lot of the Target but by the time I got out of my car she was already in the store, so I wrote a hilarious note on the back of a Cub dietary fiber guide and stuck it on her windshield. I wish I could have yelled at her in person, but no way am I hunting her down in this boxing day store madness.

Just a quick heads-up: If you send me an LJ note but have enabled the privacy option for your messages, I cannot reply to you unless you add me as a friend or turn off that option. This is the first time I've encountered this error. I feel bad, because I have no way to reply to this message or let the sender know that I'm having this difficulty and am not ignoring them.



I hope that everyone had a great holiday!

Ok ok so it isn't brilliant, technically speaking, to go running around up to one's knees in snow on a slush-covered lake in the middle of the night in one's long underwear and with only a very enthusiastic dog for company, but boy is it fun. There are two snow-fatasses out there somewhere where the Captain managed to knock me ass over teakettle. I made up for it by grabbing wads of super-smooshy surface snow and making him play fetch with them. HA.

It is perfect snowman snow right now because it has been above freezing all day and sleeting like a mofo. Even after the huge meltoff this afternoon it's at least a foot deep.

The neighbor's 30 foot tree has given up the fight against the elements and gone all floppy octopus noodles across his backyard. It looks like some really deranged modern artist's depiction of a windstorm in Gumbyland, but more snowy.

This is my first time being snowed in. Exciting! I did many Xmas things like eating pie and laughing at the unfortunate, and even watched the Half Blod Prince movie I've been making myself wait for. I loved it.

Rain gave me Titanic themed gifties... a big map of the ship's blueprints, dates and facts, all that good shit. And some ice cube molds shaped like wee Titanics and icebergs for my next super morbid party. Fuck yeah.

And yummy sushi socks, a bacon chocolate bar, and a strange hawaiian hair-cthulhu with shells woven in. The new housemates gave me a small powerful space heater that, like, oscilates and shit. And Hurricane Michael gave me an interesting Xmas card that doubles as a packet of seeds for some type of environmentally helpful tree.

I am still waiting on several friends to notice their gifties, all of which were drawn because I are welfare king, and my holiday will be complete.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go use my inhaler again, dry off my hair and fantasize about what it might be like to possess dignity.

Christmas was nice and quiet this year. Hung out with Papa all day, got some good books, DVDs, and clothes. Brookie and Kevin made HAM for dinner. Sounds wonderfully traditional for Christmas, but I can't eat ham (or most meat for that matter) so cold pizza for me! =D

So lately I've been considering costumes for Comic-Con, and I have no idea what to do this year. I don't know if I'll continue my traditional Alice cosplay with Sam, or do any other repeats this year. The more I thought about it the more I wanted to try a Tim Burton Alice and Mad Hatter. I mean, it would be fun to do since the movie comes out this spring, and Comic-Con will be a great time to do the cosplay. I even know a great seamstress could could make Alice for me. However a few downsides are giving me second thoughts.

For one, it's Comic-Con and I'm certain every other man will be dressed as Burton's Hatter. It'll be exactly like 2008 where EVERYONE was dressed like the Joker after The Dark Knight came out. So it wouldn't exactly be the most original costume. The other problem is that if I dressed as Alice, I don't really know who I could get to cosplay as Hatter with me. There aren't many guys I would trust to look good in the costume (maybe Sam, but I haven't asked him if he's interested), and also I would want to make sure the costume was done RIGHT. Which would mean getting it made and paying for it myself. And that's another problem - it's going to be expensive.

So I'm not sure. I mean, I already know I'm going to love the movie, and I really want to do this cosplay, but is it worth it?

Already I've been looking up sites and tutorials. I found a pretty good tutorial here, but I'm not the greatest crafts person so I would have to get someone to make it for me. I glanced through Ebay and found some sellers offering their own costumes like the coat and the hat. But HOLY CRAP $500??? Yah it looks nice, but not for that much money. GAH. I mean the best offer I could make would be $160, maybe $200 if I have a lot to spend.

This guy has a pretty good costume going but it looks like he actually got the $500 coat. O_x And like a protective cosplayer he isn't saying where he got the other materials.

Siiiigh. Well, I know a couple seamstresses and prop makers. I guess I'll ask around. Merry Christmas y'all!

Christmas present for Banjax. I took liberties with the interpretation cos the source material is a novel.

( Hope it isn't too off. )

TO:

( AMBER )

( RENATUS )

( JESS )

FROM: SANTA AND EL LUKADOR





Merry Christmas, y'all.

(PS: Banjax, yours is not quite done yet but I will post it as soon as it's done.)

Try to have a nice day, despite work, family issues, personal issues, injuries and other problems I may not know about, mkay? <3

I'm working five days this week so if anyone can rec me epic fanfics to read, that'd be nice. I prefer plot over porn, don't mind pairings, and will read anything I know about. Supernatural, Doctor Who, PofC, HP, Naruto, DBZ, Gundam Wing, Gundam 00, stuff. Original stuff OK too.

This is the sort of weather that turns dogs into boats, cars into sleds and hiking trips into the Cannibal Camp Cookoff.

Seriously, the Captain has to leap about to keep his junk from catching frostbite, and he's a pretty big dog.

I put the Insight in the garage after digging a windshield-shaped peephole with my shovel. No way the bubblecar can navigate this shit, and we need the space for parking as everyone is coming here for X-mas day festivosity.

Provided they can all harness their sled dogs in a way that bypasses the aforementioned doggie dong icicle hazard.

Békés, Boldog Karácsonyt mindenkinek. :3


( Except the guys like RaiRai who does not celebrate xD Merry Dec 24th to you! XDDD )

Last night I finished another project and baked myself some motherfuckin cookies. Then I raced chocobos on FFX until my left thumb was too sore to go on. You need to finish with a time faster than 0 seconds, and my best time was 4.2 seconds, and victory appears to be one part skill and three parts luck. The Caladbolg will be mine.

For the first time since May, my sleeping schedule has gotten wonky again. Only for the past 5 days or so, but I am determined to not let it slip any further.

Looking forward to the three-day snowstorm Santa has decided to drop off under my tree. Muahaha.

I decided to use the last of my silicone and make a second soap mold. Sometime mid-January I'd like to pour some more soaps. I ran a poll on Deviantart for a 6th scent to add to the line-up, and Lavender won. When I make soaps again, this will be the final scent/color lineup:

Black Raspberry Vanilla (Black Soaps)
Brown Sugar & Fig (Bronze Soaps)
Eucalyptus & Spearmint(Emerald Green Soaps)
Fresh Vanilla(White Shea Butter Soaps)
Juicy Cranberry (Red Soaps)
Lavender (Pastel Purple Shea Butter Soap)

The new mold that I made to go with the dragon was a kitsune. I kept it simple and round... with the exception of the ears. They stick out. I tried making fox ears that layed against the head, but it just didn't look right. I worry that this may have been a mistake, because I don't think that it will be very nice to use as soap with ears sticking out. I also worry that though I made them fairly thick, that when cast as soap they may be rather breakable. Could be a problem for demolding and shipping :-/

Another issue that I ran into was that I used all the rest of the silicone that I had left. It was *just* enough to cast this second mold. The bottom of the mold is very thin along the bottom, with the deepest part of the mold being a mere 1/16-1/8 inch thick. This won't effect the soap itself, but I fear that the mold may not be very durable. If it lasts through 15 castings I'll be surprised. (I made over 100 dragons on the first dragon mold. It's still holding together, but it was a very thick mold.) Until I get my soap supplies I won't know the final weight on the kitsune, though I did try and keep it of a similar volume to the dragon. The dragon casts a soap that's 4.3-4.5oz.

Between the fragile mold and concern about the ears, this may end up being a very very limited edition soap. When I finally get my soap supplies, I'm going to cast a single kitsune, see how it demolds, then try and break off its ears. Depending on how easily they snap, I'll decide whether or not it's something that can actually be sold or not. I have no doubt I'll be able to snap them off, but it is going to depend on how much effort it takes. If it takes a bit of effort, then they'll probably ship just fine :-)



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Apologies on the lack of art posted to this journal of late. Most of what I've been doing the past few months has been exclusively book related. I'd prefer that much of the book be a surprise. :-) Once I finish, I hope to resume normal sketch posts and the like. For now, everyone gets to deal with mah craft binge instead! :-)

I did draw a bunneh oekaki on the NDA oekaki boards. Click to view animation. :-)