| of many a doll photo |
[20 Jul 2008|02:02pm] |
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Have finished taking all sales pictures, hurrah. Though one suspects a few re-shots of certain items might be necessary, camera-shake and all, and the thought of editing the lot daunts me terribly. Ah well.
Anyway. Muchly behind dollery in general, time never being on my side. Have, however, become a convert of mohair wigs.
Case in point:
It does suit her, no? Methinks it achieves a certain level of realism in photos that synthetic wigs never do. Furthermore, it allow the brows to show whilst granting the benefit of a fringe - always a Good Thing since Shuui had done a gorgeous jobs with the brow, and I've always felt it an immense pity whenever they're covered up by the fringes of synthetic wigs. Got a similar one for the Yo, and the same about realism and showing of Yuki's beautifully-painted brows apply.
On the flip side, am pretty certain the stray hairs of mohair wigs are habouring a secret vendetta against me. No amount of taming eradicates them completely, and every new pose requires a brushing. Oh, the pain, the pain. At least stray mohair fibre looks less obvious than stray synthetic fibre... or so I hope.
( more doll photos -- +1 Serryl, +1 Stelios )
Slowly clearing the photo backlog now. Expect some non-doll ones relatively soon-ish.
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| of the new avengers screencaps - ending |
[14 Jul 2008|01:26am] |
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To be ignored by the F-list unless you're a fan of
a) Martin Shaw
b) Lewis Collins
c) The New Avengers
d) The Professionals
Though I rather doubt this since I think I'd know if any of you are. (go and be converted, ye ignorant masses! shoo!)
If, however, you do happen to be curious, 'tis just the final bit of a couple of screencap posts I did, background/explanation/details etc to be found in Part I and Part II. Now you know what I've been spending the past few nights doing, time permitting!
( MS's and LC's characters' ends in The New Avengers, because I'm strangely loath to drag the mood of my screencaps post on the Pros comm down. )
And now, to bed I shall have to go. Bright and early in the office I must be come tomorrow morn, and I've been informed by a few parties that the dark circles I'm developing about my eyes have put me in good stead to audition as a panda-mascot for the Beijing Olympics. That a certain listless lethargy seems to have dogged my days these couple of weeks doesn't bode well either. Bah.
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| of not making much sense |
[07 Jul 2008|12:52am] |
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tori amos: siren |
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Have finally cleared the whole reply-comments backlog, hurrah. My apologies to those whose LJ-notify went crazy with my multiple replies. And now, for doll-meet photo backlog.
... or maybe not. Too busy by half these days (which explains the various backlogs), and I just can't find the proper motivation to browse and edit photos.
Haven't been feeling very inspired recently, be it in writing, photography, sewing, or dollery. Perhaps said inspiration would return when my schedule's no longer as sapping, but ah well. Still painfully snapping sales photos, 35% left to photograph, and 100% to edit. Woe.
Anyway, for the doll people on the f-list, one of the misc snaps from the badjillion sales pics -
A teaser, hoho. More to come when I actually have the time to do more than flop on my bed, dead from exhaustion, when I return home every day.
Also, I have a School C head for sale at USD$315, which is definitely below the market price of $350. Better pictures to come etc when I actually get the oppurtunity to take them etc.
Note: Nic - I have a couple of photos of your Ryu edited for you, so kindly poke me on MSN when you next see me online?
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| of a bee |
[02 Jul 2008|10:41pm] |
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Have been busy as a bee these days/weeks - which rather explains my lack of an online presence - so do have a picture of a bee, taken whilst I was still in London.
His feet are shod with gauze,
His helmet is of gold;
His breast, a single onyx
With chrysoprase, inlaid.
His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
-- Emily Dickionson
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| oh damn it. |
[30 Jun 2008|10:45am] |
Am I the only one for whom Gmail is refusing to load?
A state most mortifying, really, given the sheer number of Important Emails I need to access.
Also, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ambientlight & rost - seeing as how I obviously can't email, how I'm swallowed by real life, and how the rest aren't on LJ, could you guys help me check with the rest whether meeting at 7.30 is fine (i.e. I reserve the place for 8.15 - though please tell Xixun 8! :X). Plus, meet at City Hall and take bus, or walk from Clarke Quay - majority vote? Thanks!
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| does anyone reading this speak russian? |
[19 Jun 2008|09:17pm] |
When one has friends who believe (rightly so) that something as pictured below would be an entertaining omiyage for one, one cannot help but wonder just how one's friends view one.
The above is a postcard featuring WWII Russian propoganda poster - a gift from the newly-returned-from-Russia kuuumo. "It would make you raise both your eyebrows!" said she last night, and raise both my eyebrows I did when she handed it to me this afternoon. ^^;;
It reads:
Hаша армия ёсць армия
бызбапння працоуных
and Babelfish is being singularly unhelpful. Of course, this might have something to do with my inability to match and copy & paste Russian alphabets.
I'd be immensely grateful if anyone could translate this (if you want an enlarged picture of the text, just tell me). otherwise, i'll just fall back on the secondary school joke of a-chan x sta-chan = historical dictatorship otp. Is this some strange Russian depiction of brotherly love? All I'm getting is some sort of army of some sort of army, which sounds sort of kinky. *_* A pity I'm not in contact with my Russian-phile of a secondary school history teacher.
By the by, the second part of my Russian omiyage was this gorgeous lacquered box.
Thanks, Fei!
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| of much savile spam |
[18 Jun 2008|02:25pm] |
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Not quite the introduction post I was intending to do for her - and I will get down to doing said post, complete with some backstory, once I get the props and clothing settled - but I figured this silly little impromptu thing will have to do as anything this cute has to be shared.
There was once a girl who had a llama
( of a girl and her llama +4 )
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( misc savile shots +4 )
Finally rescued my Yo from customs yesterday. I find it alarming how both the EMS guy and the customs people know my face. By a stroke of luck, her wigs came yesterday too, rendering her finally complete.
Savile's face-up was done by the ever-talented Yuki / lovelycoconuts (I keep saying it over and over again, but I shall never tire of it - Thank you, Molly dear! ♥). Everyone go commission her!
Her dress was a gift from tookumade (Thank you, Claudia! It's adorable on her. :3).
Thanks must also be extended to gearcheim, who helped in making both Savile in her new form and the llama possible.
THIS is the llama in question. I have named it Drama. :D;;
[EDIT] I have suddenly noticed that these photos are coming up very dark and a little over-contrasty? :X Ah well. I'm sorry for the poor quality! D: But I am, alas, too lazy to re-edit them all over again. ._.
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| of today's dinner |
[15 Jun 2008|11:50pm] |
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Hokkaido Ramen @ Sun with Moon Japanese Fine Dining and Café
With buttered corn, said the menu. Frankly, methinks I could have done without the slab of butter melted in my soup, for I find it made the soup too rich for an already rather rich dish. Then again, this just might be my preference for lighter foods speaking. All the same, 'twas nevertheless a nice bowl of noodles, though I think my favourite place for ramen in Singapore is still Marutama Ramen @ Clarke Quay's The Central.
I have doll meet photos to edit, but I'm afraid laziness seems to have conquered any inclination to tinker (quite lousily) around Photoshop. Bah.
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| of a singapore sighting! |
[09 Jun 2008|08:19pm] |
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And so, was busy watching The Pros when I couldn't help but notice...
Is that a Singapore tourism poster I spy?! :D;;
Yep, no doubt about it. A poster with "SINGAPORE" emblazoned above a picture of a Chinese Opera singer. Come to think of it, I think STB was still using a Chinese Opera Singer image to promote tourism in 2006. Not sure if they're doing it now, though.
What amuses me, really, is that the episode in question had to have been filmed in Britain 1979.
Fancy something like that in a place where the lads have bunked down for a surveilliance job. :D;;
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| of the takoyaki love |
[08 Jun 2008|12:11am] |
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Takoyaki! ♥
Oh, takoyaki! *_* For an addict to these squishy dough balls stuffed with octopus, the agony of takoyaki-withdrawal in takoyaki-less London was almost too painful to bear. I was thus filled with great joy when I discovered that Meidi-ya had set up a temporary takoyaki stall. At $5 for 6 ($2.80 for 3), something tells me I'll be going down to Clarke Quay as often as possible these few days. ♥
Very randomly, I thereby proclaim starsthatshine, raydance, ivoryfox, blue_meddy, and sassystrawberry very evil enablers indeed. The things they're able to talk me into...!
(And night_child80 - we miss you terribly! ;_;)
Alas, for the advent of takoyaki cannot bode well, what with me needing to lose weight for the ____________ shoot.
Speaking of which, am quite indecisive about what I ought to do for Cosfest. A part of me longs to do Mrs Lovett, but time's quite a limiting factor. Also, the older I grow, the less sure I am as to how worthwhile weeks of slogging on a single costume that would cost quite a bit materials-wise to wear for just one day is...? D:
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| school c, anyone? |
[06 Jun 2008|06:18pm] |
April was a month of impulse buys. I blame exam-induced stress. While said buys were by and large confined (as my impulse buys always are) to novels, it galls me to admit that some fall under the BJD category too. Which explains this post, really.
( school c +3 )
Yes, a School C. Which brings me to my point - Does anyone want to buy a School C?
It'd be great if I could sell it at USD$315, which would allow me to just break even. However, I'm open for negotiation.
If no one on the f-list bites, I'll probably put this up on DoA come July/August after the NY Dolpa flood.
And if pressed for excuses, I'm afraid the usual suspects of London living expenses and deciding that I want another girl head more (provided I manage to meet my London rent) will have to suffice.
It dismays me, really, just how uncreatively and technically crap my photos are (and how the likes of other SGcafe denizens are catching up... speaking of which, is it me, or is sd_sg having a flood of SGcafe folk now?). The problem, though, is that despite knowing it, I still can't seem to overcome this state of inertia to start practising/reading/improving. :X
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| of being sneaky with a camera :D;; |
[24 May 2008|08:12pm] |
Am inordinately proud of this picture, really (though the rose could have been better positioned). It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things taken yesterday wherein the framing and my angle happened to be just so. Almost the perfect picture to kickstart an m/m story, methinks, though I do assure the viewer that the behaviour of the two men in the background was most chaste. Ah, these lazy days of summer.
On an unrelated note, am suitably mortified by how my time online seems to have been consumed by Pros fanfiction. ._. Back to editing photos now.
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| of good omens central london tour report |
[22 May 2008|01:04am] |
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And so, after months of procastination, I bring you... the Good Omens Central London Tour Report.
Some time (meaning months) ago, geek-in-crime ambientlight and I had, for Certain Inexplicable Reasons, decided to go on a Good Omens Central London Tour. My living a stone throw's from the British Museum in London and her being a coach-ride away in Oxford (speaking of which, Tadfield's supposedly in Oxfordshire per p.271) just seemed to good an oppurtunity to waste.
The point of the tour was to visit as many places mentioned in the book that were located in Central London as possible. I must stress Central London, because while mentions are made of Crowley speeding past London-ish places such as the Heathrow as well as of some highways (most notably the M25, sign of "odegra" in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu), these are located on the edges of London and thus not exactly convenient.
Unfortunately, we had embarked on our tour before quantum_witch had posted her Very Useful Entry with as-closely-exact-as-possible locations of Aziraphale's and Crowley's apartments, so while Jan and I had gone in search for aforementioned venues, we never quite achieved that high a level of accuracy.
A list of all the Central London locations found in the book, as well as the abbreviated list of our itinerary, may be found on the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lower_tadfield community here.
The necessities of the tour - tartan scarf as a token symbol of Aziraphale (Jan's), sunglasses in honour of Crowley (mine), Central London Guidebook should maps be needed, and a copy of Good Omens*
* please note that all page references made in this entry will be as per to the book in the picture
( and thus did the tour begin )
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| of risotto |
[13 May 2008|04:55pm] |
My dear kiradyn_rhiode,
Look what all your talk about risotto last night made me cook today --
Seafood & Mushroom Risotto! ♥
( +1 photo & food babble )
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| of a couple of random pictures |
[28 Apr 2008|10:53am] |
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It is, I think, all forms of mortifying that the more stressed I am, the more I post on LJ... when it should be the precise opposite.
Am hearing death knells a-tollin' for me in the distance. Listening to happy-jangly 1980s music with lyrics of a homosexual undertone and possible thought-provoking social commentary is doing nothing to alleviate my anxiety. Tomorrow shall be the day I walk into the academic lion's proverbial den for slaughter, but in the meanwhile, I cannot help but feel like one of those Assyrian prisoners hoisted for a long and painful death. Staked to the ground and baking in the sun, covered with honey to feed the insects etc etc.
Rather like these poor chocolate rabbits, really -
Bunny carnage!
Or rather, why one should never put chocolate rabbits up for display at a glass window that is in direct line of the sun. Poor rabbits. They never stood a chance.
And just one more, taken some time in March before I went home for spring. London had experienced these really strong winds (80mph, I do believe), and with the windows of my dorm being poorly secured and all, a number on my floor, the highest of the lot, cracked.
Cracks in the glass of a window pane.
A better view of said window here. The panes were (finally!) changed yesterday, so all's well, I suppose?
And now, back to work. :X Tugging out of the internet cable and all that jazz. Here's hoping tomorrow's paper wouldn't be too bad. Singing of Gracie Fields' "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" entirely optional.
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| of a tribute to shakespeare and to spring |
[23 Apr 2008|05:09pm] |
Harken to the merry birdsong thither,
Sweet thrills to herald an old friend's return;
Beneath spreading trees the schoolgirls linger -
Like them, thou canst not a robin's vest spurn.
Sir George the Brave bows to his lady fair,
His white mail bright swathe against heavens blue;
On earth, a tribute to Titania's gold hair,
Faeries to Oberon giveth blooms of sunlight hue.
Cast off thy coats, all ye lads and lasses,
For 'tis a fine day with the wind unchill;
On the sun's lasting waste not thy guesses,
His face will linger for a while more still.
As with Spring's coming is the world less grim,
Like cup overfloweth doth joy in heart brim.
and now you know why i don't post my poetry, ahahaha. ^^;; the above was written in shakespearean sonnet style because...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE! :D
also a small mention of st. george, today being st. george's day too ^^;;
A glorious afternoon today, despite the rather dismal rainy start. Spring be here at last! 'twas warm enough for me to go coat-less about half the time, and the afternoon was spent sprawled on the green, green grass of Regent's Park with friends cloud-watching. The flowers be in full bloom too, and 'tis a glorious sight to behold. Finished everything off with a mountain of an ice-cream cone - double-scoop sticky toffee and mint choc chip. Hurrah.
And now, to work, to work.
MJ, Jan - Globe Theatre season opens today. Might you guys be game to come down to London after 9th May to catch anything? :3
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| of stress-induced culinary exploits |
[23 Apr 2008|01:46am] |
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The problem with me, I find, is that when I'm stressed I tend to want to eat. And when there isn't pre-cooked/processed food readily available, I begin to cook so that I can eat. And the more stressed I am, the fancier the culinary effort.
Which probably explains how and why I ended up cooking gluttinous rice with mushrooms and peanuts at 1am. ._.
And why I fried (there being oil left after frying the rice) up an egg (in my defence, the lot's near expiry) and some cheese (fried cheese being a guilty pleasure of mine, and because I had no meat) to go with it. Terribly healthy, yes. D:
gluttinous rice in the pot
( what's on my plate )
Apologies for the appalling photos. Only remembered mid-meal that friends had wanted me to document my culinary exploits, something I barely do as it is. This probably explains why the food isn't nicely presented, and the cheese and egg mostly gone. You might be able to make them out in the second picture if you squint, though. ^^;;
Room now smells of mushrooms. ._. Shall eat an apple to assuage my caloric guilt, I think, before packing up the remainder rice. To think I cooked two cups, and have already finished a third of it. Bah. I disgust myself at times. Least this leaves food for tomorrow and mayhap the day after covered.
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hoping to escape monday
industrious
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