[04] Animated Sherlock Holmes
[01] Big Sleep
[04] Chronicles of Narnia
[02] Lord Peter Wimsey
[01] Mamma Mia!
[05] Wuthering Heights
[02] Sleeping Bleauty
[01] Emma
[02] Bogart and Bacall Wallpapers
[01] Gigi Wallpaper
[01] Guys and Dolls Wallpaper
[02] Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Wallpapers

Teaser:


Over at ogeecons

( Variety is the spice of life... )

Woo. My Weather Channel Desktop gives me the great news that there will be t-storms at Pennsic on Saturday, then again from Wednesday on. Good to know that the ground won't be parched!

Of course long-range weather predictions are usually wrong. Maybe it'll snow instead :\

Now I have to decide whether I want to show up on Saturday or later...

Yep, decided I wasn't entirely happy with the new designs I'd been playing with, so I think I've settled on one I like.

This week, anyway.

Demo page is, for now, http://larsdatter.com/acrobats.htm -- features include a faster load time, a nicely neutral background (but still with a sort of dimensional effect for interest), a nice little pop-up menu for the related links, and a faster load time. And it's in XHTML, too -- friendlier for users who want to do research on the go. Should make navigation a lot easier, with that menu across the top.

Includes moods from all series and movies (except The Search for Spock because Trekcore is shunning the movie or something)



Download link credit lunar47 

Dear Hasbro,

I have been an avid Scrabble player for almost forty years, the entirety of my literate life, since I was in Kindergarten and just learning to read and spell.

I will never, for any inducement, spend another red cent on a Hasbro product, including Scrabble, for which I have bought at least ten different boards in my life, several official dictionaries, and software versions of the game.

The fact that you didn't sue over Scrabulous "until you gave players a legal alternative" merely tells me that you took your time to make a stronger lawsuit. The fact that Scrabulous has existed for so long while you people sat with your thumbs buried in your rectums, which is WHY Scrabulous was able to become so popular, tells me that you had no intention of coming up with a free web version, because if you had, you certainly would have released it years ago instead of just this past month.

Hasbro will be a null and void brand name in my home. I will definitely inform everybody I know, including the readers of my blog, that Hasbro is a company who only cares about the almighty dollar, and cares nothing for the game players who have made it such a well off company.

You lose.

Jennifer E. McWhorter

Send your own email

I'm not sure if that link will work for everybody, and Hasbro does its flat out best to make the email link hard to find. To find it if the link does not work:

Go here and then up at the top. click the purple email tab.

Steampunk Empire Strikes Back!

I love Boba Fett, he looks like that guy from Hellboy.

Links to the Beaded Mitts and the Miser's Purse patterns, finally, now that signals are flowing through the AEther again despite my using a wood-burning ISP.  There are other antique patterns on the blog as well that might be useful to you guys so check out the Free Vintage Patterns List. Mostly Victorian and definitely NO doilies or baby things.

I've been intending on knitting the striped 1880s stockings for a couple years but I haven't found the right yarn yet.

This is my first steampunk airship woodblock! I hope you like it. 8-] It's on my etsy shop here:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13569236

Thanx for taking a look.

Here's is a tutorial on my bangs. I hope you guys can use this! Thanks for the comments. I will post another tuorial on the rolls soon.

Step 1: Part your bangs and spray some hairspray on them. Then put the rest on your hair in a pony tail.



Step 2: Part bangs in two sections.


Step 3: Curl top section with small curling iron.


Step 4: When your done with the first section pin with bobby pin and curl bottom section.


Step 5: Pin bottom section with bobby pin and let them cool down. About 5 minutes.


Step 6: After cool down let your curls loose and brush them together gently.


Step 7: Apply hairspray under curls and start teasing.


Step 8: Once teased gently comb together, combing out the ends of the curls.

Step 9: You can either put bobby pins underneath your curls or leave them loose.

I always wanted a big black velvet Gainsborough hat and now I have one. :)

I had to make it a wee bit smaller than I'd like so it would fit in my hat case but it's still pretty massive.  Complete with big honkin canary yellow bow and massive amounts of white ostrich feathers.  And all from the stash! 

I really don't need to buy any more fabric, maybe ever.  Of course I do have that trip to the LA fabric district coming up in a little over a week...

  

35 icons & 15 banners of Pride & Prejudice (2005) HERE @ leaky_sponge

Posted here in the grammar_whores community.

My daughter sent this email to a local college and couldn't figure out why they never got back to her.

Hello,
Do you need to apply to the college and get accepted to the college where the cource is bieng offered in order to take the cource?

Well dear perhaps if you had spelled course properly they would have gotten back to you...

Woot! Been working on Ange's birthday pressie. I got the most challenging part done today (shaping metal- no no forging was required just getting %#&%# pieces to fit together) and I just need to buy the next part. I'll try for that tomorrow. S. almost got part of her pressie on Wednesday but I was not quite quick enough to get it baggied in time. I hope she's ok with next week :)

I've also been playing about a bit with cardboard and making templates of things so I think I shall try and find some more of the board I have just been using as it'll be nice and solid and absorb a lot of resin. It might be the easiest method to get a nice rigid headdress for my Padme you see. If not it will be the last $5 of my Xmas vouchers used to but said product;)

Ummm yes my confidence in regards to non fabric costuming is starting to increase again. I've been a bit low because of additional health issues making my exsisting ones that much worse but I know my ability to work in those areas is only hampered by that. Not by an inability to understand how to. I know I have a lot of rote learning to remember what materials work with what (in much the same way I learnt weft from warp and a lowish level of chemistry of man made fibres and natural) so that I am more clearly understood when making queries but that's just time.
To remember styrene vs Sintra I remember opposites to what I expect: used to foam polystyrene but Styrene is a slick and shiny material. I'm used to shiny slippery PVC but sintra is foam board pvc.

I was also reading a Marc Silvestri sketchbook last night and was kind of surprised by one page. It was in regards to designing a character and sketching the element of costume from multiple angles to make sure it looks good from all directions. For me, I think in 3D anyway when designing so that boot (in this instance) would have been designed that way from the start in my head- it would then be a practice to get what's in my head to the page! I think that way of imagining really helps me in my designing or deconstruction process. It certainly helps me visualise the internal structures of a garment because I'm thinking of the interior layers as well as what can be seen.

And thinking about it I recall trying to visualise multiple views of a garment when I would do fan drawings so it isn't inate but something I deveoloped over time by studying and making scales miniatures for dolls etc. I think this is why it is very hard for me to describe how to do something to others

This was kind of sweet but still stupid.

I was with my wife, parents, sister and sister’s boyfriend. Somehow the subject of pets and the amount of money people will pay to keep their pets alive a few more years came up.

My Dad took the macho, un-feeling stance..."The only reason people spend thousands of dollars on vet bills is because they forget that they're just animals. Just let them die and get another one I say."

My Mother cocks her head looking at my Dad, "And just how much money did you spend keeping our 20 year old cat alive just one more year?"

Dad (sputtering), "Well...that's different...we had her for twenty years...she was part of the family!"

(Uhmm, yeah Dad, everyone else spends thousands of dollars on animals they just picked up off the side of the road.)

Though surely an act of cruelty to children, in a FANTASY WORLD, what would you name your own little invention?

Actor Jason Lee has named his son Pilot Inspektor
 

Oh my god. I've heard this joke before, but never thought I'd actually run into someone like this.

( I still can't believe this really happened. )

Now that I'm here, I'll share a couple of retail mocks with you as well.

( Gotta love the general public! )

We clean the floors every night by pouring water on them, scrubbing them down, and then using the wet-dry vac to vacuum the water up. Tonight was no exception to this and my one coworker swept the floor, I poured the water, she scrubbed, and then I asked my other coworker to vacuum the floors (everyone HATES doing that part).

I then went to finish up what I was doing when the coworker I asked to vacuum came up to me and asked me this very stupid "i-can't-believe-he-just-asked-me-that" question.

"Do I have to plug the vacuum in to use it?"

It was all I had to not burst out laughing in front of him and calmly say, "yes, you have to plug it in or it won't work." The worst part, he was totally serious about plugging it in.