I was REALLY into this thing when I bought it. I've had it for almost two years and really have not got my money's worth.

It's this hoodie

I bought it for 95, selling for 70. It's in good condition aside from the coffee stain on one of the sleeves. but I'm pretty sure it'll come out. I've probably worn this thing all of 20 times. It's small for an XL. And too short on my body.

It's going well! I've made half of my costs back so far. Still no DA prints though. Oh well. I'll have them to sell around town I guess.

Commissions are saving me! I've done 3 so far.

I'll be putting a handful of things up for sale on etsy soon! I should start using that site more.

getting ready for AB has been the biggest nightmare ever. I've had to spend an extra 100 dollars on things because what I was doing was not working.

AND my fucking prints that I ordered from deviantart, on the 8th, shipped first class on the 11th, ARE HERE YET! I'm really angry about this, especially because there are 76 prints and I spent 125 dollars on them.

DA customer service and FAQ both informed me that if I wanted them to get to me in a timely fashion, with tracking/confirmation, I should have picked the fedex shipping option. First class can take up to 2 weeks to be delivered. Two weeks exactly is, oh, MONDAY.

Which is BS. I have no idea how they'd be shipping these (too many things for a tube?) but two weeks for them to get here? Seriously? Packages from the fucking Netherlands, with the cheapest shipping option, have gotten to me faster. And why don't they use the usps option of tracking and confirmation? I know it's available, I ship things pretty frequently.

I'm just angry. Things have not been working out well and I'm intimidated by actually being in the artist alley.... Lessons learned for later, but I'm pretty sure I won't be going through this much trouble again.

Well. I'm getting ready for the first day. Cutting out some freshly laminated bookmarks!

wedding planning is going well. First and foremost of things I'm preparing for is Anime Boston. I'll be in the Artist's Alley this year! For hours....... I've made buttons, bookmarks that need laminated and prints are in the mail from Deviantart. I'm also making about 14 coloring books. I've more or less made everything myself (Thanks for helping with buttons, miri!)

I'm still not sure if I'm going to take on the spot commissions. Seems like a lot of work and I know me, and I haven't finished commissions from a year ago....

As far as the wedding, we're inviting a lot of people..... More then expected, and Jen keeps getting addresses (stop it! we don't need to invite EVERYONE from work!) I'm worried because I don't know what the hell to wear since I doubt I'll be losing weight anytime soon....

I think we're going to california for the honeymoon....

Yeah, so Jen and I are finally doing it. We are planning on having a private ceremony on June 10th with a dinner at Yoki with immediate family that night and I decided "Fuck, let's have the reception that month, too." Because I want it to all be done and over (in a good way) and my mom's husband was afraid we were never going to have the "Big Party!"

So, June 20th! Or 27th, figuring that out today (because we want Chuck and Sarah to be there...)

At my mom's house in Devens. It's going to be lovely :D

And we might go to Disneyworld for our honeymoon, lol. That's the vacation we originally wanted to take. It changed about 3 times.

I Love Jen. She is the best! She makes me feel so happy all of the time and I wish that I could kiss her all day long and bake her cookies. She is dreamy! Also I am the prettiest girl at the ball!

I finally got my hands on a Little Red Riding Hood Barbie. She's a silver label and expensive in stores. I got her for half of what I could have paid, on ebay. She's really pretty.



But of course, I had ulterior motives for buying her.

Mab looks better in it, after all. Barbie as been redressed and is standing on a shelf :D


( New artwork! )

And one more thing:

April showers!!


Bring May Flowers!


(this made me finally figure out what to name her! Fleur! Or maybe April. Hmm. Thoughts?)


Anime Boston is one month away.... so nervous....

I really miss okinawa....

What's with the twitter? It's kind of annoying.


Anyways. Just finished watching Kuroshitsuji. It veered far from the manga, but I think I liked it a lot.

Off to bed....

Button, button, who has the button--- maker? Does anyone have one that I can borrow this april? I need to make buttons for Anime Boston at the end of May.

I got my first ever artist alley table. I am going into this with no idea of what to do. I just know I want buttons!!

I've been feeling like the most useless waste of space lately, doing nothing but buying things to make myself happy and working.



Pineapple Express is a stupid movie. I find most stoner movies funny without being high, but yeah... Couldn't even finish watching it. It's probably all Seth Rogan's fault. srsly.

That's all I really seem to care about these days, haha.

My newest girl came to me from the UK. A special edition, only 500 made sort of girl. Took her the full 14 days, and her box was crumpled like mad. But she's ok! I rewigged her while at a doll meet yesterday. I'd like to replace her eyelashes soon.

Oh, so this is my current collection:


Yep.... They are taking over. Oh well.

Spring is so obviously here, and yet the temperature really like staying in the 25-45 degree range. lame.

I so forgot to post this on LJ!!

I got to show my work in an actual gallery setting. Framing/matting set me back a good 200 bucks, but man was it worth it! They look so beautiful framed! Who knew!









Also, I got a boy doll for my birthday. His name is Vincent.




The Mindless Self Indulgence concert was last night. I don't know why I have never seen them live before. The only thing that sucked is that I felt OLD. The majority of the crowd were obnoxious little teenagers... It's weird thinking about how I've liked this since I was 15, and these kids are 15, so they were 5 years old when I first heard of them...... And the girls were all dressed like skanky ass sluts! We thought some of them were kind of hot, but when those lights came on, whoa.....


Weather is getting nice. Been drawing more. Kisses.

Good
-this weekend and it's 60 degree weather
-pretty much debt free, thanks refund check!
-Mindless Self Indulgence concert this friday
-the inevitable end to winter approaching

bad
-new haircut, same, boring thing as usual
-this 20 degree difference in weather day to day (up and down...)
-MORE SNOW and rain
-Can't stop smoking, like it too much
-Constantly tired, avoiding the gym when I shouldn't be

She's so cool...

My birthday party is next Saturday, on the 7th of february. I'm excited, it's a breakfast party/sleepover.

Haha, I'm 6 years old this year XD



Jen has some fancy plans for our anniversary involving Disney on Ice and a trip to Vermont!!

She knows me, and how I'm 6.

I had a great Christmas.


Present opening at the apartment!


My loot! From Jen, Jeff, my friend Jenn and mom and dad. Mom bought the doll on the left and dad gave me money, which paid for the doll on the right.


Doll from my mom! Other stuff from my brother's girlfriend. Thanks Heidi!


Christmas set up and all the Mighty Muggs I got for Jen.


A close up of my new EGL girl after I cut her hair and bangs (I hope I can get a new one soon, this thing is awful.)


She's so cool!


I made cookies, too.




The girls gathered around the new girl XD


New Sailor Moon drawing


And a sexy girl drawing.



Happy holidays everyone! I hope your year ends well and that the next is better. I don't even know where this one went..... I just know that I liked my job last year and the first half of this year.... But I wish I could get a new job, stupid economy..... *shakes fists*

My newest girl is amazing. She's so pretty!



( More pretty doll pictures )

Nothing new is going on. Just working hard and fighting the evil known as seasonal depression. I hate being cold....

I love it..... It's typical animal crossing, but I still love it.

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See you there if you have it!

So, Mindless Self Indulgence haven't been to Boston in ages, so I'll never get to see them live.... (I could IF I took friday the 5th off and drove with Jen to Providence, but do I want to do that? Really? No.)

AND THEN. I look at my facebook updates and WHO are they touring with in England. Fucking Dir En Grey!!!! nfjdsk;fghslabfdshljabjkdfa;!!!!!!???! That would be an AMAZING thing to see.

Whatever.I'll just have dreams about it.

I seem to be catching that anime bug again. It's been awhile... I've watched up to ep. 14 of Kamichu and I really enjoy it, it's sort of silly but very sweet.

I also started watching Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) because (none of you will be surprised) they are releasing Pullip dolls based on the characters. So when one such as myself, likes how dolls like this look:


It's only natural to look at the source ^^

It's fun though! and pretty:


I was a manga first, hopefully it'll come out here in the u.s. soon. Until then I'll be reading fan-translated scans for awhile (Like Nana.... I just finished reading chapter 78..... I'm so sad now ;________;)

In other news, Mike quit Tokyo Kid (finally) to start his own store... I'm sad, because I've been hanging out there for so long, but if the owner didn't suck so much, maybe things would have been different. I keep having visions of the place closing in the next year.