29/?/12 - Gettin' Stuff DONE

Forget what month it is...

I'll figure it out later

Well hi ^-^ it's been forever, hasn't it? I might seem unusually unstable right now because Pencil just crashed on me (I'll explain in a minute). So I've been doing a lot of crafty stuff lately. Got a sewing machine from my neighbor (THANK YOU!), a shitload of material, and the animation program Pencil. Yup, after searching the web for a few months looking for a free animation program similar to Flash, I found Pencil.
 I really do like Pencil, and not just because it's free. It's really easy to work with after you read the unbelievably short user manual. I only got it a couple of days ago, but as soon as I started the download I started making a story board. Because what do good animators do? They make a story board! My "beginner" story board is really simple. It's just my BattleAxePirate character (that I FINALLY designed) sewing a dress and dancing to PONPONPON by SeeU o.o It's actually a lot easier than you would think. Though I'm dreading the dance sequence. SO. MUCH. FRAMES. But yeah, it'll be fun. I can't wait to finalize the project and upload it to Youtube. I think my account will finally have a purpose now so long as the file process works on my computer. Yeah. The way you save the files in Pencil is really tricky, and I may have to do some reading up on file types to find a way to make it work, but I'll find a way. I swear it.
 But yeah, I'm ticked. Got about 25 frames into my animation and Pencil CRASHED. 25 FRAMES! And like... 3 story board panels, THREE! But at least it only crashed on the opening sequence instead of half way through... I swear from now on I'm saving after I finish a panel from the story board *fuming*
 On another note I can learn how to sew stuffs now. I got a sewing machine for FREE from my neighbor (yay, free shit), it works AWESOME. Now I just have to find something simple to sew. I'm thinking arm warmers. Flarey ones. With ribbon. LOTS OF RIBBON.
 So mmhmm. That's about it. Looking forward to school. Not looking forward to losing sleep. Might start a couple Youtube series later on down the road with Pencil. If you'll excuse me I'm going to take a shower, relax, and start on my animation... AGAIN. Later~

5/7/12 - Accessory Crafts!

Hei everyone~ It sure has been a while, hasn't it? Summer is slow... But I'm finding ways to speed it up~

 A little while ago (I'm writing this at like, 3 in the morning) my mom came in and told me to get off the computer. So I did. But instead of going to bed I stayed up another two hours constructing a little accessory craft XP Sorry Mama. I've never actually done this before so I'm really excited to see how it turns out. I got my old music stave cloth, a paper bag, my scissors, a pencil, some white dry-clear wet glue, and my mini sewing kit (out of it I only actually used my measuring tape and safety pins).

 I measured my wrist with the tape, marked a corner of the paper bag with the right measurements, cut out a corner of the bag, and ran it through my fingers to soften it up. Then I measured the cloth so that it would wrap around the strip of paper bag almost perfectly. I cut out the material I needed, set the strip of paper bag in the middle, put a thin line of glue down one side of the material, spread it out with my pinky finger (so that there were no hard bumps when it all dried), and folded it over onto the strip of paper bag. Then I did the same thing with the other side of cloth, just using less glue because some of the glue from the first use kind of soaked through the cloth Xl After that I carefully folded the second half of cloth over onto the first and pressed on it gently. Then I turned it over to make sure the stave design on the outward facing side of the bracelet was straight, and fixed the slight wave in the pattern.

 I wrapped the strip around a candle I had sitting on my desk, and pressed small but heavy items on three sides; the left side, the right side, and the area where the two end sides of the strip meet. This way, the strip will dry stiffly into a bracelet shape, instead of straight, if I were to just lay it down flat and put something on top of it. Doing that might make it hard to bend into the circular shape I want when it is finished drying.

 Later in the morning when I get up I'm going to put the final (and my most favorite) touch on this craft; silver safety pins to hold the strip ends together. This will give it a nice goth look, as well as serve as a nice decorative accent (the same way a charm would). I'll be sure to put up pictures!~

6/22/12

I think summers' got me in a depression. I have nothing to do. Which is usually why I fill it with projects. But my projects have all fallen through the cracks and I don't know what to do... At least... I didn't.
 Lately I've been thinking that I want to learn web designing. So I decided to start with the basics. HTML. I'm currently learning online here. I'm shocked that I could find a place that would teach me online for free. I'm really proud of myself. So far I've gotten into the Attributes chapter on the site. I'm taking notes in an actual notebook and using their page generator as practice. I'm really excited about this. I also remembered just last night that before school ended last year I signed up for a computer class that would teach me things like HTML. It makes me excited to think that I'll already know how to use it before the class. Well, at least that chapter will be a breeze~
 Aside from HTML I really want to learn .exe and a few others. I don't know what .exe or XML is used for, but the more crap I can shove in my brain the smarter I'll feel :3 besides, who doesn't feel cool when someone asks you how to make a web page and you know the answer, at the moment that still isn't something everyone knows! (I'm sure in a few years everyone will know how to make a web page) I'm doing this in hopes that I might be able to make my own site some day. Nothing interactive, because those take a lot of computer power to run (though I would love to build a site someday in which people can make accounts/avatars/etc. but I don't know the beginning of how to do that yet). But just having my own web page for videos, my drawings, and a blog would be nice. Who knows, maybe someday I'll graduate from blogspot.com to my own website! But that's just dreaming big. For now, I'm happy to be on the learning path to something as great as web pages, I already have a far better understanding than I did going into this, and it blows my mind to think just how much computer power the world is using these days!
 Well that's all for now really. I hope anyone reading this has a fantastic day and remembers to stay optimistic even in the darkest of times! Bye~

6/13/12 - Look At It!

So, not much at all really happened today. But I finally got myself out to do something I've wanted to do for the longest time. I love taking pictures of flowers, and it really is surprising to see just how many different beautiful flowers there are in my neighborhood when you stop and take a close look. I'll stop talking and put up the pictures now. Heh...

 This is a tree stump, pretty cool, right?

 I don't know what these are called, but I was raised calling them apple flowers

 Tree stump! I wonder how old this tree was? :3 

 Pretty baby blue flowers

Okay I cheated, these flowers are hanging in a pot outside my house

Well, that's it! I hope anyone who found this blog enjoyed these pictures. Feel free to download them as you please. Bye!~

6/10/11 - Boobies!!!

Well, today was pretty fun for the most part. I got up in the morning to go with my boyfriend, his baby brother, and his mother for the day. I have to say things got interesting right away. I was sitting in the car next to my boyfriend's baby brother who was being a complete wild child the whole time. He took off his shoes and socks and threw them around the car. One sock even managed to fly over his mother's head in the driver seat and land on the dash. At one point, he pointed at my breasts (damn near poked one) and yelled "Boobies!" really loud. He would stop for a few minutes, kick the back of the driver's seat, scream like a mad person, and then poke at my breasts and yell "boobies!" some more.
 Then we stopped for lunch at a place called Fuddruckers or something like that. I'd never been there before and I didn't order anything but it was a really neat looking place, and I'll admit (as much as I hate burgers) the food smelled great. We sat in a little corner booth that was themed for the Beatles band, and when his baby brother finally calmed down enough to go and eat with his mother, my boyfriend and I sat in the nicely decorated booth and he told me stories about the band's past (because my boyfriend LOVES the Beatles).
 I then went to the mall with my boyfriend and we had a really great time together just walking around, eating candy (form the Sweets Factory! I love that place!!!), and people watching. It's days like today when I can really spend time talking with my boyfriend that I remember why I love him so much. He's so down to earth and we really do connect on so many levels. I always feel safe and understood whenever I'm with him.

Now that I've been home for a while I have been thinking about what to do for my dad for father's day. Though I know I have no money to buy my dad something, I have a smudge of talent. And I am going to use it on him this year. I can't say a lot because even though my dad doesn't use the internet, more or less know I keep this blog, I still don't want to risk it. All I can say is that it involves motorcycles and tigers :D Haha. Have a nice day/night/whatever guys~

4/6/12

Haven't been doing much lately. Decided to rebuild my guild on Gaia. I had the worst night last night. I don't know why, but I kept waking up, like, every few hours just UNBELIEVABLY uncomfortable. It was hard for me to breathe, hard for me to get into a comfortable position, I don't know what was going on but EVERYTHING hurt. It wasn't like serious pain. It just ached.
 And then this morning I had the WORST dream I've had in a really long time. Apparently I was friends with this old guy that owned a restaurant. He was having an entertainment night and he wanted me to come dance. Well, in the dream, the sound booth played the wrong song at the last minute so I had to make up a dance on the spot. I WOKE UP this morning with stage fright. Ugh... Life sometimes...

1/6/12

I've actually had a lot to write about these past couple of days, but because I've been so busy I haven't been able to write about it!
 Well, I can't remember what I did two days ago that was so important (sad, right?) but I do remember that yesterday was THE BIGGEST pain in the butt of my life. My parents had me run around and pick up job applications and ask around for work and make a resume and stuff. Everything was all fine and good but most places want you to print up their application at home -.- yeah. We don't have a printer here at home and I sure as hell ain't going to the library like a poor person to print up job applications. Also, my mom had me write up a resume to drop off at the places that said they just wanted my resume. I was content with this... Until I realized that as a shy person I have almost no volunteer work or anything else to put on my resume for that matter. Which hurt me, and pissed me off. I had a really bad friggin day because of that. And even just writing about it now makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry. I think trying to get a job may actually be harder than the actual job itself -.- I'm not ready for this yet.
 On a different note, still wondering if I should focus on keyboard or dance this summer... Yup... And it's already June.... Fuuuuuuu-....