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my life... has been full of reading these days.

i finished Eclipse about 2 weeks ago.

( lingering thoughts... )

I have a copy of Breaking Dawn, and have started reading it. right now it's on hold because of Harry Potter, but from what i've read so far, it's actually not as bad as i was expecting it to be. i think i might actually like it.

now, as i said above, all other readings i was planning on are on temporary hold cause i'm rereading Half-Blood Prince before i go to see the movie wednesday. already got my tickets and all. i seriously am so excited for the movie to come out. i don't even remember when Order of the Phoenix came out. it seems years ago.

i'm going to try and marathon the previous Harry Potter movies before Wednesday. I don't really know how that's gonna work with work and school, but i will try my best =D

for the time being, i'll have to satisfy myself with reading the book. i've also found lots of little scene cuts on youtube. =D oh man, it's just fuelling my excitment more. it just looks so, damn, good!!!!

Oh, Nathan Fillion. My love for him continues to grow.


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Picked up Ariella last night and met up with Sarabeth, Tyler, and Ben at Starbucks downtown. Shortly after, me and Ariella met up with Rosemary and their friends Carson and Cor(e?)y, and Corey's girlfriend Nicole. Look at me remembering names! We all went and saw Bruno. The original plan was to see Public Enemies - me and Ariella weren't too happy about the change. Tried to stay positive about it though considering Sacha is a smart, witty man. But I don't know, I found the movie to be pretty much pure crap. There was one funny line and then one funny moment, and maybe the song at the end made it worth watching. Well, the celebrity appearances - not so much the song itself. I don't know. I'm a fan of insulting humor when done right (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), but I found everything in the movie to be just plain insulting. After the movie, we went to the beach and just walked along it for a while. Weather wasn't the best. Usually there's a chill on the beach at night, even if it's cruddy elsewhere but it was just about the same - icky humidity. (P.S. Ariella was originally going to pay for my ticket because of the abrupt change in the movie choice, and because I drive us around so much - so I really couldn't argue with her there. But her friend that got us into Star Trek free was there again and let us in for free last night, too. Half-way through Bruno, I told Ariella I was so glad she didn't have to pay for the both of us. And she brought this up later when I was driving her home, agreeing, "Not that I would have minded paying FOR YOU, I am also glad I didn't have to pay for both you and I ... for that." Oi vey.)


Today is Free Slurpie Day at 7-11!!!!!! Will be going out later to get me one. :)

20 Yuugiou 5D
[01] Black Rose Dragon
[08] Aki
[01] Rua
[02] Yuusei
[01] Jeager
[01] Mikage
[03] Crow
[02] MikageUshio
[01] Twins

Yuugiou 10th Anniversary Eyecatches
[01] Yami no Yuugi
[01] Juudai
[03] Magicians

Code Geass
[02] Euphemia
[01] Gino
[01] Lelouch
[01] C.C.
[01] SuzaSuza
[02] CCLulu
[01] GinoAnya
[01] GinoSuza



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Title: Afraid of Forgetting
Rating: PGish? Angsty.
Summary: The mystery room didn’t appear to have any windows, and it was too dark to really make out any features of it, but it still seemed oddly familiar. Donna couldn’t remember ever having been here before, but she felt a disorienting sense of déjà vu nonetheless.
Word count: 2,010
Notes: Sorta kinda based off some set reports from the Christmas special, but with no intention to be accurate or predictory. Part one of a three-part series.

at my journal

(aka, Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh)


I see everyone neglects to mention the part where the "hero" threatens to kill the heroine's best friend's baby to make her cooperate.

Also, what's with this trend of equating not liking vampires with being racist?  I mean, I think there's a pretty big difference between "I don't want you sitting beside my kid at the table because your skin isn't the same color as mine" and "I don't want you sitting beside my kid at the table because you eat humans."  It's like not wanting your kid next to a poisonous snake or your hungry, carnivorous wild animal of choice.

(Like, I can't remember what it was, but there was this one book where the heroine accused her friend of being racist because she was babysitting the friend's kids and let the vampire boyfriend-who, IIRC, the friend didn't even know- in the house, and the mother objected to a vampire being let into her house with her children without her permission.)

This is why I can't buy into most vampire fiction.  I don't find them sexy or appealing or mysterious.  I just find them to be nonhumans who look human and eat humans.  (This is not to say that placing vampires above humans on the food chain is wrong or that there's a wrongness in, you know, eating what you have to to live.  But romanticizing it?  Not my thing.)

This is bound to be old news for a lot of you, but this was a sewing revelation for me – It is much easier to make something when you can trace some clothes that you already own. If this is what sewing with a pattern is like, I've seriously been missing out.

I've read plenty of posts where people say they traced a pair of shorts or they used a tank top as a pattern for a new tank top, but I never really understood how you could use other clothes as a pattern without taking it apart. But then when I was making this shirt, I decided to trace the basic body shape of another button up and it saved me a ton of pin and fitting time. Typically I would have put the giant shirt on inside-out and stood in front of the mirror and pinned and pulled in and pinned and pulled in and pinned... Then to make the sleeves, I just roughly traced some cap sleeves off of another shirt. I would normally have started with a tube and shaped it from there, which takes forever and pinning on your own arm is a pain. I still had to work out some issues with these, but it was much easier and faster.

Total, this took me about 5 hours which I find amazing. It also helped that I got the curved hem right on the first shot.

( pics here )

I started to steam press a very important garment today only to discover my iron has developed a leak :(
Do you have any iron recommendations? I'm looking for one under $40 but if it's super duper amazing I might go a little over.

Me: I love my baby cat.
Mom: I hope she bites you.
Me: Why?
Mom: Because I'm crying.
Me: You're watching Torchwood?
Mom: Yes.

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure if you can help me with this one, but thought I'd put it out there anyway to see if you have any advice, because I'm only a beginner at sewing...
Anyway, I'm looking to learn how to sew raised capped-style sleeves (think that's what they're called) on shirts, or know of any places I can look online to get help for this? 

I've posted a few pics of a shirt of mine on a couple of different angles that has this type of sleeve, just incase you might need a better idea of what I mean...

Thanks!

Amanda

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Constance is a somewhat trigger happy suffragette who secretly runs a subversive feminist newspaper along with her sisters, Prudence and Chastity. Max is a chauvinistic politician vehemently opposed to the suffragette movement. She decides to win him over to the cause to give it more recognition. He decides to cozy up to her so he can help other politicians squash it. Together they clash entertainingly, but ultimately fail to really go anywhere.

Like Jo Beverley, Jane Feather tends to be noteworthy for having unusual plots, but is more hit-or-miss for me than Beverley. This, I think, is because, while both write good heroines (even if they do often seem to be overpowered by the heroes at times) Beverley’s heroes tend to be nice at the core, even when exasperating characteristics are added on, while Feather’s heroes tend to be extremely arrogant and stubborn, so they’re often exasperating even when they’re likable.

On the one hand, I admire Feather for having the guts to write a romance novel that has a hero strongly opposed to women’s rights and who goes around talking about things like how women have enough power because they can influence their husbands. On the other, his views haven’t really changed by the end of the book, making it hard to believe he really respects Constance, who centers much of her life around the suffragette movement. Part of the problem, I think, is that Feather seems more interested in Constance’s adventures with her sisters (which are exceptionally enjoyable, if a bit too trite at times), and forgets to really develop the relationship between Max and Constance, or have them reach some sort of middle ground.

Max and Constance, though, are both pretty likable and entertaining, so in the end the book is fun, but frustrating for not being as realized as it could be.

I would like to invite you all to my new community called Anthology Press!

Anthology Press is a community that is passionately interested in books, both reading them, writing them, illustrating them and sharing them!

Seeing a finished title with your name it, is a truly fabulous feeling; but when you are just starting out or doing it for fun it can be really hard to get noticed, as an ex-publishing designer, and illustrator I realised something both exciting and obvious:

There’s no decent explanation as to why it should take technical skills, money, or friends in high places to publish a book, when you are just starting out or wanting to practice or writing for fun etc.

So I have created this simple community for anyone as a way of building an exciting place to share experiences and your work whether you are a author (or blogger), illustrator, photographer, cook, traveler, poet, fangirl / fanboy, basically everyone!

If you have a true enthusiasm and passion for writing, illustrating and sharing and wish to post or lurk you are welcome here!

Please delete if not appropriate, no offence intended

xxx

Hello

I would like to invite you all to my new community called Anthology Press!

Anthology Press is a community that is passionately interested in books, both reading them, writing them, illustrating them and sharing them!

Seeing a finished title with your name it, is a truly fabulous feeling; but when you are just starting out or doing it for fun it can be really hard to get noticed, as an ex-publishing designer, and illustrator I realised something both exciting and obvious:

There’s no decent explanation as to why it should take technical skills, money, or friends in high places to publish a book, when you are just starting out or wanting to practice or writing for fun etc.

So I have created this simple community for anyone as a way of building an exciting place to share experiences and your work whether you are a author (or blogger), illustrator, photographer, cook, traveler, poet, fangirl / fanboy, basically everyone!

If you have a true enthusiasm and passion for writing, illustrating and sharing and wish to post or lurk you are welcome here!

Please delete if this is not appropriate, no offence is intended.

xxx

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The CHA Craft SuperShow (Website)is July 31st - August 1st. Anyone near the Orlando area going? If so, you might wanna check out your local Joann fabrics shop for a discount coupon for admission.

See you there!