Why I Want to be a Leader Stop Motion Project

Project for my University 102 class. ♥ It's my first stop-motion project, and while it was very time-consuming to put together, I absolutely loved the experience of it! I'd like to try to create more and get much better at them! I hope you all enjoy!

How to get White Hair

Hello, my lovelies. I've just been posting a bunch of updates for videos I've posted on my youtube but haven't really posted up on here. This video explains how I bleach & tone my hair to get it white, the products that I use, and how I care for my hair. I hope this helps anybody who plans to start bleaching their hair and if you happen to have any questions feel free to drop a comment either on my video or on this blog post, or even on my facebook page. (: Hope you all are having a great day! ♥

I'm So Creepy ♥

Contest submission for Ghost Town's "Creepy Girl" contest. ♥ Didn't win, but it was fun to record and put together. Pretend that this was posted here like two weeks ago, though.

Introduction Video ♥

New channel. Pretend that this was posted here like three weeks ago.

Watercolour Kitten on Facebook! (:

Hello, my lovelies!

I have had a facebook page for the past week or so and I'm just now blogging about it to share it with you. I would absolutely love it if you headed over to it and gave it a like! (: Click!

Here's some photography stuff for you guys to enjoy as an apology for my lack of posts recently. c:

It's 4AM & I'm Wide Awake...

...waiting for my thoughts to fade.

No, but seriously. It's around four in the morning and I have no idea why I'm still awake. I should be sleeping by now but instead I'm up on my computer. Well, that's probably the reason why I'm awake. I don't have anything else to do. I should be bored to the point where I shut off my computer and go to sleep. Strangely, though, I just can't quite do that yet.

I dyed my hair pink today. Well, technically earlier this morning, since it was practically right after midnight. I'll post some pictures of it soon. From how it looked when I washed it out, I like how the color came out.

My circle lenses came in today. Or technically, it was yesterday. I'll make another blog post about them. (: They're absolutely wonderful. I love them so much and I can't wait to order more from the website. I'm not sure what color I would want to choose; like I'm still not sure if I want to get the same color in a different style or go for a completely different color and style combination. I'll just take a look around and see if there's anything that catches my eye. (:

I'm going to make a new youtube account soon. I'm currently in the middle of deciding on a name. I have a couple of different possibilities that I'm considering right now but I'm going to keep them mostly to myself because I don't want my final decision to be influenced by people over the internet that I don't know too well, since I personally believe that out of everyone in the world, I am the one that knows and understands myself the best. But once I make a new youtube account then I can start up my storenvy and sell lovely craft items. (: Life is just full of so many possibilities and opportunities right now and I'm so excited for them all.

Outfit of the Day: October 16, 2012

Sketch Dump 10/11

I was in a drawing mood today. Well, except for the first one. I drew that earlier this week. I think I'll do sketch dumps every few days or so and see if I'm improving at all or if I'm finding myself drawing the same thing over and over. This will be a new sort of personal journey towards improving myself! Would you care to join me on my journey?

Outfit of the Day?

I've always adored the idea of daily outfit videos and I enjoy watching them on youtube. However, I feel like the sheer amount of videos would be overwhelming, especially since I make other sorts of videos (for the record, I have never made an "outfit of the day" video). So I was thinking of starting them up on this blog, since I just recently made a cute little navigation bar off to the left side of my blog. My "daily outfit" posts will, of course, go under my "fashion" tab. I just feel like I don't post a lot on this blog. I mean, the most I've posted was over the summer when I had my 50 photographs flickr project. I think making daily outfit blog posts would be entertaining and while I may not remember the approximate cost of whatever I'm wearing, I will most likely remember where I got it from. Unless I'm wearing something that I've had for a really long time. In that case, I probably won't remember where it was from. But I would need someone to help me, since I don't have a tripod and I'm really bad at taking images of myself for full body shots. And makeshift tripods are no help at all. Because I can't rest my camera on its side. Anyway, I don't have class until 3:00 today since my stagecraft class is split in half this week & next so I'll be attending this lesson on Tuesday next week. Ooh, I have time to paint & draw today. I might post some of my artwork soon. (:

photographs.

I've been sort of dead on here...

I apologize so much to my followers (even though there aren't many - I love you all) for my lack of posting recently. College work and adjusting to living away from home and goodness! It's barely been a month since I've been here. It feels like it's been so much longer!
Anyway, I just wanted to talk a little bit about scarves. A few of you might know that I plan to open up a storevny store very soon. I'd really like to start selling really cool scarves & stuff on it. So dear followers, please tell me what you think of that idea? c:

The Beginning...

 She sits up high, surrounded by the sun. One million branches and she loves every one. ♥ Mom & Dad, did you search for me? I've been up here so long, I'm going crazy. ♥ Hold on till May

“A girl I used to date once told me that her parents neglected her as a child. She remembered climbing this tree in her backyard and hiding from them just to see if they would look for her, or even notice that she was gone. I always thought it was such a sad story and I wrote this song for her. It also talks about the ups and downs in the relationship we’ve had recently.”
— Vic Fuentes explaining the meaning behind ‘Hold On till May’

 

I'm really happy with how this came out so far. I found the acoustic version while browsing through posts on tumblr, and his explanation was in the description. I thought it was so beautiful, and couldn't believe that I didn't realize the deeper meaning behind this song despite listening to the entire album dozens and dozens of times on repeat. There is so much more that I want to do with this piece, the main thing is color it. Unfortunately, I'm so scared that I'm going to mess it up beyond recovery, since I don't have any photoshop programs on my computer. Well, I also need to ink it. That's going to take a lot of time. Probably more time than actually drawing it. The thing with ink is I have to be really careful to control the flow of it as best I can. Otherwise I'll get ink blots over the entire thing.

I HAVE A TABLE!!!!

Like I mentioned in my previous post, I would keep you guys informed about the Artist Alley table for the SacAnime Winter 2013 convention. The good news is.... I was able to reserve a table in time! (: I will be there with my friend Hailey and we will sell artwork and I also plan to sell t-shirts too! (: You can check out my deviantart and possibly add me to your watch list? I plan on uploading my drawings once I download GIMP to make it all nice and colorful! (:

SacAnime Summer 2012

Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a FANTASTIC Labor Day weekend! I know I had a super amazing one! (: I went to SacAnime on Saturday with my two friends Hailey and Patrick. When we got there, there was hardly any parking so we were parked right in front of the plant waste dumpster where they drop all the dead tree limbs off at and stuff. I didn't really "cosplay", but I made my hair and makeup sort of "Visual Kei". Again, the quotations are used loosely so please don't judge me seriously on my hair and makeup. I didn't have exact "references" so I tried to mimic the basic style of it. Here's a picture of how I looked that day, taken in the car on the way to the convention. Because that's how I always take pictures. :D

Except for the last picture where I spotted a Pyramid Head cosplayer and desperately wanted to take a picture with him because I absolutely love Pyramid Head. I am a crazy Silent Hill fangirl.

Anyway so we spent most of our time at the artist alley and hanging out with another friend Sarah whom we met up with when we practically first got to the convention.We didn't really do much at this convention; we just met a lot of people and talked and made new friends and it was all happy and rainbows and unicorns and aaaahhhhhhh! Amazing! We also went around the vendor room, but, like all vendor rooms, it was super crowded & I only bought a couple things from there. I didn't take pictures of what I purchased.... sorry!

Okay well, thank you guys so much for reading this and if you plan on heading out to SacAnime in January I will hopefully have an art table with my friend Hailey!! So if you see us feel free to stop by and say hello! I will definitely post an update here on whether or not we get the art table since the last few times we've tried to, they were sold out and we felt like crying. So hopefully that doesn't happen but if it does we are still going to be there! It would just be more difficult to find us if you wanted to meet us. But hopefully we get it. Because that would be so nifty. (: Okay guys, I hope you all have a wonderful day! Byeeeeeee! <3

Audition

So this is my face for my audition tonight. I hope the people there like my face like this. I'm just going to talk about my face. My face looks tired and uninterested.

50/50

Finally finishing off my 50 days project! (: This is me with my student ID (covering up my number so you creepers out there can't creep on me). I was so frustrated getting it because I lost the one that I got at orientation, so I had to pay $30 to replace it. Turns out it's an extra $10 to retake the picture, which I found that out AFTER I got it. ):
Anyway on a happier note do you see the lanyard around my neck? There was a super-nice employee at the bookstore who bought it for me because my debit card wasn't working right. So I need to fix that problem but he was sooo nice to do that for me! I was expecting him to put it on hold for me so that I could go back to my dorm room and get some cash or something (in like, all change since that's all I have). But nice people are out there. (:

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Moved into the dorms! Excuse my makeup-less face and the fact that I look so freaking tired in this picture. The bed that you see in the lower left corner is indeed mine. (:

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I can't even begin to describe the immense amount of happiness and joy that is just circling around inside of my being. Pierce the Veil had a contest where they were giving away autographed props from their music video "King for a Day" as well as a couple of tickets for their "Collide with the Sky" concert tour. I was shopping with my mom at Wal-Mart for some last minute "I NEED THIS FOR COLLEGE" items and got this tweet. I immediately start freaking out and saying "Holy freak" in the middle of the store. At first, I think it's real. And then I wonder if some prick made a fake twitter to mess with people and I start to get a little angry, thinking "if this is fake I will track down whoever it is and stab them in the face". So I rush my mom to hurry up so I can go check it on facebook and twitter (because I'm not allowed to use the internet on my phone P: ) So when we finally get home I immediately go on twitter and I freak out once more because it is indeed TRUE! So this picture doesn't even begin to cover how much of a freak I looked like while in the midst of spazzing out. Oh, and here's a screenshot the other winner Ryan posted on my facebook page. (: I think I would have giggled more if his battery level was at 69%.

Image © Ryan Foreman

47/50

Nathan took me out on an amazing date. This is probably the last time I'll see him until he comes with me to help me move into my dorm on Saturday, so hanging out with him today meant so much to me. We went to Barnes & Noble because I wanted to buy a book, then we browsed around World Market and bought a couple of snack food items (chocolate and more chocolate). He then took me out to a local sushi bar for all-you-can-eat sushi. This is why he's so amazing. He doesn't have a lot of money and he still chooses to spend like fifty dollars for us to have an amazing day. I completely understand what it's like to feel broke almost 24/7 and for him to want to do that for me makes me feel so special, like he could choose to spend his money on himself but for him to be so selfless makes me so happy.

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 My first actual broadcast that's taken mildly seriously! I joined younow.com and for the most part I was disliked immediately off of my broadcasts because people were jerks and didn't want to give me a couple of minutes. But this was my first mildly successful one where I actually had about forty-five minutes to talk to people! It was certainly a lot of fun but I don't think I could ever do one exactly like it again since when I was finished it was past three in the morning and I was sleepy so I needed to go to bed. But I will definitely try to broadcast on a regular basis. I need to adjust to my schedule once I move into college so I will definitely keep you guys up to date on that if you're interested.

45/50

Nathan and I took some pictures together outside of Olive Garden where he took me out to a very lovely dinner. We tried the "endless pasta bowl" which isn't really endless since normal people could probably eat only two bowls of it. I ate one bowl, ordered another, but could only eat like two bites of it so I took it home for lunch the next day. It's only like ten dollars so if you don't mind pasta on the "plainer" side the it's definitely worth ordering.(It's three dollars more if you want stuff like meatballs so it is a very good thing that I'm a vegetarian!)

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 I really liked how my face turned out here, being completely honest.

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 Pink and brown sparkly makeup. I really loved loved loved how this turned out and I'm going to put up an offer for you guys. If I get at least twenty notes on this on my tumblr, I'll make a makeup tutorial to show you guys step-by-step how to achieve this look and the products that I used for it. Depending on how many notes it receives, I might make it a tutorial/giveaway where I give away a piece or two of the same type of makeup that I used for this look!

Reblog it here! 

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Sleeping with my kitty the night before she goes in for surgery. Don't worry, the surgery is only so that she won't have babies, aka she's getting spayed. She wasn't allowed to eat after 8PM so she was getting hungry as it was getting close to midnight. I bet she wishes that she ate more kitty chow when it was like seven o'clock.

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I dyed red coontails into my hair and also added red peekaboo-under-bangs! c: I'm really happy with the way that they turned out! Here's another picture of the red peekaboo-under-bangs!

200? WOW! :D

I checked my statistics today and saw that I reached 200 pageviews in a single month this month. I don't think you readers fully understand the immense joy that just bursts throughout me whenever I see that. I feel like I am defining myself and making myself who I am, and people are recognizing my growth as a photographer. This inspires me beyond imagination to strive to improve my work so that I can continue to grow and learn all that I can. But all this cannot be possible without your support. You guys make me smile all the time just by viewing my blog. c:

40/50

My friend Cindy wanted me to show her the panties I bought from Target. Congratulations for being awkward.

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Went shopping at Bath & Body Works today! It was their "party in Paris" event sort of thing where they gave away a free gift if you bought a full size signature collection item. Also, because I was towards the beginning of their customers for the party thing, they gave me a coupon so I could get another full size item for free. So this is my version of a haul blog! c: Enjoy the pictures! c:

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Facial mask with cucumbers. Why do cucumbers over the eyes always have to look really creepy?

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Cut my bangs. Didn't turn out exactly like the picture I posted in a previous blog post, but I like how it turned out.
And aaaahh! I have about a week to finish my 50 photographs project!

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This was seriously one of the happiest moments of my life. In May, I mentioned my 1,000 kiriban on deviantart in a post on here, expecting to reach it when my account was at least a year old, which will be on September 17th. I was super excited when it came time for my weekly journal update because my pageview chart was so close to reaching 1,000! It was at like, 970 or something like that. I was anticipating reaching my goal either the day after I posted that or the day after that, because I normally get about 5-10 pageviews a day, a little bit more if I post a deviation or a journal entry. So, surprise surprise! I received around 40 pageviews that day, achieving my goal! (: My good friend Hailey caught my kiriban and won this lovely prize of a sign from me to her.
If any of you readers are also watching me on deviantart & wanted to catch my kiriban, don't worry! I reset the kiriban to 2,500 and the prize for that will include a sign similar to what you see above PLUS an eos lip balm in the flavor of your choice! If you don't know what an eos lip balm is, I explain it in this video & also I invite you to throw your questions at me for a Q&A video that I would like to make sometime before the year is over. I also invite you to subscribe to me on youtube & watch me on deviantart because I think it would be really nifty to start up contests and I would like to have at least a decent number of people who show support on my pages for me to do that. I'm not sure what kind of contests I would initially start out with, but I do know that if I get more watchers and subscribers then I would be more likely to do huge give-aways of stuff like make-up sets & hair products & all sorts of other goodies. c:
I feel like I've been rambling for quite a bit now so I will say my goodbyes and I hope you guys have a super awesome fantastic day! I love all of you! c:

35/50

Went swimming & because I didn't want my camera near the water I just took a picture of myself right before I changed back into my clothes. I am so awkward. And a bikini picture? Probably not the smartest move I've made, and definitely shows me that I could afford to lose a few belly pounds before I go off to college. Let's hope that it doesn't quite get up to a "Freshman 15". Freshman 5 or Freshman 10 maybe I could live with that. 15, nope. No way.

Haircuts

I need to get my bangs trimmed. But I'm terrified that it won't turn out the way I want it to. I want it to look like this sort of;

©RisaIsAFox

Not sure if the colours she used would look good in my hair; but I want the bangs to look similar to what she has. But then I'd have to have my hair the same way everyday since I'm not sure how it would react to being like pulled back or whatnot. Well, I know I can't take in a snapshot of this image in to a salon because the last time I tried that they barely cut my bangs and instead focused on the sides of my hair. :I So I guess I'll try cutting it myself; it's my bangs. It should be easy, right? I'm going to end up screwing up I know it.

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On the Ferris Wheel with Nathan. ♥ I took about four pictures, but this one came out the best because it wasn't blurry. The awkward thing about Ferris Wheels is when you are heading across on the bottom and there are people waiting for their turn just staring at you and you're like "uhhh, hi?". Most awkward thing ever. I don't think anything tops that.

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I got a henna tattoo at the fair! (: I really like how this one came out, although it sort of makes me wish that I had taken a much better picture of the henna tattoo that I got on the night of Grad Nite. I always choose the worst time of day to get a henna tattoo on the worst place on my body. This happened on both of the henna tattoos that I've had. The last one was on my belly, too, and I had to walk around with my shirt lifted up while it was freezing outside.

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Went to the fair today. This is the one that I mentioned in this post back in June. No, I didn't win any ribbons, which is kind of a disappointment, but I guess there's always next year! I was mildly irritated that they displayed my piece on a table instead of up on the wall, or I totally would have had this shot looking something more along the lines of this lovely piece I drew up in MS paint at like, midnight.

Cable ):

I can't seem to find the cable that I use to connect my camera to my computer. Which is really strange since I transferred images only a couple days ago. I have a feeling that it's slipped underneath my covers and is chilling at the foot of my bed. I'll check that once I finish up this post.
To a happier note, it's getting very close to my kiriban! c: Check out my Deviantart & if you see my pageview at 1,000; you've won! c:
Edit;
Why do I have this horrible feeling that my mom took it away from me as some sort of punishment because my room is disorganized?
Edit II;
So it turns out my mom just stuck it in a bag and then stuck that bag on my bookshelf because she didn't want my cat to chew it up. Thanks for telling me earlier, mom.

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At the mall. (:

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Nathan's being silly while we're at the mall. (:

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Stretched my ears out to 5mm. Well, not entirely. They are still stretching to get there. (:

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Eating candy with Nathan (:

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Made Pad Thai with Nathan. (: We added mixed vegetables because we didn't have any tofu, peanuts, or eggs!