State of the Neko address: week 8

song+ I Don't Care (Machine Shop Remix)- Fall Out Boy- Folie a Deux
book+ Magdalena TP
scent+ raspberry pastry thingy
quest+ saving to visit Roro
upper+ Kyu's Chloe came in
downer+ less Scarbie time..
attire+ WW tee and a comfy skirt
drink+ dr pepper

so this weekend went pretty well. i got a costume for FaithAnn done Saturday at Grandpa's. She wore it adorable to the faire Sunday too. i'm definitely gonna have to do another wig for her though. this one's okay when she's absolutely still, but the slightest movement at all, and the color bleeds all over anything it touches. most of her right side is stained green now. i'll have to do some pretty heavy cleaning this week to fix it. i met some awesome doll owners at a few of the shops, so i'll be taking up some of the other kiddos this weekend when i go back. specific requests have been made to see Eve (cause she's never seen an EiD in person), Xavin (for the modding i did), and Nemesis (again, for the modding). xD it's nice to be appreciated for a special skill, and my capacity to mod tinies is apparently kinda rare. *shrug* who knew? there's also a girl looking for a local faceup artist to redo the face she'd like to get modded. i can't really help there. i'll do faceups for me and mom, but i don't think i'm good enough to charge for my services, and it's not so fun i wanna do it for other people..

anyhow, next weekend should be pretty interesting. i won't have made any progress on my dryad costume, or on James' gift, but that's cause i'm broke. xD i bought new costume pieces. I stayed within my budget, but only by about 5 bucks. X.x

the downside to packing so much awesome into one weekend? i'm dead tired today. you can see when you look around up here who spent the weekend at the faire. it's not a telltale sunburn or anything, it's a pleased weariness. we all feel like zombies, but it was worth it because we had tons of fun! Susie seemed to enjoy her first trip out there, and has expressed a desire to make a costume of her own and come out again, which would be pretty awesome.

i totally spaced though, i forgot to take the free tickets with me, and ended up paying to get in. xD it's okay since they'll still work this weekend, so that's when i'll be using them. i also forgot to take my camera for first-visit pictures, or my ipod to listen to anything beyond highway noises for the drives out and back. X.x i'll be better prepared this weekend for sure though. this weekend Saturday will likely be Xavin & Nemesis day, the lady who owns a hat shop near Moose's leather shop has offered to put them upstairs with hers to keep them away from sunlight in exchange for seeing the awesome. Sunday i think i'll try to fashion a sling for Eve to lounge in so she can go with me. she's so gorgeous i think i'd like to carry her all day, but she's heavy, so a proper means of dignified lugging is needed. xD i think she also needs something a smidgen more Renaissance-y than her current robes, so i'll probably do that evenings this week (after i've done my combos- yay store credit!) to pull it together in time. whatever she gets is likely to still be robey and flowy, but hopefully a bit more accurate to the general era the faire strives to emulate. i'm thinking possibly red and pink. maybe an Eastern costume, like a belly dance getup or something. i have some pink shimmery sheer stuff, and some red stretch velvet, so i think with that and my bajillion beads, i can probably crank out something pretty decent in the next few days.

oh.. hmm.. so apparently Scarbie passed around new employee guidelines on dress code Sunday (in an effort to better adhere to the desired era). all tattoos must be covered, no facial piercings can be shown, and hair must be a natural color. since Moose was breaking all thee rules, her boss had to let her go. there's just no way she could work around them all with the merchandise offered at that shop. as she put it “that stuff's not really designed to cover” and they don't sell hats or anything, so we're going this weekend as guests, then things will be about back to normal with her returning to her old weekend job, and me returning to being a hermit who never leaves the house. xD i'll actually have time to play video games again! of course, if James decides he wants to go for his birthday i'll totally buy a one day pass and go, but since Moose won't be working there, i'm losing my every-weekend ride, so buying a season ticket no longer seems like a worthwhile investment.. *sigh* it's really too bad, since i do love going to Scarbie. at least i still have a guaranteed ride out/good time partner for this weekend. that makes me even more determined to get something pulled together to really show off Eve since i'll really only have this weekend to do so.

maybe i can get started on it tonight, depending on how many combos i have to get done. if it's just two or three boxes i can do them easily tomorrow night and work on costuming tonight, if i have like 5 or 6 boxes to do, i'll definitely have to start on them during my viewings of HIMYM and BBT, totally some of the funniest sitcoms in the history of EVER! xD but yeah, actual incentive to get sewing for the world's heaviest doll.. she's seriously SO heavy, like i think she weighed in at about 4 (4 1/2?) pounds when i absently put her on the scale at my work desk when she was still mom's. X.x Eve is SO heavy that it's a bit tricky to sew for her since she doesn't stand too well without shoes, and shoes get in the way during dressmaking endeavors.