When real things happen to imaginary people

People, I keep going back and looking at the photo of that wig I posted yesterday. Oh, the coveting! Thank you to alexiarnps and jaborwhalky, who gave me links to tutorials on how to make my own. But I know my level of patience and skill, and I think I just need to save my pennies (iieee!) and see if I can eventually buy that particular wig. Plus, I want to support talented artists.

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Vampire Ball! Vampire Ball! This coming Saturday night! The Vampire Ball is actually THE big dress-up event I look forward to every year. It's the one that I know I am always going to attend. The Infamous BlueJay dropped off my finished dress last night, and it is, IMHO, EPIC. Eeeee!

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Goth at the Office photos! I love this blazer. That doesn't mean that I don't want MORE, DIFFERENT pink & black striped blazers, but I'm very fond of this one. (And yes, I'm wearing black lipstick.)



( Behind the cut, my sparkly mis-matched stockings and my Fluevog Sweet Peas )

Y'know what I need to find? B&W striped mid-weight twill, where the stripes are not quite an inch wide. I need about 5 yards. Anyone have useful links?

Whooo, tired. This is the first time in a while that the concept of "Friday! Weekend!" has been really important to me. Ah, the things we get used to when we don't have a day job. So, we had WEATHER last night. House-shaking, I wonder if the collection of tea cups are going to rattle right off of the shelves WEATHER. It was amazing! The cats were Not Amused At ALL, but the Stroppy One and me stared out the windows in rapt astonishment.
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I have a new guilty pleasure TV show. Oh Vampire Diaries, I didn't expect you to end up being vaguely good and entertaining. But the show already has a more entertaining and complex plot than the books (yes, I've read them, this surprises you how, exactly?), and ... okay, I'll admit it: add a snarky, mostly evil, just wants to eat people and be a vampire -sort of vampire character, and I am enraptured. Which is not bad going for a show where for the first three episodes, I firmly believed that the best performance was being turned in by the fog machine.
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SFD photo! I don't know if I'm going to continue posting daily outfit photos, because I don't want to turn into a picspam posting, attention-craving bad internet cliché. (Yes, I worry about these things.) But it has been fun documenting my outfits this week! I couldn't get a good photo of the back of the skirt, but the back panel is layered in 3 tiers of 9" wide ruffles, for extra fluff and bustle-y-ness. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. p>

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And now, more tea, and on to the work project that just got handed to me.

Should I bid on a black-with-pink-pinstripes stretch velveteen jacket on Ebay UK, even tho' the seller has not replied to my question about if they would ship to the US? Because black-with-pink-pinstripes, ooh!

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I am working at home for half the day today, and then am on vacation for a few days for socializing, wheee! The two best things about working from home: sleeping in, and the Stroppy One venturing forth to go get really good coffee.

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No, I still haven't gotten replies to the emails I was wound up over. But! I called one of the people in question, got the feedback I needed, and made sure that my emails did get to them and didn't just vanish into the aether. So yay.

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I will have bound proofs of the GCS book soon! ::flails excitedly::

The dread spirits of Ebay.co.uk are mocking me.

MOCKING ME, I TELL YOU.

There are TWO different auctions for the the pink & black candy-stripe blazer I am searching for. One is for a size 6, one is for a size 10. I need a size 14.

Excuse me while I stamp my little feet in vexedness.

(I'm also searching for the black & cream striped blazer from Miss Selfridge in a size 14, because the website is sold out. Why are all the good stripey clothes in the UK? Whyyyyyy? Like I said, shallow fashion whining. My life, it's so difficult.)

EDITED TO ADD: I wonder if I should make a "I'm looking for this item" post to gothfash?

Anyway, in happier and less shallow news, I am making progress on the writing! I am now HALFWAY done with the first draft of the project. Progress, it happens!

Today I am wearing the Lip Service jacket (clicky link to eBay!) that I spent most of my free time last week customizing.

"Customizing?" I hear you say? Why yes. Because I am (possibly) crazy, I hand-colored all the white on the jacket with Copic markers (clicky link!) in "Sugar Almond Pink". Copic markers are waterproof, and you can buy ink refills for them, which means they're perfect for clothing modification.

Coloring the jacket was a strangely soothing activity. It was something I could do while watching movies or talking to people, and now I have a Victorian-esque pirate-y jacket with pink & black striped trim. (I also now have a matching waist cincher, which was easier to color than the ruffles on the jacket.)

(There will be a photo of the newly-customized jacket posted to Shoutfit in the next couple of days. My co-worker and former office-mate likes to take photos, which means she doesn't mind helping me document the outfits I wear to work each day.)