We are decorating our cubicles for Halloween next week at work.  Ok,  apparently I am the only one excited about this.  It looks that most people that I work with don't really do Halloween, other than that we would dress up and have snack day but since it falls on a weekend this year this was supposed to be the alternative.  I thought it was a good idea and it was to be a moral booster.  Anyway, there is a contest involved and my theme that I am trying to do is a Victorian gothic theme, since I have kinda decorated my bedroom with some of this style before and don't have to go out and buy alot.  I am taking Shiro (my resident Vampire) and a coffin for him to rest in, some gargoyles to guard our entrance into the cubicle area, some of the tinies with my little tombstones to do a graveyard trick or treating scene, a couple candleholders, a cross (I am limiting it to one even though I have several), and other misc things.  Now I am trying to figure out some other halloween type things that I can make on limited budget to add to this theme.  The kicker is that our cubicle is the size of 2 1/2 cubicles so it is the biggest space and I don't have but so much and my coworker has nothing really in this style.  I even thought if we split the space and she could do something else but I don't know.

Help... I need some of my creative friends to give me some ideas.

   

This is Daisy my mutant Gerbera Daisy.  She has been doing so well at work this past year hanging out in Dispatch blooming quite a bit but it has been well over a year since I have had a double bloom.  This is close to what it looked like when I bought her in spring of '08. Stupid me was watering it before I left work tonite and broke the bloom off so I brought it home to show my family.

I haven't taken the dollies outside for photos in a while so I decided to take Victoria out. There are some other pictures of the other dollies but I will save those for later.





( On to the picspam... )

I was just browsing the Otakon website and they have the panels listed for this year.  Ok I will be headed to the Travis Willingham panel (hopefully) and the one for Kanon Wakashima.  Of course there are the industry panels:  but there isn't one for Bandai and they had the most awesome panel last year.   There isn't any BJD panels but there are 3 lolita panels. I think one has to do with the Steampunk panel but not sure.  Otherwise I don't see it listed.  There is also a panel for Leiji Matsumoto. That could be interesting.  And there is an old school anime panel.  I did have to chuckle in the over 18 section.  there is a panel called "Guess the Melons" Game.  Ok mind is in the gutter.   We also get the Ultimate Hellsing Ultimate Panel of Ultimateness.  I think it was there last year.

This could be an interesting convention.

How many of my friends list has a Poupee account? 

I am a little confused on something when I tried to upload something earlier.  I was uploading a picture of one of my dolls and it asked if it was something one could wear so i clicked No then it kicked me back to the upload page.  So I tried it again and clicked yes because Doll is an option for the description then I get this new page in Japanese so i click on that link  and it takes me back to the upload page again and my picture isn't there.

Also is this somewhere that you get people to friend you?  I am so confused. 

Throwing the stuff in the car.  Will take pictures.  See some of y'all there. 

Be back Sunday!!

I think this is such a cute commercial and the song is so catchy.

Hope that one hamster got across the railroad crossing...

Just browsed over to the DOA and I hadn't seen the thread before but it said they have announced NY DOLPA 4 and we are looking at mid July.  That kinda sucks for me because OTAKON is July 17-19.   And my coworker is getting married possibly July 4th weekend and going on her honeymoon. 

ARGH!!!!  ARGH!!!!!   ARGH!!!!

I have my priorities backwards again.  I have several things that I need to do (fix that computer that I have been procrastinating about, fix the car radio that is on good behavior right now, save for NY, AZ, Otakon, and AWA)  All these things and here I am looking at the Custom House sale.  I put off trying for Kira and Kurumi. Well truthfully their price tags do scare me.  But when the word 50% off shows up I perked up.  I like the Customhouse molds (apparently, Am I a Customhouse Elitest???)  So here I am deciding which doll I want.  I was looking at Choa but now I am leaning toward Cebee.  She has a more mature look to her and I think she could pull a sexier look.  Saya is my mature sophisticated girl and Reina is my sweet yet punky lolita.  This all started because I was looking at Yeondu as Reina and Saya's little sister but there is something about her not clicking with me right now.  I do like the little Bisou Ai (I think) Uri.  She has a sweet yet sad look to her but I don't need anymore tinies.  Kira is to be my last tiny right? 

Must get myself back on track and get my butt away from this computer. 

I have been sitting back on the side lines but I will say that I am proud to say that yes I did vote for McCain and Palin and for our senator Elizabeth Dole.  I believe what they stand for and frankly they aren't perfect but no one is.  I think they could have done great things for our nation.  No they are not George Bush but frankly we can't blame him for everything.  He didn't have a Republican house or senate to back him so what can you really get accomplished when you have the opposing party shooting you down.   Which if Obama had a Republican senate and house he wouldn't get anything accomplished either. 

So no I am not happy about the way the election turned out.  I am sad for our country at what we are getting ourselves into.  I don't trust this whole "spread the wealth" he keeps preaching.  I am sorry I do not feel that it is my place to support anymore people who do not want to support themselves. And frankly I don't trust him.  He promises so much but frankly you have to pay for all of these promises and our nation can't afford much more.  And one last thought: I have been pondering this,  Hollywood is a big supporter for Obama but doesn't most of the celebrities fall into his higher income bracket = paying higher taxes to "spread the wealth"?  Will they pay this??  I doubt it.  There will be some loophole that will exclude them and it will be the rest of the average middle class citizens that will have to foot the bill again.

I just felt that since everyone else is speaking about the election I would vent as well.  So please no political rants.  I am just stating my beliefs as everyone else has been stating theirs.

These are some of the pictures I took of the dollies this afternoon with a Halloween feel to them. Please forgive my attempts at being artistic with some of these shots.

 
( Halloween type pictures )

I haven't browsed too much of the DOA lately but i stumbled on the Tenshi no Sumika fair that looks to be next weekend. They have posted the limited doll for this event and it is the lovely Kira. Damn you volks why do you torment me right now? I did a currency conversion and she would be around $650 plus shipping. :(







Sadly too much going on right now. I am getting new tires on Monday for my car, must pay on the credit card for my lolita stuff, and i still need to get my computer fixed before it gets worse. Maybe at some point someone will put her in the marketplace and not charge too many body parts for her.

But wouldn't she be cute with little Kira???

Yep per my mother's request i checked the CBS website for CSI Miami and the new season (season 7) begins Sept 22, 2008.  Can't wait to see that Horatio hopefully survived getting shot at the end of season 6.

In other events.  I am needing to work on an art project for work.  Yes, i am being sarcastic with this.  We were asked to take a piece of paper and decorate it with how we would describe ourselves to everyone and how we feel that we contribute to our company. Must get cracking on this. 

We also think we may have found an answer for my computer woes.  My mom said tonite that they might try to help me fix mine b/c it was such a good price and even to fix it is less than trying to buy a new one.  So we will see.  I have already copied everything off the harddrive so i will let my brother handle it from here.

And since I just have to obsess with something I am trying to decide which outfit to wear for halloween.   We get to dress for work so I am either going to wear my wonderland skirt and do an Alice in Wonderland thing by carrying Cecilia as the rabbit or wear my red Meta dress and do a decoraloli outfit.  Decisions, decisions.