We have made up with my life again and things start to look good again!


 

Yesterday I was at a great halloween party. I decided to dress up as a maid, because
I have always loved maid outfits! I have made the whole outfit except for the blouse and
of course the socks and the shoes. The party was really well organized and we had fun :)
 

Lately I have really got kicked ass by the world. I know things could be so much worse and it doesn't help me that I angst here. Anyways I'll write in Finnish this time, sorry non-Finnish-people!

Eli arkipäiväiset asiat ovat viime aikoina yrittäneet pilata fiilikseni ja pahentaa stressiäni, mutta onhan toki ollut suurempiakin suruja. Aika ei riitä mihinkään, mutta ehdinpä silti kirjoittaa tänne, kun skippaan parit koulutyöt.

Aloitetaan ikävimmistä: Pari viikkoa sitten minulle läheinen ihminen menehtyi. Kai siihenkin täytyy alkaa tottua vähitellen, kun sama tapahtui myös pari kuukautta sitten. Hautajaisia odotellessa.
Viikon päästä lauantaina menen revityttämään kaikki neljä viisauden hammastani pois samalla kertaa. Eipähän tarvitse isänpäivänä sitten ainakaan mitään ylimääräistä syödä päivällispöydässä.

Sitten pienempiin harmeihin: Ostin toissapäivänä unelmakengät, sillä minun kenkätilanteeni on todella, todella epätoivoinen. Eilen sitten palautin ne kauppaan, sillä yhden Matinkylä-Tikkurila matkan jälkeen ne olivat raadelleet kantapääni lähes verille. Vanhoista saappaistani on vetoketjut rikki ja jopa lenkkareista irtoaa kohta pohjat. Käytännössä minulla ei ole minkään näköisiä käyttökelpoisia kenkiä, varsinkaan talveksi. Tänään taas kiersin kaikki Ison Omenan kaupat. Aivan turhaan. Keskustan kaupat on myös kaluttu. Mistään ei näytä löytyvän kaipailemiani pitkävartisia, nyöritettyjä, matalakorkoisia ja maiharityyppisiä kenkiä.



PORTFOLIO PRKL!
Olen hakemassa ensi kevääksi vaihtoon Japaniin (ei kyllä ikinä olisi arvannut! Että ihan Japaniin!) ja nyt on hakupaperimylläkkä meneillään. Olen tässä viimeisen kahden kuukauden aikana keräillyt nimikirjoituksia opettajilta, kirjoitellut hakemuspapereita, hankkinut rokotteita ja koonnut portfoliota lähetettäväksi Japaniin.
Portfolion kanssa on ollut eniten ongelmia, sillä vaikka pyysin sen tekemiseen ohjeita jo hyvissä ajoin, sain vasta eilen tietää (kun olin jo tehnyt portfolioni valmiiksi), että mitä kaikkea siihen pitäisi lisätä ja miten se oikeastaan olisi pitänyt tehdä. Kun viiden eri opettajan kanssa pitäisi selvittää hakupaperiden ja portfolioiden tekemistä, eikä kukaan ole kertonut kenellekään mitään, niin on se vaan niin helkkarin vaikeata saada asioita selville.
Ai niin, ei siinä portfolion muokkaamisessa olisi ollut mitään vaikeaa, ellei InDesignillä työstämäni tiedosto olisi korruptoitunut muutama viikko sitten. Eikä tietenkään ollut varmuskopiota siitä. No, olin onneksi jo tehnyt siitä PDF-version, josta sain exportattua sivut kuvatiedostoiksi ja siitä sitten mukavasti pääsi muokkaamaan kuvamuodossa olevaa tekstiä copypastettamalla kirjaimia ympäriinsä.
Ja sitten tulostus. Se on asia erikseen. Koitin parin viikon ajan selvittää, voiko koululla tulostaa jossain laadukasta jälkeä portfoliota varten. En saanut sitä mitenkään selville, joten stressaantuneena menin ostamaan musteet ja paperia tulostimeeni = 100€. Sitten vaan tulostamaan kotiin. Tänään sain tulostaa sivuja uusiksi, koska minulta oli puuttunut asioita portfoliosta koska en satu olemaan ajatuksenlukija/selvännäkijä ja minulle ei voitu antaa selviä ohjeita heti alkuun vaan vasta sitten kun on alle viikko aikaa. Tänään siis tulostin kaksipuolisia sivuja ja jouduin tulostamaan yhden sivun kolmeen kertaan, vaikka tulostin on muuten ollut todella luotettava aikaisemmin. Nyt kun sain toisen puolen tulostettua hyvin, niin toiselle puolelle tulostin sitten roiski jotain shittiä ja piti sitten taas uudestaan tulostaa. No, nyt on kaikki valmiina. Paitsi että pitää vielä saada sivut rei'itettyä ja laitettua ne kasaan kierteellä. Minulla on omat epäilykseni tämän onnistumisesta.


Tuossa on kaikki tarvittavat hakupaperit + apurahahakemukset + portfolio,
mikä tarvitaan, jos haluaa hakea Japaniin vaihto-oppilaaksi.

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I love art and I love lolita! That's why I'm exited about the new community egl_comm_art! There is a layout design contest going on and ofcourse I had to find time to make an entry for the contest. Here you can find all the entries and vote for your favorite entry (you don't have to join to the community to vote). The winner picture will be featured three month minimum in the icon and profile of the community.

The second animation work I made at school! Yay! I used 3DS Max to make the characters and the animation and Photoshop CS4 to adjust the colors. I didn't have time to rig (make the model follow the bones)the girl properly and I didn't have time to texture everything. I really had to hurry, because I had only two weeks left before the deadline when I started to make this. But I got it finished! Now I have 2 weeks "summer break" before I go to work.
 

(If the video doesn't work go here)

I used to have this JSK as a white version, but I sold it because I didn't use it because of its color. Since then I have been wanting the black version of this JSK and it's been quite hard to find. Then I finally find it and bought it! I'm so happy! It fits me better than the white one I had earlier! It's probably a bigger size. I'm so happy! But usually when I have bought something new I can't know if I'll wear it a lot or not at all. If I don't wear the clothes often I sell them. But I never know it before buying. That's why I'm soon going to put my older clothes for sale.



By the way I just   made a reservation to a promising salon! But I'll go not until next month so I'll have plenty of time to findgood pictures of the hairstyle I'd like to have. I really don't want that my hair will be cut too short so I want the reference haircuts to be very long. It's not very easy to find ultra long layered hair pictures, because people don't usually have so long hair. But I found a great site that sells wigs and there are really pretty haircuts too. It's an Ebay seller "Cosplay Wig".

I've been struggling for so long with this! Hairdresser have never before cut my hair so I feel a bit uncertain about getting a new haircut. Now I have actually decided what kind of hair I'd like to have, but I have no idea which hairdresser can I trust this. I feel kind of stupid, because I'm a girl and this shouldn't be such big problem for me... girls go to cut their hair every now and then! But For some reason I have only recently started to seriously thinking about getting some shape for my hair. But what if they ruin it? I have heard many horror stories about certain bad places, but not too much about good and great salons. Here is my hair... it's been mostly like this for about 10 years... (I had a fringe when I was small).



It's such a big and important thing for me. I actually like this hair too, but I really can't keep my hair open like this, because it'll soon be a mess if I do that. I'm kind of fed up with always having my hair on braids. They are also so heavy that they go very flat from the top. I'd like to have some layers to give volume and I think it would be nice that the hair is bigger from the root and narrow from the top. Now it's vice versa. I'd also like a side fringe! I't just hard to think if this kind of hair would fit me. Here are some pictures of the hairstyle I'd like to have... maybe?


My worst case scenario is that I'll ruin my hair when I try to change it D:
But I think I'll have to take the risk. (sorry for grammar errors, I'm so tired)

I finally got a sewing machine! I actually was supposed to get it last spring when I graduated from high school, but instead I got it for my birthday (which was 10th of February). It's not very special sewing machine, but good for basic things. It's Royal 8000. Sounds amazing! And now I had time to try it out! I have been used to over 50 years old Pfaff sewing machine and it felt really luxurious to have a light and a thread cutter in the machine itself! And it says I can make different stitching with it! Not only straight and zigzag but many more!



I decided to made some ribbon hair ties of a pretty black velvet fabric and a nice hand made cotton lace. I just bought a new skirt and I wanted to make ribbons that I could wear with it when it once arrives. After five hours of work I got them finished! I'm not quite pleased with the result, because the lace was really hard to get to its place and that can be seen in the corners of the ribbons. But I think they are good enough to wear. Surely no one else even notices the problem with the lace:

Happy Valentine's Day! I already uploaded this to egl but I decided to upload this picture here too, because otherwise it'll vanish to infinite deeps of the internet. So here is a Valentine's Day picture for you once again :D I used ballpoint pen and Photoshop CS3.

I have thousands of unfinished art and school projects... or at least 3! :D But I have just finished two projects! It always feels so great, when I get something done! I had a collab work with TasukiNoAijin in Deviantart and I was sure I will never finish with it, but last night I got inspiration from some where and I worked with it until 3 am or something.  I just wanted to post something here, so here is the picture:



So the character is TasukiNoAijin's Aislya and the sketch is made by her, I only colored this. Well, you can find more info and a bigger picture here in my DA account. The other work I just finished is my first 3D-animation! It was a school work we had to made during our first animation course (I'm studying 3D in Metropolia). But I'll probably post it later.
 

... Obama takes his place as the President of USA, I have been in relationship with my boyfriend exactly for 2 years and 9 months  and today I also broke my brother's freaking expensive systems camera D:

I feel so bad about it. I was taking pictures normally and then the shutter thing just freeze and "err 99" was displayed on the screen. After that it didn't work at all. It's quite an old camera, and that could had happened to anyone. I'm always very careful with everything, especially if the item is not my own. Gosh this sucks! I was planning to buy a new computer, but now I may have to buy a new camera to my bro. And the cheapest systems cameras costs almost 400 euros T__T But I called him and he wasn't angry or anything. "Old camera can do that", he said. But still I feel bad. I need camera! I have to take pictures to show you! But now I can't! I had a camera course at school before Christmas and there we had great new systems cameras. Now I have got used to them and I'd hate to use just an ordinary cheap digital camera.

But don't be sad! I managed to take a couple of pictures today before the camera died! This week my school starts late so I have plenty of time every morning. So this morning I wanted to try some new hairstyle. I decided to do a bun and curl the hair I left free. And here is the picture:


I put a big btssb hair ribbon to the backside of the bun. the Hairpin is also Baby's. Today I also received a pretty DS Lite cover I bought from teapartymadness. But I don't have a picture of my own of it, because - you know T__T But here is a picture the seller took.

I decided to write in English for a change! So last Christmas I got Wii Fit for from my brother and I've been playing it from time to time. I actually like it a lot!  I tried the  balance board first time last fall in DigiExpo and I got  WiiFit  socks there :D Here is my 10 years old goggie Lilli  on the WiiFit box. I think she'd really need some exercise too :D



When you have played enough, you will get all the exercises, but I think the exercises that are already playable when you begin to play, are the best. Mostly. My Wii Fit age is same as my own age! I like the yoga poses the most, because I love streching! And I already see improvement! I have gotten more flexible! The muscular workouts are fine too, but gosh I failed with the press ups at first! I didn't get a single one done. But now it's slowly starting to turn out better. I think there should be more variety, but maybe there will be Wii Fit 2 in the future.

Some of the last exercises seem really weird or are badly designed. There is for example an exercise,  single arm stand, where you have to hold wii mote in your hand and keep your arm raised towards the ceiling while you lie down and get up alternately. I think it's stupid, I don't see the point doing it, when you have other much better exercises to do. Here is a picture, if you didn't understand my explanation: