Wothcer!
Yep, I've made them after all and my cat has just drooled over 'em. Now I can do the cabling and magic loop technique - almost almighty, aren't I?;)
Pictures:
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Of course that was a challenge and there are some wrong bits here and there, but knitting them was such a pleasure anyway!
Used this pattern by lady_ceres.

Hey everyone!

I have some fantastic news! The company who manufactured the Boomtown scarf were impressed by the petition and have contacted me to say they are now working on similar scarves for next winter!!!
When they become available I will be sure to point you in their direction immediately!

Thanks so much to everyone for signing my petition, it worked!

Anyone else who wants to sign may find it right here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringbackthescarf/signatures.html

eeeeeeeee!

Happy Friday everyone! Last Friday's Saucy Cats post was delightfully popular, so we decided to extend the pet theme to this week to include all of your 'Saucy Pets'.

Next week we'll do Winter/Holiday decorating. Whatever you do for this time of year, even if it's Elvis.

Have fun and bon weekend.

Yesterday, I got most of my Christmas snopping done. I'm quite pleased. ^_^

I've also been a cross-stitching fiend!

I'm going to send this card to an Aunt and Uncle and family in Canada.


Shopping Christmas Penguin by ~canadiankazz on deviantART

Here is a work in progress for that.

And I've also done this Christmas Tree Ornament:


Christmas Tree Ornament Finish by ~canadiankazz on deviantART

Here's what it looked like before I shoved it into the frame:


Christmas Tree Ornament WIP by ~canadiankazz on deviantART

And here's a work in progress.

Tomorrow I decorate the tree with Nick! Yaaaaaaay! Gonna get the house all Christmas-sy. ^_^

Random Quote:

"Death isn't online. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it'd be interesting to see if he'd post things like: DON'T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?" - Terry Pratchett

I haven't been sleeping well recently.

Well, that's only half-true. When I go to bed, I sleep well. I don't want to get up, I'm sleeping so well. However, I'm not wanting to go to sleep. I wasn't tired until just now. I was puttering about, doing this, writing to so-n-so, etc. Then I said to myself, I wonder what time its getting to be. Lo and behold, its 11pm. Which is the time it always seems to be when I ask that question. And as soon as I see that time, I'm weary and dead, wondering why I wasn't before then, and why my brain can't decide to ask what time it is at, say, 10. Ah well.

That said, I need card addresses! I have cards, I have stamps, I have ADDRESS labels of a holiday/alma mater theme. BUT I have no one to send to! C'mon, LET ME mail you stuff!

Death Comes to Time


Found some images on an old hard drive

and as you can't see them on the net anymore I thought I'd post them here as reference images for any cosplayers who want to them

( Death Comes to Time )

This week's questions were suggested by versailles_rose.

iTunes Five

1. What song do you play the most?
2. What song do you play the least?
3. What's the last song you added?
4. What's your favorite playlist?
5. What kind of iPod (or MP3 player) do you have?


Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers.

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Where did November go? I swear I put it around here somewhere. *looks under wrapping paper and mismatched bows* Heck. I know it was just here somewhere. At any rate I have a buddy that has LJ as well and thought it might be best to make an update. *blows off the dust bunnies, watching them squeal at me and grab words before scurrying off.* Nasty little buggers.

At any rate, what’s new? Well not much really other than it is frickin’ freezing outside. It’s 5 as I write this. Yep 5 degrees Celsius. We have a bout 4 inches of snow, but since it’s so cold it’s just powder. Still makes for slipperiness.

( ”full )

Ok, the caffeine in this energy drink is really starting to kick in now. *shakes, and takes another drink. Her pupils dilate and she growls a bit.*

I have all but abandoned my other chat room and apparently have been missed. But well, they just don’t hold any interest for me anymore. I went back to the furries/therians and these are my people. I don’t know why I strayed. I have been so inspired to get back into my clay (see DA and FA for that) I am working now on “Azure’s missed snow day.” I’ll show it soon.

Anywho, I’ve babbled long enough. Back to work for me. *Whips out thigh master and works on making files.* Have a day!

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Photos of the week

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We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

I recently ordered Steve Ricks' Seven Hat Hanky

stevericks INTEREST THREAD: Seven Hat Hanky
http://community.livejournal.com/dw_cosplay/379286.html#cutid1

And I'm happy with it.
Full review and photo shoot to follow on Saturday.
(that is to say I'll be taking photos on Saturday)

here are some preliminary photos:
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So a few things have happened since the last time I posted. I have gotten a job, working part time at my dad's work. It can be hard work, but it's not too bad. I get my first paycheck on Friday, and I am excited. My hours were supposed to be 7 am - 11 am, but the past few days I've been staying til almost 1. More money though. Also I have several wounds.

My current plan is to use the influx to finish my Christmas shopping. I know what I'm getting everyone except my dad. I still have to figure out what to get him.

My writing has stalled. Lately I have lacked the energy, or the creative juices necessary to write more. I'm hoping that writing here will jump start me or something.

I don't know what else. I wish I had a girl.

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Spare a thought this evening, please, for our ever-lovin' mod, britgeekgrrl. For those of you who don't follow her personal journal, her husband passed away earlier today.

An auction community, britgeek_love, has been created to raise funds to help with expenses over these next few weeks. Please check it out if you're interested in bidding on or donating an item.

If you'd prefer to make an outright contribution, the address is johanna_mead(at)yahoo(dot)com.

(crossposted, with minor alterations)

This weekend I'm going to put up the Christmas tree. ^__^ Nick is going to come over to help out. I really like this time of year and I love doing the tree. We'll put on Christmas music and it'll be fun.

I've decided I'm not going to sing in the AUCS Christmas concert, but I will do a bit of caroling with them in town.

I'm also going to start my Christmas shopping this week. I don't know what I'm going to get for my mom, but I know what I'm going to get everyone else.

I've uploaded a good deal of my zoo photos to Deviant Art. Everything up to the Rattlesnake photo is from mine and Nick's trip last Thursday.

I also have been working on my cross-stitching. Here is another Christmas Penguin one I finished a little while back:


Skating Christmas Penguin by ~canadiankazz on deviantART

And a work in progress.

I'm working on another one now. Pictures to follow when I'm done.

Have some amusing videos:

i got before n after pics too

( so far only livin room n kitchen which desperately needs help )
thanks for lookin!!!

Following on from the previous Post. Piers Britton has been kind enough to share some insight into how June Hudson works as well as many of her alt. costume design sketches for The 8th Doctor, The 6th Doctor, Romana II, Sam and Fitz.

He keeps in close contact with June and if anyone wishes to relay any questions to her regarding her work on Dr. Who you can ask him on the original thread here: http://gallifreybase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25228 or just PM me and I can relay them to him. FYI June was the costume designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks, Creature From the Pit, The Horns of Nimon, The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Warrior's Gate and Logopolis.

I've re-posted his comments and sketches here with Piers' permission.

Anyway here's the designs and background info ( Under the Cut )

Enjoy!

-Honorarydoctor