Philosophia

It’s anti-climactic, showing these pictures now. But I have many excuses why I’ve put it off for so long:

1) I opened the packages at night, and night-time photos suck

2) The next two days were rainy

3) The following one was overcast

4) I got lazy on the 5th day.

But anyway, without further ado, here are my two new blythes!

This is my gorgeous Gentle River, named Emilie (a French-y name for a Germanic girl? Oh well!).

And Aurelia, my Hello Harvest.

I’m going to take more photos later, but for now there are some at my Flickr account!

This blog entry is dedicated to Nathania, eternal companion through Mediterranean waters and faraway lands, valiant and handsome, fighter of evil and protector of purity. May you be happy with this dedication and revel in self-worth.

(PS. Blythe photos coming soon! After the day clears and there is nice natural lighting)

I love mail tracking.

On the 5th of April, less than 2 hours after they were paid for, items no. RA869031432HK & RA869031429HK were processed for delivery to their destination, Australia. I’ve been checking the status of the two parcels compulsively for the last two days, and last time I checked both items have left Hong Kong for their destination on the 7th of April

Eventually, after crossing the sea, I will be able to stop stalking my girls through Hongkong Post, and instead shift my attentions to Australia Post.

Once again, I love mail tracking.

I realised I should update this space more often, before everyone forgets about me and stops checking this altogether. It’s not that nothing interesting has happened, it’s rather that too many interesting things have happened. Here is a sample:

• I had yum-cha on a dirty table
• I couldn’t find where the books were in a library
• I got into netball by dancing
• I ate ham and cheese croissants
• I bought burger erasers
• I have allies in Uno
• I have learnt Uno is all about alliances
• I realised that Uno without morals is like water without hydrogen
• I’m still bloated from Wednesday
• I smell nice
• I got a hair cut
• I feel like a boy from the back
• I may have made a new friend
• I nearly finished a crossword
• I’m not in my room
• I broke my nose
• I have to make a formal complaint against Kinder (or german children in general)
• I need to go shopping for kinder surprises
• I’m in a band called College Room Bondage - we’ve released four albums
• I actually had the beef for dinner
• I rewrote history
• I haven’t had a Golden Gaytime for 173 hours
• I rolled up the Sun
• I’m wearing boy pants
• I’m waiting in anticipation for something that is happening in six days
• I have a vicious streak
• I have white teeth under yellow light
• I have a smaller room than everyone else
• I adore Gregor
• I give joy in a tupperwear container
• I can’t spell words
• I fixed my nose, and made it Grecan
• I have a green ring, it’s not black
• I found a nice hot water bottle that likes science and dancing
• I got hit by a door, a bookshelf and Erin
• I got money from the government for being a good citizen
• I’m using that money to buy a blythe doll
• I stole things from the National Art Gallery
• I researched the wrong alternate universe
• I’m really cool
• I had a nice time in Sydney
• I had a better time in Glasgow
• I set fire to butter
• I have posters that hate me
• I couldn’t find the maths room, so I went home
• I cleaned my room for four hours
• I can’t dance
• I got crushed by an asian girl with pink glasses and boy hair
• I had no art history this week, which made me sad
• I got a message I need to send
• I never got to Oregon
• I have 6 new voicemail messages, which I still can’t access
• I had the breakfast of scholars
• I forgot to commit a crime
• I won a competition
• I started drinking a coffee
• I became a cheat
• I helped a man cross the road
• I found the Ring of Gyges
• I married Dionysos, and he turned me into a dolphin
• I can’t ride a bike
• I keep hanging on
• I forgot to stalk the Tropfest film director
• I forgot to stalk Adrian Deutsch’s family
• I fought a bear, and won

And this is only a sample.

Today I took my Macbook to the apple service centre because it stopped working.

I like how they set it out like a GP/Doctor’s office, complete with a reception table and black leather couches (sadly, no trashy magazines!). The whole process also sort of reminded me of being in a waiting room… especially when the repair man speaks like this:

• “This is not looking good”
• “We might have to open her up”
• “Pass the scalpel” (although this was technically a joke)

I felt very tense the whole time. It’s not fixed either, so I have to wait half a week for it. *chews fingernails*
In other miscellaneous news, I got a new blythe doll on Monday!

It was amazing, because the EMS shipping from Japan to Australia took only 3 days, and the postman hand-delivered it to my front door at 7:30 AM. I wasn’t expecting her AT ALL (because the website said 2-4 weeks) so the surprise was great. For more pictures, click the thumbnail below!

That’s all for now, thanks for reading!

Today I got out the sewing machine from the storage cabinet. I usually hand stitch, which I have been told many times by numerous people is all good for giving whatever I make a “personal” touch but is also a waste of unnecessary time. So, in order to save some time (which now that I think about it isn’t really that precious to me during my holiday period anyway) I decided to make some overalls for Molly using the machine.

It took me about 1 hour to work out how to thread it, and when I finally did I realised to my dismay I had threaded the wrong colour. After coming across numerous mishaps like this, I was finally on my way! (By this time it was already noon).

However, what I hadn’t counted on was the fact that since I was basically making clothes 1/12th the size of adult clothes, it was pretty much impossible for me to use the chunky sewing machine. I probably wasted more time unpicking what I had done and redoing it than I would have normally by hand stitch. In the end I did end up handstitching the majority of it anyway.

Anyway, enough babble about that, here are some pictures:

I really like Molly in overalls, it brings out her farmgirl-ish look. If only I could weave, and make a straw hat to complete the look!

The little bird in the second picture was another one of the patterns I followed from Puchi collective. I finished it about 3 days ago but was waiting for a day with good natural sunlight before I took some pictures:

Once again, for more of these pictures, you can go to my Flickr account . Thanks for looking, and sorry about the excess of craft entries lately!

First off, I hope none of you mind the excessive amounts of large jpegs I have uploaded in the past couple of days. What I intended to be a “life” blog has become a craft blog overnight, so for that I apologise! I’m sure that as soon as I get off to uni, I will become have less time, and you will have more broadband! (or bandwidth, or whatever that technical computer term is).

Anyway, so today I followed a pattern I found on Puchi Collective and made a cat for my Blythe doll, Molly. This one didn’t take me that long, because I worked out that if I used pipe cleaners instead of electrical wires, I can make bendable limbs that much easier! Aaah the things you learn. With a little help, I’ve decided to name her Peta.

Some of you may not have seen Molly yet, so these photos include some of her as well.

I’ve realised that if I continue uploading pictures at this rate, I will fast exceed my limit on WordPress. Therefore I have taken the liberty to establish a Photobucket account for direct links to images, and also a Flickr account for sharing photos. If you go to the Flickr account and go to the plushies set, there are two more pictures of Peta and Molly.

Up next…. an octopus plushie!