I'm going to Marry the Night

Once upon a time there was a model. She existed to be in the public eye, and she was reasonably talented at it. One day she succeeded in getting signed to a big agency, and everything was perfect, because her favorite photographer was coming with her and several of her friends were in on the contract. At the first shoot, the photos were artistically beautiful, jumping in the air, crying, laughing, everything for the perfect shot. She left the studio feeling so excited for the future, for what it held for her, and everyone involved.

However, that night, one of the other models changed the film, altered every shot to be grotesque, simply horrible, aided and urged on by the bright computer screen. And when the photographer came in the next day, he immediately accepted the footage as being poisonously horrendous. She was so astonished when she was told. The beautiful pictures were gone. All of the effort, all of the spirit had died, and had left nothing in its place.

What had happened, what went wrong? How had the spinning world that had appeared so wonderful fallen from grace and shattered? Why was she left with nothing and no one, sitting among the glass of what had been something simply marvelous, but was now warped and painful.

But she knew what to do. Slowly, laboriously, she stood up again, and picked up the camera herself and set it to time exposure. And she started spinning. Around and around and around. Dizzy and crying, until finally she could smile again. She spun around and saw herself picking up the pieces of glass or her world, using her many cuts to glue the orb back together, tracing her fingers along the sharp edges.

And once every piece was back together, the orb was more beautiful than it had been before, colored and stained with the unpleasant experience, transformed into something worth living again. Not the same but better. And she skipped out of the studio, not able to explain what had happened, but knowing that her future suddenly looked brighter and more colorful than it had ever before.

And she lived, if not happily ever after, then definitely for forever after.

You're not easy to love, no; I'm not easy to love

Does anyone else live life in waves? Everyone loves you, you have to many people to hang out with, you spend every night out ----> Everyone hates you, you're the awkward person at the back of the group who pitches in one liners and gets left behind when the group walks away, and you spend a lot of time at home on the computer. Because I totally do.. to the T. I know I'm a bit odd, I came to terms with that a long time ago, but shouldn't there be a consistency? I mean I'm not in a group of cheerleaders, who won't talk to me if my new jacket isn't name brand, I'm with other odd people, like a whole bunch of Luna Lovegoods. But. Still. There's so much judgement. Which leaves me with so many questions..

Haven't we reached high school? More than reached it, lived in it, gone through a few years, getting ready to be in college? Shouldn't this be out of our systems, the whole judge-you-to-feel-better-about-myself thing? Will I ever be good enough? And, even if they're not my friends, should other people have to defend me? Can't others see that sometimes swallowing your pride is just needed, and that feelings and drama can be spared if there isn't a scene? Am I dragging others down by being attached to them, pulling them from the people they've trusted and hung out with for much longer than I've been around? Is this normal? Can anything be normal if it's associated with my craziness? Should I forfeit my craziness for the sake of happiness? If I'm going to run from responsibility, expectation, and planning to find hope, love, and the unexpected, can I just run from this too? Do I really want to lose this?

Do I really want to lose them?

Can I face losing him?

Am I ever going to get any answers?

Sorry for a less-than-positive post, this sort of sprang up, and i'm not sure what to do about this whole thing except blogging it, which I seem to do a lot of.. well, only 2 months until I HAVE to make a decision, that's a lot of time right? nope, thought not. Not in context to the 17 years and 10 months before this that I've used to think about the same decisions. Well, after a less than satisfying post, I take my leave. Oh, add that to the list, which way do I exit.. Just kidding.

Here goes Kiko, off stage left.

Buonanotte, beauties.

Follow my lead, now you're one of us; This place about to blow!!

Hihi! :P (insert comment about how-hard-it-is-to-blog-on-a-regular-schedule here) SO while I was gone, quite a few things happened, so many things that it merits bullet points. Hahaha so here goes!

- did The Curious Savage, which was triple cast, and ended up getting the part of the crazy-thinks-she's-beautiful girl and was in the best of the 3 casts! :D

- got in a relationship with my Ginger theatre friend, he's mormon, 6'4", red-haired, and adorable and we're going on 3 months! :)

- had christmas break and got the entire Harry Potter series on audiobook!! *____* WIN. Also I got lots of cash, so I went on EGL comm sales, which is a lolita sales community, like a loli-ebay, and got a black headband, a cream BTSSB one-peice dress (named as such because it has sleeves, so you don't have to wear a blouse underneath to fit the qualifications of lolita), a Pink BTSSB (Baby, the stars shine bright, a Japanese brand) bolero with bunny ears on the back, and a strawberry tea charm bracelet made by a girl in Norway! :D Pretty good haul for only $230!

- survived hell-month in AcDec and went to Regionals, where we won a a team and I was the top scoring Varsity in the Region! :0 Even I was surprised by that, and I got 8 individual medals!

- went to the Sadies dance at our school, with my bf, and since the theme was famous couples, we went as Bill Weasley and Fleur De l'cour! :3 it was awesome!!! We were running late, so I had to draw the scar on his face in the middle of Chili's using the dull side of a knife to get the eye-shadow-lipstick combo onto his face in realistic lines. Now that is trust.

- got in the stupidest argument with my best friend, the panamanian, over a he-said-she-said issue, in which even the person I made the comment about wasn't mad. Only her. Everybody is confused, but I hope that she'll get over it soon because I miss her. ;-;

- started doing the student directed plays in theatre, we're doing "This could be murder" which is a murder mystery spoof, sort of like the old Scooby-doo episodes. We voted in class and I'm one of the head (the other director is an assistant) directors, we're doing the play twice, and I'm working with my panamanians other best friend, who happens to be my friend too. Talk about awkward. DX

So, that was about 3 months in summary! I would put up pictures, but I usually get my pictures from my facebook page, and they just changed the format so that you can't save the pictures to your computer.. stupid facebook. XP

The main reason I wanted to come on here is to do a fashion critique! C: I recently re-read Kamikaze Girls, which is a book about a Lolita and a Yanki who become best friends. I read it because of the lolita dress I just got, and it inspired me to go check the brand websites, and I had very mixed emotions, so much so it merited a blog post! So, here goes!

The first site I went to was BTSSB, which is one of the oldest lolita companies, and has a history of being my favorite. I guess the first thing I saw reinforced the whole "oldest company" thing, because it was the most grandma-y grandma sweater ever.

Even the fact that the polkadots are really macaroons on closer inspection can not revive this poor article of clothing.. this followed through out my whole inspection of BTSSB, like with the winter coats.

I mean honestly. Does ANYBODY look good in these weird skirt-line-across-the-nipple-area confections? Like mod dresses, I utterly do NOT understand them! Who wants to look like their boobs morph into their stomach and then surge with their, legs which are 4 feet long?! No girls I know! And the odd polkadot ribbon is weirdly sewn-on, especially around the pink bunny patch someone slapped on there.. However, I did manage to find one jacket I liked!

Natural waist + Faux fur collar that lies on your shoulders + Bell skirt perfect for petticoat coverage = Happy Kiko. Moving on to the one-pieces.. This was depressing. There were only a handful of dresses and the best I can say about any of them is that I liked this print.

I always wished I could have been a ballerina, and I go to the Nutcracker every christmas time! When I checked skirts, I was happy to find a cute skirt that had this print, it's much more adorable than the corresponding dress..

Gotta love bows! The Jumper-skirts (JSKs), which are dresses that need blouses underneath to be lolita, were terrible.

I mean, this one has a cute print, but what the hell is up with the horse prize ribbon on the hips?! I feel like I should put someone in this dress and prance them around a race track to show off my skill at horse riding! Accessories and head dresses had nothing spectacular, but shoes were BTSSB status! They were SO cute, and over the top frilly! I really liked these, as they're interestingly done, made to show your socks!

Got to love adorable, impractical footwear!

Overall I felt like BTSSB has been demoted to a solely shoe wear maker, their dresses, hats, and jackets were not up to snuff.

That was a bit depressing, but I perked up when I hit the Angelic Pretty site!

I LOVE ANGELIC PRETTY AND THEIR LITTLE DRAWINGS!!!! *ahem* now I got that off my chest..

Ok. If Marie Antoinette were alive in today's day and age, lived in japan, and liked the color lavender, she would wear this dress, without a doubt! When I first saw this, it was a definite "KAWAIII!!!!!" moment. I love the ruffles on the right side, and the poofy sleeves! THIS is what lolita looks like!

I seem to be on a lavender kick, because the JSK that I loved most was this Rita Skeeter-esque dress with... and Aline swag!

The pleating on the side is distinctly school-girl-plaid-ish, adn the neckline is a bit unusual for lolita, but the bow at the hip makes it an obivously lolita dress. Nice color coordinating with the tule in the same blue as the plaid base! Very well done Angelic Pretty, I applaud you!!

I'm not a big one for wearing just a lolita blouse, or for the cutsews that some companies make (If I'm spending huge amounts of cash to get something shipped to America, I'm going to go the whole hog and get as many frills and fluff as possible, not an over-priced t-shirt with the logo on it) But, this was just so adorable, I just might buy it, that is if I can decipher the ordering instructions.

I could see Annie the orphan skipping downstairs in this on Christmas morning, to go hug Daddy Warbucks. Hahahaha, this is something I would wear to school as a teacher, if I ever decide to get a teaching degree!

The only iffy thing I found were the socks.

I'm not sure I like the whole idea of printing shoes or things on the socks... If you want to wear ribbons up your legs, wear them, don't buy socks with the ribbons silk-screened onto them!

That aside, I approve of Angelic Pretty's collection much more than that of BTSSB!

My favorite, however was that of the company Mary Magdelene. It's a more antique-y lolita then the others, and I'm starting to get into Classic-Lolita!

This is the ugliest color this particular dress came in, but it showed the dress the best.. Cap sleeves, a beautifully shaped waist leading to a charming ruffle on the bottom, with a square lace neckline and a little black bow. This dress is simply perfect, in a pink or a dove gray Iwould LIVE in it, and probably be buried in it! And, of course, I would need accesories...

... which is where this bonnet comes in! I love how bonnets look, although I'm not sure I have the face for them.. and seeing as Mary Magdelene is one of the most expensive clothing brands, I probably won't ever get a chance to try this bonnet on, BUT I am blogging, so I can dream. Can't I? Of course I can, thanks for the affirmative! Moving on to the sweetest thing I found through all my lolita site surfing!

AWSOCUTE moment of the day. Seeing as the sleeves on the dress are long, I probably wouldn't wear these wristlets with this dress, but I would SO wear them with my wedding dress or something else. In fact, I would wear these with anything they matched with; I would sit on this laptop of mine and piece together the ordering instructions using google translator, just to order these; I would get a job, the graveyard shift so I could still go to school, for however long it took to own these. In fact, at some point in my life, I will own these! This whole world I just created reminds me of the play, The Crucible, some weird interpretation of it anyway, where everyone ran around in lolita, and Abigail had on a bonnet and rocking horse shoes, and every time she passed out someone fanned her with her parasol, and Tituba was a seamstress, so that even the people in the Salem Jail could change outfits every once in a while. Hey, a girl can dream!

Which brings me around to me next point! I have checked something off my List. THEE List. This List is so epic it includes things like:

Backpacking Europe

Being a Fashion Designer

Getting an interview with Larry King

Meeting Vivienne Westwood

and Owning a Waffle House

In short, it's my slightly insane Bucket List, and one of the things previously on it was "Own an Armour Ring". An armour ring is something Vivienne Westwood designed a long time ago, when she was still doing punk stuff, like 80's - 90's ish, and they look like this.

See? Pure awesomeness!! They became famous, and permently etched in my desires, by the manga, Nana by Ai Yazawa.

Nana is one of my heros, a definite fashion inspiration! And while surfing EGL comm sales, I found a group of people hoping to put in an order for Armour rings from some hawaiian off-brand, but they needed more people to make it more economical! I of course signed up!! For the low price of $19.16, I'm getting an armour ring!!! It's not exactly like Vivienne's or Nana's, but it's close enough that it will do while I wait until my future fiance/husband buys me one with a diamond in the Westwood logo orb.

See? Much more streamlined. Just thought I'd share my achievement with you! Not even out of the house, and I'm already marking things off my List!

In other fashion news, I'm really tired of freezing my butt off every morning because I deemed fashion more important than maintaining a livable core temperature. This prompted a quick survey of the G by Guess website to look at jackets, where I found several possibilities!

The Military option, which has short sleeves so I could wear it year round.. not that that solves the current freezing problem..

The Trench coat, which every girl should have, but that means that every time I walk into class I'd have to take it off, because it's a bit of an overkill for an Arizona winter.

The one I like the most so far, the Leather jacket! Got to love the punk biker look!

Perusing the site also reminded me that, seeing as I now have a garter belt to hold them up, I need more thigh highs!! These looked cool, and they're cheap, so I might need to plan a shopping trip to our local G by Guess to get a pair, looking at the jackets while I'm there, of course.

My last shopping stop was CD Japan, which is where I look at the brand SexPot Revenge. Keyword: "Look" at.. That's right, I don't own any of their clothing, but I love it so much! My only problem is, as the brand name implies, everything is so offensive, that even my parents wouldn't let me out of the house in it.. And what is the point of having a $100 cardigan that says "might is right", "Punk is coming", and "Anarchy arising" if i can't even wear it anywhere? So, as adorable as this japanese scene boy looks in it, and as awesome as the back looks, and as easy as it would be to plan an outfit with it as the cover, I had to bypass this one.

:( Maybe once I move out of the house...

ANYWAY! To end on a happy note, this has been my longest post! I had to type out all of this hilarity, find pictures, get them on here and in the right spots, and make the whole thing flow in a coherent manner! Whoo! I did it, We did it, You did it Yay! Lo e seemo, We did it!! Terrible spanish, but never you mind! Thanks for sticking with me, I'll post soon-ish, probably not before AcDec state, which is in March. And, not that i support Glee in ANY way, That's how Kiko C's it! (Fashion at least)

Ciao Chicas!!

Inside my secret mind, he's so fine, so what'll it be? Let me see...

Hihi! I'm posting more often! Yay! Blogging is so hard to get into, now i understand why the really good bloggers are famous.. Senior year is kind of difficult and unpleasant so far. My favorite class in the past, theatre, is majorly sucking so far. We did a Shakespeare Competition at the beginning of September; the intermediate and advanced classes do it, and of the 50 kids that start out, 12-15 break to finals and then there is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies! Everybody does a Sonnet, and the the finalists perform a monologue, and i broke to finals. :D I did Sonnet 112, about how i don't have anyone except this one person, and i will change myself in any way for them. It was deep, but easy for me to do, because i have a person like that in my life. Then my monologue was the Lady Macbeth mad scene. Oh yeah. I went completely crazy and left the audience speechless, it felt good!

A picture from the end of my monologue, i'm talking to the dead, saying 'Come' and after this, i walk off stage and commit suicide. :P

I'm in Acting to be a crowd pleaser, i don't get that feeling of being silly on stage. Once i walk out into the lights all that matters is that the audience gets drawn innto the story i'm spinning. During the intermission when the judges deliberated so many people told me i'd win, even other kids parents. But, i didn't even place.. sadness.. I talked to my teacher, Mr. G, after and he said my interpretation was slightly off, and that part of it is that she is really quiet, so no one knows she's there. I screamed and shouted.. so i see his point. Funnily enough, the parents of the girl who got first came up to me later and told me they had thought i was going to win, and that they had their video camera on my face instead of their daughters when the results were read. How tragically sad..

So that kind of sucked, and then Mr. G broke the news that we weren't doing a fall musical, instead we were going to QUADRUPLE cast a 10 character Neil Simon play called Rumors. well. Needless to say, we were less than thrilled, but after we read the play, the whole class fell in love with the characters. But more bad news was on the horizon, we ended up not being able to do Rumors. The play was written with a lot of cuss words, and Mr. G had edited them out, but to get the rights to perform the play he would have to sign an addendum saying that he would not change any words of language in anyway.. I guess Neil Simon got pissed that so many schools were editing his plays.. so now we are reading another play, called The Curious Savage, which has possibility and would only require a triple cast... In short, Theatre is sucking this year.

Video Journalism is better though, we have a REALLY small class, only 11 people, the 4 bosses included. I'm a boss this year, which is cool, and the kids are more inclined to listen to us as the class is so small. However, since we are so few, the bosses still have to make videos, which i had really hoped to not have to do.. D: At least we are all awesome!

We spend our time in Video Journalism wisely! This is last years class, no new pics yet!

From the left, Jake, Keeble, John, Chase, Me, Adriana, and Tyler

Then of course i have my huge haul of AP classes, and Economics, which are the same as they were in the last post. Everything is moving sort of smoothly, at least this year i'm not drowning in school, and i have the spare time to do things i really want to do.

I got a Garter belt on Friday!! It makes me so happy! i found one at Victoria's Secret, its all black lace, and it's adorable! there's a bit of an issue of either keeping the thigh highs low enough to be seen below my skirt hem, and keeping the belt high enough. The lace just keeps stretching, and i have to check it to keep it up, but it looks so awesome i don't even care!! :D I'll post a picture of my outfit when i wear it to school on monday in a short post tomorrow!

I'm changing a lot, i can tell. It's more important to me to do what my heart is telling me, and i'm not over thinking things as much. I'm still a worrywart, but at least now i'm going out on the town to have actual things to worry about, as opposed to stressing over the stories of what people are telling me they've done. I'm making wool roving dreads, and some fluffies (furry leg warmers that ravers wear) for a rave outfit! I'm doing the whole outfit in White, Black, and Yellow! I have this black punk shirt, which i'm cutting to turn it into a belly shirt, and then i'm going to hem it and sew white cotton on the inside and slice open the black so you can see it. I have these little white shorts, and my garter belt with these black spider-webby fishnet thigh highs and then these tiered yellow fluffies! And of course, cyber falls in all 3 colors! I made a sketch that i uploaded to show what it'd look like!

The yellow shading didn't quite show up and the dreads look weird, but

this is the general idea! :D

My best friend Jamie has a friends who is throwing his first rave, as a birthday thing, and we can get in free. We're both only staying until like 11:00pm, but it starts at 7:00 so it'll be a lot of good music and fun! I hope i can have this outfit ready by the rave!! The 'rents haven't said anything, so either they don't want to say anything, or they don't care, but either way i'm glad it hasn't come to an argument yet. I'm at the point where I can't live just thinking and dreaming anymore, i have to either put my intentions into action of forget them.

The whole college thing is going on, and I have no desire what so ever to try to get into any college. Even the FIDM has lost it's spark, all i want to do is get out of Arizona, and take Jamie with me. She's doing the same thing, only she has felt this way for longer, so she is handling it better. I think i'll just go backpack around the world and learn about everything that interests me. I have so many things i want to know more about that i can't understand living in Mesa.

This place is like a gigantic insane asylum, everyone ignores your silent pleas for help, telling you to accept how it is, and when you start screaming and demanding to leave, they play the 'you couldn't survive on your own' card.

I don't want a house and a dog and a mortgage, I would love nothing more than to have to sleep on the streets and go to a soup kitchen. I want to understand everything, and living in solitary confinement with padded walls and having everyone try to insulate the world in bubble wrap isn't going to do it for me. I'm not just going to pick an occupation and sit in a cubicle waiting for my mid-life crisis to hit.. I want to figure out what i want to do before i do it. Right now i have equal ambition to be a: stripper, fashion designer, waitress, news anchor, chef, politician, teacher, author, actress, and DJ. I can't just decide what i want to be right now, i don't know enough to even make an educated guess!!

I hope this will all work out, 1 year in the whole wide world, and i won't even know myself! I might turn out to be a republican, amish housewife living with a labrador retriever, green lawn, and a blonde doctor for a husband.

Although, i must say. Somehow, I doubt it.

I'll keep you updated!

Ciao Chics!

Unconcious suspended in time

A note to accompany my previous post:

Hey-o. So i majorly dissed my Econ teacher in my last post, and then i went into school today and she came over to my desk and talked to me for 5 minutes about fashion, and my style, and told me i'm a very creative person. Then in AcDec she came in to see our teacher, and she saw me and said, "Now isn't she just the sweetest prettiest girl?". SO. I feel like a HUGE jerk. I guess first impressions can be wrong, she might not be the best teacher, but she's trying hard enough for the cynic inside me to back off a bit. Not a whole lot though, because she forgot her laptop at her house, which had the powerpoint that was our day's lesson on it; another day of Economic education gone... I'll put her in the [Redeeming Qualities] folder until further notice, or rather until further tests of how far she will enforce dress code. ;D

Gyarados destroy Dress Code! Fuck Yeah.

Lator Gators!

I just ran, ran so far away, ran all night and day, i couldn't get away

Hihi! Long time, no post! I started school again, and i've got that sense of eternal stress back. *sigh* I went through my sick phase, and now i'm in the status quo of AP classes! (Everytime i get stressed, i get violently sick, and then recover. It's like seasickness, only it happens every time i switch from unstressed to stressed and, funnily enough, when i go from stressed to unstressed! silly body...) I'm taking Calculus AB with my all time favorite teacher! He's crazy and awesome, and he's the only teacher who has actually motivated me to work on math. Usually if teachers just go through the motions of teaching i have to drive to do well and settle for the same mediocrity they expect.

I also joined the Academic Decathalon (AcDec) team because my English teacher from last year is one of the coaches, she's another teacher i'm motivated to work for. It's a LOT of work, we have a mandatory 1 hour a night study quota, in addition to any homework we've got for the night, which is crazy, but it's fun too. The stuff we're studying isn't boring, and i have the seasons book on audiotape on my ipod, so it goes relatively smoothly. In addition to those classes i've got AP psychology, which is not really meeting my expectations. There are so many students in the AP classes that the school didn't have enough books and so our class hour didn't get the books until a full week after the other students. I'm really interested in Psychology because i know a lot of people involved in drugs and i want to learn about how drugs affect the mind, and why people consistently do them, but if this class doesn't get better fast, i'm just going to drop it so i can do more for AcDec and Calc.

I know it's probably not good, but i'm really fascinated with drugs... ;3

Other than those classes i've got Theatre, because i love acting, Video Journalism, because i love the people, and Economics/Government, because it's a graduation requirement. Econ is a joke, it's my teachers first year teaching, and you can totally tell. She'll say something she thinks is funny, pause for a laugh, and then explain her hilarity when we don't laugh. This whole process happens 5 - 6 times every class and takes up 15 - 20 minutes of our 55 minute class, which she should be using to make us do something other than book work and powerpoint slideshows, which, in turn, leads me to believe i'm going to learn more in the 4-week Economics section in AcDec then i will ever learn from this joke of a lady. On top of all this negativity, she keeps dress coding my friend for things like bra straps showing, and midriff baring, which just tells me she's a cow with no eye for fashion, because my friend looks adorable pre-ugly-dress-code-t-shirt... it also tells me that i won't be able to get away with anything either. Oh boy, another year of bribing the dress code lady with bags of hershey's kisses, woots!

In other news, I'm thinking about under going some pretty big changes. I just realized that i mostly feel comfortable looking at other people dressed in offensive clothing and admiring it but not really doing i myself. I mean, in Mesa having bare shoulders is paramount to murdering someone, so i already offend people, but i mean like punk, and cyber punk, and lingerave! Wearing clothing like that would be awesome, but i've never really done it before. Well, that's changing. I bought a pair of super awesome silver combat boots, and i'm trying to buy a garter belt, so i can do the thigh-highs and garter straps showing below a skirt thing.

See! It looks amazing!!! :D

I have toed the line of good taste for a long time, now i know where i want to cling to it and where i want to jump off head first! I decided this about 2 weeks before i went back to school, so my best friend, Jamie Cherie, and i went to do a photoshoot! we found this awesome abandoned warehouse out by the freeway, which was probably not a very safe place, and took some amazing pictures! Here are some of my favorites:

Topsy turvy! She's on a wall that has fallen over, that diagonal wall behind her is actually level with the floor!

Look into my eyes..

Like madonna and beki bondage had a love child...

No, it's not real blood, but it did give us a pause, I'm being eaten by a wall!!

Ashes, Ashes, We all fall down!

It was pretty amazing, and dangerous, but that made it fun! :D i think we might end up doing another shoot there in a while, but we might bring more people, particularly some big buff men. In corrolation with my fashion change i' thinking of cutting my hair. like, CUTTING my hair, doing it really short, like this girl's:

I think it'd look good, and i'm really tired of long hair, especially in Arizona, but i'm hesitant because if it doesn't look good, i don't really have anywhere to go... and when i brought this idea up to Jamie, she said not to do it. Her opinion made me pause, so i'm holding off on this plan for a while, but i really want to do it. I probably will..

On another road, my dream of becoming a fashion designer seems to be coming to fruition! i talked to my college-crazy neighbor about it, and she thinks it could work. I'll need some serious scholarshps to fund an Associate of Arts degree from FIDM, but I'm willing to do it. Jamie is on board with the plan, and i wouldn't be able to do it without her, so it seems everything is moving in a good direction! We have started sewing together, just taking old clothes and bags and scrapping them and putting them together in a diy-punk sort of way! we're making a skirt and jacket right now, Jamie is taking the sleeves off a denim jacket she found at good will, and then sewing patches of fabric, zippers, and safety pins onto it. I'm took the safety belt strap off an old purse of mine and we're turning it into a belt for a lace skirt of mine. It'll be an outfit soon, and we're going to make some cyber dreads to top off the whole outfit!

These are cyber dreads, sometimes you can mix in things like strips of film, nylon tubing, springs, and other junk to make them interesting!

When we're all done we'll go take pics at that warehouse and try to sell them on Etsy or Livejournal or something. I'm super excited! I'll post pics of the outfit when it's done, along with some shots of the AcDec team, my new boots, and life in general next post! Have fun in school, children, and check for updates, i'll try to do one every weekend!

Ciao!

Won't sign away my life to, no paper Gangster

Hihi!! This blogging thing is hard to get into, I never think of it! sorry guys! I promised a lot of pictures of my family from when they came to visit, but I never even got any. My niece, Emily, took a lot of pictures with her camera, but I just can't get a old of them... However, I do have pictures from the play! Woots! Here you go!

This is the cast during our all-night rehearsals! We do them out of costume, so this is all of our awesomeness!! I'm in the middle, in the black shirt, underneath the box!

This is the whole cast! We're all in costume, i'm in the second row, in the red dress, and our music director is in the front, lying down. The two girls in green shirts were the choreographers for the show, and the guy in the middle, with the goatee was our assistant music director.

This is another shot of our music director, he's a funny guy... static electricity and balloons. Perfect combo.

For the finale we had to put this goop on our faces and go on stage under black lights... creepy stuff, and the goop was so gross!! it took forever to dry!! This is some of the cast with the goop on, the green are the people who get eaten by the plant, the rest of us are blue which means we are alive.

I'll try to get some shots of the actual play, to upload soon! Ta Ta!!