Wow....ebay is not what I remember it. Even with the 5 free listings a month, the comission fees and regulations that sellers have to pass to be able to sell are pretty friggin' ridonkulous. How bad is the scamming on EGL community sales as of late? I've been actively avoiding since I decided to focus on natural kei, so I don't really know what teh lolita sales climate is currently. But if it is reasonably safe, I may just end up selling here, and keeping the 20% of profits hit Ebay would take me down. We'll see.

Also, the Christmas Rush has finally hit my work. Let the fun begin.

Also, also, if I don't get my degree in the next year I will go on a serious Rampage. 12 CREDIT HOURS AWAY. Serously, wtf, mate?!

Also, Also, Also, I forgot how much I ADORE American Cream conditioner from Lush. Mmmm....clary sage. ^_^

I'm selling 90% of my lolita. Basically everything that hasn't been worn into the ground except either my window print underbust or my Marie Antionette blue JSK. (Haven't decided yet which one to keep. Might not keep either. :/ ) I know I'm a flake if left to my own devices, so I'm doing it through ebay so I have no choice but to send things out fast. Sometimes it seems like it is all I own, and looking at it makes me tired and depressed. So yeah...
That includes:
most of my poupeegirl account and about 3 boxes of stuff I still need to take pictures of/unpack.
my NWT Red Vampire Requiem JSK
My cream original release Seraphim OP (the the one without the bows, the one everyone actually liked)
New in Box VM hair corsage
Later.

My Journal is now basically Friends Only.  Comment to be added! :)

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. -Carl Sagan

Okay, so as promised (not that most of you care, but I want to save this for my own reference) the pictures and rundown of The weekend of the 19th-20th of September, aka MY BIRTHDAY.






( Insert a Monty Python Joke, or something about me getting older here. )

This is something I wrote up for laceandflora  .  It was recently "spotlighted" on Livejournal  so it has been over-run with new members (some good, some "noobs"), so they made an "intro" post.  SInce I was bored and my Dr. H wasn't online to chat with yet, I went ahead and filled it out.

Also, I sucessfuly resisted te temptation of Bodyline's lowered shipping sale and BTSSB luckypacks.  Whoo, more money for MNRF. (that and I promised not to until finances are more legally set).

( Under the cut, more details about me, if you don't know me that well, but we're still LJ friends for some incongruos reason )

I'm dealing with a lot of personal issues and just lost my only access to the internet for the next few weeks. I have not been, nor will I be purposely ignoring any of you. I will mail out any packages that need sending on Wednesday. 

See you on the other side, guys! :)

I kind of miss when Meta was the ONLY store that sold luckypacks online to us westerners, and everyone would get so excited about it.  There would be epic countdown posts on EGL posts about how sending out the email went , and updates on shipping status where we all would console each other if it looked like there was a shipping delay or they got ripped off by customs.  Then the (allllmost anoying, but never  so gratuitous that I personally got tired of them) posts unveiling the contents.  Remember how jealous we were of the girls that got the "good stuff".  I think it was nice that we all banded together as a group in the singular experince.  I don't really see anything like that on the communities anymore. Just sweet vs gothic and noob vs oldbie rancor.

...... I miss the meta luckypack days. ;_;

http://community.livejournal.com/egl/13753957.html?view=286877797#t286877797

Okay, so this post made me come up with a skirt I MUST MAKE EXIST.
 I WISH I COULD SEW RIGHT ABOUT NOW....
Scallops with a design in them of alternating red and blue mana/health potions, with the words embroidered "Drink Me"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90488882@N00/3670190464/

I baked a cake for Nikola Tesla's birthday (yellow cake with dark chocolate frosting), but he is dead, so I eated it. /  Plug in as many things into your Alternating Currents as you can in celebration of one of the greatest "mad scientists" ever.

Don't mind me, I'll just be stalking visiting his site frequently to try and catch tickets since I haven't seen him since the 3 concerts I went to on his With Teeth tour.  I had basically given up hope of ever seeing NIN in concert again.  Quit playin' games with my heart, Trent!  (Aragon 4500 seats, 2 will be fore me and a friend OR THERE WILL BE BLOOD!)

From NIN.com:

7.7.09: NEW FINAL NIN DATES!

Getting right to the point, we're going to play a handful of shows in NYC, Chicago and LA starting August 22nd. They will be informal affairs in medium to small venues with longer set-lists, possible special guests, cool openers and other surprises. Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight - it just didn't feel right to end NIN that way. An offer to headline V-Fest in Toronto (being announced soon) set the idea in motion to play some FUN shows to end this up with. If we can get it together we'll film these shows, too.

In NYC we'll be playing Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and Terminal 5. In Chicago, the Aragon Ballroom. In LA we'll be at The Wiltern, The Henry Fonda, The Palladium and The Echoplex. These should be cool, unusual and unique shows and I hope you come out - this is it.

So far, The Horrors will be joining us for some shows in NYC, Mew will be with us at other shows in NYC, Chicago and LA, and perhaps more.
Details and ticket info will be announced shortly, so check back.

Thanks,
Trent

Unfortunately, I left my camera at home because I am a bad mom.  But I took a bunch last week when we went swinning, so I hope they even out.
I did really like my outfit so I took a few pics before I left, and I'm wondering if I could put them on daily lolita or J-coord?  The cut of the JSK i identical to a vintage Innocent World one I own in black.  The socks and shoes are lolita, and I'm wearing bloomers and a petti.  What say you, friendslist?  Will people think I'm trollin' if I do?  I just wanted to look like an Edwardian beachcomber.




More under the cut:
( We saw many animals, but the ones I took home were the wildest. )

List for me of 10 Dream Pieces:
1 BTSSB old version Seraphim OP or JSK- Have in cream, want in black
2 Metamorphose Windows print OP in any color, underbust in red, white -have underbust in black
3 MMM Gothic Arch in ANY COLOR ANY STYLE
4 VM 2008 Regimental stripe OP and Canotier
5 AatP Rose Jail in Black ANY STYLE- JSK preferred
6 BTSSB Swan Lake print _BLACK ONLT, OP or JSK
7 IW black tartan skirt and vest set 2006 winter line
8 IW blue crown print skirt _had but sold :(
9 VM embossed logo skirt, short length IN BLACK- any Style
10 BTSSB Marie Antoionette JSKin Blue -HAVE NOW, whoo!
OMAKE--11 Meta's Logo Cutsew OP in grey and Cafe Server girl hoodie in any color

I'm going to be in Rochester over the weekend of June 20th and wondered if anyone wanted to get together?  I'm willing to drive a few hours to get somewhere, twin cities or whatever. Or if anyone knows a good goth/industrial club I could get to?  I'm craving The Box, and like most things, THERE ISN'T ONE IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF IOWA. >_<

Also, guess who can cross another one of my dream pieces off my list?  It's me.  Boo-yeah the Marie Antionete BTSSB JSK in blue:
UNDER ORIGINAL RETAIL, seriously, is the lolilta community on some AP version of crack as of late?  The seller had the AP ichigo Millefleurs skirt in pink and green to and it sold for almost 200.00, and this went for 187.00.  WTH?  Not that I'm complaining, LOL. Keeps the non-AP prices down for me! XD  I'm supposed to be saving for college, so this is my one lolita splurge this pay check (and a short sleeved white blouse since all my others are in storage).



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=170336379645

Now I need to start saving for the next time something from MMM's gothic Arch print comes up.

As a card carying member of one of the historic peace churches, I'm always a bit diffident to holidays that celebrate our militarisiticly obsessed mindset and nation.  I don't want to minimize the personal sacrifices/dying of the individuals, but I don't condone or support the military as a whole, nor the ipeople who makes the personal choice to join.  So I'm always afraid of looking unpatriotic at times like this.  I usually shut my mouth and keep my head low, but since this is my friendslist, and I can do what I want, I'll go a head and say:

Troops, thanks for doing what you thought was best, even if it was perpetuating a culture where violence and hate "solves" everything.  I support you in that you honestly wanted to do good, even if you were misguided in how you are doing it.  I'm praying for y'all.  Unless you are sleeping with your babysitter and spending the money you promised your soon to be ex-wife to take care of the kids on dates with said mistress because she flew down over Memorial weekend to see you, then FUCK YOU!

Okay, time for another Iowa Lolita Meetup, guys!


Hedge Maze/Tower in a Forest at the Winterset Park


( Details Under the Cut for any Midwest Lolitas Interested )