Chic Girl - Les Tuileries - Paris

I met this beautiful parisian girl as she was working for
"Grazia Magazine" in les Tuileries. A Kiss from Paris !

Easy Fashion Fred

Tattoos???

*"Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles."

-Dracula

*"The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly"

-Dracula

*"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."

-Dracula

*""I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which

I dare not confess to my own soul."

-Dracula

"That is the way with amputations.

They just don't heal up like a wish."
-Anne Sexton, Cinderella

The Walking Dead

I've been watching The Walking Dead since it aired on Halloween, it is a television series about a zombie outbreak, the apocalypse and all that jazz.

They premiered one of the most action packed episode tonight: people left, people died, they relocated etc. a lot of really important events happened.

Aires every Sunday @ 9pm (CST), but it shows again @ 10pm.

I'm also going to comment on another Tv series Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, a stop motion series on adultswim made with paper puppets. I'm going to comment on this for a few reasons: 1) the main character is Dr. Frankenstein, 2) Dracula lives with him, and 3) it is stop motion animation. I've watched a handful of episodes it aires Sundays @ 11:15pm.

Beginning of the episode that was shown today, I love the intro to the show.

I love Stop motion animation, a LOT.

I've been thinking lately about noir films, I think i'd like to make one, a silent noir film complete with bordered black cards that give brief/vague explanations of what is going on.

Think The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, now THAT would be pretty epic. Gotta love old German expressionist films.

Alec found a setting on my SLR camera that allows you to control the exposure, they turn out pretty rad.

Very ghost-like photography.

Here are the photos of me he took.

I've also discovered that there is a flea market in my city the last Sunday of each month, and I REALLY want to go. But, i'll have to wait till next year, i'm pretty sure Christmas falls on the last Sunday next month.

I've had two cups of coffee tonight and am preparing for the last two weeks, and two days of school, to FLY by!

I think next semester i'm only going to have two jobs, instead of 3.5.

Want to see one of my new hats? Yeah you do!

You can see part of my Munster's shirt.

Man, I love that shirt.

Now, I feel compelled to get a shirt for every old horror classic. But, i'm not sure if that is truly a new compulsion...

I've come up with a couple of new designs i'd like to make, if possible, over winter break.

One is a summer dress that would need a wire petticoat, or a plain petticoat I suppose.

I'm excited to make it.

However, i'm also planning on learning to knit this winter, so hopefully i'll be able to make some cool knitwear.

Actually, I hope I can at least make something that doesn't look like a ball of knotted yarn; unless i'm specifically making a ball of knotted yarn...

I'm looking more at making some cool hats, gloves, leg warmers, and scarves. If they don't take long I might sell some on etsy, depending on how the situation turns out.

I spent the day with Alec and his extended family on his mom's side.

It was pretty awesome, after being together for over 3.5 years I have stopped feeling shy (for the most part) around his extended family.

They are pretty cool people really.

All in all, this holiday break pt 1. has been pretty great.

Granted, I didn't get all the work done I had intended; you know the usual: clean the bedroom, do some extra homework, do some other interesting things etc.

I started cleaning my room, I need to finish it before winter vacation.

I'm going to type up one of my three papers tonight, one tomorrow, and the last on Tuesday.

Wish me luck, eh?

Eternal Autumn

Eternal Autumn is an etsy shoppe owned and ran by Mistress Autumn, stay at home mom with a penchant for creating jewelry with a darker flare. Her designs are well priced, beautiful, and delicate in nature. Most of her works are feminine, however she is willing to take on custom work. I'm going to suggest that you buy some of her work while it is still so beautiful for minimal prices, you never know when she'll become famous! So Buy something!

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

G. H.

I. J.

A. $26.00 ( No shipping, this pair is a holiday promo)

B. $38.00 (Shipping is $2.85)

C. $27.00

D. $20.00 (No shipping listed)

E. $38.00 (No shipping, Holiday Promo)

F. $40.00 (No shipping, Holiday Promo)

H. $24.95

I. $35.00

J. $16.50

I love that broach..

DarkFusionBoutique

Ever heard of Dark Fusion Boutique?

Dark Fusion Boutique is an etsy shop ran by a performance belly dancer named Renee Rathman. She studied oil painting at the Pacific Northwest College of art, after obtaining a BFA she sought out perfomance art. She is now a co-founder for Serpentine Fire Fusion Bellydance troupe, a perfomance group found in portland, OR. Her designs are a beautiful blend of burlesque, goth, and Tribal bellydance, to name a few. I've loved her designs since 2007, when I found her while looking for tribal bellydancing clothes, at that time I was focused on trying to become a bellydancer. Now i'm a rollergirl, but maybe one day i'll be a tribal bellydancer, anything's possible right?

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

A.$450.00 (shipping is $12.00)

B. $55.00 (shipping is $2.30)

C. $170.00 (shipping is $10.00)

D. $60.00 (shipping is $5.55)

E. $89.00 (shipping is $3.00)

F. $65.00 (shipping is $3.35)

[I would buy F, actually I want it really badly...]

Louise Black Designs

Louise Black Designs and DollFlesh are etsy shops created and managed by Louise Black, a wonderfully inventive designer whose designs I regularly drool over. See for yourself! Louise Black Designs is where her more expensive "higher end" items are found, DollFlesh is where everything else goes. Louise Black was a project runway designer on Season 6! You can find and follow her on Facebook or Myspace.com.

A.B.

C. D.

E. F.

G.

A.$199.00 (shipping $12.00)

B. $350.00

C. $199.00

D. $199.00

E. $199.00

F. $79.50 (Shipping is $6.00)

G. $124.00 (shipping is $8.00)

I've wanted one of her anatomical corsets for so long!

Leather Jacket Parisian Girl - Odéon

Model I-Phoning - Grand Palais - Paris

Model - Pont Alexandre III - Paris

Books that look like great reads

Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty—rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar—pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare—or die trying to fight it.

$12.95

*What started out as girls' games became a witch hunt. Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told from the perspectives of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692.
Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When her father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann grasps her opportunity. She puts in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of the people around her forever.
Mercy Lewis, the beautiful servant in Ann's house, inspires adulation in some and envy in others. With a troubled past, she seizes her only chance at safety.
Margaret Walcott, Ann's cousin, is desperately in love and consumed with fiery jealousy. She is torn between staying loyal to her friends and pursuing the life she dreams of with her betrothed.
With new accusations mounting daily against the men and women of the community, the girls will have to decide: Is it too late to tell the truth?
$12.23

*BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.

PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.

Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.
$11.10


*Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex - but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her?
In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter's point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you're being written about in Anne's diary, day after day? What's it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.
As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them?
Anne's diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex's occupants.
$12.24



*The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.
Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a star. . . .
Cordelia is searching for the father she's never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imagined and more dangerous. It's a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.
The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. But Astrid's perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.
$10.52


*In this wonderfully transporting novel, award-winning author Karen Essex turns a timeless classic inside out, spinning a haunting, erotic, and suspenseful story of eternal love and possession.

From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula’s eternal muse, Mina Murray, vividly recounts the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the Count—the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked them through the centuries, and her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.

Mina’s version of this gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into Victorian England’s dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries, and asylum chambers, revealing the dark secrets and mysteries locked within. Time falls away as she is swept into a mythical journey far beyond mortal comprehension, where she must finally make the decision she has been avoiding for almost a millennium.

Bram Stoker’s classic novel offered one side of the story, in which Mina had no past and bore no responsibility for the unfolding events. Now, for the first time, the truth of Mina’s personal voyage, and of vampirism itself, is revealed. What this flesh and blood woman has to say is more sensual, more devious, and more enthralling than the Victorians could have expressed or perhaps even have imagined.
$17.79


*In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
$12.95

Thanksgiving Break

I bought a Joker purple coat the other day at Target,

I also bought these shoes and these laces for my new skates!!!

Due to be expected Nov 30th!

I also bought this Barn Owl pendant from Michaels the other day.

I work at Michaels today at 5:30 and Friday at 7:00pm.

I finished all of my Fellows work this morning, which is great.

I've got three papers to write before Monday, and two art pieces to work on.

I started reading Graceling today.

I also want to sketch out my owl half sleeve this week, I might be able to get it done entirely (in color too) here within the next couple of months.

Tattoo Madness?!

The other day, after I got done working at Michaels Arts & Crafts, I made an appointment over at Freedom Ink co. with Tim Beck.

I went here for my Alice tattoo back on my 18th birthday, a year and a half ago.

The artist has since moved up near Chicago, so i'm being tattooed by the artist that instructed him.

I'm getting my rats paw prints (I put ink on their little paws to get their proper paw prints) on my left hand on the skin in between the base of my thumb and the pointer finger.

Tuesday, January 11th @3pm.

$85-100

I already paid the 50$ downpayment.

Now, i've been mulling around with the idea of getting another tattoo relatively soon afterward (then maybe waiting a bit before getting another).

Here are the current options:

*Owl half sleeve (I need to draw this out) on my right upper arm.

*Are you, are you/ Coming to the tree/ Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me/ Strange things did happen here/ No stranger would it be/ If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.- Mockingjay

* small bats behind my right ear.

* A quote from Frankenstein

* A quote from Dracula

A very Derby December

I'm really booked this December in terms of the amount of derby-ness i've got going on.

I'm going to practice two-three days a week.

I'm attending a BANK TRACK bout in Chicago December 11th for $40.00.

The Missfits have their first bout December 16th, for $10.00.

I've got our Christmas party the 17th, plus a secret santa gift to get.

I find out who i've got Wednesday.

Then i'm helping to work at a blood drive we are using as an event for December.

Whew!!

I also bought myself some white 125s size 5, today.

I'm so excited to get them, i'll post pictures when they arrive.

Movie Trailers

Little Red Riding Hood

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Never Let me Go

Let the Right One In

Clothes?

I LOVE these pigtails

Clothes

$28

$25.00

$25.00

$48.00

(Really BA if you ask me)

$21.00

$21.00

$16.00

$16.00

$21.00