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My new dress

I took some pictures today of me in my new dress. I was trying to decide which would be the best way to wear the dress: with or without a shirt. I posted to the egl forums and the vote was practically unanimous to wear my Metamorphose high collar blouse with it. I almost prefer to wear the gauzy peter pan collared shirt that my grandmother bought me a while ago. I’m going to be wearing it to JACON next weekend. Rob is going to be doing a lot of photography again at the convention. Now that he does photography I rarely get to see him at conventions. JACON is at a new hotel this year; let’s see if it sucks less than previous years.

Anyway, tell me what outfit you like the best!

Oh, I also tried something with my hair - straightening my bangs. How does it look? I’m probably going to wear my hair up anyway, but it took me forever to get them straight. I am so clueless about girly things like hair dressing or walking in heels. And yet I dress like this sometimes! I guess it’s a way to get really girly, but only once or twice a month.

Sew crafty!

So I got back my inspiration to craft and sew yesterday! I bought some grosgrain ribbon and started to make hair bows in black and white. I added pearls to some of them too. I think they’re pretty damn cute! I have to back out and buy a thinner black ribbon though, so some of my projects are on hold. Rob suggested I try making some pink ones, but the pink ribbon just wasn’t the right shade of baby pink.

Anyway, JoAnn seems to rarely have fabric I want, so I have to turn to searching online for specialty fabrics. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find strawberries on a plain black background? Pretty hard! It’s also hard to find fabrics in elegant floral and toile patterns. I found this one site that sells some very beautiful discount fabrics. Right now they’re doing a promotion where the fabric with the most votes keeps getting cheaper by the second. You have to register to vote on the fabrics, but it’s a really great promotion and there’s a large selection from fashion fabrics to home dec fabrics and upholstery fabrics. This strawberry fabric is out of my price range, but if I could afford it, I’d re-upholster the leopard print chair my sister gave me.

This displays the current fabric that’s got the top votes.

On an unrelated note, I want to dye my hair again. Kelse told me to dye it RED again, but I don’t want it to be that RED right now. I would rather dye it a deep auburn. The only problem with that is that deep auburn on the box turns to deep purple in my hair. I think I look better with darker hair, it makes my eyes pop more than lighter hair.

Oh, and I’ve started learning PHP. Damned math! I can do calculus and advanced geometry but basic algebra? It’s like hitting myself in the head with a brick.

Weird realization

Last night I was thinking to myself and I realized that I was also simultaneously spelling and typing what I was thinking. Has the internet become such an ingrained part of my life? I know sometimes I wish I could Ctrl + F to find things, like at the grocery market or in my closet. Ctrl + F “chicken soup” please!

I also recently joined a modeling and photography website. Rob was browsing it and saw that they had added a new user category called “Photoshop Wizard” and he suggested that I join. I’ve got about 5 pieces of work on there at the moment. I’m not sure if non members can view the photos or not. It’s just another avenue for networking.

I also made a new layout for my myspace page. I really love that color scheme.

I’m making mom a card for her birthday, I hope she likes it. I think it looks pretty darn cute.