milleniumgypsy: (FMA- snowman!Al christmas)
Yesterday Scottie picked me up from work so that we could pick up a couple of things from the store, so I didn't walk home. We stopped by the mall to avoid traffic, and we were surprised to see that there was a Christmas figure skating show going on at the ice rink there!
slippery
Nu, that's not what I meant...

I kind of wanted to take pictures, but I have no idea what the ettiquete is there so I didn't. So... have the caribou from Frozen.
determined
You're welcome.

It was really neat! It had all ages and skill levels, groups and single performances. We started out watching from the second floor, but for the second half we went down to sit by the rink. One performance had a group of girls and a smaller group of guys. I was really amused because where we were sitting, the girls had skated to the side to hop up and sit on the side to pose for the boys. The girl who was most directly skating at us was like "Excuse me!" before she hopped onto the wall and it was just so amusing. xD

I love figure skating! I was super excited to see the show, especially since we had no idea it was going to be there and usually I just walk home! It was a really nice surprise. :3

Upcoming post: Christmas tree trimming with my BJD! I don't have time atm to finish putting all the pictures together, but I should have that up sometime tonight or at the latest tomorrow. :3
milleniumgypsy: (Happy Halloween pumpkin)
Tonight I continued the siamese cat sculpt! First I resculpted the back feet since I wasn't entirely happy with them. Then I textured and baked them. Then I sculpted on a neck, attached the head to the neck, sculpted the jowls further and added a bit to the crown of the head. Now that I have the head attached to the body Scottie says it looks like an Egyptian jar or statue. At the time it was lying on it's side (with some support to protect the head) so it looked even more like something you'd find in a tomb. xD

Picture of the cat sculpt so far! )

I'm somewhat amused by the pile of baked limbs next to to body. hehe

I also wanted to make a note about the amazing Halloween events of today. hehe :D

We went to Michaels today to pick up some yarn for a project that Scottie is working on. He's designed a pixel art pattern for an awesome afghan for the couch. I'm really excited about that! But the Halloween part comes when he decided that we should go look at some fuzzies. It turned out that they were having a Halloween pet costume show! xD There were a lot of people participating. One couple brought a two Samoyeds, one dressed as a football player and the other was a cheerleader. They were dressed as coaches, and the guy even tossed a little stuffed football for the dog dressed as the football player to catch. It was cute. xD
Another family came in and they were all really into it. There was a tweenie girl dressed in a candy corn dress with a candy corn wig that I feel like Lady Gaga could get behind. She had a chinchilla that had a couple Halloweeny trinkets on it. The little boy brought out his hermit crab who had a tiny witch hat attached to his shell. The mother was dressed as a witch and brought out a neat looking frog. She also temporarily had a little hat on it's head, but it fell off soon after since it moved. It was cute, and I thought it was awesome how the whole family was so into it. :3
We didn't stay to see who won but it was fun.

After that we stopped by Walmart because Scottie needed a couple more skeins of yarn (Michaels was out of brown in the kind we needed of all things! lol), and while we didn't find what we needed he remembered that I love to carve pumpkins so we picked up one for me to carve tomorrow. I'm excited! :D

Then tonight me and Scottie went to a Haunted House that my old grad school was putting on! Apparently USGS had recently moved out of one of their buildings, so they had an entire building awaiting re-purposing for classes or other things. They decided that they would put on a whole haunted house with it! Admission was free; though you could donate money, food, or clothes that would be given to various local charities. They had a family friendly version of it that went until 8:30, and they had a scary version that went from 8:30 to 11 pm (or until they get yelled at to shut it down as one worker said, hehe). Of course we went to the later section!

Now, I've never been to a haunted house before. I was SO EXCITED TO GO. haha Scottie's been to a couple of smaller haunted houses before, but nothing big. He said that this was way better than ones he's been to before, partly because they had so many human actors. He said the ones he'd been to had animatronics more than people, probably because they couldn't afford to keep on a lot of actors. A university has the opposite problem though lol, they have human actors in spades because I'm sure there were plenty of volunteers to play in the haunted house, but animatronics cost money lol. I think a lot of costumed characters is a lot better than a static robot though!

I had a lot of fun! There was a younger girl with my group though and near the end she got scared and said the safe word, so I think we ended up missing a little bit of the show. I feel bad that she got scared, and I don't mind that I missed the stuff. It might have been better if they'd enforced the 13+ rule, but she was there with her dad and they both thought she could take it. She'd been behind us in line and she was SO EXCITED to go in, and the wait was like an hour outside in 18 degree F weather, so I'd have felt bad as a worker to have turned her away.

Anyway, lots of awesomeness. :D

Oh, and I'm also in the top 6 of the Monster High Halloween photo competition from Stage 2! That means that I win a doll! Right now the competition is in it's 3rd and final stage. Now the finalists are being voted on to see how we place. I am really really really happy about that! I was hoping that I would place somewhere, but I was doing it because I really wanted to do it because I thought it would be fun (which it was). But I'm also ridiculously excited about winning a doll. :D
milleniumgypsy: (Aragorn/Arwen- one love)
So yesterday I worked on the bluebird further! I finished attaching the wings, and put in all the feathers. Texturing this bird is going to be a long process! I also did a little more sculpting on the face, and got the legs sculpted further. They're ready to attach to the feet and body when I get to that step.

Today I sculpted all the little feathers on the head and a little down the back. Texturing feathers takes waaay longer than fur! Tomorrow I'm going to try and work on more feathering.

So today is the 5th anniversary of my wedding! It's the date that me and Scottie had our Wyoming wedding, not the Michigan ceremony. For people new to my blog, we were married by a Justice of the Peace in Jackson WY with a couple of our friends, and then we had a full wedding ceremony with our family and my friends back in Michigan on the 25th. We'd been living in WY in the Grand Teton National Park and I'd been planning the Michigan ceremony back with my family long distance. We decided one day that we were just going to go get married in WY, lol. The spontaneity of it was awesome, and it also helped because I'd been stressing out about getting the marriage paperwork together in time in the short time we'd be in MI.

For our anniversary, Scottie brought delicious veggie burgers with watermelon toppings to work and had lunch with me. It was very nice! I cut out of work a little early so that I could do more with him today, I can just make up the hours during the week.

For gifts, I'm actually doing something with the bluebird for him (it's the bluebird of happiness!). I didn't quite finish though because of the setbacks I ended up having. He's making me decorated hair-sticks and a jewellery box to keep them in. He's so sweet! It's the wood anniversary so he wanted to do something especially with that. It's also the silver anniversary so he's including silver decorations on them. :D

We ended up playing Borderlands together for most of the evening. Couple that game together stay together! lol :D

I'm a lucky woman, and I'm so happy that we have each other. <3
milleniumgypsy: (Aragorn/Arwen- happiness (coronation))
I just wanted to wish everyone on my friends list a Happy Halloween! :D

I also wanted to say that Scottie and I had our Michigan wedding ceremony on Oct 25th. It was beautiful! I'm going to post pictures on flickr when they come from the photographer. I also have some shots taken after the ceremony that were taken by my bridesmaid Krissy, I'm going to download them from her flickr and post them on my flickr as well. So maybe I won't have to wait that long. hehe I'll post a picture or pictures from flickr onto here like I did with the Wyoming wedding ceremony. If I post more than one I will put all but one under a cut. Unless of course posting photos on here bothers anyone too much, in which case I could put them all under a cut.

I'm back in WY now, and currently moving us into our new apt. Moving is such a pain in the arse though! :P

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