Is it madness?

Ok, so I was going to do something productive. I ended up doing something sort of productive? I think? I've been meaning to add more Hiddles/Adam/Loki icons into my icons... so yeah I pruned some of my less used icons and added more of those into my icon lineup. ehehehe It is something that I wanted to do, but it's not exactly the most productive thing that I might have done. I'd meant to do something creative. Erm, oops. But yay for more new icons? xD
I'm irrationally attached to my older icons even if I know that realistically I'm going to pick some flavor of Hiddles for everything so it's hard to prune out icons eeeee
Also realistically I know I'm going to have to prune out more later for more Hiddles related icons. IT IS INEVITABLE.

Scottie and I went to a couple of things today, there was free comic book day and the spring library book sale. There wasn't going to be anything particularly special like I know other areas have for Free Comic Book day, so we didn't end up going to the comic book shop proper since the library also had the selection of free comic books there from the comic book shop, and we were definitely going to the library book sale.
I'm going to go to the comic book shop soon once I get my paycheck so I can check on the status of my pull box, to see if I'm going to start ordering my comics online since they can't seem to get their shit together and actually pull things for my pull box. This is the most frustrating thing, omg, I've talked to them multiple times about it by now and they never fix it. It's not bloody rocket science! I've had to order comics online already- like the last issue of Young Avengers, I missed it because it didn't get pulled for me. THAT WAS ONE OF THE TWO COMICS THAT I STARTED MY PULL BOX WITH HOW DID NEITHER GET ON MY PULL LIST. Why do you have my pull box there with literally nothing to put in it except for one thing that is no longer needed? Why. Do you not want my money. Seriously.

Seriously what the hell.

Ok that wasn't where I was originally going with this. Ok, so the free comic that I was most excited about (not surprisingly) was the Marvel one. xD Rocket Raccoon and Spidey! :D Ok I first wrote that as Rocket Raccoon/Spidey and that... doesn't look right. *koff*

Geez Tanya you're rambley no wonder you ended up randomly uploading icons instead of whatever you were planning on doing instead.

ANYWAY. BOOKS. BOOKS WAS WHAT I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT NEXT.

Books are fancinating things

Scottie got a couple of books about making dollhouses, because he is AMAZING and wants to build dollhouses for me. That would be such an upgrade from my current staging for pictures. I always wanted a dollhouse when I was little. I never did then but I CAN HAVE ONE NOW THOUGH MWAHAHAHA.

I got a couple of books about making cloth dolls (it looked really neat, and that was actually something that I was going to look at playing around with tonight I don't have ADD wut and I got a book about making clay jewelry.

Also while we were there Scottie picked up a couple of books that he'd been waiting on from interlibrary loan.
Ah shoot I was at the library I should have picked up the next Thor collected volume. *headdesk* I'm currently reading a Deadpool collected volume but I needs my Looooooki.

We were also going to do something for Beltane today but we had something of a mix-up with location... so that didn't happen today. I want to do it tomorrow though. I need to burn something which is why we can't just do it inside.
That mix-up caused me to have a massive anxiety attack so I wouldn't have been much good for doing a ritual even when we got home anyway. That wasn't the best part of the day. eheh I have much talent in the realm of doing all the wrong things, let me tell you.

Later me and Scottie played some of the Pathfinder card game that we have, I think that was a good idea to get my mind off of the less good loop my brain had gotten stuck in. :P

Anyway, I have no idea what I'm doing still up. Ooooh just heard Bloody Angel by Avatar and it's an awesome song... NO SLEEP TANYA SLEEEEEP WHEN DID IT BECOME 3AM WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU UUUUGH

Hey guys! I finalized my costume design! I took the armour and jacket and sort of merged it into a battle dress. xD It's an imperfect drawing, but I was only focused on getting out a design. I have never done a fashion drawing before actually, but I don't think they're terribly concerned with the realism of the model. lol

Please ignore the fact that my model looks like an alien giraffe

I'm not sure exactly what materials I'm going to use. The real costume is leather of course, but that's expensive and heavy. Expensive is the more important thing here though. I'm more concerned with it looking good though over comfort, because if it looks like crap because I have the wrong fabric why did I bother, ya'know? I'm considering looking to snag some thrift store/ebay/etc leather trench coats or something to cannibalize.

I've been trying to figure out exactly how the back of the costume works (the flowy bits in the back are my most favorite design element), but I wasn't having the best luck finding good reference photos of the back. I have seen useful video though, though that can be a hazardous proposition. "Oh, I'm just watching this for, erm, research!" *afterward* "Oops, wasn't paying attention to what I meant to! Gotta watch it again I guess, daaarn."

Shhhhhhhh Loki!

Unrelated, we also started to make candles tonight! I took a couple of pictures of the process, they're under the cut if you want to see them. Basically we need candles for ritual, and we can't ever find the right colours, and we want unscented candles because we burn incense but the large majority of candles seem to be scented already... so we got a candle making kit and are trying out making our own. We just wanted to try some simple white votives for a first try.

( Candle making pictures )

My mom used to make fancy candles when I was growing up, so I have a bit of an idea of how it works. If I was currently speaking to my mom, I would consider asking her about it. xP

I was planning on doing more this weekend, but I actually ended up being really sick. e_e Because of this I haven't been quite as productive as I would have hoped, but I don't think I did too terrible.

I did play Borderlands 2 with Scottie more, we are at an important story point and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FEELS