mythos_amante

08:48 pm: Faerieworld homework done this weekend
One 10' x 10' Swiss Gear canopy bought and received.
three 50-ticket sales books stamped with custom stamp from AssPocket Productions
260+ new wing ornaments cut out of leather (90 done already for sale)
12 (!!!) new bird/dragon masks formed and paper mache'd.
some costume pieces accumulated, like hoof shoes and thrift store shirts that are pretty and flowy.
and I know I did more, but that's what I remember.

I also had HELLA COOL DREAMS with manticores and pennies and coffins and government agencies and posh malls.
And dragons!! With treasure! And flying around trying to avoid most of the above!

I also did iFly with my friend, Rae, which he got for our birthday presents, and I saw my cousins for a BBQ. All in all, a very full, very productive weekend.

Now I am going to go soak in the tub and try to scrape this acrylic off of my forearms.

Tags: art, faerieworlds, life

03:38 pm: Is it Better to.... (ALSO: MY FIRST OFFICIAL POLL! WOW!!)
Is it better to use a crappy product(in this case, a screened gazebo) you ALREADY HAVE that doesn't quite suit(wrong color/poor manufacturing) and may collapse on you at a dire moment, or is it better to buy a new one for $120 that has GREAT reviews, good workmanship and should totally suit? Keep in mind I have SAID I won't vend after this event, but if I buy it, I'll use the awesome canopy again regardless.


Poll #1425134 A Canopy in the hand is worth...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

If I had a poorly made, ugly canopy already, and also could afford a $120 GREAT, attractive canopy, I would...

Tags: choices, faerieworlds, life, money

11:04 pm: More art for Faerieworlds


For another custom stamp for my ticket pads and to add to peoples smiles.

By the way, I am getting my stamps custom made at Asspocket Productions on Etsy. Stacey is a darling whom is easy to work with and whose work is affordably priced. I'll show you the stamp impressions when I get them, she says she works fast!

Tags: art, faerieworlds

08:54 pm: Painted wings and Fairy me
I worked on an image for a custom rubber-stamp this weekend, as well as painting about 110 leather fairy-wing tags.

So here they are!






Tags: art, faerieworlds

06:46 pm: Pictures from the cruise
There are TONS of pictures of art, food, and some foreign animals! Please enjoy and holler if you can't see them!

-Tessa



Tags: life, travel

10:04 pm: Romin in Roma!
So, after some almost teary goodbyes, we managed to make it through the almost interminable wait at the Venice Airport(the boat let us off at 9 AM, we arrived at the bus station at 10:00 and at the airport at 11:00, but our flight wasn't until 6:55PM!)
We finally flew out and here we are at the Alessandro Palace Hostel in Rome! Itàs about 10:00PM here right now and internet rates are MUCH more friggin' reasonable. Also, the keyboard has all sorts of funny keys, like ù § à ° ò ç è é £ and € to name a few.

Right now, the people I met on the staff of that ship are all helping the new guests get settled in. I am a bit jealous!! I really liked some of those people! Mucho mucho!! I want to see them again!

Tomorrow, we'll hit the Spanish steps and the Trevia(sp?) fountain, maybe do some other things, including mailing out the postcards we've written. Then the next day, we fly out to Barcelona, and then back home! Jiggity jig! I am thrilled, a little sad, but also look forward to being in my own little bed again, though after the comfort of the beds I have been sleeping on, I may get a soft topper for it once I can afford it. Speaking of beds, tonight and tomorrow night in the hostel, I get to sleep on a top bunk! Rawk!

Yours,

-Tessa

Tags: travel

02:04 am: Cruising along!
Hi, All! I am having a great time with Mom! It's proven almost impossible to mail anything from here. I've bought tons of postcards but getting them in the mail is unbelievably difficult. E-mail from the ship is slow, but I sucked it up and bought the time to journal, because you are the people who are important to me!

Mom and I have had tons of adventures.

We have some familiarity now of navigating through Barcelona. A gypsy lady tried to pickpocket Mom, but Mom was too savvy. The metro stations have almost no escalators nor elevators, and that was a nightmare I may have to illustrate, climbing up and down all those stairs with our luggage our first day here! (Though there were a number of nice men who helped her with her luggage) We look forward to taking a taxi to the airport on the way home!

Monte Carlo is all undeer construction, getting ready for the Grand Prix, so navigating there was a bit difficult, but we did manage to make our way to the Cafe Du Paris, where we had a giant ice cream sundae to celebrate Mom's birthday, watching the cars of the wealthy go by.

We didn't get off the ship in Livorno, since I love Florence too much to just go there for a few hours, say hi, and leave again. Relaxing was a good restorative, and the ship has a resistance pool where I can easlily enjoy swimming for an hour (and not going anywhere! ;) )

Rome was great! We walked quite a bit and had some of those pre-recorded tours, which workled alright, but the next day, we had a GREAT time, we hiked up Mt. Vesuvias and also took a tour of Pompeii, which I saw more of and a different part than I saw those years ago when I went with some friends from the school semester in Florence.(Did that sentence make any sense? Sorry, I am rushing because I don't have a lot of time here on the computer)

Then we went to Mykonos, Greece, which was by far the most tourist-friendy little town I had visited thus far. very charming!

And then we had a relaxing day at sea, where we all dressed up in the evening. I wore a backless dress (Well, you know, it started again at my waist. :D)

Then, yesterday, we went into Istanbul, which is SO much more forward and modern than I thought,and I felt very safe (and beautiful/unusual, which is different from my sometimes awkward/unusual I feel in the states) the people were extrememly friendly, and we had the best guide, beyond what we could have wished for, through travelocity. Her name was Lucit!

Today we are on our way to Ephesus, which Lucit says is even nicer/more amiable than Istabul. I am glad and excited, and looking forward to every minute!

I think I am getting whiplash from the sights and from gawking at the very nice looking young men everywhere. Srsly. I am taking tons of pictures (Not so much of the men, but of the sights)

I'll write more later if I have minutes! :D


<3! -Tessa

Tags: travel

11:56 am: See you in España
<3!

Tags: travel

07:43 pm: Bullet Proof Hair Gel and swimming after a tetanus booster
So I haven't been posting much lately because my typing is sloppy and it takes me very long to post. So I read your guys stuff instead!

I have been having dreams of amazing depth and craziness, and though I have told a few people, I haven't had a chanced to write them all down here, though I do secret them away in my paper journal. But I haven't written last night's down yet.

Though I know I am leaving a lot out, in this dream, there was me and this other lady and we were international spies dressed matrix-style, with straightened hair and svelte black clothing. We had been spying on some people, and I think there were zombies involved, but at one point everyone and their brother came charging out dressed as either a civil war re-enactor or a viking, with real axes and muskets, and they stopped across the courtyard to have a face-off with us, because they were scared of us. (We were pretty bad-ass) The other lady, who reminds me most of Selma Blair but with collar-blade-length burgundy-auburn hair, she had this little jar of clear gel, which looked like hair goop. She put it on as the civil war guys were loading their muskets, smoothing some on her arms and chest and legs (over her clothes) and on her tongue, and when the civil war dudes fired their muskets, she purposefully caught one of the bullets on her tongue, where the gel stopped it like it had always been there. The civil war guys and the vikings got really scared, but looked like they might charge in and force hand-to-hand combat, so I looked around for a decent weapon on the racks, trying for a hand-and-a half sword or a two-handed sword, which I know how to use some, but all I could find were hatchets and small double-headed axes with bad balance.

So that was last night's dream.
In the last month I have had dreams about dinosaurs and robot planets and monkeys attacking in waves and giant inflatable clowns with three heads and sticky hands that ate people and a lion chasing me for three years. And three-headed dogs and toy soldiers and Faerieworlds and Burning Man, and houses and camping.

Also I got a tetanus shot Thursday and I finally went swimming again today, and I did pretty well! :D exercising an hour a day when I remember to!

Let me know what other dreams you want to hear about! Going to go watch the Dr. Who Easter special nows!!!

Tags: dreams

06:12 am: Tonsiliiiiiiiiiitis!
After battling two other simple colds, I caught a third, which makes it so I have to go to the doctor. This sucks.


I got some of these (gross pic of infected tonsils)
and one of these (Pic of a gawping throat) though the latter I've had for a long time and it never bothered me. So maybe it's not that??? Either way, I should go to a doctor. I've just had bad luck with doctors after getting off of PAMF. They're all wacky and foreign and make me feel weird. Like the Philippine woman who had crucifixes in every examination room.(Not just crosses)

Tags: sick

09:57 am: Costume Awseomness! Fairy Shoes!
I occasionally look at this costuming resource when I am bouncing around the internet: http://www.yourfantasycostume.com/

And what should I see this time, but some AMAZING FAIRY SHOES!!!



So I wanted to share that. I may make some additions to my own shoes based on these, as pieces that are simply "inspired by" their work and not copies.

Also, I have upgraded to a paid account. I got tired of the ads, tired of the lack of icons. And now I actually have a reason to commission icons.

Tags: costume, lj

11:54 am: Moonay
I had a dream last night that I won a lottery at a women's clothing store for $10K and I was stoked.

I also dreamed there was this really cool older woman teacher who had reflective blue sunglasses that made her hair (and feathers) do the cutest flip on the sides that I wanted to emulate. Very steampunk-y.

Oh and I went into a restaurant that was cat-friendly, and ALL these people had brought their cats, and the cats were EVERYWHERE, except on the tables, and I knew the owner and brought his chihuahua in, and that was the only dog EVER allowed in the restaurant because he was the one that inspired the restaurant. So he was sitting on my lap at the table. And there were cats EVERYWHERE. But it didn't smell like cat-spray or anything. They were all supposed to be well-behaved or they weren't allowed in. It was a VERY fancy restaurant, crystal glasses and silver silverware and everyone in white tea-clothes.

Also, I just want to say that I really think long haired chihuahuas look endearingly like fairy dogs to me. , too, even the ugly ones, it's just the ugly ones look like redcap or goblin dogs.

EDIT: and also, the computer crashed but saved this draft from yesterday, so I am posting. :D

Tags: dreams, stuff

07:09 pm: Black Cab Sessions!!!
What a cool idea! These Brits hire a black cab to take them around England with a cameraman and a music artist/group in the back seat and they perform a candid song, totally cool!

Black Cab Sessions.

Ganked from Neil Gaiman's journal, linked from there because it has Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls doing a cover of Radiohead's "Creep."

Damn the one with Man Man is an amazing logistical bit of madness. Saxaphonist perched on the backseat window ledge!

Tags: links

07:44 pm: Red Rose Girls and Apocaliptic Elves in the Garage. And Zombie Prom. NO NOT PRON
Last night I dreamt we were all these little two-foot-tall grey elf-like beings living on a space station where the last houses of Earth had crashed/got pulled by gravity when the world exploded a few hundred years earlier. So there were all these ruins of houses haphazardly layered and strewn over the surface of this massively big derelict station with our elf civilization running around in the ruins on the surface. It was all very post-apocalyptic, and we would use the garbage we found amongst the rubble to make the things we needed, but it was all very dirty and make-do. Eating canned foods and bugs and stuff. :P

I was just inside the house at the door to the garage when I heard a noise like something scrabbling out there so I went to investigate. Going out into the garage, I spotted this big sewer rat in the corner when it made some chittering noises and scrabbled around. And since rats would eat our food and could out-breed us, and because it was almost big enough to take me, and I might be able to eat IT, I tried to squish it into the wall with a broom. Only I used the brush part of the broom, so it just sort of flattened against the cement wall and then sproinged up again and started chattering at me like it was trying to communicate. Then when I turned the broom around to try to smack it with the hard handle-end, it chittered again and ran across the garage and leapt into a gap between the wall and a metal-roofed sidewalk hatch/elevator. I swear it came up to my knees. OMG

I ran over there wielding the broom and looked down, and what should I see but some older human man in a sewer worker's uniform! He had a light on his yellow construction helmet and a yellow fireman jacket, and a tool belt with all sorts of things in it, including a radio. All excited, I hollered, "THERE you are! We have been looking for you all these years! We thought you were all dead! What radio station were you using?!" And the human said, "4!" and I said, "You dummies! We have been on station 2 the whole time! All you had to do was run through the channels and you would have heard us trying to figure out where you were!!" So he told all the humans remaining to change their radios to 2 and they heard us and were really happy to not be all alone on that new "world" after all. Apparently the humans had been cast into the deepest depths when the apocalypse happened, and had made friends with the domesticated rats, and had gone on a journey to the surface of the station, working together to get there year after arduous year. The rats had vastly advanced in intelligence, to where they could communicate in a sort of spoken language and could read and sort of write, too. This was a search party never expected to return to where the humans were living in the depths, and were sort of hopeless when they found us, but then there was much rejoicing and together, I like to hope, we made the new world much more inhabitable. With plants and indoor heating and running water and clothes not made out of trash and stuff like that.
The end.

I'd like to thank Wall-E, The Adventures of Despereaux, HellBoy 2, and Coraline(the book with the Dave McKean drawings) for many of the images in this dream. XD

Speaking of influential materials, I have been reading "The Red Rose Girls," a partial biography of Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley, by Alice A. Carter. It's a fascinating story of three women who eschew marriage to pursue art careers at the turn of the 20th century, aided by their friend and "housewife," Henrietta Cozens. It's just lovely!

I've also gotten back into "The Artist's Way," to unblock and start heading towards actual productivity in doing art again. whoot

Also, I caught ANOTHER cold...I was over it last week, then caught another one this weekend. PRETTY sure it's not the same one, anyhoo. I went to a zombie prom in SF Friday night, dressed as a zombie. I went with Ann and Linus. Linus is a Swedish friend of more recent acquaintance, who does very intriguing performance art. I went and saw his piece, "Doom over the Bay," on Saturday night, with Ann and Patrik and Tina, and Patrik was sick, so I think he gave me his cold. Can I be better yet, plz?

Also got the new car smogged and registered. It is my own very nice Chevy Prizm now!!! Per the AAA peeps, it could use a new engine belt, rear tires, and a power steering pump. Other than that, I have to say, it's getting close to 50 mpg. I am not sh*tting you. I have named it Bermuda Red, because it feels like I am cruising when I am in it, and first and third gears keep going missing and being mistaken for one another through no fault of my own. :D

Tags: dreams, life

07:15 am: Napoleonic Viking Wars: a dream
I don;t have time to type and proofread so I;ll get to the proofreading later today. Just had to get this down before work!

There were train cars parked in the park in my neighborhood. They were like for gypsy caravans, but each held a train car. We were at war with the emperor! or maybe others were, I can't tell by this dream!

So the train was assembled and the people had discarded things about camp, which was like a hotel I was recently in for a convention, and they had left coin change everywhere, so I and a friend went around. We were like eight years old, playing around and bored by the grown up stuff. I kept seeing a dime, and then a quarter and pennies, and I'd collect them, while my friend looked around and couldn't see them at all, so I always got there first, but since I was a kid, I didn't care! I was really glad that I was smart and fast, not ashamed like grown ups get when they're so much better than the competition that they smoke them.

So then we encountered a tiki/totem pole that the native had left there as a booby-trap before we intruded and it broke and turned into all these pieces of bubblegum cheeseburger. my friend was leaning over the small pile when three pieces assembled into a decorative spread knife with an ear of corn as the shape on the handle and STABBED him tree times in the chest! I was horrified. I grabbed the knife creature and disassembled it and tore it up and called for a medic for my friend, who was still walking round just fine, just traumatized.

And no medic came! So we went to the caboose and the Champion of the people was striding through it on his horse, in the center aisle, with the people inside cheering. On the sides of the caboose, it was like the vegetable section of a grocery store, with lettuces and carrots in bins along the walls, but also meats and breads. While waiting for the pompous champion to go through the car, so I could find a medic for my friend, I ate some lettuce and some meat, which was really tasty!

So then we heard the sounds of battle and knew we had engaged the enemy! I also knew that that meant all the medics were over tending the wounded on the battlefield, so I grabbed my friend and took him over to the battlefield where the legless medic spirits were flying around in their dresses, healing the fallen. I dropped my friend off and knew he'd be taken care of and went to see if I could help with the battle. Because here's the thing...I was normal person sized, but most of the folks I encountered were army-man sized, all dressed up in Napoleonic uniforms. So I figured I could drop a log on the enemy and wipe them out!
S I got to the battlefield and it was the size of an arena, with the enemy shooting arrows up three hundred feet into the air and I couldn't see any logs to drop on them. So I was considering flying above their arrow-range and dropping small boulders on them whatever I could carry, so I started flying up to see if I could get that high.
And it was a drag, I could hardly get up at all quickly! The emperor's daughter, who was four or five, saw me and sent gossamer strands of light up into the air like a rope for me to climb, so I started climbing and that was slow, too, and I thought about my plan, and how much it would suck to get shot by arrows, and I came back down and thought.

The enemy and our guys turned into vikings, then, full-sized ones, and they were battling, but staying on their own sides of the middle line drawn in the field, so I posed and told the bad guys something like, "You better surrender or I'll kill you all!" and they laughed, so I did a barrel roll through them, wings flashing, and then I got to the other side, and they all laughed again, but then their axe-heads all fell off, and they looked stricken. So then I told them I'd get them if they didn't give up, and they all turned and ran away the way they had come.

The End.

I had another dream about a boycat having kittens and being an irresponsible mother, but I'll tell that one later, don't want to be late for work!

Tags: dreams

08:24 am: Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a Happy New Year!

I have been having a blast, I have an awesome houseguest and lots of hanging out time with foofers! We're all going to the city today! (SF)

Tags: life

09:32 pm: A Day In The Life
This is the first time I have turned on my computer since Sunday night...it has been a very busy, tiring week. I was fighting a cold Monday and Tuesday, I think, and won, hup hup! I think Airborne really does work for me, whether it's psychosomatic or scientific or a combo, so I am happeh!

So, a day, like today, for example, that generally prevents me from getting on the computer goes like this:

6:30AM, wake up, wrap a package for the Secret Santa exchange at work. Pack breakfast because there is no time (usually a bowl, bag of cheerios and a ziplock of rice milk. also pack, two tangerines for afternoon break and a flatbread with hummous for morning break snack, and $2.50 for a 'namwich.
7:40AM leave for work.
8:00AM workworkworkwork
10:00AMish soak up five to seven minutes of sunlight so I don't go winter-crazy (No outdoorsy windows in my cube)go back and workworkwork
11:15ish call favorite Mexican place, they don't answer the phone and have a generic answering machine, so I go get a Vietnamese sandwich as planned. Wait 15 minutes for sandwich to be made because there's a crazy amount of people there. Rush back to work, eat for five minutes in the sun, need that solar energy! And then more workworkwork
2:45ish take another sunbreak
4:30DONEWITHWORK But the sun is down. So drive to fitness club and swim a mile
5:40 Go by the store and pick up supplies for company potluck.
6:00 go to Mom's. Steam mountain of zucchini. Bake two batches of peanut butter cookies.
7:30 Watch an episode of Dr. Who with Mom and Bob.
9:00PM go home and write on neglected journal. And pass out.

Tomorrow, do it all again, with a few changes, but pretty much the same thing. whoo!

Tags: life

08:18 pm: What I do When I'm Not Drawing Faeries
The faeries will return...I'm just busy moving my apartment around so I can get rid of crap and get my heater turned on. Part of the new spacing I am trying out in my room is to have my "bedroom" partitioned off from the other "parts" of my single room unit, and I wanted to enjoy that partitioning. So I made me some more "mural" big canvas art.



I love having paint on my hands!!!!! XD

Tags: art, life, painting

09:00 pm: Anyone Oil Paint recently?
Has anyone on here been seriously involved in oil painting in the last three months?

10:09 pm: Some pictures!
Here are just the highlights! Sorry for the big pic and awkward linkage, just don't have time to make a thumbnail for each one right now. <3!



I thought of a lot of you when taking these! I have some extra monsters to edit and post for missmonstermel, and another dragon for foofers, but there is one dragon already up (#11), as well as a bat on #6 for terraluna_bat, and goats on #'s 6 and 17 for gatcat. Actually, I'd be surprised if not quite a few of you liked #6,a s I went practically crazy over it and only wished I'd set my camera at a better quality level.
I thought of eselgeist in particular when taking # 14. <3!

Tags: travel