This journal is now largely public (if little written-in); about half of my posts are about Asian Ball-Jointed Dolls (ABJDs), and the other half are about random things like books, art, and knitting. All BJD posts are filtered - comment if you would like to be added to the filter. Comments to this entry are screened.

Thank you!

May I randomly add that I am a huge fan of deviantART's new message centre format? Big squidgy thumbnails to click on = yay.

And now, the eternal question of my non-working hours: what heady combination of knitting, reading, painting, and/or watching Dexter should I pursue? Should I knit and read? Should I paint and listen to music? Oh, the options!

Anyone who is interested in serial killers, vigilanteism, and morbid humor should watch Dexter, by the way.

Apparently "penguin in tuxedo" is the universal sign for "freeze."

( Behind the cut, The Return of Cap'n Eppy, and more laboratory hijinks )

I really want a breadstick right now!

Sorry for the silly photos - I promise prettier ones later. I'm way backed up, needless to say.

I was so happy with how this came out. X3; Her foot is too small, though! The dragon actually has a name that isn't Mortimer, but I've forgotten what it is, so Mortimer is a stand-in.

( and the finished hunting prince piece )

By the way, since I remembered that I hadn't mentioned it at all, the biggest influence for my painting lately has been the amazing bluefooted at deviantART. Go check her out!

In general, I think it did me good to take a lot of time off of drawing for the past year or two (not that was a conscious decision - it was simply lack of time, of course) and instead spend time looking a lot of good art and photography.

I'll try to do more photoposts sometime soon! I'm so backed up on everything again, haha.

I've been wanting to catch up on posting ACEO's, so here we go. :3


Pretty silly, and I don't know what I was thinking with the dots over her eyes, but it was nice to do something quick and glowy. She was going to be all blue (as usual), but ended up pink. Go figure. (this sold yesterday, too! yays)

( 3 more + a WIP )

Photos from a few weeks ago... I started out watching the sunset at the station, then followed it out to the old railroad trail that overlooks the ocean. :3



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the end!

Also, random question for the photo-taking sorts - how do you deal with your files? Do you save one version in smaller resolution for uploading, and keep the original file untouched and at its full size? I'm suddenly curious to know how other people do it.

Trying to work through my photo/posting backlog still... !

Just a couple of photos that I took of my irises after evening rain.



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Also posted to laceandflora, for the record.

Labwork has been rockin'. Gots to go work on a presentation now, though!

Hyello all, I'm back with yet another photo-dump. Let me welcome you to this one with the help of... CAPTAIN EPPY.



( Yo-ho Captain Eppy, anchors aweigh )

Hullo everyone! Just wanted to apologize for my sporadic flist-checking; I'm at my summer internship now, and access to the precious Interwebs is limited to a couple of areas. I'm actually in Bermuda - which, yes, is very sweet - doing research on bacteria involved in red tide events (aka Harmful Algal Blooms).

I've actually bought a paid Flickr account (that's how much I love Flickr), and I figure I'd better make good use of it, so photos!


My brother took this one, actually. On the plane!

( Moar )

I have an enormous backlog of Aure photos to post, and a couple of Wintermute; one of my goals for the summer is to get those all processed, so I swear they'll be coming up soon. (Neither of the dolls came here with me, though... would make me too nervous to bring them.) Gotta go read papers now!

It came to me like a revelation at dinner.

( mlar )

Having spent just about all day reading oneshots from Lililicious, I suddenly started wondering - does anyone have an idea of what kind of demographic typically reads yuri in Japan?

Still messing around, wish I had my brown pen with me because the black ink is all WAH in your face.

( bigger + one more w/nudity warning, ohnoes )

Since inheriting 100+ pounds (I'm not even joking kidding) of cardstock in March, I've been experimenting quite a bit with ACEO's, as much to have more stuff to sell on Etsy as to simply get myself drawing more often again. I get frustrated very easily when drawing, so it's very hard for me to finish larger pieces; thus ACEO's are perfect. I like being able to work out one idea very quickly, sort of.

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I spent rather a large (but not exorbitant, I would hasten to add) amount of money today on new books from Labyrinth - the first time I've done so in a while, by my standards. I really wanted to take advantage of the 20% general discount that I got for buying SO MANY FREAKING EXPENSIVE TEXTBOOKS, so. They've also moved in their used book section, which is... acceptable, I suppose. I'm used to the really ridiculous markdowns at the public library's book sale ($.50 for unmarked paperbacks, $2-4 for hardcovers or trade editions), so Labyrinth's prices are comparatively steep for me. XD

In any case, I got a complete hardcover edition of all of Yeats' poems, a signed copy of Robert Hass' newest collection (the Pulitzer prize-winning one, hoo hoo), and the copy of Metamorphoses that I've been craving for a while. (it's this one: I love it for the charming sheep-horned lady on the cover)

Also, Carly and I discussed today the possibility of learning all of the Pokérap (the only part that we remembered was from "CHARMELEON... Wartortle" onwards) and performing it with someone beatboxing for us. This seems to me like a good use of my time, indeed.