Random Dancing!!!

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Ok, so yesterday was just a really random day.  I mean, what was so special about it that we end up having a very freak and rare, and yes, damaging 5.8 or 5.9 earthquake on the east coast then before the day is out there was a weak 3.6 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area.  Two earthquakes on either coast in one day?  Just wow.  What is up with today?  Today will literally go down in the history books.  Just such a random day, and why is it when I think of the word random I tend to think of “RANDOM DANCING” from ICarly for some reason?  *shrugs* Don’t ask.  Speaking of random, how do you like my random picture up there.  Cute, huh?  Ok, back on topic.

So my friend contacted me and she’s fine.  Her sofa moved but that’s about it.  Another “sort of” friend posted on FB that the quake scared her.  She lives in Richmond I believe and she’s never been in a quake, so I can just imagine how scared she was.  One of my friend’s husbands who’s originally from the CA knew it was a earthquake while everyone else was still trying to figure out what was going on, and it seems it made him happy if not homesick.  A little bit of CA in NC for him.  LOL!

So in looking at the news seems there was some serious damage to buildings in VA and the Pentagon was still taking on water when I last watched the news.  Seems no one was hurt, that I know of, but some cars were very badly damaged from falling bricks.  Crazy.  And I can’t help but wonder if that was it and we won’t have another one for years, decades, or even in my lifetime or will this turn into an east coast “thing”.  It’s so funny.  The night before yesterday my mom and I were talking about the hurricane and I told her how I hated them.  Then we talked about how it was odd you never hear about the west coast getting hurricanes.  I was saying that sure they have earthquakes and tsunamis but never hurricanes. And my mom brought up the fact that we have fault line going through NC and that we could have an earthquake here.  I told her to change the topic because I didn’t want to image having to go through an earthquake.  Several hours later and well what do you know.  Odd I tell ya.  Just makes me wonder if this is all signs that the end is near.  Don’t worry, I won’t go down that road with you, but the thought has crossed my mind.  I know, it could all just be random like I said, but then again, what if it’s not.  I guess only time will tell.

And well that brings this post to close.  I’m having horrible acid issues so I think I will lay down and watch a Japanese movie or a Korean drama.  I didn’t take my medicine and now it’s too late because I will be taking my thyroid medicine in less than 4 hours.  *sigh*  And to think it was from potato salad.  Go figure.  Alright, talk to you lovelies later.  Be good until then.  Bye for now. 

Loves ya ,
Mouse

5.9 Earthquake Hits East Coast

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So for those of you who don’t know, I live in a military town.  And when you live in a military town you get used to certain things.  Hearing hours long machine gun practice in the middle of the night. Feeling loud booms that shake and shatter windows. And just a shaking of your house that you are just used to.  So when I was woke up by my the glass clinking on my shelf at first I thought it was Fort Bragg.  Except one problem.  Like lightening is always followed by thunder,  a shake is always preceded by a boom of some sort.  Yeah, well we had all the shake, but none of the boom.  And the shaking kept going.  Even when they built the houses across the street the house didn’t shake, so I knew it wasn’t the construction going on over there today.  Then it hit me, EARTHQUAKE!!!

Now the little shaking we had didn’t worry me much, it was more annoying than anything, but I didn’t know if it was going to get worse, and our houses out here on the east coast are not built to withstand a big earthquake.  So I was glad when it stopped.  I texted my sister asking if the earth moved for her, kind of joking, because although I’d ruled out the construction across the street, not knowing what was going on and wanting an explanation for it, I just decided it was.  It wasn’t until my mom said she felt the car moving and thought it was her imagination that we realized it was an earthquake. Then come to find out on the news Virginia got hit with a 5.9 one.  So I hit Twitter to see others were in shock, woken up by it, and in disbelief we just had an earthquake.

People on the west coast are rolling their eyes and making jokes that they set their phones to vibrate at a 5.9.  And while I know they are used to those sort of thing, we poor peeps out here are not.  That’s ok west coast, pick on us poor east coast peeps.  Bet you couldn’t make it through one of our high category hurricanes.  So .  LOL!

But on a serious not, a 5.9 is nothing to laugh at really.  People have been hurt in past 5.9 earthquakes, so I really hope everyone is ok.  I have a friend in Virgina and I hope her and her family are ok.  I sent her a message, but don’t know when she will get back to me.  So if you were in the middle of the storm with the earthquake I hope all is well and I hope there wasn’t much damage done.  Especially not with the hurricane coming this weekend.  We have no idea where that puppy is headed and I’d hate to think there would be more damage on top of earthquake damage.  So here’s hoping everyone just got a good shake and are now back to their lives, already in progress.

So yeah, just went through my first and hopefully last earthquake.  Like I said it was more annoying than anything.  And now that I’m awake, only got 4 hours of sleep *sigh*, I’m off to hunt down some food and I guess work on cleaning up my room some more so I can get back to crafting without the stress of a mess around me.  So I hope you are all well and I will talk to you again soon. Be good until then.    Bye for now.

ETA: So it seems the Pentagon has water in it from structural damage, and a power plant close the heart of the earthquake lost power, a safety measure for when the place overheats, so it seems we didn’t get out of it with just a shake. I’m sure we will hear about more damage to come. I’m really worried about the power plant. I’ll keep you updated on anything new I learn.

Loves ya ,
Mouse

Edible Art

Hey guys! A quick, short post today.  I just came across something and thought you might be interested in it too.  So while surfing around the interwebs today I came across an article about edible art.

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Food artist Meaghan Mountford used edible pens and and writing tools to recreate popular art on, get this, marshmallows.  Pretty neat, huh?  Meaghan makes an art out of making edible art. On her blog, The Decorate Cookie, she actually has a tutorial on how you can make your own edible art masterpieces, she clears up the confusion people have been having about edible pens, and she showcases more of her work.  The rest of her blog showcases other edible art, as well as just artistic ways she creates unique things with sweets.  I am currently looking through her site at all her artistic awesomeness and came across one I think may have to be my favorite, although I love all her work.  So what was my fave?

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Harry Potter and the Painted Marshmallows of course!  LOL!  I love how she truly captured the essence of Harry Potter on just 9 marshmallows.  Amazing.

I’m a big fan of foodie blogs because I love to see how they are made and the presentation of them.  But I am a bigger fan of sweetie blogs and how they are made and their presentation, especially cakes.  So I find this, even though it’s a super simple thought, very amazing.  I won’t say it’s super simple to do because I sure as heck can’t draw and look how crisp her lines are and she was drawing on a moving soft blobby mess.  I have hard enough time drawing on stretchy fabric with a marking pen or chalk, so I can image that drawing on marshmallows isn’t much different.  But if you are a fan of foods and food presentation like me you might want to give her blog a looksie,it’s pretty interesting.

And that’s about it for today.  I will talk to you lovely people later. I hope you all have an awesome week.  Be good until next we meet.  Bye for now.

Loves ya ,
Mouse

I’m Getting Old

I really am.  I just don’t understand the youth of today.  Ok so backstory, I went searching for crafters in my state on Twitter to see if there was a hashtag for them or even if there were any active people on Twitter.  I didn’t find any so I redid my search for people in Fayetteville and my search showed several people.  Great, I thought.  So I started looking down the list and one of the top posts was from this young man who’s an up and coming rapper/r&B/hip hip singer who said that basically men in town think the women in town are hoes.  Then he added on that that thought was mostly true.  That made my mouth drop.  I don’t know what kind of women he is hanging out with, but I can only assume they are on the same maturity level as him to make such a bold and insulting comment about women like that.  And it’s not like he figured no one would see it, he posts his Twitter account everywhere.  This just highly insulted me.

I mean he’s saying this on a public forum and in one breath he says he’s a gentleman and loves his hometown then he says the women are all hoes and he needs to get out of this place.  I honestly can’t stand people like that.  How do you expect to gain and keep an audience if you insult the audience you are targeting?  And it doesn’t matter he just insulted Fayetteville women because most women will think twice about supporting a man who refers to a bulk of women as that.  And what got me even more was in one of his music videos he has a young lady barely dressed and rubbing her body all over him while he sings…raps…oh whatever he’s doing.  I’m talking bra, panties, and straight crotch shots here.  She was, from what I could understand, a girl who was a sister of a friend.  And I’m guessing she was considered “classy” in his eyes.  *shrugs*  Sorry, I know I should just let it go, but it just ticked me off.  I’m tired of people saying bad things about my city and the people in it.  This young man must not have seen the backlash another recent rapper from town got just from showing the town in a bad light. I can imagine what he’d get if more women in town learned he called most of them hoes.  But whatever.  Youth of today, kind of scares me.

But anyway, what I really wanted to do was hop on here and promote a Facebook fan page me and another crafty friend made together called Cape Fear Creates.  If any of my readers are from the Cape Fear River region in NC we really want to encourage you to join us.  But the group is open to anyone, crafters, artisans, designers, creators, and those who love to buy handmade.  We are trying to form a group of local talent to discuss and form ways to promote our crafts and shops to the local community and other places.  You know, the whole strength in numbers deal.  We are currently 5 strong, we just started it yesterday, but we are hoping that number will be much larger soon.    So if you are interested hope on over and “LIKE” us. 

Also, does anyone have a Google+ (Google Plus) account?  Not sure if I asked this before.  I’m there, but haven’t started using it yet, but thought I might use it moreso than Facebook because it’s a little more like blogging and Twitter where it’s not “exclusive” like Facebook.  If you have one I would love for you to drop me a link in the comments what your url is and I’ll be more than happy to add you to my circle. 

What else?  Oh, layout updating coming, a special promotion post coming as a thank you to some people, and just some more information about me in general.  So stay tuned for that.     And that’s about it for today.  I’m off to go do something constructive until I get sleepy.  I will talk to you all soon.  Be good until then.  Have an awesome weekend.  And bye for now. 

Loves ya ,
Mouse

My Little Pony Cosplay???

Have you ever heard of My Little Pony Cosplay?  Because until a couple of weeks ago I hadn’t.  And now I have been informed thanks to Weeaboo Stories.  Take a look at these little fillies.

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So if you didn’t notice these are all ponies from the My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic.  My favorite has to be the Pinkie Pie with Gummy on her head and the Fluttershy with her bunny.  And well Bronies rock, period.  LOL!

So, scared yet?  No?  Well then how about this gem I found while watching MLP:FIM.  You don’t notice it at first but if your eye is quick you will catch this about a minute and 35 seconds into the last episode of the season…speaking of which the new season comes on in Fall, fyi.  Now on to the freakiness.

Are you checking out freak boy on the right?  This is not photoshopped.  This really happens in the cartoon.  It’s just for a split second, and then he’s back to normal.  But ever since I have seen this I can’t help but see him as the “derp” pony now.  Just saying.

So why am I posting about ponies?  Well I was thinking about Halloween and how I’d like to try doing something this year.  Not sure what since not many kids come around for trick-or-treating, and I am not really into the club scene.  I don’t know, maybe have some peeps over and dress up for fun.  I was thinking of being some form of super hero and I wanted rainbow hair which in turn made me think of Rainbow Dash and made me think of the cosplay picture I saw, which was the very first one of this post.  It got me to thinking if this was a one-off kind of thing or if people actually cosplay as My Little Pony.  They do, and they have been for years.  Go figure.  The things you learn.  I wish I was brave enough to try cosplay just once.  It looks like fun and I’d love to be someone else for a couple of hours…even a pony. 

But I just had to share that fun stuff with you guys.  I’m off to bed now.  I have to get up early and I might do some shopping tomorrow if my stomach let’s me.  Feeling sick after eating some bread today.  I have been eating gluten as of late and I just don’t feel good.  So I don’t know if the tests are right that I’m not gluten intolerant and I just have a sensitive stomach or that I’m actually making myself sick with the gluten.  I don’t know, but I do need to stop with the gluten again at least for a while and see if I can make my stomach feel better.  I’m back on track as of right now.  Ok, talk to you all later.  Be good until then.  Bye for now. 

Loves ya ,
Mouse

Clear Nail Polish and Other Bitty Bitsu Tips

Ok, so this post is mostly for my own reasons.  I want a place to collect the tips and tricks I’ve learned about dolls and thought I’d just post them here on my blog.  And you may benefit from it also, so it’s win-win.

So the first thing I learned recently is that if your Obitsu doll joints keep coming loose you can try the nail polish trick.  I learned this from the Bitty Bitsus Flickr group.  So richila9098 posted first about the clear nail polish trick.  They said: “Clear nail polish trick-tiny dab of nail polish on post, let dry=tighter fit.”  But richila9098 had an issue with their doll’s arm still falling out of the socket even with the nail polish trick.  BlizzAz responded with this helpful tip: “If at first the clear polish doesn't work, clean it off, take some very fine sand paper and go over the post VERY lightly to give it a little more tooth. then apply 1 coat of good quality clear fingernail polish and let it dry thoroughly, apply a second and let THAT dry thoroughly as well. It should work better that way.”

Bitty Bitsus can wear some Kelly shoes. You have to get the smooshie Kelly shoes and not the firm ones.  I think also Kelly sandals are a fairly good fit.  Some older Kelly clothes fit, but some leave a gap in the back of some outfits.  The newer Kelly dolls that are taller and I think also the S0S sister and friend dolls clothes fit too.  There is a doll called Rainbow Angel that is sold at Dollar General that the clothes and the shoes fit the Bitty Bitsus.  So if you have access to them, I believe I read they are a dollar per outfit.  Can’t wait to go to a Dollar General now.  Now from the outfit I saw it looks like the clothes are kind of “Bratz themed”, meaning mid-drift showing tops and short skirts, but I only saw one outfit and a Google search didn’t turn up much.  So I will update on that if I get some sets, which I probably will.  I’ll have clothes before I have the dolls.  I still haven’t ordered yet, waiting on the eyes still.  Hurry up Hujoo!!!

Oh, speaking of Hujoo, just to have this info down, you can safely go a size up or a size down when it comes to eyes.  On person tried 6mm eyes and they looked fine with some working.  I don’t see myself going lower than 8mm personally.  And I want the one 10mm eyes and then I want to purchase a pair of 8mm cat eyes later on from another shop.

And that’s about all the information I have right now for Bitty Bitsus.  I have some other stuff, but it’s mostly patterns I want to try and I know where to find those so I don’t need to write it out.  And that’s it for this post.  Talk to you all soon. 

Loves ya ,
Mouse

Lego And Sad Face

So while hunting the web, Tumblr to be exact, I found and interesting couple of pictures of building patched up with none other than Lego.  It amused me and freaked me out all at the same time.

Pretty cool huh?  Now the reason it freaked me out is because I have a weird issue with things that are put in other things that it doesn’t belong in.  What?  It’s freaky.  Especially the ones that look like little homes.  Ughhh.  It’s just freaky to me.  I’m weird.  Ok let me give you another example.

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Embroidered bread!!!  Don’t you dare say this is cool.  Click on the source link to see more like it.  This was the first thing that really gave me the chills on things that don’t belong together.  It’s just ugh, and I can’t explain it.  Weird, I know.  But then again I’m weird, and proud of it. 

And now to the .  So I went looking through tweets from one of my favorite authors to see if she posted anything from when she went to see Harry Potter, she didn’t, and I saw a few posts above the date I was looking for she talked about how her legs looked like they had pins in them like a doll and she considered herself a human doll.  Then in the post directly after she posted how she thought doll people were creepy.  Sad face.    Jackson Pearce, how can I ever look at you and your work the same way ever again?!?    I know, I know, she just hasn’t caught on to the awesomeness of dolls yet, but it still makes me sad face and sigh.  *sigh*  LOL!  Ok, not really, but when I saw that tweet I was taken back for a second.  What’s with the doll people hate Jackson?  Seriously.  Oh well, I guess we can’t all be rocking.    I’m still a fan Jackson! 

Ok, so this post was basically to show you about the Lego houses.  I thought they were cool.  There was no source for the pictures but I’m sure I could find them.  Oh let me try real quick.  Ok couldn’t find the direct source because, get this, fixing buildings with Legos is a big thing.  Check out my search page. It reminds me of yarn bombing.  That’s pretty cool.  Creativity all around.  Ok so I need to take off now people.  My laptop is about to die and my plug is no where near me. Talk to you lovelies later.  Bye for now. 

Loves ya ,
Mouse