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Cold Tea and other short stories

Sat Dec 26, 2009, 11:42 AM
  • Mood: Artistic
mmm. I'm quite happy drinking cold tea.
I don't mean like ice tea - I mean ordinary English tea that has gone stone cold. Is that weird? Everyone else I know seems to find it disgusting :lol:
You should try it. It's nicer than you'd imagine (as long as it's not too sugary).

I hope everyone is having a good Christmas week. I just want to show off a couple of gifty arts because, well... that's what you do when you get gifty arts, you show em off in your journal!


by ~YOB


by =Twilight-Veil

Both featuring my Averylla. :love: Averylla's been a bit quiet on the equine scene for a long while, so she's happy that she got some love this Christmas!
(I think if I don't draw her myself soon, she will disassociate herself from me, flounce off and move in with ~YOB who has drawn her about 10 times, which is 9 more times than I have managed lmao.)


Tomorrow begins five days of what will hopefully be some serious catching-up artwise. I have a few more gifty-type arts that I must wrap up before the New Year. After that I intend to shut down Painter for a while and get back to real paintbrushes. I will be working on improving my painting techniques and skills, hopefully doing lots of little studies and bits like that. Also I'll be concentrating much more on wildlife art. I didn't manage to complete my 100 Birds challenge this year sadly... (okay I know I still have 6 or so days left but I'm not going to get 60-something pages of sketches done by then!) I feel a bit pants about it, but got to cut myself some slack... work has been hard lately.

Meanwhile during 2010 I will be partaking in ~helekri's Equine pARTy challenge, which will involve one equine-based study, sketch, painting or whatever kind of art every fortnight. Just so I don't forget which end of a horse is which :giggle:

Then I'm back to work on 1st Jan. Oh whoop.
My obvious enthusiasm just exploded forth from your screens and knocked you all out right there, didn't it? :lol: Sorry about that. I'll try and keep it in check, but it's so hard, you know.

Now I'm going to tell you something, because I'm not sure what to do and maybe some advice would be good.
I kinda like somebody. I like him quite a lot. Like, the kind of like where they are pretty much the last thing you think about before you fall asleep, and the first thing in the morning... That kind.
(Actually some of you old-time watchers from the days where I spilled all my woes in this journal may be rolling your eyes at this point because I actually find myself feeling like this very often, and it always ends in tears. But stick with me.)

I think he may like me too. I seem to always get my wires crossed when it comes to this part. But without saying what exactly, all I will say is I have a feeling that I might be right this time.

But because I have been wrong about this so many times in the past, and been hurt and knocked back and all that fun stuff, I find I can't stop rebuffing him. Like I don't want to give anyone a chance to hurt me so I reject them first. And I'm kicking myself for it now, because there goes another Christmas on my own. Then the next, and the next... and he'll have given up before then.

Thing is though I want to be absolutely 100percent dead certain that I'm not going to get hurt or end up feeling stupid before I can let anyone in again. But how will I know?

He is the loveliest bloke you could ever meet, everyone says it. And he's been nothing but nice to me as long as I've known him (which is a fair few years now). But I found out a while ago, even that means nothing. Some guys can act as nice as pie at first and still turn out to be self-centred dickheads. I don't have a lot of trust or faith left anymore.

I wish I could talk to someone IRL about this, but I can't even do that because it would get back to him and I really don't want that.
And I can't say much more in case someone I know finds this... ugh it's so pathetic :XD:

I just hate the idea that I might be potentially knocking back somebody who might actually be able to give me what I've been looking for for such a long time.

As the Weezer song goes,
"How stupid is it, for all I know you want me too, and maybe you just don't know what to do..."
:onfire:

YUSSSSSSSSSS

Sun Dec 20, 2009, 12:20 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
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Go Rage!! Christmas No 1, get in!
:headbang:

Lol sorry I'm feeling rebellious and on-the-fringe.

Bah. I'm a bit cranky because I've been at work since Thurs and my next day off is Christmas Day, and even then I only get a week off, then I'm back at work on New Years. I always get rota'd to work New Years. Bah again.

My first Christmas party is tomorrow night... my dress is awesome! Strapless little purple-blue shimmery thing, with a black felted pattern on the tulip skirt. Purple shimmery tights and sexy black patent platforms. I do like to dress up, I don't do it often :aww: I wish I could get a pic to show you!

(I'll try not to get tipsy on vodka, laugh at my cheese sandwich and get ill this time. I have to be at work 8am the next day anyway. They did the same last year and I was so hungover at work the next day. I think they hate me.)

I also decided to go to the 70s/80s party after all. That one is Jan 3rd (I know, weird date... the hotel always has their staff party after New Year because it's too busy hosting other people's parties before then).
I'm going for 80s neon - I have a hot pink netting minidress, black leggings, flouro lime green legwarmers, pink heels and assorted neon jewellery. Again, awesome. :thumbsup: I want to curl my hair in a voluminous 80s fashion as well, but not sure how!

Work (and people at work) are doing my head in, not having enough time before the 25th to finish gift arts is doing my head in. DA did my head in for a bit but it's okay now if I just choose to ignore the idiocy, which is actually quite hard but I'm determined not to lower myself!

I just bought myself a lil Christmas pressie:
(Well sod it the link is too long to work. But it's a purple pleated mac from Miss Selfridge, which is a nice UK women's clothes store. It is prettiful.)
I saw it while Christmas shopping in Leicester, and it was £20 off, but didn't get it as I felt guilty. But then I couldn't stop thinking about purple coats lol. So I had a google and there it is, and another £10 cheaper than in the shop. Wicked man.
I love purple lately!! :love:

Urgh, Christmas can't come quick enough :XD: I need a break so much!

Mini Lemon Cupcakes

Sun Dec 13, 2009, 8:39 AM
  • Mood: Artistic
:bulletyellow::bulletpink:Mini Lemon Cupcakes:bulletpink::bulletyellow:



Ingredients
For the cake mix:
:bulletpink: 4 ounces cooking margarine
:bulletpink: 4 ounces caster sugar
:bulletpink: 4 ounces self-raising flour
:bulletpink: 2 eggs
:bulletpink: Lemon juice/essence (optional)
For the lemon icing:
:bulletpink: 2 ounces butter
:bulletpink: 3.5 ounces icing sugar
:bulletpink: 1 tablespoon milk
:bulletpink: Lemon juice/essence
:bulletpink: Jelly lemon slices for decoration


(To fill approx 30 mini cake cases)


:bulletyellow: Preheat oven to 190C (180 for a fan oven).
:bulletyellow: Mix the margarine and sugar in a bowl.
:bulletyellow: Add one ounce of the flour and one beaten egg, and stir.
:bulletyellow: Add another ounce of the flour and the other beaten egg, and stir.
Optional - If you want lemon-flavoured cake, add a small amount of lemon juice/essence to the mix now! :)
:bulletyellow: Sift the remaining 2 ounces of flour into the mixture, and fold.
:bulletyellow: Divide mixture between the cases and bake for 15-20 minutes.

Once cooked, leave to one side to cool before icing.
(Don't try to ice them when they are still too warm, it will make a mess... hehe)


:bulletpink:To make the lemon icing::bulletpink:

:bulletyellow: Cream the butter thoroughly in a bowl using a fork or spatula.
:bulletyellow: Sift in the sugar a bit at a time and mix in, adding in the milk, and a few drops of the lemon juice/essence to taste.
:bulletyellow: Spoon into a piping bag with a star-shaped nozzle, and ice... the fun part!
(The measurements given above should make enough to ice the cakes with small spirals, as shown. I find that's just enough as I don't like huge amounts of icing, but if you have a real sweet tooth and want to cover the cakes completely, you can double up the icing mixture!)


:bulletyellow::bulletyellow: Top with a jelly lemon slice on each cake. :bulletyellow::bulletyellow:
:love:

I'M HOME WOOHOO etc

Thu Nov 26, 2009, 12:27 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
yeah

I'M HOME

I GET TO SLEEP IN MY OWN BED

ohmigod.



Lol sorry I'm just rather happy about it.
There is nowhere on earth better than your own bed. Agreed? :w00t:

Also - I can sleep without the need for earplugs, or having to wear three layers of clothing.

Another good point is I can draw again. I've gone eight days EIGHT DAYS!! without so much as a doodle. I've been sketching pretty much solidly all year, and this is the first time I've had to break from it. Even when I went on holiday I kept drawing. Actually I left some birdie sketches in the guestbook of the cottage we stayed in in March, and recently we got a postcard from the lady who owns the cottage saying that they were lovely and she hopes future guests will enjoy them. Awww! :aww:

I'm going to try and stop being a doormat soon. It's just hard when you've been one for so long. If you try and assert yourself even only a little bit, people act like you've suddenly turned into a crazy bitch. Lol.

Oh, also. I think I found, like, the perfect guy *mock dreamy face* haha. He's a photographer and artist. Woah. How awesome would it be to be an artsy couple?
I should try to make conversation with these kinds of people but dammit I'm just too shy! He will never know... lol.

Anyway stress has made me break out again so I'm not exactly a knockout at this present time.

I've been watching far too much Animal Cops Houston/Phoenix/whatever the other one is. I feel like I need to go and grab a random cat off the street and "save" it.

But first... the profiteroles are calling from the kitchen. And you know... cats that need saving, profiteroles that need eating... well, I know which one of those is more important. :thumbsup:



Features from my photo account

Tue Nov 3, 2009, 1:06 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
Yes I take photos... lots of them. But I never have time to clean them up and upload them to the net anymore. I'm too busy with art things!

I also have a photoaccount at DA, ~moodycam, although it is a little dusty and cobwebby there these days :giggle:
I thought I'd feature some of my favourite photos from there.



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Hope you like :)



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