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Uploading a picture soon!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/28214954/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/28214954/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:05:26 PST
So I'm going to try and reinstall everything. I don't think I've used it since before my old laptop got stolen, though I had installed the software on my current laptop.

Sigh.

Oh, and still pregnant. My due date's tomorrow and I'm not even having regular contractions or anything.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/28002612/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/28002612/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:16:22 PDT
Don't want to bead, don't want to write, but I do want to clean.

Still pregnant, due date is November 9.

...yeah, that's about it for now.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/25029491/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/25029491/ Sat, 30 May 2009 08:45:07 PDT zinni. I made another bracelet after that and then started on a third that I ended up trashing because it just looked funny. I really like the one I made for ~zinni and I hope she does too.

With the exception of the art trade, I'm going to put everything up on etsy. I really need the money and hope people will buy.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/23851359/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/23851359/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:20:32 PDT
Go here: [link] and when it loads, scroll to the side until you see the little boy dressed as Diego jumping off a coffee table with the dinosaur under his arm.

Unless you have someone else to vote for. He's in the lead right now but not by much. Let's keep him there!

It ends tomorrow, and you can vote tomorrow too!

Thanks!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/22858899/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/22858899/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:26:31 PST
In case you haven't heard, there is a spam hack going around dA. If you get a message that says, "This May Be Relevant To Your Interests" with a link, do not visit the website. Your account will be compromised and you will find that your account will have spread the message to other people.

I apologize if anyone has been affected through my account.

There is a news article about it here.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/22556637/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/22556637/ Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:44:51 PST
So my first guinea pig is my very eager husband. Who trusts me with several needles in my hand and his skin, but not cooking in the kitchen. At least we all have our niches.

Also, I asked Ken if he would tattoo me for my birthday, like ALL DAY (I have these giant wings on my back I need to finish...), and he's all for it. He is a pretty awesome guy. Jason likes him too.

Muahahahhaha!

Also, for those of you on myspace, here is the shop Ken and I are currently at: [link]

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/21868646/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/21868646/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:14:04 PST
Anyway, other than that, and the constant snow here (though Syracuse gets flurries compared to where I used to live in Sandy Creek!) my husband got me sucked into World of Warcraft.

I am looking for an artist to help me design my Star Trek sleeve. I am willing to pay you (or tattoo you, if you will wait for me to finish apprenticing). Why don't I draw it myself? Well, I can draw, but I can't draw starships.

Note me if interested.

*sneaks back off to WoW*

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/20162493/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/20162493/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:33:45 PDT
When I signed up for *AngelCrusher's AFL, I wasn't working two jobs. Now I am. One that pays me (aka the Day Job) and one that doesn't but will one day (the tattoo/piercing apprenticeship).

Then my muse refused to cooperate. Well, at least the one responsible for drawing. The writing muse is all sorts of cracked out and I have ideas in my head for the Allucia-verse that I have not gotten written down yet.

Then there's that whole wedding planning thing (t-minus less than two months). I have TWO bridal showers because half the guests are from upstate New York (mostly ~Kaine977's family, and the few friends I've made up here) and one four hours south of here for the rest of my family and friends.

I need to call the caterer and the bakery. I need a few more accessories. I NEED A BREAK. But I can't afford to take one.

And none of my friends or family thinks I'm capable of going Bridezilla? I feel like I'm inching closer every day.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19878677/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19878677/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:38:43 PDT
So I've dropped out of the AFL.

To those of you who drew my character, thank you. Let me know if you ever want any art from me.

So I'm going back to focusing on my dolls and making doing a graphic novel version of my fan fiction. Maybe I'll do the AFL or something again when I can actually draw worth a damn.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19807016/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19807016/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:58:22 PDT
My first fight is with ~sketchodie and he's already drawn his art. I'm in the midst of doing mine...since finished his first, I'm sort of drawing the next scene as if I was replying. Anyway, here's his: AFL Round 1: Javi VS Allucia.

I really like it. He got her just right ('cept for the shoes, but no biggy, you can't see that they're boots in ANY of my deviations).

I have until August 31 to finish this but I expect to have it finished within a week. I be busting my butt on this. But I've also worked every day at the day job this week so I haven't been able to put as much time as I like into it.

And now off to work with me. The one that pays me, that is. XD

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19254560/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19254560/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:51:21 PDT
OH MY GOD!

DREAM JOB!

SQUEE!!!

Yeah so that's why I've been drawing oodles lately.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

...yeah, so that's what I was alluding to in the entry where I rambled about drawing.

...and in about a year I'll be needing people to tattoo. Any volunteers?

This is a two year apprenticeship. I will probably be the first person I tattoo.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19164447/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19164447/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:41:43 PDT
I wanted to see if I could reproduce a picture, for example (taking a break from my digital fan art painting).

So I'm using the cover of a Brian Froud book...this one, in fact, but I am using a color photocopy of the cover as reference and it is much much darker. Anyway, here's my progress so far...these all point to my deviantART scraps, completely work safe. Click the image for a bigger view.

Froud-ish 1
Froud-ish 2
Froud-ish 3

I didn't realize I could draw that decent. Woot. Guess I should keep practicing.

Oh, and I have a chance to possibly embark on my dream job. But that's all I'm saying. Don't want to jinx it. Only the mommy and the other half (and naturally, the person that may be offering the job) know about it. So I'm not telling anyone else what it is.

But good vibes are appreciated.

...now, I am going to work on some of my fan fiction. And maybe draw a little more.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19127426/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/19127426/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:31:07 PDT
I'm planning an upstate bridal shower since most of Jason's family is up here. I wonder what's going on with my downstate one. O.o;; It's easier to transport me between upstate and downstate than to make a ton of people travel one place or the other with the price of gas.

And a bunch of ladies on my friends list are not going to be married by the time I get the invitations out, but they will by the time the wedding comes around. How the hell am I suppose to address these things? Maybe I shouldn't stress over that...the place settings I'm making myself will only have first names on them, and I may be using nicknames. I'm creating personalized beaded keychain place settings to double as showing where people sit so I will probably use nicknames on a lot of those.

Also wondering if only having Liberty Travel registry is okay...we don't really need everything we'd put on our Macy's registry. But maybe I should make something small at another store.

Bachleorette party...methinks it should be night before wedding due to travel, and I want a lot of my girlfriends besides the bridesmaids to go...but maybe I should just do it with the bridesmaids at QXT's the week before in NJ. The only BM that won't be going is my cousin Daniela who is a minor.

I'm taking over more wedding planning from my mother, her health isn't too great. She's been to the cardiologist three times in the past two weeks and this worries me. She's around the same age Grampa was when his heart started giving him shit. And Grama is in the hospital again. Something's wrong with her colon. I'm assuming it's just scar tissue (I found out last week she was in the hospital again) so I am hoping since I haven't gotten any bad news it's just scar tissue from her surgery a few months ago. Yes, these are my mom's parents I speak of.

theknot.com is pissing me off. Their servers suck. LEARN HOW TO CODE PEOPLE. I'm trying to work on guest list but it is not making it easy. I deleted my Macy's wedding registry because the coding on their website sucks and wouldn't let me update my address, it was still showing the Sandy Creek address but it let me update the change in wedding date. Retards. Maybe I'll go to Sears or JCPenny, ~Kaine977 thinks Target and Walmart suck. I like Target though, it's much nicer than Walmart without being as expensive.

I'm taking over more wedding planning and I'm OCD...and still, people think it's impossible for me to turn into a Bridezilla because I'm too nice. I can be nice AND be a Bridezilla...muhahahaha.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/18730334/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/18730334/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:18:58 PDT apolloracer and I have been updating the crap out of our fan fiction. That's what all those bookcovers I've been doing recently are for. But I'm not uploading them to deviantART. Two dozen novel length stories? YEAH RIGHT.

Go to Dork & Spaz Productions and read them there. They are in PDF form. Not everything is up and PDF-ized yet but I'm working on it.

I've also realized I have not only improved in my writing, but I have a lot more patience for exposition now. This past year I have added two entirely new chapters to A New York Yankee in Kathryn Janeway's Court and Love Hurts and my brain still won't shut up.

I may have started these stories ten years ago but I'm glad I am obsessive when it comes to details. Eventually I might take some of these things to Kinkos, make some copies, and try and sell them at conventions or something. Though it might be more cost effective to buy my own laser printer. O.o;;

Right now I am trying to come up with a book cover for True Q and not really getting anyway. I am attempting to photomanip a picture but it sucks. If anyone would like to donate their services (or trade for jewelry/web hosting/web design?) let me know. I really need something good with Q (DeLancie) plus mine and ~apolloracer's original characters.

Normally I'd whip a doll up or something but my old mouse broke, I have a trackball right now, and I am waiting on Best Buy to send me a $50 they owe me so I can pick up a tablet.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/17698235/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/17698235/ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:47:29 PDT
Jason made some LOLcats of Squeaker and Wizzer.

Please can vote for them nao?

[link] - Wizzer, photo by me
[link] - Squeaker, photo by ~Kaine977

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/17448966/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/17448966/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:14:42 PDT
...now if I wasn't so broke from buying a little laptop because my desktop died...

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/16049445/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/16049445/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:16:08 PST
But I just wanted to let you all know.

I still haven't caught up with the deviations from when I lost internet access. Time to catch up now.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/15366698/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/15366698/ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:09:41 PST
First time, too.

Been having ideas for my Lusha OC, so I'm already up to 4,507 words.

I be mishspaz.

Only posting in-progress work at my livejournal though.

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]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14886683/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14886683/ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:54:44 PDT ArtisanCraft here on dA, but I can't do the signature thing or the stamp thing so I'm hoping they'll be content that I'm linking them here.

Should I become a paid member eventually however everyone will be linked all over the place with images.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14848209/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14848209/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:25:39 PDT
No no no no no...now I got my fan fiction webpage FULLY functional again!

Even if only Scott and I's first two novels are up (his first and my first).

I'm working on it! As it is, I only got Dork & Spaz functional again tonight because I'm having insomnia again...othewise it probably would not have gotten done until my next day off.

Yeah so go looky: [link]

What will be next...will I resurrect my long defunct Ryoga shrine...which still exists on Angelfire in very bad form before I got a little better at webdesign..

STAY TUNED!!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14827320/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14827320/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:13:17 PDT Designs By Mish, my business website. Looks best in Firefox but it still is very nice in IE with the exception that IE changes colors slightly so that my image background and the hexidecimal code I get by paintdropper in Photoshop don't match.

But that's just me obsessing.

Any feedback, that is, constructive, nice, feedback?

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14812875/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14812875/ Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:12:43 PDT Designs By Mish for the past two days, and it's finally up. Although this time I've made a seperate page for those people using Internet Explorer, and THAT version isn't quite functional though it is up too.

I want to go to David's Bridal later to try some stuff on, but I want someone to go with me. Briana isn't feeling well and Gram doesn't want to go anywhere either. Jason obviously isn't going to go either, and I lost Cori's phone number again. Dur. Cori, if you read this, call the house! Or I might just show up, I dunno.

Halo 3 is pretty. I am thinking of playing it on easy later. I also discovered how to incoproate my MSN Messenger list in with that, and vice versa.

...back to coding. *kicks DynamicDrive.com in the ass while she's at it*

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14798583/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14798583/ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:47:38 PDT [link]

Yeaaaah.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14403564/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14403564/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:55:53 PDT
Well, I'm going to do my first vending craft show thingy on September 8, in Puhlaskey, the next town over for the Salmon River Festival. Tables are only $20, woo hoo! I talked my parents into investing in my business for this show. The week after THAT I am doing a Pagan fest with *theonlyRedBaroness and her mom.

Going over *theonlyRedBaroness's tomorrow, we are going to be crafty. In many ways. And she gave me a crap ton of yarn yesterday. Woo hoo!

~Kaine977 bought me some Gertrude Hawk chocolates a few days ago...solid dark chocolates in the shape of apples. OMG SO GOOOOOOD. I really could have used them a week ago, but then again, they won't go as quickly now.

Mish shall now return to meticiously managing her merchandise.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14277384/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14277384/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:42:16 PDT
I want to go to Shore Leave 30 next year. As a dealer. I've decided I would have to be on drugs to try and attempt conventions more than an hour away in the winter, especially with where I live. I shall stay close to home during the winter, as in my research it appears the locals are forgiving to snow-outs. XD

Anyway, since my sweetie more than likely will not go with me (unless say, the female Starbuck is there XD) or I can convince my dad to go with me (which would be AWESOME especially if he's retired by then) I'll be looking for roommates. Of course I am not going to approach him about it until they start updating with some guests. Ah well gotta get this out of my head now.

And my long lost co-writer and I have been revising up a storm. PH33R U5!!1!!!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14259273/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/14259273/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:07:58 PDT
I am looking into vending at the Salmon River Festival in September in Puhlasky. I need to call Cori about PaganFest (damn phone anxiety), which I definitely want to sell at that. I was going to stop at her place today but then I bought fudge-icles (intentionally mispelled). Meh. Stupid anxiety. CORI COME ONLINE AND FIND ME ON AIM!!!

Oh, I finally put up something respectable up at Designs By Mish. So go look: [link] I still have some more tweaking to do, I think I will do that as soon as I update this blog and the one on deviantART.

Oh and I slightly reorganized our living room today. I'm so happy with it I think I'll take a picture of it later.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13731820/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13731820/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:11:48 PDT ]

We're moving in with my boyfriend's Grandmother, so EVERYONE can save money. I've been packing all week. Took two truckloads of mostly plastic totes/bins to Gram's so far. Two bookshelves are completely packed. I can actually move around. Have also done a LOT of laundry. You can even see the floor in our bedroom now. My allergies have been kicking my ass due to all the dust flying around.

Tonight we are going see HP: OotP tonight in Oswego. The theatre in Oswego (right off Bridge Street) is REALLY nice. It's old style with the balcony seating. That's where we went to see the last Pirates movie. And hit up the all you can eat buffet two blocks down for dinner. For a buffet, it actually has pretty good sushi. Yay for all you can eat!

I won't be making any more jewelry or crafty things until after we finish moving in with Gram. I don't need the distraction from packing. I am keeping my finished products out in case they sell in my Etsy store.

Well, I need to stop being distracted by blogging, and do some moving type stuff.

Lots of *HUGS* to all my friends who know need them.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13568484/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13568484/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:21:42 PDT
[link] Vote for my creation - it's #32 and I almost missed the deadline. I missed her rank, but I ran out of time. But you don't HAVE to vote for mine...if you like someone else's better...vote for them...

[link] - My budding online shop - now with merchandise! Billing system much better. At least they can give clear answers. The only thing I need to figure out is how to charge NYS residents tax. Maybe I can do that through Paypal? Hmmm.

I also made two necklaces today...just more of previously made creations. Need to manage my Etsy tomorrow to reflect it, and get the pictures I took yesterday off my camera to see if they came out any better.

Jason is going out of town again, but he should only be gone until Wednesday. I'm working on the Fourth, but aside from getting time and a half for my normal shift that day I also get eight hours of holiday pay. Woo hoo!

Other than that life has not changed.

I am off to sleep. Been up since 4:45AM this morning. ]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13549312/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13549312/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:32:10 PDT
So go looky and maybe buy something? I could really use the money. O.o;;

I will slowly be re-adding everything over the next few days.

Designs By Mish at Etsy

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13509863/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13509863/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:10:54 PDT
But I don't work until four this afternoon. So after my sheets finish their wash cycle I will take a shower. And spend the rest of the time in the bedroom making jewelry. I made two bracelets last night. I am trying to use up all my unique giant beads in bracelets.

Cori feel free to show up any time before I leave for work. I plan on leaving at 3:15PM. I'll leave the door unlocked since I plan on hiding in the freezer that I have turned our bedroom into. Oh, and sorry about the mess but it is too damn hot to clean! I tried yesterday and I got dizzy after about five minutes.

My sweetie left me a voicemail this morning around 7ish telling me he loved me and missed me. He's so thoughtful. Heee...

Back into the cold air!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13290329/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13290329/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:39:40 PDT

deviantART is just not fan fiction friendly. I'm a control freak over my formatting.

So in my latest revision of Love Hurts I've gotten back up to where I've added a new chapter, and with the events in that chapter will lead to the next major event where I will split the timelines...the original timeline where Lusha goes on to be reunited with her big brother...and the other where she doesn't (which will be the alternate). And that's all I can say without spoiling.

Not that it matters, I think there are only 3 people on my friends list who have actually read my stories.

Anyway, I'm going to play in HTML for a while.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13213787/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13213787/ Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:37:11 PDT
Oh, if you aren't on the Yahoo group, please join. [link] If you're already in the group, you're still in it despite the renaming. If you're not, join now. I only send out special notices, and even then, usually only when something goes wrong or of if I am REALLY in desperate need of help with the webhosting bill.

That's all for now...back to running around in circles to get shit done.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13110450/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13110450/ Sun, 27 May 2007 07:57:21 PDT
My next appointment is August 16. Three months shy of going two years without any work done on my wings.

Jamie of Forsaken Ink in Bloomingburg, NY is going to work on it since someone who I thought was my friend as well as my tattoo artist deserted me without any word.

Can't wait. Just a little over two months! Wee!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13041597/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13041597/ Mon, 21 May 2007 17:30:22 PDT
Well the thing I ordered Friday was here by the time I got home from work. I took one test shot, and as I expected, it came out QUITE yellow despite my white backdrop, but I expected that since the room is painted yellow. But a few clicks in Photshop (Image, Adjustments, Auto Color) made it PERFECT.

See? [link]

Now I am going to take shots of EVERYTHING. And I think I might be able to swing taking pictures of the bracelets on TOP of it, but if that doesn't work I'll think of something else (like an overturned cone of some sort with fabric over it). I think I'm pretty good at improvising. I mean I get paid to do it when the idiot planogram at work try to cram too much product into a limited space that it can't physically fit in...like with the cordless phone planogram I finished today.

Oh, and everyone, even if you don't know her, everyone send good vibes to Kitty. She just got out of a hospice (yes, I said hospice and I mean hospice) and is hoping to get another lung transplant. She has Cystic Fibrosis and currently has one collapsed lung though the other one is working well. Her doctors in Florida (where she lives) said she has Chronic CF, but she refuses to take no for another. Another hospital in Pittsburgh (yes, Pennsylvania) is reviewing her case.

PLEASE ANY GOOD VIBES, PRAYERS, WHATEVER. If I understand the situation correctly, if they take her on as a patient she will be able to get another transplant. Oh, and if you like Hello Kitty...that necklace above? It's $14.00 at my eBay store and anyone that buys one, $10 goes to Kitty. Insurance can only cover so much, the other $4 is for supplies, so I am only taking back the cost of this and donating my time, I am making NO profit. Or there is a donation link on her profile.

And some good vibes to my Mommy wouldn't hurt either. If they are able to sell their townhouse (they have an offer pending home inspection) they will be able to lighten their financial burden DRASTICALLY and then hopefully my mom can start getting the basic preventative and routine health care she should be having at her age (as well as my father, who is going to be 64 this year and working himself way too hard).

No Mom, I am not saying you are old. I'm saying you are old enough to know to take better care of yourself once you are able to.

Okay, that's all for now. Back to work for me. I wonder how much overtime I'd be working if I took all my side-business hours into account?

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13004766/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/13004766/ Fri, 18 May 2007 18:45:34 PDT
So I got my eBay store back up though there's almost nothing in it. But I'm going to be working on it tonight and definitely Sunday afternoon. Not sure what our plans for tomorrow are though. But if you wanna see the store: [link]

We got a bit of financial help in the form of a retirement cash out from when Jason used to drive a school bus. So it's been used to pay bills. This is a good thing. Not making any other purchases other than food until everything clears...I might even have money left over...wow...I'll put that away for my business trip next month.

Spent a little on the business, put gas in the car, put in an order of propane (that's how we heat the place and cook food, thank goodness the water heater is electric) and a small food shopping trip. Tomorrow is the rest of the food shopping.

I'm still not sure if I am going to make DaranaCon. It depends on how the store does and some other things. If I can't put the money for a plane ticket aside by July, I'll just forget it and try to aim for Arisia instead.

Yeah so that's all I got for now. Back to work.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12981591/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12981591/ Wed, 16 May 2007 18:35:14 PDT
And I haven't been painting jewelry components.

No, I been painting on a rectangular form with a canvas like surface.

I haven't done that in about six years...well, at least on canvas. I did paint something on Valentine's Day, but that was on watercolor paper.

No this is different than my gift for my sweetie. This is something that I started with and wasn't sure what I was going to end with. And I'm taking my sweet time with it. And enjoying myself. And what I thought I was going to paint has changed several times except for the central element in it.

Of course no one is going to see it until it's done, 'cept for my Mush...he's been helping me with small things since I am looking too closely at my work and over analyzing stuff as I often do.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12945558/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12945558/ Sun, 13 May 2007 18:46:34 PDT
I emailed Jamie of Forsaken Ink and asked if he had heard from Eva, who designed and started my back piece. The past year and a half has been bad timing on both of our parts - my moving, her leaving Euphoric, my excema, and her taking some personal time off. I am a very patient and understanding person as long as I have the full story.

She moved New Mexico about three months ago.

YEAH.

All she had to do was be up front and tell me. Life happens. That's why I've waited THIS long. Well, I did message her in January asking if she would mind if Jamie finished my back, but IF SHE DID MIND I WOULD WAIT FOR HER.

Well Jamie and I emailed back and forth a few times. He's going to finish my back for me. Me and Jason were already planning to be downstate for a week in August (that's the next time we'll be down there by the way) and hopefully we'll be able to knock out the whole thing then. If not, then I just take Labor Day weekend off (how I LOVE working in inventory now!) as well, and then we should be finished.

Sigh. Well, at least I'm excited this is going to GO somewhere now!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12584539/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12584539/ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:36:56 PDT
*giggle snort*

I helped Mush set up his very own forum...UNSC SECTI0N 3. If you game on the xBox 360, you should join. I'm there too. I FINALLY had a brainstorm on a theme that would encompass everything. And it's so simple, too.

But I start on that tomorrow. Tonight I'm gonna work on chapter six of my fan fiction where I had the new ideas.

Oh, and I finally got through my manager (that is, my direct manager, the one out of the four that actually writes my schedule) that if he didn't start putting me on four days a week I was not going to have money to get to work. Hours have been cut pretty bad - I've been working 32 to 36 hour weeks. I commute about fifty miles a day and spend $40-$50 a week on gas. When I'm working anything over 37 hours it's not a problem, but the last few weeks have been at about 32-34 (just enough to keep my full time benefits). And it's not showing any signs of improving. And I really need to balance out because I cannot function without the allergy meds now living with the furry meowing children.

So yeah. Four day work week next week. Sweeeet. I have Monday, Friday, and Saturday off. I could get used to this. Maybe I can actually get shit done!! Gasp!!!

Oh and I beat Guitar Hero II on medium today. By the skin of my teeth. I'm good at scales but those red/blue button combos kill me. I been playing as Judy Nails and I got enough money to unlock her sexy alternative outfit (plaid...that's all I'll say and 'bought' more tracks from the store...and Jason also used his Microsoft points to download the songs they released on xBox live (which were on GH1). This game is waaaaay too addicting.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12353611/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12353611/ Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:47:56 PDT
Stopped into a tattoo shop I pass all the time on the way home. Talked a little with the main tattoo man.

I'm in SERIOUS withdrawal, and I didn't realize how bad it was until today. When I walked in, he was setting up to tattoo someone. And a few minutes later, he started.

As soon as I heard that tattoo gun start buzzing I suddenly got nice warm headrush, exactly how I'd get when Eva worked on me. I mean it starts with the beginning of the tattoo, only difference now is mine went away after a minute whereas when I sit for two or three hours it lasts for that whole time.

I really need my back worked on something fierce. Even if I just visit Jamie to have him just fix some of the linework in my back (which he mentioned the last time I showed him). I need to get in touch with Eva first though. I want her to finish my back. Hopefully she won't mind him helping out a little and not adding anything new. Hmm, maybe I should send them $20 a week until I have enough to get some work done.

On the bright side, I've decided on my next tattoo. Just need to settle on the details. Just to hold me over until I can get some work on my back. I've been meaning to email Jamie all week just haven't gotten around to sitting down to type it up.

I'm really tired, I think I'll go to bed a little early tonight.

Oh yeah. Artsy people. Join The Dragon Inn. It's my artsy forum. No matter what your medium (except for writing, I am just trying to avoid trouble), be it photography, pixels, manips, painting, knitting, sewing, WHATEVER...you can post it all at the Inn. Also wide range of tutorials being added and linked to. Yeah.

Last night I added a crap ton of new features. Arcade, donations page, awards section of profile, a spellcheck...yeah. Those are all the major ones. There were a few more I wanted but they were for older verions.

Sleepy...

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12172247/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/12172247/ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:46:42 PDT
I just caught Scooby Doo Pirates Ahoy on Cartoon Network. It was cute AND it kept me interested. This particular one had a lot of nods to the original cartoon if you know how to catch them...

Since I think I've reached my limit of what I can make with my hairfalls with my current colors, I'm gonna put the rest of my energy this week into the jewelry. Might throw a set of falls up on eBay in a little while. I have to get unlazy enough to take a picture.

Tomorrow I got off for a doctor's appointment. Think after that I will alternate between cleaning and jewelry. I have the spring cleaning bug in a bad way...especially with the crazy amount of planograms I'm doing this week I'm in a very organizational mood.

Must remember to file state taxes. But that will have to wait until next paycheck. Federal is where I got the refund. I somehow think I owe the state five bucks.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11948845/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11948845/ Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:25:51 PST The Dragon Inn.

We started out as a cartoon doll graphics forum, but those are becoming increasingly common. I've tried to find other mixed media sites online, but most of them, including deviantART, are so impersonal!

So I decided to move the Dragon Inn in a new direction, especially since for a while, the Inn was quickly being abandoned due to the overload of similiar forums. We would not only do dolls, but all forms of digital art, as well as crafts (everything from sewing to sculpture) and photography. Because honestly...most creative people have their hands into more than one artistic medium.

I'm not leaving deviantART by any means. Nor do I wish to compete with them. I just want a smaller place to inspire people with and to be a little closer to them on this cold internet.

There is a gallery to showcase your work, and we're currently working on expanding our "library" (links to tutorials on whatever we can find...but we are being picky about it ) and we just opened a tutorial area where us administrators and other members will post tutorials that we write ourselves.

Not only that, but we will also hold contests and challenges and other forum events in all mediums.

Registration and membership is free. All sub-forums save for the public information forum are viewable to registered members only. There are no advertisments either. You can donate towards the forum of course but that is completely voluntary! You can even choose from our ever-growing gallery of avatars if digital art is not your forte.

I hope you'll join us.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11795247/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11795247/ Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:56:23 PST
MUHAHAHHAHAHAHHA--*ACHOO!*

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11757334/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11757334/ Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:31:16 PST
Well someone was suspecting my boyfriend of being an art thief. I was being nosy and checking out the profiles of people who put him on watch. I put people on watch CONSTANTLY because I can never get enough of looking at art.

Now, don't you think if I thought my boyfriend was a thief (of any sort), I would even be with him? Much less encourage him to sign up for dA? Been there, done that, have the mental scars to prove it and a legion of friends who would like to castrate and likewise maim a certain ex of mine.

Well this one person's gallery was all anti-thief art, which I liked, so I thought about putting them on watch. And as I was scrolling down to add a comment, I caught the comments other people had made. And I caught a reply to a comment on how to catch someone posting stolen art. Two of those were about an inconsistancy in styles.

So othat made me think. Hmmm. I been dolling since 2001. TWO THOUSDAND ONE. My first dolls sucked, sucked really bad. But with pratice, I got better, and better, and better. Now, I only joined dA in January 2006 and a few months ago, I uploaded practically all of my cartoon dolls from the past six years. Many made in Paint Shop Pro 7 and 9.

I have most of what I made in PSP9 on saved in layers, anything made in layers in 7 has been lost to hard drive failure from the old old computer that died a few months after I started dolling. Those weren't even backed up anywhere. Anyway.

I have improved a LOT in the past two years where my digital dolls are concerned. You want proof, ask me for it, even publically, and I will post a screen shot of it open in Photoshop in layers (because I'm not stupid enough to send a layered picture to anyone). I will even take screen shots of the images properties through Windows explorer to show you when the image was originally created! Which for a lot of my old stuff, you'll see 2002, 2003, even though the modified date might be more recently since I format my hard drive every few months.

Because I am NOT going back through a hundred something deviations just to tell you what program I used, what version and when I made it. If you think it sucks compared to some of my other stuff, or vice versa, chances are the art that's not as "good" is my older work! Or you could ask. Just don't be sneaky about it.

Hell, I have half a mind to post my first forays into drawing anime-style just so you can see how much I sucked, but some of those are just rather embarassing. I work much better with premade bodies, which is why I got into dolling.

I wanted to rant more but my Love wants the computer and I shall let him have it.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11752121/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11752121/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:55:11 PST Kaine977 and I were at Walmart today. Also a five-shelf storage shelf for the craft room since the huge rubbermaid bins I have in there take up like a third of the room, and there are only two stacked on top of each other! They are both filled with little things. so I figure, sort the little stuff onto the shelves and give myself more room since for one, the shelves don't stick out as much, and two, they will go higher. I will probably end up getting more, but I only got paid today and I have other bills to pay.

I tidied up the bedroom a bit. Got the clothes off the floor, put the clean clothes away, that sorta thing. Then sorted some beads while watching a movie with one of my favorite geek love lines (geek, because you have to be a geek to know the movie...that well, at least):

Her: "I love you!"
Him: "I know."

*giggles*

*suddenly gets a photography idea*
*files in brain*

*spaces out, deciding what to do after blogging, make hair falls, or beaded stuff?* Damn, why don't I try making a doll? I've been neglecting that something bad.

Hey, doll making friends, would you be interested in trading services? I give you merchandise from my store in exchange for graphics? All I'm asking right now is if any of you would be willing, especially if you rock at pixel shading. I need transparents gifs for a few images on the online store. The logo I got up right now is really bugging me because it's too crisp, as well as the email/notification graphics. The buttons I plan to redo myself, eventually.

I'm hungry. Think I'm gonna...holy crap it's almost 11. I WAS going to make dinner. Um...maybe I'll just have a glass of chocolate milk. XD

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11739279/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11739279/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:39:17 PST
My best results have been outside in sunlight. But the old versions of that were just on flat pieces of paper. Today I brought out my little wooden drawing reference model, put it on one of the waist high snowbanks in our driveway, and draped the jewelry on that. THOSE have come out nice. I've replaced some of the photos on the web store and on here.

Oh, and I changed the layout of Designs By Mish as well. The colors suit me much better, but it's not over-the-top red and black. Just need to come up with a better banner than what I threw up there. Problem is, it needs to be transparent because the header image is a gradient and not every font looks good without anti-aliasing. Ah well, I'll play with it some more later.

Also going through BOTH my catalogs, Fire Mountain Gems and Rings & Things to see what I need to reorder and also to see what other things I can get to make my final product look a little more professional. Like bails. And more crimp beads.

*perfect-dreams16 wants me to do her wedding jewelry, but fortunately I have a few years for that. I haven't done a whole lot of in-depth advertising, mainly because I want to get more product up first. I have PLENTY of supplies, but I do need more of certain things.

According to the "customer service" from the e-filing site I'm using, my federal tax refund was rejected because I had a five-digit NACIS code (used to classify the type of business I own) and I was supposed to have a six digit one. Um, excuse me, the one I looked up WAS FIVE DIGITS LONG. Hmph. In any case, I found a better list that had not only a six digit code, but a more accurate description of my business. I was formerly using the one that was gift/soviuner shop but I found one for electronic retailer. Well, that's fixed and resubmitted, it better be accepted this time. Tomorrow when I get paid I'll be submitting the state. I think I owe them five dollars?

Well if it all works out I'll probably get my refund in a week, and I get paid this week and in two weeks, so that will be nice. After bills I'm really hoping to replace this monitor and sink some more into the business.

But the monitor I really wanted, all the ones in my store are going out for service or something because they all have a dead pixel in the same exact spot. GRRR! Oh well, I'll just get a different one, I just really wanted the one I could rotate 90 degrees. I WILL be getting at least a 20". I do WAAAAAY too much crap on this computer.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11662318/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11662318/ Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:32:30 PST Designs By Mish, NOW OPEN!!

From now until February 28th, put in coupon code GRO (Grand Re-Opening) at checkout and get 10% off!!!

Now excuse me while I go post all over the place and get back to work.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11637863/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11637863/ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:34:17 PST
Finally got the hair falls up. I'm only wearing one of them. Lookie: [link]

Tummy wonky. Eh. Second time in three days. Bleah.

Big Love is finally on demand on HBO on Demand. I caught one episode at my mom's a while back but I am obsessed with watching things in order, so that's what I been doing. I like it. Although I want to smack Nicolette like every three seconds.

Gonna go make some new hair falls and watch Big Love.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11093613/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11093613/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:20:57 PST
Feel free to favorite anything you like, or link me in your club to show my work to other people. I just like to be detailed about the rest of it.

Photography - Not to be used as stock photography for photo-manipulations. If you would like to use a photograph of mine as basis for a non-commerical traditional media piece (non-digital) please note me for permission. I will probably say yes!

As for photo prints, I only put the copyright on photographs containing family or pets of mine, so at least I can protect their likenesses For photos of larger gatherings of people, I will not put my copyright or watermark on the picture. Because why would you want to buy a picture of yourself copyrighted by someone you don't know?

I have a free print account, so I make very little money off of prints (actually, as of the time I type this, no one has ever purchased one of my prints). When I do eventually get a paid print account here, there will be next to no markup on photographs taken at large public events with people in them.

Dolls - Look at them, favorite them, don't use them in your art. My doll page no longer exists since nobody adopted my stuff anyway. If you want to adopt to display on an adopted section of a page, wonderful! Go for it and link back to my main deviantART page. But do NOT use my dolls as forum avatars or signatures. I'd rather make something for you instead, so note me and ask nicely.

Fan Fiction - Do not use my original characters in your stories! But feel free to shower me with all the fan art you like based on my stuff.

I am also open to art/service trades! I'll make you a piece of jewelry or a website layout if you will draw my character, something like that.

DVD Covers - Free for anyone to print out for personal use. Do not sell as part of a fan sub.

Jewelry - Generally available for purchase at Designs By Mish! And I say 'generally' because I have many one of a kind items. Unless it says 'sold' under the description I'll probably put it on my Etsy shop.

Any questions...just ask. I will get back to you and update my Terms to reflect it.

This last updated November 28, 2007.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11081792/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11081792/ Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:54:51 PST
But worry not, if you actually like my dorky doll creations, I'm uploading them all to deviantART anyway. It's much easier to keep up with. And I've gotten more feedback in one week of uploading old dolls than in five years of having KurayaMish open. Besides, I need the free time to update my jewelry website now anyway.

And I'll still be frequenting doll forums, however I may lurk.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11075955/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11075955/ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:53:52 PST
Oh yeah. *goes back to edit what she's done to slow down*

This is perfect for the OCD.

I should have become a librarian.

So far I've catalogued 151 books on my FIRST bookshelf. Granted the fifth shelf was all paperbacks...mostly that cheesy teenage horror shit I read in elementary school and middle school (and then I grew out of RL Stine and into VC Andrews in eighth grade XD). You can view my cataglogue if you want. At least when I fill that 200 (which I will probably do by the end of tonight) I can go back and edit to my hearts content. I wonder if there is a way to submit photos of covers of books that didn't have one...I mean, I got a digital camera with a good macro setting.

My arm finally stopped hurting!

I finally made a profitable sale on Designs By Mish!

I'm hungry!

Oh yeah and I'm convinced I am the only person at my job who knows how to read. Okay, attention to detail. But I am not going to rant about that.

Going to find some food, then I am going to start on the next bookshelf...mostly art, graphic novels, and normal fiction. The first one was mainly fantasy and horror.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11065257/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11065257/ Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:25:22 PST
[link]

NOW.

You can catalogue your own library on the net! And network with other book nerds! It's like myspace for books! XD ...and I thought of that BEFORE I read the creator call it that himself on his site. XD

I already signed up: [link]

OMGWTFBESTTHINGEVER.

Free accounts you can catalogue up to 200 books. Lifetime membership (and unlimited cataloguing) is $25. I think I will have to get the paid one probably in a few weeks (depending on how fast I can catalogue).

Yeah, if you happen to poke a look at mine, better refresh fairly often, I'll be doing this until Jason gets sick of kill Cogs and Locusts and wants to go back on the computer.

*dances off*

HINT: If you sign up, enter your books by the ISBN (by the barcode). This way it will even tell on your profile what EDITION you have (first printing, hard cover, etc.).

*EDIT*

So far I have put in 60 books.

And I'm only on the THIRD SHELF of my first bookcase. Doing the hard covers that are all stacked vertically (most of my shelves are stacked horizontally to make full use of space).

I am DEFINITELY going to need a paid account. Lifetime membership as soon as I can afford it.

Oh yeah. *goes back to edit what she's done to slow down*

This is perfect for the OCD.

I should have become a librarian.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11014847/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/11014847/ Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:51:24 PST
Go look!! [link]

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10947362/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10947362/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:59:58 PST
The first 10 people who post in this journal will be featured. I will go though your gallery and choose three of your deviations I like most and post them in my journal for everyone to see! It's pretty much to show you off.

Who doesn't want that? The catch? You gotta put this in your journal as well if you posted. And I will leave this part up for a long time. And remember, if you don't post this in your journal, I'm not going to put your art up.

After I get 10 people who commented...IF I can get 10 people to comment that's when I'll start featuring people's deviations. And since I'm not special enough to have a paid account (yet...) y'all have to deal with text links!

1. rocketgal
2. vernavulpes
3. moronqueen
4. FPJMask
5.
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7.
8.
9.
10.

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Non-chain bloggings:

So many pretty things to look at on DA, I think I'm more addicted to here than LiveJournal! And why isn't there more fan art prints!!!

...maybe because otherwise I'd have my walls covered in half naked Ryogas and Star Trek characters? XD

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10808366/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10808366/ Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:36:43 PST
Oh well. For now I will only be making the photography into prints, and then the paintings once I get GOOD photographs of them.

DA is hiccuping right now and I can't edit or submit any new deviations.

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10804235/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10804235/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:29:10 PST
It's only Tuesday and I'm already in overtime. Not complaining...I was scheduled for 39.5 hours this week and I've already stayed a total of three hours past my scheduled times...but hey, Black Friday is coming up and the stock room is still clusterfucked soooo it's downstocking all day long...which is fine by me, I can organize all day long. 'Course, I get distracted...I can't just put stuff out...I have to merchandise it out and make it look nice, I can't walk away without making it look presentable.

I have the eyestrain of doom but at this point I am trying to keep awake. Sunday I was in at 5AM, 7AM yesterday and today...tomorrow I am not in until 10PM...so unless I stay awake as long as I can tonight, I'll be unconscious by that time tomorrow. Ad set for Black Friday (I'm scheduled 6AM to 615PM that day). Ugh. My parents are coming up Thursday morning. YAY! I have that day off of course, as well as Saturday.

Soooo sleepy...need more caffine.

Been loading a bunch of older (but the better) dolls to DeviantArt. I think I may actually shut down KurayaMish. I update it like four times a year. I don't offer bases, no one enters my contests, and no one adopts my dolls, and this is after having the site open five years. I'll still hit the dolling forums and participate there...love the community too much to leave it.

Spent a little of my paycheck on pretty stuff for jewelry. Got a good deal for the money and good quality! I need a few more things before I start with my new supplies but I am patient. I now own these and these and I REALLY wish I could have more of her stuff but she sold them already. Oh, and 50 of these yay for buy it now whole lots oh and those too.

I should really get my Ryoga shrine back up. Hehehehe. It will be different from the old shrine...no old crappy screen caps. I won't even put up an image gallery until I start collection the Ranma 1/2 box sets so I can take screen shots. But I will link much other fangirly stuff. FEAR ME!!!! Muhahahahaha.

Oohhh so my BB got a new general manager. And he's originally from Cornwall NY (one town north of my parents). Hahah. Small world...one of the other managers is the same age as my little brother and if he had graduated they would have graduated together. Anyway, like the guy so far.

Tomorrow I will finish cleaning the house so my Daddy doesn't get the allergies of doom when he visits. I got my cat allergy from him, but he's the type of male who won't take medicine for ANYTHING even if he is suffering. Me and mommy are pondering grinding up some of my Zyrtec and putting it in his milk. For his own good. Mommy has several pestels (is that the word?).

Geh the exhaustion. Must not sleep...

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10722514/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10722514/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:48:29 PST
Designs By Mish is now open for business!!!

]]> ~allucia http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10686078/ http://allucia.deviantart.com/journal/10686078/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:27:59 PST
I have oils, watercolors (cakes and tubes), acrylics, sunglass catcher paint, yeah.

And a crap ton of brushes.

Still have quite a bit to unpack but this is a big improvement. I miss my paints...now I can get started on tons of stuff. Squee!!!

]]> ~allucia