Under: Conventions and Cosplay by Bobbi @ 3:02 pm
Jun
30

I’ve been very bad at updating lately. Life has been pretty busy. I was preparing for a convention a few weeks ago where I was doing an artist alley table. I had a really good time and made a decent amount of money. I’m hoping I can do it again! It’s a nice break from the stress of running a large cosplay contest. I’m happy doing them at smaller conventions though.

I’ve recently gotten into Lolita fashion. It started in April at another convention where someone had a replica dress up for grabs for about $60 including a pair of shoes. She sold it to me for $50 and I wore it earlier this month. I had a lot of fun. I’m now looking into making a lot of my own stuff. Eventually, I’d like to afford a nice brand dress, but they can be very expensive. I still don’t know what style I like the most or which is most suiting for me. So I’m just having fun with colors I currently like.

Below is a picture!
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OHAITHAR.

Under: Other Stuff by Bobbi @ 5:22 am
Sep
07

Oh hello Valkyrie! I didn’t forget about you. I actually renewed the domain. My wallet weeps. ;_;

So what’s new with me? I got married! There will be some pictures under the “more” below. :D

I’ve not done much in the realm of webdesign other than working on convention websites and fiddling with blogs here and there. I want to go over my old sites and tweak them some more. But I’d like to replay the games first.

I’m working my butt off. The mean crappy manager I had at work was fired for being a mean and crappy manager. We got this amazing awesome lady who bought us goodies and made our lives amazing for 6 weeks. But now we have another manager who will be permanent. He’s a nice guy to work with.

We’re considering moving to North Carolina in a few months. I need to see if I can transfer. I still have more stores to call.

Oh, we had a very crazy neighbor who insisted that we are up at 4 am screaming and fighting. Telling the police that my husband is abusing me and I’m outside crying. The police have been to our apartment twice, we filed a counter report. It’s dealt with. She’s also moving (huge truck outside today being loaded up). So… that’s the end of that I suppose!

Other than that, I’m collecting more ponies! I’m considering putting up a My Little Pony blog/site with my collection. :D Trying to decide which domain to host it on. Here or on another? I’m not sure!

Some wedding pictures below!
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Under: Other Stuff by Bobbi @ 3:52 am
May
11

Sorry for not updating here lately. Life has been pretty hectic! Namely with the wedding stuff coming up (Next Friday! OMG!). Also, work has been keeping me very occupied. I’m being promoted to assistant manager and I’m currently going through training. It’s going pretty well, and I’m enjoying it. But I know I’m going to sorely miss my short day shifts. It’s not that I don’t like working or being busy, but I liked being able to come home and focus my attention to various other areas. Not happening as much right now. XD

I’ve recently gotten back into My Little Pony. It was my childhood obsession during the 80′s. I had so many toys and watched the cartoon religiously. Due to the popularity of the new series (Friendship is Magic) within the various circles I’m associated with, I found myself getting back into it. I started taking up collecting some of my favorite old ponies from childhood, along with a few of the new toys. I’m more fond of the older ones, naturally for the nostalgia factor. However, the new series has really made it fun and enjoyable! I can’t say much for the 3rd generation during the last decade or so… I never got into collecting those ponies although I wanted to.

Anyway, here’s a lovely picture of my latest addition, Parasol from year 2, and Rainbow Dash. :)

Gusty was my favorite pony out of my childhood collection, so of course she was the first I bought. I also have a large collection at home obtained from a friend about 10 years ago. I’ll be getting those soon. I can’t wait to add them to the collection! :D

Wedding is getting closer!

Under: Friends and Family,Other Stuff,Wedding,Work by Bobbi @ 1:59 am
Mar
19

I have a hard time remembering to blog here. Whoops!

So what’s new here? Still making wedding plans. Just about two months away. Got my invites designed and printed by Vistaprint but I’m being lazy and I don’t feel like addressing them. Too much work. *procrastinates* We’ve got a photographer, yay! I’ve got almost all my wedding attire done. Just need some smexy underoos and probably one of those long line bra thinguses (and losing an extra 10lbs or so, and drag out my weights to tone up my arms.)

I’ve decided that I’m going to do my own makeup. I ordered a relatively inexpensive eyeshadow set from Sephora that had some good reviews. I don’t wear makeup a lot, so I wanted something I could use on a day to day basis as blue and green aren’t my usual colors. I also wanted something that’s long lasting and doesn’t all disappear into my creases after an hour. Plus it came with eyeliner and primer. The colors in this set are more what I wanted. But the reviews made me think otherwise. I’ve gotten fairly good with doing my own makeup with practice so I’m pretty confident I can do it. :)

We got Mark’s ring today! Just a simple white gold band. He’s not fond of jewelry and just wanted something simple to wear. I told him that if I can afford a nicer ring later, I’ll buy one for him. But I really couldn’t afford it now. :(

I’m trying to get back into drawing more. After I take a long break from doing anything artistic, I always feel frustrated with my work and I can’t seem to get anywhere. I still strongly desire to do more comic work, but I find it to be an uphill battle. I’ve been messing around with Paint Tool SAI and I really like how the color blending/shading/lineart works in the program as opposed to Photoshop or Painter. It just makes it a bit faster, and less playing around with settings. So I may turn to that. But I find sketching in Photoshop is faster for me for a lot of reasons.

Also getting trained on more stuff at work. Though unfortunately it means losing my weekends. :( I definitely need the money, so I can’t really complain. I just like my lazy weekends! But if things get unbearable there, Mark’s dad is also training me to solder pewter. I get to play with fire! Muahaha. So maybe after the wedding I’ll just go over there for the time being. Better working with family than feeling like a slave to a register and crazy customers. :P

Under: Other Stuff by Bobbi @ 3:46 am
Feb
21

I’ve been working more on wedding stuff lately. It’s hard to believe I’ll be an old married woman in just a few short months. Although I know it’s not going to feel any different than it does now, but I guess I’ll feel more obligated to do housework. lol. Yeah right.

I need to get my wedding artwork/design done and make the wedding invitations and wedding website. I guess that’ll be my project for the next week. I’m just going to make my own site instead of using some of the existing wedsite places out there. I just don’t like any of the designs.

I got materials to make my little sash/belt thingie to break up the white on the dress and help it match the shoes/fascinator. I’m using this tutorial for a big green flower. Then the sash is made of some turquoise sheer fabric. I’ll be adding some little beaded designs on the bottom of that and some cute little green lacy ribbon at the very edge. It’ll be super cute!

In other news, Mark got a new car! He’s been wanting a bright green car for a long time! Since his lease was almost up on his old car, he got this one. I’m not much of a car person, but bright green is really cool and stands out. You know, everyone with silver, black, dark blue, maybe a red… BRIGHT GREEN! :D

Happy Valentines Day!

Under: Conventions and Cosplay,Love and Romance,Wedding by Bobbi @ 7:09 pm
Feb
14

Oh poop! I haven’t posted here in quite awhile!

The last few months have been really hectic. I had to do a lot of work to do for some conventions. Mostly, getting a lot of paperwork and processing done. Then after that, attending the conventions and doing the work there. After that, doing the website for another convention (which took a great deal of time). I also had the stomach flu at the end of December, then a flu, and then just about a week ago, I came down with a bad sinus infection. UGH. I never get sick, so I guess my body was making up for being healthy the last few years. After being on some antibiotics, things have calmed down a bit (for now) and I’m trying to play catch up!

Also! We finally got our wedding plans organized! We’re getting married on May 20th. We’ll be getting married by the Mayor, and then having a reception (or more like a party/get-together) afterwards with extended family and our friends. We’re looking at food options now. It’s either going to be pizza and chicken, or some delicious BBQ (where we are going to eat tonight for Valentines day).

I also finally decided on a dress. It’s a really cute tea-length 50′s style swing dress with a sweet-heart top and ruffles! It was only $120! I’m wearing a bright green crinoline skirt underneath and wearing a birdcage veil with a feather fascinator. I’m also going to make a cute flower and organza belt to to around the dress. Lastly, I’m in the process of finding shoes. But finding blue pumps without huge heels and super-pointy toes within my strict budget is proving to be difficult. I always come across super-cute ones in the right color, but they have 4″ heels, and NO WAY!

But anyway, I’m pretty excited! :D

Merry Christmas!

Under: Conventions and Cosplay,Friends and Family by Bobbi @ 1:58 am
Dec
26

So our plans for Christmas were put off because Mark’s dad got the stomach flu on Thursday, or whatever that nasty bug that’s been going around is. We were originally going to his parent’s having a little gift exchange and yummy finger foods, then on Christmas going over there again for dinner. Instead, we went to a friends to play board games, and today we visited his grandmother and drove around aimlessly looking for something open that had food. Sheetz (gas station) was it. Though the chicken sammich I had was delish, so I wasn’t too disappointed.

Tomorrow, I’m going to my parent’s and then we’re going over to his parent’s for belated Christmas dinner.

Mark got Harry Potter legos from me. He got me the Serah Farron figure that just came out! But I am dissapoint that it doesn’t come with a stand and won’t stand up properly. But oh well, It’s very pretty and has been added to my collection of figure awesomeness!

His parents and sister got us stuff, so we’ll open that tomorrow! My parents also got us a giftcard for Applebees. So yay, we can go out to eat somewhere that’s not fast food! I don’t know or think they have anything else for us. His parents also contributed some money toward our new dining room table. Boo on adult things! But I do like our table!

Though since everyone in close proximity has gotten that nasty bug, I’m hoping that if I get it, it’s this week and NOT the week after. I’m going to a convention where I’m a department head, so I really CAN’T miss it. I gotta drag out the sewing machine soon too and get working on my costumes! I’m going to try to finish up two, one should be pretty simple and the other is almost done.

Happy Birthday to me!

Under: Personal by Bobbi @ 7:54 pm
Dec
07

It’s hard to believe that tomorrow I’ll be 29! YIKES!

It’s strange. I remember my 9th birthday. It was cold and freezing. I think it was a weekend or something because I didn’t have to go to school. My dad and I went out in the morning. I had gotten some Tiny Toons plushies for my birthday, and I was holding onto one of them in the freezing van. I don’t remember any other details of that birthday… but it’s hard to believe that was 20 years ago! In another 20 years I’ll be 49.

I don’t feel 29. I don’t look 29 (outside of the few grey hairs I find here and there). And I certainly don’t act 29. I think my mental/emotional age is probably somewhere around 20. The idea of being a grown-up scares me… even though I already am. I mean, I can go with the flow, pay bills, manage finances, other responsibilities and the like. But I don’t think I’ll ever be the person so caught up in the burdens of finances and day-to-day living that I just look and feel OLD. Though I’ve heard that having children really changes things. Since I’m currently childless, that’s not a problem. I do eventually want to have children… but it’s not something I’m financially ready for yet. But it’s something I’m looking forward to.

I once dated someone that made a big deal about being grown up, about being an adult. That partaking in childish activities or interests was immature. Obviously, that relationship didn’t last. But… I still think of myself as a kid a lot of times. I don’t act like one, no. But I daydream. I love toys. I’ve been known to pass up buying myself clothes over a toy. Although if it’s a legit need, then yeah, I’ll pass the toy up. I’d rather watch animation or fantasy movies intended for families over romantic dramas or things women my age are supposed to like (and the same with TV).

I think that a lot of this comes from seeing my parents always concerned over fiances, bills, bills, bills, making ends meet. They never seemed all that happy. It was always an annoyance when I’d watch cartoons because my mom wanted to watch soaps, court shows, or the news. She still does this with my 4-year old great niece. Which is kinda sad.

I always observed how my siblings acted and treated me as a kid… like I was some kind of burden for being so much younger than them. There was an age gap of about 12-19 years between me and my siblings. I just never grew any sort of attachment with them. It’s like, once I hit 18, the dreams I had of being a cartoonist had to be crushed for something practical and grown up. I donno. :/

I don’t really think that I ever will grow up. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that either as long as you take care of your responsibilities. Obviously, my future family would need to come first and foremost. But… I’m not going to give who I am up because I should’ve “grown out” of it a long time ago. For all I care, I’ll be 85 years old, silly as ever, drawing, thinking up random nonsensical crap to amuse myself, and watching cartoons. I think that’s a part of my personality and who I am at the core… and not something that can be changed by just “getting older”.

That said, I want a Hello Kitty birthday cake and balloons tomorrow. :< *pouts*

Moving Day!

Under: Other Stuff by Bobbi @ 6:16 pm
Dec
04

So Thursday night was the last night of being in our old apartment. We moved in Friday after we got off work. Between both of us, we have so much stuff. It’s currently piled up in the living room and nearly impossible to get through. I didn’t bring a whole lot of stuff in with me when I moved from my parents’ house. I’m really not looking forward to unpacking. But I think since the bulk of the stuff is Mark’s, it shouldn’t be TOO bad (for me anyway).

We ended up using the master bedroom as an office for both of our computers and my cosplay stuff. It looks like my computer and everything is going to stay on the same old table for awhile. I was hoping to use it for my sewing/art supplies, but there’s very little space for more furniture in this room. But I’ll guess I’ll see after we get stuff unpacked!

The smaller 2nd bedroom is being used as our bedroom since it’s arranged in the middle with two big rooms on either side. It’ll make things a bit more quiet and peaceful. The only downside is that we’re closer to a busy road, so there’s the constant sound of traffic to contend with.

But overall, this place feels a LOT bigger than any apartment I’ve lived in. It almost feels like a small house! I’m also loving that we have a lot more kitchen space. I’m looking forward to baking cookies for the holidays since there’s more room to do that! We had NONE in the previous apartment. The counter space was taken up by the big microwave and the dishpan. We also have a dishwasher! So this is very awesome!

This is what I do in my spare time

Under: Webdesign by Bobbi @ 7:10 pm
Nov
22

I have this really bad habit of being totally absorbed in some kind of project and then forgetting about everything else. It’s really hard to come back and focus on other things, even of a small personal nature… such as blogging or keeping this place updated.

I’ve been working really hard the last few weeks on Avaricia, my avatar community. I’m in the middle of a huge project involving taking thousands of graphics and items and converting them over to a new style avatar base. It’s a lot of work, but it’s really rewarding seeing the results. I’m hoping that pretty soon, the site can earn enough money so that I can do more advertising ventures. I want to advertise on Facebook. But I’m also planning on getting some postcards and flyers made up and distributing them at various conventions I go to. I’ve probably invested a few thousand dollars on the site already, but a lot of that was money that the site made itself. So, I’m actually not making much with it right now. :P Maybe one day!

New Bases Anyway this is what the new bases look like. The arms move fully and independently of themselves, and the facial features are entirely customizable. I was going to go with 3 different body sizes, but it’s a bit too much work for me to do right now. It’d never get done! I originally made these new ones in 2008, but it’s taken me forever to finish them. We didn’t start using them until April of 2010. But I’m REALLY happy with them!

Old Bases Here’s one of my former avatars using the old bases. These were made originally in 2007, but my art has improved so much since then. I actually tweaked these bases several times before just redoing them entirely. The wide hips weren’t very popular, even though people who stuck around enjoyed the curvier figures. I just wasn’t a fan of the posture, and with everything the new avatar system we developed can do, we needed a really nice avatar base to go with it! Plus… we had so many people doing items on the site that nothing was really consistent. Also, my own style had developed through practice.

I hope that one day, the site will end up being a really nice enjoyable community, with a lot of fun features and games. Eventually!

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