i will update properly soonish, i just don't have the attention span to type sentences at moment and i'm waffing around trying to sort out the flat. yes, the second bedroom is still a no go zone, but i will tackle it one day! in the mean time would anyone be interested in the cruxshadows - wishfire, curxshadows - ethernaut and/or das ich - relikt ( Read more... )

i just got Nora Waugh's Corsets and Crinolines books from the british library. squee. i've flicked it through quickly and it looks very interesting and exciting. hopefully i'll be able to copy some of the patterns and actually use them in the near future. there's a fab sweetheart necklined corset that i really want to do. i've heard that the ( Read more... )

meeks sweeties ( Read more... )

I saw the 50 book challenge on the LJ highlight spot ages ago, but found the actual group a bit naff (too little info about the books and too many comments i've just finish reading blablalaa and will read blablabalaa next week) and i don't know if i'd actually have time to read that many books a year anyway. i'm quite good at pretending to be too ( Read more... )

( 2006 meme, i know everyone did this ages ago, i'm slow! )

Happy Christmas/Yuletide to All! Hope you're all being merry, eating too much and getting fantabilous pressies!

hugs
Essi from a non-snowy finland

which stands for silly secret santa according to the lovely peeps at work...argh. i have no idea what to buy, it's suppose to be under a fiver and the sillier the better. will a pooping reindeer qualify as silly or just plain stupid? and what kind of message does that send, that i'm 5 and find farting funny? not that i do find it funny. ickle ( Read more... )

another saturday night in. i'm getting a tad worried about myself. maybe i should try to invent a social life i've just become so lazy these days and i keep thinking i'll save money by sitting in moping, i don't care about my sanity just the money. so to keep me occupied on this boring night here's meme stolen from Steph

( meme for saturday entertainment )

yep, i've totally lost it, talking about eurovision and all that, but i do think eveyrone should go and check out Finland's entry. it's rather different, the video has zombie cheerleaders and monsters and the music is cheesy metal. [rok on!] it's said in Finland that hell will freeze over when we win the eurovision song contest ... i really hope we ( Read more... )

as you may have guessed on friday i'm not happy with my dissertation. my flipping lecturer decided to tell me it's not going anywhere and i'll run out of time. could have told me 3 weeks ago but no. majorly annoyed. so happy thoughts about my dissertation have been haunting me since friday. at the mo i'm thinking of completely changing my topic, i ( Read more... )