You may find this video amusing :3

So after a very long and aggrevating day at work, I come home to find my three year old niece watching a movie with my mom, my dad, and my sister.  A very loud movie.  I'm already in a bad mood, and I have an aweful head ach.  Three year olds are probably worse for headaches than shooting yourself in the head.  So I went upstairs to change out of my clothes, and what do I find?  

A Barbie Collector's catalogue.  

I HATE Barbies. 

I HATE THEM! 

Why the hell did they send me this catalogue?!  I immediately tried to look for a way to remove myself from the list, but I couldn't find anything. 

I've had it with all the junk mail lately!  I've been getting letters begging me to help cats in Indiana, pre approved credit card crap, designer pet waterfountains and automated shit scoopers, it's just too much!  I can't afford any of this shit even if I did want it!  

And one day I even got a phone call from some bastard trying to find information for me about grad school.  I told him I wanted library science and he couldn't find anything, so I immediately said WTFSCAM! and TAKEMEOFFYOURLIST! >:O  How the hell did he get my cell phone number anyway?  

So today I said fuck it and googled ways to get myself off the lists.  Forget about those agencies that say they'll do it for you, I researched it.  It's crap.  Here's a link to good advice for anyone who wants to do it for themselves the right way.  Like me.

http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/   <-How to stop junk mail yourself!

I've had a lot to do lately!  When don't I really.. well, if everything goes as planned today, I should have the rest of the week to enjoy myself until I go back to work.  Fortunately they let me go home all weekend because of bad weekend and lousy weather, affording me the much needed time to catch up on my sleep.  You should have seen me last weekened!  Although, I saw no one.  Back to back to back to back double shifts!  From nine in the morning all the way until midnight!  And then driving home ontop of that!!  I was so exhausted.  I hardly got to eat a thing :(  When I finally got home, I wolfed down that food boy! 

And then I thought I could have the week to myself to recover. Wrong, wrong.  So wrong.  I was just about to cast a set of LED claws and eye blanks, I had -just- openned the can of resin, and don't you know it my older sister calls me with an emergency baby sitting request!  At first I thought all I had to do was pick up my niece and wait for her fiancee to get home.  Nope, apparently I'd be watching her all day.  I mean all day.  From like ten to eight.  Fortunately, my mother stopped by after work to help out.  And then the next day, Kaylee spent the day with her Aunt Can Can, giving her a hard time >:l  I felt like she was lying to me and bossing me around.  As I told Mom, she's not used to dealing with someone with horns growing out of her head!  She tried to butt heads with me, and this big cashmere butt heads right back and won!  The world does not revolve around small children, after all! X.x; 

So after that ordeal, and a great headache, less the time I needed to recover from my four back to back doubles, I had to hidey up to New Brunswick to attend the career fair.  I was disappointed that some of the employers I hoped to have seen were not present.  Some of the employers I had hoped to talk to were not helpful.  And other employers I was delightfully surprised by.  I sat down and organized my notes must have been like a thousand times over.  I'm glad I did, I budgeted my time appropriately, thank goodness.  I even got a business card ^^;  So I went ahead and mailed him a thank you, submitted my resume to a handful of employers, and today I have to fill out all of their online applications. 

I didn't get much done yesterday, but I was going to cast the claws and eyes.  Two problems arose, and I solved two others.  I figured out how much resin to add to get the castings to cure in the proper amount of time ^^;  And I dyed them successfully.  However, when I went to insert the LEDs, they had gelled to the point of not taking anything else XD  Plus, I read the precautions on the mold builder, and decided it would be better to wait to make the mold for the eyes. 

I'm still on the fence about whether or not I should try to finish my wolf to sell in time for Halloween.  Much of that decision rests on today.  The eyes set up a lot quicker than I had anticipated.  I just have to fill out all of these damnable applications.  They just take SO LONG!!!  And then all ask the same questions. -,-  I wish there was a universal application you could submit, like admission to college.  It would save so much time.  But if I get done the remainder in a reasonable amount of time, I can spend the rest of the day working on the wolf and Kaylee's costume.  We shall see.

Candace

I found a 1990 Tiger Electronics hand held game from Disney's 101 Dalmations!!!  And it STILL WORKS!  Unbelievable!  A collectable!  I was cleaning my back porch and I found 2 old walkmans and an old dried up tube of glue.  I popped some batteries in this bad boy and behold, dalmations running across  the screen trying to save puppehs!

Sadly, not everything on it works :(  The jump button seems to not like me very much, and the screen is a little faded. But I bet if you cracked it open and fiddled with it, it'd be just fine.

How much is this worth, do you think?  Should I try to auction it?  Maybe I can trade for something with it??

Feedback plz! :O

Btw, I found these similar auctions on ebay
Mortal Kombat
Megaman
Sonic 3

Introduction
In other words, an informative tutorial on how I make footpaws.

A lot of my friends already know how to do this, so if this shows up on your friends page, just ignore it.  I just happen to have a few resources laying around, so I decided to write this in order to consolidate them.

Now to begin, footpaws are a fun accent to any textile creation.  They could be for your cosplay costume of your favorite otherly-footed character.  They could be for a comfy, goofy pair of slippers to keep your feet warm around the house.  And most commonly, they can be used to complete the illusion on a partial or full fursuit costume.  The process is not very complicated, and the end result can be very pleasing to the eye.

You must excuse, but as you may know, my camera of three years died a while ago, and since then I've been taking pictures with my cell phone :B  But here ya go as an example -



I made these footpaws a few months back on a trade with my friend Bunny for a hard disk drive.  They were supposed to be snow leopard feetsies.  I airbrushed some rosettes onto them, but I never actually took a decent, not blurry or other wised messed up photo afterwards.

In this photo, you will see (among other things) the paws before furring sitting on the table.



This tutorial will walk you through carving your footpaws on a pair of shoes.  This is one of the most efficient ways of making a pair of footpaws that you can take with you indoors and out.

This tutorial is divided into three steps.  Each step has smaller substeps.  Each substep has an explaination.  To make it easier to skim this document, the sections are formatted this way:

Step X
Step summary
Step X-Substep
Step X-Substep Summary
Elaboration
( Cick here for the entire tutorial! )
For more information, please consult the builders and resources at the  fursuit

Tyvm,
Candace

Well the first two things that come to mind are 1) the multitude of finger prints and dirt that would collect on your screen as well as 2) flash games were you could fondle breasts with your hand

Part update, part to-do list.

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I think that's everything I needed to blah blah about for now.

Candace

Oh hell no.  I hate swallowing pills.  What's so hard about exercising in the first place? ;p  Exercise doesn't have to be torture, you know ;p

I finally decided to fill one out. From Jaxson Otter

( You probably don't feel like reading this, lol )

Can't really put it in the good news / bad news format.  It's really only one news item that can be both good and bad at the same time ;p  Well, consider this a general update.  I finally finished my last class towards my bachelor's degree on Tuesday.  Yaaaay.  I turned in my final paper and now I just need to wait for a grade. Hopefully a good one to really bolster my GPA.  I had such a good time during my summer course, I think I'll take one every summer from now on for the sake of keeping my mind sharp and for personal enrichment :)

Also, the season will be waning down soon.  The little kiddies go back to school, so my hours will be cut back significantly.  In the mean time, I need to hunt for a more permanent job - preferably something in publishing in Philadelphia or someplace nearby.  If you know anyone who needs a person like me at their company, any type of job, please pass on the tip :)

That all looks like good news, right?  Well here's the badish side to that.  I'll have no money!  Hahahaha... wait... sadness x.x;  I'll take up a job at a super market or something until I can get a steady job with health insurance hopefully.  If not I guess I'll have to pick some up on my own.  My parents would also like me to start paying rent.  How will I make ends meet...  Well, with artwork!  Since I'll have so much free time, I can catch up on my artwork that has been due and crank out some more fursuits.  If you'd like help on making one yourself, even if you're low on cash, I can totally help out with that.  Plus I'm always willing to haggle and trade for random stuffs.  So just let me know.

As far as comissioning artwork, it's back to my old art request system.  Basically, if you'd like work from me, I'll do it for free. But you don't get to have too much say in what you want ;p  Just a description, maybe a reference picture, then send me on my way.  For those of you who've had experience with me before, you know this can be very advantageous.  Why do I do free artwork?  Because I feel like it.  That's why.  If you want to tip me, though, I won't get mad.  Hehe ^^;

Candace

"I had so many windows open it should have been cold at my desk."

-My mom talking about her computer at work

The best sort of story I've ever heard like this was my own.  It's about me and my ex boyfriend.  By the way, sometime this month will mark my aniversary of splitting up with him.  It's been one or two years, but I can't remember.  I've been single for a long time.

Anywho, it happend freshman year when I had just discovered that my friend from Lehigh, Stephanie, was going to the same university as I was.  We were going to eat at the dining hall late one weekend, because we're night owls and we used to do this, but we found out it was closed.  So we went to the Cook Cafe (a lot crappier back then than it is now).  I was -so- looking forward to getting dinner but someone stood in my way.  He was this tall, long haired guy with a nice smile.  He stepped away from a pay phone and said something to the affect of "can I borrow your phone?"  

This girl who was walking with us walked by him and Steph and I stopped.  I looked past him at the cafe, so close!  But I decided to be altrustic.  First I asked him why he needed one.  This is 4 years ago, even little kids had phones at that point.   He said he got lost on our campus looking for a friend of his.  I told him to hand over his ID so if he got away I could at least turn that in for my phone.  He later told me that he figured he could sell my phone to get at least 30 bucks to buy a new one if I left.  He had a University of Washington ID.  I was like what is he doing all the way over here? 

After he got done I asked for his screen name, because he obviously didn't have a cell phone.  At first he was like "Why would you want..." and then he was like "Oh!  She's hitting on me, right!"  Lol.  We went out on a couple memorable dates later.  I don't feel like writing them down because I try not to think about him anymore.  But if the appropriate cue ever comes up, I might tell you about it. 

Long story short, we dated for three years.  He moved to Vancouver, Canada.  And I said enough, it's getting too hard to see you.  Let's just be friends.  We aren't friends.

Candace

Anime and fursuiting.  Pokemon, for shaaaaaaame!

Hey again all,

So where has Candace gone?  Here's the face of the Earth, and this is where Candace fell off ;p  Well, good news everyone, I'm slowly coming back down.  This summer was non-stop all the way.  ( Read more... )  I've just been existing for a little bit until the next phase of my life happens.  Like the moon down to a sliver before it becomes new.

But anyway... I feel really bad that I owe so many people artwork.  After I get done my class I want to make it up to everyone!   Even people I never owed it to, lol!  And I'm going to go back to my old request system, which requires no payment and no input.

Candace

For my graduation gift, my parents booked a vacation for my sister and I down in Key West :)  I'm leaving in the middle of next week, and I won't be back until around the end of the week.  I can't remember I know anyone in Florida, lol, because I kind of lost touch with everyone x.x;  Oh well, when I come back, you can expect to see me nice and tan! <3

Candace

Hey everyone, or anyone who happens to be reading I guess ;p

If you're at all curious as to where I've been hiding, here's the break down.  I had a ishtload of work to do in order to get ready for graduation.  I had so many final papers, I was afraid I wouldn't finish them all.  But I walked on up the stage yesterday and grabbed up that diploma ^^;  My parents surprised me with a vacation to Key West next week, so I'll be gone from Tuesday to Thursday.  And then I start up work on the 31st, so I'll be busy busy.  If you need to see me before then, put in your bids now ;p

So, to anyone who is missing artwork from me, you will recieve it before June. :)  Now that I have time again.  But for anyone who wants artwork from me, it might take some finagling in order to figure out when I'll have time to do it.  I have to see what my schedule will be like this summer.

( Rant rant... )
Candace