silverbrumby123

It really has been a busy week ;A; I've practically lived in the animation studios all week! >< Not really got a proper nights sleep, due to working on my animation, only to be told that the mini soundscape project (we were focusing on the 2D specialism project, because we have WAY too much work for that in comparison to the other specialisms >_> ) actually counted towards our final grade in that..... On the wednesday night, me and purafag  decided to give up on working on the specialisms project for a while, and watch more supernatural ( :D) And focus on the soundscape project thursday. Bascially, we did what everyone else had 2 weeks to do, in less than 24 hours. This included recording sounds, making them into a somewhat musical piece, and then animating to it. We succeeded, but didn't get to sleep until about 7 the next morning, and had to present the mini project to the rest of the class at 11 ;A; And because we hadn't done a powerpoint presentation to go with our presentation, he called us lazy! ¬_¬ So not too happy with this lecturer atm!

However, on saturday, I met up with my nearby hetalia friends for a stop-over~ we went to the cinema and watched 'men who stare at goats' which was bizarre, but also quite funny! We then had to walk for ages in the rain to get to a bus stop ;A; And then wait half an hour for a bus ;A; In the freezing cold and rain.... not fun. By the time we got to Ellies house, we were soaked ;A; From there we pretty much messed about, but I ended up going to bed early because I had a killer headache ;A; It wasn't fun, and I hope it doesn't come back! Then, today we went into cardiff and ate ramen and stuff :3 And I had to leave to get back to uni ;A; So I am back now~ My room is freezing, and I am still unwell~ though my chest doesn't hurt as much as it did earlier >< Hopefully i'll be better before the Triple H stop-over this coming weekend! *A* I am so excited now!!! I ended up booking tickets for a train there, but a coach back... mainly because the buses are weird over the weekend by me, so it's easier to catch a train down anyway, but it works out cheaper getting the national express.... :3 So... half and half~

And~ I may or may not be going to kitacon next year @_@ I shall see~ but if I do, i'll be war of austrian succession spain, and ellie will be WoAS france~ so we need a prussia, but we'll get there!!!

And expo i'm not too sure yet~ i'm planning on doing a pokemon gijinka on one day, but i'm not too sure which one atm, and a spain cosplay the other day~ possibly gakuen!spain , or re-using one of my older ones~ I also want to cosplay Bulgaria, but I may save that til a later date :D

Apparently November is Sketchvembver.......

Forget NaNoWriMo! Novemer is the month of sketching~ produce a sketch a day!

I have already failed, and with the amount of work I have, I am still likely to fail.....

But be prepared for sketchy crappiness~ :3

Doodled this mainly because I cannot seem to animate right now ;A; And I need to for my project ><;;;; But yeah.. anatomy fail drawing ahead!
( naaarrrrggggg )

Expo was amazing~ but I now have so much work to do @_@ I'll do a proper expo post later.....

Was in the animation studios until 2.30 in the morn last night... aka stupid o' clock ;A; and did so little work >< We got distracted watching David Attenborough, and drawing ourselves as Albatrosses and stuff~ :3

Maybe tonight will be more fruitful......?

;A;

Matador Spain~

Not finished yet, and I really should be working on it more rather than doing this.....

But here is a progress report... so people can actually see what I am doing :3

And I wanted some advice on the jacket arm also. I am worried it is too big/wide under the arm/armpit area. Kinda hard to see in the photos, but I dunno if I should unstich the sleeves and re-adjust it? @_@

Anyway~ pictures!

( Tell me what you think? )

Or just your ideas, anyway :3

For my animation project, I have a little girl trying to get the attention of her dad, and well... it doesn't go too well :3 My teacher is all 'take it to the extremes' and 'do outrageous stuff', but I don't want to do really cliche cartoony stuff either, like letting off fireworks (the girl will be like, 5-6 btw, so stuff like that isn't too good XD ) So give me your ideas people! What bizzare ways could a child get the attention of her dad? Perhaps ways you would find funny?

My friends suggested throwing a can at his head.... stuff like that works~

So help me find bizzare ways to get his attention that no one would actually use~ ask little siblings, etc~ :3 And thanks again ~ <3

Ahhh it's been so long since I last updated this ;A;

I moved into uni, it's my excuse :3 On a top floor flat with 2 of my friends, and our other flatmates are cool too~

The other week I went to Alton towers for the weekend for my friends birthday, it was amazing!!! The hotel there is so cool, though next time (and there WILL be a next time) I shall have to get tickets for the water park!!! My only regret is it was the same day as the Brighton hetalia meet ;A; I wanted to go so bad... Though even if I could have gone it would have been really difficult to get down there.... WHY ARE ALL THESE MEETS SO FAR AWAY????!!!

And I've also been ill ;A; Caught myself some freshers flu.... Had to catch the train back to uni when I was ill, and it was the worst trip home of my life ;A; It's like a 3- 4 hour journey if you count the buses to and from the station and all the waiting for said buses.... When I got into B'ham, I missed the train by a second... the driver actually looked at me, shook his head and drove off. I was feeling so shitty then I pretty much wanted to curl up and die ;A; So I went to the help desk to figure out where to go because I didn't want to wait another hour- I wanted to get back and sleep ;A; And the lady wasn't really helpful at all. I explained I had missed the train and asked what train I could take next and she was all 'well do you want to wait for the next direct train?' She asked that twice after despite me attempting to explain that no, I wanted the next train out of there ;A;

I finally got directed to the Bristol train, where I would have to change at Bristol for Newport.... and once on the train realised that my £30 ticket was missing. Worst. Day. Ever. Luckily the ticket woman missed me when she came past. I was half asleep anyways... The ticket man also missed me on the Bristol to Newport train, and the man at the barrier let me out at newport despite the lack of ticket (I DID have a receipt, but there was no destination info on it, so I didn't know if it would work, but the barrier guy was fine with it... ) so I like to think someone was looking out for me ;A; Then I went to my uni dorm and crashed ;A; Had a sore throat for a few days, but then we went to our first class~ We had to pick between CGI, 2D, or stop motion animation for our specialization, and I picked 2D, because it's what I really really want to do :3 And our class is awesome! We're like, the only one who have a proper brief, and it's really cool~ more info on that will follow another time :3

And my ice skating coach text me, and we sorted out this years lessons again :3 At a later time, so no more 5.30 am mornings.... (it'll still be early, just not AS early~ ) And me and some friends went ice skating on saturday, which was great fun, and then we ate at a gormet burger restaurant (lulz) (It was next to a japanese, and opposite two italians and an indian. This made me LOL ) But saturday also returned a major headache to me, all day, despite having fun ;A; So I went straight to bed when I got back again >< Hopefully I won't come down with any more freshers flu stuff >< Also, I need to start my uni projects now.... have a soundscape one to do also @_@ but character designs and a storyboard for tomorrow, so I should start..... We have to have an online blog this year~ I shall link when there is stuff on it :D

And I shall go now~ Bye~

There's like, 4 days until I return to uni~ Can't wait now, even though I haven't packed a THING!!! hahahaha

Last night me and my home friends had a goodbye meal~ it was ok, though it was too late that I realised i'd be surrounded my twilight fans until my fellow hater showed up ;A; I always end up ranting about the fail that is twilight when I go in there, so I was slightly ;A; Luckily, no twilight ended up being mentioned, and Lovi text me to keep me sane :D

But then I got home to find a massive spider on my bed ;A; It was really big! ;A;

Mmmm but anyway, not much else has been going on lately... Have been re-sewing the pockets onto my military cosplay for spain, before I start on the matador cosplay, because I only have one bobbin~ just need to stick the flaps on now~ Though I REALLY need to get started on this cosplay now ><;; And the PJs~

For the past few days I have been working on a Spain pic~ have been working on the background all day today, because I fail at backgrounds~ It looks really cool when it's small, but you go to normal size and it doesn't look so good ;A; Ahh well, I am learning....

My 6 year old sister decided to 'play' with my sewing machine.

The thread all go jammed in the bobbin case, which my dad managed to fix, but now the bobbin case won't fit back together. It just got fixed yesterday.

FFFFFML

I'm not even sure what the guy did but... it works properly now :D And it didn't cost anything either :3 Now I can get to work on my cosplay~ finally XDXD

On a slightly more depressing note, a few days ago, my sisters friend came round with news that one of their friends had been hit by 2 cars as he made his way home from his new secondary school. The story kept getting warped as she told people, but her grandad apparently told her her was 70% sure it was this guy, and blood was pouring from his ears and stuff. My sister was devastated, and yesterday she found this: http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/09/10/boy-11-hurt-in-collision/ And while no names were mentioned, it has now been confirmed by the guys mother that it was him ;A; Apparently he is still under sedatives, so they won't know the full extent of the damage until he wakes up, but its a pretty awful thing to happen the week he starts a new school :(

Mmmm today has been a bit hectic >< It is my little sisters birthday today, so happy birthdays were all done before she went to school~ another sister is ill in bed, as was dad ¬_¬

But we had arranged to meet my grandma in wolverhampton today, so we left them XD It was fun~ it'll be the last time I see my grandma before I go back to uni, and she gave me money *A* and brought me some things I've needed since last year, such as a proper chopping knife ><;;; Then my mum had to go into Ann Summers to buy gag gifts for her male manager who is leaving, so we were all dragged in there.... I was the one who suggested she buy a 'chocolate willy' XDXD for him~ she did, and I wish I was there to see the look on the guys face when he opens it XD My grandma (who is the most amazing grandma ever) found it all just as funny, and said that if they had been cheaper, she would have brought some of the 'willy sweets' to share out amongst her choir group XDXD And as we were leaving, some of the staff tried to get me interested in an Ann summers party, and when I refused my grandma asked (as a joke) why she hadn't been asked about one XDXD I love my grandma~

And my NUS card finally arrived today~ And I phoned up the sewing machine people~ we'll take it in tomorrow :D I hope it won't cost too much >< Just checked my bank account and I have spent about £100 in the last week ;A; I am unsure how it happened.... I need to start collecting the money that people owe me, I think.... XD

I admit defeat ;A; Just spent HOURS messing with the sewing machine, it still has an imperfect stitch ;A; It's going to a sewing machine repairs shop... where i'll find out it was a simple little loose screw or something ¬_¬ But as long as it sews right.... I really need to start this cosplay XDXD

... at least it's somewhat cleaner....

And my laptop may end up getting re formatted ;A; People who speak to me on msn know my tendency to disappear~ My internet keeps closing on me due to an 'error' my msn keeps doing the same, and my stupid laptop blue screens SO much it's not funny... and I only got the laptop at xmas, it's always done this ¬_¬ So i
hopefully a complete re-format will fix it ;A; Hopefully it'll be done before the return to uni XD (In fact, the inet errored on me while writing this post....)

Today I FINALLY finished one of the requests I had from June~ Its been a while, so I dunno if the person who made it even remembers making the request but... it's done... I will no longer have to feel guilty about slacking.... on that one anyway....

Still have another pic to do~ It was meant to be an art trade, but it'll probably end up just being a request, IDK XD She probably forgot about it too... And then my newest request <3 The choco tomato alliance (Spain, Belgium and S.Italy~ )

(Still taking requests btw~ :3)

Uhh and today, I found and watched a really aweosme animated film <3

It's called The Secret of Kells, and it's and Irish/French/Belgium collaboration~ It lasts about 1 hour 15 mins, and while its not in a style I usually go for, the actual animation was beautiful *A* And the music was so pretty~ and the story was amazing too~ It was pretty atmospherical and stylistic, and I really enjoyed it~ They have a jumble of clips on Youtube if people are interested~ <3<3 It's set in Ireland around the time of the viking invasions, and focuses on a young boy called Brendan who, with the help of a faerie (Aisling) needs to help complete the book of Iona~ Or something like that, I was never that good at summaries XDXD

I brought most of the stuff i'll need for my matador spain cosplay today~ :3 All I really need to get now is the material for the cape, which i'll probably get when the other stuff is finished, and some gold ribbon and stuff for decoration~ The lady in the shop was SO helpful :3 Will probably end up hand stitching a lot of stuff, though if my sewing machine insists on sewing wonky, maybe I can just make sure that the wonky side is on the inside? Ffff I'll get it to work eventually... Need to get some more bobbins though, so I don't have to keep un winding the one I do have ;A;

And for interested people:


:3 Inspired by a conversation I had with chocotomatoe  when Lovi (domica ) went to disneyland <3 Ignore crappy background, I just didn't want it to look empty XD I'll colour it eventually.... methinks Lovi wants to get off....

And I am thinking about taking a few art requests before I go away to uni~ I have like, 2 from ages ago to finish, but ones for a friend anyway, so she'll live XD And the other... i'll work on asap... The reason I think i'll take them up again is because I got a note on DA a few days ago asking if I did requests, and if so would I draw her characters~ I said I would, though she wanted them in my chibi style (I have no chibi style ;A; ) or in one of my oldish animu styles~ so that'll be interesting to return to... Though i'll probably practice chibis.... *rambleramble*

So what I'm asking is~ does anyone (who doesn't mind possibly waiting ridiculously large amounts of time) want to request a picture? Obviously hetalia stuff would be <3 But i'll try most things~

My friend~ kaddykadkad , or Guyland (XD) took this picture in London today~




Lovi has a restaurant XDXD

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Also, i've never used an LJ cut before, lets see if I can get it to work....

( does this work? )

So today I realised that the email NUS sent me wasn't just an email... strategically hidden at the bottom of the email was the link to the re-activate page, which I apparently need to fill in before I get my card ;A; So i'll be waiting a while for that ¬_¬

And my student finance confirmation letter hasn't come either... and I just realised I STILL haven't filled in the form to get inet this year at uni... WHY AM I SUCH A FAIL????!!!!!!!

On another note, went to see G Force in the cinema yesterday, which was adorable <3 But a very typical disney live action film... I wanted to facepalm in some parts XD And my sisters totally burned a hole in my pocket... never taking them again ;A;

Mmmm and on the sewing machine front.... the thread doesn't tangle any more, but one side sews too slowly or something? IDK, but one side has perfect stitches and the other side has thread all over the place. My mum insists it's the tensions, but I don't know how to fix it... yet when I ask to take it to a sewing machine service shop or something to fix it, she says it shoud be something I can figure out by myself... thanks mum... the only one who didn't get taught to use a sewing machine in textiles class (there wasn't enough time in the lesson apparently ¬_¬) has to figure it out by herself... It doesn't help that none of the other sewing machines of this model look ANYTHING like mine in onine guides ;A; I'll figure it out eventually I guess. However, I really need to get this cosplay sorted, and i'm a bit of a loss on what to do for the trousers... (well, everything really, but lets focus on the trousers...) As people should know by now, it's matador spain~ reference here: http://media.photobucket.com/image/matador%20spain%20hetalia/SHiNiGaMiSHiNoBi545/Hetalia/th_spain_matador.png

errr anyway, I am AWFUL at figuring out colours.... but they look brown to me, so I was considering buying some choc brown leggings from ebay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-4-Length-Viscose-Leggings-all-Colours-all-Sizes_W0QQitemZ220457087754QQcmdZViewItemQQptZWomen_s_Clothing?var=&hash=item79126ab1e4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 )
But I dunno if the colour is ok? (I said I was awful at these things) I'd like a second opinion (or 3 or 4) if anyone could help me ^^

I'd proabably have to hand sew the errrr... decorative... thingies... (lulz) on, because I can't see how else to do this without actually stitching the leggings together ;A; And i'm aiming to use satin or something for the jacket and stuff, If I can figure it out... *istotallyuseless* The lady in the fabric store was selling brocade (?) and stuff for the decorations, so that'll be fun~ :3

Also, the hetalia twitter rpg has been taking out some of the boredom I have been suffering lately :D I am http://twitter.com/tomato_siesta, or spain :3 So far we have an england, france, hungary, russia, canada, lithuania, poland, america, sealand, belarus, Finaland, we did have a Sweden, but for some reason he's disappeared from my following list ;A; And we have a Prussia and S.Italy :3 (though I haven't actually heard from prussia since I joined the rp, and Lovi has also been MIA for a few days ;A; (Come back to Spain, Lovi <3<3)) It'd be awesome if we could get more nations on there :3

Errrr to finish, i'll leave you with a spain/romano pic :3 (I swear i'll learn to draw better one day *raises fist* )
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c34/silverbrumby123/spainromanofin.jpg
It'll probably be up on DA eventually, but... lazy....

And my sketch blog :3 Filled with crappy sketches and sadly neglected ;A; *updates*
http://silverbrumby123.wordpress.com/

ok, I think i'm done~ sorry for boring you <3

I really do...

I got a sewing machine from my grandma the other day, which belonged to her mother. She could never figure out how to use it properly, and believed she was always threading it wrong, so it was gathering dust. And I wanted a sewing machine to make my matador spain cosplay, so she gave it to me :D It's a singer 201k model, and it's ancient. There was no instruction manual, so after hours of google searching, I finally found one, and I believe I have threaded it properly....

But everytime I go to sew, the needle just stops ;A; And all the thread seems to be tangling inside the bobbin. Do any sewing machine experts know what i'm doing wrong??? *so confused*

Hopefully i'll figure it out eventually if no one can help me ;A;

In other news, October expo seems to be sorted... FINALLY!

I am sharing a room with my freind Katie, who can now come because she has been paid properly :D And Ellie and Robyn, in the premier travel inn :3 So we have a spain, s.italy, england and katie (who I am going to try and persuade to cosplay hetalia) sharing a room :3 This will be fun....

And it was my birthday wednesday~ I am now 19 years old!!!! :P

So  yeah... returns to trying to figure out sewing machine*

Urghhhh~ Now pretty much most of the summer excitement is over, thoughts have been turning towards october expo~

And suddenly the topic of hotels is insanely difficult >< One friend said she'd share a room with me, but upon looking at the price she'd have to pay (£90 for friday to sunday) she declined and said she'd rather come down for one day ;A; And another friend also has no money and isn't coming ><

Money sucks ;A; I really need to find a room-mate for expo~ and book the room before it gets even more expensive ;A; In may I crashed at my friends house saturday to sunday, and another friends house friday to saturday, and while this was good and free (excluding travel costs) I had to lug a heavy suitcase around with me to and from  the expo each day, and I don't really wanna do that again ;A; And I can't pay for a hotel room by myself either ><

Gawd, this sucks ¬_¬

On a brighter note, went to midlands cosplay picnic yesterday, which was awesome, but not as much fun as the hetalia meets, which are too epic for words anyway~ <3 I won musical statues, despite getting LICKED IN THE FACE to make me move ;A;

:3 It's my birthday on wednesday :D

having  a good old fashioned stopover tuesday to friday~ but the content of the days is a little jumbled XD Originally we were going to have the cosplay picnic on wednesday, my actual birthday, but I may move it to the tuesday now~ Or not have it at all~

On tuesday, i'm going into B ham to pick up people from train stations, coach stations ect, not that there are many now ;A; And we may wander up to look at the cybercandy store to buy pocky and stuff :D Then we were planning on going into sutton and eating at jimmy spices, which is an all you can eat buffet that serves italian, chinese, thai and indian. (and it's so cheap :D £6.99 if you eat between 12 and 2.30)  I actually think it would be even better to eat here than a picnic, because I want to hetalia cosplay in there for the lulz XD Then we were gonna go back to my house and bake a hetalia cake~ but we may stop off at the arboretum for a bit first, and play on the park/scare people. And get take out pizza or chinese for tea~ if we're still hungary, anyway~

On wednesday, we were planning on the picnic~ might still go to the arboretum and have one, or if we have a picnic on the tuesday, just go to jimmy spices~ or something~

Not much was actually planned for the wednesday ;A; Except for celebrating another year of my life~

If anyone wants to join us on tuesday/wednesday, please say so!!!! So many people had to cancel due to money problems ;A;

And tomorrow i'm going to another cosplay picnic in west brom~ not many hetalia cosplayers, but there'll be a few of us..... http://cosbite.piczo.com/?g=1&cr=5 if you are interested <3

So, I was just cleaning out my guinea pigs, and I moved onto the males hutch, opened it, and a little blur shot across the hutch....

IT WAS A MOUSE!!!!

I have no clue how it got in there, but it ran off when dad came ;A;

Some of you may know that recently we had mice in the house, but we seem to have gotten rid of them, but now dads all 'bar the windows and doors!!!!!' But yeah.... it was a bit of a surprise XD

It was amazing!!!!!! Probably one of the best days i've had this summer!!!! I was cosplaying as Spain, and me billy and S. Italy ended up being a little late to the picnic due to coach/train times, but we got there in the end and everyone was so nice!!!!! And I'm doing it again this thursday!!!!! It seems like i've been to London so much lately!!!!

Highlights included:

Forming the chocolate tomato alliance (Spain, S.Italy and Belgium) and proceeding to beat all the other countries at UNO!!!

Claiming the tree/bush with a door before England :3

Claiming England (revenge for the armada, yes?)

Duck duck goose and its various renditions (kol kol vodka, pasta pasta pizza ect)

Pink tomato cakes~

Running around London looking for drinks~

Coming back from running around London, and finding the building/ plaque dedicated to the Entente cordiale (look england look!!!! London supports your relationship with france!!!)

general craziness~

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But yeah, it was amazing~ my only regret is having to leave to catch the coach back just as people were going for a meal somewhere ;A;

On thursday there will be a smaller picnic, unfortunately with no s.italy, but we'll have a france, and belgium again, so I have part of my alliance :3 So far the plan is to go to hyde park, and possibly various london landmarks for photos~ I can't wait~ me and belgium need to frolic~

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Other than that, I went to a birmingham cosplay meet on saturday with a friend. Was a little disappointed TBF ;A; I managed to slip in a patch of mud whilst playing bulldog, and we went to get cleaned up. When we returned, the other cosplayers had gone, and we couldn't find them again >< Through a strange twist of fate, I was talking to the italy cosplayer on msn (she knows (my) s.italy) and it turns out they had left for a noodle bar, and then realised we had been forgotten. One or two came back, but either I hadn't finished cleaning up, or we had gone by then ;A; The meet was a little badly organised, it seemed, or I was spoilt by the hetalia meet XD But I enjoyed myself regardless~

And then we came home and ordered pizza :3

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Uhh and the 26th august is my birthday <3 I am having a cosplay picnic in walsall arboretum, and a few of my friends, who come down from london and such, will be stopping over the night before and stuff~ If anyone lives nearish and wants to come to the cosplay picnic, they are welcome to :3 PM me for details or comment or something~ Its really pretty so its a good place for photoshoots (and back at home I have cute fluffy animals, also good for photoshoots??? :3 )

ANd I need to start making my matador spain outfit that I have been persuaded into doing ;A; So little reference for this cosplay... *gets to work*