true adventures of awaking hearts

I have some really neat Tanemura items for sale over here:

- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne plastic storage box (PRESENT item)
- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne metal badge/pin (super cute)
- Time Stranger Kyoko Art Print (Festival item)
- Time Stranger Kyoko/Good Morning Call anime OAV (Ribon Magazine zenin VHS tape)
- Almost ALL the Japanese manga volumes, from ION to SDC #9 (a few have been bought here and there, but most are complete series)
- TSK and KKJ teleca (reduced greatly in price!)
- Shitajiki/pencil boards from KKJ, TSK, Full Moon and SDC, including Ribon multi-series boards that are extremely rare

Check out the goods, I'd love to pass these things on to a good home! :D

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Ooh ooh! Éclairs!

(hey, it may sound shallow, but I am a culinary student. XD)

A piece I am working on for a contest. I wanted to create somthing envoked by the likes of Rocketeer. This is the result. She used to have a jet pack but I ditched it as it was messing the comp up.

I'm so glad someone took it upon themselves to grammar check the passive aggressive bathroom sign...

For those of you who tinker, there will be an invention contest. More details to come via the website.

Anyone have or wish to make plans to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince this weekend? Let me know! I'm sure mclittlebitch and I will be making some kind of plans.

Also: My 29th birthday is Tuesday the 28th! Plans to come, let me know if you'll be around. Plans are looking like dinner and something else. TBA!

Also... Kris Allen is just fucking adorable. Uh, that's all.

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Two Dreamwidth codes, anyone want?

eta: all gone.

I recently -- as in yesterday -- got a look at my checking balance, and realized that not paying rent for two months has seriously affected it to a degree I did not expect. I will have more than enough money to get a decent car comparable to the one I lost, and have a buffer left over for my next crisis.

So, I thought I deserved something a mite irresponsible.


Seasons 1 and 2 of Power Rangers should be arriving at my apartment by the end of the week.

Boo fucking ya!
( Power Ranger rambling for those who care )

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Another icon post. Yes it's been a while. Enjoy my new icon post.






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[ ICON POST ]
(x19) another code r: a journey into lost memories
(x24) clover
(x5) final fantasy x/x-2
(x10) kingdom hearts
(x10) shinshi doumei cross
(x22) shugo chara!

total: 90

[TEASERS]


( i tried to do handstands for you, but everytime i fell for you )

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DRUMMMM ROOOOOLLLL....

Congrats Sarah-Greenbeanteenqueen! You were lucky number #26 on my list! I sent you a message on Goodreads so check your inbox! :)

I'm going to be giving away another ARC next month, and I promise it'll be held here at the blog. Thanks so much again to everyone who entered!!

Love,
Alex

OK.. if you were to attend a workshop given by me, what would you want it to be on?

Puppetry? Drawing? Comics? Animation? Fashion Illustration? Governing a small Principality?

I have a few ideas, but not sure what would be most desired. And the opportunity is there! So help would be appreciated!

xx
thanks!

Teagan the Vampire Wheaten welcomes you to this week's edition of FRIDAY FIVE

1. Today is the last day to enter my ARC Giveaway on Goodreads! Over 60 people have entered, which makes me ridiculously happy! Thanks to all of my writerly friends who helped me plug the competition. I hope that the winner, whoever he or she turns out to be, will like it enough to share it with their friends!

2. One of my favorite speakers so far has been one of the heads of Vogue who explained the magazine's goals and why it's continued to be so successful throughout the ages. In an event of perfect timing, The Times just did a piece that addresses this exact same topic. I love Anna Wintour in a You-Terrify-Me-But-GET-IT-GURRRRL kind of way. They're going to be doing a Fashion's Night Out on September 10th here in the city to bring consumers back to shops and I believe they're also doing it in Milan (and Paris?). The mayor of New York has agreed to keeping stores open until 11 to help the event, which is also doubling as a fundraiser for the September 11th fund. It's fascinating to me, because it's clear that no other magazine would have the kind of power to do this.




3. Speaking of the all-mighty fashion, The Cut had a fascinating video on all of the work that goes into the creation of a couture Chanel gown. Okay, confession time: when I was ten my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told them that I wanted a Chanel purse. Obviously I didn't know those bad boys run upwards of $2,000, but I've always loved the brand and held up it as the emblem of devastating classiness. That's also why I'm SO EXCITED to see Coco Avant Chanel, which looks, in a word, amazing! British Vogue (of course!) has a preview of the costumes for it here.

4. Jenny Lewis' See Fernando video! So, so much love!

Jenny Lewis "See Fernando" from Team G on Vimeo.

5. READING!! I think you can file this under "DUH," but I'm slowly but surely rediscovering my love of reading. Because I had so much school work, I taught myself to skim-read while I was in college, which is no way to read at all. Now I can linger over words, think about the way something is phrased, wonder if the copy editor was on crack, really try to think about the mental image the author is trying to convey. I think it's helping my own writing, too. I've been having a lot of those self-pity fits where I get depressed every time I open my WIP's Word Doc, but I finally got past my writer's block again and I'm well on my way to finishing the book. And thank goodness, too, because it's going to be far closer to 100k words than the 70k I originally planned. Time to prune!

I got a little shoutout by the brilliant creator Boy Blue Productions Kenan, who did a great roundup of some interesting artists at MoCCA.

"vampire deluxe is a witty, sexy, and stylishly illustrated treat; a decadent comics confection. my only complaint is that it isn’t longer."

Sweet.
I'm well chuffed my comic is described as "sexy"!

So the news is that I have roughly 3 comics left of this first printing. Thank you so much to all who purchased, an I hope you enjoyed the comic! I'm at this moment trying to get a store or two to carry a bundle so I can print off some more.

I have set aside two for Mikal and Silver, who expressed interest in it but haven't paid (totally cool - I will hold them for ya since you both are neat)

Has anyone else either paid and not gotten their comic, or wanted one and haven't been able to pay yet? If not.. who wants these last three?

love, bites, and fetid corpse freshness.

I left book club early this evening due to some rather nasty back pain, and as I was walking home I met this adorable cat.  She was really sweet and didn't want me to stop petting her, but wouldn't let me pick her up.  She followed me for about half a block, but then stopped and went back.  Someone leaves food out for neighborhood cats down there, so I guess it's kind of the home-base.  By the time I got home I was a bit upset about the whole thing, so my poor long-suffering roommate and I took the cat carrier and went back.  We found the kitty, and she let us pet her, although she wasn't as crazy about it this time.  I tried to scoop her up, but she wiggled free and hid under a car.  We tried to lure her out - Heather even ran down to the corner store and picked up a can of Fancy Feast - but to no avail.  Eventually she wandered out from under the car and walked away from us across the street, so we gave up and came home.

I guess it's just as well, the landlady having vetoed the 3rd-cat idea when I ran it by her earlier this year.  But I had to go back.

ETA:  While I was gone, Stella left two of her favorite toys on my bed for me.  <3