191. HG 1/144 Zaku Warrior Live Concert Version

Wawawah, before I go any further with this post. I want to remind you guys that me and Toshi are trying to desperarely get rid of some items. Most are new, or gently used items. I'm in the process of moving again and in need to clear out items from my closet so I can free up some stuff. A lot of my stuff has went into the donation box already but I figured some of the items I have up for sale are very much in good condition; have only been worn once and are very much still new. And we are selling some brand new wigs just intime for the cosplay season~ please check it out: http://garagesalejapan.livejournal.com/19118195.html#cutid1

I may be revising the link since I'm allowed to re-spam garagesalejapan once every 3 days. Lol....
I'm willing to negotiate the prices as well since I just need to get rid of them at this point. But if their not gonna sell, then oh well, might as well hoard them some more ): 

 

my brothers are obsessed with those damn melon bars

and I wont lie, they are pretty damn addicting, refreshing and oh so good.

So great intime for the summer.

Another shameless photodump. I've re-installed Lightroom in my computer and I remembered just how much I loved that program in comparison to photoshop <3

Nothing interesting or entertaining to really talk about yet again since I just finished filing my taxes and yep. LOL. Uncle Sam hates me and is wanting me to cough up haha. I really need to get my W2 fixed so I get some form of deduction /: blargh.

With that being said, my already pretty bad social life has gone back to shits HAHAHA. But lets hope I can try and make an outting or two /:

I've also procrastinated and did not work on any cosplays this weekend when I said I would. I'm gonna end up like this person in this video:

Lol. See 1:06 and 1:50 looooooooooooooooooool

But seriously. I need to get working on that hahaha and make that cherry blossom shoot happen ;A; then we can look forward to a shoot someday in the mountains. Aaaaah

Anyways, photoblog for the week...more like, weekend ):

digging back some old polaroids since I finally added a new corkboard/whiteboard

thingie ontop of my desk area. I managed to stick some polaroids up there.
I'm exciting to put more in when I get more film 8D...

Clouds of cotton candy...my roomate asked me to make cookies to bring to her
dinner party down south. Instead of using pink (which I normally use)
I opted to use a light blue color. Like candy clouds.

I scored a unicorn cookie cutter. I'm excited to use it.

I picked up more flavor oils which I get locally at the local baking supply store. You dont need much to flavor your goodies with these babies.

Tried this new Revlon Photoready primer. So far so good. I know most people are raving over the L'oreal ones (????) but the foundation I use primarily is Revlon (since I"m out of my Mac one and tbh the Revlon colorstay is a very good dupe to the mac one)and its always better to stay with the same brand line you're using since you know their designed to work together.

I finally decided to build the 2 Gundams I have sitting in my shelf...
actually, the gunner zaku I recently got on Friday. I went to Marukai and was suprised to see they stocked the Gunner Zaku. I've been trying to find it and didnt want to pay for shipping by buying it online. So. Yay.

I effed up my ankle -possible from too much Dance Central and felt pretty sick saturday. So I've been pretty much bed / chair ridden all weeken=___=ll and keeping my foot elevated and iced. Killed time building 2 BBs and playing a little bit of COD.

Other than that, ALOT of sleeping ;A;....

and 0 sewing productivity....

Cupcake weekend & Gundams

Photos brought to you through Instagram! :o I dont quite understand it yet since I cant seem to access my photo gallery online but only through the iPhone so I gotta get smart and upload them to FB or Tumblr for me to even get them onto my PC roflmao anyways....

Another semi-productive weekend (yes I'm sorry I slept in again and didnt get to start my morning till late afternoon again roflmao!!!)

This week, I was hoping to make Lavender and Rose cupcakes but unfortunately the store I normally frequent to get my baking goods apparently dont carry them anymore )8 so I opted to get Marshmallow and Eggnog...why not?...lolz...

Here are some marshmallow cupcakes....you can tell me and my little brother went alittle over board with the food coloring. Hahahaha!!!!

Cupcakes are suppose to be fun and clearly need some color in them!!

lol omg you can tell I poured in too much and
the cupcakes clearly over flowed! hahahaha!!!!
the purple color turned out pretty light since I didnt put in enough
so it totally reminded me of Taro cupcakes back home Q_Q....

new lenses came in from Kawaii Love Beauty.com!!!!
super fast shipping.
I just ordered some reg brown nudy lenses

I ordered these babies on Wednesday night and I received my lenses Saturday morning! (today)
WOOOOW talk about fast shipping and they DO carry prescription lenses
and plenty of plano and special order lenses.
I was eager to find a US based seller and I def. found it in them!
Since I hate waiting for my lenses to come in ROFLMAO....
well, if its for cosplay its ok.
but I got these for my 'regular every day'
lenses since my lenses that I own are TOO big or TOO bold in color?..
hahaha I have Blue Nudy lenses but I dont feel comfortable
wearing them to work....Q_Q
So hopefully these will do the trick since I dont like wearing my glasses for long
since my fails gets oily (sorry, so nasty) and it makes my glasses slip and slide
D8< grossss


heres what they look like in bathroom lighting.
I havent taken them outside. I normally have pretty dark brown eyes.
their not as bright as I thought they would be.
which in a way is kind of a relief?...coz then I can get away with wearing them to work
the only other brown lenses I tried were the angel browns
which were also as equally comfortable and the black rim is more prominent
versus the nudy series. And I like that the Nudy series is more a dewy tear look to it?...
sometimes I kinda wish the brown is more pronounced but its ok. These are more subtle
haha and the enlargement is Ok. I'm used to wearing bigger lenses now haha.

but I kinda want to try the EOS Adult Browns next O_O
the design seems pretty plain and boring in my opinion but I've seen alot of
people wear them. So I might as well give it a shot too and see how much the difference is between the
nudy and the EOS adult browns.

Now onto other things! :O this weekend is suppose to be a productive one and so far so good! I made cupcakes today lmao and I'm looking if I want to order lavender and Rose extracts roflmao~
I also got some glitter puff paint to get working on Esther lawlz...I really need to order my rhinestones and wig lawl and stop ordering misc. items. I ordered some several accessories the other day too out of impulse. I just gotta give it 2 weeks for it to come to me~ hahaha

I worked on my new Gundam too~ the Wing Custom Zero

the gundam came with a mini figure of Hero but like I said I wont be arsed to paint it coz..just no )8 not a big fan of him....

and I really need to get a grey gundam marker and top coat again.

and last night I tried making a ghetto light box hahahaha! Out of a box and white construction paper and a bright lamp. few things I learned from this experience…

lOL. 2 lamps are better than one, To help eliminate shadows but of course photoshop can fix that /:

Secondly….I tried the fabric trick too, It didnt work out too well! hahaha It works better when the fabric is hanging off something and clearly when its ironed/steamed out…

I’m going to try using presentation boards with the white poster papers I got, might turn out better and saves me room since I can break it down and put it away when I’m done with it.

Here are some samples from my first try at this... and yes those are some macarons! :o so goooddd

these are the Trader Joe macarons I was tweeting about....

they come in a box of a dozen. 6 chocolates and 6 vanilla. I didn't try the chocolate coz I'm not a fan of chocolate anything so I gave it to my little brother. lol.
their ok for something that comes frozen! the serving sizes is pretty ok, I've had bigger ones LMAO. their probably the size of a Mochi /:

just let them sit out for a few mins to thaw out before biting into it. The cookie part has a good crust to it and has a nice soft chewy center, but biting into the filling I can taste a layer of sugar. Which I wish it didn't have )8
but meh, cant complain. its $4 for a box of 12. Versus going to a bakery which retails for almost $14+ for a box of dozen. But yes I wont give up on attempting to make my own! I just need to find a pocket heater since I'm afraid now that its cooler, there would be too much moisture in the air that it wouldnt make my macarons correct Q_Q...
I wouldn't want to have to waste batch after batch when almond flour is not cheap! but I did find Almond MILL at Trader Joe for about $4-5...I'm sure theres a tutorial out there some where on how to make ur own almond flour using the almond mill....

MSN-06S Sinanju

Another new Gundam Figure once again hahaha....
this one is the MSN-06S Sinanju from the Unicorn Gundam Series. I ordered this product from GundamPlanet.come and have received a CAMPAIGN id ticket. *u*

This is my first order from them. And the main reason for me ordering it from Gundam Planet versus ebay or amazon again.....is that they did a point system! I guess if you purchase enough items from them and build enough points you'd be able to win something? hahahaha. Cool?....xD

I could have probably gotten it for a cheaper price elsewhere but its ok!

Communication: 5/5. they were patient and answered my questions in a very speedy timely manner!
Pricing; 4/5. I'd say their pricing is definitely fair.
Shipping & Packaging: 4/5 only reason why I gave them a 4 instead of a 5 was...I paid for USPS Priority Mail but instead my package was sent via FedEx ground. which took 3-5 days shipping. But who am I to complain considering FedEx is more expensive? xD;;;
the item arrived within the 5th business day considering itis coming all the way from their New Jersey to California.

I'm not sure if I'd order from them again simply because I'm not a very patient person ahaha and there are plenty of model stores/sellers within CA. but the packaging and care they took is good :3
the box within the box was wrapped in bubble wrap and stuffed with paper to keep it from moving at all while in transit.

the plus for this model is that it came with a stand! I was worried it didnt! Ahaha since my other 2 BBs didnt?....

So 3 freakin’ animu stores later and this is all I come back with
LAWWWWWWWWWL. So Fail. I was looking for a Master Grade/Perfect Grade and possibly a BB Senshi Gundam.
But sadly, as clearly shown….Gundam plastic models are becoming more and more rare to find now adays.
The last store I went to was inside Mitsuwa, they only carried HGs of mostly Gundam Wing Gundams. ._. um…that would be last gundams I’d have on my list xDll they also have some from Destiny but only HG.

Guess I’ll be making an order from Gundamplanet after all QwQ;;

edit: ugguuuuu xD I just placed an order for the Sinaju BB Senshi from Gundamplanet.com
if only they had the Gunner Zaku that Lunamaria Hawke piloted too. I would have ordered that. But upon investigating further into ebaaaay I found a store in Huntingon Beach that carries the Gunner Zaku, $14 after shipping. I might just order the gunner zaku next week xD (one gundam at a time.....or I'll overwhelm myself)

Sorry I dont have much to talk about lately but I figured I should dump some photos. Some nice high Q photos since I havent busted out my DSLR since the con season ended. To be honest I kinda miss using it. So hopefully in the next few months or something I'll be able to use it more and more. Since clearly I wont be able to afford to upgrade to a new one in a while. Might as well use this one as much as I can :D;;

New BB Gundam this time around~ Its the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam

Had so much fun making these babies. I need a new set of markers so I can finish the shield and a metallic gun metal grey for the rest of the wings.

Painted the joints and arms with gold. beam saber with pink.

I need a new gundam pen for the linings as well. Oh boy. Someone keep me away from gundamplanet.com xDll before I do an order haul...or from Amazon.com either! lmao.
I need to stop browsing for shit I shouldnt be buying.... ie: gundams and makeup...xDlll