Heaven, Blogs, Sprucing and Fasting

Heaven:

Last Friday, I found a slice of Lolita heaven on earth. Yes, loyal readers, if you're ever in Berkeley CA, you must go to Lacies. It's right by the Ashbey BART station. They have all the equipment needed to be a proper Lolita, and if they don't, they know how to make it and will gladly help you out. For example, I got an instructional video and a pattern on how to make a period corset. This corset, and pictures, will be made and posted soon. True, I got the fabric and lacing and other such things from other places, but of all the fabric/sewing stores I've gone to they are the only ones that sell steel bones and busks. Also, the have a backroom full of mannequins dressed entirely in Victorian garb, petticoats and hoop skirts hanging from the ceiling, a basket full of parasols, and a table full of tea hats. My heart swelled with joy to be in such a place.

To make matters more spectacular, not a day later did I find the only EGL meetup in all of the bay area. Which, provided I finish the corset, the skirt, and either a tea hat or bows, I will be at. Pictures and copious blogging to follow. I also either have to make food or buy some as it will be a potluck. It's also the same day as Gaskells which means I'll be in Lolita garb ALL DAY. I dare say such a thing is but a dream *flutters*.

Blogs:

In order to write this very post, I had to stop reading my boyfriends blog. Now, he's had this blog since he was about 13 and I realize a few key things about how my boy was when he was young. We were similar people: morbid and emo (but in a less whiny way than actual emo kids), we were both hung up on love, and we mused on life. Contrarily, he was more eloquent and admittedly, a jerk. I tried to be eloquent, and was a pussy. He is a beautiful writer though, fabulous I dare say. Gifted. All the things that I, as one who likes to" paint with pencils" as my mother said, would do with words.

I've come to the conclusion that we should write a children's book. Or rather, he should, and I should illustrate it.

Speaking of blogs though, what would be a good way to make my thoughts more...public? So that I turn up on google searches, and get internet fame and that sort of thing. Obviously, I should post more about goth-y things--clubs, fashion, meetups, et cet but I haven't gone to any of those things, and there aren't many back in Carlisle. I've been meaning to hit the clubs, but I honestly don't think my friends would go with me to, and though a goth club seems like the perfect place to brood in a corner and curse your introversion (especially when surrounded by beautiful people), I know that BART-ing to the city and back would be scary, even for a creature of the night such as myself.

Sprucing:

I'd like to spruce up my blog a bit. Nothing obnoxiously gothy (blood dripping from the scroll bars and the like) but I'm open to suggestions. I'm thinking...Victorian?

Fasting:

I'm considering fasting until I can't stand it any longer for the sake of art. Seeing if it influences me at all. After the piece I'm working on now (which I have roughly 15 days to finish) I honestly would like to draw little to no fantasy works for a while if anymore. But that's all I know...because the fantastic is beautiful, and beauty is art. Perhaps through fasting, I'll find some other sort of subject...