Sending My Baby to Mars

Just gonna leave this little link here.

http://tinyurl.com/Tadpole2Mars

The Matchmaker

This blog post is brought to you by a whole day of searching for some lost patterns. Fortunately, I remembered posting these patterns on the cross_stitch comm on LJ. So, from the resurrected memories of October 16, 2007. Here is the story of The Matchmaker. The story of The Matchmaker involves young genteel miss and a gentle scholar and their misadventures of falling in love. One of the series of misadventure involving the scholar's boss falling for the matchmaker.

Little Miss

Little Miss

Gentle Scholar

Gentle Scholar

The Matchmaker

For some strange reason, this pattern was mislabeled as the bridesmaid.

The Matchmaker

The Magistrate

The Magistrate

The charts are in historically and theatrically correct Peking Opera makeups and outfits. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. These have to be my favorite patterns of all times. Oh, and these patterns are free, so click on the hyper link and enjoy the download from DMC.

New Wig

Trying out a new wig tonight, because it just arrived yesterday and I wasn't able to get hold of the box until today. It is copper blonde in color. I posted some previews earlier on my facebook and asked for concrits. Well, turned out the snow camo I was wearing was too distracting, so I redressed and redon the wig for another snap. This is what came out and everyone said that the wig looks fine on me. 

This is my first time going blonde. I think it's pretty good. I've been wanting to get some blonde wigs, and this was my first. Next one, I think I'll try a whiter/paler blonde. I have some Gabalnara wig that should be home with me soon. They messed up my last order, and didn't send one of my ponytail. So, I added a full wig to that order, so that it wouldn't be a waste of another delivery box. 

This is the Hizaki wig from 07 Wig on taobao. I can't wait for tomorrow's meetup. I'm charging my camera right now and I also need to get things together for the swap meet. First time, I'm getting rid of some of my things to get other things that I can use more.

I'm running a taobao wig group order atm, and it feels so exciting to be able to see what everyone else want to get. Along with the wig group order, I also got the Star Bag group order with Claudia, Ai, and Flora and my shoes for matching with the red Alice dress I'm ordering from Bodyline.

Aurora Ribbon

So, since early December last year, I've discovered an accessory series from Angelic Pretty that I've never knew about before.

It's called Aurora Ribbon. It comes with headband, barrette, necklace, ring and bracelet.

 I have the luck to acquire the bracelet literally days after acquiring the barrette and just a few days ago I acquired the necklace, with a little help from Christine, when she linked me to the sales post with it.

 Now, I'm on the hunt for the headband and the ring. Someone contacted me about being interested in selling the ring, so I'm crossing my fingers.

If the ring pans out, then all that I have to do is find the headband.

Tis the Season for Reindeer Eye Surgeries

These reindeer clips were found at the dollar bins at Target with their eyes missing, since I wanted to get these for my daughter for the holiday, I figured that I'll buy it and just glue a new pair of eyes on. I actually had bought another pair previously the weekends before I bought these pair at another Target. But, after wearing it a few times, I decided to get another pair for my daughter. I think these reindeers are dorky, but cute. Now that I fixed the eyes on this pair, I'm going to put new eyes on the other pair, as the pair I originally got had one of the eyes fell off.

Long Time No Blog

I recently got a beautiful skirt from the egl_comm_sales. It's originally a Jolie Chose skirt. The lace on the back was wonky, so I altered it and then snap the plastic comb off of the matching hair corsage and sewn a metal comb into it.

I really love the color of this lolita set. The skirt is a high waisted skirt, so it's really flattering on my curves. This skirt was seem to be able to tame my Frog Princess petticoat. The epicness of my Frog Princess will be shown in another post for another about a recent meetup I went to.

But, here is a coordinate shot of the high waisted skirt with Frog Princess underneath.

You can see in this shot that the petticoat doesn't look that big, but in real life it is so big. *makes gesture like the big fish that got away* I'm wearing the blouse that I've been lusting forever from Retroscope. Also, got off the comm sales.

I really think I should coord this blouse with the Retroscope bustle skirt that I have one of this day. So, til the next time.

Now, the reason I called this blog Absent Minded Stitcher is because I'm a pretty absent minded person. I also often forget to do things that is on the list of things I'm supposed to be doing.

I hope to keep this blog relatively lively. This will be a personal record to things I've done, too. Since, I've decided that this won't be a strictly cross stitching blog. Once again, click to enlarge.

Rushnychok 1-8 color code: red, black, yellow and green

Rushnychok 1-7 color code: black, red

Rushnychok 1-6 color code: red, black

Rushnychok 1-5 red, dark black, and red.