Sad news that Don S Davis aka General Hammond from SG1 passed away on sunday/monday morning. The Vancouver Sun story. I always liked the General during SG1.

Ooooo my new laptop is so shiny. I have to scan my fingers for fingerprint recognition to sign on! How swish and cool is that? Still getting used to it being widescreen and the buttons aren't clunky like the computer ones which I just got used to using again.

Totally pointless post.

Current Mood: amused

I got an email today from the Born of Hope team (the sister film to Hunt for Gollum) and I've been taken on board as a costume maker but I also offered to do some designing for them too. I have been asked to design 4 ranger costumes (2 male, 2 female) and if I finish them quickly enough they might send me more. I don't think i'll try and finish them quickly. I'd love to design more but I now have to get back to work on making Aragorn and Arwen and I still have to finish my portfolio so I don't want to have too much to do.

Trailer for BoH:


Also finally had the meeting with the H4G director yesterday. He loved the designs for Arwen and Aragorn. He also really liked Aragorn's costume so far so he's back on track. Arwen now has a cloak and we are going to use my Venice cloak for her so that is one less thing to make. Her dress is also going to be white not blue (which I said right at the beginning it should be lol!) and we might cheat and just make the front of the dress because the back is covered with the cloak.

To be honest these costumes shouldn't take very long. They are both pretty simple and i've done the hard work which was the embroidery. So YAY!

Current Mood: excited

more cat pictures

It is what it says in the subject line. I spent today scanning in all of my convention and premiere photos (in the age before digital cameras) so that I can back them up onto a dvd.

Before looking at the RotK premiere photos a little background info(for those who weren't here 3 years ago!). Myself and the others I was with thought it would be a great idea to buy some carrots to give to the hobbits. We wrote messages on them and everything. However. When I got my photos back they didn't look like carrots at all. I look at those photos with amusement and horror! So thats the story.

Enjoy!

( Epic-ness ahoy. Very image heavy! )

Phew. Thats it. Until I can afford to go to more! And I may be going to the Dark Knight premiere but I haven't decided for certain yet.

Current Mood: accomplished

I got my hair cut today. I have been so sick of my hair for the last 3 months but I finally got it chopped. It's so different but I love it. I got a fringe cut as well but I don't really like that bit I guess I'll have to get used to it.

I also got the Army film in the post today which was nice because I wasn't expecting a copy. I watched some of it but cause it's a training film it reminded me a bit too much of school so I turned it off and watched I am Legend again instead.

What I really wanted to post about was that on wednesday my mum phoned me at work to say she had just got free tickets to see Dirty Dancing at the theatre that evening. So I rushed from work to get to the theatre on time. We were front row centre on the balcony so they were awesome seats (not enough leg room but I could live through that!). It's not a play I would have paid to see but it was awesome. I'd recommend it but only if you like the film I guess. The transition from film to stage was really good and it wasn't musicalized. There were some hardcore DD film fans in the audience who cheered and heckled everytime there was a famous scene.

Current Mood: thirsty

I went to a screening of the student film "Guns" which I worked on a couple of weeks ago. It was brilliant. It came out really well and was really funny. You couldn't see my Police that well but enough to get the idea. The sound still needed some work because on some of the outdoor scenes you could hear the generator running in the background. I can't wait to see the completely finished version.

I had to sit through all of the student films while I was there. Some of them were fantastic. There was this great one called "Boots" about an elderly man with Alzheimer's or something and he's always wandering off and being returned home by a police officer. The lady that checks on him keeps hiding his shoes in different places to try and prevent him going but he keeps finding them. It was so sweet and sad at the end. There was another short film that had Kieran Shah in and he played a widower who is trying to deal with his wife's death and he makes these really tall shoes. I can't really describe this one because it was so strange and I didn't really know what was going on.

Tuesday I went to Kate's house and we had a SGA-athon. She's a big fan of SG1 so I told her she had to watch Atlantis. We brought lots of supplies and then sat and watched it. My dvds arrived so we were watching them. It was great to see them in such good quality. We watched until about 2am and decided to sleep for a bit and then watched some more in the morning. We made it to 1x16. We will be having another SGA-athon soon.

After we finished we had lunch at a nice pub and headed into Kingston. On our way there I noticed some police further up the street had pulled over a white van and were talking to (I presume) the driver. As the bus started turning the corner the driver made a run for it and the police chased after him. He ran through a side gate of a house and the police were very close behind him and then they vanished from sight. I've never seen any kind of police chase and it was quite exciting. I don't think that guy would have got very far.

In Kingston I brought the t-shirts I need from Primark for my orc. I hate that shop with a passion. It's so overrated and crowded and argh hate it. Then we went to HMV cause Kate wanted some CDs and I brought Broken Arrow for £3. I love it it's such a bad film. Then we had a Krispy Kreme doughnut and headed home.

I wasn't ready to sleep so I watched my new films from blockbuster. Resident Evil extinction wasn't as bad as the 2nd one, not that I really remember it, but it still wasn't great. Mr Brooks on the other hand was interesting and quite clever and I'd probably watch it if it was on telly but I won't be buying it.

I had quite a good sleep after that but i've developed a cold. My 1st one since I finished uni! Quite an accomplishment for me because I always catch them. Luckily I don't have the blocked stuffy nose this time I just have the watery eyes and the sore throat and cough and in the morning I have quite a hoarse voice. I'll be ok by the weekend I hope.

Current Mood: groggy

Its all melted again. I have photos though! ( Under here )

Apparantly its going to snow again tonight.

Today I had the urge to spend money. And today I really had to buy SGA on dvd! I was determined. I went to all the local shops that sold dvds and they didn't have any SGA at all. So feeling a bit disappointed I decided to jump on the underground and go to Oxford Street. I went to the big shops there and the boxsets were ridiculously expensive! The cheapest I saw season 1 was £45.

Then I decided to go and buy my sis' b-day present. But the trains don't run to Shepherds Bush anymore so I walked from White City. I was an hour early so I walked 4 laps of Shepherds bush green. I managed to get the present so on the 12th May we are going to see One Republic at the Empire. Hopefully that will be good.

I got home and was disappointed that I didn't get SGA so I went on Amazon and brought season 1 & 2 for £33! W00t! I feel happy now.

Current Mood: accomplished

Its snowing! In London!

Its settled and everything. However I think it's starting to melt.

Photos later!

see more crazy cat pics

( Volume 1 )

What am I doing?

Current Mood: bouncy

Saw this meme idea on anyathe's journal and thought I'd give it a go.

Aim of the Game
> For one week you are to post photographs taken during the day. They can be of absolutely anything, just as long as they are shot between the hours of 12am - 12pm of each day.

Rules
>You must take between 6-8 new photographs each day.
>Your WITL must be CONSECUTIVE. No skipping days.
>You must post your photographs at the end of that day, sometime after the last picture is taken.
>Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and ...
>a title, with no other explanation.
>You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other 6 days so people know wtf you're doing.
>Your post must say "A Week in the Life of ((Your name/username)), Volume ((whatever day you're up to.))

Could be fun. Mine will start on thursday because I need to charge my camera battery and I can't find my charger at the moment. So i'm giving myself plenty of time to a) find it and b) charge it.

Anyone who wants to join in great!

I finally got SGA season 2! YAY! And while I was at it I added season 3 and 4 to the queue. I'm currently on S3 episode 7. It's so wonderful. I'm worried i'll finish it before season 4 is finished...It'll be ok i'm sure I can survive a few days without it.

Saturday I went to Portabello road market. It was rubbish. None of the fabric stalls I remember were there, the leather man wasn't there and it was snowing. So I remembered that there were some pretty big looking fabric shops near edgware road so me and my sis headed there. Only because I hadn't planned to go there I couldn't remember where they were. So I phoned Ra and he found out where they were. They were great shops but only if you could spend at least £40 per metre on fabric. We didn't stay long. I was getting a little fed up by now so I persuaded my sister to go to Brick lane with me. I knew the fabric shops were at the whitechapel end so thats where we went. Only once you leave the tube station there are no signs. We found it eventually and all of the fabric shops were closed. What shops close on saturdays but are open all other days of the week?! It's madness.

It was a pretty wasted day really. I did get given a preview dvd of the first 2 episodes of gossip girl by some promoters who were walking down portabello road. And we had a crepe which was yummy. But we got hailed/snowed/rained on a lot. At one point you couldn't even see where you were going because it was blowing horizontally and we were walking against the wind at that time.

We had some Poles over for the easter weekend. We had a traditional Polish easter breakfast on sunday. They had gone to the church and had a basket of food blessed which you have to eat. It's mostly hard boiled eggs, butter, bread, sausage, cake, chocolate and some ham. Not mixed all together it's like a buffet tray. We had loads of other stuff out to eat as well. It was really nice. I love Polish easter breakfast!

So beautiful.

Current Mood: happy

I have a link to a video with some shots of my horse costume embroidery. It's a facebook link so it might not work but it's on a public event page so fingers crossed. Click me. [ETA] I just realised it's a short ver