Gamers I need your help! I'm going to be cosplaying as Zelda later in the year and I am having a really hard time with one small part of the dress. Does anyone know what is written on the bottom edges and up the middle of the back of the purple part of her Twilight Princess gown? I can't find any decent images (not blurry!) depicting it, or any information about it on the web. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks! ♥

So, I walked into work today and the assistant manager tells me that yesterday our manager resigned! They only both started about 2 months ago. Shame to see her go, she's a nice girl. Though, in all honesty I did notice that she knew pretty much nothing about toys. She has a passion for retail and the manager role, but not for toys, and to me it was really obvious. As soon as I was told the news the assistant manager said to me "I'm going to ask to be promoted to her position, and recommend that you get my job!" Holy shit!!! So exciting!!!! I really hope I get this promotion!!!! We had a discussion on the situation, and both agree that it would be the best move in the owner's favor. If he goes with our suggestion, he will only need to hire a part timer, which could very well be a student, which means it'll be cheaper for him. Sales have been low since the end of the holiday season, so it only makes sense for him to want to hire someone younger so he doesn't have to pay higher wages. Plus it's easier to train a part timer. If he just promotes me and the current assistant manager, then that's a smoother transition. We both know how the shop works, know heaps about toys, and are very passionate about them too! Easy peasy macaroni cheesy! Assistant manager spoke to him about it today, and owner said he has been thinking about doing exactly what we suggested.... So, wish me luck everyone, I hope that the owner decides to go with our plan!!! A little more pay and more hours would be much appreciated on my end!

Wow... so it's been a while. Sorry!
I guess I just kinda got swept away with life happenings that I forgot to post on here! oopsie.. So what have I been up to you ask?

Well I guess I'll try and track back from around the time I last posted a blog. But first I will warn you, this will be long, and will have a few pics, so if you want to skip it all go ahead, but please don't forget to pay attention to something special at the end of this blog! It's something that I'm extremely excited about and don't want any one to miss it!

A few months after my previous blog my little niece was born. Sweet little Indigo, I love her dearly! It's been so amazing to watch her grow over the past year. She's going to be 1 this Saturday and I am pretty bummed that everyone forgot to tell me, or assumed I already knew the plans of her birthday party. So I won't be attending since I can't get off work. Ah well, Sis in law and family will be at in laws house after the party, so I'll still get to see her. I've asked that we wait to give her presents from me and Marty until then, that way I will get to see her open at least one!
Let's see then, after that was me and Marty's 1 year wedding anniversary! We spent the weekend in a lovely Victorian era cottage in the Dandenong ranges. The cottage was simply the most beautiful little thing ever, I wanted to live there forever!!!!! We went on Puffing Billy, the old steam locomotive. It was soo cool!!!!! Now it's nearly May again, and we will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary!! Wow!!!! Time sure does fly! haha Hoping to go up to Sydney this year,visit with Helly and maybe get some new tattoos.
After that I lost my job, and it was pretty crappy. Damn visa restrictions only letting me work there for 6 months!! I loved working at Game... ok I lied. I hated that company. 90% of the people were assholes. I did love working with video games though, I just felt so in my element! I went back a week later asking for my job back, because I had my visa approved which meant no more restrictions. Nope. That fast they had filled it! Jerks!
Fast forward to July and I found myself a sweet new job, which I've stayed at since. Now I'm at a toystore, of the kiddie variety of course! It's a blast!!!! I get to play with toys all day! I'm convinced that they hired me simply because I put that I have a collection of a few hundred Star Wars figurines in my cover letter. Also, it could be because I look like a Lalaloopsy doll! In fact, that's even my nickname at work - Loopsy!
Somewhere in between all of this we got an feathered addition to the family! A cockatiel named Ella. Ella is amazing, she does al sorts of funny things, like saying "ELLO!" when we walk into the room, or two distinct types of kissing noises. We even taught her how to sing the Imperial March! BEST BIRD EVARRRRR!!!!

Her favorite place is on my head, in fact that's where she is as I type this!



She even likes to cuddle with me and Buffy!




In other news we also got this amazing new bed!
It's a bitch trying to find a canopy for it though, all I can find are those hideous mosquito net things!!! eww!!!



We had my parents over for Christmas this year, which was great, because I hadn't seen them since the wedding!!! 5 weeks was pretty stressful though >.<
In celebration of their first Aussie Xmas we decided to get a real tree. I'm not sure what it's like in other parts of the world, but where I come from usually only super poor people get fake trees and everyone has a real tree. In Australia it seems to be the complete opposite, where the norm is to get a fake tree and you only get a real one if you're rich! It was Marty's first ever real tree, and now he's hooked! He says we will never get another fake one again! Woohoo!!!




**Update on Ella.... She's now trying to lean over my forehead and preen my eyebrows, in the process pushing my hair into my eyes. Silly bird you're making this difficult! lol **

So, my awesome job at the toy store is never without lots of laughs!
This is what I get up to at work:

Yep, I have to test all returns. Which in some cases means spending the whole morning putting things like this together! Turns out peach didn't work, but I had a blast playing with the Mario one, which did work!



Sometimes I buy Lego Darth Vader keychains



Or an Indiana Jones hat!



Sometimes parts of costumes fall off, and the costume gets sold without the accessory, and we find it weeks later.... which means I'm a Vulcan for the entire day! LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!!!



I also get to do things like make displays. One day I decided to open one of each of the Nerf Guns and make a giant display out of it! I don't have a picture of that, but after I made the display we spent the reest of the day playing with the Nerf Dart Tag set What a productive day hahaha



Sometimes it does get boring though.... Especially after Christmas.... I guess this is why we open all the toys and play with them so often. Sometimes I just draw though, nothing special.. just quick doodles, but I thought I'd share anyways!








Ok enough pictures! The coming weeks are so full of excitement!!! Marty is going to have his first ever art exhibition and I am beyond excited for him!!!! I can't wait!!!!!! I know he's super stressed right now but I know he's going to do wonderfully and it's going to be amazing!!!!! <3 After that He's going to be exhibitiong at the Supanova convention here in Melbourne. Woohoo!!! i need to figure out something to wear! He's also got something else up his sleeve that I am the most excited about, I've watched his creative process for it and it is going to to be AB SO FUCKING LUTE LY AMMMAAAZZIINNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't say anymore though, but maybe he will soon

The other day I went op shopping trying to find bits for my Little Sister costume for the annual SGAU Ball and found this pretty print by Mucha. I'm so in love with it!
Sorry for the crappy pic...



I also scored a copy of Wuthering Heights for only $3 so I'm pretty happy with that, even though I didn't have any luck on finding costume components

In other news I'm starting a business! Or, well I'm trying. This is a test run of sorts I guess you could say. I'm selling hand made acrylic necklaces. They're all designed by lil ol me I have plenty of designs at the ready, but I'm testing the waters first with only one design. If I sell enough then I'll release more! So please check them out and tell all your friends! I'd really like for this to take off because I want nothing more than to share my art with the world in the form of super cute and colorful necklaces!



You can visit my website, and purchase them for $10 a pop here at QWERKY!
and be sure to like my facebook page too! Qwerky! on Face Book








and if you made it this far







here's a present:

Dear Santa,

All I want for Xmas is a pair of new shoes. Preferably some Doc Martens.

<3 Sin
xoxox




My feet hurt so bad, I hate my work shoes with a passion! They make my poor little feet swell up while I wear them.

Today I recived a dvd in the post from the wonderful MadDame! It was the video she shot of me during my Steampunk Assassin Set (So now you all know what it was that she did while Puffin was shooting it! hehe)

Here you go SGland! Enjoy!






Many hugs and thank yous to MadDame for doing this, I just love it SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling pretty sad right now...
This is going to be a shitty blog, sorry guys.


I love my new job but everyone tells me I should be looking for something else because they think I might be getting screwed over. I've still not been paid and have been working there since Nov. 25th. Their reasoning is that I have heaps of paperwork to fill out and send back to head office before they will start paying me. Some of it is stuff that my boss has to train me for and sign off that I've been trained for it. The only problem with that is that he said he's not going to start training me for the vast majority of these things until AFTER xmas. ugh.
I'm also pretty pissed because when I accepted the job I had another one lined up as well, and told them that I would like to give priority to the game shop and work whatever else at the other place. The response was that I ad to decide on one of them as they would be needing me to work a full week. BULLSHIT. I'm only working on weekends.

So while I'm earning shit all and not being paid for it the bills are piling high (and overdue) and rent is lurking just around the corner. Not to mention food is running out and I am currently negative 14 cents in the hole in my bank account. I don't know how we're going to be able to pay for all of these things, and it really scares me

I've also got to deal with the stress of my Visa application. The Australian government just LOVES to take my money. They've already drained us of our Honeymoon savings ($2500) for the initial cost of my applications. Then I had to pay for my police checks and medical exam (around $380 or so). Annnnd if all of that goes smoothly I'll only be allowed to stay here for another 2 years and THEN they decide if I can be a resident.

My parents are making me feel as guilty as ever, with it being holiday season and all that. I mean I can understand that they miss me, and that it's extra hard on them because I am their only child... but don't they understand that when EVERY time they talk to me and they get all sad and cry about it that it feels like they're guilt tripping me for leaving? I hurts.. A LOT. I miss them too, but will they ever stop making me feel bad for following my heart?

Christmas is going to suck this year. I've been put in charge of the Kris Kringle/Secret Santa thing Marty's family has decided to do. This is al fine and dandy, my family has done it for years and devised a method that works perfectly, ensuring that everyone gets something they want. The only major drawback is that I know we won't be able to afford to participate. We won't be able to afford to get any presents this year, not for ourselves, not even for Mr. Wez and Buffy.

I just want to end this with another huge thank you for all the comments on my new set. I really appreciate it guys! It makes me all warm n fuzzy inside to see so many comments from people asking why it's not on the front page already! I'm also really happy that this community still loves to see the creative sets with a proper storyline and theme like we used to have back in the day!

Well, Marty is going to help me put up the lights and decorations on our Christmas Tree to try and help cheer me up. It's still going to be a bit sad that its going to be empty underneath it

Sorry for such a sad blog everyone, I guess I just needed to get it all out.

My new set goes up in MR tomorrow!!! WOoOo!!!
Till then watch an awesome video!




Epic Win!!
I'm sad that I won't be able to afford Cataclysm on Tuesday


P.S.: I love my new job! Selling video games is fun!!

New Art!



If you go to my Deviant Art page you can read a poem written by SirenWriter that accompanies this piece.
Deviant Art




I start my job on Thursday! I'm excited and nervous!