Ever wanted to have a car decked out in Hello Kitty things? Well I’m going to be buying this car in a few months:

And I would love to have it Hello Kitty-fied. But I also wanted to know how much I would be spending on decorations for it so I made this list of accessories I may buy and what eBay sales people currently have them. The first price is the actual Buy-It-Now price and the second price is the shipping. Also, after the item name is the username of the seller! So if you want to, you can go and take a look at these things, too! =D

Hello Kitty decal…signcuts $3.99+$0.00

Hello Kitty neck wrests…han99cn $12.50+$10.00

Hello Kitty air freshener…peterjmarr $5.99+$6.99

Hello Kitty exhaust pipe…acuteshop_online $39.00+$28.00

Hello Kitty floor mats…sjcfire1 $34.98+$19.50

Hello Kitty visor organizer…ddfh939 $9.99+$11.00

Hello Kitty gear shift handle…ionlythinkofyou $9.99+$9.99

Hello Kitty seat belt pads…click4itnow $3.50+$8.50

Hello Kitty license plate cover…Csgraphics $14.99+$5.00

Hello Kitty steering wheel cover…Japan_Bargain $29.99+$7.50

I think I’m going to make a Dream Studio movie… what’s it about, oh you will just have to wait and find out, now won’t you? Any how, while I’m on the subject of things I’m working on, have you ever found yourself planning too many things at once? Well I am right now.

I know that training for this place that I’m supposed to work starts on Monday and I haven’t gotten a call back from the place to tell me what time on Monday yet. I’m beginning to think that maybe they aren’t going to select me for employment. But they are conducting a background check on me, which costs a lot of money, and they also had me take a drug test, which costs money. So why would they be spending all of this money if they aren’t going to give me a job? I interviewed so well, the woman who interviewed me even said so. So why haven’t I received a call. Have they over-looked me? I even called the person who originally called me to schedule the interview and left a voicemail and still no word. I’m beginning to get very anxious and scared. I need this job more than I’ve ever needed anything in my life. If I don’t get it, I’m pretty positive that I’ll die. Really, dead!

Any how… as of other things I’m planning at the moment, I’ve been wanting to open a business for about a month now. I’m very good with working with graphics, and I think that it would be fun to start a business where I could make yearbook-style books for people and digitally process their pictures of whatever event they want documented. I would be able to do it for pretty cheap because I don’t want to make too big of a profit off of it like most other professional book makers do. Also, I have so much experience with editing pictures and and making page layouts since I was on the yearbook staff at my school. So I think it would be a fun idea to have a business like that on the side. Of course, I wouldn’t want to do it as full-time work. Just sort of a hobby that makes me money.

Another project I have in the midst: building my PC. I have about half a computer sitting in my closet. All it needs now is a monitor, CPU, motherboard, video card and RAM and it’s good to go. Oh, and I suppose that now it needs a hard disk drive since my boyfriend gave mine to his mother. Boo! But he needs to replace that. I suppose that I have most of the outer-parts of the computer done, now it’s just on to the simple stuff. Yeah, simple…

And I’ve been thinking a lot about Japan. I want to learn Japanese so if I do ever marry my boyfriend, we can get married in late March so we can go to Tokyo on our honeymoon and see the cherry blossom trees. Then we could play Pachinko all night. But how am I going to play Pachinko and get around Japan if I can’t speak Japanese? I’ve seen a lot of software that teaches Japanese, but it’s all very expensive, besides one that I saw on Amazon.com today. It’s called Human Japanese. I’m going to look into it a little bit more. Might be the one for me since it’s only $30!

If I do ever end up in Japan, there’s three things I want to bring back with me:

1. Pachinko balls, just a few, and maybe a prize that I won at a Pachinko parlour.

2. Lots of Hello Kitty and Sanrio things for me and my sister and all my good friends.

3. A cherry blossom spray.

I don’t think that’s too much to manage. Seeing as Hello Kitty things are cheapcheapcheap in Japan. I should get stationary and every Sanrio thing I can get my hands on! I’ll have to bring an empty suitcase with me to Japan so I can have room for all the Hello Kitty things I’m going to buy. =3

But this is all only if I marry Alex. Which will happen… the question is when? He’s so reluctant to take any responsibility for anything. We currently live with his mother in an apartment. I want to get our own place so badly, but he doesn’t think we’re financially ready to make that move. So in his mind we would constantly be fighting about money if we lived on our own. The truth though, is that his mommy takes care of him and he isn’t ready to grow up yet. The woman still does his freaking laundry and he’s twenty years old. On top of that, she also runs all of his errands, cooks him food, and insists on doing all the grocery shopping. But I’m finding it impossible to live with her for several reasons.

I said that she insists to do the grocery shopping. Well, half the things she buys are absolute CRAP that rats wouldn’t even eat, and the other half she writes “NO” and “NOT ALYSE’S” all over in big huge ugly annoying Sharpie marker. So why would I want to live in a house where the only good things to eat aren’t mine? And on top of that, half the stuff she writes all over goes bad before anyone eats it.

And she never lets me throw away expired milk! EW! She says she’ll make pudding out of it or something! But what the hell? It’s expired for a reason that’s just gross.

She’s also sooo grumpy when she wakes up, which is often because she sleeps so much. I’m never really grumpy unless someone works pretty hard to get me grumpy so when Ogre (her) walks out of her bedroom all pissed off at the world and she stomps on Fairy (me) until Fairy’s wings break, then what am I to do? She’s an ogre and I’m the fairy… See, it’s her apartment, not mine, not Alex’s… hers. And whenever she wants to she can decide that she doesn’t want me here any more. Then what? I move in with mommy and daddy? See I’m not Alex I can’t just live happily ever after with my parents. My parents don’t let me be a slob and mooch off of them.

Many of my problems would be solved if Alex and I had our own place, for one:

All of our CRAP! We have so much stuff and it’s all confined into one small room. If we had our own place the guinea pigs and the bearded dragon could go out in the living room, then we could properly store all of our things (instead of having them on the floor all the time). But nope, it’s not our living room, dining room, kitchen, or bathrooms… they’re his mommy’s.

It’s got to be the stupidest living situation ever. And in two month’s we’re renewing the lease! I have fifteen more months of this! If I put up with this for another fifteen months and he still doesn’t feel like growing up, I swear to God himself, that I will leave! I hope he grows up, I do love him so much!

I logged onto SanrioTown today after a day of absence due to work (boo) for a pleasant surprise! My video about why I should be a beta tester for Hello Kitty Online was the most discussed at the time!

I thought this was very satisfying because I put so much work into the video! And if you haven’t seen it yet, simply click here and watch it! Please rate and comment it and I will rate and comment your video as well! =D Thank you so much to all of you who commented! =D It really meant so much to me to hear that all that hard work might pay off. I hope SanrioDigitial likes the movie just as much as you guys did!

Throughout this entire post, if you’re not sure what I’m talking about, scroll all the way to the end of the post. The picture of my final product is there. If that still doesn’t point out what I meant, comment me and say so. I want to know how I can be better at writing tutorials so I can help you more often. Thanks!

I was at my parent’s house today and I was bored. So I went to the craft store and I bought some supplies:

• Some sterling silver jump rings

  

• Some sterling silver earring hooks

  

• Some sterling silver eye pins. I only got 1″ pins, these are probably 1.5-2″ pins though.

  

• Some white Sculpey (or other polymer clay)

  

Some other items you’ll need to make some earrings like I did, that I didn’t buy are:

• A ceramic tile to cook the earrings on because you shouldn’t put Sculpey on a cookie sheet you will later use for food.

  

• Some acrylic paints. Any kind will do.

  

• Some glossy varnish. This is my favorite brand:

  

• Of course, some paint brushes so you can put the paint and varnish on. I use high-quality red sable fur brushes, but you can sacrifice the quality but be sure to get small brushes for the details!

  

• Some super glue. Again, my favorite brand is below.

  

• Sculpting tools are always a good to have around. However you can use some old kitchen utensils. Just don’t use them for food afterward!

  

• And you’ll also need two pairs of needle-nose pliers.

  

• Last, but not least, a pair of dikes. That is, diagonal wire cutters.

  

And those are your supplies. I chose all sterling silver hardware because I’m allergic to nickel, so my ear would turn green if it wasn’t sterling silver.

Next you’ll have to decide on what you’re going to sculpt the clay into! I chose to do the Mario Mushroom!

If you want to go ahead with your own design, I recommend that you at least draw out a thumbnail of how you want your finished product to look. It’s a good idea to keep the finished earrings in mind all the way through the project.

So go ahead and do what you have to do to sculpt the clay into how you need it. For the mushroom, first I made two very small, nearly flat cylinders and put two dots in them for the eyes. Then I made a half-circle dome for the top and I rounded off the bottom. Then I used a circular tool to make indents where the circles would be. This is the part where you get to use your creativity! Just keep in mind that on the very top, you’ll want a little bit of space, because that’s where your eye pins will go.

Also, you don’t want to make the design very complicated because you will have to sculpt two matching earrings. Unless you are an expert at sculpting, I would try to keep from doing loud, spectacular designs until you’ve practiced more.

After you have your earrings sculpted, cut the eye pins to an appropriate length, using the diagonal wire cutters. Then, push them into the top of your clay charms. Place the charms on your tile and cook them in the oven according to the instructions on the package.

Once they’re finished, it’s time to get out your paints and brushes. Paint them in a pleasing color scheme, or matching whatever design you chose. Apply several layers so your color is bold and bright!

Next pull out the eye pins and apply a bit of super glue to the ends of them and push them back in. Keep in mind the way that they are facing so you don’t end up with the front of your earring off to the side.

Leave them alone for a few hours. Watch a movie, or better yet, get a second pair of earrings started!

Next, holding the bottom portion of your earrings, apply a generous amount of the gloss varnish to the top half. Let those sit for another few hours.

After that, holding the top part of the earrings this time, apply varnish to the bottom half. Try to apply the same amount that you did on the top. Place the earring’s upside down so they can dry.

NOTE: If your earrings are not going to stay upside down, you can thread the loop in the eye pin through a string and hang the string from a lamp or something while it dries so it won’t touch anything. You won’t want to put both earrings on the same string though because you do not want them to touch, they’ll dry sticking together!

After the earrings are done drying, they will be shiny and look like plastic. Now you will need to open two of your jump rings. The proper way to open a jump ring is by twisting the two ends away from each other with pliers, rather than stretching them apart.

On your jump ring you will attach your earring hook and your charm. Close up the jump ring and admire! If your earring is backwards (whoops) just open the ring back up and take off your charm and flip it around!

Do the same with the other jump ring and your charm and last hook! Now you have a pair of earrings. Here’s how mine turned out:

I’ll just post that one, because the other one is identical to it!

I hope this helps you if you want to make a pair of earrings for yourself! Post comments on how I could make this little tutorial any better.

So, since it is Valentine’s Day… Which in my post before this, I completely forgot! I decided that I would show everyone everything that I got for my wonderful boyfriend:

Firt, I got him this computer mouse that I got from where I work: Things Remembered!

I engraved it for him! It’s perfect because he really loves computers and he’s always doing all these geeky little computer-related things! But the mouse is too small for gaming, so we did the cool thing and taped it to the monitor…

Then I baked him these home-made peanut butter cookies:

They were so much fun to make! Even though shaping them like that, without a cookie cutter, was very difficult! It was completely worth all the work, and he loved them!

The last, and best, thing that I got for him was this partly-filled scrap book:

This page is from Disney World. He took me there for my birthday! It’s only partly-filled because we’re still going to fill it with things we do! It’s one of the best gifts I’ve ever given because I even wrote him some very sappy entries.

And this is only one page of the movies we’ve seen together. I’ve saved up every movie ticket since we’ve started dating a year and two months ago. So there are quite a few pages like this in the book!

I can’t wait to start filling up the rest of the book! I think our next page will be Valentine’s Day, 2008!

Oh yeah, and what he got me: See, he’s not so good at the whole lovey-dovey thing, and he always buys me video games for Valentine’s Day. So he bought me Drawn To Life. It’s a video game where you get to draw your character and other objects in the world. It’s actually pretty fun and I admit that I did ask for it for Valentine’s Day. And since he had to work today, he said that next time we go out, he’s buying me late-Valentine’s-Day flowers. It’s not like he can pick them up after work or anything, he works until midnight. /sadface.

I hope everyone else had a great Valentine’s Day! And Happy Valentine’s Day to you all!