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Radioactive Cupcakes - a fundraiser for Maire Curie Cancer Care
This is a charity event and donations for the bring and buy sale or baking for the refreshments would be greatly appreciated!! Message us here or email tugboatsailor@hotmail.com if you would like to help ^-^

16th August at the brudenell social in hyde park, leeds - 1pm - 10pm

earlier in the day we will have:
Bring and Buy sale with japanese fashion stall with handmade craft items and limited art prints, plus general bric or brac stalls for bargins galore! An artist has also kindly offered to come to do portraits on the day. Also homemade cupcakes, tea and maid cafe service for refreshments.From 5pm onwards we will have bands playing!

CONFIRMED BANDS:

http://www.myspace.com/thedevilsjukeboxuk - as the shanghai syncopators!
http://www.myspace.com/theseveninches
http://www.myspace.com/entropikmusic
dj PD playing later on with pretty much everything from muse, conway twitty, tool, rasputina and aphex twin with a techno edge..ooh


the cupcake shoppe have offered to bake for us at cost price so we will have some beautiful radioactive cupcakes for sale on the day!

http://www.thecupcakeshoppe.co.uk/

Also we will have an artist who has very kindly offered to come to do portraits on the day:

http://www.illustratorclaire.com/

If anyone wants to donate to the bring and buy sale I am happy to arrange collection before the event, general bric a brac, hello kitty stuff, clothing in decent condition, if you are unsure just ask! Big thanks to those who already donated, we've had such an awesome response and the lolita stall is going to be fabulous on the day :D we've even got jsks, skirts and brand items for sale!
we have quite a few volunteers now for helping out with the maid cafe and bring and buy but if anyone else is interested we will almost definitely need more on the day. Or if anyone just wants to come along thats great too just let me know and i can supply directions etc. I also have a3 posters and flyers now if anyone thinks they can help promote the event?

If anyone needs to know anything else, just ask!

Its made me really happy, thank you so much jacqueline!



a skirt with matching headbow, a really cute jsk and various hair accessories....im so pleased the lolita stall is going to look really cute and hopefully raise lots of moneys. Im not quite sure on how to price them on the day though so any suggestions?



we had these through the post before we went away too, how adorable are they? I think im going to have to stop my sister from buying them all though...

I cant get over how nice and generous everyone has been, its really sweet ;_;

on the waiting list for two puppies

http://www.turnwillgsds.co.cc/

they were one of our favourite breeders too, there aren't many long haired GSD breeders around that are any good. So october time we should have two gorgeous little girls, yay.

Obviously I'm hypocritical, its called having human emotions you might wanna try it some time :)

Velcro rollers = big pile of crap. So we're rethinking hair altogether, mebbe the loops of plaits we tried a few months back for some outfit or the other.

My journal seems to be getting a lot of traffic lately, and I havent been posting as many photos. So heres some of my faves from flickr. not mine, i might add!

so mum starts chemo tomorrow, thankfully. I was worried because she said she wouldnt have anymore, but i guess you dont know how you'll feel till you get to it. Also shes moving in with nana which is a HUGE worry gone, nana will always look after her even if shes a bit of a loony. But not the same kind of loony as dad, i used to have horrifying nightmares that he'd beaten her up again or killed her and it was too close to the truth. I know hes not 100% evil but i still dont think hes past beating us to death in our sleep.

I went back to the doctors today to get the back to work note but they signed me off work for another two weeks, i feel a bit useless but im thankful really, im not sleeping great so im glad to have the time off.

God i have to be less whiny. Its sungs birthday this weekend, i dont think we are doing much but we'll probably go to wendyhouse cos we havent been in ages and its fairly cheap. Its a good excuse to dress up! hopefully we can drag some mations down.



we did a Neolithic Vs Victorian thing at the weekend, the devils arrows definitely outshone the viaduct in thornton. Truely spectacular! The lonely one in the trees seemed cut off until you looked back along the alignment, then it looked fine.



we saw the thornborough henges too, im glad we came to see it before the beltane fest, im not sure if it would be good to go to....maybe...anyway the henges were gorgeous, i loved the northern one. It follows the alignment of orions belt, how awesome.



its amazing...you feel so close to the sky there! The wind is kind of scurried into the middle by the changes to the landscape, and you are already high up.

I feel like poo cos of my head, so im struggling to pass the time today.

we're going to london on the 20th and coming back on the 22nd, i think we may try to go out on the friday night now since charl says there are more alternative nights then. Thats fine anyway, we just have to try and switch the day for our make up thing. Plus i guess it means we have two days worth of things we can do!

My skin is loads better now thanks to lush! I was having a good month of horrible winter skin and i switched to using ultra bland and the enzymion moisterizer and love lettuce a couple of days a week and its so much better. I cant decide if the enchanted eye cream ive been using has made a difference but it cant be doing any harm. 

Ive ordered a load of poster prints and large prints from snapfish, i thought id try them out and if they sucked i'd try snappysnaps. Its mums birthday and she kind of requested a photo of me and briony so i used it as an excuse to get £30's worth of stuff. I also got her an amber pendant from hippypottermouse, and an amber bracelet. She likes amber! me and briony spotted the cutest moon pendants in hippypottermouse and they convinced us we had to get them....they are so cute! I'll try and get a good photo of them soon.

so cute!

so firstly mums mammogram came back clear, which is a relief. However dads hospital appointment showed the operation on his aorta was pretty unsuccessful other than keeping him alive, and hes going to have to have it done again to try and repair it properly. dad thinks he's going to die in the operation, and he is a lot weaker and a lot less able to deal with it now, so im prone to think hes right. Who knows though, they said he'd die last time.

They also said dad probably has the same genetic condition that aunty linda has, which meant she had repeated strokes from age 18 and numerous other medical problems. Migraines included. Mum didnt know which medical condition it was, it sounds like marfans synrome, which my boyfriend in college had. We all have to be tested soon to find out if we have it...im really scared about it, because out of me, james and shelley, i share the most physical traits as my aunt, and the share most medical problems and apparently that puts me much higher at risk of having the condition. Its a dominant genetic problem so theres like a 50/50 chance we have it. I dont want to have something awful and incurable and lifethreatening, I already feel under pressure having a non life threatening chronic illness.

Im off work today cos i got upset about it last night and it gave me a cracking migraine to deal with today, not to mention my eyes are puffed out of my head. Briony came round and cheered me up despite having her exam today - *thanks petal, hope it is going ok*

So tests soon, and operation for dad soon. Lots of change coming I guess.

In other, less health-related news, the stuff for the house is going through well, hopefully we'll be moving in within a month or so. Briony booked us the makeover thing at illamasqua for 6pm on the 21st (saturday) and we have booked into a different hotel somewhere in hotting hill cos the hostel we booked in on tavistock square looked terrible (I booked it in a hurry and the read the reviews afterwards...duh) and we decided it was better to lose the deposit than stay somewhere that dodgy. Its further out of london but bleh, its probably better that way. I got an oyster card to save some £££s on transport! Im not sure where to go out though, I need some ideas. We're getting to london on friday afternoon so it should be a bit more relaxing than our usual trips there, where we have no time and too much to do.

nessaneko sent us some photos of our commissons, they are looking awesome although still lots of details to be done, we are really pleased so far!



Its been a long term project but when its done it should be awesome. The skirts will have ruffle butts and braces, plus brass buttons on the front and bows over the pleats at the front...plus the blouse will have eppaulletes and hopefully our insignia which i drew yonks ago. She offered to make us matching waistcoats too! we found some cute garrison caps on ebay and they seemed to match our khaki fabric so well we decided to get them, and hopefully we'll be commissioning eat_me_drink_me to make us some crow skull pins to attach. We have so many locations for photos in these in mind now its unreal...hopefully a gaint abandoned coastal gun, a sound mirror, a tank and some other cute places will be used. Theres the posibility of a perfectly preserved air raid shelter with all the original posters and benches and little things thats only accessible by abseilling down into it which would be awesome but i dont know if i can be bothered. Oh and i have been promised the use of a vintage parade flag complete with awesome hip holster! So with some luck these should be special. We have to do the outfits justice after all. We are trying to figure out how to do 40s style hair rolls but its quite difficult finding decent tutorials.

I want my mode girl stuff to arrive! Its been so long, i thought it was almost definately lost but then she told me she'd sent it surface mail, omg, i didnt realise people still used that. Hopefully its ok, surface mail is notoriously bad.

*edit* so mum did know it was marfans she just didnt want me to look it up and stress. Bugger. hmmmm

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We went to the druids' rocks today, twas pretty awesome. If im ever hard up for a photo location this place would be pretty grand, its quite a drive but a) no windows to climb through b) no security guards and c) tis in fair Yorkshire!



Its pretty photogenic all things considering, check out the faux sacrificial altar! Oneupmanship on fake tudor, fake iron age, oh yeaaahh....



Also we watched a programme with francis pryor in again which was fucking ace, talking about WWII relics as modern archeology, I love him so much. I want to write to him and ask him sad questions about seahenge and how could i please work for him but lol, it would be sad and pointless. The programme also gave us some good ideas for our military outfit photos, as well as primo exploring tips. We thought spurn head was only interesting for its awesome bunker! Oh no, its got a network of tunnels leading from beach defences and pill boxes to some seriously cool anti tank trenches, and we didnt even know they were there...tunnels!! I love tunnels so much.

http://www.allsaintsshop.co.uk/product/?searchtext=&area=W&category_id=22&page=1&all=1&position=53&prod_desc_id=5051214339641

my sisters after this in either a size 6 or 8...shes pretty tiny but i dunno how small they run...

the toothy looking rock from the twelve apostles lines up pretty well for the solstice, maybe next year!



the circle is pretty big, and one of the nicer ones...the view is unreal, its really high up at that point. Its not in fantastic condition but considering its visited quite a bit its ok.



weird cup and rings, i have no idea what to make of it, i like the lines around it!

ilkley moor is so not as scary as i thought it would be, i read some description which made it out to be really fucking spooky...its not, the carvings are like little notes and the cairns are solemn but pretty.

we asked chalotte from the devils jukebox if we could take a photo of her looking so amazing and also pregnant! It gives us hope that maybe when we get knocked up we might just look somewhere near as lovely as she does. Also, edwardian empire line dresses = the way forward for pregnancy wear.



all of the devils jukebox looked lovely of course, except nick who genuinely looked and sounded rather too ill to be doing a gig. Still, he managed!

I just bought a lot of my xmas stuff from ASOS cos im poor and i found some fairly cute stuff, hopefully my sister wont mind a second lot of disney couture stuff (shes tinkerbell mad) and then i only have to buy saffie something and jeff something and maybe james and shelleys boy. Everyone else can sod off, im just too poor.



I wish id taken photos of our yule-y outfits from the other day, but we had a crying fest before we went out and our makeup was a bit down our faces so its probably for the best, we'll wear them again for actual yule no doubt.

we viewed the most gorgeous house yesterday that was too far away from leeds, and some pretty cute ones today, one cottage that was all over the place on different floors! The downstairs was awesome but it needed the kitchen and two of the bedrooms knocking through some stud walls to make a big kitchen diner and one big bedroom. I had my hopes up for the horsforth cemetary lodge but its been empty for a while and the boys cant look past minor repair work. me and briony tend to look over major repair work though! I think horsforth would be cool though, its rural and close to leeds and pretty nice on the whole.
house hunting is fun, so much more so when you are buying....you get to imagine how to decorate! and old houses are always full of exciting things.

poor temple mills

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Historic-Leeds-building-collapses.4770420.jp

one of the buildings i love most in the world, i hope this motivates them to do something before the roof gives in....its such a shame its the old part of the mill. Thank god its grade I listed.



in other news....pink and blue fluffy things are in. I bought some roxy yeti boots and i plan to wear them with sweet lolita. true story. PACKT weekend this weekend, its the devils jukebox gig on friday AND nicks birthday AND im supposed to see alex AND its the idioteque club night then on saturday its PDs rave which we have to somehow attend...maybe involving being completely sober and driving back, woo! still i plan to get wrecked friday night anyway. I dont know what to wear, i want to look pretty for once, ive been so fat and gross and hideous of late.

in other news still jeff may be buying a house and then we live with them, which may sound a bit odd but we think it'll work. For some reason it doesnt seem like it wont and we have both had bad experiances previously, i guess we already pretty much live together anyway! jeff had decided he liked old decrepid houses too which is awesome cos me and briony like those :)

Im trying to buy an accordion, and i might ring the woman who gives lessons who works at hobgoblin. I should really have singing lessons again instead but bleh i always hated them. scales and exercises are so tedious.

I got the day off work cos of bad weather, thats awesome, it never, ever happens! God bless this wonderful mini ice age.



this was at 6am.....by 7 when i left it was about 5 cm deep and beaaaaauuuutiful....i got up past the co-op and then matt rang to say delia had let him know we were off. THANK YOU DISASTER GOD.

But we totally NEED to book a make over at this place:

http://www.illamasqua.com/consultations/

maybe the 20th of February and then go somewhere ace in london on a night out....where though i do not know.

I missed like three ebay auctions i wanted to bid on yesterday...i forgot id signed up for bid snipe...gay....i dont know whether to sit it out and wait for relisting or ask them if theyd consider an offer, they might try and rip me off! I signed up for some bid snipe thing but putting my ebay account details in scares the bejesus out of me. I guess i just wait....waiting for ebay auctions messes with my head.

german fucking market is in town! bratwurst, fuck yeah! emily always makes me drink mulled wine at the german market, which is good because i forget how yummy it is every year. I had snitzel, or however you spell it. There were some annoying people there

also Of Montreal not playing leeds makes me a sad, sad bunny.






I dont usually like modern ballet but this and the pas especially, omg....

just wow. Although the male lead looks like hes really impatient for her to finish her bit...