The Frilly Panda

This absolutely wonderful company is giving away a set of each of their new winter collections on their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Beauty-From-The-Earth/52758578869) The colors are so pretty! I've used their products before (personal reviews coming in a bit) and I have nothing but great things to say about them. Not to mention the staff - who are also as fantastic. Give them a try, enter the contest, and bask in the amazingness that is Beauty From The Earth!

Well I've started designing the new collection inspired by Two-Mix. I started listening to them again after I discovered them just over a decade ago and re-kindled my love for them. I was inspired immediately to start a collection but I had no idea where it would go or what it would include. So far the looks have been derived from what my mind sees "my girl" wearing in my head when I listen to the tracks doing whatever she's doing. Sometimes she's dancing in a club, performing on stage, wakling down a runway, running around downtown with a coffee, and I've even seen her in two of the outfits doing pulse dance flash mobs. It's pretty interesting so far and there are alot of different directions and styles within what's sketched so I'm really excited to see where it will end up when it's done. I am currently on track 26 of my 66 track collection (including the 30-something minute single mash-up they released) and I'm not going to stop designing it until the tracklist has had it's full run through. Then I will go through, match up everything into outfits, edit them all into a cohesive collection, then re-sketch them as proper fashion drawings with colors, prints, textiles, and everything else I need for it. I don't know if it will ever get made in it's entirety as it is pretty difficult to purchase and produce an entire collection when you're a stay at home mom with no discernable income with which to purchase everything needed and no time to dedicate to focus on it as much as it would need. Of course everything can be made to order as per usual so if when it's all said and done you can't live without something from it in your wardrobe you can definitely get it so no worries there.

I don't think I'll be posting pictures from it until it's all done and awesome-tastic. That being said, I said the same thing with my SS2011 collection inspired by Rurutia and I never posted the final designs. I actually still have one page of them to get all the detail info down but they will be posted I promise! Just, eventually... And I promise they will be posted BEFORE I post this new Two-Mix collection. Once again, I cannot do either of those things until I get myself a new computer. But that is also hard to do with no income and not only Christmas in a few weeks sight but also my husbands birthday, my birthday, and my sons birthday all within a month and a half after Christmas. It's a busy time of year for us.

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a shoutout for an amazing give-away! Perfect in time for the holidays and wonderful colors!

http://www.theglitterbomb.net/2011/12/75-follower-christmas-giveaway.html

She's got a set including Urban Decay, Sugar Pill, and Lime Crime and it looks wonderfuly sinful. I'll definitely be entering and I hope you all do too!

Well some of you know that my iMac had it's last power down on Sunday. This is a sad thing for me as it was my first Mac and it lasted me a good 6 years. Unfortunately I will be going to a pc for my next computer as I dont have the funds for another mac as of right now nor did I use mine to its full potential anyways. But it died such a sudden death that now I have a friend breaking into the machine, taking out the hard drive, and rigging it so I can transfer everything to an external hard drive as I did not have the chance to do it beforehand. On that note - up yours irony! I was literally thinking on Saturday night as I powered down that I should look on cyber Monday for any good deals on external hard drives so I could back everything up because it was such an old computer. But being as I did not have a computer I couldnt look for one. I am now using my husbands tablet as my internet saviour and I do not want to save anything to it as it is technically not mine. And he does use it for work sometimes.

Anywhoo, I am hopefully getting everything done for it on Sunday so we'll see how that goes. I won't be getting a new computer for a while either so it will be tablet access for me. That means no posting photos, no new music, no saving anything from the webs (unless I just email it to myself), or anything of the like. Reminds me of back in jr high when I didnt have the internet and had to use my friends computers or the school library ones *shudder*.  It makes me really sad cause I just put through a few cyber monday orders for some new make-up and I really wanted to swatch them for here. I'll just have to take all the photos and wait to bombard the blog with multiple posts literally days after each other when I do manage to get a new computer. I will keep everyone posted on the progress of such things though. As well as my studio practice and stuff like I should be anyways.

On that note, guess who's completely done everything for christmas? Thats right, this panda is. I finished putting the last little piped detail on the last gift this afternoon. I now have all my sewn gifts complete, and other gifts bought. I'm only waiting on the postal service for two of them now as well and I should be getting them in the next week. I am really excited as this is the first year in EVAR that I am done everything before the week of Christmas. Yes I am a massive procrastinator and in my many years of being one I have honed it to such an art that I now work so much better under pressure. But that being said I really wanted one year to beat my mom at getting everything done early. So, HA!

The first review: LIT Cosmetics


Any and every fun loving make-up hoarding person needs some glitter so why not make it the best damned glitter around? LIT Cosmetics is just that - the BEST glitter system. With their range of sizes, colors, styles, and patented cosmetic glue you literally can't go wrong, and with a company motto of "No glitter, no glory" you know they know what they're doing.


I've been using LIT for many years and for many purposes. I was first introduced to it by a friend of mine and fell in love immediately, but still being new to it I only purchased two basic colors - Siberian (a lovely charcoal with rainbow bits), and Marilyn Monroe (startling silver). Now, since then they have changed their packaging to something a bit more pretty but honestly, the product stands for itself so if they decided packaging is for suckers and put everything in ziploc bags I would still buy and use it. I first used LIT for performances and photo shoots with wonderful results, so I started playing with it and now I wear it on average once a week. I've grown a nice mini collection of the colors but I'm nowhere near having even one of each basic shade (red, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange, pink, etc) let alone each of the different mixes.

My current collection ^_^ All packaging is the old style aside from the three square ones. (With flash) From left to right: Siberian, Marilyn Monroe, Gal Friday, Kiss, Milk Chocolate, Mary Jane, Hawaii 50, Yoda, Army Brat, Beach Baby, Elton John, Pink Flamingo (without flash)

You can apply it by dipping your brush into the glue, letting it get tacky, dipping it in the glitter, then applying it however sheer or thick you want. These photos are done pretty thick, as I usually wear it as liner (and to show off the awesome colors). There are also a few brushes the company sells to use but I just use an eyeliner brush for mine. Alternatively you could just use a dry brush or your fingertip and rub the glitter on, making a light fairy dust like effect. It can be worn really anywhere on the body so it is really multipurpose.

I'm rocking Hawaii 50 today as a sheer overlay on top of white/silver shadow

Hello everyone, well I think I will be using some of my posts as a spot to review things. Make-up, music, movies, fabric; really anything that strikes my fancy and I feel needs to be yapped about. For those of you who don't know me well here's a bit of an intro for ya. I have tastes that lie in every element of a particular category. Ie. make-up - I love everything from basic nudes to crazy art colors like blue lips and full stage make-up; music - I love everything from classical opera all the way to foreign heavy metal; movies - I'm a fan of rom coms but I also love horror, psychological thrillers, action, drama, musicals, etc. So you can see from here (and you will see more as I post more) just how varied my tastes are. I also have no shame so when I post about make-up in particular and say that I love wearing a certain thing out and it's not exactly in the regular "fashion trend" for make-up please remember that those products are not for everyone.

My awesome Artemis hat - yes I wear it everywhere when it's cold ^_^

For example, see my Artemis hat - most people my age would never be seen in public with it but I love it to pieces and have no qualms with showing it off.

Well  here's my first foray into true blogging. I'm not entire sure what I'll be blogging about or how often it will be done but I do know that it will be interesting - if only to me. I've figured out how to install a template (yay me) so now what you're seeing is pretty instead of boring black/white. Not that I'm hating on black/white, I quite like that, but I prefer dull antique-y colors and fun pictures. 

Just getting a feel for this - trying to figure out how to download a template. :)