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So the weekend was on the rather large size. starting friday evening when i had too much to drink and no sleep and culminating in a lot of sleep from about 5pm sunday evening until 6am this morning when i had to go back to work. I still can't speak for coughing, probably because of all the screaming.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released saturday morning here at 9.01am. well it might have been 9.01, but since no one in the shop i got mine from had a watch with the correct time on it then it was probably 5 past by the time they actually got around to dishing them out. I had met mum at 7 for breakfast so we could go and line up at our respective bookstores at about 8ish, which meant i'd gotten up at 6am after ghenkis finally made me go to bed at about 3.15am and i didn't sleep anyway. I started reading as soon as i could elbow my way out of the store, swerving to miss people who were actually paying attention to the 'real' world, as i walked back to my car. I kept sneaking in a sentence or two as i drove home, at red lights, then packed a spare dress and my makeup into a bag and sat down to read while ghenkis got ready to go on our roadtrip up to launy for the Alice Cooper concert. I was mortified to discover 15 minutes after we started driving that, due probably to sleep-dep, I COULDN'T KEEP READING IN THE CAR OR I WAS GONNA BE SICK!!! soooo unfair! So on the way up, i used the rest stops my brother had to take for his backache to keep reading. We got to launy, where we stayed in the country club villa's and mum and i both sat down on the couch and continued reading unil it was time to do that mundane eating thing. then we returned to Harry. then we went to see Alice Cooper and actually had a decent reason to put the book down!

He came, he saw, he staked a doll which bled all over the place, he flashed knives, twirled walking sticks, hung himself at the gallows and basically rocked the place as launy has not been rocked possibly since the last time he toured! We were very near the front and my awesome brother danced with me the whole way through. There was an actual mosh up the front and it was generally one of the most awesome thingS i've ever witnessed. DEVIL HORNS!!!!!!!!!!!

Then it was back to the villa, back to the bathtub and back to Harry!
I went to bed at 2am when ghenkis and my brother got back from the casino where some very very drunk guy who had won waaaay too much money for his inebriated brain to handle, bought them drinks and threw hundred dollar bills at them.

We were up and away at 10 the next morning and I was happy to find out that I could now read in the car without feeling sick! WOOT!! so it was harry all the way back to hobart. I finished about 2pm sunday afternoon and mum and I looked at each other and said 'so out of the 10 or so people she just killed off, who did j.k. rowling mean when she said she was going to kill off 2?!'

Anyway, the book is awesome, spectacularly so at the end, and frankly I cannot wait to see it's big-screen adaption. there will be some seriously testing scenes in there for Dan, Emma and Rupert and with the density of the final plot twists and climax it will be a hell of a ride! one final point: GO NEVILLE YOU HERO!!!!!!!!!

3 sleeps!!

well, apparently creating an original corset from scratch, and an entire set of Indian bridal jewellery isn't worth anything to crystal park or Swarovski. I'm not a finalist. I don't know what beat me, the site hasn't changed, but they were supposed to notify people on Monday and I got nothin'. Anyway, I know the people who supported me and appreciated my efforts, so I don't need some pompous executive from Swarovski Australia to tell me if i'm talented or not!

On to cooler news! Check out my deviantart journal for my take on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 2 thumbs way way up!! I think I have a touch of a crush on Dan Radcliffe. The boys' not a boy anymore!

3 sleeps until the final book, the Deathly Hallows, is released and I have to stand in 2 cues, once for me and again for mum, to pick up pre-ordered copies. Which is a happy coincidence, since that will give us reading material for the drive up north to see ALICE COOPER!! Woot!!

Lets hope that the Deathly Hallows makes provision for a scruffier, tougher Harry, so we can all drool at a movie full of this hotness:

am I really good enough?

top 10%. that's what i have to be to even be considered for a prize for that Swarovski competition. At the end of the comp there are 300 entries. they are only taking 30 entries to look at as finalists, out of that 30 only 10 will recieve prizes. So either the corset or the indian gothic bridal set have to be able to compete with the best of them.

Looking at the quality of the other entries, i'm not feeling so good! head to www.crystalpark.com.au to check out all the entries and decide for yourself!

oh yeah, and i didn't win the voters choice award for the final month either. it's RIGGED lilly!! thankyou to everyone who voted, or at least tried to vote even though the site wouldn't let them. It means a lot that people want to shut me up so bad they do what i ask them to do!

I've already started on my next big arty project: the costume and masks for Lady Nicola's masquerade party. The dress is cut out and partly sewn with some embroidery to do next, and the masks for myself and storm are at a delicate stage (i.e. i have to get the sticks off them without wrecking them because i don't like the way i've done it!) There is a pic in the scraps of my deviantart showing Storms' mask in progress. I'll add another one of the material for my dress soon.

Thanks again, and cross your fingers for me!