The Story of the Ugly Dress and its Transformation.
So I ordered this dress a while back, because it looks absolutely stunning in the picture. But what I received wasn’t QUITE what I expected. And as they never posted the review I wrote but instead replied me saying I could get a discount on future buys (not happening for sure), I’m writing it up here. And due to all the prices of delivery and import taxes and all that jazz, sending it back wasn’t much of an option. I could probably have taken it to a professional sewing-guy and get some of it refunded, but sewing happens to be one of my hobbies so I made this my new project.
Firstly The sizing was so Off that the first image was taken with safety pins in the back to even get it to stay on. In the 2nd picture I’ve sewn the top to match my sizing which included cutting out about 7 cm of fabric. Also the length is extremely off and unflattering, which is because they apparently assumed everyone is about 2 meters tall. And with my 160 cms instead I can’t really compare to that.
So the last photo shows the Current stage, where I’ve folded in the three lowest layers to cut the length. This doesn’t add that gorgeous overlay effect which was one of the things I loved about the dress initially, but at least it doesn’t look unflattering.
The waistline is still not perfect though, and I’m thinking of adding a ribbon which can be tied in the back. I’ll just have to buy it first.
I’ll post a final picture once it’s done.
An owl I met in Canada in 1999. Impressive camouflage in my opinion.
A little Illustration I once made of my favourite Weevil Playing a bass guitar.
Thank you, all of you.
Both for liking my art, my macro photos, my animal photos and thoughts on books, fairy tales and litterature.
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Some Flies as seen during Field work in Norway.
The two first are various house flies, the third a flesh fly, followed by two dancing flies which are copulating and his nupital gift for her. The fifth image is a Tabanoidea (horse-fly) and I’m not quite sure about the last one. I’d be glad for information. Can it be a robber?
My Tolkien/LoTR Collection.
The Books: The first image shows all the English books I own, including two Map-editions. I actually think I have a couple more books on the making of or the story behind, but I can’t quite remember where I put those.
One of the maps is shown in the following picture, with my home-made Fellowship placed to mark where they were at the time the picture was taken. I have both Middle Earth and Beleriand as maps.
The third image shows the VHS-films of the three wonderful LoTR-movies, (Called “Ringenes Herre” in Norwegian), and the Norwegian edition of the Lord of the Rings.
And Lastly my home-made-clay-Balrog. I always loved the Balrog, so I eventually made a figurine. I used to have posters of him/her/it in my room.
(Not shown is my extensive collection of posters, my scrapbooks with everything LoTR, some costumes and jewellery things.)
Smaug, as seen in Bilbo - Le Hobbit, Livre II.
The graphic Novel of the Hobbit, 2nd part, which I once bought while travelling through France. The plan was of course to get much better at French and understand everything, but eventually I just enjoyed the art instead.
I completely forgot to post these a while back!
So I’ve finally received and read through all the newest Issues of Witchblade, Artifacts and Ravine, and as always the art is stunning in most of them, especially Ravine. The whole “Rebirth”-storyline in the Top Cow universe is a bit confusing, I have to say I did like it as it was. I find that I’m liking the Artifacts’ take on it more than The Witchblade storyline. It’s a bit “back to basics” , and I feel it’s lost some of what they’ve been building up for so long. But the stories alone are entertaining enough. I won’t stop reading them.
Also the Artifacts storyline has included way too many characters I don’t know too well as I only ever read Witchblade before, so the beginning was a bit confusing. But in general I like it. And I do want to pick up some of the other series such as Darkness and Magdalena, but I have other things to read through before that. (Such as the entire Zenescope Grimm Fairy Tales from issue 6 and out..!)
Ravine was what it promised to be. Fantastic artwork, dragons and a fantasy plot with all the things you expect it to include. As it’s only the first issue, it’s hard to say exactly where the story will go, but so far it is promising.
Now I’m just waiting for the newest issues of all of these, and of course Elfquest - the Final Quest prologue which will be out in October.
Look how this adorable house fly keeps rubbing its legs while basking in pollen.
House Flies from Norway!
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