Alice in the wonderland preparation

I am preparing an "Alice in the Wonderland" themed party for this weekend. The time has been changed from Sunday afternoon to Saturday afternoon due to people moving. Hopefully, they will notice the change on my event calendar.
I have poker cards and chessboard ready for decoration. I also have some peonies from my wedding that I can put in a vase as centrepiece. I have a yellow rabbit that I can use as decoration as well.
I am going to make cheesecake and make a drink that can be put into the "Drink me" bottle. It will be fun. I have also acquired a red wig which is not very expensive. Now it's time to make my hat looks crazier with ribbons and a piece of paper that says 6/10.
Fuzzy is coming as the caterpillar, Sky is coming as the Red Queen, Theo is coming as the rabbit, and I think our friends are coming as Alice. It will be fun.
I will have to pack up my sewing machine and tidy up the table. It will have to be moved out into the garden, and I have to move the chairs into the garden as well. There are some candles and some candle holders that I got from Stevens that can be put on the table as well.

Againstworld's horde adventure

I was really busy today. The washing basket is full so I separate the white and the dark colors and put them on before having breakfast. Put away the washed dishes and put on another load of dirty dishes. I have spent the rest of my morning downloading and shrinking the honeymoon photos.
Theo invited me to Grillers for lunch today. I think I need to get out of the house for a while. However, I didn't even have time to have a shower yet. Fortunately, I can rush through it and by the time he got there, I was almost ready.
I put the washing outside after I came home. Facebook is not behaving so it's a chore to upload the photos. It was very easy before. I don't know why I can't upload more than five photos and see the photos that I am uploading. I may have to do it tomorrow.
Dad is fixing Little Gray at the moment. He's changed a part of the exhaust pipe this morning. It was difficult to take the old exhaust pipe off, but that's expected, otherwise when you are driving the car, the exhaust pipe may fall off and that's not a good thing. We still need to put on new wheels.
I've leveled my first Horde character on Bonechewer, Againstworld, up to level 13 yesterday. I also joined a guild recommended by my friend. It's a very lively guild, always people on and hopefully they can help me when I level up a bit more. The starting area feels very tribal, and I guess this align with Tauren heritage. The quests aren't too hard, and it's easier to kill NPCs and PVP on a Tauren warrior. The 5% health regeneration has saved me from dying many times. I am looking forward to the future as a tank.
I have been on blimp.fm for a few days and putting up some nice songs for myself and other people on the internet. The response is pretty good. I really enjoy using this site, but have to look out for downloading too much youtube videos and using up the band with.
Theo is going to a bachelor's party in the weekend. I will probably have to stay home, not even sure whether dad will be able to fix the car by then or not. Cousin is coming to visit next month. I haven't seen him for years! It will be good to catch up with him and see how his adventure in Australia went.

Progress on the steampunk dress

I went to Spotlight yesterday to get materials for the steampunk costume. It took a while to find the appropriate fabric, and I couldn't even find a hook for the skirt. There were simply too many things there in the shop. The salesperson was very nice, she picked out less expensive material and cut them for me. She exchanged the satin with polyester, The fabric I got for the top was slightly stretchy so it was difficult to cut to size. I discovered that it was too small after I cut it. However, I've decided to fuse the fabric onto the interfacing first, then add more fabric to the interfacing if the fabric is too small. Since the fabric is quite dark, I don't think it will matter very much. The main colour scheme is blue, and I've chosen blue button with golden crown for the jacket. Mum gave me white lace and hook for the skirt. Fuzzy gave me the interfacing material. These will definitely help saving money on the project.
I watched Project Runway in the evening. They went to the beach and did a beachwear design in team of two. The person who was eliminated wasn't focused on his work, and he didn't put his design concept forward even though he was the leader. His partner ended up designing the winning piece and made both garments by himself. I really liked how they made macrame back and top. Macrame is knotting fabric instead of knitting and weaving. That's how you make a friendship bracelet!
Theodotus's rogue got to level 80 last night. Congratulation to him. We can take his rogue and my mage to heroic instances now! It's so exciting. His night elf druid is also level 80, and getting better gear for healing now. I was not very happy about his healing before, but now my confidence is gaining. It takes time to get better gear for everyone, and I guess I have forgotten about that. Everyone was a newbie in the beginning and had bad gear.
There's a toy run on motorcycle next weekend. We are going to enter it because you may win Jet leather jacket, Shoei helmet and boots! Theo's old boots and helmet need replacing, and I think he won't mind getting new jacket, either.
I am looking forward to the engagement party and steampunk party in March.

Two parties

I have been invited to two parties in 2010. The first one is a Japanese themed party. I am going to wear my tartan skirt (found this picture on www.cuticode.com). I am not very good at making sushi so tomorrow I will enlist mum's help. I will bring noni (seaweed), carrots, cucumber and a can of fish to her place. She has some chicken drumstick, rice and cans of fish that I can use. My sister is going to make sashimi, raw fish pieces. That should be fun.
The second party is steampunk themed. I've bought a pattern from Spotlight as shown (from Butterick). I am very excited since this will be the first time that I make a dress myself, and I am also very excited about this COS party. I am going to make some steampunk trinkets as well, but I haven't thought about what I am going to make yet. The lady who sold me this pattern really liked it. I haven't decided what colour fabric I will buy, maybe purple as the pattern suggested, or brown.
There's a pile of clothes to wash today since it's been raining in the long weekend. However, there's no guarantee that it won't rain again today. Meanwhile, I am going to upload some wedding photos to Facebook and watch the movie, Hotel Rwanda. I am not sure whether he wants to watch it or not.
It is going to be a warm day again.

Tidy up my life

After I moved to the new house, I have thought that this house will be the place where I started my first novel. However, my life is always hectic, and the words are all stored in my mind now.
I have been thinking about writing my novel for a long time, but the most important element is missing. Why? I am going to write a spy novel, but what is the thing that the spy is protecting? Why do we need these spies around? My novel never got very far from the beginning because the device is not there, and I think I have read many books now that doesn't actually contain anything that is worth reading about. That is about to change.
I have found something that is worthy to protect for my novel now. I am not going to reveal it just yet, but I am going to talk about how the idea came to me after two years.
I've been reading a book about pirates lately, and there are a lot of magic in this book. However, this book just gave me an idea. The device in this book is quite interesting, and many people have used devices in their movie or their book to keep the plot interesting. In Star Wars, there's the Light Saber and Jedi. In Star Trek, there's aliens and beam me up Scotty. In Twilight, there are vampire and werewolf. Spy novels, as I know, normally consist of people from different countries trying to protect their country's interest. Famous spies from China are almost exclusively women, although there were some men who were quite smart and wriggled out important information from the other side. There was one who took the mission on when she was living with her adopted father. She seduced the adopted son and father who held the king random at the time, and destroyed the relationship between the two men. The other woman was trained by the sage and she went on and became the king's consort in her enemy's country. The third woman, whose beauty wasn't even discovered by China's emperor, was sent to a foreign country to marry the king/chief so they will not invade China. The last woman, perhaps the unlucky one, was so beautiful that the emperor had forgotten to do his work for the country. She died in front of the emperor because the soldiers believed that it was her fault that the emperor was incompetent. The four most beautiful women in China were not only fair in face, they were smart, calculating, diplomatic, talented young women in their respective time and countries. The circumstances may be different, but their story make them immortal.
I will come back and write my story. I have tidied up my room, and I have tidies up my life.