It's beginning to look a lot like Sherlockmas! My exercise room is finally finished!
Every consulting detective needs his very own fireplace, even if it's fake. Here's mine all dressed up for Sherlockmas. The beautiful portrait of Sherlock hanging above the mantle is by the very talented foxestacado
Here's a Christmas tree that even Sherlock would appreciate.
Crime scene tape for ribbon.
Even the skull was feeling the holiday spirit.
I couldn't resist dressing up my Baker Street door.
Hope everyone has the happiest of holidays, Happy Sherlockmas!
I finally finished another part of my Cumber Cave. I'm slowly filling up the place. I got my mom's old recliner, it makes a great replica of Dr. Watson's chair. The wonderful Baker Street sign was given to me by akemi42. Thank you babe! I added a few posters, Sherlock's periotic table, the standard "Keep Calm", and a poster of the solar system, since Sherlock deleted that information from his brilliant brain.
The ultimate in home protection! A harpoon!!! Of course, it needed a bit of fake blood to make it look perfect.
Now this was a great find *G* I was going through my attic and remembered that I had a yard lamp, still in the box, it has been in my attic for about 10 years. So I had the great idea of turning it into a floor lamp, it took about 20 mins to rewire it. I added a flicker bulb and now I have my very own London gas lamp. *squees* It looks amazing!
Thanks everyone for all the Pandas! I started sending them out to people, and then my LJ kept saying I wasn't allowed to send to anyone's name I put in. They must have had a limit *pouts* and I had a whole list of people, I wanted to send them too.
Other than playing around in my girl cave, I've been up to my eyeballs with helping my youngest with homework every night. Private school is very different from public, and she's getting about 4 hours of homework a night. It's been very stressfull for both of us. Her grades have improved, but they've been earned with lots of tears and misery on her part. Of course when she's upset, I'm upset. I keep telling myself that her education is worth it, but some days, I just want to say fuck it, and put her back in public school. Needless to say, when I'm stressed, I get very antisocial and bitchy, so I tend to stay away from LJ to save everyone from my whining. Hope everyone has been well.
OMG, you just can't imagine the relief I feel at this very moment. I have been worried sick about her going to a public middle school. The public elementary was okay but our Middle School, is one of the worst ones in the state. I've cried all the way home, happy tears are a good thing! Hayley left Faith, and Laney starts Faith, LOLOLO Just when I thought I was finished paying them :)
*grins like an insane person* You remember when I said my hubby is the best hubby in the whole wide world, it's time to repeat it again *G* qui_quae_quod was supposed to go to England next May, with her mom, but her mom doesn't think she'll be strong enough to go next year and has decided to wait til 2014. Qui was very disappointed, so being the friend that I am, I suggested (Begged and pleaded) to go with her this year and then she can go with her mom in 2014. So I asked the hubby if he minded if I stuck him with the kids for 10 days and fly off to England with Qui, he just gave me the look and said "go have a great time". *squees & dies*
WE"RE GOING TO ENGLAND in FEBRUARY!!!!
We were going to go in May, but it's cheaper in February, way cheaper, it doesn't interfere with Misti-con, and most importantly SHERLOCK will be filming from Jan to April. So you can bet your magnifying glass that we will be trying our best to hunt them down. We also plan to hit every single Sherlock film site, London, Dartmoor, Bristol, and Wales and hopefully see a few friends along the way. I know we'll probably freeze our asses off in Feb, but I look great in a coat, and a scarf hides a double chin, so the pics will be fabulous *G* Now all I have to do before I go is, track down Benedict home address and the film studios in Cardiff.
April - 221B con in Atlanta! I'll see tons of you there and much Sherlocking will ensue. Hopefully Qui and I will be able to pass around pics of us licking Benedict Cumberbatch while we were in England.
May - I'm free for Misti-Con and I'll be going if I can get my "partners in crime" to go. Hopefully I can talk Sbrande and Qui into going, I just can't go without them. It just wouldn't be con, it would be like trying to tell a joke without a punch line, it would really suck.
Aug/Sept - Dragon con!
If the Mayans are right and we all go boom in December, I'm going to be so pissed!
Yeah, I know I need to do a con post, I'll get to it eventually.
Finally making some progress on my Cumbercave (Place to go to think dirty thoughts about Benedict Cumberbatch). I've got the window seat finished except for a tiny piece of trim. Curtains are hung and most of the pillows are made. The window seat goes across the entire back wall, 8ft, so it's a perfect place to sleep and dream dirty dreams about.....you guessed it, Benedict Cumberbatch *G*
I got my bison skull in, I still need to paint him black. Yes I know I put his horns on facing the wrong way, but they pull right of, so it's an easy fix. You might notice that it's sitting on a mantel piece! Yes, my fake fireplace is almost finished! I just need to get a painted fire to put behind it and figure out how to attach it securely to the wall.
I got the cabinets in, and painted and distressed. You can't tell but above the cabinets, I will have a fake concrete facade to match the walls beside my 221b door. I also plan to add an evidence wall, you know with crime photos and red string. My hubby sort of freaked when he found Autopsy reports printed out, but they'll be perfect for my wall. I just can't put anything to graphic, I have a 12yr.
Speaking of the 12yr, I caught her wearing my deerstalker and her coat. The oldest loved HP and now the youngest likes Sherlock, how fitting *G*
It took me at least a month but I finally finished my British phone box door for Sonia's home away from home/exercise room. *squees* Not bad considering I've never used a chop saw before, but it was practically blond proof and I still have all my fingers. The corners are mostly straight :)
Hopefully everyone had a safe and wonderful holiday.
I ended up with a few uninvited guests, but no unwelcome dogs this year. We ended up with 31 people on Christmas Eve, but no fights broke out, and no one was burnt or maimed, so I'll call it a success. With my family, you just never know. Everyone finally left around 8, so I enjoyed the rest of the evening snuggled up on the couch watching The Vicar of Dibley, while the hubby played Skyrim.
The kids woke us at 8am *groans* and we exchanged gifts. My hubby got me a Ipad, and a farting hippo (Abbey's farting hippo from NCIS). So now I can use my Ipad to facetime, and blame all the farting noises on the hippo. After the kids were finished complaining, I went back to bed until it was time to eat lunch with my parents. Then I spend the rest of the day with my pants unbuttoned wondering why I ate so damn much. I hope I never see another ham or turkey ever again!
I'm sad that this Christmas season went by so fast, but kind of glad too. After Christmas means time to start planning for con season *squees*
Qui and I have been getting together for the last three years to make our Christmas cards. We have taken hundreds of pics and we thought our flist might enjoy seeing some of the pics that didn't quite make the cut. We also took videos of us making total asses of ourselves last Christmas and we thought we might as well post them as well.
Sorry Qui, I know they are embarrassing but what are friends for *G* Thanks for letting your inner child out to play with mine.
Qui is finally here!!!! So we're about to start taking pics for our Holiday cards. So if you want a card, now is the time, I need a final count by Monday. We have our costumes, our alcohol, and lots of wicked ideas! *squees*
Having a bit of fun last year :)
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*squees* It's that time of year...FINALLY! The Christmas season is just around the corner and I'm digging out my elf shoes and plotting and planning to do Christmas cards. Qui will be coming out in a couple of weeks so we can once again, make total asses of ourselves, while trying to outdo last years card. It's doesn't matter if you live overseas or if we barely know each other, we'd love to send you one. So leave your address in the comments, they will be screened. If you don't feel comfortable leaving it in the comments, you can email me at Dixiebell 12 at Yahoo dot com.
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About this time 21 years ago, I was saying "I do". We were just babies!
Sorry I've been neglecting LJ, I've been so busy lately. I've been renovating my husbands shop and turning it into my very own Room of Requirement. Now Sonia will have her own mini apartment when she stays. I'll post pics soon.
It's getting that time of year....CHRISTMAS! So I've been cleaning and getting ready to hang lights *squees*. I'll be making my Christmas card post in a few days. Qui will be coming out soon so we can work on our Christmas cards together, it's tradition. *G* I haven't the slightest idea on how to top last years, suggestions are welcome. I'm seriously considering buying Fenrir a Santa suit for the occasion.
Mostly I've been fighting with my daughter. She's a senior this year, which is hard to believe. She's also taking English 101 with University of Alabama, online, so she can get a bit ahead. She's doing really well and making a 4.0 in all her classes even her college course. The problem I'm having with her is she doesn't understand why we can't afford to pay her college when "everyone else's parents" are paying for theirs. She believes like most teens, money grows on trees, and that we should do without everything and she should get a free ride. If there was a way I could pay for it, I would, but we have paid for 13 years of private school, and now her sister will be going back into the private school system, and we have to pay for hers. Hayley doesn't want to have to pay back a student loan, and instead of getting off her ass and studying for her ACT, she blew it. She got a 23, and I know damn well she could have done a lot better and could have gotten a scholarship and a free ride. So now she's taking it all out on me and making me feel like the worst fucking parent on the face of the Earth. She's mostly a great kid, she has never given us any problems, always did excellent in school and we've spoiled her because of her good behavior and now it's biting us in the ass. I love her and she's my world, but I don't like her very much at the moment.
I hope you had a fabulous day, and I wish I was there to celebrate with you. At least I have some wonderful video clips of you to watch, to remind me of you. I figured it would be a shame not to share *evil laughter*
A lot of you know that we went to Boston after the con, to stay in the haunted Omni Parker Hotel, I guess it's finally time to post about it. When we got to the hotel we were extremely pleased with it's creepy atmosphere, it looked like something out of "The Shinning". We stayed in the most haunted room they had on the third floor, it was the room where most of the ghostly activity had been reported, or so they said. We armed ourselves with an EMF detector, flashlights and a video recorder, and set off in the search for Harvey Parker's ghost. www.omnihotels.com/Exclusiveoffers/HauntedTravelsParkerHouse.aspx
Sonia and I were sitting around talking about future cons, and "Con Cruise" just popped into my head. Think about how awesome that would be. Everything we would need would be right there on the boat. Rooms, plenty of space, ballrooms, buffets, alcohol, different ports of call, and if you got sick of the Gryfindors, you could just pitch them over board!
Can't you just see Death Eaters sitting by the pool with flippers and goggles on, Snape at the roulette table, Malfoy's holding court on a grand staircase, Luna putting Plimpy's in the swimming pool, the Weasley twins steering the boat, the possibilities would be endless. If that damn mouse can have his own cruise line then why can't we!!!!
Who's in charge of organizing these cons anyway? We need to start annoying the shit out of them, saying we want a HP Con Cruise.
Day three of con will be coming soon, just didn't want to over-saturate you all.
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