PandaLogic Bakes: French Macaroons (video + recipe!)

Hey guys! So for my third Vlogmas video, I decided to do some holiday baking and make some French Macaroons with Vanilla Chai Buttercream! It seemed like a fun new treat to try for the Holidays, and although it was quite a bit of work, the results were very good! They turned out really well, and were super yummy! I baked them a few days ago, and they are all gone already!

Anyways, this post I'm going to link the vlog that I filmed, and also leave the recipe for anyone interested! So here you go:

Macaroon Batter (original recipe here)

- 1 ¼ cups icing sugar
- 4 oz (1 cup) almond flour or finely ground almonds
- ¼ cup plus 2 tbsps egg whites at room temperature
- pinch of salt
- ¼ cup granulated sugar

Allow egg whites to thicken by leaving them uncovered at room temperature overnight.

On three pieces of parchment, use a pencil to draw 1-inch (2.5 cm) circles about 2 inches apart. Flip each sheet over and place each sheet on a baking sheet.

Push almond flour through a tamis or sieve, and sift icing sugar. Mix the almonds and icing sugar in a bowl and set aside. If the mixture is not dry, spread on a baking sheet, and heat in oven at the lowest setting until dry.

In a large clean, dry bowl whip egg whites with salt on medium speed until foamy. Increase the speed to high and gradually add granulated sugar. Continue to whip to stiff peaks – the whites should be firm and shiny.

With a flexible spatula, gently fold in icing sugar mixture into egg whites until completely incorporated. The mixture should be shiny and ‘flow like magma.’ When small peaks dissolve to a flat surface, stop mixing.

Fit a piping bag with a 3/8-inch (1 cm) round tip. Pipe the batter onto the baking sheets, in the previously drawn circles. Tap the underside of the baking sheet to remove air bubbles. Let dry at room temperature for 1 or 2 hours to allow skins to form.

Bake, in a 160C/325F oven for 10 to 11 minutes. Use a wooden spoon to keep the oven door slightly ajar, and rotate the baking sheet after 5 minutes for even baking.

Remove macarons from oven and transfer parchment to a cooling rack. When cool, slide a metal offset spatula or pairing knife underneath the macaron to remove from parchment.

Pair macarons of similar size, and pipe about ½ tsp of the filling onto one of the macarons. Sandwich macarons, and refrigerate to allow flavours to blend together. Bring back to room temperature before serving.

Vanilla Chai Buttercream (original recipe here)

- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 tsp. vanilla bean paste (or pure vanilla extract)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp. chai spice mix (1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1 1/2 tsp. ground cardamom, 1/2 tsp. ground ginger, 1/2 tsp. nutmeg)
- 1 tbsp. cold milk, if needed to thin out the buttercream

In a stand mixer, beat the butter until it is creamy. On low, mix in the vanilla bean paste and the chai spice mix. Carefully beat in the powdered sugar about ½ cup at a time. If the buttercream is too thick add 1-2 tbs of cold milk until the desired consistency is reached.

I hope you guys try out this recipe, they turned out super yummy! Anyways, good luck with all your Holiday baking, and hopefully I'll be posting again soon! Bye guys :D

Unintentional hiatus! (blog update)

Hello there! Long time no post.

I am very sorry about my lack of postage over the summer months! I could lie and say I was busy, but lets be real, I wasn't that busy. Unfortunately, my laptop broke, and I havent had the time or means to get it fixed or buy a new one. Hopefully I can fix that issue soon, or at least find someone to lend me a computer to blog on, hahaha! Currently I am blogging from my iPad, but I can't do any real blogging on here because I can't upload photos from my camera! Hopefully a solution will arise soon enough though, and I can get back to regular posting.

I do have quite a few exciting posts coming up though! Lots of reviews, and a new sponsorship! I also took another trip to Las Vegas this year, so I'll be posting about that as well.

Fashion wise, I will be doing a few Fall/Winter inspiration posts, and (hopefully) some gets posts! My style has been changin pretty radically over the last while, so that should be an exciting experience for all!

And on that note, my hair is no longer blue! If you follow my Twitter, Tumblr, or Instagram (pandalogic) (which you should if you'd like to keep up with me on a more day-to-day basis!), you would know that I dyed my hair a dark black-brown a few weeks ago! As much as I loved the blue, upkeep was getting really expensive and  beginning to stress out my hair. So I decided to give my hair a chance to grow in and get healthy again before I blast it with bleach next!

In other news, I start university on Monday! I am quite excited, and I'm really looking forward to my program and only having to go to class three days a week! I am going into a Visual Arts program though, so two days of my week are just Studio practice sessions so unfortunately I won't be wearing very much glamorous clothing on those days, hahaha. So I think I am going to try and make Tuesday my OoTD day! I'm ying to set goals for myself so that I can ease my way back into blogging.

Before I sign off, I'd really like to thank everyone who is still reading my blog. Thank you guys so much for sticking with me all this time, i really do appreciate it! If it weren't for a few loyal followers, I would probably have given up a long time ago. So thank you guys, you make this blog happen!

And now I will bid you all  good night from my side of the world! Hoping to have another blog post up in the next week or so! If I don't, someone please send me an angry ask or tweet and tell me to post! Haha!

Goodnight y'all, see you sooon!

P.S. I am writing this on my iPad, so please excuse any spelling/grammar errors that I may have missed! Thanks again guys, you're all awesome!

(Truly) Daily Style + Cosplay Progress!

Hey y'all! It sure has been a while since I last blogged :P I can't even say I've been very busy, just a little bit lazy! Haha. I guess you can say I've been a little busy getting ready for proms, since I am a senior this year! And I was asked to two proms in addition to my own school's, so it's been a little stressful trying to prepare for all of those as well as Anime North! I had my first prom last weekend, but my camera's battery wasn't charged so I didn't take any pictures myself ; ^ ;. Thankfully, other people did! I'll post a few pics at the end of this post for those who are interested :3

Anyways, usually when I do a Daily Style post, it's more like a staged daily style than what I truly wear on a day-to-day basis. Meaning that it's usually an outfit for a special occasion or something. But recently I've been trying to take more pictures of my actual daily style to show on my blog, since this is definitely becoming more of a personal blog :P

Anyways, I have two outfits today to show you! (P.S. I am trying out new locations in my room to take outfit pictures, so bear with me! xD)

Necklace: inherited

Top: F21

Skirt: F21

Scarf: F21

Top: Urban Planet

Shorts: F21

Both of these outfits were quite simple in essence, but I really like them! The first one I wore for dinner yesterday (Mother's day!), and the second one I wore to run errands after school today. These are truly outfits that I wear every day :P I was really happy with the second one :D I quite like it, and those are the first pair of high waisted shorts that didn't make me look like an old man, which is AWESOME.

I'm going to try and remember to take pictures of my outfits everyday now, or at least a few times a week so I can do more posts like this! What do you guys think?

And now on to cosplay news! Anime North is approaching VERY quickly (almost too quickly), and I've just started working on my costumes. Yeah. Go me. King of the slackers. Anyways, I finished my Matryoshka Gumi sweater the other day, which if you follow me on Tumblr or my FB fan page you would have seen already! Here are a couple pics in case you don't.

Yay for being cheesy! Anyways, that's done, and pretty much the only other thing I need for this cosplay are striped stockings, which I can buy easily. This was 90% closet cosplay for me, considering all I had to do was stitch the details on the hood! :P But at least it's done now!

Melty however, I have barely even started =_______=;; I've cut some patterns and I've got all my fabric and what not, I just need to start sewing like a mad man now!! And I still need more lace and some notions for the accessory bits. I am super pleased to know that the anime version of Melty does NOT have the ribbon wraps on her gloves or stockings, so I will most likely be omitting those details for now. I'll probably add them after Anime North though, because I want to try and go to FX or some other summer con this year, and I'll probably just re-wear Melty if I do!

I got my contact lenses in the mail today as well, JUST in time! :D I'll probably do a review of them soon, I need to buy new contact solution though :P

And as promised, here are a couple photos from the first prom I went to! Anyways, I'm going to try some fun nail art now, so until next time! :D

Art & Daily Style!

Hey y'all! So today I wanted to post about whats been preoccupying the vast majority of my time lately! I alluded to it being a photography project, and a photography project it is! But its also a combination between photography and sculpture! So here's what I've been working on!

Yes, its a photosculpture of my Jeffery Campbell Litas! This was my photography project for my media class this year, and I am quite happy with my result! It got lots of good comments from the viewers in the gallery, which was really nice for me! 

Basically what I did was carve and shape a model of my shoe on a 1.5:1 scale (approx. 18"x18"x6") out of pink foam, and then take hundreds of macro photos of my shoe and all the details of it and then collaged them onto the model, attaching the photos with Dressmakers pins. 

It took approximately 3.5 weeks to carve and shape the model, and then another week or so to photograph and attach all of the pictures to the model, so it took me a total of just over a month to complete! I am very satisfied with my work, although there are still some touch up to be made.

As well, I wore this outfit to go to the Closing Show at the gallery!

Jacket: Danier (given to me by mum)

Scarf: ???

Necklace: F21

Dress: Spoof!

Leggings: Urban Behaviour

Shoes: Jeffery Campbell

Bag: Aldo

It was a somewhat simple outfit since I only had about 15 minutes to throw something together after a fitting for a modelling gig I got, but I quite liked my result! It felt artsy enough to be an artist at a gala, but fancy enough to go out for dinner afterwards! And of course, I had to wear my Litas to show off my Lita sculpture :P Anyways, here's a couple of other photos from the night.

Explaining a friend's piece to a onlooker.

Went out for dinner with my friend afterwards. That loaf of bread was as big as her head!

Anyways, now that its getting nicer out, I feel more inclined to really try with my outfits! So I'm definitely going to try and post more outfit shots more often! I also want to do a Spring gets post as well, so hopefully that will be coming soon! In the mean time, look at these pretty tulips from the park near my house!

Anyways, I must go to bed now! Until next time!

Personal Panda: Let's Get Physical!

Hey everybody! :D Hope y'all had a pleasant day!

So today is February 1st, and it's four months until my favourite convention of the year: ANIME NORTH! I'm really looking forward to this year, as I'm doing not one but two cosplays in a weekend, which is a first for me! I'm also planning on participating in some panels, and I might even be running a workshop! More details to come on that though ;)

Speaking of cosplay, I received the first of my two wigs yesterday, for my Melty cosplay! If you follow me on Tumblr or have liked my fan page, you probably have seen the picture I took of it! If not, I'll actually blog about them once I have both wigs in my possession as to not clog my blog with wig posts :3 Hoping for the second wig to arrive sometime this week!

And now, in relation to the title of this post! I decided a while ago that I wanted to actually get into better shape for this Anime North, but wanted to wait until after the Holiday season (- w - ) harhar... So I decided, February 1st, I'm beginning my "Let's Look Good for Cosplay" training! :D Although it really isn't training...

I'm not going to lie, I have pretty terrible eating habits, and don't exercise as often as I probably should. So I've decided to make some goals for myself to look better for Anime North! I'm not really aiming to lose any weight since I'm perfectly okay with where I am weight-wise, but I could 100% use some toning up =____=;; So here are a few of the things I plan to do to reach my goals!

• Drink 8 glasses of water a day (optimally ice cold!)
• Stop eating past 9 PM (SO BAD, I AM EATING LASAGNA RIGHT NOW :| AND IT IS ALMOST 1 AM)
• Cut out all junk foods and sodas from my diet (I'm so addicted... T___T)
• Drink more tea 
• Eat more regular meals (I'm notorious for skipping breakfast... and lunch ; ^ ;)
• Cut out all unnecessary sugars from my diet (that's going to be so hard...)
• Do regular toning exercises (at least five times a week)
• Spend less time on computer/video games (; ^ ;)
• Stretch everyday before dance classes (I'm losing my flexibility!)

It's not much, but it's a start! :D The hardest part is going to be adjusting my eating habits. Especially eating regular meals. I'm always late for school, so I rarely every eat breakfast, and I never have time to make lunch and I don't really like my school's food... ^^;; I know, excuses, excuses. But I'm going to try to at least get breakfast every day! And cutting sodas... I drink so much Coke, it's ridiculous. Like, people shouldn't be allowed to drink this much Coke. So I'm only going to allow myself one a week, if I really am craving it that badly!

Exercise won't be a problem for me since I have dance class everyday anyways, now I'll just add some toning exercises when I get home! :) But spending less time on the computer... oi... That's gonna be a hard one! But hopefully toning exercises will fill up that time xD Plus I'm going to be rehearsing and performing in Phantom of the Opera almost everyday in February, so that's at least one month where I'll be less computer active xD

I'm also aiming to improve my overall skin health so that I can look good in photos too! :D I plan on going to Lush and getting a new skin care regime going, since I've run out of toner and moisturizer and have been too busy to go get new ones ; ^ ;. I'm hoping to order some cotton masks as well that I can use. I've used them before and really liked them! Do any of you guys have a mask that you really like? I've tried the My Beauty Diary ones before, but no others! I'm definitely looking for recommendations! :D

So starting today, I will be trying to get healthier and look better! :D Wish me luck on this journey, haha!

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Photo from first night show of Artistic Endeavours, our senior produced dance show that we performed a few weeks ago! I should probably do a post about that... maybe soon!

Anyways, until next time! :D


(P.S. I just noticed I hit 300 followers!!!!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, YOU ALL ARE SO GREATLY APPRECIATED <3 :D Possible giveaway soon? We'll see!! :D)

Anime North 2012: Plans!

Hey everyone!

So I'm back at school now, and I've been working quite hard on my end of semester projects and studying for my exams! I only have two, but they are going to be hard enough. But I'm taking a break right now to get ready for our end of semester performance, so I felt like I had enough time to blog today! :D

So today, I want to talk about my plans for my cosplay at Anime North 2012! Whats cool about this year is that I've already made and set my cosplay plans! Normally I'm switching cosplays up until the month before the convention, but this year I've already chosen my cosplays and I'm sticking with them!

My main cosplay (for Saturday), is a character named Melty from a video game (and soon to be anime) called Shining Hearts!

She is a witch, but all her attacks in the game are based off of ice cream! Hahaha. She is so me. I also am very excited to have a large hat like hers, because last year I got major sunburns on my shoulders and back. So now I get some sun protection built into my costume! :D WOOHOO!

I really like the character designs from all of the Shining series, but especially the ones in Shining Hearts! I actually have a group coming with me as a few of the other characters as well! And I'm thinking of making Melty's sidekick (Sorbet, the little guy by her feet), into a sort of purse! Functional, and actually goes with the costume!

For Sunday, I chose a much simpler cosplay, but one that still has lots of impact! I chose to do my second Vocaloid cosplay, Matryoshka Gumi!

I was going to do Matryoshka Luka, since I already have the wig, but Gumi's design is much more vivid and eye catching.

I'm going to (most likely) be teaching dance covers at a K-Pop workshop on Sunday, so I wanted something that I could move around in easily! Plus Sunday is usually a more lazy day for me, so I want something that won't be to cumbersome or uncomfortable either!

I'm really excited to do the makeup for this cosplay! It'll be a good chance for me to start working on my more theatrical makeup styles! I haven't decided on whether I'll powder my face or not yet... but we shall see!

And those are my costumes for Anime North this year! I've already ordered both of the wigs for these cosplays, and hopefully they'll arrive in the next couple of weeks or so! I'll post pictures as soon as I get them! I hope they look good ; ^ ;

Anyways, since I have all this free time, I'm gonna try and work on my FSEs now ;___;

Until next time!! 

Holidays!

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year once again!

Today's post is going to talk about my holidays! I've been meaning to make posts all throughout the holiday season, but I haven't had the time until now, and it will be much more succinct if I just do it all in one post! So let's get started!

Firstly, I'll talk about the completion of one of my 12x12 goals, which was making a gingerbread house! Every year, my best friend's family holds this MASSIVE gingerbread house building competition. And believe me, this thing is serious. Everyone spends 5-6 hours constructing very over the top gingerbread houses! I can't find my picture of it, but the winners of the competition this year made a gingerbread house cattle farm. A WHOLE FARM! It took a up a whole table by itself! Anyways, here's some photos of my teams construction!

The unholy union of three gingerbread house kits!!

Transition time!

Hey everyone! So I know I haven't blogged in a while, but y'all know how the holidays can get and I really haven't had very much time to just sit around and blog! But regardless, I hope everyone had a marvelous holiday season and continue to have one in the following days!

I'm worried I won't be able to get to my laptop in time to post this, so it's gonna be a picture-less blog post today!

So 2011 has been a pretty good year for me! It's been hella busy, but so fun! I've done a lot this year, sand I'm hoping to do more in 2012!! So let's recap all of the things that have happened in 2011:

- travelled to New York City, Chicago, and Las Vegas
- got a new camera
- choreographed my first (and second) dances by myself
- started doing reviews for circle lenses and makeup
- started my YouTube channel
- had my first spare in my schedule
- got my first job
- turned 17
- successfully pulled off my biggest cosplay yet
- bought my Jeffery Campbell Litas

I guess I haven't necessarily had the most exciting year, but it's been a good one and I look forward to the upcoming year immensely! And while we're on the topic, I should go through my 12 by 2012 list and see which I've accomplished and which I haven't!

1) I still haven't applied for my uni choices, but that was mostly because I was still confused about what career path I'm aiming for. Now that I've decided on my career path, I'll be ready to apply for uni in the new year!

2) Same as number one, but it's happening soon!

3) When I realized I didn't need my Advanced Functions class for the program I'm going into, I dropped it. But I did get my grade up before I dropped the class, so we can count this one as accomplished! YAY!

4) I changed my ballet variation after making this goal, but it's so much closer to perfection than my other variation would have been! So I'll count this'd as accomplished too!

5) I haven't had the time or money to start making jewelery yet, but I did make some accessories for some friends and secret Santa gifts, so this goal is like, half-accomplished!

6) If you follow my YouTube channel, you'll know that this goal hasn't been fulfilled yet!! ; ^ ;

7) I have been taking more pictures, which you will see in my next post (which will probably be up in the next day or two!). So here's another accomplished goal!

8) I did make a gingerbread house (pics coming soon!!) but no gingerbread men! :( Another goal half-accomplished!

9) I've been hanging ut lots with my sisters and family this holiday season, especially in the last few days! We're all getting very fat... =_____=;; lol

10) Did have a Christmas movie marathon with my sisters, and I'm currently planning my LoTR marathon for the New year, since I got the extended edition box set for Christmas! Woohoo! Accomplished!

11) I'm going to hang out with some friends in a few hours! So let's say this is accomplished! Haha

12) I've started putting some money away for both events, although its not much since I put a lot of my paychecks into buying awesome gifts for everyone this year! But this goal has been accomplished in my mind!

So although I didn't accomplish all of my goals, I do think I did pretty well considering I started pret late in 2011! Haha, but I feel pretty accomplished and proud of what I did get done! This list has been pretty good as a motivator for me. Now I really just need to apply for uni! Maybe I'll do that before I go out tonight... Hahaha!!

Now as far as resolutions, I don't usually do them. But I feel like what's the hurt in making some this year? So here are my resolutions for 2012!

- eat less McDonalds
- drink more water
- save more money
- be nicer to everyone
- get my iron levels up so I can donate blood
- blog more often!!!!

Let's hope I can keep up with those! They don't seem to hard, haha. But we'll see how that goes! Anyways, I'm about to finish getting ready for some parties tonight! So to all of my wonderful followers, a very Happy New Year to you! Let's all do our best in 2012!!

Happy New Year!!

12 by 2012 (A Project of Goals)

Hey everyone! So, I was just perusing my blog roll before I went to bed, when I came upon the always lovely Sara Mari's blog post about the 12 by 2012 Project! After reading her post, and the original post by Oh, Hello Friend, I decided I would take part in this project/meme!

banner from: oh, hello friend.

I'll give you a brief summary of the project, but for a better description, definitely check out Oh, Hello Friend's post about the project! Basically, this project is a list of twelve things you want to accomplish before 2012 (so by December 31st, 2011 @ 11:59 PM). It's a great motivator to get things done, so I thought I would give it a go!

Here's my list of 12 before 2012:

1. Apply to all my university choices (yikes!).
2. Apply for university scholarships (more yikes!!).
3. Get my Advanced Functions grade up (hopefully higher than 70!).
4. Perfect my ballet variation en pointe.
5. Start making jewelry & accessories (and hopefully selling it!).
6. Film a new video for my Youtube Channel (doesn't matter what!).
7. Take more pictures (of everything).
8. Make a gingerbread house and an army of gingerbread men.
9. Spend as much time as possible with my sisters during the Christmas holidays (and my family as well).
10. Have a Christmas movie marathon. Or a Lord of the Rings movie marathon.
11. Hang out with friends on New Year's Eve.
12. Start saving money for prom dress/Anime North.

I feel like there's nothing very profound on my list, but there doesn't really have to be! Plus I got in the game a little late here, so I feel like this is a good list for me!

If you feel like joining this project, read about it on Oh, Hello Friend's post, and do it! It's a really great motivator, and I feel like more people should be doing things like this! 

Wish me luck! :D

Halloween!

Hey everyone! So as promised, I am going to share some of my Spirit Week/Halloween photos with you guys! I meant to put them up sooner, but you know how life is sometimes. A pain in the butt. Anyways, here are some of the photos!

Personal Panda: Recent (& upcoming!) Events!

Hey everybody! So, I know I've been like, the slowest blogger ever recently, but hopefully everything will be going up from here!

The next couple of weeks I am VERY excited for, and for two reasons. Reason number one is that the upcoming week is SPIRIT WEEK at my school! Most schools will have a Spirit Day, but my school likes to go a little bit further than that and have full weeks of school spirit! And since this years first Spirit Week is leading up to Halloween day, this years themes are mostly Halloween themed! And I definitely plan on posting pictures of all my outfits for the next week!

The themes this year are: Black & Orange Monday, Vampire Tuesday, Witch & Wizard Wednesday, Super Sweet Thursday, and Zombie Friday! And then the following Monday is Halloween, so it will end with everyone wearing Halloween costumes!

The second reason why I'm so excited is because the next weekend is Youmacon! I'm so stoked, because I've been dying to cosplay for the last month or so, and now I basically get two weeks of cosplay, haha! I checked the guest list today to, and I'm very excited to see some of the guest this year! I really want to go and see Lemon Demon/Potter Puppet Pals this year, as I always seem to miss them when I go to Youmacon!

While I'm on the topic of Youmacon, lets talk cosplay! Youmacon is in less than two weeks, and I haven't started my cosplay. Ha. Haha. Orz. However, I did get my Luka wig delivered to me today, and I tried it on immediately!

I look gross because I just got home from school ; ^ ;

The lighting in this photo is subpar, but you get the idea. The wig is soooo soft and silky, and the bangs only need to be trimmed a little bit! It also came with a really good wig cap, so I'm super psyched. When I have my hands on a better camera, I'll take some better pictures of the wig and what not!

And the last note I'm going to post here is: I got a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Praise the lord, I'm actually going to be able to afford cosplay now! I start training next week, and will be working by early November! I'm so excited about this. Please wish me luck xD

And now I have to go work on a few assignments and projects and what not =____=;;

Until next post! :D

Personal Panda: 17 forever!

I'm a horrible blogger. I know.

But I celebrated my 17th birthday on Wednesday, and it was awesome! :D I'm getting a new camera from my parents, and I am extremely excited! The main reason why I haven't been blogging as much lately is that all my blog plans are for posting gets and coords, but I haven't had a camera to take pictures with!! And it's very frustrating, because I've had so much I want to show you guys and I haven't been able too! I also haven't found a good place to photograph my clothes yet, and its proving very difficult to do so in my attic room :S

But other than that, I've been quite busy with school recently, I actually just finished a project ten minutes ago xD Dance is being very taxing, a lot of hard work, and its very tiring. And I've been selected to do the annual tours to all the grade schools to talk about our expanded arts program, so now I have to choreograph a solo for that. Woo.

In other news, I had a preliminary job interview today! I was super excited, and I really hope I get called back for the second interview~ I need a job so badly ; ^ ; I am suffering!

On a cosplay note, I am ordering my Luka wig soon (I hope), and I'm on the hunt for silk flowers to use on the headpiece! Hopefully I'll have some progress pics to show off soon!

Anyways, I'm going to go play my new favourite game, Fiesta! It's a pretty good free MMORPG! I've been addicted to it the last week or so. Do any of you play Fiesta? If you do, and are playing on the Apoline server, let me know! I'm always looking for people to play with :D

Until next time, and hopefully with pictures~

Personal Panda: School is...

Absolutely ridiculous. Totally awesome, but just so busy! I'm into my second week of grade 12, and it's been really hectic! I've mostly been busy with dance, since the grade 12's are in charge of presenting the semester 1 show! And we've been doing our back to school dance boot camp, and I can honestly say that I've been too sore to blog. As lame as that sounds, it's true. But the last couple days I've been doing techie work, so I was feeling good today! Just really sleepy, since my classes start at 7:40 AM everyday ; ^ ;

Also, I've been meaning to take pictures of my outfits for school and what not, but I keep forgetting! I always want to use the DSLR, but I don't have my tripod, and my cell phone camera is just so... cell phone-y. How do you guys feel about me using my cell phone to take pictures? I really have been loving all my outfits recently, and I want to share them, so I might just do it anyways! So hopefully expect to see some OOTD shots soon ^^

On a fashion-y note, I will be doing a Fall gets post relatively soon, I just need to gather all my clothes! They are spread at two houses right now, so once I can get them all in one place, I will get on that! I've gotten lots of nice Fall colours in my wardrobe, which makes me really happy! And lots of cute dresses :3

And on a cosplay note, I have decided to cosplay as Luka Megurine, Just Be Friends version for my next upcoming convention (Youmacon)! I plan on starting work on it soon, so I will try and be a good cosplayer and upload lots of progress pictures. Its not a very difficult outfit to make, but I want to show my progress anyways! I'm really excited to make the flowered hairpiece <3 I might use that as part of my Halloween costume too? But haven't really decided yet xD

And big note to lovers of Murua and Forever 21! I caught this photo on Sara Mari's tumblr of the Murua stripe pencil skirt, by F21! Is that a replica or what?

I think though, if I see it in store, I will probably buy it, even though it is such an obvious replica. But keep your eyes peeled for it!

Anyways, I have to go start working on some choreography for my class piece! I'm planning a contemporary dance, and I will hopefully upload some progress videos from that too!

Until next time! Have a great day!!