Update

Here I am, with an update on how things are going!

So first of all I am happy that I might have a photoshoot on thursday.

Since it is in Holland and I need to find transport to get there, I am not sure yet, because the photographer is a photography student she also isn't sure yet wether she'll be able to get there.

But I'm sure we'll find something.

The photographer needed to pick a sub-culture that she needs 5 nice pics off, so we decided to go with lolita.

I'm gathering props right now, looking around my house what we could use.

The rest of the week I will continue my search for a new job...

I have some things printed out that interest me, I'll call the store managers tommorow and see when I can go have a talk with them about a job. I've heard that the belgian railways are looking for more staff again, so I'll be chekin that out as well.

Wish me good lcuk on that!

and finally but not least, I got my photos from the burlesque studio shoot, and I'll show you my favourite images:

Japanese pop culture + FNM

Lately I have been listening to Japanese pop and metal a lot, and I keep wondering why European pop culture isn't as fun and colofull as the Japanese pop culture...
Here we have talentless people who mix up some old songs in their own homemade computer music, they ruin older songs from the 90's and 80's and then call it music, art, tallent...
Or dubstep ofcourse... we have dubstep.
I must admit there is some dubstep I like, but I think some dubstep is still to be considered "music", for example "Promises" by Nero.
But most dubstep just really sounds like a computer crashing and the dog scratching a blackbord while the thumble drier is shredding your clothes... or something like that.
I would give anything to have music like they have in Japan, here in Europe.
The videoclips are awesome, the music sounds happy and sweet, the artists never look the same, they all have their own original style,...

The new collection that I am working on for EmikoDesigns is going to be based on that Japanese popculture and on harajuku styles such as lolita, fairy kei, deco,...
So it is going to be a bit colorfull, cute and outragious.

That's all on the popculture subject.

Tonight I'll be attending another FNM (Friday Night Magic), and I don't think I have ever talked about that on my blog before... so let's do that now.

Magic the gathering is a card game, that was invented int he 90's, it is the game that the Pokemon cardgame as well as the Yu Gi Oh cardgame were based on.

You have 7 types of cards:

-Artifact

-Creature

-Instant

-Sorcery

-Enchanment

-Planeswalker

-Land : this you need to use any of the above card types and is your base.

This is an island, all lands of the color blue are Islands.

there are 6 colors you can play:

-Green

-White

-Red

-Blue

-Black

-Colorless (mostly artifact)

every creature, instant, artifact, sorcery, planeswalker and enchantment has a mana (land) cost on their card, and you'll need this many land to able to bring the card into play.

If you have a 60-card deck you mostly have about 40 cards that range from creatures to enchantments, and the other 20 are land.
And from there on, when you have your mana you can start playing cards, those are the basics of the game.

So on FNM, you get to play against other people (you can not choose who) and at the and of the evening you can win prices, such as rare cards or special art cards.

How good or bad you've played gets you points and those points you straight to your DCI number, where you can see how many points you have and what "level" you are.

I play a white weenie deck, weenie meaning that I play low cost creatures with mostly low strenght and toughness. This doens't sound logical at all if you want to win, but this was you have creatures before that the enemy has them, so you can do some damage before he can even block the damage because he has no creatures.
The creature types in my deck are "Humans", and I have a lot of cards you need to power up.

for instance:

Champion of the parish

He only costs one mana to paly, so I have this one in my deck 3 times, so i have more chances that he is going to be in my begin hand. if he is the first card I play, the game is as good as won by me. Whenever I play another "human", his strenght and toughness go up by 1, so in about 4 turns, I can have a super strong creature that no one can beat.

So I hope I'll draw some good cards tonight and that I'll win something ^^

Nice week , car accident + jewelery update

Last week was a pretty good week, but with a downside.
I've spent my last week without a job being lazy, doing whatever I want and a visit to Efteling.

For the 1st of november my boyfriend and I went to his family where we had to watch dia's for hours, and I can tell you this: looking at your own vacation pictures is fun, but looking at otherpeople's vacation pictures just sucks...
Apart from watching vacation dia's we also watched dia's from my bf's parents their chilhood.
What I've learned from this:
My boyfriends's dad lookd like my boyfriend with a weird "beatlles" wig.


At Efteling we had a great time, we haven't qued a single line the entire day!
There were basicaly no visitors in the park, the weather was good, all the new rides were absolutely amazing and we had lots of fun!
Now I feel like going again already enxt month, hah!
But I'll have to wait till next year...
Unfortionately my favourite rollercoaster wasn't open that day.
The fairytale and laaf village were as enchanting as tey used to be, I thought they would be less cool because I'm older now, but they were still as magical ^^
We got stuck for 15 minutes in "Vliegende hollander" because of technical problems, I get this all te time. Every time I visit a thema park, something gets stuck.
Oh and I wore my newest lolita skirt, wich I adore <3



After we left the park (not even 3 kilometers) there was a car standing still on the road, we hit the brakes about just in time, but the car behind us was to late, tried to drive around us but hit one of back tires... yay!
I really was in shock at first, luckily th people who drove into us were really nice and did all the paper work properly, the person causing the accident who was standing still on the road drove off when he/she saw us getting hit.
We couldn't drive back home and to wait for somone to pick us up for two hours in a mc donalds, I ate soo much that night..


I have finally placed a supply order with a wholesaler for my new jewelery collection, everything is going to be victorian inspired. I am working with silver and glass jewels for the collection so the price is going to be a litlle more expensive than the usual things that I sell.
I asked people on vampirefreaks and facebook what colors I should use, so I took someof the most popular colors and some of the less popular colors to create a color scheme with varities.
here's the outcome:


These are all the colors i'll be using for the biggest pieces of the collection.
I hope that I'll recieve my supplies soon, so I can start making my new jewelery!


Emiko