Comment to add anything you want regarding this month's swap theme! Let your mind go wild!

I've got a few of the main pointers:
Hayao Miyazaki @ Wikipedia
Studio Ghibli @ Wikipedia

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (I Lost My Little Boy)
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Porco Rosso
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Panda! Go, Panda!

Our category of geek for this month is: I'm an Otaku



Swap Registration #12: The Magic of Miyazaki

The beautiful scenery. The attention to detail. The heartwarming stories. The cute, blushing faces on the characters you absolutely fall in love with. Hayao Miyazaki has been creating amazing animation for many, many years. Stories that make you laugh and make you cry and always, always make you sigh in awe and wonder.

This month's swap is in honour of this great creator and his works. There are so many directions to go, so choose your path and run with it! I expect some beautiful boxes this month.

I will be posting a swap survey today as well, so be on the lookout for that. Swap surveys are a great tool, but you shouldn't rely solely on those. Emailing your partner and checking out their introduction post and/or user info work great, too. For now, just go to this month's Swap Brainstorm Bank and contribute your ideas.

Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: put together a swap box that follows the Hayao Miyazaki theme, keeping in mind your assigned partner's interests. As always, I suggest that you send a box with contents of at least a $20 USD value (this does NOT count shipping cost!). With handmade items, I know that's hard to judge, but do your best.

Anyone who would like to participate in this swap must respond in the comments section below with:
Name:
Shipping Address:
E-Mail Address:
Are you willing/able to ship internationally this month?:
Allergies and/or Product Restrictions?:

All comments will be screened so that only mods can see your personal information.

Swap #12 Registration closes Thursday, July 31st!
*Participants will be emailed their swap partner's information the following day*

The deadline to ship out your swap package is Friday, August 22nd.
Before committing to this swap, please make sure that your schedule will allow you to put together a well-planned, brilliant, thoughtful (oh, am I getting carried away?) swap box and ship it out within the three weeks allotted.

Any questions? Please feel free to contact me at rubymulligan (at) gmail (dot) com.

[[ 36 ]] Various Celebs
[[ 06 ]] Lost
[[ 09 ]] BTVS (misc. episodes)


Preview:


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How did I manage to miss this!? The Princess Di references have been left out this time, and I have to say what's there instead looks pretty good! So excited for this film...

And is it my imagination, or does Lady Spencer seem an awful lot like the Comtesse de Noailles in Marie-Antoinette? I know the actresses are different, but the portrayal feels similar. I suppose the characters fulfill the same role in the story (although in MA's case she had the Comtesse and her mother breathing down her neck!).

We had a magnificent thunderstorm last night. Once again I am convinced that my flowers will be flattened by the violence of the rain, but since they bounced back just fine last time I probably shouldn't worry.

Not enough sleep again -- I took some Excedrin PM (for my toothache), was in bed by 10, and STILL woke up at 2am >__< Definitely need to try out that exercise plan...

Anyway -- today's lady, lifted from another LJ (I forget who posted it now, sorry!). I did some minor enhancements to clean it up a bit, since the original was somewhat dark and muddy.

Hello everyone! I'm new here and I love this forum! You guys give such great tips and tutorials on vintage hair. Thanks so much! I've posted some pics of myself and a hairstyle I tried on day. If anyone likes it, i'll be glad to use it as a tutorial!

You know, sewing one panel wrong side out and noticing until after you hem one of the front, shaped panels really slows things down. Especially when you're working on an 80 inch train. Tall people, I feel your pain. I was given the choice of unhemming and taking out one panel, or taking out two panels. I took out two.

The train is huge. To make it puff out like the fashion plate I had to use three widths of fabric. So 160 or so inches. That's 60 inches wider than the pattern I'm basing it off. However, it's also 40 inches shorter than that one. I wasn't really into a 120 inch train, especially as it appears to be totally looped up in the fashion plate. 80 inches is enough to deal with there! It looks like I'll have three ties and loops instead of the standard 18th century 2 ties and loops. Unless I decide on something else. The problem with copying a fashion plate is there's no back view :)

So my hopes for getting the train done in one day have been dashed. Although, I am pretty close. It just needs the hem, waist finishing (pleats are pinned into place) and loops. Hmm, that's really not much. I don't see looping it up tonight, but maybe the rest...

My friend wanted pictures of me for her photo class, so we went out to the local garden later that day. I only had a little time to prepare and get out there, so the design is fairly simple. It's a front roll with a side twist (I pinned some silk flowers into it) and the rest was set in rag curlers over night. I would call this look "vintage-inspired" more than pure vintage because it incorporates a lot of different elements into the overall shape. I usually do a more elaborate style, but I was pretty rushed. I hope that you all like them any way! If this is against the rules in any way, feel free to remove it.

3 pictures behind cut.

 

I made this for myself the other night, I have one bag which I made new flaps for so I don't have to have a ton of bags, just one with interchangeable flaps. I really need to take a better photo but this is good enough for now. I'm getting that skull as my next tattoo. :)

I’m working on a new corset pattern and want to figure out how to make a better fit for a sway back. The bottom back at the lacing of all my corsets sort of pokes into the flesh below the waist because of that hollow. I thought with the first corset that was because I hadn’t made the hips wide enough, but adding at the hips hasn’t solved the problem. I’ve drafted my latest pattern to flare out at the center back below the waist, not a lot, just ¼ inch on each side (to keep the hip measurement the same I took this off the center front), but am wondering if there is a better way. Help! Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Hi there!
I've posted maybe...once before.
I gave a shot at rolls about a year ago...they were messy and far from perfect, but I loved them anyway.

Usually, the only time I pull of vintage hair (or, for that matter, ANYTHING more complex than a variation on a ponytail) it is because I had a friend or my hairstylist do my hair for me.
I am not much for playing with my hair MYSELF, and therefore, I have very little by the way of hair supplies, and even less by the way of talent and patience!

But I love vintage dos, particularly 40s and 50s styles.

Recently, I got a hair cut and brought back some bangs to my forehead...something that has been a little scarce on me for the last 16 years.

This Saturday, my family plus my boyfriend is going to take a vacation in Seaside, OR, and I wanted to look cute for my time at the beach.

My pale skin combined with red lipstick and some sunglasses would go PERFECT with an awesome vintage hairdo!

And so, here is where you guys come in to play. I am looking for some simple suggestions for some 40s-style hair that I can work on this week to be adorable next week.

So you know, all that I really have to use is a curler that's probably as old as me (it was my mom's, who also does not do much with hair), bobby pins, hairspray, and pony tail holders. And, of course, hairspray. There's also some pomade in the house. Oh! I also have some little rag curlers, left over from a roll I did in high school. However, my hair does NOT hold curls very well unless a hot curler is used.

And here are some basic pictures of what my hair and bangs look like, so you can get an idea.

I like the rolls look, but I have so much trouble doing them, no matter HOW many tutorials I watch. I think I may work on them yet, though, as I have a huge scarf collection that could benefit from that. I would really like to find a simple look that would work with my bangs. Any help would be greatly appeciated!

Thanks in advance, and I LOVE the hair I see in here!!

( My hair! )

Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal born on November 16, 1977, and this is what ensued.

( here is a surplus of photos )
Thanks!

RERUN from 5/7/08

Tonight's guests: Liam Neeson, B.J. Novak, and The Duke Spirit

I wish I was this girl!


Also, I was looking around at old Conan fan sites and this website http://members.tripod.com/latenightwithcob/ has a bunch of videos that work! A snippet of a Jon Stewart interview, Pimpbot 5000, staring contest with Andy, etc. :D

I haven't posted here in a long time....So here is a big post! (crossposted to my journal)

For a while now, I've had the biggest girl crush on Zooey Deschanel. She is a good actress, a musician and singer, and I love her quirkiness, sense of humor, sense of style and fashion. She doesn't seem to fall for the whole "Hollywood thing" and has an old fashion side that I absolutely adore. Speaking of old fashion, her first album, made with M. Ward (under the name She & HIm), is a delightful musical trip that sounds like it is coming from the past. She also has a cabaret number (with Samantha Shelton) called "If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies". If that doesn't convince you, than i don't know what will.