Fashioning My Cyber Microcosm: Much Ado About Blogging

Yesterday marked my one month of blogging to the day!

Sheesh, I can't really believe it's been a month already! And I feel like I haven't even touched the proverbial tip of the iceberg-- there's just so much I want to write about. I have to be frank in that I didn't think I'd last this long with writing a blog, but hey! That's what I love about the future, you never know how it'll turn out-- and what's more is I've managed to comfortably find my style niche; I consider my style mostly victorian,  a touch of steampunk, a dash of burlesque and a whole lot of romanticism. All it took was for me to just keep writing and doing what I do best to really make it that much more obvious to me.

Preparing to write this post!

So onto hopes for the future of this blog!

• I would really love to be able to do a 100 increment reader giveaways, but that currently is a little far from its goal-- it could easily change!
• I have plans to do a trick & treat giveaway every Halloween; you see I love Halloween, but to me it isn't just about the spookyness or awesome batty and skull goodness... it's about the joy of giving! People look forward every year to dress up, decorate and give candy. So I have taken it upon myself to see Halloween as my own gift giving holiday... so this upcoming Halloween expect some awesome treats! And if by fortune this converges paths with the first, it'll definitely be a huge prize.
• I may add my adventures in make up land, depending on the chances of me investing into a better cosmetic collection. I have been dying to try brands like Sugar Pill and Urban Decay.
• I may add a sort of 'question corner', whereas readers send me their crafty or gothy fashion dilemmas and I can either divvy out what I know, or try it myself and post progress and completions.
• At one point or another I must try or make one of those blog challenges.

That's about all the prospects I can think of currently.
In more news:

I was recently tagged by Karoliina Kalma of Bones & Lillies blog for another Liebster Award.

Since I was first awarded this back in late July I will revert to the 11 facts about me: here .

To answer her questions:

1. If you could be any fairytale character, who/what would you be?
That's hard to say, I haven't read many story books. I've always loved how the evil queens have been portrayed aesthetically, but I've felt that I could identify best with Helena from Midsummer Nights Dream.

2. What's your favourite dish to prepare?

This changes depending on my flavor of the month. Last month it was my own recipe of fried chicken coupled with grilled asparagus in a balsamic and honey glaze. This month, my hubby has me intent on fajitas. I guess the one thing that is constant in these two months is that I am cooking chicken-- but that may very well change in the next month.

3. Do you play games? If yes, what are your three favourite games and why?
I am a gamer at heart, though my hubby and our little circle of friends like to joke that I am a fairweather gamer... that might be true, but I have played games as much as I have crafted. My favorites are quite simple, as they are the only games I find have good replay value regardless of age. Cooking Mama series, Legend of Zelda, and Tomb Raider... and that is just three that I can recall I have played several times in the past.

I'm looking forward to playing the early release of Guild Wars 2 this weekend and seeing how it pans out as an MMO. After playing WoW for 7 years and playing the much hyped release of ToR and other MMO's I have expectations that can't be helped as a consumer.

4. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why? (And for how long?)
Germany! I've had this image of Germany in my head for as long as I can remember-- being the homeland of my favorite band, it's always been like this special place in my head. Being older I have realistic expectations now, but the desire to visit hasn't changed, and if it did turn out that I loved it as much as I did in my mind then I'd definitely consider moving permanently.

5. What are the best qualities in the area you live in?
Rock formations can be beautiful...

6. What's your favourite piece of clothing?
Currently it is my Louise Black Corset-- but it changes... a few months ago it was my lace victorian boots.

7. How long have you blogged?
Yesterday was actually my one month anniversary!

8. Who do you feel you write your blog for? What do you imagine your typical reader to be like?
It's a combination of myself and the reader; I've never considered myself knowledgeable in much, but fashion and crafts is something I feel that I can state some claim into since I devote my life and career aspirations to it.I try not to make it too much about me and my home life so much as where my inspiration lies or the process I go through to complete or put something together. I imagine my regular reader to be someone with relatively the same inclinations aesthetically speaking.

9. Do you have one favourite band? If yes, why are they above all the rest for you?
I have one band that stands alone amongst the things I listen to: Rammstein. Mainly because their discovery is forever joined in my head as the discovery of the fashions of goth and many other fond and delightful memories. I'm not very industrial anymore, as I've changed with the lapse of time... but they remain a profound source of goodness for me.

10. What housework is your least favourite?
Dishes. Abhor it. Never willingly do them-- would prefer cleaning the bathroom to doing them.

11. Do you have a favourite blog?

Honestly? Yours Bones & Lillies. It's so well put together, and I feel that our style tastes are quite alike or really very similar.

I really would love to hear all the answers in my previous questions so I'll just ask them again here:

1. If you could live anywhere and be anything, what and where would it be?
2. Have you seen any kind of "wonder of the world" attraction, and if so which? ( ex. Grand Canyon, Northern Lights, Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge...)
3. You're a chef-- what's today's special?
4. In the past month (not "ever"), what was one limited item you wanted SO badly but ended up not buying and deeply regret that decision?
5. You just won a $500 gift card, where is it for and what will you buy there?
6. How do you resolve a conflict? "Make love not war, man" or "Let's find the happy median" or "DEMS FIGHTN WORDS!!!1!"
7. You just won backstage passes-- what show/band are they for?
8. Au naturel or Eau de toilette (no perfume or perfume)? If you chose perfume, what is your favorite scent or scent combo?
9. When you die will you be buried or cremated? And during your funeral will your casket be open or closed, and why?
10. What's your idea of a romantic or awesome day out?
11. If you could learn an ancient fighting style, from which culture would you pick?


I tag:

- Domesticated

- The Stardust Castle

- Dark Entries

- Bats in the Belfry

- Drinking Not Studying

- Breakfast on Mars

- Castitatis Lillium

(missing 4 but feel free to suggest yourself).

Well!

Now comes the point in our story where we say tah tah for now!

Here's to many more months and possibly years of blogtastic blogging about gothic fashion and crafts!

Blogging the blogtastically bloggerific... blargh!

Featured self made top:

Another recent excursion into the wonders of bleach art! Freehanded onto a completely synthetic fiber content top.

Keep it spooky, readers!

Fashioning My Cyber Microcosm: Liebster Award

Although I don't have anyone to tag, I must thank Aristocratic Elegance in allowing me the opportunity to join the Liebster fun. Hopefully one day I can update this with people whom I tag to continue this meme fun.

The Rules: Each person must post 11 things about themselves. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you. Create 11 questions for the people you tag. Choose 11 people and link back to them. No tag backs.

11 Things about me:
1. I love to travel-- I've been to Vegas, Maui, Toronto, Vancouver and parts in between. My biggest wish is to visit Germany one day.

2. I don't have any other piercings besides single pierced lobes.

3. I don't have any tattoos... though I have plans for that to change.


4. In Jr. High I shaved off my entire head of hair in front of an assembly and camera crew for cancer for kids-- best and worst decision I ever made-- and since in those years I was a hardcore "babybat", it "worked" with my look so to say hahah!

5. I have a "try almost anything once" rule (super addictive drugs and super dangerous stunts excluded) and oddly enough has not let me down yet...

6. My sweet tooth is truly insatiable. Halloween is a blessing/curse.

7. The only ailment my teeth have suffered is sensitivity... which is surprising considering the above.

8. I am gothic in aesthetic, but hippy in music hehe-- I love New Age and Chill Out with a splish splash of Jazz... I do listen to Rammstein rather religiously and some classical, though, which is as close to goth as I get.

9. I'm quite "superstitious"-- I believe in destiny, fate, karma and all that jazz.

10. I love movies so much I invented a game called "Movie Quote" whereas if I use a movie quote in my every day speech (which I do very often, no joke) I yell out "MOVIE QUOTE" and my hubby has to try to guess who and which movie it was said in.

11. Though I am Hispanic in heritage, I speak very broken Spanish-- I can't type it and I certainly cannot read it.... the shame!

11 Questions from Aristocratic Elegance :

1. Have you dyed your hair? If so, what has been your favorite color?
 Yes, I have-- many colors during my babybat years before I shaved it all off. My favorite color was violet, which I hope to redo someday.

2. Do you like to be very busy on vacations? (lots of walking, visiting local sights, etc.), or relax?
It depends where I am, really. In Hawaii I did nothing but lay on the beach by the waves and let them wash me away and back in. In Vegas I did lots of partying, lots of sight seeing, and some shopping heheh.

3. What is your favorite instrumental music?
Without a doubt it is cello in combination with the accordion.

4. Which do you prefer, rain or sun?
Once again it's situational. Where I live I prefer it when it rains because the cloud formations and lightning shows are immeasurably beautiful... though it's rather annoying since when it does rain there is a very high likelihood it knocks the power out.

5. Hobbies or things you always wanted to do as a child but never did?
I guess I'm lucky in regards to hobbies-- there isn't anything I wanted to do that I eventually didn't... but with things... I've always wanted to backpack through Europe. I don't think that's the safest thing these days.... at least I'd be super reluctant if it ever did come up.

6. Favorite sandwich?
I'm not fond of sandwiches to begin with... but if I had to pick a favorite, it's an Italian sausage  sandwich.

7. Last place you walked to?
I didn't have a destination in mind, but I did do a little walk outside just yesterday.

8. Last book you read?
In its entirety? The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe-- but then, I am always reading him regardless of what I am currently reading... which at the moment is the Foundation series by Issac Asimov.

9. What fictional world would you like to live in?
A world where I can comfortably live off my trade heheh.


10. Would you rather take personal transport (your own car, bike, motorcycle, etc.) or public transportation?
Ideally public transportation, and it has to be as good as I had it in my home city. But present living situation forces one to use a car since everything is so far from everything else.

11. Something you would definitely not want to have with you if you were ever stranded on a desert island?
Oh this is tough... it's hard to think in those terms considering being stranded on island, desert no less, is bad enough... but I guess a lazy or unwilling person. It's hard having to survive let alone for another as well.

My 11 questions:

1. If you could live anywhere and be anything, what would it be?
2. Have you seen any kind of "wonder of the world" attraction, and if so which? ( ex. Grand Canyon, Northern Lights, Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge...)
3. You're a chef-- what's today's special?
4. In the past month (not "ever"), what was one limited item you wanted SO badly but ended up not buying and deeply regret that decision?
5. You just won a $500 gift card, where is it for and what will you buy there?
6. How do you resolve a conflict? "Make love not war, man" or "Let's find the happy median" or "DEMS FIGHTN WORDS!!!1!"
7. You just won backstage passes-- what show/band are they for?
8. Au naturel or Eau de toilette (no perfume or perfume)? If you chose perfume, what is your favorite scent or scent combo?
9. When you die will you be buried or cremated? And during your funeral will your casket be open or closed, and why?
10. What's your idea of a romantic or awesome day out?
11.  If you could learn an ancient fighting style, from which culture would you pick?

I tag: (no one at the moment)

Please don't be shy to ask to be tagged-- I'll be sure to update this with your blog if you do. If you don't have a blog but still feel like answering the questions, feel free to comment!

P.S. I know that au naturel means naked-- I just wanted something that went with the latter choice ;)