Snow / 千葉 紗子 (Chiba Saeko)

For lovely Christmas day, I decided to sing one of my favorite winter j-pop ballads, "Snow" originally by Chiba Saeko. It's just so peaceful, like a snow-blanketed Christmas morning (not that there's any snow this year T_T). I think among all the seiyuus I have heard, Chiba Saeko has one of the most lovely and soothing singing voices ^_^

Holy Night / Toradora! (Rie Kugimiya + Eri Kitamura)

This year, I decided to sing one of the most perfect anime Christmas songs ever (in my opinion), "Holy Night" from Toradora! It's got the perfect feeling for Christmas Eve - happy and comfortable!

It's been a busy and exciting year for me, with its ups and downs. It's sad that everything on my old channel is gone now, but at least I have all the memories and friendships that came with it still intact, and I'm really looking forward to building up my new channel in the future. Life has gotten busier, and I don't have time to upload as many videos as I used to, but I hope to keep up a more regular posting schedule in the coming year (a New Year resolution, perhaps?).

Thanks so much to all my subscribers who followed me in my channel move, I really really appreciate all of your support and friendship!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy Happy New Year!

渡良瀬橋 (Watarasebashi) - 松浦 亜弥 (Matsuura Aya)

This song has always been one of my favorites - not only is the music itself beautiful, but the lyrics are also really touching.

I had a cover of this up on my previous Youtube channel, but I feel like I've improved since that first attempt, so I thought I would re-record it and upload a new version ^_^

Hope you enjoy!

New Youtube Channel

Unfortunately, my old Youtube channel recently received its third strike and was subsequently deleted, hence why all of my old videos no longer work. I have made a new channel now, and will be reuploading some of the old videos (and of course fixing the posts they're in), but not all of them.

Apologies for the inconvenience... I'm not exactly happy about it either...

New channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/KyttyeeChii

Some Changes to the Site

Now that the flood of final papers and projects has abated, I've decided to do some maintenance on all of the various social media sites that I use. I had been keeping a Blogger about my fashion interests and daily life happenings, but it just seems silly to have to update two blogs simultaneously. Since many of my crafts revolve around fashion and fun events in my life, it's really not much of a stretch to simply combine the two into a central location. Thus, I've imported all of my old Blogger entries, and will be continuing with the "Me Myself and I" category posts more frequently here in the future.

That means more posts for everyone to read, and less complication for me! ^_^

[Outfit Post] This Week in Outfits

Oh hey, a less gigantic backlog of outfit snaps this time!! And I was actually un-lazy enough to take a decent amount of outfit snaps this week.

Skirt: Bodyline
Cutsew/Cardigan/Tights: Target

JSK: Metamorphose Temps de Fille
Cutsew/Cardigan: Target
Tights: Sockdreams

Skirt: Baby the Stars Shine Bright
Hairclip: Innocent World
Cutsew/Cardigan: Target
Tights: Sockdreams

T-Shirt: Kokufuku Shop
Skirt: Lolita Princess
Hairclip: Chocomint
Hoodie: Target
Tights: Sockdreams

Getting Back Into Ballet...

In the almost 10 years since I stopped the intense ballet training I had as a child, I've been drifting lacksadaisically in and out of ballet classes.  For awhile, I found a nice friendly  studio in Boston, and even got back into pointe classes, but the 40-hour roundtrip to and from the studio was just too much for my lazy busy undergrad self to handle.  I tried attending classes at the Joffrey for a short time after moving to Chicago, but again, the travel time was more than I really wanted to spend, especially because I was living in a less savoury area at the time.

However, after watching the first season of Dance Moms followed by random related videos including ones of the cutest little Russian ballerina dancing the Swan Lake variations (all of them... yes... 8 years old and dancing Swan Lake... I can't even...), I've determined that I do want to get back into ballet, and back en pointe eventually.

Even better, I found a little pilates/fitness/dance studio that's all of a 5-minute walk from my current apartment!  One Hundred is the name of the place.  Their website and advertisement board claims they offer adult pointe classes, although I have yet to find them on the schedule.  I think once I feel like I've gotten back in the groove and regained a reasonable amount of strength and balance, I'll just ask directly about them.  The classes here are relaxed, and though labeled "beginner" they actually have a wide range of adult dancers, ranging from beginners to professionals (some of the other studio instructors do the classes too).  They only have ballet class in the middle of the day on weekdays, but it just so happens that this quarter, they fall on my non-campus days, so I think I'm going to try to go twice a week for the rest of the quarter. In any case... COME ON MUSCLES!! REMEMBER WHAT YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO DO!!

Maybe I can keep myself motivated with the goal of cosplaying Princess Tutu and entering a dance number in the ACEN 2013 masquerade ^_^  Ballerina-Kyttyee Go!

My Updated Room!

I rearranged and slightly redecorated my room fairly recently, and I figured I'd snap a couple of quick photos of it to share!

When the RCN technician came over to fix our wireless, he told me that my room looked like a kid's room XD

View from the door ^o^  I've got a full collection of all the main My Little Pony characters from the Friendship is Magic series now.  Plus my Arashi Beautiful World concert clear-files ^o^

You can see one of my new Smileage posters on the wall, and you get a better view of my petticoat too!  Although that's now put away in a drawer ^_^

It's so much nicer actually having a bedframe - my back was beginning to feel the effects of my mattress being bowed all the time due to lack of support on the ends.  It's a little hard to get past it to get to the half of my room next to the closet, but it's workable XD

[Outfit Post] Daily Outfits

It's been awhile since my last outfit post XD  Here they are from the past 2 or so weeks!

 

Sweater: Liz Claiborne
Skirt: Lolita Princess

Cutsew: Baby the Stars Shine Bright
Skirt: Metamorphose Temps de Fille
Hairclip: Chocomint

Cutsew Dress: H.Naoto Frill
Cutsew: Target
Skirt: Bodyline

Cutsew: Target
Skirt: Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Cutsew: Target
Parka: Angelic Pretty
Skirt: Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Blouse: Gap
JSK: Boguta

Blouse: Target
Skirt / Hairclip: Innocent World

Cutsew: Target
Skirt: Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Cutsew/Parka: Target
JSK: Metamorphose Temps de Fille
Shoes: Secret Shop

Cutsew: Google
Dress: Jelly.J
Pants: Target
Boots: Sugar

Homestuck Figurine - John's Wise Guy Slime Suit

I've been reading MSPaintAdventures for awhile now, after my boyfriend introduced me to it (some of the stories were used in the MIT Mystery Hunt awhile ago). And we've been reading and discussing the current ongoing story, Homestuck.

Since John is his favorite character, I decided it might be fun to make him a little clay figurine of John. So, here's John in his Wise Guy Slime Suit (my boyfriend requested this outfit) and his awesome Pogohammer!!



John

I sculpted him out of white polymer clay. I basically started off with a cylinder-ish shape for his body and a sphere for his head, then added pants and jacket in separate pieces, and then added extra things for his hair shape. Here is the figure pre-paint:



Aaaand here he is after painting! For awhile he looked like a derpy Dracula (I think it's the hair/head).



Pogohammer

I actually didn't take a pre-paint photo of this T_T However, it was also made out of white polymer clay, with coiled jewelry wire for the springs (so yes, those are in fact actual miniature springs). The slug was made as a separate piece and then glued on after everything was painted.





And here's John together with his Pogohammer!





They even stand up!!





This was a lot of fun to make, and I'm totally considering making figurines of other characters so the boyfriend can have a whole set ^o^