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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Stuff For Sale!


Okay, so I’m clearing out some stuff in order to raise funds for my Year Abroad; mainly textbooks, novels and old games/DVDs I don’t watch.
I’m not sure how much P&P is going to be; giving £2 as a rough figure for now, okay? But obviously that’s subject to change, or if you want me to send it a different way or combine several items, just ask me about it, I don’t bite! :)

Cross-posting here because Facebook wouldn't keep the formatting I wanted and insists it should be a giant wall of text.

Item:  ‘Tetsuo II: Body Hammer’ DVD
Condition:  Like new. Was watched once.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Audio in Japanese, with English subtitles.  Tartan Asia DVD.

Item:  ‘Geography for CCEA A2 Level Textbook’ by Martin Thom and Eileen Armstrong
Condition:  Decent. Light wear, some sections have been highlighted, but is still very much usable.
Price: £18.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information:  Published by Colourpoint Press. Retails for around £28.00. Written with the CCEA A2 Syllabus in mind.

Item:  ‘Othello’ Cambridge Student Guide
Condition:  Excellent/Very Good. A little light wear around the edges.
Price: £4.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Published by Cambridge University Press. Retails for £6.50

Item:  Cliffs Notes on Williams’ Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire ON HOLD
Condition:  Excellent/Very Good. A little light wear around the edges and spine.
Price: £2.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Retails for £4.50

Item:  Philip Allan Updates AS/A-Level Student Text Guide ‘The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’
Condition:  Very Good. Light wear to spine, cover and edges. ON HOLD
Price: £2
P&P: £2.
Other Information:

Item:  ‘The Victorian Novel’ by Barbara Dennis; Cambridge Contexts in Literature series.
Condition:  Excellent. Light wear to edges and cover, but it was barely ever read.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Retails for £9.50.

Item:  ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys, Penguin Modern Classics with introduction and notes by Angela Smith.
Condition:  Excellent. Very light wear to edges and spine.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Retails at £8.99

Item:  Philip Allan Updates AS/A-Level Student Text Guide ‘Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte’
Condition: Very Good. Light wear to cover and spine. Did get used a bit more heavily than the Gatsby one.
Price: £4.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information:

Item:  Philip Allan Updates OCR Student Unit Guide for Unit 2 of OCR AS Sociology; Module 2533: Culture and Socialisation: Family.
Condition:  Good. Some price stickers I just cannot get off for the life of me, and some light wear to the cover and spine.
Price: 50p
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Although the syllabus for OCR AS Sociology has changed, this could still be a useful study guide regarding the topic at hand, and, to illustrate my point, I was using this when it was out of date, and I got an A in my Sociology A-Level.  Is extremely good for illustrating exam technique and showing what examiners look for.

Item:  Access To History: THE EARLY STUARTS 1603-1640 by Katherine Brice
Condition:  Good. Some wear to cover, and first and last pages due to being carried around for two years in my schoolbag + I am not the first owner of this item.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Good for anyone studying Stuart England, or anyone who’s interested in that period of history.

Item:  Heinemann Advanced History: The Coming of the Civil War, 1603-1649 by David Sharp
Condition:  Good. Again, much the same as the other history book. A little worn, and I am not the first owner.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Good for anyone studying Stuart England or the English Civil War, or anyone who’s interested in that period of history.

Item: ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert
Condition: Very good. Back cover has been creased, and there is some light wear to edges and spine.
Price: £4.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Oxford World Classics edition.

Item: ‘The Betrothed’ by Alessandro Manzoni
Condition: Almost new. There is some extremely light wear around the edges.
Price: £6.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Penguin Classics edition

Item: ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ by Leo Tolstoy
Condition: Very Good. Light wear to spine, edges, and some pages are creased at the edges where someone has marked their place. I am not the first owner of this item.
Price: £2.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Penguin Great Loves edition.

Item: ‘The Red and the Black’ by Stendhal
Condition: Excellent. Light wear to cover and edges.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Penguin Classics edition.

Item: ‘Not Not While The Giro’  by James Kelman
Condition: Very good. Light wear to spine and edges; some pages are lightly creased from me marking my place, and there may be a little pencil note here and there.
Price: £3.00
P&P:
Other Information:

Item: ‘Effi Briest’ by Theodore Fontane
Condition: Very good. Light wear to edges and cover; one tiny tear at the bottom of the back cover.
Price: £4.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Penguin Classics edition.

Item: ‘Therese Raquin’ by Emile Zola
Condition: Almost new. Some extremely light wear to spine from being opened.
Price: £4.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Oxford World’s Classics edition

Item: ‘The Blazing World and Other Writings’ by Margaret Cavendish
Condition: Almost new. Corners a tiny bit scuffed.
Price: £5.00
P&P: £2.00
Other Information: Penguin Classics Edition.

Also have; Vol 1-8 of the Naruto manga, and there will be other items I add later.

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Making the cut~ knowing when to.

Anyone who likes to write/draw will hopefully understand my difficulty here.

Okay, so, anyone who knows me will know I have no issue coming up with characters for a story, and indeed, how much time I spend drawing aforementioned characters, coming up with random stuff about them, writing biographies, working out backstories and relationships, and, on top of all that, making new ones and attempting to fit them in somewhere, or making whole new stories to accomodate them. >_<

This is a problem. And, it's a problem for me because; I spend so much time thinking about the characters, and their stories and all that sort of thing, and there is so much I want to fit in, I lose track of where the story should start, what it should cover, and where it should end.

In short: It's not that I know too little about the events of my stories and the worlds in which they take place, but too much! Now I don't know what to include and I'm confused!!

Now, I absolutely love my characters; they were one reason for me getting into the BJD hobby; I still get this awesome little feeling inside to look up to my shelf and see the closest thing I'll probably ever get to a physical representation of Vikenti, and I love working on the doll so that he expresses more about the character, but that's another story, and I don't want to go off on a tangent.
Anyway, back on topic, I really, really want to write/draw something good. And, of course, that's so much easier said than done.

Point is, any of you guys who like to write stories/comics/etc. have the same issue? Do you find it difficult to know what to cut, what to explictly tell, and what to imply? Comment below and maybe, if you're having trouble too, we can help each other ^_^

In other news, I'm going to attempt to start posting some of my art up here, or on my tumblr, which I will provide a link to, if I decide to start using it. I've managed to produce some stuff I'm actually really happy with lately, so I kind of want to show people :3

Aaand now, I bid you adieu, for I am going to go and draw something cute. One of my new characters is demanding I draw him and I think he's fucking adorable.

Peace~
Clair

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Just a cute photo of Jin

 

Because I'm running a little low on cheer, and Jin never fails to make me smile.
Enjoy the finger-in-mouth shot fail!

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

I set my clocks early, 'cause I know I'm always late~

... I am a terrible blogger. Seriously. Not only do I never have much interesting to say, I always seem to either end up moaning, blabbering about dolls, or... something that no one probably cares about :P
And I'm really bad at writing anything on a regular basis. Any stories I've tried to write are in bits and pieces all over the place! *laughs* so it's little wonder my blog is such a neglected corner of my online life.

ANYWAY - um. Okay, so I guess I just want to let the world know I'm not dead, and that I'm buried under a mountain of school/paper work. Which recently got to be a lot less when I remembered I could do my Student Finance online *facepalms* - so that's all sorted on my end - just waiting for them to get back to me now about exact amounts and payment dates and all that jazz.

I also wanted to ask - anyone here who writes their own stories or fanfiction on a regular basis; How do you keep yourselves disciplined enough to work on it? It's not that I'm losing interest in my stories, but I'm finding it hard to work dilligently on them in my free time.
So, any tips would be much appreciated ^_^

In other news... Not an awful lot. Looking forward to going back to uni, haven't seem much of anyone this summer really, which is a shame, but that is what living in the middle of nowhere does for me. Sod all. :) ah well.
Doll-wise, little has changed... and I guess that's all I've got to tell you about life with me, other than I'm on a diet >< have lost two pounds so far, so hopefully I'll be able to keep going in that direction ^_^

Good times :3
Clare xo
Music: Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"
            G-Dragon Feat. Taeyang - Korean Dream
            Enter Shikari - Labyrinth

            Green Day - Know Your Enemy and Oh Love

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

ただいま。。。

(meaning 'I'm back!' in Japanese)
Well, I'm back, like I say - blogging truthfully hasn't been the first thing on my mind (not that it ever was to begin with, but you know what I mean), and I've been swamped with work.
I kind of don't know where to begin with updating everyone on what I've been doing, part of the reason I'm writing this is a vent, and part of it is because I haven't blogged in forever.

I guess I'll start with the good stuff. Nice things that have happened to me recently. Like getting most of my work done; I've only got one more piece of coursework due in in May - rest of this is all just revising for exams now, which isn't much fun, but I've got a bit less pressure on my shoulders than I did.
I've also been planning for a doll I'm hoping to get this summer - Hazel and I have had this massive LTF order planned for ages, and whilst two dolls doesn't really qualify as massive to most, it's big to us, and we've had Kenji (mine) and Seiji (Hazel's) planned since last summer!! Two adorable LTF Bisou twins <3 I can't wait!

Also, I finally sat down and started playing The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim properly, and now I see what everyone's raving about. It's amazing! Makes me wish I hadn't traded Oblivion in =( but once I'm done with Skyrim, I'll get it again and play through it.
I'm currently playing as a High Elf called Meldiron, but I have plans to also play through the game as a Khajiit and a Dark Elf - one of them has to be female, since I always play as boys :L

I swear that 'The Ghost of Saint Valentine' by Bayside is my song right now. It really describes how I'm feeling at the moment, mainly because I've started liking a friend of mine as more than just a friend. Which is bad enough because I don't do well with romance and expressing my feelings for people. What makes it even worse is, before I started having feelings for him, I was helping him get set up with the girl he DOES like. I'm still helping him with that, because, whilst I am jealous AS HELL of this girl, I don't see why my feelings should get in the way of him being happy. He doesn't like me that way. That's it. There's nothing I can do about that. And I don't want to lose his friendship. I just want him to be happy.
You'd think that'd be enough. But of course I can't just shove my own feelings to one side. I'm jealous, absolutely. Sad, definitely. Kicking myself for falling for him, like you wouldn't believe.
So I'm just going to do what I've always done. Channel it into my art... That's all I can do...
Why do I always fall for people who are never going to like me back? It's like a curse!

Anyway, I guess that's my update =) Any PSN-ers, the username is KawaiiSamurai if you want to add me =P, and Skyrimmers, what's your character? =D

Peace,
Clair

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

30 Days of Harry Potter: Day Five- Favourite Male Character

Hm~ this is quite a hard question.
I guess I'd have to say either Ron, Lupin or Dumbledore.

Ron, because he's so dimwitted <3 and so devoted to his friends (despite storming off in DH). He and Hermione are an adorable couple, and his jealousy of anyone who gets close to her is adorable ^_^ (PS- Stephanie Meyer, that's how you do jealous boyfriend without making it creepy and abusive!)
Plus, Rupert Grint is one of my favourite actors :D he is probably the best Ron there could ever have been!
It's little moments like this that make me love him even more <3 (really annoyed I can't find the specific clip I'm looking for - it's Ron standing in the hall in HBP, just before the first potions class with Slughorn - it just illustrates what a twat he is).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYvDBi88XtE

Lupin, well, I love a character with some conflict. Despite being ostracised from wizarding society, he continues on, even though it would be the easiest thing in the world for him to just fall in with the other werewolves who've joined Voldemort.
Not to mention, the man has infinite patience. I do NOT support him and Tonks as a couple, though, it's like the most AWKWARD canon pairing in the whole series.
... Lupin/Sirius blatantly makes more sense /shot.

And Dumbledore... how could anyone hate him? He's odd, eccentric, quirky, loveable, and loving. As well as brave, and quick to admit/recognise his own faults.
Grindelwald CLEARLY didn't recognise a good thing when he had it.
Also, as a fan of Stephen Fry's, the fact that I can see quite a bit of him in Dumbledore makes me rather happy :3

Sunday, 11 March 2012

30 Days of Harry Potter: Least Favourite Female Character

Okay- I'm torn between Lavender Brown and Ginny for this.
Lavender just gets on my nerves (though the whole Won-Won thing made me laugh, I must say).
I don't hate Ginny, it's just... her character development to me is quite sudden - I still think of her as this shy little first-year clutching her battered books and Tom Riddle's diary, and all of a sudden, she's hexing people and got boys all over her?! Did I miss something?