Ok so a few weeks back was the first games society meeting, in the games lab they have loads of magazines, so I was bored and flicked through some. I looked through Games Master, which I haven't done it a while, but they now do loads of different things, including a little part on people dedicated to games and stuff, and I saw a link to a website of a lady who had made a prince plushie. So of course I wrote down the link and then looked back at it later. I'd had the page up for days and then finally decided to order some cuteness, including birthday presents, which of course I won't be showing in the entry ^__^. But yeah so after about 11 days from ordering it, it came which was today of course, and it was cool cos I also recieved my japan centre order as well containing these, and also some panko breadcrumbs which were sat on my desk at the time of the picture being taken ^__^

But the Japan centre order was cool because I got an issue of Fruits , which is amazing because it's magazine sized, as opposed to little book sized. And then a few hours later came my lovely paper crane order, I thought it was cute enough as it was in a shoe box, which then made me think back to a blog entry Alice at wonderlandblog.com had done about how she loves etsy because everything is so personal. Well opening the shoe box made me feel the same way. Because when I finally managed to get past the stickey tape I smiled when I took off the top. Because inside on the top of the items was a little package, which contained a postcard, little buisness type card, a sticker and some sweeties

I must say I didn't expect getting anything other than what I ordered, but it did cross my mind, as when ordering my Jon Burgerman belt I got a cute little sticker with it ^__^. I'd post like pictures of each thing, but I don't see that much point, but I'm sure from the pictures you can tell it's all very cute. The postcard is one of the most awesome bits though, because of the back of it, as you can see from the picture . I woulda got myself some cute burnt toast like on the postcard, but I wanted happy toast .

All round I'm so happy I made an order at My Paper Crane and if she makes anything else equally as cute I may have to buy more from her, and of course see what I get next time Oh yeah and other than a couple of presents for Charlotte I bought an amazing piece of happy toast, which I'm really happy with I also recently bought a lovely looking Sushi bracelet can't wait to get it So yeah look forward to an entry showing that, and also a few more things within the next few weeks. Hopefully something on life drawing and also my Japanese classes too

Years and years ago I'd bought myself the first dvd of Kareshi Kanojo no Jijô, or as known over here His and Her Circumstances, or as I will be calling it for short Kare Kano.

After loving the series from the first dvd (and after reading the manga of course) I then had to buy the second dvd, and since the second disc I had to buy them all but never got round to it, as they have yet to be released in the UK.

I love my anime, and of course Shôjo, but there's just something about Kare Kano that makes it feel more special to me, now I prefer the story of Peach Girl, but theres just something style wise about Kare Kano that makes me just want to watch it again and again.

As well as having the normal cute points that anime is full of, it's full of the use of the manga strips, along with lovely drawn looking images, throughout the relationship with Arima and Yukino.

Also in the first half of the series the credits would roll on a camera strolling quite quickly through places which I suppose you could say are common in the series, so places like school hallways, but it's filmed with a bit of fish eye type lens, but I just like it more than showing characters as its quite inventive.

Also it's odd as the transition images as the series progresses get even more abstract, I haven't finished watching the series though so I am unsure of how everything ends up and looks

I dunno really, I just thought I'd do a blog just showing a bit of appreciation of the series, as I prefer it compared to lots of the stuff I watch, although Azumanga Daioh is still quite good.

Now all I needa do is buy myself the Shinkai collection which came out a little while ago, especially since at only £9.98 you can't not buy it!

*Mature content warning, naked pictures*

Ok so after the mentioning of life drawing from my lecturer Dave, and I also saw some posters up too. So of course with my love of life drawing I had to sign up, it did end up costing me like £70.50 for life drawing, but then also an added £13.50 on Japanese too XD.

But yes I managed to head down at about 20 to 19:00 which was a little later than I had planned, agreeing with Charlotte to head down at half past 6, but well it took a while to dry my hair, anyway enough about that, I managed to pay it all well and made my way to the room, where I was pleasantly surprised to see Debbie and Duncan there. As I didn't really expect anyone to turn up. And then a little later Caryn and Rob appeared.

Instead of giving a complete commentary though I will just go on with pictures and a few words.

Firstly I would like to say that Julie the tutor seems absolutely lovely, ok she is no Mr. Wadwell so far, but she seems great, she's nice and polite and helpful too.

We started with a few quick sketches, and also myself trying to get into the swing of life drawing again, as I've been kinda neglecting my drawing.

I apologise for the angle of the pictures, just otherwise my big ugly shadow was in them.

Then we went onto 30 second poses...I don't really like any of these that much though.

Then some more 30 second poses.

This image is just a closer shot of one of the others but I just wanted to emphasise on the coolness of it as I may of not drawn it too well, but as our model is quite skinny you can see his muscles really well (which is utterly amazing and great) and he had lifted his arm and I could see the strings of his muscles that had moved so he could raise his arm and it was like wow. Ok the picture makes him look like a bit of a machine but I just had to get it in a picture.

OK this was then the hour long pose, although we had a bit of a break in between, and from the break onwards I drew the next picture, but yeah I'm real happy with it, and that I drew it quite well, considering my last life drawing session was a while back now.

After filling in a registration form that needed to be done I decided to draw a larger picture of a part of his body which ended up being his leg cos I just love seeing the muscles and stuff. Although I must say next time I want to sit a bit closer as it felt like I was a bit too far away and couldn't see as much detail in his figure that I would have wanted to.

Overall I'm happy with how it was, and can't wait till next week...and of course my Japanese lesson as well