OH MY GOD GUYS OH MY GOD



THIS. MOVIE.

I HAVE NO WORDS!!!! I think I need to watch it a few more times before I can properly form sentences, but OH MY GOD.

Also...Was that Harry screaming "Ginny!!" and jumping through the fire? Because if so, this film might actually make an H/G shipper out of me yet...

Still mixed feelings on the R/Hr, but it looks like we will get LOTS and so I will not complain too much, ESP if the rest is as awesome as I think it will be!!

OH MY GOD SOMEONE UPLOAD AN HD VERSION STAT PLLLLZZZZ!!

Guys, can I just take a moment here to share some squee with you..ie THE HBP IMAX TRAILER




GAH OMG SERIOUSLY! I am on pins and needles for this film to come ut, and NOT just because I'll FINALLY see some proper R/Hr on the big screen... This movie looks like it's REALLY shaping up to be the BEST Potter movie yet...I mean EVERYTHING about the tone and the mood seems SO RIGHT.. I can barely contain myself!! I'm even excited by the new random non-cannon scene with Bellatrix at the Burrow...Oh I HOPE I HOPE I HOPE the trailers aren't leading me astray...

Everything just seems properly sophisticated and dark, and omg, how much do I LOVE their new effect for the pensive? All the inky drops in water forming the scene etc etc...BRILLIANT!

CAN. NOT. WAIT. OMG.

Sort of belated, but HAPPY VALENTINES YA'LL!!


It's been far too long since I've doodled these two..I've missed them so! XD

I've had this on my comp for awhile, but things have once again gone crazy here. :P ;) V-day was FABULOUS though, we just took it easy and had YUMMY AMAZING DINNER at our favorite neighborhood restaurant. We also started seriously looking into redoing our kitchen, because our kitchen is HORRENDOUS. Of course we never do things small so it's become a whole ordeal of new cabinets and a stove and a dishwasher and TEARING DOWN A WALL. Matthew has grand ideas about doing all of this himself, but I'm still reserving judgment on that. At the moment we're just getting quotes and price shopping (O HAI IKEA!). I am slowly becoming SERIOUSLY EXCITED about the whole mess (and also dreading the whole ordeal) heehee!

In other exciting news, I got an email informing me that two of my pieces have been nominated in the 2009 R/HR AWARDS! "Lost in Translation" for Outstanding Missing Moment Nominees and Outstanding Tearjerker Nominees and "Happy Birthday Ron!" for Outstanding Humor Nominees I am SO FLATTERED GUYS!! Thank you SO MUCH for thinking of me (and sharing in my..ahem..obsession)!!! *BLUSH*

Voting is open til Feb. 28th!! So go check out all the FABULOUS fic and art!!! Fluff is GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU!!! XD

It was Snape's birthday last Friday, so I took some time to doodle a bit in his honor!



Oh, how it did feel good to draw for fun again! I even got some time to work on my long over due commissions this weekend. So fun! I'm hoping to get some more "drawing for me" time in these days. It's been so long since I've drawn anything that wasn't work related, that when I do get the oppertunity, I become overwhelemed with a feeling of "OMG I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO" and shut down. It's a sad state of affairs people, a sad sad state. Perhaps I should make it my New Years resolution, to just "draw".

My other resolutions seem to be going well..made a lot of progress cleaning/organizing the house this weekend, and I discovered this morning that I've already lost about 3.5 pounds (!!!). So let's keep the good stuff rolling!

WOOT!!

HO HO! Working from home has it's advantages..one of them being that I get to doodle fun things in my spare time... I need to get back in the habit of that!

Heres a lil Ginny I've been fooling with on and off....felt good to color something again..


Catch her if you can boys!! XD

In other news, when Matthew and I were out Christmas shopping last weekend, I totally caved and bought us a used copy of Katamari Darmacy for our old PS2 and I AM SO OBSESSED. I have to say I don't really have the attention span for video games anymore, I always either get frustrated or bored or feel like I should be doing something more productive, but every once and awhile a game will come along that will give my mind a nice mindless break ;) In college, replaying Super Mario World got me through my senior year, now I like to roll a lil sticky ball around and collect cute things, and it makes me happy. I love having some mindless video game to take my mind off all the craziness.

Golly where has the time gone?! I have so much to do before we head off for the holidays, it's MADNESS! Heres hoping the "Winter Storm Warning" they keep talking about for tomorrow will just be alot of talk...I don't want to start our trip off on a stressful foot!

OK folks...I broke down and read Beedle last night...I was trying to go slow and savor it, but OH MY GOD I COULDN'T. It was just TOO MUCH FUN to have more JKR to read again. I really have missed her voice so.

I will admit, I distinctly missed the trio, but I was nice to have Dumbledore's wit and wisdom back again. I think, the main reason I love this book SO MUCH though is that it really is a peek into the history and folklore of "wizarding culture", and that just makes the geek in me deleriously happy.

I mean, I love Harry Potter for it's story and the characters of course, but to be honest the reason I deeply love this series so much is the depth of the WORLD that JKR has created. It's a whole society with rules and cultural norms, folk lore and laws and history, and all of it is so believable and logical in it's own odd little way....GAH! SO MUCH LOVE!

I just love all the little notes and bits of history and magical fact that Dumbledore drops, and I really enjoyed reading "Babbity Rabbit" knowing that it's Ron's favorite story. I also LOL'd that Beedle was at one time a "banned book" (I see what you did thar JKR!) It's all very cute and clever and satisfying..

I have also decided that in my own personal cannon, Hermione decided to translate Beedle and compile Dumbledore's notes on the subject, when she found out she was preggers with Rose...so her first child would have a proper version of the fables by the time she was born. (<--HO HO I AM A DORK)

Gahhhh now I want to read R/Hr fulff more then EVAR!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!!



I COMPLETELY forgot that it came out today! OMG GUYS I AM SO EXCITED!! It's SO HEAVY! COLLECTORS EDITION BEEDLE OMG!!!! XD

But my dilemma is...Matthew got it for me for Christmas, so should I be a good girl and wait or should I rip into that packaging like the rabid fangirl I am? I CAN'T DECIDE!!!!

HBP TRAILER OMG!!!!



I know it's going to be different and slightly wonky (WTF! Have you SEEN Narcissa?!) but I am SUPER EXCITED. The parts with Dumbledore and Harry, the scenes in the cave, and the fight at Hogwarts (Dude "Fight me Coward" gives me chills!) look AWESOME and totally on as far as tone goes. I will admit after seeing Equus I have GREAT HOPES for Dan pulling off darker Harry....

I am looking forward to the Ron/Hermione scenes (obviously), even though Movie!Hermione is usually more bad fanfic!Hermione then Cannon!Hermione. HOwever, if they keep up with the way they were handled in OoTP, I might foster hope that there will be a sorta-almost-kinda cannon-ness to their acting. (I have my fingers crossed for a proper Ron this time!)

Lav-Lav..eh she's still wrong-y but I can deal...

I'm kind of not at all excited about Ginny...I mean they just don't seem to want to make her interesting (a place I think the books failed her hugely except for BRIEF glimpses in OotP, HBP and DH)..But come ON now...what the hell is this ROBE she's always wearing so neatly? Ginny does NOT wear a pink neatly tied robe! She a girl that is at least sassy and interesting enough that even Slytherins find her attractive! She has grown up holding her own against 6 older brothers and kicks Quidditch ass..She should be confident and relaxed and comfortable with herself and her body and her clothes...not wrapped up in a fluffy pink robe! OMG COSTUME DEPT! Of course she's had all of 3 lines in the movies...maybe they'll give her some sass and tude with her lines or something... I'm just sad cuz the books BARELY sold me on H/G to the point where I had to manufacture my OWN Ginny image in order to buy it...I was hoping the movie would sell it to me better!

But ya...the rest? OH MY GOD I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A doodle I've been working on here and there to keep myself sane during long freelance nights...Fanart takes the edge off yo...

I've been on an R/HR DH kick lately..omnomnom fluff and angst! XD

A missin' scene from DH, in the period after Ron left the Trio..Hermione tries to distract herself by translating Beedle while Harry goes on watch.

And yes that would be Ron's blanket..it's a Chuddley Cannons pattern, of course! XD

Okay....*bed*

Whoo! Long time no type! XD

First off, Thanks to everyone who sent Happy Birthday wishes this weekend! You guys are awesome and sweet and dear!!! XD I spent my B-Day (and long weekend) at my parents house in NJ..yummy food was eaten and much laundry was done! It wasn't the most exciting of B-Days, but it was a relaxing one...

Otherwise I've been keeping busy...Heres some stuff thats been amusing me lately:



Heres a doode I've been doodling on and off during lunch breaks at work...My friend is holding another themed show at her store on Sat. and the theme is "Upstate"  I will admit I'm having a hard time connecting with the theme, I've never been a big camping/outdoorsy kinda gal.... :P  This is the closest I've come to something I like...and now looking at it again after a day of not thinking about it I'm not sure it still works for me.... Of course at this point I don't know if it matters, I need to have it done by Sat and I have NO time to really work on it...maybe Fri. night I can shoot something out....


http://palinaspresident.com/
SO AMUSING (don't let the address fool you) It's updated everyday with new treats...I wasted ENTIRELY too much time at this site yesterday


BEST. SKIT. EVER. And the fact that Marky Mark was upset by it MAKES IT BETTER!! XD


ALSO!! FIC RECS???

I have been been having cravings for some R/Hr fluff lately...anyone have any DH compliant R/Hr fics that they've read and loved recently (I'm such a cannon junkie)?? I've found that fan fic helps immensely when you're staying up late working most nights and weekends....

Okay guys. EQUUS WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!! It was SO AMAZING that it kept me up all night thinking about HOW AMAZING it was. And it wasn't just due to Dan's ding dong neither!!!


FULL DISCLOSURE: I've been wanting to see this play on stage since I read it in High School...I'm not exactly sure why I read it then, because it wasn't required reading in any of my classes, but I WAS TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY by it. Like, literally, I was so amazed by it that I went to half price bookstores and bought my friend's copies and begged them to read it (as whimsicalcow can attest to). Of course, it's been at least 10 years since I read it, so when I entered the theater last night I wasn't entirely sure if I was going to like it as much as I remembered, because, obviously I'm an entirely different person from who I was in HS, with completely different tastes...

But...DAMN!! It was beautiful...even BETTER then I remembered, powerful and complex and eerie and thought provoking..the set design...OMG AMAZING...and I LOVE the words, just LOVE LOVE LOVE the way the lines are written..Griffiths in particular did an INCREDIBLE job with his character (Funnily I don't remember focusing so much on the doctor's turmoil when I read it..I wonder if thats because I was about 16-17 when I read it and thus was more drawn to Alan's character and couldn't relate to the world weary doctor, or maybe was just too young to understand the doctor's conflict fully?). Dan was wonderful, and believable, honestly I think he's come A LONG WAY from Harry P. it makes me excited to see how he'll handle a darker, more adult HBP and DH....

It made me so happy to see the play come to life in such a powerful way..I mean, I honestly was not expecting to be moved, but there were parts where I literally had tingly eyes....just amazing. And it was wonderful to see it on stage, because I remember wondering when I read it, how it could possibly translate to the stage..but now that I've seen it I don't think it could work in ANY other medium...I mean the stage makes it so surreal, and lends itself SO WELL to abstract symbolism that it fits the tone and the subject matter SO PERFECTLY. GAH!!

Seriously folks, I could go on and on and on... I'm having a literary fangirl moment here...

Now, I just have a few more plays I'd like to see on my Broadway checklist..if someone could please bring J.B by Archibald MacLeish to the stage, and revive Pippin and Into the Woods big budget Broadway style, I would be a very very happy girl....BONUS POINTS if you use Harry Potter actors!!!!

OMG GUYS! I AM GOING TO SEE EQUUS TONIGHT WITH MUH GIRLS valmontgod and macbeemer I AM SO EXCITED (in a completely non prevy-fangirl kind of way) OMG OMG OMG!!!

Dan better not have a cold tonight due to all his recent nekkidness......

BONUS POINTS: My studio is RIGHT DOWN THE STREET from the theater...I love NYC!!

OMG YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

ALSO: I am kinda obsessed with this new Killers Song (I can't wait til the album actually comes out!):



Actually I've been listening to a lot of Killers songs on Youtube today, because for some reason I do not have copies of these songs with me.... LAUREN WANTS!

So while I was waiting on some freelance to download, I went through one of my sketchbooks and found a few sketches that I ruffed out but never really finished. My sketching seems to be a series of false starts lately..I'm not sure what it is..I'll start something then loose interest/get frustrated halfway through and move on to another one which usually ends up the same way..etc etc etc... It's very odd, esp since I used to sketch like a mad woman, just for fun..I need to get back to that, I miss it.

So in an attempt to motivate me, and to have an excuse post some art to this sad lil journal, I decided to scan a bunch of my unfinished sketches and just post them here...
I'll post a few everyday..and hopefully by the time I run out I'll have made somemore..I need to make a point to draw something for fun once a day!


I've seen some fanartists who mentioned Hemione might have cut her hair after DH due to the singeing..so I thought I'd see what my Herm would look like with slightly shorter locks...

( 2 MORE! Herm and Tonks!! )

As far as my professional arts go though, I couldn't be busier! I may not get to draw alot for myself, but that doean't mean I've stopped drawing..faaaar from it! Things at work have SUDDENLY gotten VERY exciting..and challenging..but very very fun. I'm not entirely sure how much longer my luck will hold out, but for the moment I'm just so so so grateful for the oppertunity! More details when I can talk about them, I promise! And my Freelance has been adorable as ever (I love Captian Huggypants, even though he sometimes makes me work for it)

Now..to finish up my nightly alloted Freelance, and then bed! WHEE!

Sitting in front of my computer aaaaall weekend plugging away at freelance inevitably leads to me getting distracted and rummaging through the tons of unfinished bits and bobs that I have laying around in my folders..I forgot I had some of these peices...so I thought I would post a couple! LOL!

Heres Ginny enjoying a pint at Leaky...I cheated at finished this one up during breaks from work....


I've actually been on a Ginny kick these past few months..I have a ton of doodles of her laying around...I even found a Ginny fanmix I compiled awhile back..once I finish the cover image, I'll post that too! LOL!

( One more! )

WHAT WHAT!!? HOW did I MISS all these new HBP pics???? OH MY GOD GUYS!!! I just spent FAR to long drooling over this gallery:

http://gallery.the-leaky-cauldron.org/album/4451

HOLY CRAP SO EXCITED! I'm not a huge H/G fan (esp not movie!H/G), but this photo made me go AWWWWWWW!!

Also, Lav-lav looks decent...not a fan of the curly hair though, OBVIOUSLY..but she'll do...Plus OH MY GOD LOCKET YES!!!!

Ron looks ODD as a Quidditch player, but his shirt in this photo is AWESOMESAUCE (also OMG where'd he get those arms?!)

Also WTF?! TONKS HAS SHE-MULLET I hope and pray that is just an unfortunate photo of her sad!tonks hair, because DEAR LORD MULLET. Her outfit is HOT AS HELL though...sometimes I think these movie people can see into my brain...XD

Oh I'm so excited now!!! Before I didn't mind that they pushed the date back (cause I'm hoping that means they'll take their time and make it extra good) but now I'm all antsy!!!

Also I thought I'd share a lil converstaion Matthew and I had regarding the HBP release date:

Me: "Awww I read today that hey're moving the HBP release date back a year! Poo!"
Matthew: "Really? Thats kind of dumb..I wonder if people will care about the movies as much since the books are over now..."
Me: "What? Of course they will..I mean obviously I CAN'T WAIT"
Mattthew: "Not you...I meant NORMAL people"
Me: "....Oh...."


EEE GUYS!! OMG! *does a Potti dance*

Took some sick time to work on some long overdue arts!

First a woefully late art exchange for my dear dear doven:

Donna Noble : The Stuff of Legand! XD

( 1 More! )
*wanders off in search of Tylenol* bllllaaaarrrgh!

Ticket prices have been posted for Equus in NYC~!

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/4/11/ticket-prices-for-equus-on-broadway

I really really want to see it...but I swear I'm not a pervert! Dan nekkid is not an added bonus for me (he's a baby in my mind, it feels wrong!) I am a fan of the play too, I read it in HS and thought it was fascinating, I always wanted to see it on stage!


Who will see it with me? NYC gals? Anyone up for a throughly non pervy night at the theater? PWEASE?! I know Matthew sure as hell won't come...

I only wish the tix were cheaper...I can't spend more then $60 for this without feeling like a dirty girl... :P ;)

Just finished up a little doodle I started at work today in celebration of our favorite Red-Headed Birthday Boy!!


LOL! You can't see it now that I shrunk it down, but it's a "My Sweetheart" necklace...I figure, after having a few years to calmdown (and properly claim Ron! lol!) Hermione would have a sense of humor aboutthe whole Lav-Lav thing... ;)

Also been fiddling around with that Uppun's HP FanArt meme thats been floating around...only been getting a chance to doodle during downtime at work tho so it's taking longer then it probably should!

I hope everyone has a super sweet V-Day!! And thanks so so much to everyone who left V-Day wishes in my Valentine Post Box!! Heeheehee! You guys rock!!


EDIT: OMG! Entertainment weekly named Ron and Hermione as one of Pop Cukture's 26 best fictional couples!! XD DAMN STRAIGHT EW!

Tonight Matthew made reservations for a special dinner at our favorite neighborhood restaurant, The Farm on Adderly. OMG I AM SO EXCITED. Seriously folks, if you live in NYC I HIGHLY recommend coming out to Brooklyn to eat at this place, it is some of the best food we've had in the city...and it's as close to the quality of food we had in Italy as anything we've been able to find in the States... YUM YUM YUM!

Ah..ya..since I did make a "resolution" and everything..I actually drew something! OMG GUYS~! Let me tell you it felt sooooo good to get back into it... I've been a bit obsessed with R/Hr lately (when am I not actually?), and so the first thing to pop out was one of my favorite DH moments...I have SO MANY favorite DH moments, I hardly think I'll be able to do any of them justice..so so SO much love for that book.. *romantic siiiiiiigh*

AHEM! So..yes..from "The Silver Doe" Ron returns to the fold.... ;)


( And the following reaction! + DH Kids!! XD )