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I just got round to sorting out the Schmelke jpegs for my Creation UK photo ops from May! It's not as dilatory as it sounds - well, yeah, it is actually. I had the email to request the jpegs keyed up for ages then forgot about it, so I only sent it off in July. Anyhow, Chris sent them and included his crops and the originals - so I'm posting my own crops and edits now, because Chris wanted to show off his imperial purple background, but I wanted to be able to see what was going on! LOL

Mind you, I still can't work out what Jared was doing with his legs in this Velma dip one, and I still HATE my face - but look at his pretty little kissyness!Read more... )
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I feel I should report back on Creation and JIB and my Jared painting, before all the details slip out of my leaky brain.

warning for picspamming and unwarranted whining amid the funstuff )

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Leaving to catch our flight home in a bit, but I thought I'd post this as when I arrive home I'll be busy uploading vids and photos that I haven't been able to do here because the hotel wifi is woefully inadequate.

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And because.... *melts*. Doesn't his quiff look soft and strokeable?

I'll post some con reports anon - I have Jared stories of happiness, Jensen hotness, Misha smiles and lots of fangirl fun to recount that will probably bore y'all to tears before I'm done. Bwhahahah!
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A weekend of mixed fortunes, the real downer being that I never got to meet madebyme_x because she had a nasty car accident on the way from Wales to Brimingham on Friday. Thankfully nobody was badly hurt (apart from the car, which was a write-off) but it suffiicently bad that she had to return home to recuperate. So there was no Daphne to my Velma, *insert sad face here*. Planning ahead though, I did the op as planned with a space to insert Daphne with a happy face, when madebyme_x has recovered from all the bruising and trauma.
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I've just deleted some emails from my inbox cutting it down from 747 to 4.

I had a look at wat was there and decided it was stupid to think I was ever going to catch up with even half of the stuff I've been hanging onto for the last six months - so wiping the slate clean seemed like a sensible move! Especially since I'm off to Birmingham tomorrow for the start of three weeks of convention madness, and KNOW I won't be able to keep track of new posts and stuff, let alone read all the previous posts.

So big apologies to anyone whose fics or posts I haven't yet responded to - I will endeavour to catch up with everyone when I get back.

I hope to post bits and pieces while I'm away because meeting up with all my fangirls (and the odd boy) is too good not to share.

Catch you all on the flipside...
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I think... I think maybe it's nearly done. Thanks to some helpful advice from my art heroes marietwist and quickreaver, and even though most of what they told me is beyond my competence at the moment (or at least, beyond my abilities on this particular painting) I think it is now looking reasonable. I am starting to think I would not be too ashamed to hand this over to the man himself at whichever of the two conventions I decide to give it to him.

If anyone else knows anything about using acrylic paint and has any hints or tips to improve it, please let me know! Otherwise all that's left to do is a second coat on the gold background (which doesn't show up on the photo), and then touching up where I've gone over edges etc to tidy it all up.

Nearly done!

I think adding words would be too much, so I'll just have to write them down for Jared and put them with the picture.
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Blocking out the two other characters today - but now it's even clearer there's still a lot to be done - especially to Jared the elder version. Still, it's coming along, and I'm hopeful...!

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I'm in Germany, folks. My knowledge of the language can be written on the back of a postage stamp, but at least I know schinken is ham.

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Okay, LFCC is no San Diego, but it's big enough for me. This year our little band of hunters didn't have any GISHWHES tasks to do, so we could wander round and do our own thing, which actually meant at times we were like ships that pass in the night. I even persuaded Paul to come, and he enjoyed his mini-geek fest, going to a few of the free panels and ogling the Wonder Women and Cat Women. He has a bit of a thing for slinky women in black lycra LOL.

Read more inconsequential ramblings.. )

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Yesterday I had a day off painting to flit off to London to the Heroes and Villains convention (more a mini comic con event than a JIB) where I got a photo op with the lovely John Barrowman, and Katie Cassidy. The poor girl left SPN behind her years ago, but got two SPN hobbits plastered to her slim sides when 99.9% of the other fans were there for Arrow. Never mind!

Here's the glorious Barrowman, flashing his knees for us.Read more... )
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Apart from this picture being the scene Show should have given us...what a great story! These boys...I love them so much!



If anyone recognises the artwork, let me know who to credit because the girl who got it signed didn't know who the artist was, and my image search acame up with zilch.
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I don't usually but this is too awesome.
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Fangasm posted some gorgeous photos from Pittcon taken by @mamaprior, and I couldn't resist some edits.
Warning for hotness and large images!Image intensive! )
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Thought I might as well do my usual and share my photo op piccies with y'all.
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So ages ago I entered that competition to paint a giant pig and yesterday I got a call to say they had a sponsor for my Swinions design! So yay! The only drawback? It has to be painted by 30th May, and I'm now away from tomorrow until 27th so I'll have a massive three days to get it done when I get back from Italy. Just as well it wasn't a complicated design and there are only a few colours involved! LOL!
This is the one
swinion side 1-1 copy

I'm all packed for A16, bag full of god knows what, decisions semi-firm about what to do for photo ops, a list as long as my arm of extras I have to try and get for friends who won't arrive until late on Friday and the knowledge that there will be something I've forgotten. But soon I'll be hanging out with so many flisties its utterly awesome. Can't wait!
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So today I had a little trip to London to the London Film and Comic Con. It's like SDCC but not. It's smaller (obviously) and cheaper, but it was crowded enough for me, and I think queuing for an hour and a half to get in is as much as I can manage.
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I stayed up last night to watch this and what a strange mixed experience this was! Only about two proper questions from the audience, many shenanigans from the boys on stage, Aisha confirms all the fanfics that portray Jared as a very happy, huggy drunk and there is a long discussion about Jared's taint and his mole that looks like Sam Winchester...

And then Jared chokes up talking about his low self worth, which just breaks everyone's heart.
It was worth staying awake for, but compared to last year's Nerd panel, this one felt a bit flat somehow. Maybe because Jensen seemed a bit quiet. Maybe he was hung over! I hope Misha's family crisis that sent him home was all sorted out, anyhow.

Ok after watching again this morning, I take it back - it was so much better seeing it without the time laggings and freezing and missed bits...a lot more fun!
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If any of you haven't been to a convention and were hesitating about going because you aren't convinced they are worth it - here's a great vid to show you why they are so good.Read more... )
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This should really be vid #2 as this is the encore and finale of the night, but Youtube has finished loading this one first so...

It was a bit of a bugger - me and my friend were super lucky to get right down to the front, but we were off to one side and then Jensen stood in the centre most of the time so I had a job to catch him in the picture. Still. He sang beautifully and wore a sweaty t shirt and looked effing gorgeous so... I'm content. And they sang Seven Bridges! Woot! I told Richard they had to do it when we were talking about him joining Rob and Jason for the concert, and at the time he said they couldn't be able to do it without the rest of Louden Swain. So way to prove yourself wrong, Richard! :D

More vids to come, now I finally have a decent internet connection and evenings free. It's a double relief - nice apartment with aircon to escape from the heat (30ºC, Roma, it's supposed to be spring, not August!), and wifi that works! Huzzah! So I probably will never catch up on everything that's been happening over the last two weeks (apologies for that and feel free to draw my attention to important stuff you've been up to in the comments), but I will be checking and replying to any comments you've made as soon as I can.
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The internet connection in this hotel is so utterly crappy I haven't been able to upload the videos I took of Jensen's panel with him playing guitar as well as answering questions. I started uploading to Youtube at 2pm and it's not 11:30pm and it's only 31% complete. Seriously total crap. And this is the paid for connection on my room - €20 fucking euros. Excuse my French but it's a complete rip off.

Anyhow - I did upload this 2 second vid to Flickr and if that beahves itself (which it hasn't been doing either) you can see what Osric filmed on my camera in my photo op. I gave him the camera all switched off like a good girl, and asked him to pretend to be taking a photo of me and Felicia, and the naughty boy switched it on and took what he thought was a photo and was in fact a vid. LOL!


I've never tried vids on Flickr so don't know if this will work but it's worth a try before bedtime.

I've got so much to write up - a great meet & greet with Jensen and Bob Singer (Misha gate crashed for a few minutes before Jensen turned up), interesting and fun meet & greets with Osric, Misha, Rob and Richard, many photos with Jensen (well two today and another two tomorrow) and still managed to catch a good few panels too.

Knackered now though...and thinking of Jared. As Jensen said, he has a big heart and he gives too much of himself, while lacking the ability to compartmentalise like Jensen can. And yet there was Jensen giving such a heartfelt and awesome answer to my friend Nell's question about how much more relaxed he seems to be now with the fans. He actually seemed to have this as a theme for the day - he was hugging like a champ and mentioned opening himself up to the love we give him several times during the day's events.

Right, I really must to bed - lots more to do tomorrow!

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