Happy New Year to all who happen to see this!

Better updates when I get back to my place.

In the meantime, you can look at my cat. :D

<3

To The Moon

Recently I came across a beautiful little game by Freebird Games. It's an indie RPG that has the most touching story I've heard in a long time. The music in this game is also amazing and perfect for the story. This is a little sentence from Freebird's website:

To the Moon is an indie RPG/adventure game, 

about two doctors traversing through the memories of a dying man 

to fulfill his last wish.

Picture from Freebirdgames.com

Game has some comedial elements but mainly the story is deep and so very captivating, that I played it through in one sitting last night. Word in mind is ...wow. 

Best 12€ I've spent in a long time.

For more information and for a free one-hour trial, go to http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/

Ink things and a serious question

A while back I took my second tattoo. My friend wanted to see pic of it so I might aswell make a post about my marks. First tattoo is on my left arm, the other on my right wrist. My tattoos don't have any deep meanings or heartwrenching stories behind them, I just like them.

First one I got few years back. It's the Air ambigram from the book Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I liked all of the ambigrams but decided to go with Air 'cos it's the element of Gemini (it's my horoscope). I don't really believe in horoscopes but it kinda helped me to choose which one to take.
As I mentioned tattoo is an Ambigram, which means that it can be turned upside down and it still reads the same word (try wikipedia for further explanation). In my case the Air text is also in mirror writing (Da Vinci fan perhaps? :D) I like the idea that not everyone realise that it's actually a word, not just some squiggles.

His Master's Tattoo, Savonlinna

The second tattoo is kinda representing my love for theater (and other forms of performing arts) but still no deeper meaning. It's a picture on theater masks, a very classic image in theater world. I found this design from internet and was pretty much sold right away. I like how simple (like a quick pencil doodle) yet complicated it is. I like how their expressions are subtle, not the usual exaggerated faces.

Pate's tattoo, Savonlinna

And now to the serious question:

WHY haven't I found these earlier?!

They are friggin' delicious! I am 'a bit' addicted to chocolate so these are just perfect: chocolate cookies with chocolate mud cake filling. You dip them to a glass of milk and... Yum!
I bought a package few days ago and the only complain I have is that the box is already empty.

The other blog

I have other blog too, that is all about nails. It's in finnish so not probably all can read it so here's a little montage of what I've done

School work

As I earlier stated, I study theater costuming at Savonlinna, Finland. One of the assigments I was eagerly waiting from the first day of school was to make a historical gown. After long consideration I decided to make a mid 16th century "Tudor dress". It's still missing few things here and there but I thought I'd post some pics of it already.

Standard school outfit

"Does my butt look big in this?"

Outfit consists of smock/shift (the undershirt closest to skin), corset, spanish farthingale, petticoat, kirtle, foresleeves, gown, girdle, some jewelry and french hood. It takes a good while to get into this outfit and you need somebody to help you. But it's very comfy (believe or not) and makes you feel quite regal. :D

Me wants!!

Lego Darth Vader alarm clock. :D I would probably add a cape

Picture from Kingdom Of Style

Unfortunately...

This happens often.

Let's Play!

I mentioned LPs on the last post briefly, but now I figured to dedicate the whole post to talk about my great addiction.
LPs or let's play videos are genre of videos in Youtube. In these videos a player is recording the game as he/she plays and provides commentary to it. Often games are blind runs (meaning they haven't played them before) but not always. The tube is flooded with such videos of different games so they are easy to find. Finding the ones that suits you among this is just matter of your personal taste. I myself am really picky, but I have found some awesome let's players I follow regularly.

I first came across LPs when reading Scandinavia and the world by Humoncomics. She did a comic about Amnesia: the dark descent game and in the description box was a link to Mangaminx's let's play. I watched few videos and was hooked. So she was the first LPer I subscribed and through her I found the world of let's plays.

MangaMinx
She was the first I started to watch. She's from UK and does both blind runs and reruns of games she has already played. She does horror games only. She's on hiatus now but she has many full let's plays you can watch on her channel.
/Edit: She came back with new channel TheRPGMinx (in which she focuses RPGs as the name suggests)

666theheartless666
I found this guy through Mangaminx. He is simply put HILARIOUS! A natural comic (oh those funny one-liners). He's in my top two LPers. He's also from UK. He does blind runs of horror themed games. His slow descending to madness when he's frustrated is so amusing. Atm he's on hiatus.
EDIT: He's back too. Yay!











Helloween4545
This guy is also from UK. He does also horror themed games (I see a pattern developing here.. ). He has great LP of Alice: madness returns and the previous game also. He uploads new video aprox. every other day.

ChaoticMonki
This guy is definitely in my top two favorite LPers. He's from USA, he uploads new video every day and he's awesome. He does mostly LPs of scary games, but also other stuff. He plays many weird small indie games you might not otherwise even know existed (I know I wouldn't), such as White Day. He also plays many amnesia custom stories and have done voice acting to few of them too (this guy has awesome voice). He's also started to do weekly livestreams at twitch.tv with his friend RussMoney (who is a creator of amnesia custom story La Caza). The stream starts saturdays at 11pm EST. Unfortunately that means it starts at 6am for me (damn timezones!) I still have attended all livestreams so far 'cause it's just too much fun.
Did I mention he's awesome. 

T-shirt madness

I am easily inspired to make T-shirt prints but I rarely put them into use. But now I got inspired to do so when I made print based on known internet meme and a comment I read from one of my favorite LPers youtube video. So behold!

If you know this, you're cool.

(Grunt from deviantart, shadow, hugs-sign and texts by me)

Hello world

I decided to start a blog where I can ramble what ever comes to mind. So to start this thing, I should probably tell something about me.
I am from eastern Finland and I'm currently studying in university of applied sciences in Savonlinna. I'm soon-to-(hopefully)-be theater costumier. I have only my thesis to write and few courses to finish but unfortunately at the moment I suffer from severe case of "lack of motivation" (mostly about the thesis).

So you're from Finland but you write in English, I hear you ask. Well, there's few main reasons for that. 1. I need practice in writing. I have always been good in reading and listening comprehensions in English (and Swedish). They were my strong point in school. But I suck at grammar in any language (including Finnish) so writing in foreign language is kind of hard for me.
2. Most of my interests and information I come across is in English and I wouldn't probably even know how to explain them in finnish. I may still create a version of this blog in finnish too, but we'll see.

So yeah! Expect lots of spelling mistakes, grammatic errors and random rambling over random things.