-Entry 04: Of warm hugs and Frozen feels (Elsa make-up and wig trial)-

My trial for Elsa's look

      A few weeks ago, my 2 younger sisters and I watched Disney's Frozen at RW Manila. Kinda fitting to watch it with them since its main theme is about sisterhood. I don't want to post spoilers for those who have not yet watched the movie (really??? watch it NOW!! it's worth every penny!). It's really awesome so yah! go see it! It's great for the entire family! I still have the Frozen hangover even if it's been weeks since we watched it!

       The music is also wonderful! Idina Menzel just owned the song "Let it go" and it's my favorite part from the entire movie! I tried to figure out the chords last weekend for it on the piano (I uploaded bits and pieces of me practicing at my instagram account) but then I got frustrated along the way so I ended up making a make-up test instead for Elsa...well, because I'm really bored that weekend too :P (ALSO: doh! I love her to bits!! and her gown! it's just so pretty!! I hope I could manage to make a gown like that one day!). Luckily, I have a white wig (intended for an Inuyasha photoshoot) so I braided that and used it to complete the look.

So yah...here are some snapshots (taken via my phone's camera) of how the test went out! :3
      

These photos are also on my instagram account @dycee29 :)

      This for me is the hardest make up test I've made in my entire life. I've never used this much eyeshadow (ranging from plum to shades of pink and rose and frosted blue!). I have to use two pairs of fake eyelashes too because Elsa's lashes are really long and thick!

Oh Elsa <3 I know that I don't look anything like her at all but mehhh

       Unfortunately, i forgot to wear colored contact lenses orz. but hey! maybe next time? :P This is, after all, only a test anyway :) 

''The cold never bothered me anyway~!"

         I guess I should do another make up test for her character since Elsa really deserves all the justice she could get o/ Maybe with a better wig and contact lenses soon (and take photos via a better camera rather than my phone ;A; since the colors did not show that well here)

I'm kinda lucky to have found a blue dress from my Mom's closet :P

Here's a comparison with and without the wig! Elsa and Anna? :3

      That's it for now I guess :3 I am still unsure if I will cosplay her since just looking at the details of her gown overwhelms me a lot! But hey...maybe one day? :3 I'll make sure to post about it if ever it happens! :3 maybe i could post a step by step tutorial too on how I managed to achieve this look :3

     Feel free to share tips and tutorials and maybe cosplay advice for Elsa o/ I would love to hear from you :)



Meows,

Dycee

and of course, an obligatory photo with my Kish Kish <3

-Entry 03: I need to fix my template-

Augh...I find it frustrating that I don't know how to code. I want to know how I could manage to put sub-categories on my blog like an album for artworks, recipes, travels etc.

Anyone here who could send me some tutorials or help? (or where to get free codes?)

Thanks :)

That said, here's a sketch I made during a Dr. Sketchy's PH session I attended before :) I think I should blog about that experience too :) hehe

anddd here's a cleaned version via Photoshop :) hopefully, i could color it soon when I'm not that busy anymore :)

Short post for now~! gotta get back to work! 

Meows,

Dycee

-Entry 02: Naming stuff is such a b*tch a.k.a. deciding on a blog name a.k.a. Nancy the goldfish-

I have to be honest that one of the main reason as to why it took me this long to create this blog is because I am terrible at naming stuff orz. I've never thought that deciding on a blog name and address could be this darn difficult.

I mean, this blog will be a part and sort of an extension of my life so I guess it's name should be really well thought of right?

And yeah, just like naming someone's child or pet or camera, it's not usually easy. And it sucks so bad that I'm really really REALLY terrible at naming stuff  (wait, I've said that already, but I just need to stress that out).

Let's take our cats for example:

We have this cat named "Lambing" because...well, he is "malambing"(unfortunately there is no direct translation to English for this word, though to put it simply, "malambing" could be described as "sweet" or "smitten". hmmm... smitten kitten? *gets bricked*). Anyways, Lambing came from a litter of 7 kitties (seven!!! imagine?) and just like this blog, it kinda took some time before they were named.

 
sleepy kitties

During the time the kitties were born, my two sisters were into K-Pop and are huge supporters of this group (oh boy...here we go) called U-KISS. The group happen to have seven members (errr...though i heard they disbanded (?) already or changed some members?) so my sisters suggested to have the kitties named after them.

It means to say that "Lambing" used to have a different name before...and it's Korean!...which i can't even bloody pronounce! orz. Add the fact that soon after, three of the kitties from the litter got sold so that leaves us with only four "members" of the K-pop band, LOL so yah...might as well change their names to something more appropriate? and because I'm really that bad at naming, the four kitties left got tagged with the names Lambing (which I explained a while ago), Tisoy (apparently because people in the house observed that he is "the fairest of em all"), Kevin and Kiseop (yep...can't think of a name for Kevin and Kiseop, so I retained their old k-pop names). Oh and may I add this detail: KEVIN IS FEMALE! orz

Also, I'm still not sure if I pronounce Kiseop's name correctly. I also call him Kish-Kish or Kiss-Kiss sometimes (mom called him "Ketchup" once... daheck!) which makes me wonder if our cats get confused of their names, or if they're aware of what their names are in the first place.

Aside from those stated above, we also have this cat named "Tiger", a dog named "Bunny" and a bunny named "Doug". Yup...remind me to stop naming pets in the future orz.

Lambing's derp face

Ok! Enough about that! Time to get back on topic!

It really took a while for me to think of a proper blog name. I've made up a lot of possible ones but can't seem to choose the best one. It kinda made me wonder how my friends chose their blog names (and believe me, they have the coolest blog names :P). I mean, did they experience this too? Did it took them hours or days to finally pick a name and just launch their blog?. I hope not.

My current blog name just dawned upon me one boring night while surfing through TV channels. I happen to pass by Disney and it reminded me that I used to use this tagline "-From the wonderful mind of Dycee" to end my entries for my creative journal submissions during college (pre-requisite for my BS-Nursing course). Hmm... Maybe I could use that again. I changed it to "world" instead of "mind" though, just like in Disney's coz there's just a certain ring to it that I cannot seem to explain. It sounds fun and quirky which kinda speaks a lot about myself. I have to remove "From" though....erm just because? (maybe the same reason why "The" is removed from "The Facebook" for Facebook).

So I've decided! (Let's hope it's final)

I do not own this photo :P Credits to Disney

How about the blog address? I think this is the most important yes yes?

The first one I chose is "dyceecat.blogspot.com" because I want it to be simple, but then again my sister pointed out that people might assume that I will only blog about my cats if I'll use that since my FB page where I breed cats have the same name. 

Out of the whim I chose "dyceelearnstoblog" because it kinda sounds like that oldschool band my brother used to listen to (ehem "Michael learns to rock" LOL) and because it's direct to the point, I mean, because indeed I am just "learning" how to blog. I have to change that when someone pointed out that there's a certain popular blogger who already got that idea and apparently have almost the same name as mine O_O. I don't really frequent the "blogosphere" yet (I'm not even sure if I used the term right) so I am not aware of it though just from the looks of it I could tell that we're wayyy too different and our topics are way different too haha. But just to avoid confusion and comparison I decided to change it to something more fitting :D

Which proved to be difficult orz

I've thought of "WordWarDycee" but then again the word "war" kinda does not match the feel of a "wonderful" world so I have to scratch that out again (I might use that on something in the future haha). My sister then suggested that I just make it simple: "Welcome to Dycee Land", just like a greeting on a Disney amusement park.

So I settled for that. For now.

Meows,

Dycee

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ps.

The Story of Nancy the Goldfish

Once upon a time, me and my friends got some free goldfish (i think we were given around 8 or 9) from a Tanabata themed event at Little Tokyo. From Manila to San Jose, we traveled the lovely fishies. 

Because it was during the time of the election campaign for senators, we decided to name them after some senatorial candidates.

Bad move. As we all know the lifespan of this type of goldfish is not that long.

And only Nancy Binay survived. orz.

I DO NOT own this photo of Nancy. obviously.

Naming is such a b*tch.

Let's see how long before I change my blog's name and address again into a new one =))

-Entry 01: Testing 1...2..3...Dycee learns to blog-

well...sort of.

I used to write a lot during my college years (*ehem* not so long ago mind you!), either on multiply or on DA and the most recent is via TinierMe (if that is even considered as blogging). As we all know (I guess?), Multiply is already dead and so is TinierMe and that kinda goes to my DeviantArt account as well. I just realized that it's time for me to find a "real" platform to write my thoughts since those I stated above are not really blogsites to begin with.

Oh wait, I have not yet introduced myself. Silly me! Forgetting the basics!

Hello! I'm Dycee. You pronounce it as "Dye", like the thing you use to color your hair, and "Sea" or "See", which does not really matter since both sounds almost the same as long as you don't pronounce it as "Ki" or "Kee", coz that just ruins it). So yep, I'm Dycee. Nice to meet you and welcome to my blog!

For now, I guess that's the only thing that should matter (...and that I have tons of cats, let's pretend that that's important :P) because I don't want to bore you on my first ever entry. You'll get to know me more anyways as long as you stick around as I write more stuff (hopefully). I'm not really sure what entries I should write about (yet) to be honest, but expect me to talk about the most random of things. I kinda want it to be like that show "Idiot Abroad: Bucket list" where he just goes along doing stuff on the list...no expectations and lots of random adventures. Yep, random adventures!, i like the sound of that. I kinda want my readers (if I'll have any) to have that feel. A random encounter (adventure) per entry they'll read.

So that's it! Welcome again to my wonderful world :)


Meows,

Dycee

ps. for starters, let me tell you that I am terrible at English (grammar) and I have poor computer skills (coding and shiz) so I guess having this blog will help me improve on both too.

also: a Happy Birthday to my cousin Windy! just in case you're reading this! :)