Originally published at Fairchildren . com. You can comment here or there.

I wanted to photograph new Meital a little more simply because she deserves it. To me she is the most wonderful girl in the whole world – and of course to Uncle K as well even though he will never admit it in public ;3 I hope you like the pictures!

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LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

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Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

(Some of those are cartoons! :) And I'm surprised, so many comedies on my list... )

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When things get too rough in the real life, play with dolls. <3

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A slim mini sweater-dress prototype! This is the second, refined version. Once I open commission thread on DoA, I'll be offering it in MSD, slim MSD, and SD (Delf girl, SD10 sizes). It's all serged, so all the seams are stretchy (as well as the fabric itself) and can fit a variety of doll bodies. I'm also thinking of offering different length and short or long sleeves.





Hmmm, I think I saw this fabric in hot pink in the store as well... Maybe I should get it? It seems to work nicely for dolls, what do you guys think? :)

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Our microwave oven just went on on its own! O_O It heated nothing for about 3 secs and then beeped. And no one was near it! No one was even in the kitchen!
You have to rotate the swich to set the time on it and turn it on and it doesn't have any kind of timer, so how on earth coud it turn on??? CREEPY!
Mom then left the oven's door open (which annoys me because then there will be a light burning inside the oven when it's open) and she closed it at some time while I was in the shower. Just when I came out of the bathroom, mom said that the oven went on again! o___o

I'm moved journals some time ago, but now I'm back here :) Thank you, guys, for keeping this journal friended! ^^

A long while back I cleaned up my friends list and edited out the what-seemed-like abandoned journals. I rechecked some today and added back those that still friended me and where there was recent activity. But in case I missed YOURS, please, do let me know :)

I also opened a lot of entries that I posted in the last 2 years, because I feel a lot less like staying in my warm and cozy cocoon lately :)

Tämä pieni neiti tupsahti talouteen pitkähkön y!japanin seuraamisen johdosta, kyseessä siis Unola Fluorite, nimeltään Silke. Silmät ovat väliaikaiset mukana tulleet kämäakryylit ja harmaat lasiset ovat postissa tulossa.



Nassua oli harvinaisen rasittava maalata, kasvot ovat hitusen Puki pukin naamaa isommat ja en ole maalannut näin pieniä paljoa. Kyllä siitä ihan siedettävä tuli, pitäisi jossain vaiheessa jaksaa ottaa parempi kuva eikä tällainen keskiyöllä lampunvalossa näpsäisty. Kuvanlaatu tuskin paljoa nousisi, mutta näkyisipähän kunnon valon ansiosta vähän enemmän meikistä :B Pelkäsin tätä nukkea odottaessa mitä tulisin saamaan, lähes kaikissa omistajakuvissa hartsi-Fluorite näyttää kovalta, kun taas halusin omasta tytöstäni herkän punapään. Onneksi vika oli meikissä, päänmalli itsessään on kuten moni Unoa, pehmeä ja lempeä. Vaatteiden teko on kyllä hauskaa näpräystä, esim. vyötärö on noin 7cm xD Virkistävää vaihtelua isommille tekemiseen.

Unoissa on kyllä jotain mikä vetoaa minuun yllättävän paljon. Joskus luulin, etten jaksaisi katsella montaa Unoaa nurkissa kun ovat niin samankaltaisia, mutta kuinkas sitten kävikään... Jokin näiden muotokielessä tuli ja valloitti. Pitänee miettiä uudestaan se Zero, olin jo melkein päättänyt jättää kyseisen nuken hankkimatta mutta ehkä sittenkin tartun tilaisuuteen kun tilausjakso tulee.

Originally published at Fairchildren . com. You can comment here or there.

Together again after a while! Nothing special in the photos, plenty of sucky artificial light, but I wanted to snap a couple of shots of my favourite pair <3

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Check this out meeria , this is the first read model I made from the book I got from you :)
Sometimes it's a bit hard to understand the instructions in english, so I haven't dared to try the ones that look more difficult :P

It's a Medusa plushie for Kaarle!

Originally published at Fairchildren . com. You can comment here or there.

I’ll concenrate on different kind of crafts from the 1st of December, but before, I finished all my sewing commissions! (Some knitting ones still remain.) I love creating with my hands, but it’s also been nice to get them done! My own dolls have nothing to wear or at least it feels like it, especially the big boys, especially Mirwaise. Luckily I have drafted some new patterns that I can use, making the pattern is the step that I dislike the most. When they are ready, everything feels quite easy…

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Tweaks and enhancements

1. In order to improve site security, we've temporarily suspended the ability to change passwords for old email addresses that haven't been used for over six months. For further information and support, please visit our customer care page.
2. We've launched a new mobile site with an enhanced UI at m.livejournal.com. View spotlights, post to your journal, read and post to friends pages, and more, no matter where you roam! Please let us know what you think, since this will eventually replace our existing mobile interface. You can update your mobile preferences on your account page.
3. We've upgraded from Beacon to Facebook Connect to improve dual posting. If you've already signed up for Facebook Beacon, you're good to go. If you wish to update your Facebook Connect setting, visit Account Privacy settings and scroll down to the option labeled: "Send information about my updates to Facebook." You can choose Always or Ask each time. Remember to save (on the bottom left corner of the page). To learn more, check out FAQ 249. While we're on the subject, if you happen to be visiting that side of town, please join our Facebook fan page for a touch of home away from home.
4. You'll now receive the Writer's Block Question of the Day in the body of email notifications. To sign up for Writer's Block notifications, visit writersblock and choose the Watch Community option. Next, update your Writer's Block notification settings by checking the box to the right of "Someone posts a new entry to writersblock."
5. Paid and permanent users can now view, add, and edit Notes of commenters. Notes will appear beside the username of comment posters (instead of stars) on S1-themed comment pages.

Send some lovin' thanks to your friends with our holiday vgifts!

Photos of the week

We're so delighted with the immense talent of our growing, global lj_photophile community that we've decided to introduce a poll. Each week, we'll choose a half-dozen photos (based on user comments and staff feedback) and ask you to select a photo of the week. The winning photo will be announced in the next newsletter. If possible, please limit photo size to 350x350 to ensure that images display properly on friends pages. We want to thank you again (and again!) for sharing your passion.

Check out this week's photo poll and more fantastic user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

Once, in another world, Kaarle's father Karl cheated the Death himself.
Death got really mad for Karl making fool of him, so he threatened to take his son. He said: "One day your son will serve me. One way or another!"
Karl got scared, and couldn't even think about what Death might have meant. He travelled all around the world with his son, when he finally found what he was looking for. The most powerfull Witch agreed to send Kaarle to another dimension, to hide from Death. But this cost Karl his eye sight, the Witch needed his eyes to search for another world. He couldn't see his son cry when he said goodbye to him.

So now Kaarle is in this strange, cold world. He doesn't have any friends, he doesn't have his father. And still sometimes he can feel Death calling him.

He needs to find someone to call a friend, so he can feel safe.

He went to the customs, but I didn't have to open the package there, so I was pretty excited to open him up! Also for once I didn't have to pay tax from the shipping value! Some people there count the tax from the total amount, but some more intelligent ones understand to take the shipping out of the price!

I didn't have any proper light to take the pics in, so I'm ashamed to post the crappy pictures here, so click the pic and see the rest in my flickr ;)

Now what I need to do is find him a wig and decide what kind of face-up I want for him...

Originally published at Fairchildren . com. You can comment here or there.

Spot all the things Ellu loves…yes, there are many. Chandeliers, cats, butterflys, castles, BAMBIS, fairytale stuff – I saw this fabric at Jonna and Tuuli’s place and knew I had to buy some for myself. Now just what to make of this loveliness? Meital gets this, of course ;3 I’m thinking of just simple loli shirt that shows the print with lace or ruffle on the hem, and then cutting off fabric badges from the extras and decorating stuff with them. Like my own bag. I admit, I’m a sucker for these Japanese prints ;_;

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I also thought of things and the future of my dolls – since I don’t think I will buy many BJDS in the future anymore, I might start pampering my current ones, and I’m slowly dipping my toe in the thought of “buying hella expensive eyes” such as uretanes from Enchanted Doll. Okay, the thought of buying doll eyes which cost 50+ dollars a pair still makes me cringe, but damn, those milky EID eyes…they ARE worth of that *_* And you’re not paying because they are rare or wanted or popular, you’re paying because they really cost that much, it doesn’t feel so bad. Or does it? Anyway, my hubby said that “well, if they make you happy, 40 euros is not much of happiness” and he’s of course right <3

I started my journey in the land of urethanes by reserving a pair of glimmering black Aamu eyes for Morri, hopefully I'll get them! When I get enough money from my sewing commissions (I've decided that all the money I got from them will go back to this hobby), I'm getting Meital something like these :3

Okay, back to the sewing so I get that money

I haven't really taken much pictures of this boy, which is a shame since he is so handsome. I love Kyle mold, and AyS series make up is eyecandy. =3=



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