Ever have something on your mind that you want to do, and just can’t be happy until you tackle it? Thats this hand anatomy look. I’ve had tons of issues with my hands (see an old overview on all of the surgeries), and with all of the physical therapy, ergonomic…
Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time favorite Tim Burton films (closely followed by Beetlejuice). Three years ago, I made a Halloween Town Mayor mask out of a lampshade, and while I loved how easy it was to make and wear, you couldn’t see a damn thing out…
Last year, I created one of my favorite makeup looks to date, which was inspired by a short but achingly poignant poem by my favorite poet, Andrew Coons. i have loved with hands closed and hands open both are accompanied by their own type of pain You should check out…
Oh the best laid plans. I had great plans this weekend for experimenting with new makeup looks but I came down hard with an awful head cold. I’d have to blow my nose within minutes and ruin everything. It sounds like the perfect time to snuggle up on the couch…
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed that I am mildly obsessed with Twenty One Pilots. Their new album, Trench, is coming out on October 5th, and I am super excited about this post-apocalyptic world hey have created. As soon as the first single (Jumpsuit) dropped, I…
So, if you are new here, I have been living with Chronic Pain and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for quite some time now, and for the most part, I’ve gotten to a good place in life with it. You probably wouldn’t even know it if you saw me out and about.…
Just a week after kicking off my 30 by 30 challenge, I knocked of concert 1 of 3. Theory of a Deadman is one of my all time favorite bands, and I have been head over heels since I heard the first 4 notes of Santa Monica. They put on…
You guys, I just had the best birthday on record, just the most amazing group of people at work and friends in my life, and everyone went out of their way to make my day special. My early 20’s were… rough… and i’m really excited to sign this decade off…
Ok, so super long title. But I thought I would check in here. See, I love blogging, but I just kind of burned out for awhile. That, and I am trying this thing where I just don’t force it. There was a time where I as putting a lot of…
Where has all the time gone? Probably the same question can be asked of my wine stash… I have been doing a terrible job of keeping up with things on the blog, although I have been working on a few costumes in my free time, and make sure to check…
I’m a huge music fan. Its something that can ground me when my mind gets dark and twisty, and it helps me mentally gird myself against the pain when things get rough. I’m also kinda cheap when it comes to already owning things that work, so it may come as…
From the first moment I heard “Addict with a Pen” by Twenty One Pilots (my first TOP song), I was hooked. I cannot begin to express how much the lyrics speak to me. It is something so raw and beautiful to address the terrifying and incapacitating feelings that accompany mental…
Are you a fan of the show iZombie? Then you may know of Liv Moore, but do you know about Gwen Dylan? This look is modeled after the cover of iZombie: Dead to the World, Gwen Dylan is the original iZombie heroine, a revenant zombie that must eat brains once…
Hey Guys! Back at it again… but I gotta say, I can’t believe we are already pushing halfway through January, and I haven’t put up a single recap post, goals post, or post of any kind! There is nothing quite like an impending snowSunday afternoon that makes you want to…
With Christmas just two sleeps away, I enjoyed sleeping in, drinking waaayyyy to much coffee, standing in line forever at the grocery store (thank god for Audible), and cleaning the apartment… specifically my desk. I am a constant note taker, saving little scraps of paper with scribbled ideas to come…
This year has been the year of gains. First, a gain of anxiety, an increase in my PTSD symptoms, and a fairly significant gain of weight. It has also been a year of gains in job satisfaction, friendships, personal projects, income, health, and in control of previously mentioned PTSD symptoms.…
While this feature isn’t really “weekly,” I have spent way to much time browsing online in the past few weeks, mostly just killing time since it’s still tough to be active with my shoulder. Now that my mom as asked me to send her a Christmas list so she knows…
Hi Friends! It’s been FOREVER since I last wrote… over a month! (or just at a month?). I lose track. Here is what has been going on. I had surgery to repair my shoulder capsule (labrum) on October 17 and had a full 3 weeks off work, and have spent…
Here is my entry for round 3 of the #StrikingFEAR contest on Instagram (make sure to follow me!). Inspired by the recent excitement around the movie IT, I wanted to create a character from another of my favorite Stephen King novels, Rose Madder. The book is set in the late…
I WANT PUMPKIN SPICE OR I WANT DEATH…. oh wait…. Making a bit of a play on the “basic girl” fall faves, this tutorial shows you how to pull of a basic zombie makeup without any guts or gore… as long as you don’t count rotting flesh. Also, I really…
Hi! I'm Alyce. 
