Brief Background

My mum just found a really old photo of myself and my younger sister, I believe I was about 3 in it and its quite cute. My mum has always been into unusual things and herself, my older sister (she is 44 now) and her ex partner were 80's new romantics and into music which is now known as Batcave,darkwave and gothic rock. Due to a history of violence on my dad's behalf my mum spend a lot of time in hospital and so my older sister pretty much brought me up, apparently I used to fall asleep listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Alien Sex Fiend, etc, purely as this was the only kind of music my sister and her other half had.. they still actually have the original vinyls they used to play to me which is pretty cool. I haven't changed much... I still wear similar clothing nowadays albeit different styles thereof. Here's the photo ^^

I will see if I can find my prom photo at some point. During school years I was pretty much a black sheep (no pun intended) whilst everyone else was listening to pop I stuck with Bauhaus and The mission UK, wearing long black skirts and hiking boots. At secondary school and sixth form it was much the same, only I got a chance to Study Japanese as a GCSE, I would of continued onto A-level but I needed sciences and maths to pursue my career path (pathology) and so I couldn't, really was a shame as I enjoyed it, received and A* in my exams, became the 3rd Best speaker of Japanese KS3 in the national Japanese nihongo cup which took place in the Japanese embassy in London... true fact... I believe the page is actually still up. Lucky us we also got to go to Japan, that was amazing, I really look forward to going back soon. When I wasn't studying, playing violin or crafting I was horse-riding... this is a sport I had been doing from a very young age, I can't even remember my first lesson. I'm now studying a rather lengthy degree course in university, being Forensic Biochemical Medicine, had to get straight A's in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths to get in so I'm quite chuffed.

I got very quickly bored with the usual mainstream alternative items one can buy so I started making my own clothing and accessories, corsets being among one of the first. Being rather sporty I had a fairly slim waistline (have put a bit of weight on since) I just couldn't find any that fitted me properly so my sister made a joke of making one... which I did so it wasn't much of a jest in the end.

When I was 16 myself and a friend started making dreads, due to us both being rather intrigued by the cyber-goth scene. My older brother used to love sci-fi so we used to sit and watch films such as blade-runner, star wars and barbarella when I was quite young. I love futurism as much as I do history. Particularly in scientific developments and nanotechnology, bio kinetics. I am a scientist after all. So I had my first set of dreads in 2006, They weren't amazing and I have since added to them. In light of this for Christmas that year she brought me a pair of waist high cyber platform boots, I still have these and I wore them to the local fetish night, Twisted in 2007. In the following years I attended various nights, goth and cyber alike, making my second air of dreads in 2008. There are photos of me in my cyber gear on both the Twisted myspace page (if its still there) 2007-2010 I now DJ there to which is awesome and is starting up again this year. There are photos on the Wendyhouse official website photo archive on July 18th 2009 (red dreads) as well as modelling photos taken in 2008/2009 when I brought a new pair of Demonia stacks ^^ all dated and official. One of those said shoots was in my green dreads and at WH itself, that was a strange night, I have been modelling since 2005 so quite a long time, I still have a dated disc with my very first photoshoot images on.

So I'm still into my goth,batcave, lolita, cyber and now steampunk as well. My mum has always had a liking for victoriana and its really elaborate. I have only really been into this for three years (an ex really liked it and wouldn't shut up about it, kinda got me hooked) I like the fantasy literacy element and its an excuse to wear flouncy victorian-esque dresses and crinolines... not that one needed an excuse but it does look pretty cool. I'm not overly fond of the mainstream... lets just put cogs on it and call it steampunk stuff one sees nowadays, steampunk doesn't have to be brass, brown and clockwork everything, my favourite dress I have made is a green, black and silver absinthe fae inspired gown. I do make my own clothing and accessories which is a bonus I suppose when it comes to steampunk. Burlesque Though I have liked for years I was never able to get properly into due to an overbearing ex, I have now been back onto the burlesque scene properly for over a year now and am loving every moment of it.

The beasts in the family

No I'm not talking about people but rather actual beasties, I have only really spoken about my horses in the past, I still have the two mares and love them to bits. But I do have other animals. The reason for writing this is that a month ago one of our cats past away, he was fairly old, 14 years. We had first received him as a kitten so clearly it was an upsetting time and we do really miss him His name was Dusty (don't ask it was my little sister's cat) Here is a pretty photo of him below and another of him waking from sleep... he was a bit... strange

We do have another cat with similar markings though she is a lot younger. She was found sleeping in our hay barn at the stables and just stayed, no collar so must of wandered off and was thus a stray. We did not bring her home for two years in case she decided to wander back to her original home or a report of missing animal was posted but nothing happened so she slept with the horses. Her name is Idrial

Along with the cats and horses we are currently housing my older sister's dog Bindi, she's an 8 year old English Bull Terrier and a bit mad.... not much else to say about her haha

Next in the Menagerie of beasts is Merlin, I'm not too sure on his age as he was given to me about a month ago now by a very close friend whom I have known for about 10 or so years. Merlin being a Black Albino Corn snake, such a cutie to and likes to sit on my little sister's head.

The last one, belongs to Cai, he brought him when we were started seeing each other to quote 'Our baby dragon' this was around October time and we are happily still together and officially. Calenmirae is a young Chinese water dragon.

I guess we are very much an animal family