I think the time has come... to SAY GREETINGS HUMANS

Hey what's up, I'm Chelsea and I'm from Canada! I love MOVIES & the movie industry in general. My dream job would be some type of Entertainment Media job like Movie Critic. Having said that though I do think that being a movie critic would perhaps take my joy out of movies. 

Anyway I am from a Small town (Born and raised) Love movies, devour books and enjoy the fine arts. Including and not limited to Dancing like a maniac in my home and singing (preferably where no one can hear me.) However I'm going to contradict myself with my last statement.

 I LOVE ACTING - mainly  Theater and acting on stage (have loved it since I was 5 & in my first school play.) I have become pretty involved with my local Community acting group, having acted in 4 plays with them since my first Play way back in 2008 - where I played a Postulant Nun as part of the Nun's  choir in the Sound of Music.  During which time I learned LATIN. Meaning I learned to sing in Latin. 

This past fall I had the privilege to be cast in my first Principal Role with the group where I played another Nun in another Musical (HEY look progress after 6 years with the group.) I had the honor to Play SIster Amnesia in our production of Nunset Boulevard (Part of Dan Groggins Nunsense Musicals.) IT WAS a ROLE that I truly connected with for the first time and truly became the character. It was also an experience I loved working with a close ensemble cast of 4 other extraordinary women to support me during our time together! 

Another thing I do really enjoy is the world of Special FX Makeup Artistry. I think it's such a unique career and experience, I feel it's it's this really cool way to show case your artistic skills.  Especially since the master pieces you create are not exactly tangible in the sense that unlike painting a picture (for example) your art won't remain forever. At some point it will disappear like when the person you just made up finally takes off the makeup. The exception being of course if you made a mold/Body cast/facial cast. 

I myself dabble in the art of Special FX Makeup and particularly enjoy the Gore/Horror/BLOOD play sub types. I sort of turned to Special FX makeup one day as a last ditch effort of self therapy. In the past I had a lot of problems with Self Harm and since messing around with this messy yet exhilarating Hobby I have been clean of Cutting since 2012 & free of self Harm since 2013 when I quit burning myself with matches. 

I am completely self taught and learn from Google, Instagram, and Youtube but for the most part I whip out my mish mash of Halloween makeup & HOUSEHOLD stuff, and just go for it without really trying for a particular look. My favorite time of the year for my Makeup is Halloween time (September - all the way to December) WHICH I fondly take part in Chelsea's CRAZY MAKEUP challenge & set out to find all the Makeup Contests & participate in as many as possible. And oddly enough I am not half bad as I have numerous small time contests (Like Shout outs on Instagram which may not mean much to people but when you get shouted out for something your crazy passionate about and LOVE doing, it's amazing.) Plus through instagram I built up a network and follow MUA (that's MAKEUP ARTISTS) from around the world whose work I admire & some of whom admire my own Makeup creations in turn. 

To date I have actually won 3 prize related Contests with regards to my crazed contest entering Obsessiveness.  Twice I actually got the aforementioned Prize (A Makeup Bag/brush bag & MAKEUP from last year) and this year I got a book about life planning (Not as interesting) but it was for a week day Daily entries contest (meaning you could enter every day until end of the month or you were finally crowned winner) albeit the contest was pretty tiny (I'm sure they quit getting entries after the first week or so) but I came across it near the end of the month and JUMPED on the chance to enter it (OBVIOUSLY.) 

Currently I'm eagerly awaiting the results of the final contest I entered in the 2014 Halloween Season (Which the deadline was in December like I want to say the 6th/first week) and I ended up creating a LOOK on the day the entry was DUE, managed to do a look, film clips/take pictures and upload my entry within like 3 hours. Not to mention I managed to also take off my makeup (FULL blood face) and go to a local HOCKEY game within that time frame (best record for me.) 

AUDFACED is like one of the first Special FX MUA's I found and actually followed on Youtube after stumbling on her Samara Morgan from the Ring Makeup! I loved hearing about her following her dreams and working towards her goals of FX MUA. However my favorite part of her channel would be her yearly Halloween Makeup Contests! The sheer amount of talent that always came from them was mind boggling - so many creative and talented people out there both Amateur & trained! Whether it was as an contest entrant or just a Youtuber FAN FOLLOWER - we all connected with her Halloween videos. She always made the Contests cool & themed and she herself PUT lot's of effort into filming the contest videos (usually dressing up in her own theme.) She's such a fabulous Makeup Artist and I love how she's stayed true to herself, hasn't let anything get to her head (Like YOUTUBE with her 6.8 million channel views/60k subscribers and her numerous popular videos.) 
I think she's stayed pure with her Youtube journey both as a person & a professional. And it's nice to see.  

Anyway I'm a BIG FAN girl of her's and that makes me even happier to say that the final contest I entered for the Halloween Makeup season this past fall was her 2014 HALLOWEEN Makeup Contest. In all the years I watched her/eagerly awaited the yearly contests, I never once imagined I would ever find a day where I entered an Audfaced Halloween contest. However after saying What the heck and taking the chance I did it (Albeit I did in the not so great way of entering very last minute as I already stated) but now no matter what I can say that one of my first Special FX MUA IDOL's has looked over and seen my work (Even if it was just that one video/look) and that means the world to me! 

SO there now you know 2 kind of big things about myself and I'm sure as time goes on I will keep posting here because I've found writing to be kind of helpful for my life at the moment. And like the somewhat Anonymity I get here. I CAN RAMBLE ON FOR AGES here where as on YOUTUBE I really have to return to my old throw back "Vlog" type videos where I kept my ramblings to under 5 minutes & usually did 1 takes... Lately I tend to just ramble ON AND ON AND ON and then because I did that I have to refilm it and then sometimes I TALK EVEN longer. And then I have to write all the clips into my notebook (I call it the idea/filming/producing [Since I have to take like technical votes of length/clip number] so I can co-relate it on the COMPUTER. lol. and also LONG VIDEOS suck because I think I have the crappiest internet connection when it comes to crap like uploading because one time a 7 minute video took 9 hours (no JOKE) to successfully upload to the Tubes of You (& I of course)  

I CONTINUALLY have a huge LADY crush on the Samsung Galaxy Cameras. basically it's a Digital Camera (and the specs of the camera keep getting better with each model - so far that's 2) that is a HYBRID of a CAMERA & A TABLET with ANDROID operating System inside the CAMERA! MEANING I CAN FILM - and UPLOAD to the YOUTUBE without having to go through the dreadfully tedious tasks of FILMING ---> uploading camera content to Computer (and now for some reason my computer tends to reject my photo's from my camera like 9 times out of 10 & it takes multiple times of either logging off/shutting down to get it to successfully transfer the files... OR IT does the annoying thing where it will like upload 5 out of like 100+ files and then I have to go through the renaming (and I try to name my files like December 2014 or get specific like say December 2014 SLEDDING/XMAS etc meaning I have to have 2 different files for the same bloody set of photos... 

PLUS there's always the fear that YOUTUBE will be like my computer and reject my file after waiting hours on END not letting the computer shut down/letting others use it BECAUSE YOU CAn't LEAVE this freaking upload screen (wth youtube get with it... let us escape the window confinement.) 
I mean if I had a tablet it would be like the camera and I can upload straight to YOUTUBE minus the computer/cables/uploading.) 

ANYWAY now you know even more about me. I LOVE cameras/videography/photography..... I have for quite some time now... WAY back when my dad had a BRICK for a digital Camera I remember I was either demanding photos or stealing the camera which is how it went until like 2006 & I finally got my own camera! usually I'm a Sony Cyber Shot GIRL (2 beloved cameras) but the past two times of buying a camera (within 2 months of eachother at the time) I choose a ruby red nikon because i SAW WIFI AND WAS LIKE OMG MY DREAM camera only to be mislead into the idea that it wasn't wifi parsay but could latch onto and "Send" files to phones/tablets using like blue tooth or something? 

Anyway my Phone (I LOVE IT regardless of my next statement) hasn't had like full storage compacity since I bought it in 2012... I bought my first Android - HTC S1. LOVE the phone however daily curse the dummies who SAID HEY let's not let our phone have expandable memory - wouldn't that be amazing (Amazing said no one ever...) I MEAN other than lack of memory the phone is AMAZING and to me has yet to be truly outdated (the screen hasn't cracked regardless of surving my Nannying Days & toddler adventures, even a hOusefire couldn't kill it - mind oyu it wasn't in the room as the fire... so) 
Besides a few tiny nicks in the hardware/case, and weird faded paint thing (WHICH I blame on the constant casing I used to put it under...) and a year now being free of a CASE & screen protector.... IT's ALIVE. And the camera specs are still fantastic imo as are the screen & even the computer part of the phone... Speakers suck though & So does phone calls... ANYWAY 

BACK to my camera - since I got it pretty much I have never been able to transfer more than two pictures through "WIFI" to my phone because obviously Digital Camera photos are like freaking van gouhs FILE SIZE wise and it's like trying to fit a Van Gough into the Mona Lisa Frame (which I've heard is small) 

ANYWAY I have thousands of pictures of everything & anything! In Highschool alone between like grades 10-12 (Which I took twice due to not having enough credits to graduate) I took like 15,000 pictures! I take artsy pictures, took lots of myself (been doing makeup as a stress reliever thing for years tbh just not the whole BLOOD/GORE/HORROR aspect - back in the day it was like today I'm going to turn myself into a GEISHA using my most Geisha like clothes, creating crazy buns, and USING BABY POWDER for my white face base. 

SO YEAH WOW I covered a lot here. THANKS for listening or reading or really just thank yuo to this BLOG & WRITING space... I really needed to just RAMBLE tonight! 

Cheers & until next time You bloggy bloggers you (or you creepy creepers) or my friends whom I have no clue got to my blog! 

HAVE A WONDERFUL Night, Morning, Day, and time wherever you are and whatever you are doing 
~Chelsea 

Random Ramblings about how I'm over flowing with Scottish Pride

You know what I should be doing instead of you know deciding to go all Hard core whilst celebrating ROBERT BURNS day because you know Scottish Pride?
1. Creating a comprehensive Social Media strategy plan (That's actually a legit responsibility I have at the moment that will probably have to be done sometime in the next month/month and a half) [SIDE note I'm probably going to take this plan and if everything works out work on it further and  present it to the Board during the AGM and make a case to start a Social media position on the board.]
2. Script work because I think that's something I just straight up love and also currently kind of sort of have to do, mind you I have till April.
3.  or working on my life which would be February Calendar/Goal setting, working on my own social media, and life planning (WHICH I have a lot of choices to make atm to be honest)

YOU KNOW WHAT I am doing though I'm just searching up the hundreds of Robert Burns/ Scottish Related recipes that I COULD sort of probably never ever have time to make TODAY, but hey I'm planning ahead for what I CAN MAKE next year right? EACH year make something different.

However I can more or less just MASH several recipes together because food/basic ingredients are more or less the same. Like I can make one EPIC vegetable MASH thing combining Tatties/neeps (Which are apparently essential to a Burns Supper) and I've found a vegetarian Haggis. BOOM then just have to either pick a Soup or combine everything and MAKE AN EPIC SOUP, and then make some Scottish Bannock, and then yeah pick 1-3 dessert theme recipes and create the EASIEST thing in the world which is OATCAKES (literally I made these several times last year albeit slightly different each time dependent on the reason as to why I had to make it)

Basically today will be all about vegetable prep like peeling/chopping/dicing/cubing/grating  & then SAUTEING/frying/Mashing  (because a vast majority of the things are catered around several main vegetables being prepared 4 different basic ways & then added to the various dish.)  Boom the veggies then are basically either ROASTED/FRIED/or boiled. BOOM there we have the MAIN ROBERT BURNS veggie Dishes.

the rest are pretty much Baking convection (bread/cookie etc) or stove top such as Boiling/steaming whatever I do to the pudding, then basically candy making which is letting some stuff in a PAN get SUPER freaking HOT and pouring it into respective dishes without either burning myself, burning/ruining the pan, or over heating the stuff.

SO YEAH that's my day.
Sometimes my ADHD gets the best of me. I make plans to make plans to create schedules to create to do lists to try to follow through & MY BRAIN IS JUST LIKE YEAH NO FORGET that JUNK let's spend hours on END doing ONE THING but DOING IT HARDCORE.

So Scottish PRIDE ADHD mode made me go HARDCORE for RECIPES that I may or may never ever actually make. ANd this is has been RANDOM RAMBLINGS with chelsea folks

Life Stories & how they continue on even after you die

I've sort of come to this conclusion several times over now in the past several months... You know sometimes your life story simply ends with no rhyme or reason - other times you foretell the ending before it happens. You've read the story before. It's not unexpected but it's not without bitterness. However the true comfort is that just because your life story has ended doesn't mean it's truly over. It will remain within the libraries that your loved ones carry with them. A collection of moments, experiences and encounters. So long as there are people here who still remember you and pass your story along, it never truly dies. It still exists, it's perhaps ended but people will still read it and remember it.

 — feeling incomplete.

Loss of people especially people you never expect to lose and secondly you never realize how much they meant to you upon their passing. It's like a puzzle and no matter what you do you'll never have the pieces. They are gone - and I will will likely never get them back. Loss brings so many emotions regret mostly - of missed chances and opportunities and of questions that will likely never get answers. However you sit there with your incomplete puzzle and you treasure the pieces you do have - the picture it does create albeit not fully.

Grief is such a tricky thing to try to explain let alone to begin to understand. With it comes so many things. It's like this unwanted Pandora box that you didn't realize would impact your life to such an extent. I will probably dig up my early posts about loss of loved ones that I wrote on the other two occasions that I came face to face with death earlier this year

I wish more than anything I could bring the people back I lost however I cannot do this - no one can. We must try to move forward as best we can even if we don't even know how that is. We have to try to find the lessons that each day bring us be it ones we never wanted to learn or those we so patiently spent mastering.

Life or at least ourselves are very much like magnets without the positives and the negatives we cannot live in one piece. We need a little bit of both in order to grow. We have the power within ourselves to attract things and dispel them at our own choosing.

So right now though it seems impossible I'm going to accept that today was another unexpectedly tragic day but there is something here to learn from - to grow from

You know sometimes your life story simply ends with no rhyme or reason - other times you foretell the ending before it happens. You've read the story before. It's not unexpected but it's not without bitterness. However the true comfort is that just because your life story has ended doesn't mean it's truly over. It will remain within the libraries that your loved ones carry with them. A collection of moments, experiences and encounters. So long as there are people here who still remember you and pass your story along, it never truly dies. It still exists, it's perhaps ended but people will still read it and remember it.

Rantings on Why Household Inventories are Important

Chelsea's rantings on why Household Inventories are important 

So they say that your Attitude and how you spend today could be a reflection of how you spend the next year. In that case Blogging and Household inventory will be things I DO all the time. Something I have wanted to do post fire. Since you know a Household inventory would have been realllly helpful (not just a list but with photos but HEY an ACCURATE list at least) and solved lots of problems. However I wasn't smart and didn't think my little trinkets of life weren't worth recording PRE fire. In my head I was placing Household inventory with Wills. Yeah totally not the same (well very basic principal) HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY is RECORDING in thorough detail (With pictures if you can) a FULL LIST of everything in your WHOLE HOUSE.

SOUNDS tedious, sounds boring, but hey be pro active like me and make it a Household cleaning, sorting & donating project on top of tedious task of taking stock of your entire life.

Trust me when you go through an unexpected event like a fire or a flood (or whatever) and your sitting in a room that's a disaster zone and your trying to identify what is now a smoldering pile of things or your going through lists (you get back lots of lists & paperwork when dealing with Restoration/Insurance/household disaster) and You see ITEM Blank is missing from the official list even though you swear on your grave it was last in the contamination zone or you clearly remember the restoration team packing it away. Yet it somehow went missing from here to there and back and is considered non existent because it wasn't on a LIST and you can't prove where it truly last was physically seen...

Yeah When you're sitting doing that you will THANK YOURSELF or hate yourself all depending on whether you MADE THE GENIUS IDEA to MAKE A HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY of EVERYTHING. JUST ALL the things. NO JOKE because when you had 4 clorox Wipe packages but two were small and 2 were jumbo but only the 2 jumbos made it on the "LIST" You might be pretty irritated that you swore there were 4 cans of wipes but WHY OH why did you not have pictures. (this is a slight exagaration but legit point because when you're dealing with sudden Household emergency and things like Official list of contents is pretty essential because it's a list of What will and will not be monetarily replaced and that my friends is really one area where frankly if you are able to be fully compensated don't take NO for an answer SAY NO BUDDY no see here's my LIST and look I even included Photos & videos and things like date purchased/receipt /warranty location, exact quantity, or at the very least an ESTIMATE of what you paid on your nice official LIST.

You take that household inventory and YOU SHOVE it in all the faces and you BE PROUD of yourself. ALSO too this is also the perfect time to also DOUBLE tasks and prepare your will as well. Figure out if you want things to get appraised or if certain people pop out at you who mat want it if the other unthinkable thing happens...

Chelsea's Year of Change and her strange 2014 reflective ramblings

Chelsea's Reflective ramblings from 2014

AND HOW a HOUSE FIRE created CHANGE 

So 2014 for the most part was just not my year. I suffered the tragic loss of 3 people in my life (Will probably post more about the in a different post) the 3rd person passed away yesterday New Years Eve 2014. She was my cousin, she died of cancer and she left behind 3 children & her loving husband and family. The 2nd person to pass away was a man I visited every day in hospital for a month & visited him several times in Hospice including the eve before he passed, he too died of cancer. The first person I lost was my friend Austin. He was only 20 and he passed away in a  car crash when he was heading to work early one morning in May during a freak snow storm.

The other incredibly frusterating thing that happened was I had a "Small" House fire. Frankly the fire was the easiest part. One evening after a bubble bath - a candle I thought was blown out was stored in a metal cupboard where it reignited and set the cupboard on fire (Which naturally was the fire part) and it scored the wall.

The fire was not scary - not really. When the smoke detector first went off I assumed it was the stove as I had the kettle on for a cup of tea. So I was smart enough to carry around a boiling kettle and quickly came across the bathroom blaze. I quickly tossed the boiling hot water at the flames and jumped into the full tub (luckily I don't drain the tub right away) and was able to put it out fairly quickly.

I remember my parents were freaking out (natural of course) like OMG call 911 - fire - smoke AHHHH. AND  I am like NO ONE CALL 911 I GOT this. And I sort of did (PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU FOLLOW MY COURSE of ACTION. PERIOD! This was a small, very, small, contained fire that was mere inches from a vast water supply. Frankly if those were not the circumstances I'm sure it would've been different...

So not only did I go face to face with the wall of flames but I chased the smoke out my house (again CALL 911 air cleaning is part of the whole fire fighting tool that I stubbornly recjected.) I also assisted with removing the wreckage of the once was metal cabinet from the wall. This thing literally would break off (in still smoldering) pieces as  I pried/unscrewed/ yanked and tugged it off the wall and deposited it outside on my porch where there are still scorch marks from it.

 I also was totally determined that with total will power I COULD MAGICALLY clean the scorched/ash covered and smoke damaged bathroom. SO away I went playing a literal cinderella scrubbing and wiping and moping and just spraying and just doing pointless things...
ASH cleaning 101 kids NO WATER/No liquids...

So I spent 15 hours roughly in that little bathroom (Smallest room in house) trying to undo the massive mistake I had made. I literally spent so many hours in that stupid bathroom my skin was permanent shade of gray (2 baths, 1 total body scrub shower, one rinse shower...) My nails were stained black for a week and grossly I was coughing up black ash for awhile afterwards (AGAIN DO NOT DO WHAT I DID...)

Eventually when it came to me trying to clean the smoke stains from the ceiling I admitted my defeat in a fit of tears and allowed my mom to call insurance.

WHICH IS where the real hellish nightmare began. You know in school they always teach you about Fire precaution, fire safety plans, what to do if you catch on fire, how to put on stove fires, evacuation plans, you know how this BEFORE FIRE and During Fire but they fail to teach you about the practicality of POST FIRE 101 How to deal and what to do.
I was never taught about how to make a total/thorough Home inventory (Even pointless not so valueable crap) because oddly enough a bathroom is sort of one of those places where you put a huge assortment of things. It's the room of so many things with so many purposes. First aid, personal care items like soap/shampoo/brushes & ORAL care stuff like mouth wash/retainers/dental floss, then you have cleaning supplies, first aid kits, medications, and Beauty things like MAKEUP (including your entire collection of nail polish & EXPENSIVE perfume, stuff like body lotions. And then you have decor stuff & permanent fixtures (like towel racks.)
A persons bathroom is like a giant Narnia like vortex where every inch is consumed with a VARIETY of things.

Now you're suddenly juggling phone calls from Insurance, inspectors, restoration, restoration crew. And suddenly a rag tag crew have arrived with boxes and you have to hear them tossing/throwing or grimace as they sort out, pack up, toss out, and haul away your stuff. AND YOUR MIND is still reeling going WOAH my house still smells of smoke. OMG wait where did my beloved OPI James Bond Sand collection bottle of Pussy galore go. Where was my first childhood tooth kept (in my bathroom or the bedroom) and your stuck trying to make an inventory of your things from memory, guessing by deduction or from the pictures you took of the Kitchen posing as your new bathroom area...

See with restoration part comes confusion - misplaced items that are now neither here nor there, and were never added to official lists yet from your own inventory & Photos & even video proof you can 100% say that yes that item was in that bathroom, no the item that was in my makeup dresser was in no way fire damaged warranting decimating due to contamination & I SWear UP AND DOWN It's no where else in my house, and the last time I saw it was in that dang bathroom pre fire...

Also without an Official Inventory with no videos/photos of proof of existence nor receipt type info, date purchased, and value worth there comes DISPUTE and red tape... Mostly red tape and a bit of dispute and crap like Depreciation of value...

Like The $100 bottle of missing Juicy Couture is listed as questionable even though I had pictures of the soot covered bottle because the restoration company somehow lost it or didn't properly document all of our contents. Thus it cannot be replaced. My mom's cacti that sat on the window sill below her handmade as a child irreplaceable Window clings were also listed as non existent... Though I actually remember listening to the workers smash the hand painted cactus pots into boxes as they cleared out the bathroom.. Kinda hard to forget the sound of breaking plant pots...

Another big issue was our toilet not just the fact my Main living floor upstairs went without FOR THREE MONTHS (yes it took that long to go from a smoke ruined room, to a gutted out shell, to back to full restored status with working plumbing (literally toilet/bathtub is last things to be done...) Our toilet had literally been replaced within a 1 year period of the fire... We had receipts/plumber too, and pictures of make and model. It was a specialty higher up model for my dad to easily use... NOW did we get our toilet restored with same make & model - NO we got the really tiny in comparison apparently crap model downgrade (literally has flooded & clogged to the point where we've called a PLUMBER twice & had 2 minor floods SINCE JULY) And yet we're told well Ma'am sorry we were only designated a certain amount to spend on the toilet... Budget...cough.red.tape.cough... UM what about the contents insurance? "that doesn't always cover permanent plumbing fixtures..." OH cool so the like you know several hundred we invested in that toilet were basically just for short term kicks and you you gave us the 200 dollar Sale item? SWEET.

So this my friends is where I am putting into effect one small portion of  my over all plan of what I am calling Chelsea's YEAR of CHANGE. MAKE a freaking DETAILED & thorough PERSONAL HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY with word documents/photos/videos/and including info like date purchased/where/receipt/warranty.)  
SO next time the horribly unexpected and nightmarish situations should EVER occur (or you know something like a flood or w.e) and you have no choice but deal with INSURANCE/REstoration you can have proof and lists to back everything you claim up!!!!

SO KIDS lesson of the sad story that was Chelsea's 2014 Never ending nightmare - Don't use candles in the bathroom or SNUFF them out and stare for a few minutes... OR follow me on my journey of creating a PERSONAL HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY  WHICH IS just one tiny part of CHELSEA'S YEAR OF CHANGE!