It's Been a Long Time!

And that's an understatement.  It's been a VERY long time since I updated this blog.

So I thought I would remind you all where to look now.

I have another blog here: https://kitasparkles.wordpress.com
BUT! All my newest stuff, including exclusive content and stories, is found here:
https://www.patreon.com/kitasparkles


Happy catching up to all! 

Video for you

One of my favorite Christmas videos ever.  I think you'll see why. 

Bill's New Frock

I remember this kids book being passed off as though it was some sort of TG indoctrination, but I just don't see that at all watching the dramatization of it here. I found this while searching for a film short I saw several years ago that I believe was based on the same thing, only that version was far different, a a lot darker than this. I'll keep looking for that one, but until then you may enjoy this presentation of "Bill's New Frock". (Make sure you have some time - with all three parts it is about 30 minutes.)

 Sorry that embedding is disabled! Here are the links:

Part 1: http://youtu.be/cA7_Qap_M9U

Part 2: http://youtu.be/1Hka-sVfQ-4

Part 3: http://youtu.be/eKyUYWBJHZw

I can think of a WAYYYY better ending, but y'all can prolly guess it. :: Giggle ::

Gymnastics Game

In the spirit of the Olympics, and the realization that now that they are over, we've got no gymnastics to watch anymore..... here is a fun little game I happened to find! :-) It should load up right in the blog page for you! Have fun!

Play more games on FunnyGames!

Hello Kitty Living!

Remember my post about the San Diego Chargers football player who drives a little Hello Kitty car? It's here if you've forgotten: http://girlsparkle.blogspot.com/2011/10/now-thats-smart-car.html

Well, this defies even that. Here we have a Hello Kitty HOUSE! It's in Shanghai.

And the interior has as much a Hello Kitty theme as the exterior:

From this picture, it appears there are two:

So, like I said - this is in Shanghai (do I gots any Shanghai readers out there??  Maybe I do now...). I dunno if I'll ever get there, but I hear there is now one being built in Connecticut by some really rich person. Has Hello Kitty appliances and everything!

"Praying Away The Gay...."

Initially, I was just in horror and shock at what I heard in this video I happened to find this morning. I wasn't looking for it, I was looking at something else and this one came up on the preview sidebar ... you know how that is, when you see another video you want to watch and then another, and suddenly you've been watching random videos for an hour and can't remember how you ended up on Youtube in the first place? Anyway it was posted over a year ago, so I guess this is old news. Interesting I noticed the news guy appears to be that one who recently caused a stir by saying he is gay. I just kinda thought, "....and?"

It took awhile to digest it all and pull a few points together I want to make. I'd like to say them before posting the video, so it shows below.

1. Most people know I think gay sex is wrong. I also think any sex outside of marriage is wrong. I also think divorce, getting drunk, telling lies, and a lot of other things are wrong. None are any worse than any other. I don't think I am any better than a person who engages in homosexual behavior, because sometimes I lose my temper, and that's wrong too.

2. Some people ask me, if I think homosexual acts are wrong, how can I dress up like a little girl (or, in some cases, a baby)? I wear diapers, yet I have the nerve to say homosexual acts are wrong?  Well, frankly ... yes. Yes, I do. That's because I live by the New Testament of the Bible, and in Romans it pretty clearly marks homosexual acts as being sinful. That said, I'm pretty sure God is more interested in bigger things than whether I wear pants or a dress, or briefs, boxers, panties, or diapers!

3. This is where the video really comes in. Feminine does NOT mean gay! I am feminine - I love to have long hair, put it in pigtails, wear ribbons, lace, the color purple, dresses, skirts, paint my nails, and play with dollies. At the same time, I can utterly assure you that I am straight. I am a sexual being as well as being a "Little Girl", and the sexual part of me is male and prefers women. Anybody who has been at a few LG Camps with me has seen that I had every opportunity with more than one suitor to see if I was homosexual or not.  :: Giggle ::   I'm not.

4. I think these "pray away the gay" campaigns are ridiculous. They make people think that if they pray hard enough, if they wait upon the Lord, they will be "healed". I don't think so. You might have to struggle with that all your life. It's horrible, I agree. But I believe a person can possibly be born gay, just as I believe I was born straight, and maybe that can't be changed. It doesn't make it right to go out and have gay sex. I told you - I am straight, but you know - I haven't fulfilled the requirements for heterosexual sex either - so I have not had it. I'm a virgin.

5. I think the treatment the two men seen in the video experienced should be criminal. I do believe the doctors involved were TRYING to help. But it should have been obvious that irreparable harm was being done to the little boy. You know, he ...or she ... looked very happy in the picture wearing a pink dress. His mother said the spanking he got once from his father would be abuse today..... well guess what, lady? It was abuse THEN, TOO!

6. If you are gay, that doesn't mean we can't be friends. I don't screen my friends by their sexual preferences. I won't attempt to save you nor will I argue or badger you about your lifestyle. If you ASK me, I'll tell you what I think. And I might write what I think on things that belong to me, like this blog.

Now, the video:

Part 1:

Part 2

Part 3

School Complains About Cute Hair

It seems a bit strange to me that this "strict dress code" they claim to have at this school allows those fancy shoes, short dress, leopard skin print accents ..... and they complain about the cute hair style??

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/little-girls-big-bow-banned-4-old-hairstyle-220000255.html

The style inspired me. Now I wanna do that. Pictures to follow when I do something similar in my hair!

Marcella wouldn't have had this picture in the Yearbook anyway, since the picture day was rescheduled (THAT had to tick off a lot of parents!)    So ..... anyone know where I can get shoes like that in my size? 

More Alexa Narvaez

Back around Christmastime, I mentioned a cute commercial with a little girl, Alexa Narvaez, singing along with her Daddy. I just saw them again.  This time they were in the auditions on America's Got Talent. I didn't know they could do that since they had already done a commercial, which I assume makes on a professional, but apparently they can.

I didn't think Alexa sang as well in the audition as she did on the commercial, but they got passed through to the next round.  Considering the cute 4 year old that got all the way to the semi-finals a few years ago on pretty much cuteness alone, Alexa could go pretty far. 


You can see my previous post about her here: http://girlsparkle.blogspot.com/2011/12/advent-calendar-day-7.html

More decorated diapers!

Someone bought the last pack - I hope they like them!  :-)

Ok, so I went all out this time and I have three different types from which to choose. Disney Princesses, Hello Kitty, and My Little Pony!

And it is super nice cause if someone buys them they help me out, and get something special in return! Thank you muchly!  Here's the link for my sellers page:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/lil_vickie/m.html?item=140731406531&sspagename=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649&_trksid=p4340.l2562

Kita needs your help!

As some of you may know, I have run into severe financial problems.  I am trying to find ways to fund things like.... bills. And the IRS.  You know... unimportant stuff like that...

That being the case, it would help me out if you would take a look at my Ebay auction on some diapers I decorated myself.  Should they sell, I'll put up another auction immediately. I also have Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Hello Kitty choices available.  If you'd like one of these alternate choices, let me know in an email and I will post an auction with that choice for you.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140723756921#ht_500wt_949

Hmm ... here's a model I could like....

I've never been one to know anything about super-models, not even their names. Before a couple days ago, the only one I could have named is Cindy Crawford. No I know another - Mila Kunis. (Although tomorrow I might be saying ... "What was her name again? Mylar or something...." :: Giggle :: )

Anyway I just happened to come upon her pictures a few days ago while searching something completely unrelated. I don't even remember what it was now. Apparently she did a photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar, and from what I can see there are several outfits that I, as a Little Girl, would just LOVE to have. Maybe different shoes though.

Okay - honestly? THOSE shoes are kinda cool! But I love the short dress and the balloons are a great youthful touch.

With the bubble gum and that cute dress, she could be 10. Except for, as I said, the shoes.

That dress with a sash and a bit of a fuller skirt for me, please!

Okay - it's an 80s prom dress, yes. But nix that plunging neckline on that thing and it'd be super-cute!

That is my favorite shot of the entire batch, and my favorite outfit. It was the one that caught my eye to begin with. Couldn't have anything to do with the color and the way the light hits it, could it....? :: Giggle :: 

Christmas Eve!

A bit of trivia ... what movie is this from? (No cheating!!)


"Would it please the court if I gave you a christmas card? I probably won't see you again unless I get arrested, which is very unlikely, since it's christmas eve and I'm going to bed uncharacteristically early."

Advent Calendar, Day 9 ... and my Birthday!!

Today is my birthday. :-) I am 6 ... with experience. It was 12 years ago today (ignore the math - I'm only 6 and can't do it anyway) that my LG spirit burst on the scene, with much enthusiasm. My life has not been the same since, and I wouldn't want it to be. Not that life was so BAD before, but there were lots of pieces of the puzzle that were missing. Like, when I was little, why were almost all my friends girls? Why did I always like such "flamboyant" clothing? Why was most of my playing so much different from the other boys? Why did I like dollhouses so much?


Today I can decorate my house however I want - I have dolls and a dollhouse, and paintings of little girls all over my walls. When people ask, I shrug and tell them I am eccentric. If they don't like it, too bad - they aren't the one living the life. That's because I know who I am and I am comfortable with it ... before I discovered what LG is, I didn't know and I wasn't comfortable. After, I understood and a lot of the events of the past made sense in this new light.


I am a Christian and I had to decide if this was wrong. People tend to mix a bunch of lifestyles together which have no business being so. I believe homosexual sex is wrong because the Bible says it is, in Romans 1. (I'm not interested in a debate about this ... I've already heard all the arguments one who disagrees with me has, and likely they have heard all the arguments I have, and frankly I have no need of making more enemies than I already have.) I had to look to see if there was anything in the New Testament about transgender. I couldn't find anything except one word ... "effeminate". I had to wonder if God really cared whether I sometimes want to live as a little girl - view the world with that kind of innocence and love, be full of wonder and excitement? Is it wrong to wear a dress?


A study of the word gave me two ideas. One is that effeminate refers to a boy lover - a sexual act. The other is that the word literally means "soft". I am not soft. I may be a little girl, but I'm tough as nails when it comes right down to it. I stand up for what is right, and I believe that was the meaning behind the term - one who doesn't live up to responsibility.


Someone said today that I am like a boomerang. I get thrown but I keep coming back around to where I was before. It was funny because in the past I had a friend who referred to my male personae as having an incredible amount of perseverance ... no matter how many times I get knocked off a cliff I keep climbing back up it. I found it interesting that this quality is seen by friends to both sides of my personality. However, I think it leaves out one thing.


I don't return exactly where I was before. I climb higher up the cliff. I fall further ahead than I was before. I'm stronger than before and I know the way back because, "This is not a place I have not been before." My personality is in constant evolution. Plus, any mistakes I made before, I know not to make again.


I'd like to share a few lighthearted, and some deeper, things I have learned over the years:


1. People can be friends, despite extreme differences in personal opinions and backgrounds.


2. You can have a "twin" who looks nothing at all like you.


3. It DOES matter if you are color blind. Get a friend to help you match your tights, shoes, accessories, and dress.


4. Self-pity is a bottomless pit, and it feeds on itself ... the more you pity yourself, the worse you will feel, which in turn will make you pity yourself more.


5. Shopping is the ultimate fun experience .... but someone has to pay the bill for it!


6. A person who will allow you to become dependent on them ... even in just small ways and in small doses .... is a very special person.


7. And...... we shouldn't build towers at the Dining Room Table out of crystal wine glasses..... :: Giggle ::




Now - these are deeper things I have learned from being knocked down once or twice. Hopefully they are not just cynical and they might be of help to some people:


1. Most people don't really care what you do with your personal life, but those who do are REAL adamant and loud and closed minded about it. If a good portion of your life is going to depend upon how these people perceive you - and there is nothing you can do about that - be careful how much info about yourself you make available. Always have plausible deniability. In worst case scenarios, cut your losses and simply refuse to answer your critics. Why give them more ammo anyway; what possible good can come of that?


2. Some people are going to act like idiots. Let them. Everyone else can already see it, and if they can't, they soon will. If you've wasted your breath trying to warn people BEFORE they find out for themselves, they will resent you for it. Just make sure you're not in the way when the fall comes.


3. Everyone thinks they know what is best, but when it comes to volunteering to lead .... very few will. Instead, they will let someone else lead the way, and then complain about the way that person is leading. After all, that's more fun. IF you simply bite your tongue and keep leading, they'll still follow. You don't need to nip at anybody's heels to make them go. And if some don't .... you're probably better off.

Advent Calendar, Day 8

Now, I know you've all been wondering what to get me for Christmas (Or my birthday ... it's on the 19th you know)!  :: Giggle ::  So here's a few ideas.  Just email me and I'll tell you where to send the gifts!

Ooooooor.......... maybe you'll want to ask your Mommy or Daddy for them yourself...

That's called KidKraft Majestic Mansion. Isn't that a great dollhouse?? And it's even available on Diapers.com : http://www.diapers.com/p/kidkraft-majestic-mansion-dollhouse-73535?site=CI&srccode=cii_5784816&cpncode=26-66146798-2&utm_source=cse&utm_medium=cpc_D&utm_term=KS-093&utm_campaign=pricegrabber

Course it is also available at Walmart for $100 less.....  but hey - think of the convenience!  Buy your diapers, then just click over and buy the Christmas present for Kita Sparkles!  Right?  :: Giggle ::

And then I saw this on a "must have toys" list:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/893692522-lite-sprites-wand-prisma-and-pod/;_ylt=AhVmKsMgduradLbPjGUKo7lpWr8F

Seems like a cute idea.

Advent Calendar, Day 7

Here's a merry little commercial with a cute little girl singing Feliz Navidad with her Daddy.



AND ... apparently she is quite famous. Here is Alexa Narvaez's official website: http://alexanarvaez.net/

Advent Calendar, Day 6

Here is another Christmas Story for you!!
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Don shuffled his feet boredly as he stood in the long line of children. His little sister was chattering away endlessly about something or other, but he wasn't listening. He was instead brooding over getting stuck taking her to see Santa while his mother shopped. He had only come along to the mall today thinking he would get to go to the arcade; he didn't know he was going to get saddled with his little sister.

 

"Don! DON!" Samantha, his little sister, was tugging on his arm.

 

"WHAT?" He looked down, and realized they had finally reached the front of the line. "Oh. . ." He let go of her hand and she rushed to get into Santa's lap. 

 

"Aww - she's so cute," a female voice near him said. 

 

"Huh?" Don looked into the face of a very pretty girl, dressed in an Elf costume. He felt his entire 15 year old body go tingly as he stared into her eyes. She looked about his age, maybe slightly younger, but he knew that couldn't be because you had to be at least 16 to work at the mall. Maybe this whole day wasn't a TOTAL loss after all. He prepared himself to flirt with the girl.

 

"And YOU are a good boy to bring her to see Santa, Donnie," the girl went on. Don felt his ears burn with shame - she thought of him as one of these CHILDREN! She even called him "Donnie" - he made sure NOBODY - even his mother - called him that  ever since he was 8!

 

"Now see here. . .!" he started, then stopped himself. He was trying to be angry, but she was so pretty it was taking the anger right out of him, it seemed. And her outfit, he looked her over in it, then blushed as an uninvited thought entered his mind - he wondered how he would look in it.

 

Don didn't know why he had thoughts like that. Ever since he could remember they were daily occurrences. When he was six and had seen girls going to a party, he wanted to wear their party dresses. When he was eight on Halloween he was a cowboy, but what he really wanted was the cowgirl dress. When he was in a school play at 11, he had wished he had the part of one of the girls in his class, since she wore a ballet tutu for her part. And even this year when he had seen the dress she had picked out for Samantha's Christmas Dress - OH! He had been so jealous of Samantha then. 

 

Now, here he was in front of a pretty girl in a somewhat revealing outfit, and all he could think about was what it would look like on him?? These thoughts often made Don feel guilty, and afraid that maybe he was gay. He didn't like boys, though, he liked girls. 

 

"Yes - a VERY good boy, Donnie," the girl said. "I bet you're right at the top of Santa's  'nice list'. Not like a lot of other little boys – they end up on the 'naughty' list so often. Usually around Christmas time they remember and are good enough at the end to squeeze in on the bottom of the 'nice list', though."

 

Don somehow kept himself from rolling his eyes. This conversation was getting ridiculous. "It's DON," he corrected her. "And I'm NOT a little boy. I'm going to be 16. . ." It wasn't a total lie. He had another ten months to go, but he was GOING to be sixteen. He trailed off as her green eyes seemed to probe deep into his mind.

 

"Not a little boy, Donnie? No - I guess you're not. . ." she said, a small smile coming to her lips. "But still on Santa's nice list. And I bet I know what you want!" she finished in a sing song voice.

 

Normally Don would have taken this as an invitation to ask her out, but he had had about enough of this batty chick. He looked to see if Samantha was done yet.

 

"Oh, Don. When did you stop believing in Santa?" the girl asked. "Was it when you were seven?" Don looked at her and his mouth dropped open. She couldn't know about that! No one did! "When you were seven Don - Santa couldn't give you what you asked for. It was a mistake - the letter never got to the right department. You see, Santa brings toys and dollies and teddy bears to all the good little boys and girls, but he doesn't do what you asked."

 

Don turned his back on the girl, disbelieving what he was hearing. She had just made a lucky guess, that was all. He knew for a long time that Santa was just a fairy tale! He reached out and grabbed Sam's hand as she was coming back, wanting to make a fast getaway.

 

"Don! Don! Did you hear? Santa said we've BOTH been really good this year, and we're both gonna get what we wanted. And he said I can have a sister!" Don wasn't listening, he was making his way to the exit. He turned for one last look at the nutty girl, and found she was right behind him.

 

"Didn't you know, Don?" she asked. "Santa brings TOYS. It's Santa's ELVES that grant WISHES." She touched his arm, and that was the last thing he remembered as he thought he was passing out.

 

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Santa smiled as he looked around the toy factory. Everything was running smoothly it seemed. He chuckled as the newest little elf ran about, checking everything out herself. She was such a cute little girl - and she had the cutest name too - "Christmas DAWN".

Merry Christmas, and may all your dreams come true. - Sparkles

Advent Calendar, Day 5

Today, a story of love and civil rights that I learned in Charleston. Don't get bored ... there are a lot of twists in this tale.

Our subject was born - most likely in 1922 in Sussex in England. He later in life claimed 1937. This is not as much a leap as the other changes that took place in Gordon Langley's life.

Understand that much of Gordon's life is shrouded in mystery, purposefully by some in Charleston, for reasons you will soon learn. Thus, historians differ on certain details. The main points, however, are fairly agreed upon and we will attempt for the most part to stick to those.

Gordon came to North America at the age of 16. When he came to America, he met and charmed several older women. One of these was Isabel Whitney (of the Whitney Museum Whitneys), and he was a major beneficiary of her will when she died in 1962.

Now with quite a sum of money, Gordon came to Charleston and settled in an area where mostly gay men were known to live. This did not cause a stir among the Charleston Elite.  He was  writer by this time and was quite eccentric, trying to rent a drinking club for a debutante ball .... for two of his dogs.

Gordon eventually fell in love with a mechanic named John Paul Simmons. John Paul, however, was not gay. Oh, he TRIED to be,  but it just wasn't  happening.  So Gordon began to dress in drag for him. Eventually, Gordon disappeared - taking a trip to Johns Hopkins University Hospital it seems for a somewhat new surgical procedure. When Gordon resurfaced in Charleston, he ... or rather SHE ... was now Dawn.

Dawn hired John Paul Simmons as her butler, because they could not get married. And do you know WHY they could not get married?  It had nothing to do with Dawn having once been a man.  You see, until 1967 it was illegal for a white person to marry a black person, and John Paul Simmons was black.

They joined the fight for civil rights, and in 1967 a famous case in Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled that these laws were unconstitutional. (For the record,  South Carolina kept the law in the books until 1998,  but they could not apply it because of the Federal Law.) In 1968, Dawn Langley became Dawn Langley Simmons.

Now - the Charleston Elite were ok with eccentric Mr. Gordon Langley being gay and trying to have debutante balls for his dogs.  They were ok when he was seen around town dressed as a woman (having experience in this, I can tell you no one has a problem with it now either!) They were even ok when he resurfaced as a she. BUT, when Dawn married a black man, THAT'S when Charleston went ballistic.  The wedding announcement was in print barely large enough to read, and found in the obituary section of the newspaper.

So - the first interracial marriage in South Carolina was between a black man who was a mechanic-turned- butler, and a rich white woman who used to be a poor white man.

And that is one of the many reasons Charleston is so interesting.

Special thanks for the history from historian and Tour Guide (Wicked Charleston Tour) Mark R. Jones. Some extra research was from: http://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/dixie-orlando/ and from http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar14.htm