Art updates

Hello!
My, it has been a while since I updated this old thing!
I'd like to show you my finished nightdress, but the truth of the matter is that it isn't finished!
So i'll just dump some art stuff here :)


This is something I have been working on for ages; because I keep dropping it and then going back and trying to finish it! It's not finished yet, but this is a sped up video of some of the work I did to it on my Livestream just over a week or so ago!

This is Roxy and Calliope, from the webcomic Homestuck.

Drawn in the same kind of style that Calliope uses in the comic, and done quite quickly & very rough!

Amy  Pond, from the episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"

That's about it from me as far as good art goes, you can check out my stuff on tumblr if you're interested!
Squirrel's Art (aerocave-art)

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly

Today I finally got around to picking some Lavender, which I have been planning on doing for at least a month, because all of our Lavender bushes are in flower!

I separated them into four bunches and have hung them up on a coat-hanger in my room, so for the next week or so, everything will smell like Lavender and nothing will hurt!

I have been browsing a whole lot of dressmaking blogs lately, and I found what looks like a delicious recipe for 'Lemon Lavender Tea Cookies' over at The Cottage Home, and plan on making it with the Lavender I picked today!

 I have also been busy sewing a nightdress that I designed, though currently I have hit a wall with my motivation for basically everything, so haven't made much progress on it. I was sick with an URTI and bronchitis for about 3 weeks, and am only just getting over it, being on my fourth course of antibiotics, so we'll see how that goes! My University studies are going well, though as I said, my motivation has been lost and I am not sure when I shall find it again, though I really hope it will be soon.

I'll post again really soon, with some information on my nightdress project! I am so proud of it, it is the first time I have sewn something entirely myself, with only guidance and not help from my mother. So proud.

I hope you are all having a cozy winter, and that none of you lose your motivation to do things~

What happened over Summer

Hello!
I decided to let this blog go, to not update it ever again (albeit half-heartedly, obviously). So, clearly, I am back!
A lot happened over my Summer holidays.
Mainly, I went to Sydney and Melbourne and got to see the AMAZING Harry Potter Exhibition!
I decided to read 50 books this year, got a new computer, started driving again and became a trainee figure skating coach.
The plan was to eventually become a fully accredited coach, but I wont have time to do that AND pass my Nursing degree. So I chose Nursing!

The HP Exhibition was absolutely fab. It was a truly wonderful experience, being up close to the props and costumes from the films. My favourite parts were the Dementor, The Bloody Baron's costume and the Great Hall set up. Hagrid's hut and the interactive sections were really good too. None of it was bad. Even the one little broken mandrake with the sign that read "I'm taking a nap!" was brilliant.

The Ford Anglia! This was the only thing I could take a photo of, as it was in the Foyer and not the Exhibition, where photography was NOT ALLOWED else be ATTACKED BY NARGLES.

Apart from that, we did the usual tourist-y tours of Sydney and Melbourne, which was fun!

Here are some photos, and I will update again soon, I promise :)

Playing hide and seek with a Dinosaur!

Captain Cook's Cottage

Cathedral

Busy Elf!

That's what i've been! I have a job as a Santa photographer and have been flat out. When i'm not calming down children and taking happy snaps i'm playing Sims3, wrapping presents, fixing my quilt and altering petticoats. So busy. I'm sure nobody really cares whether i update this or not so i don't think i will for a while!
I'm gonna go take a nap. Ex-hausted.

Summer to do list and short update

Quite a few things have happened since i last updated!

I finished all my assignments for Uni and started studying for my exams.

Then on the 11th i had a pretty awesome birthday, with some really awesome people. Milly (pictured centre) and Alex got me Harry Potter lego, which is the first lego i've ever owned! 

Caitlin bought me a TARDIS mug, and i got a lot of tea from Lana.

With my birthday out of the way i studied for my exams and finished them mid this week. Then i got a job! Exciting, i know! Two and a half years of job hunting finally paid off. 

So now, over summer i'm relaxing and fulfilling a list of things to do!

As well as slowly decorating for christmas :)

This is the list as it currently stands;

1. Buy the Deathly Hallows part 2 DVD and have a Potter marathon. A proper one. Without stopping.
2. Take Alanah shopping for her Birthday present.
3. Buy a swimsuit. Preferably a pre-60s style one.
4. Actually wear it to the beach.
5. Sew a christmas dress
6. Sew a pinafore
7. Sew an early Victorian era maid’s apron
8. Read; Snuff - Terry Pratchett
9. Read; Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan
10. Write out christmas cards & decide on presents
11. Sort through the piles of old, year 11 and 12 artwork underneath the sofa. Bin most of it.
12. Paint at least one portrait. In oils.
13. Take a minimum of two bags of clothes to an op shop.
14. Obtain a tweed jacket for Female!Eleven costume.
15. Record another Amy Pond impressions vlog. Properly. Why is the last one on 300 views most of it is just me talking about mum being sick.
16. Finish reading; Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
17. Read; Anne’s House of Dreams - L.M.Montgomery
18. Learn how to light and maintain our paraffin lamps.
19. Visit the Harry Potter exhibition in Sydney and see the wonderful Alexandra and various other people who i haven’t organised what i am doing with yet.
20. Decorate the house for Christmas. Properly. I expect there to be lights and tinsel everywhere. E v e r y w h e r e.
21. Read The Hunger Games, else be murdered when you return to Uni and you-know-who finds you forgot to read them.
22. Read the Chronicles of Narnia in chronological order
23. Clean my room