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I'm back!

2010-12-19T23:21:00.000+10:00

Look now, I know I haven't blogged in a while and I am deeply sorry. (Really, I honestly am.)
But I just completed my third last year of high school (oh yes I did) and with all the other extra curricular stuff I do it was totally and utterly insane (it was apeshit) and I barely had time to breathe (not really, if I stopped breathing I would not be here: I'd be dead and gone) but I am back and I'm sorry for abandoning my blog for almost 6 months (holy crap it's been that long).

Have you heard about the Love 365 project on Chicken Soup for the Dorky Soul? Recently I sent in an entry and the ever so lovely Vanessa placed it on her blog. Oh yes, I was that Sarah chick. Basically, you send in a short email full of things that you heart. If you're like me and love sending letters to strangers you will love this so much. Sooo much. There's not much time left to do it though, so like you should do it. Like, now.

And speaking of things I love...

source

Who is super pumped to see Mr. Depp in his latest film, The Tourist? Me, that's who. I think I'll just have to take some of my Johnny loving friends and find time to see it in amongst all of this Christmas chaos.

How are your silly seasons going?

ps. I promise, I'll be back soon, in less than a week with a proper post with some interesting stuff. I PROMISE.

pps. Bee-tee-dubs, (oh yes I am so uber cool I say it all Juno-like) speaking of the silly season, here are some super cute gift tags. Free. And Printable.

Oh What a Lovely Day

2010-06-01T17:34:00.000+10:00

It's my birthday today!

To celebrate I decided to show some pretty piccies off we heart it.

[sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Thank you to all the lovely people who said and did wonderful things for me today, made it less of such a tiresome school day. And to Brittany for her awesome card!
It made my arvo, it really did.

PS. I know I haven't blogged in forever, sorry! But I really need to take a blogging holiday as I am currently in the dreaded assessment time at school. I'll be back as soon as I can (probably the end of this month).

Bye for now, but not forever!

Eek!

2010-05-04T19:19:00.002+10:00

My favourite band has a new song out - and they have stolen my heart yet once again.

You can download this song for free off Mystery Jets' website.

Has April really ended?

2010-05-02T21:49:00.003+10:00

How time flies.
It sometimes feels like minutes when it is actually hours...

However, where there are ends, there are new beginnings; and hopefully I can make the most of May.
This month I want to learn how to play the ukelele. I have had one for ages, just never got around to learning it. So that's going to add to guitar and piano.

Here are some of my memorablia from the past month.

[sources: circle tags on front of calendar, April calendar, bunny, Sugar, Sugar; notice board calendar]

And here was my soundtrack:

Home - Edwarde Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Black Crow - Angus and Julia Stone
Carmensita - Devendra Banhart
I Don't Want to Party (Party) - Philadelphia Grand Jury
It's All My Fault - Nicholas Roy
Alligator Tears - Tegan & Sara

What spells 'April Twentyten' to you?

Oh so busy.

2010-04-26T18:25:00.002+10:00

Here are some new art journal pages I have been working on...
I think I'm going to make them into a new series, of girls with hats looking down.

This one is not done yet!

I do love creating art! It's wonderful.

And so my dears, yes I growing increasingly busy. High school is taking it's toll. Rowing season has also begun, so it's back to early mornings.

I'm off to practise some guitar.
Hope you have a lovely week.

How to Make a Braidy Anklet

2010-04-16T21:42:00.001+10:00

Now here is something exciting.

Anklets are way cooler than bracelets, everyone knows that. Why they are is just not important.

If you want an anklet just like the cool kids are wearing but want it to be even cooler, you need this. If you make your own and just wear it and when someone asks you: "Schweet anklet. Where'd you get it from?"
You can sound uber amazing and say: "I made it."

An added bonus is that these are really quick and easy to create so it just adds to the awesomeness.

So here it is.

You will need: Some embroidery threads, in 3 different colours. These should be available at your local arts 'n' crafts shop or I imagine they should be buyable online.

Cut each different coloured thread about 1.4 metres long.
Then, cut each of the three threads into half. You should now have six threads ready to work with.

About 3-4 cm from the top, tie all of the threads into a double knot.

Separate your threads into different colours. Take the one strand and with it, tie a knot around all of the other threads. Do this ten times.

Again, separate your threads into colours again, but this time, braid with these strands, until you form a braid that is approximately the same length as the section you created in the previous step. Like pictured.

Now take a strand that is a different colour from the one that you used in step 3, and with it complete step three again. Repeat steps 3-4 until you reach the desired length.

When you have completed the prior instructions, tie a double knot at the end of your anklet and leave only about 4cm of free threads after that, cutting off any excess. Again using a double knot, tie it around the ankle that you made it for.

How easy was it? Now you too can expose your ankles without shame.

However, if you were ambitious, you could use this recipe to create not only anklets, but also lovely bracelets, headbands, shoe laces... anything else you could think of actually.
Let your juices of creativity flow.

Happy Friday!

Looks Like Talent Runs in the Family

2010-04-13T21:03:00.001+10:00

I have said this before, I am not like the average teenage chick.

I love maths, and now I will confess I absolutely adore my younger sister.

Oh yes sure, we do fight occasionally but asides from that she is a wonderful person to be around. One of the teachers at school told me that he saw her skipping around the cross country course on Cross Country Day and that she was singing "We're off to see the wizard...".

To top it off, Jess is a fantastic artiste.
Take a look.

And here are some extremely cute masterpieces J has created on the windows application, Paint.

Awww. Well while I have these warm and fuzzy feelings of pride in my chest, I hope you are having a lovely evening.
Also, I have an exciting DIY coming up on Friday, so there's always that to look foward too if the rest of your week is horrible.

The Times

2010-04-09T19:31:00.000+10:00

I have been having a pretty good time this week, sipping away on endless amounts of glasses of water and watching iCarly every evening. Yes, I watch that show and I like it and I am an epic dork.

[above and below: some old photos of mine which have been polaroidised with the computer app I talked about a while ago]

I have also been very busy on a little project of my own, which I may showcase some other time. (I'm making it for a friend so I don't really want to talk to about it right now... it's meant to be a surprise!)
It should be finished by tomorrow, so that will be great!

I hope you're having a lovely time.

The Most Evil Elephant

2010-04-06T17:21:00.001+10:00

Unlike the usual teenager, I love maths.

Or to be precise, I love my maths class.
Especially the people I sit with.

These girls are the reason I stayed sane when ~~victimised by~~ revising trigonometry.
Hey, it's a simple enough procedure; I just hated having to do it again and again and yet again.
That is also the reason I did not like physics and many other elements of mathematics.
I would be fine with them, it's just so REPITITIVE.

We have our own little gang name too, SAMEE (Sarah, Anna, Meg, Erika and Emily).

During these peroids of time, we will create diversions to entertain ourselves.
Often they will be competitive. And often, they will be quite absurd.

One of these times we had a contest to see who could draw the most evil elephant.

I am proud to announce I was the winner, since Erika is the most amazing artiste.

WARNING: If you are extremely sensitive, steer your eyes away from the below image at once. Young children and the elderly are advised to cover their eyes at once.

As you may be able to see, this drawing conveys the typical conversation between a young elephant and his malicious father.

Young Elephant: I love you daddy! When I grow up, I want to be just like YOU.
Elephant Evil: You stupid child! Real men don't ever say the word LOVE.

This is clearly the most vicious elephant you will ever lay your dear eyes on. Let's just hope you'll never meet him in real life.

And here is the wife of this villain.

Doesn't she look ever so ghastly? That blue eyeshadow with the green eyeliner is enough to make serial killers sob.

Happy Tuesday!

How to Check a Couple's Love Compatibility

2010-04-05T16:38:00.001+10:00

So you're in love with someone?

How do you know that they're the one?

Well, finally you can now know for sure!*

*This may not work with all individuals. Not to be taken too seriously.

My friend Anna taught me this method during a physics lesson. You can imagine us giggling our heads off while our teacher death stares us. Oh the joys of being a silly school girl.

So apparently I love Johnny. Let's find out how compatible we are with each other.

First, we must find out the amount of l's in our names...

...and then the o's....

...and so on.

Now we have a five digit number.
Add the first and second digits together...

...then the second and third...

... you get the idea.

Repeat the previous steps with the new four digit number that has resolved from your prior actions and the numbers that you create until you reach one with two digits. The only three digit number you can stop at is a hundred.
It may take a while, but it will happen if you are persistent.

The final number you have is the percentage of compatibility you have with your chosen.

Please don't make fun of my dodgy spelling. *cringe*
I'm more of a mathsy peeper.

You can have fun doing others' too.

Like me and my friends, you too can be at the height of maturity in doing ones for each other and certain people. (eg. Me doing one for my friend Erika and Zac Efron. She has a pet hate for him.)

I experimented and found that Stargirl and Leo (the couple from one of my favourite books, Stargirl) have 98%, which is the same as another couple you may know, Romeo and Juliet.

Another favourite (or 'favourite') couple, Edward and Bella scored 33%. I guess the vampire really is wasting his time.

Hope you're having a fun time.

My New Journal

2010-04-02T17:24:00.001+10:00

... Still a working progress.

The title page.

Hope you have a happy Easter!

Oh lord

2010-03-26T21:34:00.000+10:00

The past few weeks have been crazy!!

I haven't been able to relax until this afternoon at 3:05.
I felt like cheering, but the first thing I did was sleep for a few hours.

Talk about stress... nobody told me it would be this bad when you're halfway through high school.
Okay, fine, they did but I didn't believe them.

Can't wait for the holidays, right?

But I'm doing other stuff to help me cope.

Like drawing, making bracelets, playing piano, sleeping, writing shocking confessions in my journal, eating vegimite sandwiches...

Already I am feeling stressed and unbelievably pressured. As someone who does like to get A's, I was finding less and less time for myself. I want to get my first job too this year, so more reasons to pull my hair out, right? And the "what do you want to do when you finish school" question is being asked of me more and more often. Each time I answer, "I have no idea, let's just wait and see" I feel more panicky than the last time I said it.

This is going to happen next term too. *sad face*

More Drawings from the land of Kiwis

2010-03-26T21:28:00.000+10:00

In case you can't read it, the above says, 'I told you not to brush my hair' and the below says 'Why, I do love your biscuits Jane. You must give me the recipe.'

NB: I know on the last post it says I posted it on the 17th, but it is a lie!
Tee hee, it is true; I did create that the post on the 13th of February but I didn't get to publish it until 4 days later. So don't think I'm a weirdo when you read it and it says "Valentines' is tommorow" when it was actually published three days after Valentine's Day.

Last Minute Valentines

2010-02-17T19:09:00.000+10:00

Valentine's Day is just tommorow!!

Made this kit for my sister and some other mates...

For each kit, I wrote a note that said 5 things I love about the person.
Then I folded it up, as the Americans would say, junior high style by following this folded note tutorial.
The result was v. cute.

Free Personalised Valentine Coupons found here.
Tutorial for love heart paper clip.

Free printable music paper here.
Free birdy notes over here.
Inspired by this amazing post.

Some easy last minute projects:

A heart garland made out of pipecleaners
A cute card
A Very Cute Origami Project

Hello

2010-02-05T16:40:00.001+10:00

Sorry I haven't posted in so long.
I just haven't been able to!

Urgh, I was so busy with school and family and everything...
I'll just have to try to post more often.

In early January I was in New Zealand with family.

Imagine all the Kiwis wearing their shorts and t-shirts and then imagine me next to them, wearing jeans and a cardi and shivering uncontrollably. Unfortunately I didn't bring any of my winter clothes. Silly me.
I assumed I'd be okay, it's summer over there at the moment. Was I wrong!

While I was in Wellingtown, I went mad with my mother's camera.

(These aren't actual polaroids, I downloaded this app which creates 'polardroids' out of your digital photos. Check it out, it's heaps of fun to play with and it's FREE.)

Some things I want.

A slice of banana bread.
A real polaroid camera.
Fergus Brown's album: Burgers Frown
More rainy days.

Drawings I drew in New Zealand

2010-01-24T15:08:00.031+10:00

Hmmm...

2009-11-25T21:10:00.000+10:00

So.
The other day at school a girl came up to me and just moaned about her friends and what horrible people they were. I just sat by, listened and told her what I honestly thought. Apparently I would make the perfect agony aunt. SO I have decided to be the perfect listener: anything you want to spill, whether it be a secret, thought, problem... tell me! I will post your messages and reply to them if I can...
This could be great fun.

Study Study Study

2009-11-01T22:26:00.001+10:00

Forgive me if I don't update a lot lately. I am so busy with school right now, it's just not fair.

However, while I am struggling to finish that English oral and learning that Japanese kanji I'll try and remember to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures.

The problem is, I have a huge problem with procrastination.

Make the most of it while you can.

x

Gray Skies

2009-10-29T17:56:00.002+10:00

I absolutely love cloudy days.

I always adore jacarandas in full bloom but I love them even more on gray days I love it when some the flowers fall from the tree, it's so picturesque.

Breathing in that cool air and when it rains, feeling the wet taps on my exposed skin always makes me feel wonderful.

Sleep Deprivation

2009-10-26T19:42:00.006+10:00

My weekend was frustrating. I always attempt to catch up on sleep on Sat and Sun but I didn't have a chance. My body clock is eternally stuffed up. Maybe it's just puberty?...

Whatever it is, it sure is annoying me. I can never seem to get enough Z's.

Make the most of this week.

DSi Art

2009-10-23T18:50:00.005+10:00

On my DSi, in the thing thing where you can graffitti your photos, I quite enjoy scribbling over the old photos and creating interesting new effects.

I also enjoy playing with the colours in the actual photos.

Have a good weekend.

Fluffy the Cat

2009-10-22T19:29:00.004+10:00

Have you ever felt like what Fluffy feels now?

Haras' Claws

2009-10-21T18:28:00.004+10:00

An old art assignment. We had to make a title page along with one page of a manga comic based on an (imaginary) graphic novel based on our alter ego. Mine was Haras, a dark and mysterious girl with long metal talons instead of fingernails.This should explain the title. I was quite proud of it as manga isn't really my thing.

You'll be pleased to know for this I recieved an A.

NB: Haras = Sarah backwards

Bored? Draw!

2009-10-20T19:29:00.008+10:00

Some oldies I discovered in my old notebooks. Really, it's astonishing how bored I can get when I'm supposed to be learning.

Of course, my doodles always look ... odd.

It's only Tuesday and I'm already wishing that it's the weekend! Oh, this is going to be a struggle.

Electric Touch

2009-10-19T20:13:00.007+10:00

I absolutely heart Florence and the Machine. Which may explain why one of her lyrics ended up in one of my drawings.

Scissors are sharp

2009-10-16T21:08:00.011+10:00

I saw a pair of scissors on the table and started drawing. Inspiration can come from the weirdest places.