A while's worth

Hi dollies! Sorry for this post being incredibly delayed. I was planning to blog on Monday but I remembered that I had 14 weeks worth of work which I somehow had to finish before earlier this afternoon. Woops! So yeahhhh, here's a quick little recap of what's been happening lately.

Dinner at Vapiano for Ruth's 20th birthday

New uniform for work. Square oversized knit from Supre, jeggings from Supre, satchel bag from Rubi, beanie from eBay, deer head necklace from eBay.

Waiting for the fireworks at Buddha's birthday festival. We got there early enough to be right next to the river!

Lying on the grass and virtually star gazing on Jason's Samsung S2.

Playing Jubeat on Adrian's iPad before the fireworks started.

First proper group photo with the loves of my life ♥

Ombreing Sandra's hair and prepping her for a photo shoot

Final submissions that I spent hours and hours sooking over

Photography documentation

Sculptural documentation

Cylinders of paper cutting placed into glass jars/bowls

Final submission of sculptural piece

Never again will I convince myself that I can complete so much work in such a short amount of time. I really let myself down and after walking into the art block this morning, my heart sank. People had huge bodies of work consisting of three or four pieces that had so much detail w o w. Oh well, hopefully my theory and second body of work for his year will pull my grade back up. 

Hope all of you are having a lovely Friday night; take care! ♥

DOVE

Product Talk by Nuffnang 

After almost three years of living with my beloved GHD styler and going through a billion boxes of hair dye, it's pretty obvious that my hair deserves a little pampering. I've gone through so many drug store hair masks and treatments that claim to do wonders and, well... they don't.

I was sent a box of Dove Nourishing Oil Care treatment to try out and after using it continuously after every shower and morning after straightening since it arrived, I have to admit it's one of the most effective I've ever used.

My verdict: The product left my hair feeling smooth and light without the greasy look that so many other products left ♥ Sandra and Joy both commented on how smooth my hair felt after I was nuzzling their shoulders and this made me so happy because I realised that it was the first time that I'd ever gotten a comment about the quality of my hair after using a product without mentioning it to anybody!! For anybody who's wondering, I have fairly dry and brittle hair due to all the heat I put onto it so I wouldn't recommend this product for anybody with normal-oily hair since the product wouldn't absorb as well and you'd be left with the residue.

Hope all of you are well and enjoying your week ♥

Foxes

Show some love to Juicy! ♥

Hello you gorgeous people. Okay so, today I kind of wanted to post this for two reasons. The first is so I can update you guys on how I've been going and the second is so I can read this to reflect a little later in the year.

My grades as a whole - They've dropped quite dramatically from my results that I finished with at the end of 2011. I'm not sure whether it's because of the content or just the fact that I haven't been able to grasp this year's concepts as quickly but all I know is that I haven't been this disappointed in myself for a fair while.

Art – So if you guys already aren’t already aware, each year of senior schooling for art is completely different. In year 11, they circulate around a fairly specific concept whilst guiding you through a huge range of media that you have at your disposal to use in the next year if you continue to study art. In year 12, they pretty much leave everything up to you. The concept for my first body of work is external influences and it's so frustrating that I’ve never struggled with anything so badly in my life. For the last 10 weeks I’ve had to work on this prac, my method has literally been research develop research develop research research research research develop research research develop. I can’t even resolve ONE piece for my assessment, ugh. I’ve just started working on something new (again) that my teacher actually approves of *celebrates* so hopefully I’ll be back on track by the end of next week.

Work – So far so good. I’ve been able to balance my casual job with school work pretty well so I don’t plan on quitting any time soon. I’m so lucky my manager is willing to let me take a couple of weeks off at a time if I really need it to focus on school.

End of year trip – I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE END OF THE YEAR AHIOWJDOIASJKA. Alice is checking up with one last travel agency to see if we can get cheaper flights and after that’s all done and dusted we’ll be booking our tickets as soon as possible ♥ It’s been so long since I’ve been out of Brisbane that just the thought of flying to Seoul and Taiwan is so exciting!!

OKAY, done.

I don't have much else to say so I'll just leave you with some photos. Hope all of you are having a great week ♥



Paulie's odd new habit of licking and rubbing her beak against my knee.



xo

My favourite pieces

Hi dollies! Sorry for this post being so overdue but this week has pretty much been me regretting the fact that I refused to touch ANY of my assignments over the holidays. I know a couple of you requested my favourite outfits but I actually don't have any particular ones so here's just some of my favourite pieces of clothing from my wardrobe.

I've worn these two skirts more than anything I've ever owned in my life. They're both from Supre and the fact that you can virtually wear anything with them just makes them a basic necessity for me.

This is one of the first blazers that I owned. Purchased on Ally. It actually looks odd if I don't roll up the sleeves but that doesn't really matter since it's a light weight jacket anyway.

Little black dress that I got for a steal price from the West End markets.

Obviously I'd wear this with a slip dress underneath. I know it looks kinda odd when it's on the hanger by itself but it's so lovely if you top it off with a belt! Purchased from Supre.

Ripped denim shorts from Supre. These bad boys were a part of a two for $30 sale ♥

Left: I have another three or four tops similar to this one but this is my favourite just because the finer details (pockets, buttons and sleeves) really do make a huge difference in aesthetics. Purchased from Dotti. Right: Another light weight blazer from Supre.

Left: Scallop hem top purchased from Dotti. Right: Contrasted collar chiffon blazer from Valleygirl ♥

Hope all of you are having a great weekend! xo

Dinner with Melly

Blogging three days in a row! This has to be some kind of new record for me, eh? I went to Carindale Westfield after work today for dinner with Jason, Melisa and Ly. The new expansion is BEAUTIFUL. Everything is so well done and crafted it actually made me say 'whoaaaaaa'. Sorry Chermside, I have a new shopping centre now.

We went to have dinner at Guzman y Gomez and it wasn't that great to be honest. My nachos were drowned in beans and they we're all soggy :( At least the chicken and drinks were nice.






Mexican soft drinks. They were so nice because they had that fizzy feel but as soon as you swallowed it, the fizz disappeared so it didn't burn your throat like regular soft drinks would.



After that, we all went to Chocolate Pavilion for dessert. It's kind of like Max Brenner but with a lot more drinks; more expensive dishes and more interesting chocolate combinations. I can't remember exactly what we ordered but Melisa and I ordered a triple chocolate truffle parfait and a chocolate sushi taste set.


On the left is our parfait and on the right is Melisa's drink. I think it was a frappe with peanut butter, banana and caramel.





If you do happen to go to Chocolate Pavilion, don't order this. When I read 'sushi' I was picturing caramel wrapped up in a thin sheet of chocolate to actually resemble a piece of sushi but yeah.. This uses actual rice and the whole texture and taste just doesn't blend in well together. The green tea ice cream was really bitter as well according to Melisa and Jason.

I'll just leave you guys with some photos to end this post.











Sweet dreams! ♥