Oh gawd this made me lol so much I had tears in my eyes

I've created a new blog like I mentioned earlier

Click here to read it!

I won't be writing in this journal anymore, but I will be using it to keep track of you guys and commenting and such :)

I'm also closing down my etsy store and have opened up a new one. There's nothing in the new store yet but if you read my blog I'll update you on when I do list new items :D

So finally I got around to upping my photos! But I don't really have time to sit down and write a lengthy post detailing what I did so hopefully you'll get an idea by viewing my photos on my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/7124925@N02/ I've also got some pics from Hong Kong, not many though and mostly just from Disneyland. I only had one full day and an evening in HK so my friend and I just hit Disneyland and then shopped til we dropped (quite literally, our feet were so sore by the end of the day we could hardly walk back to the hotel!).

A shoutout to Jamie: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!! I was so ready to congratulate you for the day but then it went by and I realised I had forgotten D:

So what am I doing?
- Uni work to my ears. As most of you know (I think) it's my last semester of uni so I'm working extra hard to create really great pieces to put into my portfolio. I'm so proud I actually do homework every single day, before it used to be maybe a couple of days a week quickly finishing something in one day! So it would yield some pretty terrible work...but now I'm producing stuff I'm actually proud of and hopefully will land me a job at the end of the semester! I'll post my stuff soon, I'm thinking of moving my journal to blogspot so it looks a little more professional and only have illustration related stuff there. So I may still post here or I might not, but I will let you know what happens :)

- Researching about setting up a business! I applied for a business number today yay :D It's hard trying to get my head around all the technical things, I feel so stupid sometimes not understanding. I'll be applying to do a craft market in November so I must get moving and start sewing up some cushions. I also plan to do some screen printed cards, must order the screen printer stuff soon! And there's another market I'm thinking about applying for in December so I will be busy for the rest of the year. Hopefully I'll make enough money so I can get myself an awesome printer to do art prints :D I've mentioned before that I made stuff for an anime convention, I was thinking of doing it again but I've finally decided not to do it. I'm not really interested in anime anymore and it just would be a waste of my time to make fan related stuff rather than focusing on my own business with original goods.

- Met up with fellow etsy people in Perth on Saturday! See photos in Amanda's blog http://blogs.oddsocks.net/ahunt/2008/08/24/etsy-wa-meetup/
We went to see Liza's work at the exhibition called Art in Bloom at the art gallery. All the pieces incorporated flowers (real or created), they were quite interesting to look at. It was really great chatting to a bunch of like minded people :) I'll be seeing the girls again Wednesday night for an opening of a new store selling things like blank matroishkas (sp?), Qee dolls and they also provide printing onto fabric services!!!! I'm quite excited about that and will enquire if they would do large lengths of fabric :D

Sweater: vintage 80's
Shirt: Cotton On
Necklace/Watch: from Finland
Shorts: Dotti
Leggings: Sportsgirl
Socks: Myer
Boots: K-Kenka

Details

My wrist watch broke down a couple months ago so I've been using this, it's actually my mom's but she doesn't like it (was a present from her family). The jumper is actually my mom's too lol it even has a matching long skirt! The skirt is really nice but it's a bit tight on me at the moment :P Maybe one day I'll be skinny enough to wear it again!


I looooooooove these boots. I got them when I went to Finland it was love at first sight *swoons*. Seriously you can't buy boots like this here in Perth.

Shirt: Cotton On
Scarf: H&M
Skirt: some random cheap store
Leggings: Sportsgirl
Boots: Born
Bag: from China

Hehe haven't done one these for a while :P

RE previous post: thanks for the comments and advice, I found creative suite on ebay for cheap so hopefully I can buy that fingers crossed!

Well I'm back from China and I have tons of photos to show but one problem...my computer died just before I left and I have a new one now but I can't get any of my software to work on it cos I need serial numbers. I tried finding cracks/keygens but they don't work, instead filling my poor new computer with trojans and viruses I am such a stupid stupid girl. I've done it before and never had problems but this time nothing will work so I don't have any photoshop etc!

If anyone can help me out and get me serial numbers for photoshop, indesign, illustrator CS2 I would be eternally grateful. I don't have the money to buy the real thing and I really need these programs (especially photoshop) to do my stuff at uni. Whoever can help me I'll do/make something for you in exchange!!! If I don't get these programs I'll have to stay at uni after hours all the time which would suck big time because I live over an hour away from uni D:

I just got back from seeing the doctor and I can go to China!!! So I'll be leaving at 1am Thursday (geez so early) and will be back Tuesday 22nd July at 11:50pm :)

Now to get all my things together and figure out what to take with me D:

Some little paintings I'm doing to eventually put up into the shop :D I found these coasters at the art shop which are very fun to paint on, I was initially looking for little canvases but I couldn't find what I exactly wanted (plus they were more expensive :P).

I haven't posted anything I've done for uni, so now that the semester is over (thank god!) Here are the good ones :P I did lots of other stuff which is either a)irrelevant or b)horrible



I had to create a double page spread illustration from a children's book. I chose "Amy at the Bakery", one of my favourite books as a child. In this scene they are all running down the street, took me ages trying to get the running right as well as the placement of Amy and the pram :P
Medium - ink
Now that I look at it more, parts of it is wonky and needs fixing :P



This one I had to create an illustration to accompany a poem about circus elephants - how they 'hold hands' by holding each other's tails.
The colours ended up darker than I wanted but since I had to do this in a day (I had so many assignments that this one ended up being shunted to the side too much!) I couldn't be bothered to fix it, I would have run out of time otherwise :P
Mediums - acrylics, colour pencil
I quite like this one :D unfortunately I only got 80% D: it's always my lack of research and development that let me down. Must try to do more of it next semester!!



This is for an ad for a fabric softener. The clouds are meant to be a metaphor for how soft it makes fabrics.
Man, this baby came out so darn cute :DDDD I just want to pinch it's cheeks XD