Blogocation

I will be taking a small blogocation. Okay, I don't even post that much, so by "small blogocation" I really mean I won't be posting here until further ado. The reason? I created a REAL blog, but it's private, so I'm sorry I can't link you. This blog will remain to be, and maybe, if I ever feel like it, I will post something or other here. But for the time being, do not expect anything from me:

Good bye.

Gosh, that sounded final. Maybe:

See you later, alligater.

Wow. Best commercial ever. In the life.

Scarves, scarves, scarves. :D

Independant artists rock. I think it is really important to support them. And that is why I have a esty scarf special today!

I love THIS shop:

THIS one too:

Hope you liked! Can you guess my new love? Neclace scarves!

Peace out, blogland.

Mustache on a stick

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(Source) This is an Etsy shop! Highly recommend!

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Two things about mustaches: apparently, they are very "in" for weddings. Me love. :D

Another thing: I am completely inspire to make my own, or at least print the ones I showed you last time!

Stick It

Hey, I just think... I am the world's most amazing blogger. I mean, I take a blogging hiatus which lasts, what, 2 months? 3 months? Then I announce that I am coming back, yet it takes me a WHOLE OTHER MONTH to post ANYTHING. I mean, at all. So, I was just going to post a quick "hi, ya'll" before possibly not posting again for a million years. I make no promises, though. After all, I am the world's most amazing blogger.

Enough sarcasm for today. Yesterday I went to see Julie & Julia. It was either that or 2012. Yup, completely different movies, just to show you how much my interests can vary. So, coincidentally, half of that movie is about blogging. She is an AMAZING blogger. I mean, seriously post something everyday. 

Other than that, it is a cool movie. Very cool movie. If you are not the 2012 kind of person, then go watch this.

BTW... I saw a group on Facebook the other day. It was called "On the year 2013, I will see 2012 and laugh."

Hey, who knows?

Okay, the real reason I'm posting here today is because I need to save a link, but I wasn't in the mood to send it to myself via Gmail. So I thought, why not make a blog post about it?

HERE is the link. HERE is a similar link

TOTALLY cool. TOTALLY.

P.S. Yup, still my favorite blog. My nails might be black now instead of pink, and I might be listening to Metallica instead of Miley, but I still LOVE that blog.

I'm kidding, of course. I listen to Metallica and Miley.

Over and out, blogland.

P.S. For those of you who don't know why my title is so, I'll tell you... THIS movie. Rocks my socks.

Public Art

One things that never fail to inspire me are graffitis. In my opinion, they are not vandalism as long as they are not on private property. But when they are on public places, they are beauty. They add some sort of urban color to cities. I love, love, love them!









With that said... I am digging these graffiti inspired shoes. So cool...

Drool... me want!

I'm back!

I'm sorry about the hiatus. I was, I don't know, being sucked up by other things in my life and when I thought about this blog I just thought of how ridiculous it was! But that is about to change! I erased the painful posts, left the ones that I thought were cool, and in Oct. 1 this blog's adress is changing! 

I will write it down here as soon as I think of a new title 

Yup, that's right. Everything here is a-changin'. No more posts about celebrities, what they wore, what they do, etc, unless I think it is really inspirational. I say goodbye to the ol' blog and hellow to the new blog! I am so exited.

Btw, I don't promise to be a good blogger. After all, like any other teenager, my schedules are filled with stuff and more stuff, and only during the time that I have really nothing to do will I be able to post here. However, this doesn't mean that I'll NEVER post. After all, I really do love this blog!

As a Lady Would Say

Now, it isn't like my family is all strict and with that "Park Avenue" feel to it (there was a word for that, I just forgot it...) However, one day, while in Brook's Brothers for fun and amusement, I saw these books. I bought two of them. One is "How to be a Lady" and the other "As a Lady Would Say." Since I have the latter here with me, I shall mention a couple of the things it says:

• "A lady knows how to begin a conversation.
• Although a lady would never provoke an unpleasant confrontation, she knows how to deal with one.
• A lady thinks before she speaks.
• Although a lady does not fret over the past, she also thinks after she speaks, assessing the correctness of her behavior.
• If a lady is subjected to a rude remark or rude behavior, she does not offer rudeness in return."

Sheryl Shade

Not as sexist as you thought it would be? Wanting more? Buy the book, 'cause I'm not plaigarizing! (Snap, my spelling SUCKS!)

My sort of irrational love for L.M. Montgomery

I have to say, I have read A LOT of books in my little time. I'd say I read about 40 books a year... a ton considering some can be quite extensive. I have read great literary geniuses, but however genius, I still remain faithful to L.M. Montgomery, the first author I read in my life that wasn't in the, you know, "Junie B. Jones" and "Babysitter's Club" category. I was entering the world or real literature.

And now, years, a lot of years, later, I still can proudly say that the Anne of Green Gables books are the best I have ever read, for the heroine is dearer to me than any other character would or could ever be to me. Did you say Eduard Cullen? Nu-uh! Gimme Gilbert Blythe anytime, I'll eat 'im whole!

Which is why I wanted to explain something. The reason for what I have been posting less than usual for the last month or so is because I was rereading the books about this beloved redhead, and I was so sucked up in them. And now, all I can say is, you will be hearing me talk a lot about it.

What a bore, huh? Well, guess what... I enjoy it.

When you search for color you get...

I made a google search for "colorful" and these are the three first pictures (that would open!) that I got:

If you ask me, however, what color is about, I will tell you this:
Nobody knew color like Monet. He was the truest artist that lived in this world. My favorite. I am allways amazed by his use of, yes,

COLOR

Painting on models

Okay, so my whole family and I are magazine addicts. Won't you believe me? Here are the magazines we suscribe to:

1. Teen magazine
2. Twist
3. Time magazine
4. Vogue magazine
5. Harper's Bazaar
6. Creating Keepsakes magazine
7. The Spine Journal
8. The Endocrine Society
9. Diabetes Forecast
10. Spine Surgery
11. American Association of Pediatrics magazine

Okay, so I'm only sure that the first 6 are called like that. About the other five... I only thinkthey are called like that. I have certainly seem them scattered aroun my house!

Oh, and we used to suscribe to Martha Stewart. My mom unsuscribed, because, seriously. We are anything but a Martha Stewart style family!

So, what do we do with the 11 magazines (or so) that we receive each month? 

I can show you what I do with MY magazines:

Yeah, SO:

• I use them for mixing colors. The special kind of paper is great!
• I just mess them up. It's so nice to see their perfect stuck-up faces splattered with magenta and vivid green. (No, Mr. Psychologist, it isn't that I need to make others look bad to feel good. It's just that I like to imagines how they would react.)
• I cut them out and paint on them and change their features a bit and change the lighting and stick them on art journals.

Ain't that a great idea? Look HERE to see why the models are covered with colored water. (Link will take you to The Scrapster!)

Beauty

It is so hard to describe how gorgeous flowers are. Because all these words: pretty, dainty, beautiful, gorgeous. They never seem ENOUGH to just tell you how dainty yet beautiful they are. For dainty isn't beautiful enough, and beautiful isn't dainty enough.

So I have thought of a new word. Whypsiful. Doesn't that sound fairylike and not exactly beautiful, but you can see something dainty and hope filling and sometimes beautiful? So that is what flowers are. They are whypsiful.

You might think "hey, what is this sudden interest with flowers about?" I know that I have never given much importance to nature in my blog, but let me explain why. 

A few years ago, when my hours of homework were slim, I allways either spent my time reading or biking or climbing trees. I didn't bike for the exercise, really. Nor did I climb trees for the fun. I biked because I liked that time outside with nature and beauty and autumn or spring of summer or winter. And I climbed trees to be enveloped in a fairy like midst of COLOR.

And allways, during autumn, it's the time I realize how precious trees and flowers and nature is to me. Not during spring, for some reason, but during autumn.

By the way, it is NOT called fall. It is called autumn. Doesn't the word autumn just sound like music and the rustling of leaves?

Anyways, the reason of WHY I am starting to pay more attention is because I am rereading for like the gazillionth time the Anne of Green Gables series, which I like even better than Harry Potter for some reason. Yep, they are my favorite books. Anyways, these book allways make me realize how beautiful the world is and how unnecessary everything else is.

And so that I never forget how whypsiful spring is, I have decided to keep a flower vase. And maybe show you my flower vase. But the flowers will never be bought, and they will never be more than one or two, or, if little, a small handful.

I am using a glass for now, but as soon as I buy a paintable vase I will watercolor it (because watercolors are not so bright and we don't want to overshadow the flowers).

Anyways, here are some pictures of the rose I cut out, to show you how beautiful and whypsiful flowers can really get:

I am not going to say I am an awesome photographer because I honestly don't know whether I do or don't have potential. But this pictures do make me happy so!

The weird thing is that they look so spring! Living in South Africa, with the world turning orange around me, it's weird.

Oh. my. gosh

So, I will admit that I have been quite neglecting this blog as of late. But that's just because I have been working on My Needlesome Adventures so hard. And because school's getting harder and harder all the time. Phooey.

And worse of all is that I am not art journaling anymore. No, thank you, I haven't exactly left it. It's just I haven't done anything in it for the last month or so, and the notebook I bought totally... unmotivates me.

However, I am shameless enough to say this.

I have found the most awesome person at art journaling. Better than Donna Downey. OH SO MUCH BETTER.

That last one was done by a friend of hers. According to her blog (click HERE) she got the idea for these journals thanks to this book. Click HERE.

I am so totally buying a new notebook. And the book.

Oh my gosh, I feel really buy-ee today.

Fa shizzle

(BTW... that is the way that I have decided to end all of my blog entries. It just seems like a cool, few years old phrase. Not SO old, but not as new as saying... oh, I don't know. Sweet? It also sounds pretty musical and I looove music.

While on the topic of music. Today my science teacher for some reason put music on during class, and I totally recognized the band. I wanna be sedated, by the Ramones. I felt so proud. He didn't even pay attention. I'm guessing he doesn't like me that much. Harrumph.)

Note on Procrastination

Since I should be studying for tomorrow's math test, I will make it short and sweet.

Yesterday I was reading though some old yearbooks trying to ignore the English book sitting right next to me. And as I was reading a senior letter, I read this:

"And now, after months of procrastination, probably my skill best refined throughout high school, I sit down to write my senior letter."

I love it.

Because many times in my high school life it seems like the skill that I am working on the best is procrastination.

The fact that you are reading this right now proves it. And so does the fact that the textbook full of math problems have no answer. Yet.

And of course I don't wonder why I only get 5-4 hours of sleep a day. I just wonder why I can't actually start working until it's "tomorrow."

Sniffle

Seriously, this is just one pretty movie trailer. I felt so... weird watching it. I wasn't crying WHILE watching it, but I am now....

Clicke HERE to see

Anyways, what's going on in my life right now? Well, first of all, I got my first solid sleep in 2 weeks, which was great. It was a long time since I last slept 12 hours straight. I think this is greatly due to the fact that I don't have that many worries on my mind now, what with my sister's marriage gone now and midterms over and finally taking the decision that I hate track and will never go again.

However, there is one little detail about my life that I am not happy with.

I am reading way too little. I had to return Sherlock Holmes to the library and haven't read a single page of "Of Human Bondage" in a ton of time. 

This is NOT my fault, though. I have to read these 2 huge books for my English and Spanish class, and then, well, I am way behing on my scrapbooking and have to learn to knit, dammit!

I just had a revelation. 

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I won't read, I will stash my books and forget about them until I feel ready to keep reading. Because, duh, it seems 12 hours of sleep aren't enough to calm me down.

Without further ado, ciao. Have to go to this thing....

Sports Dilemma

As I hear this, I yet again hear "Poem #20" by Pablo Neruda for the like thousandth time. It seems like my English teacher doesn't realize that we can't memorize something just like that. Grrr. The poem isn't even originally in English. It's originally in Spanish.

Anyways, off my rant, and to what I really wanted to talk about.

This semester, I chose not to take Gym, and instead take Band and Drama. My school says that if I choose not to take Gym, I have to choose an afterschool sport, so that I stay fit. I chose track. I knew that our track teacher had changed, but I didn't expect our new track teacher to be such a b*tch. Anyways, I hate him to a point where I hate track now. Honestly, I don't like track now. 

A year ago those words would have been a joke.

Anyways, my point is that now that I am not goint to track, I had to decide WHAT ON EARTH I would take instead. I thought about volleyball, but then I thought "no, because it's the same days as track. And what if my ex coach sees me? Then I will be shouted at so much that my ears will ring for the rest of my life."

End of discussion.

So, what else could I take? I thought of ballet, and when I went to look at a studio that's near by, well, I was rather disappointed. You see, there is a class for teens like me, but only if you have ballet danced before. Since I haven't since I am like, 6, or something, I would have had to take the begginer's class. Which has no age by the way. Not only did it look incredibly boring, with NO movement, but every girl but one was beneath the age of 10. And anyways, since that would be the only sports I took, well... I don't want to end like an obese teen. The beginner's class looked more like... well, let's say, just too basic.

Never mind.

But still, the thought, what the heck do I do? And finally I have the simplest yet most boring solution: I will suscribe to the local gym. 

Period.

The worst part about all this, is that not only did I use to love Gym (yeah, yeah...) I don't do drama. No. I SING! We are going to do a musical but for the past month and a half I have only sung. And, I have a horrible voice, and it's boring.

Never mind.

xoxo,

whatever dark mood

Flickr

So... I am thinking about getting a Flickr account.

Whats so special about this? Thing is, even though I love the concept, I know nobody who has Flickr, and I dont feel like getting another account that I have to worry about updating. Yes, I do love updating my Facebook&Blog&Twitter, too much is just too much.

I dont know what to do! For the moment being, however, Ive no Flickr.

Bloggin made easy

Now it-s much easier to blog! Now that I have a macbook, all the world is open to me... on my bed. Hehe.

BTW,,, is it possible to marry a computer_ I wish it were. Im sleeping with it, that I know. 

How dirty can this get_

Anyways, as you might have figured out, I need to do some things to the keyboard. There are some keys I just can-t find. Grrr.

5 reasons your next shower should be a COLD one!

Everybody knows that showers are great. Especially hot ones. Relaxing, calming, HOT showers. But did you know that hot showers are not really as good as you might think. Here, I have the top 5 reasons your next shower should be colder!

1. Hot water/showers contribute to global warming.
2. Hot water can make your hair and skin dry
3. Cold water awakens you. Great for early mornings.
4. Hot showers can kill you. Yes, they can kill you. Many people have died because they took a hot shower. Why? They were already a bit sleepy when they got in, and the hot water dropped their blood pressure, thus they fainted, hit their heads, and... died. Yeah, this is a bit exagerated, but still!
5. Hot water is more expensive. Something to pay attention to in these hard times.

These are not in order.

Okay, so the real reason I'm posting this is because of reason number 1. I really care about the enviroment and thought I would convince you with more reasons. ;)

Forgot to mention...

In my last post I forgot to mention this. And since I just hate to edit posts I thought I would tell you.

Okay, so what I forgot to mention but I sorta did was that... um, remember the thing I saw in the magazine that I told you that I had but never knew came from pottery barn teens? Well it's something like this. It's so cool. I would've posted my own picture but I am sort of redecorating it so it is bare. I will post a picture though, when I finish redecorating. Here is the thing:

It's a thingy that you hang on the wall and you an put pictures on it and stuff like that! Since I scrapbook I sometimes put scrapbook pages on it, but they're mostly just pictures, pretty memorabilia, and pictures of stuff I see on magazines and liked or inspired me.

BTW, I think I have never told you. But one of the reasons that I think I like this

Droooooool

If anybody is a Nickelback fan like me, they should know the song "Someday" which starts something like this:

"How the hell did we wind up like this?"

And some of you may find that I could totally have not mentioned that, but I'm singing this to the same tune so...

"How the hell did I not know bout this?"

BECAUSE WHO WAS CRUEL ENOUGH NOT TO TELL ME ABOUT POTTERY BARN TEEN!!!! I HATE YOU ALL, PEOPLE! I SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE NOT KNOWING ABOUT THIS!

Okay, now that I am sorta cooled down, I have to say... let me tell you the story.

I am a magazine fan, and when I opened this magazine and heard about Pottery Barn Teens I knew I had to check it out because they had something that I had but for some reason never knew came from there. (Did anybody understand that?) Anyways, I went there and at first I thought "cool" but it only took me to see one product and I was aleady in love. And I felt like I sorta had to tell you...

Anyways, it's too expensive. Talk about rotten luck. The stuff there is just... wow.

So I thought I would live through my blog readers who could afford it and just post something nice from there every week.

Smiley face.

Here is the link.

AWOL

I'm sorry I have been a bit AWOL lately, but as my faithful blog readers know, I was on an enviromental trip with my class, and I have been working really hard on my two other blogs, so I'm sorry if I have dissapointed you or something.

Anyways, if you still feel like reading some o my stuff, go to my other two blogs:

• My Needlesome Adventures
• The Scrapster

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry! I won't promise more posting cuz Im sorta busy, but please spread the word about the other blogs, because Needlesome Adventures is practically newborn (a week old!) and nobody knows about it. It's a knitting blog especially dedicated to teenagers. So, if you are a teenage knitter go to my other blog!

Billboard update! Number 2!

I find that I haven't uploaded a "Billboard Update" since... my first post ever! Which was a month or so ago, so here goes another one.

1) Right Round by Flo Rida ft Keisa

2)Dead and Gone by TI feat Justin Timberlake

3)Poker Face by Lady Gaga

4)Kiss Me Thru the Phone by Soulja Boy Tell Em

5)Gives you Hell by The All-American Rejects

6)Heartless by Kanye West

7)Just Dance by Lady Gaga feat Colby O Donis

8)Crack a Bottle by Eminem, Dr. Dre, and 50 Cent

9)Love Story by Taylor Swift

10)My Life Would Suck Without You by Kelly Clarkson

Okay, so here goes:

Right Round is a very good song as far as hip hop goes, and sooo sticky. I didn't like Dead and Gone, especially considering it's coming from TI. Poker Face is just another pop song, but stickier and more annoying. Kiss me thru the phone plain sucks. Gives you hell is a great song, and as I have mentioned, I looove the all american rejects. Heartless, is, well, not horrible but not good. Just Dance is a very good pop song, very... catchy. Crack a Bottle is a neat rap song, but nothing new from Eminem. And I hate, hate Taylor Swift, cause she is just so annoying. And I have no idea bout the last one, cause I haven't even bothered.

So, since I will be gone for an enviromental trip with my class next week, I will be posting an extra lot for the following days. I feel so sorry that I won't be able to post in five whole days! ;)

Volcom Beanie

Since I can't buy this adorable Volcom...

I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO KNIT THIS, PERIOD!

Does anybody know how?

Nike Sneakers Love

Who doesn't love Nikes? I know I do. So colorful, and of course, creative and unique! They are like... whoa. (Man, why did Aly and AJ ruin that saying for me? Now I can't say "like whoa" without thinking of their annoying song.) Anyways, here's my Nike love:

These are mine! I bought them in Florida a couple of years ago. I'm not sure if it's the same model but they look pretty equal:

And these are just cool. Who wouldn't LOVE Nike pumps? Even though the sorta pointy edge ruins it for me some, the fun look is all the rage. I love that I found this. Who woulda thought:

And now here's a bunch of Nikes that I just found and thought were cool: