Ridiculous

I feel like I should have a picture of me pointing to the title of this post, and just end this entry at that. Because really, it's just that: ridiculous. I don't know where the time went, or how I ended up feeling like I was literally tossed into the month on June, and now facing the end of it! The question that kept popping up while I was prepping myself to write this entry was, "What on earth have I been doing this month?" The only thing that came to mind was the huge project I currently took on, but being the ever guilty multi-tasker, I know it couldn't have been just that. So that is why I am blaming my seemingly lack of events on amnesia.

This new branding project has been taking a toll on me, not because it's been particularly hard, nor is my new boss demanding, but rather it is because of my withdrawal symptoms. For those of you that know me, drinking coffee takes up around 90% of my life, if not more. The first half of the month I was convinced I no longer needed coffee, while the second half of the month I spent all my energy convincing myself that I deserved a break from not drinking coffee. That was probably where all my time went, contemplating whether or not to have coffee, then justifying to myself why it was no big deal to drink a cup or four when I finally caved in. Other than my struggle with the on again and off again caffeine addiction, the project is going great.

Another interesting event though, is that today is me and my lovely boyfriend's three years minus one month anniversary. Yes, I know it's ridiculous. I hope he doesn't read this entry or the surprise will be ruined, but here's a little something I made for this amazing person in my life :) Honestly, the constant in my life that makes it bearable. I don't know who else can tolerate me and my craziness.

This card is drawn on a regular white piece of paper, with pen and colour pencils.
Giraffe with a detachable envelope with handwritten letter.
Underneath: a heart-shaped window with hidden message :)

Besides cards, I seldom get to draw anything with a pen or pencil nowadays, other than the random sketch of concepts here and there. Since I've discovered my love of digital artwork, colouring something stroke by stroke just seems really tedious and I have now fallen into a fear of making mistakes that I can not correct with a click of the mouse. So if I ever make a card for you, you know you're special. Plus, handwritten letters are so underrated nowadays...

Taking a picture of this card has also got me to notice that I rarely use my camera now. Despite how I kept thinking to myself that I would take it on "artistic excursions" that would result in beautiful photography, I have not even taken the camera out of my house since the last fashion photoshoot. The easily accessible card reader that is now built into my computer does nothing to ease my guilt either.

Maybe I have a thing against cameras. I bought my Diana F+ with me on my trip the past week, and the only picture I took of it was of me making a silly face before I got into the car prior to departure. Epic Fail. I didn't even realize I left it in my boyfriend's car after the trip until he brought it up. What comes after 'epic fail'?

This is me attempting to update my blog. I apologize if this post made no sense to anyone but myself; or even myself, after I read this a couple days later. I feel completely groggy and my head feels like it's stuffed with cotton then was used as a punching bag by a four year old. However, after reading my dear writer friend's blog, the realization, then guilt of not updating my blog finally caught up to me.

Ok this is it, other than, spot the amount of times I've used the word 'guilt' in this entry. This may call for a change of the title for this post. Haha... working titles...

xoxo

Weddinnngg Dressss

Since being influenced by my sister to like Korean music, I have yet to come an obsession as strong and long as the one I have with Big Bang. By this I mean Tae Yang. Who is he? Well, this hot and handsome guy that has amazing abs and is made out of paper, sitting right next to me at this current moment!  Think I'm going crazy? You might be right, but at least I'm not delusional. Here is the proof:

Here is him without the fabulous hat I made for him, but you will see it in the next picture of him and another member of Big Bang: GDragon! Yay! And of course, who can be famous and fabulous without the girls?!

This is an awesome way to spend Friday nights! And yes, I know it is nerdy to spend the start of a weekend with paper versions of my obesessions, but I really don't care right now! They look fab!

On a side note however, the hats were actually the hardest parts of these models, which I did not expect at all. Try them yourselves by downloading the template from bbpapermodel!

Then you can tell me if I was going absolutely crazy when I said the hats were hard to make.

I know this entry is dragging on, but I can't help to add the video that inspired these paper dolls. Here is Wedding Dress by the sexxyy Tae Yang! Enjoy!

The Creation of Pea

Since the start of my new blog, I decided that every great blog has or needs a signature character. And being the artsy-fartsy people that we are at home (my sister and I), we just happened to have some left over clay lying around. It was this, that led to the creation of Pea.

To begin, you as the readers will be informed of who Pea really is. She (yes, she is a she, to reflect the author of this blog: which is me) is made out of a left over bit of Jovi air dry clay. Since I made her yesterday, her birthday is December 27, 2009. This is perfect because it would make the day after the two of the most special days in my opinion (Christmas and Boxing Day) of the year special. So the hype of the holidays lasts just one day longer. Her eyes are coloured black with a ballpoint pen that was just lying around, with blush coloured by lipstick.

Now as to the origins of her name. I hope this makes sense to those who are reading, because I've been told that my thoughts runs a thousand miles (or kilometres since I'm Canadian) an hour.
When I was first creating her, and she lied in my hands like a blob, my thoughts were to name her Mochi. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, you can either look it up, or trust me that this peculiar word is the name of a Japanese rice dessert. All this changed when I started making her crown. She then became Princess. But 15 minutes into this project, I soon grew tired of having to repeat two syllables (which is wayyyy too long in my opinion) and started to call her "P." This shrank the syllables down to half but since a character name looks awkward with just one letter, I decided on the name Pea.

This little princess took a whole day to dry, and I added the black pea eyes and blush just 15 minutes ago. Now I have my signature character for my blog!

As to what we did on our first day together, don't expect anything too interesting. All we did was pig out in front of the computer and watch reruns of Grey's Anatomy. I would go on and on about how disappointing it is to have to wait until March to watch new episodes, and how the person who invented a mid-season break for t.v. shows deserves some sort of harsh punishment, but that's for another post.





For now, I shall tend to my unread emails and text messages, while staring with goo-goo eyes at my cute little Pea for distraction.

Ta-ta for now!