i made this layout about facts about me at age 21. i'm planning on doing another one in a few years and hopefully some of the facts will have changed. like i hope to change 'jobseeker' to employed, and maybe i'll even have the tattoo that i really want lol.

my entry for the current pagemaps contest based on this sketch

journaling: i got an apple macbook at the end of september 2011 to use for study and i'm loving the photo booth application. these are just some of my experiments with it.

oh and if you're wondering what the weird photo is in the middle, it's my killjoy mask and replica raygun (it's a my chemical romance fan thing lol)

hope everyone's having a great Christmas.

i had a quiet one with family. my brother went to his gf's house just before lunch and then my grandma came over for a little while.

 we had pancakes and a bbq for breakfast. afterall whats summer without a few bbq's? lol

i completely forgot to take photos before we ate lunch, but this is the yummy roast pork we had.

my dad got me a big day out ticket (which i knew i was getting lol). i still can't believe i'm actually going to see my heroes, my chemical romance, live. and i'm going with my boyfriend. we're also going to the parachute festival the weekend after, so an almost 2 week summer road trip with him and maybe one other mate. ar i'm so excited to see my favorite band, should be an awesome holiday.

oh, and of course we can't have christmas without a pavlova. good old kiwi tradition

have a great end to the year :)

yea, i'm falling a little behind with this, but i do have photos printed up till the 20th. my home printer prints really bad quality pics so i'm having to get my dad to print them for me once a week from his work printer. this turned out to be easier than i thought it would be. i started with the intention of taking a christmasy pic everyday but realised that wouldn't work so i just eneded up taking pictures of whatever i ended up doing each day.

 day1: summer! my favorite month, i finally get to have more variety in my outfits.

day 2: my brother turned up for a surprise visit. it was only meant to be a week but he still hasn't left yet lol.

 day 3: christmas parade and fair. i ended up getting sunburnt lol

 day 4: put up the tree but everyone was too busy to decorate it

 day 5: spent the day cardmaking

 day 6: finally decorated the tree. it rained all day

 day 7: i listened to christmas songs by my favourite bands and there was an amazing sunset

day 8: i spent the day in bed in my pj's and surfing the net
day 9: unusual usual friday night of 'get your own dinners' and chippies. also one of my mice died :(

TFL

and HAPPY HOLIDAYS ☆

so once again i'm making all my christmas gifts. these are what i've made so far.

 i decorated the cover of a year planner for my bf. i used a lot of mod podge to seal it all down in the hopes that it will withstand a whole year of being pulled in and out of a school bag. i worried the whole time i was making it that it wouldn't turn out manly enough, but my dad loves it so i must've done a good job lol. i'm also gonna write little notes on significant dates to make it more special.



and i made these doll clothes for my 5 year old cousin. i actually started making them months ago when i decided to make and sell doll clothes online but that idea turned out to be frustrating (blame my old sewing machine lol) so i finished them for my cousin instead.

some christmas cards i've been working on:

i still have have 3 more to make

2 days till december and i've only made 19 pages so far. i find it extremely hard scrapbooking without a picture to use, so this really tested me lol. i made the pages pretty basic so that when i add the photos and journelling i can add embellishments around those. and i haven't added numbers yet so that i can rearrange the pages and add more if needed. i'll have to finish the last 6 pages during december, unless i can finish them in the next 2 days.

i haven't really been scrapbooking much lately because my social life has picked up a lot in the last 2 months lol, and i've been pretty tired with the occasional lack of sleep (for some reason my brain won't let me sllep when there's other people in the room, quite frustrating lol), oh and i've had quite a lot of nights when i just couldn't come up with ideas for layouts or find anything that i wanted to scraplift.

but anyway...

also, i haven't stuck any pages together because i'm going to attempt to bind them together with masking tape when they're all finished and arranged in order.