Numero dos.

Ok so I've been indoors all day because have been out and about all week and the virus that my GP says I have is not getting itself out of my system fast enough. I've had probably about 3 litres of green tea, 2 oranges and 1 glass of cranberry juice but all the vitamins just don't seem to be cutting it.

And to top it all off the electricity cut off in the entire block for 3 hours. Want to see how I coped?

Having done Pressure Week last year on YOT, being in darkness didn't really phase me. I just watched The Holiday on my mac which was on full battery and cooked myself a healthy dinner aka what I've been making myself the past 4 days - pasta with tomato & mushroom sauce (out of a sauce).YUM!

But alas, they sorted the fuse out and I'm back on!

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Not wanting to create another post because I'm lazy, thought I'll add some photos of my day in Camden with my old friend Lelia from Canterbury.

Pretty pleased with this fluke.

The macarons from Lanka really are the bomb.

http://www.lanka-uk.com/

It tooks us a while to find it but was all worth it. I had a raspberry macaron and bought a 6pack home for the familia to try. Lelia got a green tea tart which was just, dare I say it, exquisite. Also, the Japanese pastry chef was so nice he gave us some green tea cake samples. Man just talking about makes my mouth water. Either that or I didn't cook myself a big enough portion of spaghetti.

Character development

A little character development, which is really just a fancy term for drawing people. I found some Chinese ink in my art box at home in London so thought I'll test it out. What do you think? Still got some Saunders watercolour paper samples to try out. 300gsm cold-pressed, hard-pressed and rough mmmm.

Really quite glad that I'm doing lots of painting this festive season and no I haven't done much studying. Please, I'm only 5 days into my holiday come on guys! Still, my guilty conscience was so overpowering that I eventually wrote 400 words today. Hey, it's a start! Quite interesting actually. I wrote on the key concepts in the Book of Ruth. 

So yes, planning to get started on making some Christmas cards for family and friends so stay tuned.

再見!

I like colouring in.

Breaking out the Winsor & Newton. Yea baby!

Christmas a-coming!

I'm back in Londinium! Yes, 1st term Creative Arts Academy is well and truely over. I've passed all my degree modules and exams and lo and behold, now that the holidays are here, I've caught a virus. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the time I get the eventually rest and I catch a bug from my course mates. *sighs The GP said there's nothing I can do about it medicine-wise, just drink lots of fluid and take a break.

It hasn't stopped me going around town though. I got my cheapo haircut at Toni&Guy Academy yesterday, ran errands for Mummykins in Chinatown AND bought a present for my course leader.

Then today I went to Cass Art's flagship store in Angel for their 10th year anniversary. I really wasn't all that bothered that they had been running for 10 years if I'm honest, what I really cared about was the 10% off and the goodie bag you'd get as well as the mince pie free-for-all. YES PLEASE! To add to that, my lovely friend Moira Lam (check out her blog moiralam.blogspot.com) works there too so was nice to see her.

So...want to see what I got?

Ok this was actually from yesterday. It's a MASSIVE lantern in chinatown and would look like a spaceship from afar. Not that I believe in spaceships.

This soup tasted much better than previous soups I've had. Why? It was FREEEEEEE!!!

Free canvas bag which I'll be putting my dance kit in no doubt.

*drools. £65 worth of watercolours for a fraction of the price. It's so yummy and looks like sweets. Can't wait to start painting on my free watercolour paper samples mwahahaha.

I plan to get lots of plain t shirts from Primark and iron on these cute designs. Thought they might make good presents. Or maybe I could sell them?

Nom nom A4 sketchbook I would do my internship work in. Not as yummy as my previous book with the vertical elastic band but for £3 can't complain.

Lovely heavyweight paper to draw Christmas cards on.

Join me in marvelling at these freebies sans the paint brush set I forgot to take a photo of. Isn't it great? I'm especially excited about using that yellow flat brush.

 It's been a pretty fun art haul but I don't think I'll be buying any more art stuff anytime soon. Stay tuned for some watercolours I'll be doing in the next few days.

再見!

Interning

Say hello to Mr Salamander

So it's plushing time again and this time I've what seems to look like a slightly disturbing alien, but in fact it is a salamander.

I sent to to my mum for her birthday as I couldn't be there and she really liked it so thumbs up for liking your daughter's DIY!

For some reason the photo uploader uploads the pics back to front...