current observations

Tag: university

  • Remembering :: my mother

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    It is exactly one year ago that my mother passed away. I know grief is a strange beast but somehow I thought I would be more accepting at the one year anniversary. I’m not. I’ve been told time heals all wounds. It doesn’t. All time gives you is the ability to adapt – it’s like…

  • Creating a zine

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    Do you remember way back when I was talking of creating a ‘zine’? I really didn’t know what they were but the brief for this assignment was to create a zine around something you’re interested in that could be used as one is a series. My idea was to create a zine called Surface, that…

  • Thinking about :: swimming

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    Well as most of you know (because I haven’t let you forget) – I’ll be taking part in the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim this weekend. It’s still not too late to make a donation towards my efforts. The effort of training which also coincides with many assignments due has meant I haven’t been blogging…

  • Is handmade creative?

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    Yes that is me on the cover of this fictitious magazine. This is my next Uni assignment and it’s still a work in progress so feel free to critique if you are so inclined. This assignment has been a little frustrating due to lack of feedback from our lecturer (turns out she’s been overseas for…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Black

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    I know I know, technically black is not a colour as the Jolly Monkey pointed out to me the other day and I couldn’t help but smile and think ‘that’s my boy’. So you will have to grant me a little blog artistic license today. Not surprisingly the colour search on Etsy doesn’t do black…

  • Drumroll please….

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    Using the True Random Number Generator the first person to guess correctly was the lovely Eileen from bluebirdluxe. Congratulations Eileen a $25 gift voucher from your shop of choice is on the way to you. Thanks to all for your comments and Eileen was right, I’m studying Graphic Design!

  • Drawing a Nice Pear… Give Away!

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    So this is what I’ve been doing this week… drawing pears. Actually I love pears and not just the taste of them. I’m even trying to incorporate the word pear into a business name because I think a pear on a business card would look lovely. Now, back to the reason I am drawing pears……