< rant >

It's been a bit of a crap week.
Let's summarise what would ordinarily be a ridiculously long spiel about very little into a simple mathematical equation:

scholarship application

+

scholarship recording

+

concerts nearly every week

+

threats of being kicked out of orchestra because of said concerts

+

having to memorise all your music for sola

+

losing your phone, which is new, and on a plan

=

fail.

I have very few words of the happy nature left.
Sorry for the miserable post :( I have some things to photo and put up here but I'm tired and sulky and very busy.

Dentist tomorrow... it just gets better.

< /rant >

I swear...

... they've imported the weather. From Russia, or something.

It is set to be 0 degrees C on Wednesday. For those of you who work in Farenheit, that's freezing point.

This shouldn't be!

Haven't been making much lately; I've had to get all these applications for scholarships and orchestras and everything to do with that done, as well as practice and study! It will be an interesting few weeks...



This is what being busy has done to my desk. It's pretty bad, even for me.

Extreme photo taking

It is a freezing winter day (well. as freezing as Brisbane gets) and so I decided to take some photos. Because that is what you do when it's cold.
Click the pictures if you want to know what I made them out of.

How cute are the Japanese lollies. One of my friends gave them to me for my birthday, and they were too cute to eat. The earrings are those lucky stars that you fold from a long strip of paper... I got lazy one day and wanted to make something easy, so this was the result.

The idea for the earrings is completely unoriginal, but I wanted to use the dolls.

Mmmm, clusters. I had fun experimenting with them. I rather think the bottom middle ones look quite grand.

More clusters. Because they look bad when you lie them horizontally. I am quite attached to the metal dice beads, and will be hoarding them when I can find them.

The poshest lot of them. They insisted on going solo, and begrudgingly let the paper lotus sit at the corner.

I'm pretty sure those little shoe charms are the cutest dang things I have found up till now.

Just look at them!

I'm quite proud of these, especially the dragonfly ones. The seed beads have just enough weight in them to bend the fishing line so it looks like they're suspended in space.

The whole crowd.


This is what I do instead of studying or practising... bad girl! I have finished my recording of the Bruch Romance, very happily! It sounds a bit iffy here and there but overall I think it should be ok. Now onto the Bach...

Hello...

... and pleased to meet you!

This fine (cold, wet, and suitable for drinking nothing but tea and soup) day, I have decided to make a blog. I hope you enjoy your stay :)

I have been making things with beads for quite a while but I have recently gotten out my mum's sewing machine and have been imagining lots of things that I can do with that.

Let's see where this goes!