Home!

I've safely moved back from my dorm to my house! I'm surprised that there is such a drastic change in temperature, even though it's only a 3 hour drive, it's mostly a straight drive north from my college to my house. It's so much cooler and less humid near my house, I'm so happy!

Being near my pets is so different too, I really missed my little fuzz-balls! 5 cats and a tiny little dog running around my house... I guess one thing that I didn't miss was the fur all over the place. I've been vacuuming like crazy since I got back. >XD

So my summer is not very summery, it's cool and breezy and I have all the windows open while I clean. My first day of break seems to be a lot of housework lol.

I hope everyone enjoys their summer! :)

Done with School!!!

:EDIT: sorry about all the edits guys, but I've been having some issues with the formatting. Argh! I hope you don't mind. ):

Ahhhh! Finally done with exams and school. Summer break, here I come! I plan to do a lot of art and crafts during break and update my etsy store more often. To kick it off, here's some doodles I did while I was trying to

de-stress from final exams:

Talking with some of my friends has brought up some really nostalgic things, like what TV show we watched as a kid. Out of the list someone mentioned Gensomaden Saiyuki and I squealed like the silly fangirl I am from remembering a pretty significant part of my childhood. After that we commenced sharing who was our favorite of the four protagonists (mine being Gojyo, he will always have a special place in my heart lol) and the fact that I apparently resemble Hakkai the most when it comes to my personality according to my friends. (vicious with a sweet smile! D8< ) The idea stuck with me and I sketched Hakkai on Tegaki-E first, then I couldn't leave the other 3 behind. I still have to clean up Hakkai's version though, since his drawing was a sketch and I took more time on the others.

I've found Tegaki-E to be a really good place to jot down ideas for future drawings and such. I think I'll be there more often now that I have the time... but I really need to make some more substantial things! I have a lot of leftover yarn from previous projects, and I'm thinking I'll make some scrunchies with them. Lacy and fluffy chouc

hou's (that's what they are referred to in Japan. Personally I think that's a much nicer name than "scrunchies") are popular in Japanese girl's fashion lately. Here's some that I found on Yahoo shopping that were just adorable!

I think my leftover cotton-candy-pink brushed yarn will make a nice one. :) I can't wait to start!

Finals!

I have 3 final exams and the semester is over! While taking a little break from studying I started working on my unfinished drawing (also shown in my last update) on Tegaki again. I still have a little more until it's finished but I really should get back to studying. I guess I'll let it sit for a bit longer before it finally becomes a finished drawing. :)

Study Time

Whoa long time no update! Finals is coming up and all my final projects/essays are due... which is not the best time to be blogging but oh well. :)

I'm sitting at Panera, sipping my frozen mocha any typing my last essay for my comparative world literature class. I'm hoping I get it done by the time I run out of coffee and scones -____-;;

Enjoy some scribbles that I drew on Te

gaki while I took a break from studying! Drawing is such a good stress reliever ~~<3

後少しで夏休み！

でも一番勉強が大変なときでもある。

と言う訳で今日はおとなしくカフェでコーヒーを飲みながら勉強。。。

この店のオレンジスコーンはやっぱりおいしいな〜☆

ついでに落書きを少々。。。

勉強しすぎて気晴しが欲しいときに何かインスピレーションとか湧きますよね。汗

彼は誰と戦っているんでしょうね〜。相手を見たい方はこちらへ： http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=34999

Click the link and scroll down to see who he's fighting. :)

まだ描き終わってない。

と言うより続きを描きたい。。。でも勉強がぁ！！！　涙

AAAHHH I want to finish this drawing so bad! But I have to study!

picking a major

Right now I'm doing interviews with my school to see which art programs I can get into. It looks like I can get into painting and sculpture for sure, but I'm not too sure about art education (which is what I was planning on doing for the sake of getting a job OH NO) If worst comes to worst I'll major in painting for my BFA and declare a second major next spring? *sigh* that's so much waiting for me...

To be honest I think I could have gotten into Art ED easy but for some reason I couldn't find the place where they were doing the interview. I wrote down one room number where I was sure it was at but the advisor wasn't in the office and I grabbed the head person of the art foundations from his office to help me look for where the interview was being held and we still couldn't find them. WHAT.

But I only have till tomorrow till the program advisors decide what majors I will be allowed to pursue. OH GOSH I'm nervous.

Other than that the club that I'm in is hosting a Japanese style Hanami picnic this weekend and a Japanese festival the week after that. I'm in charge of bringing some snacks to the picnic and I'm manning the yakisoba stand! Woo!! I'll definitely post pictures for those!

more hemp!

最近以上に暑くなってびっくり。ほんの少し前に雪が降ってたのに、まるで夏みたい！

と言う訳で昔大好きだったヘンプを最近また始めました。

やっぱりアメリカの夏と言えばヘンプ！特にビーチとかでよく見ます。

ヘンプの編み方は結構簡単ですぐに出来上がるのが良いところ。

高校生の頃、カリフォルニアに遊びに行っていた友達がビーチでヘンプのブレスレットをその場で作る売店のおじさんを見つけたのが始め。ちなみにその人は真っ白なドレッドヘアのすごいオーラのある人だったらしい。あんな怪しい人に平気で近ずくのも友達らしい。。。でも良い子は真似しないでね！

その辺なおじさんにヘンプの編み方を教わり、その後、友達が私にも教えてくれました。

懐かしいな〜。。。

More hemp bracelets. :) This time a simple bangle bracelet

Available in my etsy shop if you're interested.

There's a really sudden heat wave here on campus, I can't believe that it was snowing just a week ago during Spring Break! It's inspired me to make some summery things, and when I think summer I think hemp, leather, and worn metal on the beach. :)

summer bracelets

I've gotten back into hemp recently, and I've been making bracelets like crazy for the upcoming summer. I plan to finally re-update my etsy store which I've been... neglecting for quite a while thanks to my schoolwork. Hmm... I wonder what I should make next?