18 March, 2013

March and my Journal - days 11-18

So... I kinda failed the "post new pages every five days" rythm I was supposed to keep up. Ooops. But I had a good reason! I went for an impromptu mini vacation to Tallinn last weekend to see my brother so I just didn't have time to make a post on Friday or during the weekend. But now you'll get all eight pages I've done since you've last seen me around!

You can find the first five pages I made here and pages 6-10 here.


Day 11: What did you eat today?

Marjarahka (Berry curd)
Hapankorppu (Rye crisps)
Valkosipulivoipatonki (Garlic butter baguette)
Lohisalaatti (A sallad with salmon)
Just pen on paper with, obviously, rather a lot of planning. I felt like doing something rather graphical today and ended up spending really long time working on this one.


Day 12: A quote that you like.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
This genuinly is one of my favorite quotes there is. It still manages to make me giggle a bit, especially when I'm tired. The dog picture is just something I found online, printed to some old brown paper I have and then cut along the line.


Day 13: Design yourself a badge of honour or a medal for something you deserve it from.

Ahkera askartelija (hard-working crafter)
I really didn't know what to give a medal for myself for so I just ended up giving me one for working so hard on this journal. Unfortunately you can't quite tell how three dimentional this medal is with the yarn.


Day 14: What are your favourite things today?

My favorite things today
were the chips I ate
 were the snowflakes
 was the pie I made
I just simply love this pic of the man sitting on the tiniest of tiny islands in the middle of a huge lake or a sea. It's cutout from some magazine or something. The text is printed on reused squared paper and then I just made some lines and dots to make it look more fancy.


Day 15: Collect shopping lists here (yours or ones you found)

Things I will need when I move to my new home
TV, sohva (sofa), työpöytä (writing desk), uusi kirjahylly (new bookshelf), lamppuja (lamps)
This is the buzzy friday edition and as I had no shopping list to collect, I just decided to write one for myself. I'm actually moving to a new place in the beginning of the summer and these things are genuingly things I will need to get for the new place sooner rather than later.


Day 16: A confession or revelation about yourself

I may be 26 years old woman
but I don't know hot to use makeup
 and don't really care to learn either.
As I was in Tallinn Saturday and didn't want to carry the big notebook (and all the suplies) with me, I made this one a day late. Once again a nice clipping from a magazine and a true statement about myself. I've decided that if ever there comes an occation when I want and/or need to put on some makeup, I'll just pay for someone to make it for me.


Day 17: List the pros and cons for an optional topic

LIVING WITH A KITTY CAT
+ so very cute & fluffy
+ super funny sleeping positions
+ the PURR
+ softer than soft furr
+ someone comes greet you when you come home
+ looks always good in photos
+ fun to play with
- the crazy hour in the evening
- "no door shall be closed" policy in the house
- scratch marks all over your skin
- eating all the plants!
- dropping all the stuff (especially books from the bookshelf)

To make it clear, I don't have a cat but my roommate does. Also, I had the inspiration close when I made this. THe picture is a page from an old broken picture book which pages I have for crafting purposes.


Day 18: Add a magazine clipping of a subject important to you

A very short news piece about Benedict Cumberbatch telling that he and Martin Friman have agreed with BBC about the fourth season of Sherlock.
Meaningless in the grand skeme of things, but for me and other people who have been Sherlocked, this was such wonderful news. Never mind that they haven't yet shot the third series either! The background is just a printout from Word to odl blue paper.

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Hups, venähti vähän sivujen postausväli, kun lähdin hetken mielijohteesta minilomalle Tallinnaan. Varsin hyvin olen kuitenkin pysynyt tahdissa mukana (ainoastaan sivu 16 piti tehdä reissun takia päivä myöhässä) ja kaikki on tullut tehtyä, joten tässä nyt muistikirjan kahdeksan viimeisintä sivua.


6 comments:

  1. Tykkään näiden sivujen graafisuudesta. Ja jos ei huvita meikata, niin älä meikkaa! Hyvän päätäksen oot tehnyt. Ei kaikkien tartte vaikka enemmistö niin tekisikin.

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    1. Kiitos, graafinen luukki on sellainen, joka miellyttää omaa silmää sen verran paljon noin yleisestikin, ettei se varmastikaan ole mikään yllätys, jos ja kun se ujuttautuu myös näihin. :)

      Joo ei, en todellakaan koe mitään painetta meikata. Ja aika iso osa kavereistanikaan (edes niistä, joiden sukupuolen mukaan ehkä odotettaisiin) eivät meikkaa. Kun oma naama meinaa mennä tukkoon jo vähän tukevammasta naamarasvasta, niin ei sikälikään tee mieli töpötellä sitä täyteen erinäisiä aineita.

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  2. Tosi kivoja sivuja kaikki! Jotenkin tuon favourite things today -sivun rauhallisuus on todella vetoavaa.

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    1. Kiitos! Tuo kyseinen sivu on munkin mielestä yksi tämän setin onnistuneimpia.

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  3. Just been looking back over your journal pages - they are great ! Really sorry I have only just found out about this challenge !! Suppose I could always make it April in my Journal & run a month late !! Thanks for showing all your fab pages ! Ali x

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    1. Thank you Ali! And you should definitely do this in April if you feel like it, it was very much fun until I got way too busy to even think about the challenge and then too sick to do it. But I might try and do the rest of them in April too. :)

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