My greatest moments of creative inspiration ALWAYS come when I have something more important to be getting on with. This week when I still have a ton of work to do before the semester is over I suddenly got the idea to make a tote bag out of a pair of linen trousers.

Here's what I made:

I had these trousers when I was 17 and I ripped them, but they had that pretty embroidery on the leg so I kept them all this time planning to do something someday with that nice pattern and inspiration finally struck! The handle is the belt on the trousers.


The inner lining is made from a shirt that I loved the pattern for, but it always looked rubbish and I never wore it. I carried 4 library books in it today and it didn't fall apart so it seems my sewing isn't too bad.

Here's my mum modeling it for me:


I'd better get back to work now before creative inspiration distracts me again!

This pic is so weird but kinda cool I think!
I was messing around with the camera on my new lappy and it has a setting called 'comic book' which is supposed to make you look like... well a comuc book. But the flash was so strong that my mouth and nose got bleached out and my eyes turned blue!

This is what happens when I'm sposed to be writing up my research project.

PS: I'm listening to cheese. *points to music*
Singing along to Boston makes your tummy feel better if you feel sick. True story.

My new lappy and I are heading to Canada on June 10th!
I'm so excited that Luke and I are gonna be living together (SANS CANADA-BOY'S PARENTS) for 6 months ^_^

Life is busy but unexciting right now - I just have a crapload of work to do really.

Here's my latest vids for friendship 2.0:

My London trip:


Err... packing for London trip:

Keep forgetting to post my vids.
Here's the newest:


Though China has now unblocked youtube again - so YAY!

I'm going to London on Friday for a long weekend with my gay best friend.
Can't wait!

Why is it the creature I think is cutest in the world and want to hug more than any other is a live bear willing to maul me? *sigh*



I love pandas!
You can watch pandas live -

HEEEEEEEEEERE

Ooops, behind on my vids.
( vids behind the cut... )

My dad is currently in Singapore on business and he mentioned before he went out that a local store where he's staying had a lot of "that bento stuff" I like (he knows this because he goes every year) and would I like him to pick up some supplies for me?

Umm. YES. No brainer.

So he didn't really know what stuff I need so I wrote a couple things down on a postit note with some doodles of what they might look like.

BUT WOW. He went to town!




"Dear Beth
Spent $28 in Daiso today. Items in picture (from left in columns):
Column 1: Silicon dish cats; silicon dish hearts; mayonaise cup
Column 2: weird box combo; 2 lots of picks, tiny forks and spoons; rice ball makers
Column 3: insulated box; onigiri makers; 3 lots of chopsticks; sushi grass.
Unless I can find a good bento box (none in Daiso), I think I'm done!
Love
Dad"

Awww... I'm always going to refer to my onigiri box as "weird combo box" from now on <3

My meeting went well today.

Here's this week's vid:

All the drama from yesterday (which if you're an LJ friend you may have read me venting about in my last entry) got talked out and I'm very happy now! YAY! Sometimes an overdue discussion is all that's needed to fix something.

Anywho, Luke and I covered a song together from different sides of the Atlantic as an extra vid for friendship 2.0!

Here's what we came up with:


I was really nervous to post this because I wasn't sure if I sounded okay and I was fairly sure I looked stupid - but I'm glad I got the courage to post it.

My grandparents have been married for sixty years!
Isn't that awesome? Today is their wedding anniversary and there's a special family dinner.

Sooo....

My parents and I are hitting the road and driving to my Nanna's. Here's our snacks for the drive:

For my parents in the front:

They have ham and philly cheese wraps, cheese flowers (I got new cutters for christmas) on some baby spinach leaves.
And in the bottom dark chocolate hobnobs and gummy worms (dad loves sour candy)

For me (and *sigh* the dog) in the back:

The same, but less of it... and I have a clementine.

I enjoy cooking food that looks like vomit but tastes like awesome.

New vid, which I totally didn't want to make because I'm sick right now.

Here's a video that was filmed before my recent drama:

Hai guys, Happy New Year!

For 2009 my friends Tyler and Ben (who are friends in real life but currently reside on 3 different continents) are giving up communicating through emails and IMs and are instead going to stay in touch through video blogs on a shared youtube channel. How exciting is that? I think it's pretty exciting anyways...

YOUTUBE.COM/WORLDWIDEAWESOME is the link if you'd like to see our channel, and WORLDWIDEAWESOME.COM is the official site with all the project rules and update schedule on it.

This is my intro vid:


I'm still a bit camera shy and awkward when I'm being filmed, but hopefully I'll get over that soon. EEPS!

This lovely lady is Belenos. Matt Sandbrook drew her for me, she's the lead role in my Nanowrimo novel (Nanowrimo = challenge where you spend all November writing a 50,000 word novel).



She's the princess of pirates. She was the daughter of the most notorious captain to ever live, and even ten years after his death there's not a brigand alive with the guts to face the wrath of his ghost should any harm come to her. A free spirit who always gets what she wants, rootless Belenos wanders from ship to ship in an endless pursuit of gold and jewels.

Fun, huh?

Well I'm having a lot of fun writing it anyways. I was doing well on the word count (21k) but I should be up above 25k now - I got stuck because I had to write an essay for my course... guh.

Anywho I made a couple new friends through Nano-ing because on the Nano forums we arranged an Aber meetup and we all met up in this cafe with laptops to write together. It was really fun so we're going to meet up again. Yay, some semblance of a social life! It gets kind of lonely when 3 of your 4 best friends move away and the 4th is a busy busy boy with no phone.

Last weekend my family all went to Brighton, where my brother lives with his new wife. They took us sightseeing and it was really fun, especially considering I was supposed to be in classes.


There they all are at the start of the day.
Apparently my dad needed a nap...

( Brighton + pics )

Also this week I got the critique back for my first scriptwriting assignment:
"To begin at the beginning, the idea is terrific. As I've said in lectures the premise is possibly more important than anything else in the script. Your story benefits from a wonderful high-concept premise that would make anyone you pitched it to sit up and listen.

Next, your basic plotting is exactly right. You've hit the story beats in a way that is logical, but surprising enough to keep your audience interested. Ryan's death on page two of the outline is a quick, jarring moment that tells the audience that this film isn't going to be a usual 'battle of the bands' film. His turning into a literal "death's head" and becoming a better metal performer for it is great. If this were an undegraduate assignment, it would surely receive a high first. So, when I offer the following critique, do be aware that we're talking at a fairly high level."

That's what it said before the 4 pages where he ripped my story to pieces xD
Oh well, he was really pleased with it overall so I'm really pleased, and at least I know what I have to work on. Woohoo!