Friday Goals

I've discovered something interesting over the past few weeks.

I am a person who does well under scheduled plans and structure, without certain stabilities it can feel as though I'm 'floating' adrift with no real purpose or goals and thus loose a lot of motivation to take part in the most simple things.

So in light of that, I'm going to try and do a 'goal list' of things to do for the week, different random things that I like, that will be good for feeling good about yourself and hopefully make you happy =)


1. Each day, go for an allocated 30 minute walk. Park, Shops or basically anywhere that has a nice view. (this will also benefit anyone who like me, suffers from chronic leg pains and needs to strengthen their muscles)

2. Have a bath. And not just any bath, have a bath with so many bubbles that you feel like you're floating on a scented cloud <3.

List is short for now but should continue to grow

Oh My Goodness Me...

I did not intend to spend the majority of 2015 silent o_o.

I want to say that I don't have any excuse, but that's not true; well not so much excuses as to reasons for being so silent and busy.

I mentioned in a previous blog in January that 2015 was not turning out to be a great year and it turned out that overall it was not a great year. There were aspects of it which were absolutely brilliant and many opportunities prevented themselves and for the first time in my life I am living away from my home which was terrifying but exhilarating.

My health suffered a lot this year which is one of the main reasons as to why 2015 was not in itself a good year.

However I'm back now, a new chapter is about to start in my life and I feel a lot more prepared for it.

From now onwards it will be back to blogging on a more regular basis and start building myself up

=)

A Collection of Sorts.

It's always been my goal to get into animation, whether character design, storyboarding or actual animation I'm not completely sure (I love all of them)

So here I'm just going to do a little post showing some of my work (a little apology for not updating for a little while, many things have been happening)

some are old and some are slightly recent 

Enjoy

Keeping Happy!

Even though it's only been a little over a week, 2015 has not been off to a great start for me.

Certain aspects have been going okay, been keeping ontop of being more healthy (currently having a nice bowl of chicken soup) and have been drinking plenty of water and sugar free orange juice (it is quite addicting to be honest)

But there have been lots of bad things developing over the past week, my health has been alright, the pain however has been flaring up a lot recently. The cold weather does that. But also both my parents are quite ill at the moment, my father had a very serious fall yesterday and is currently in a hospital over in England.

My mum is waiting on urgent surgery as well so there is a very bad atmosphere in our house at the minute, sadness, sickness and anger.

I'm trying to keep everyone feeling happy but I'm in a bit of a loss of how to do so.

Does anyone have any tips on lifting moods? or even a few jokes to put a smile on some faces?

Crafty Little Bag

I was having a rather unproductive day of not feeling so great and having to look out at the gloomy weather outside, so I thought 'why not pop out the sewing machine!'

It's been too long since I've made a little bag, I will have to whip out the machine more often!

A Spoonful of Honey helps the Tea go down!

Or perhaps not?

Hi everyone, as I mentioned in a previous post I am trying to be healthier this year by cutting down on the fizzy drinks and sugary treats, so far I haven't had a single drop of coke since new years eve (I am very, VERY pleased with this) and I'm doing alright with the treats as well.

At the moment we only have two types of tea Green tea and Peppermint tea, I have been looving the peppermint tea so much, it has such a nice minty flavour (obviously) and leaves your breath smelling nice and fresh which is quite nice =)

The Green tea on the other hand... I'm not loving so much, I know it is probably the best (health wise) tea for you to take but I am not enjoying the flavour of it at all, I'm finding it very hard to swallow down and it leaves such a nasty aftertaste in your mouth! =(

To try and help improve the taste I thought of adding a teaspoon of honey into the tea, whilst it did help a little bit I still was feeling very 'meh' about the whole thing (maybe two spoons are needed) 

If anyone has any tea flavour.. enhancement.. booster.. tips or ideas feel free to share!

As you can tell I'm a fan of twinings, I love their peppermint tea (as mentioned) and I am eager to try some more flavours so if anyone has any reccomendations or favouite flavours feel free to share them!

Bye for now!

<3

A Little Bit More Information

Hi everyone!

I mentioned before that I am currently at university studying Animation, Graphic Design and 3D Design.

I am well aware that it is a cliche to say that 'ever since I was a little girl I've always wanted to be an animator', It is true though, well... mostly, I don't think I actively wanted to be an animator, I just knew that I adored animated films and cartoons and was always drawing and designing my own little characters, making stories and adventures for them.

I was only ever interested in Art and Creative subjects in school, which made exams somewhat tricky I'll confess, however I got by and managed to get into a course that offered a National Diploma in Art in Design, after completed that I went on and got a Foundation Diploma before finally getting into University.

Somewhere along the lines of school I started to get pains in my left knee, I was told that it was simply growing pains and was advised to just take some painkillers every so often. However over time it spread to my right knee and became much more severe. 7 years later I have finally got a diagnosis of Chondromalacia Patellae.

Unfortunately because it has been undiagnosed for so long a lot of damage has been done to my knees and it is very likely that the condition will eventually spread to my hips and spine (big fun!) As you can imagine this means that most of the time I am in constant pain. So what does this mean for my university work?

It's a struggle.

It's a terrible position to be in, where you are in an environment where you are able to learn such amazing skills and been given opportunities that will directly affect your future, only to struggle to manage everything.

I feel like I am drifting through what should be the best years of my life.

I have made some amazing friends at university but I feel as though I am missing out on so many other opportunities because of this stupid condition.

I have so many goals and so many things that I want to accomplish, I want to work in the animation industry, there are so many ideas that I have which I want to make into a reality.

All I can do at the minute it to push onwards with everything and hope that it doesnt become too much to handle.