I planned to create a journal (in terms of updates) every month – however I totally missed February so this will be a March entry (but will include Feb stuff xD).

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ORIGAMI

During February, introduced me to origami, and the amazing origamist . With diagrams from Figuer, and demonstrations from Kei, I folded so many stars, roses and hearts! I would have uploaded them but since it was the month of feburary – I gave them all away before I realized I hadn’t even taken a photograph of them! Oh well. Maybe if my boyfriend takes a photo of it and uploads it. (I can’t believe he joined DA).

Things I folded:

-Arabesque stars.
A mini competition about folding the smallest ensued. I was going to fold a 1cm by 1cm one but unfortunately that spirit kinda died. Don’t worry it shall come back one day mwahahaha!
Anyway, I was going to make a deviation featuring the 1cmx1cm one, but you can see the stars that are left in my scraps: [link]

-roses
Way too pretty. I think I folded like 20. Then made chocolates to go with them.

-hearts
These are really simple. I made an entire jar of them. I got instructions from: [link]

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ART TRADE

I totally fell in love with Figuer’s origami. So I asked to do an art trade. The number of hours I spend on a picture = the no of hours he will spend folding origami for me. Check out Figuer’s journal if you want origami too! But he is getting a lot of trades.

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COMPETITIONS

-I’m participating in Cat’s competition “Define mini art contest” in terms of donating a sketch as a prize. Go check it out! [link]
What does art mean to you? Now turn that answer into art.

-I entered “New Year Spirit” into the competition “Hit me with your best shot” [link]
Enter too? No! I shouldn’t be saying that!

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NEW FRIENDS:

YAY! Say hello too!


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TAGS

Wow. I really don’t like these. But they are kinda fun if you have time to spare. And I’m sorry, this journal is getting very long!

TAG no. 1
Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real . . . nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your own name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name: Ebony

2. A four letter word: edge

3. A boy's name: Edward

4. A girl's name: Edwina

5. An occupation: Engineer

6. A color: emerald (T___T pity I can’t use Ebony)

7. Something you wear: earrings

8. A book: Earthsea Quartet

9. A food: egg

10. Something found in the bathroom: earth (as in dirt xp)

11. A place: Eygpt

12. A reason for being late: eating

13. Something you shout: eeek! (a squeaky noise when someone pokes you)

14. A movie title: Ella Enchanted (I love the book, but not the movie)

15. Something you drink: energizing drink…?

16. A musical group: Evermore

17. An animal: Eagle

18. A street name: Eighth avenue

19. A type of car: honda Element (I cheated and had to look this one up)

20. The title of a song: every time we touch

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TAG II

TEN things you wish you could say to TEN different people right now:
1. Can you help me figure out what happened my pay slip?
2. Do you offer contemporary dance lessons?
3. I would like a locker please.
4. Chill.
5. Thank you. You’re the best.
6. Have fun!
7. How is everything going?
8. Teach me.
9. I’m really sorry.
10. Let’s catch up!


NINE things about yourself:
1. I’d like to have an eating competition and I bet I will win.
2. I want to dance esp since watching “so you think you can dance”.
3. I have a fascination with emo, goth, punk people.
4. I have a list of 100 things to do before I die.
5. I could have passed as a vampire when I was 13.
6. I’ve cut my hair short to my chin.
7. I’m getting better at piano.
8. I’m going to play Bach partita no.3 1006 for violin today.
9. I like to roll down hills.

EIGHT ways to win your heart:
1. Be a bad singer
2. Be a bad dancer
3. Be someone who can cheer me up with their lame jokes
4. Be someone who can tolerate my strange-ness
5. Be an awesome guitarist
6. Be clumsy
7. Be a hopeless romantic
8. Be a gentleman
(sorry xP)

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:
1. what I must study today T___T
2. adults are like kids!
3. all forms of art
4. my boyfriend
5 money T___T
6 time T___T
7 transport T___T

SIX things you do before bed:
1 take out my contacts
2 brush my teeth
3 put on retainers
4 wash face
5 pack my bag
6 talk to my boyfriend


FIVE people who mean a lot to you:
1. Mum
2. Dad
3. My boyfriend
4. my friends….giving me five as a limit is too hard!
5. my extended family

FOUR things you're wearing right now:
1. white tank
2. blue skirt
3. black ring
4. black watch
5. nail polish


THREE songs that fit your life perfectly:
1 Life for rent
2?
3?

TWO things you want to do before you die:
1 complete my list of things I want do in life
2 xD

ONE confession: I like muscles.

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OKAY, so I tag these 10 people:
(perfect! 10 new friends xD)

xD

I've decided to come back on DA because I still want to draw and improve on my art. Even if life gets hectic, I've made a goal of making something digital at least every 3 months. Thanks to all the lovely people who still stop by to chat and look at my gallery~! I'm still going to //attempt// to be as active I was before

So to celebrate me back to drawing again, I've finally finished the WIP which has been on my screen for a year - New Year Spirit. I also drew another picture in the space of a single day -Beach Fun. I also become slightly obsessed with origami...Going away to the country for a week without people or the internet does this to you! I hope that I've improved somewhat, and that I'll continue to improve.

Oh and old news that I never posted, Underwater Rainbow Bridge won a competition in Dolly magazine; check out pg 115 of the December 2008 issue. I won the entire set of Fruits Basket manga.

so YAY, I'm going to draw more. xD hehe

I’ve started university for two weeks now. Times are really busy for me at the moment which is why I haven’t been around DA these days. I have kept all my messages and deviations…they might be replied to stupidly late so beware!

Okay! Also the reason for this new journal entry is to find out who got the kiriban @ 1483 hits. Reply to this journal or note me with the screenshot please. Then I’ll draw you a picture. xD

Here’s my little art checklist:
-vday pack gift art exchange (whew, deadline extended to 25th March,): currently line-arting
-the Chinese new year WIP: currently all base coloured and ready for shading! Xp
-picture for kiriban winner...?

Oh, and a happy Easter to everyone in advance!