One Year on YouTube!

Wow guys, it is one year since I posted my first video today see it here. Its been a good year, I have nearly 6,000 views on one video, 23 subscribers, 10,600 total views and 3 failed cameras, so altogether pretty positive. :) 

When my new camera arrives I will be posting videos again (considering I haven't for 3 months...), so hopefully that arrives soon :) If I haven't said already, it is supposed to arrive between the 6th and 22nd of June, but maybe I'll be lucky and it will come sooner. Who knows?

So yeah... hopefully I'll last another year! haha :)

Happy YouTubeiversary to me!

I saw the Olympic Torch!

I feel like this is the kind of thing I can tell my grandchildren (when I'm of that kind of age...).

Anyway, here's my one and only picture of the torch going on its journey. Pretty cool huh? I honestly wasn't too bothered, it was a sort of blink-and-you-miss-it kind of thing. A dozen police bimbled past on their motorbikes at seemingly unnecessary intervals for about 20 minutes, then there was a procession of sponsors (like Coca-Cola), and then the torch was lit and ran past.

Funny (ish) thing was, there was a bus that drove past full of the day's runners, and each of their torches waiting. It did kind of take the 'special' aspect away, because it made it too real that there are actually 8,000 of these torches, not just one unique torch. But never mind!

So yeah, that's my exciting day following two fun physics exams.

PS: I've only just noticed the guy standing on top of a truck taking photos in the background. That must have been fun!

Olympic Torch Relay

So the Olympic torch is coming past my school today, so, considering I am going to be stuck there as all the roads are closed, I'm going to get to see it! Maybe. I've seen the massive crowds on TV, but I don't see any considerable number of people even caring about this place to come, so hopefully I actually will get to see it, it may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after all. Yay.

and in other news, I got my 6th floor on Tiny Tower... woohoo!

Tiny Tower!!! and Revision...

I don't know how, but I only just downloaded Tiny Tower on my phone, and I'm already addicted! I have a grand total of...

*cue drumroll* 

5 FLOORS! slightly pathetic but eh, well. I went on the 'friends' section and everyone had these towers that were basically off the screen, and then I scrolled across and there was itty bitty ickle me all small in the corner, with my 5 floors.

Problem: I have a lot of revision to do. BUT I only have 4 more exams left! woo! So not the time to be getting addicted to games. at. all.

Anyway, I need to go and do a practice History paper and maybe some Physics cramming... woohoo for that. Otherwise I never will, and then I'll fail. We don't want that. Not a good idea. (even though, again, neither of those subjects apply to my life much...).

Bye!

Forgot to Post!

Oops, so yesterday, posting completely slipped my mind, so I thought I would post a random little something now, although I have no idea what I'm posting... hmmm.

It's really sunny outside today, it has been for about the past week, but its supposed to end on Wednesday :( I like the sun! Other than these amazing 'heatwaves' we infrequently have, British weather is pretty rubbish, it either rains, is overcast or is just plain cold and boring. I like to go outside and be able to see colour, not just grey. No-one likes a grey day. Maybe... maybe some people do.

Yay for the remaining sun! :D

Phone Sock Update

So here's how my phone sock is coming along, you can kind of see the pattern now, but the image quality is still weird (any idea why yet?). It should be finished pretty soon! this kind of a quick project keeps me motivated. :)

Back to Knitting

So today I decided. I want to knit again. I always go back and forth between knitting and crochet, usually favouring crochet. I started knitting a phone sock earlier using the magic circle method, which makes it completely seamless. I chose this coral colour (which looks pink in the picture), because it is like, my favourite colour at the moment.
I am doing a knit background with a double-cabled front, which you can't really see yet, but I'll keep you updated, hopefully I'll finish soon, otherwise I'll probably get fed up with it. I always do.

Exams... Again.

So, it seems all of these 'craft-related' posts are actually about how terrible revision is, how much I hate it and so how much I don't do it. That's not crafty, but anyway, I thought I'd let you know...

I had 3 exams today and. It. Sucked. Even though I don't think I did too badly, it was just a lot of thinking for one day when I haven't actually had a full school day for weeks. Hence the late post.
Anyway, I only have four more exams left! (for this season...) In case it interests you, it's Physics, DT and two History exams, maybe technically 5 then, since there's two Physics exams...
Anyway, and then I am done. And I can do whatever I want, whenever(ish) I want. With NO SCHOOL!  wow that feels good to say, its been a stressful month or so with all of the unfinished coursework that no-one has been forcing me to do (I guess they think I'm responsible and don't procrastinate. pahahaha). I still have IT to upload, maybe I should do that, considering the deadline is tomorrow... yeah, might be a bit necessary if I'm doing it at A-level too :/  At least the work is done, I just hope I don't have a computer failure tomorrow.

T'would be bad...

Maybe I'll get back to actual crafting tomorrow (after uploading IT!). Bye!

Last-minute Chem-Cram :/

So yes, I'm bad. Yes, I need two 98s to get an A*. And so, yes, I am cramming chemistry before my exam tomorrow morning. Its not even like Chemistry is a subject that matters much to me (ssh kids, I never said that! even though its true...) but I'm still a bit of a nerd and so I still want to get that A*- looks like I'll have to settle for an A though, considering I have no idea what I'm cramming even means...

Also does anyone know why my photos look like this-> because whenever I post a picture from my phone, it looks all weird and pixelated and speckly and... just wrong, any ideas folks? no, great. may just have to have funky photos then .:/

A Desire to Vlog!

So lately, I've been watching crazy amounts of vlogs on YouTube, and watching them has made me really want to do some too! It looks so much fun! Embarassing and awkward, but fun. I really can't wait for my camera to arrive so I can get vlogging, I have, like, a serious need to try it. Seriously. It physically pains me that I have no camera to film with :(

My camera is said to be arriving between the 6th and 22nd of June so...

Watch this space then guys, many-a-vlog is a-comin'.


*PS: for the YouTube-impaired of you, a 'vlog' is like a video-blog, so like a blog post, but on camera.

Goodbye English! (sort of)

Almost... I've still got the poetry exam to do on Thursday, but finally! These books are out of my life! They have been plaguing me for months, and now I can do whatever I please with them. Not that I am, I might regret it in the future, I think they're going in the loft.

Its not that they're not good books, To Kill A Mockingbird is pretty good, I actually kind of like that, but honestly, I didn't really care for An Inspector Calls - it doesn't make much sense to me, hence the dreams of chainsaw massacre on it. Aah.... dreams!

Ah well, its over now. Done. Dusted. Failed.

New Listing!

I just listed a 'Peruvian Wave' bracelet on Etsy, so... yeah. Maybe have a look? If the last post took your fancy, but you're not the hands-on crafty type, here's the easy way to get the bracelet! Haha, goood sales pitch here Chloe. 'Apprentice' standard. (that's actually true - they can't pitch for toffee).

Here's the link:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/100325693/friendship-bracelet-multicoloured-double

Thanks!

Double Peruvian Wave Bracelet

The other day I decided to try out the Double Peruvian Wave bracelet - and I'm glad I did! It's so quick and easy, while being one of the more complex-looking bracelets. My first one (the brighter) isn't great, its only 6 strings and so the wave isn't very defined, and I think I made the knots too tight! On the second, I used 8 strings, and made the knots further down the string, so that I could create the right kind of tension. It worked really well, I think! Definitely a new favourite pattern.

If you want to see a tutorial for this bracelet, go here (although I do suggest 8 or more strings, 6 doesn't seem to give the wave effect too well) :)

Motivation Needed!

It's May. I am in year 11, and so, I am slap-bang in the middle of my GCSEs. fun. Problem is, I am spending time posting things on here, and doing other non-academic things instead of revising. Great - I am setting myself up for true success here aren't I? I need motivation. Desperately. Now. 

Oh dear. I'm breaking out the books, otherwise I am doomed to fail. Dooooooomed.

Summer Braid Bracelet

I decided I was fed up of revision (ssh) so I started this faux-braid bracelet, which I think is pretty cool,  if I do say so myself. I used summery colours that kind of remind me of watermelon, because it's nearly summer, and they make me happy :)

The pattern can be found here, on friendship-bracelets.net, in case you were interested.

Cancel the Last Post!

Guess what?

CANCEL THE LAST POST! I ordered a video camera. eBay is my friend. It'll take a couple of weeks to arrive, but it should be on its way, and then I'll be making higher quality videos, and often. Woo!

See you on camera in a few weeks then :)

Camera Fail

Hey guys! Me again...

So yesterday, I tried to film an amigurumi tutorial, and every single camera I own just failed:

• My webcam, which I normally use, decided to make me sound like an incredibly deep-voiced man, and then proceeded to freeze my computer.
• My actual camera decided to fall down every time I stood it up on the little tripod (that is due to the amazing design skills of the camera-tripod company, the camera weighs down one side, so it falls... clever.), and then I couldn't see what I was filming, and then the brand new batteries died. That's old technology for you.
• So finally, I propped up my phone, which has a pretty decent camera on it, and it also kept falling over because it's thin, and a tape-roll/stapler standing-mechanism was bound to fail from the beginning. The maximum record time then kicked in, so I managed to film, but in 2-minute pieces, and I have no idea if all of the footage was actually filmed. 

By this point, I just wanted to throw all technology out of the window, so I didn't bother checking.

So, I had a epiphany. I should invest in an actual video camera! As a classically jobless teenager (not for lack of trying, I might add), this isn't going to be as easy a task as it may sound, but I am going to try my very best. eBay here I come!

The good thing is, once I get one, I will be able to film half-decent videos, and it will be so much easier, so they will probably be more frequent too. Also, summer is soon, and I'm hoping to do some vloggin'.

Makeover!

This has been a massively neglected blog for the past year, maybe?

So... I thought my poor neglected blog needed:

a) A makeover!
b) A bit of TLC

So here it is, my first post for months, in a new-look blog, which I feel is so much better than before, otherwise I wouldn't have changed it...

Be ready to see more posts, and especially more less-pointless posts, which this is basically made up of at the moment. :)

Bye!