Video Update

Hey Guys, you may have noticed that no videos have appeared on my channel, as I had promised. There will be one up in the next couple of days but filming is much more difficult than I expected - I keep filming entire videos not in the frame without realising, I got hiccups (who knew they could be so disruptive?!), and then the last one I did, when I was finally in frame and in control of my breathing, the audio got messed up.

I'm hoping that's just because the camera was dying (and did at then end) by this point and that affects the audio/video syncing, but I'm going to try again later and hopefully, it will work this time and then I can actually upload something.

If all goes well I'll probably be in a good mood and I will film a tutorial and put that up in the next few days too, hopefully. Fingers crossed...

Final Exam!

Yesterday I had my last exam! not ever... I'm only in year 11 so I'll have more in January, and then more in May/June and so on for years yet, but they're over for now, at least!

And this means...

I'M FREE! I've obviously finished all of my subjects, I've done the exams so I don't have to go to school again until September! Woohoo. Schools in the UK this year aren't breaking up until the 20th July, so it gives me a whole entire extra month of freedom.

I think I'm going to get very bored, very quickly.

But no matter, I'm sure I'll find something vaguely productive to do... maybe, probably not but it would be good to not waste the time by sleeping and doing nothing much.

Still doing exams? Some of my friends haven't finished yet (most of them, actually...), so good luck if you haven't finished already! :)

New Camera! + Video Plans

My camera arrived today! I can't wait to try it out :D  My last exam is tomorrow morning so when I get home I am going to film, film, film! haha. I'm so excited, its sad. Plus, it is a lot smaller than I thought it would be, like, I can practically get my entire hand round it, and my hands are small... so this isn't going to be too bulky to vlog with either! Ahh!

*The above paragraph was edited from 'my new camera hasn't arrived...', because it arrived half way through writing this post!*

So, if you're reading this and there's anything you want to see (tutorial, vlog or otherwise), then let me know! 

Video uploading, schedule-wise, I want to upload at least once or twice per week, if not more, but I'm starting A-levels next year which is going to be a change that I will need to adapt to, so I don't know when the best times to upload/film would be, because I don't have my timetable. Also, in the summer I'm doing a program thing where I won't be at home Monday-Friday for 2 weeks, and I'll be doing it for up to 3 weeks more after that, coming home in the evening, probably pretty tired, so I'll have to see then what I can do - but I'm looking forward to it!

Anyway, my video plans so far are:

• Granny Square tutorial
• Friendship bracelet tutorials, maybe the plaid-pattern (last post) and any requests.
• How to start/end a friendship bracelet - Adjustable method
• An updated friendship bracelet collection video (maybe)
• Vlogs (follow me around vlogs, hopefully, but that might be a bit awkward)
• Paris Vloggin'! - I'm going back to Paris on the 6th July-10th with my family (woo), so I want to try and do daily follow me around vlogs there, which might be awkward in a busy city with my grandparents, mum, her partner and my sister, but I think it would be fun!
• School Supply Haul (because there are barely any from the UK on YouTube)
• REQUESTS!

Sounding good? I have no idea what I'll film tomorrow, probably an Update video, and a couple of others, I'll see what takes my fancy after the exam. :)

Plaid-Patterned Bracelet

Back to the crafty posts :) This is a bracelet I've seen before and thought was really cool! I love how the bright rainbow colours stand out against the black, and how they also fade into each other, like a rainbow. So, I found the pattern on friendship-bracelets.net and had to make it! Here's the product so far ->

It is 15 strings so is pretty time consuming, but I think it is so worth it! I'm pretty much almost done and this is a must for Etsy when I'm done :) 

Keep you updated!

Musicality!

mu·si·cal·i·ty/ˌmyo͞oziˈkalətē/

Noun:

Tastefulness and accomplishment in music. The quality of being melodious and tuneful.

Lately, I've really found my type - and I've found in in independent YouTube artists :) I would name names, but there are loads. Maybe I will name names actually! (with links, woo, we all love links!)

• Luke Conard
• Alex Goot
• Tyler Ward
• Alex G
• Landon Austin
• Megan Nicole

In particular, I love their original songs - they by far beat mainstream music, and the fact they do it all for themselves is just amazing, I think. 

Here's Luke Conard and Landon Austin's new original song (released about... 53 minutes ago, haha) which I LOVE!

Plus, here's Alex Goot's new album, 'In Your Atmosphere' preview (it comes out tomorrow), which, again I love and am really looking forward to!

Tiny Tower Update! And Revision Ramble...

So I didn't post yesterday, and had no idea what to post today, so I thought I would do a Tiny Tower Update! Just for lack of ideas...

Anyway, as of now, I have 21 floors (22nd under construction), 5 people in their dream job (3 of which are ALL the Pizza Place - weird...), and 1 complete mission. I'd say its all going pretty well, but I must say, the further it goes on the more tedious the game is - like restocking and finding residents and stuff (I have 38 of those :D). Is it just me getting lazy and bored? 

I don't know, but I do know I spend too long on that game, and have to put my phone on the other side of the room in case I'm tempted while revising, which, if you've seen Twitter, has taken a turn for the worst lately - I thought I had a week until my next exam, turns out it is on Tuesday. Today is Saturday. Oops. So much for one week of relaxing/doing nothing, one week of steady revising. UH, NO! I got half a week of doing nothing, and 3 days of PANIC REVISING! aka, cramming. Not the best plan when it is History, and not the best plan when you suck at cramming anything at all into your mushy brain. Also, procrastination is a great help too. Anyway...

Tiny Tower! 

...to end on a high note. (pun maybe intended... :P)

New Listing! Rainbow!

So the sun finally (sort of) came out for me, at least it came out enough so that I could take photos of the rainbow bracelets I was talking about earlier this week.

They are now listed on Etsy, take a look here. You can see them opposite too (see the importance of good sunlight?

Tell me what you think and if there is anything I should do to change/make my listings or posts better. I'm always looking to improve. I don't know if these posts are just me rambling or are actually interesting to some people...

Review: The Lucky One (Nicholas Sparks)

So I in my last post I said I bought 'The Lucky One' by Nicholas Sparks, and that day I read like 40 pages and then I got tired and went to bed, not much had happened at that point, it was more setting the scene and getting to know the characters. However, This morning I woke up and thought, I'm going to read! So I read. All of it.

Yep, I read the whole thing for five hours straight. I loved it. If you don't know, its about an ex-US marine (Logan Thibault) who finds a picture of a girl (Beth) while on tour, and then he sets out to find her after he feels it brought him good luck. That part's pretty predictable, he finds her and they fall in love, (I think the cover and blurb pretty much spoil that one for you, don't blame me), but that is not fully the main part of the story, and I'm not going to tell you anything else plot-wise because then I would be to blame for spoiling, but let's just say its gooood (you'll have to read it to see what I mean).

Between Thibault's memories and accounts of his past, Beth's... situation, and the bonds you see between the characters (...and the conflicts), this is a really good, all round story. It's not too soppy, but its got that air of drama and suspense. Its also pretty funny at times, and it takes a lot to make me laugh out loud at words on a page. All in all, I would recommend this book, and I'm definitely going to be getting more of Sparks' novels to waste my days with.

It's safe to say I'm pretty desperate to see the movie now too, although I'm really not sure, from reading it, if Zac Efron fits the bill for Thibault, I guess I'll have to watch and find out...  I do know that movies always infuriate me after I've read the book first (or if I read it second), so we'll have to wait and see on that one.

Image from here

No Sun... How 'bout a Book?

So it turns out the sun doesn't actually like me and decided to stay behind the clouds, so I couldn't take photos for Etsy. I would rather wait for that natural light than use artificial light, which is too yellow and doesn't look as good, in my opinion.

Anyway, I bought a book today! If you hadn't already guessed, its 'The Lucky One' by Nicholas Sparks. I've never read one of his novels before, but I've seen a couple of the movies and have always thought it might be a good idea, and when I saw this I thought 'what the heck' so I grabbed it (obviously I paid for it, wrong word there maybe) and I'm going to start reading it later. I'm looking forward to it! I hope I like it, I'm fussy with books so its hard to find anything to read. But, if I like this, I'll have plenty to be getting on with. I love reading, I just like to read things that really grab my attention, or I get bored and fall asleep - slightly taking away the enjoyment.

Image from here

Rainbow Bracelets!

So I did what I said I would, I made 3 more bracelets to give a full ROYGBV rainbow. (I didn't do Indigo because I don't have a bright version to match the rest). These are mini bracelets, and I tried them by tying them (loosely) around my wrist, and they look really good together, in my opinion.

I decided not to do my usual adjustable type bracelet because the small ones twist, so it doesn't work too well, and also, the point of friendship bracelets is to have your friend make a wish, tie the bracelet onto their wrist and then wait for the strings to naturally break and fall off. Then the wish comes true. Sweet huh? Well that wouldn't work if it was adjustable, because you can take it off. I'll probably put the option of adjustable-ising the bracelets when I post them on Etsy though, I know some people might prefer that :)

They will be going on Etsy later, hopefully, if the sun decides to peek from behind the clouds. (British weather has returned to the usual grey drizzle. wa.hoo.). Anyway, I'm off to beg the sun to return so I can take photos of these bracelets. Then maybe I'll make myself a set.

Olympic Bracelets?!

Yesterday I started working on these Olympic bracelets - the point being to make 5: green, blue, yellow, red and black, the colours of the Olympic rings. I thought I would get into the spirit of it. :/

But then I started wondering if it would be illegal or not to sell bracelets using what I suppose is, technically, the Olympic branding. So I stopped at the third and I'm now wondering what to do with them. I don't really fancy any problems with copyright or whatever law protects this particular image. Any ideas?

Luckily, the ones I did do are all in the classic ROYGBIV rainbow, and they sort of match, so I guess I could do something with them other than letting them go to waste. Hmmm... Maybe a bright rainbow is in order?

I might start work on that while I'm watching the penultimate episode of Desperate Housewives (*sad face*). Yes, it had really taken that long for the series to come to the UK, its annoying.