yey :) i have a monitor that i can temporarily use. my sister and i agreed to scout for a new one after her final thesis defense next week.

the other day when i went to school for enrollment (only to find out that i got the dates mixed up...) i went to the bookstore to buy notebooks and pens. i realized that classes were going to start the following day and i didn't have supplies with me. tsk tsk. talk about sembreak hangover. so anyway, i got two big notebooks and a pilot 0.4 sign pen (my handwriting only looks decent with this type of pen) and a blue paisely print gift wrapper. i figured i should wrap the notebooks with gift wrapper because at least i get to choose the design i want :) so last night i used the leftover wrapper to wrap my new hardbound journal. i used a cheap school notebook and turned it into a journal where i can write what i can't say here in my blog. i got hooked, too! by 8 PM i had stacks of old teeny bopper magazines with me that i no longer find interesting. cut out words here and there and pasted them to make a cover for the journal.

the product of my fruitful work? tah-dah!!!!

the ocean blue paisely print cover :) i'm going to get more of this wrapper. i love it!


first page of the journal


...the second page with my once-in-a-lifetime studio picture.


...and more.

the journal slash scrapbook is private so why did i go through snipping and pasting and all that labor? i figured, to keep my enthusiasm for writing on this journal... it should at least look attractive and interesting. plus, it's gonna be around for a long time so it might as well look decent enough for me to not throw it to the trash can.

i've always had a flair for arts and crafts. i enjoy cutting and pasting and making lay-outs for scrapbook pages. when i was younger i had origami books and my parents bought art kits from UNICEF. i loved that big box because you can paint, make paper mache, draw, and do a lot more because it's a kit with lots of stuff to do for kids. in grade school, i enjoyed my industrial arts class where we drew, made small sculptures from clay, and made beaded accessories.

art is fun! :)

i'm hoping that the enthusiasm won't die down. next stop? pottery! haha!