It's time to get personal

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6  ~ All images from Pinterest.

So for lucky people like me who don't have exams at university, we have six weeks off in the middle of the year. While we could spend it sitting on our arses watching episode after episode of Game of Thrones for the fifth time, which I probably will end up doing despite this post, we could also use it as a time for personal projects. Doing a design degree you're often restricted throughout term time to specific briefs and while you can stretch them to suit your style most often they're not really what you had in mind when you wanted to become a designer. So I've done the Game of Thrones arse sitting for the first week but I've also been scrolling Pinterest which has given me so much motivation and creativity to start some projects over the rest of the holidays. 

Create some greeting cards. 
and also hopefully start selling them. I need to work on my watercolour typography to digital skills a wee bit more first but keep your eyes peeled. 

Put up a print wall. 
I have prints, I have frames for them, I have a blank wall... now all I need are nails to put them up. Of course they'll have to be arranged nicely and all but it's simple right? 

Do some freelance. 
Make some fancy new logos for someone, or blog banners, or blog sidebar icons, or anything. Wink wink readers. 

Paint more watercolour. 
Just do more, practice makes perfect and I'm far from perfect. Maybe we'll start with flowers, I found a great tutorial for flowers so let's start there and practice my flower arranging. 

Spend more time on the blog. 
Tweaking background things, changing images, upgrading things. Sorting out things I'm not happy with and frankly just giving Sofilly some attention it hasn't really gotten these past few months while I've been working on uni projects. 

Technically if you want to get picky I could do most of these while doing the Game of Thrones arse sitting but you get the idea. Let's just spend some time with my craft and creativity and hopefully make myself even better for next semester! 

A Half Year of Firsts

I've had quite the busy week this past week, but now all those tasks are ticked off and everything has been handed in so my first semester for the year is over. Now seen as this means it's almost halfway through the year I thought I'd look back on my year of firsts.
In January I wrote about my year of firsts which were 11 goals that were mainly things I wanted to do for the first time ever this year. I'm pretty sure I haven't done that great and so this will be a bit of a kick up the bum! Let's get on with it. 

Attend a blogging event

The amount of Brunch Club's that have happened this year that I've been busy for is slightly annoying. But I will make it this year!

Do a zoo encounter

Yeah... so this didn't happen for my birthday but I actually looked properly into it and have witnessed someone doing the meerkat one that I really want to do and now I really want to do it even more. But it's like $160 cry. 

Learn how to use my camera properly 

I'm getting there with this one! Haven't managed to get to camera raw at the moment but the rest I'm doing okay with. 

Leave more time for art

I've done some; started doodling some greeting card designs. With the mid year holidays starting next week I hope to explore this more!

Turn 21

Woo I did one!!! 

Gain 100 Bloglovin followers

It's slowly building so hello to all you new people. I've been loving talking to more and more fellow bloggers over Twitter and such. 

Get an A+ overall grade 

I don't think this is going to happen this semester, I've achieved some A minus' this semester but there's no way to achieve an overall A+ with that. I'll be happy with an A+ as any grade really...

Cook more 

Slowly happening, okay it might have been like once or twice. 

Get happier with my blog

Well this is been happening! Unfortunately due to some unforseen circumstances including having no internet like all this month I haven't posted as much as I've wanted these past two months but before that it was great! 

Save some money

Has been happening!

Spend it on the good things

Chocolate counts right? 

So um there's a lot well on the way so that should be okay by the end of the year. How are you guys going with your goals lately? Now the semester's over I may actually be posting more often although to update you we still have no internet so I'm not promising anything!

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VCD's ruined you!

Fueled by crispy m&m's and coke I've finally reached the end of the first half semester woohoo! Unfortunately I lost my mind and broke down a few minor times during this time but hey I survived and I've handed in pretty much all my work now. I haven't really had any free time to blog or even scroll tumblr so sorry anyone following my tumblr as it hasn't been as busy as usual. But the good thing is I've actually been learning things, shock horror I've been actually learning things from the university I'm paying to teach me things! From this I hope to turn this blog into a more kind of design blog than a lifestyle blog even though it was already leaning towards design so this means a new layout and new style (just as soon as I go home and have time to sort it). I'll hopefully be able to post more artists and inspiration and also my class work. For those of you who don't know I'm studying Bachelor of Design majoring in visual communication design which pretty much is a mixture of graphic design, illustration, digital media, and advertising.