Nummy ^w^

     It was actually on July 2, but I didn't have time to post then. It was a pretty awesome day! My mum made me a yummy cake with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles, most of which was devoured by my brother later. A few of my friends came over and we ate cake and ran around playing with sparklers. Yay sparklers! X3 I got pretty much everything I wanted and more- an iPod (see previous post), wads of cash, and plenty of clothes and jewelry. (Which helped with my soon-to-be scene wardrobe!) Below you can see some of the stuff I got, and a pic of a sparkler my friend was holding. :) The cool plastic jewelry is from girlprops.com, and the shirts are from hot topic and forever21. (The power rangers shirt is AWESOME!)
    I had to leave for a family reunion the day after my birthday, which I'll post a bit about on sometime later. I updated my profile a little bit so check that out... the doodle I'm using as my profile picture is pretty much awesome, kekeke.  
My first sewing lesson is tomorrow! I hope it goes well and I'm not an outcast because of the age difference. I'm supposedly going to be in a class with a bunch of elementary schoolers. Waugh! XD I hope I survive. Wish me luck!

    I wanted to give you guys a peek into the pages of Japanese Seventeen in case you were interested. :3 It was the special anniversary edition, so it came with a "Majolica Majorca" cosmetics bag, the same one that's in the third photo. The page in the last photo is my favorite, it's a page full of purikuras. ^_^ I know it's kinda weird to take photos of the pages instead of just scan them, but I don't really understand my scanner. ^///^

Enjoy!

    If that's what you'd like to call it. I got bored and wanted to do something creative... I remembered a page in Fresh Fruits that showed these crappy but cute wire hand-thingies that some kids had made, and decided to give it a try. XD

Feel free to just skim over this as I feel like it's going to be a loooong post!

    I've been meaning to write a new post for a long time, but I always either didn't have time, or was just too lazy. (usually the latter ^^;) Alot has happened.

• I spent hours studying for my semester math tests, and even more time worrying about it. It's okay though, because I passed! :D
• I bought a lovely new saxophone. It's not as good as my other one, but it looks gorgeous and it's a nice second-horn.
  
• I went on my school's end-of-the-school-year trip to Washington DC.
• Made a big list of stuff I'm planning on doing over the summer!
  
• Signed up for sewing classes!

Pinkalicious

    When we were in DC there were plenty of fantastic shopping opportunities. I stopped by Rue21 (a store that I have loved for ages but rarely get a chance to go to since there's not one in my area), and also Claire's while I was in Union Station. at Rue21 I bought a pink tee with a cute design on it, and some fluorescent-pink just-over-the-knee tube socks. ^^ At claires I picked up some cute net fingerless gloves that were, as you may have guessed, also pink! XD
    It's summer break now, and I've made plenty of fantastic plans. I'm really interested in fashion, and I thought it might be a smart idea to sign up for some sewing classes, since my only experience was dolly clothes.. I researched sewing lessons in my area and found a nice place that teaches small classes of around 4 people each. I looked through the booklet of things we're going to be making, and even though most of it is kinda... meh looking, I'm still really excited since I'll be learning to make my own creations later on. I went out and bought fabric today! I got lots of pretty, satiny fabrics. ^_^ Only a few are pictured below, but I also got some different fabrics for different things. (i.e. a fuzzy purple and black zebra-print for a hair scrunchie.

    I've been keeping my own sketchbook of fashion designs, many of which are influenced by my interest in street fashion. I bought both Fruits, Fresh Fruits, and the latest issue of Japanese seventeen to inspire me, along with Gothic & Lolita. (I'd really like is a few copies of Kera Magazine too. ^w^)

Heaping pile of inspiration.

    My birthday is coming up on July 2, and I've already made my birthday list. XD One of the things I asked for was a blue iPod nano. I was a little disappointed that I had to ask for a new iPod since I was perfectly happy with my old one, but since someone was mean enough to steal it I feel like getting a new one is kind of a necessity. However, my parents said that since they're buying my brother a mac for college they're willing to give me the free iPod that comes with it so that I can ask for something else, so other things on my birthday list were pretty much cute stuff from Hot Topic, Forever21, and girlprops.com. Squee! Only eleven more days!

Paint

    So earlier I mentioned that I made a list of stuff I want to do over the summer, most of it being artistic or fashiony kinds of things.
Painting, drawing, sculpting, sewing, etc., pretty much everything I didn't have time to do over the school year. I already started the painting part (I'm not posting pictures, it's my first canvas painting and I'm very insecure about it. ^///^) and I went out and bought the clay and supplies a few days ago. I might post the list later.
    I'm also going to New York over the summer! Eeeee! I've wanted to go to NY for ages, and I can't believe it's gonna happen now! I'm thinking about getting a Lomographic camera just to take with me so that I can snap photos of the big-city streets. *o* (Diana Dreamer or CMY Holga?) I'll also have to save some cash though, so that I have plenty of dough to buy lotsa souvenirs!

Good reading material here!

    I got rejected to be in the Hikone exchange program. I don't think I've ever wanted anything in my life as much as this. I didn't even get an interview. I would bet my life that I wanted that more than any of the other kids that applied. I was so close to my dream and now it's so far away.

"but we thank you for your interest in our exchange program."

I feel horrible.