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I haven't worn this camp shirt in a while because I had left it at home in Waterloo for the past month!
Today, I was at home so I brought it back to McMaster with me and decided to wear it whilst I study in the library. I've seen three of my good friends in the library and they all commented on how great the shirt design is!
Props to Sarfaraaz "Fen" Alladin for designing these bad boys!
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These are my entries for this Christmas e-card competition. If you like my drawings please, please vote for me. Thank you!
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My last project at uni was to create book covers for Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) and Perfume (Patrick Suskind) for the 2009 Penguin Design Award. Two book covers in two weeks is a lot of work but I got it done, albeit with some blood (got to watch those craft knives) and tears.
Here's my final cover for Alice, which my second and third year tutor selected as one of their two favourites out of the year (who knows why).
Here's a discarded idea for Alice that had quite liked.
I take fear and hope in the unknown. I am a planner. It is unsettling to not know how the remainder of this semester will unfold, what I will be doing this summer, or even when I will graduate. The things that I used to take comfort in such as volunteering and looking forward to camp are not currently part of my reality. I have temporarily put my own desires such as running, exercise and volunteering on the back burner in order to succeed in the remainder of the semester. We have entered 'that time of year' where everything adds up, and accounts for a large percentage of your grade, and GPA for that matter.
It is in these times where my demeanour won't allow me to give up, and my sleep deprived body would prefer I did, that I turn to my staple things: Accountability, Ownership, Faith, extra large steeped tea's, and medium sugar free lattes.
I take solace in the following words:
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and has made the Lord his hope and confidence" Jeremiah 17:7
When it feels like you're not truly living remember that it is in Him we live.
Well this is my first ever blog post and I thought I'd start it off with some random talk!
No no, that's not a typo in the titles. Think about it. I'll wait. Got it? Good! I thought it was clever!
Exams are coming up and things are starting to get SUPER busy here at McMaster University. The one thing that has kept me sane is music. I've been listening to a lot of music (both Christmas and not) while studying over the past few months. And when I say the past few months, I really and truly mean months. I haven't really had much of a break! Now I have a bit of one so I'm starting my blogging career off with a bang!
Back to my sanity. This is what made me smile the other day when I wasn't having the best of days! Tim Hortons now has their wintery-Christmas cups on campus! The end is near and I cannot wait.
I'm hoping that I have myself a merry little x-ams so I can have myself an even merrier Christmas!
For those of you who are joining me in the x-am cheer, good luck!
I realised that if there was ever a time for me to update the shop, just before Christmas would be it.
I have new prints in a range of sizes and prices. Soon I will have Christmas cards and copies of Meow Magazine for sale as well. Watch this space. :)
Can you tell I'm a Londoner?
These are for the new issue of the zine the students on my course produce (Meow Magazine). This month's theme is I Love London so this was what I did. I'm also on the editing team this year and we have big plans for it.
This was my first project at uni. Everyone was given colour to research, to be inspired by and to create a piece capturing the essence of. Mine was scarlet and I went down a little red riding hood avenue. I'm getting very into the darker side of fairytales and their prevalence in our culture. This bit in the Guardian about fairytales is definitely worth a read.
Anyway, ironically for a project about scarlet I draw it all in black and white. I carefully cut red riding hood out so that last red page would show through all the way to the first.
