See you in 2010!
Cairn Presbyterian Camping and Retreat Centres!
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!
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
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.
