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Give Sunday | 32

This year, in honor of my 2015
One Little Word® "give," I'm sharing a hand-drawn quote each Sunday here on my blog.

Click here to read my initial post and download the #givesunday word art title and checklist for helping you to give a little something today. You can also view all the past #givesunday quotes via the archives. 

Click here to download the #givesunday 32 quote. Please note: If you are reading this post via email you need to click through to the actual blog post to download the file. 

You're invited to join me. What will you
give today?

Have a wonderful Sunday. 

New Story Theme Now Available | Build

Say hello to a new
Story Theme for my Story subscription program: Build.

This month we are telling stories of things we've built, are building, or are planning to build: life, stories, houses, legos, businesses, families, relationships, etc.

If you are already a subscriber to you can now access the content in the classroom (make sure you are logged in to your account). 

If you are new to the Story Subscription program, check out all the details here.

Here's a look at the Story Kit™ contents for Build:

And the Story Stamp™:

We also have a Digital Story Kit™ subscription available that includes access to the classroom content. Here's a look at what's included for Build:

Here's a video overview of the products included in the kits this month: 

And a couple peeks at the layouts I created with the kits this month (full details, including process videos and how-to handout, are included with subscription): 

Let's tell stories together!

31 More Things | Registration Now Open

I'm also excited to let you know that registration is now open for 31 More Things. This is a follow-up to my original 31 Things workshop that encourages longer storytelling via daily prompts over the course of 31 days. We've also created a simple kit to go along with the workshop that includes the grey strips, washi tape and a small set of alphabet stamps. 

Class begins September 1st. Hope to see you in the classroom!

Week In The Life™ Photo Tips

Photos are a huge piece of documenting a Week In The Life™. 

Someone on Twitter recently mentioned that they fall more in love with photography after working through this project each and every year. I feel exactly the same way. There's something very special about focusing on everyday life photography so intensely for a whole week. Every single year I'm given the gift of at least a couple photos that become some of my personal favorites for the year, if not of all time. 

As we get ready to embark on another Week In The Life™ adventure next week, here are some things to think about related to the photos:

1. Look for white space when taking your photos. What does that mean? It means looking through the lens and adjusting the composition of the photo to show more sky or more ground or more wall - essentially blank space within the photo where you can add your stories via photoshop or with a pen directly on the photos. Last year I added words to just about every single photo in my album. You don't have to follow that lead, but man I love that I took the time and the effort to add all those words. 

2. Pick something to capture and repeat it each and every day. In 2012 I took a photo of myself sitting at my dining room table each day. Think about what you do daily - that might seem super basic like sitting in your car or riding the bus or at your desk - but can become a bit more interesting when it's visually repeated. I used that series of photos in my Project Life® 2012 album during the Week In The Life™ week (which is a question that often comes up about what to do in PL during WITL). 

3. Make friends with your timer BEFORE the week begins. Practice a bit (this weekend would be a great time to do that). Read the manual - or at least read about the timer feature. It's important that YOU are a part of the visual story you are telling. Self-portriats are a very important piece of this project for me - I want to literally see myself inhabiting my life. For the photo above I set my DSLR down on the floor of the grocery store, set the timer, clicked the shutter, and walked back to my cart and reached for a bottle of soy sauce. Remember that self-portraits don't always have to be shots of your face - capture yourself in your normal environments (bed, desk, car, couch, table, etc) doing what you regularly do in your life. 

4. These days I take most of my everyday shots with my iPhone. BUT for this project I almost always use my DSLR more. The best camera is obviously the one you have with you - for this project I make it a point to have it with me and to use it. 

5. Take photos of things. The way your room is currently set up. Your closet. Bookshelves. Stacks of stuff. Dishes in your cabinet. Kids toys. What are you into? What are they into? What are your pets into? 

6. Get close up and far away. One of the ways I include things is by not always getting up so close as to block out things in the background. Get a combo of close up faces and full rooms - doing this gives you the most flexibility when it comes time to bring all your content together. Also, having options allows you to tell different types of stories - the close-up shot might be great for one story about the thing itself whereas the wide shot might be great for telling a different kind of story. 

7. Along those lines, I want a record of the way things are, not how I wish them to be. That might mean messes. That might mean the unmatched bedding. That might mean weeds. That might mean you doing the same thing over and over during the course of the week. 

8. Make a date with the obvious. The obvious are the things you look at every single day and probably pay very little attention to it. Photograph that stuff. Dishes or doing the dished. Drawers. Work space. Shoes in the closet. Cereal. Saying the evening prayer. Things that you walk by all the time that you barely pay attention to. 

9. Look for opportunities to document relationships. This can be people to people, but it's often even more interesting to capture the relationship that people have to their surroundings - a child to it's bedroom, the family to the dinning room table, an adult to their favorite chair, a child to their most treasured toy. Aim to capture those you love, or yourself, in their environment/element, doing what they regularly do. These are some of my favorite shots.

10. After doing this project for many years I've developed some personal photography rhythms. I don't try to capture every little thing every day. My goal, over the course of the week, is to have captured a good visual representation of our lives right now. I might miss a morning or an evening or parts of each day and that's okay. Find a pace that works for you. Remember this is one week.

You can do this. Celebrate the life you are living - the imperfect, beautiful, hard, awesomeness of your very own life. 

In terms of my personal process during the week, each evening I upload my photos and write about the day - sharing it in a blog post the following day. This is definitely a time commitment but it's super worth it when I go to work on brining all my content together and I have all the words right there to flow into my album.

Also remember that you might not use all the photos you take this week in one album. Most people take more than they need - which is awesome because it gives you choice (which can also be challenging for people who have trouble with too many choices). Those photos are often used to tell other stories in tradional layouts or Project Life® - or they simply become part of my photo collection. 

Take some time to consider, maybe even make a list of the things you want to make sure to capture over the course of the week. A couple things to consider: 

a self-portrait each day // remember that it doesn't have to be your face - think feet (showing where you are going), hands (showing you doing something), parts of your face, etca photo of everyone in your household all together // I took one photo of the three of us last year during WITL that ended up on our Christmas cardthe inside of your bag or purse or wallet // very "right now"the place you rest // couch, bed, outside, insidethe place you playwhat you are readingwhat you are watchingwhat you care about most in the whole worldyour daily outfit // what makes the way you dress "you"up-close portraits of your family members // your camera is out and you are capturing the stuff of life - might as well try to get a couple great shots of other family members or yourself along the way

Looking for more photo ideas? Here are a couple recommended reads:

5 Tips For Lifestyle Photography from A Beautiful Mess5 Tips For Taking Everyday Life Photos from Get It ScrappedCapture Your 365 has some great photo lists each month - here's the one for AugustAssignment Daily Life from National Geographic

Most of all, have fun and capture your own life through the lens of whatever camera you have available and add context via your words. 

You can do this. 

Week In The Life™ 2015 | Getting Ready

Next Monday I'll be embarking on my annual 
Week In The Life™ project. Seven days of daily life documentation. Seven days of photos and stories of my/our life right now. Seven days of content that will be placed into the album above in the coming weeks after focusing on the words and photos next week. 

I generally don't do a lot of album prep for this project, especially since for me it's so much about the photos and the words and that's what I want to focus on during the actual week. I did go through and put my page protectors in order and cut up the 3x4 cards 
from the kit as you can see above. This will give me a nice flow when I start printing. 

I'm pretty sure I'm going to add my words via Photoshop again
like I did last year (directly onto my photos before printing) - that enabled me to include so many more words which I'm really thankful to have now. 

As usual I'll be sharing my daily photos and words here each day (posted the day after) and you're invited to share yours.  

Here are a few posts to get you in the mood for documenting and telling stories next week: 

Our Days Are Built With Stories
What Stories Will You Tell?
Getting Real: Thoughts On Creativity & Scrapbooking

Also, I was a guest on a recent edition of the Paperclipping Roundtable podcast called Look For The Light. We talked about everyday life photography and some of our favorite ways of seeing through the lens - definitely applicable as you embark on this project. 

2015 INTENTIONS

My personal intention with this project for 2015 is to simply capture who we are right now. 

I'm specifically interested in the who - what are the things that make each one of us who we are as we go about our everyday life. Obviously that will include our daily routines and some of the same themes I include every year, but that's where my head and heart is at for this project this year. What makes Anna, Anna? What makes Simon, Simon? What makes me, me. What are our individual strengths right now? What are our challenges? I'm not really sure what that's going to look like just yet, but that's what I'm most interested in capturing via my words this time around.

Most likely it might be less about the times of day, less about a recounting of exactly where we went and what time we ate and when we did such and such. Those things will be represented of course - maybe more on some days than on others - but my intention is to get to the heart of who we are right now in August 2015. 

As usual my photos will drive my stories. Obviously the photos are an integral part of this process, but when focusing on the concept of
who they might be even more important. I'm excited to figure this out as I go along. 

Please keep in mind that everyone will have their own intentions going into this project. Some might be focusing totally on a chronological accounting of the day, others might be only about food, others might have tons of photos and some people might do a more limited number per day. Make this work for you.
What do you most want to capture about your life right now? 

ACTION LIST

1. Think about what you'd really like to capture during this week. What photos do you really want to take? What stories are you on the lookout for? Are there specific stories you'd like to make sure to include this week based on the life you are living right now? 

2. Download and print the
Daily Sheets.

Download the 6x8 Daily Sheets here.
Download the 8.5x11 Daily Sheets here.

PS | I didn't end up using these last year and I'm not sure if I will or not this year. They are a great way to track your day and I definitely recommend using them if this is your first time and you want a bit more of a path forward. Last year I mainly used my photos as a guide and worked hard to get my words into each blog post at the end of the day.

3. If you ordered 
the kit, take some time to look through it and see which cards you might want to use during the week (vs. ones you'd fill in after). There's a couple in there that are good jumping off points for stories to tell during the week.

4. Consider purchasing the 
Week In The Life™ layered templates (in 6x8 or 8.5x11) or the 4x6 printable cards/overlays (these are great if you just want to include pieces of this project in Project Life®). I'll be using some of the 6x8 templates (specifically the full page daily one with the days of the week). See below for more details on those sets.

5. Charge your camera battery. I tend to use my bigger camera vs. my phone during this week. I usually include a few phone photos but most tend to be with my 5D. If you print photos at home you might also want to check your ink levels to see if you need to order more ink.

6. Get your head in the right place. This isn't a competition. This isn't about who has the best or the most or crafting the perfect story of your perfect life, this is about documenting
what is real in your life at this point in time via words and photos and intentional embellishments. You are not going to get in trouble if you forget to take photos or write things down. If you find you forgot at one point or another it's no big deal, just start where you left off. Every year someone leaves a comment that they woke up and forgot to take photos on Monday morning so they end up bagging the entire project. That is not what this is about. Start where you're at with what you have right in front of you. You can do this. 

7. Live your life. Next week just do your regular stuff of life and capture it along the way. I will absolutely take more photos next week than I do on a "normal" week because I have a specific intent to capture more. The photos I take during these weeks often end up being some of my favorites for the year simply because I'm focused and know, without a doubt, that the effort is worth it. 

DIGITAL PRINTABLES & TEMPLATES

For the last few years I've designed layered template/overlay sets that can be used as the foundation for your album or as a jumping off point. 

The new digital layered templates and printables are now available in my shop. I'll be using at least 
the date portion in my album on my 6x8 full page photos. 

Here's a look at the new sets:  

First up is a 
4x6 set of overlays that include both dated and non-dated versions (PNG and PDF for easy printing). These are also great for adding to Project Life® (anytime of the year) - either on top of photos or printed out as journal cards. 

The 
6x8 layered template set includes 14 total pages for use in Photoshop/Photoshop Elements (daily pages + photo collage pages as shown above // not all pages are shown in this one preview).This set includes seven new pieces of word art on the collage pages. Additional preview images located here. 

If you are new to working with digital layered templates in Photoshop you can check out my post for working with the templates last year (the steps are basically the same). 

Also available is an 
8.5x11 layered template set that includes the same number of pages and designs as the 6x8.

YOU CAN DO THIS

Let's tell stories together. I'm super excited to embark on this project again and I can't wait to see what kind of stories I end up telling over the course of the week. 

You can scroll through all my past Week In The Life™ posts here. 

Celebrating Memories Of Week In The Life™ | Andrea

Today I'm sharing 
#WITLmemories from Andrea. You may know her from Instagram as @andreacollects.

Big thanks to all my #WITLmemories guests this year! Tomorrow I'll be back with my big getting ready post for next week's documenting. 

#WITLmemories is all about sharing the Week In The Life™ love. It's about re-visitng our past projects (to reflect and learn and get inspired), sharing ways of telling the story of our daily lives, and creating a community of people around this popular project to support and encourage one another. 

You're invited to share your own personal favorite 
#WITLmemories via Instagram, Facebook or your blog. What do you love about the project? What do your past albums mean to you now? Feel free to share a link to your blog post in the comments below. 

Here's a look at Andrea's 2014 album:

MONDAY

Monday October 27, 2014

I want to remember what we keep on our bedside tables.

Sometimes it’s not a specific moment that is special. Sometimes it’s just a small detail.

Every evening I’m the one who goes first in our bedroom to read a few pages before I sleep. I turn on our bedside lamps and automatically take a look at what is on our bedside tables. They look the same (lamp, photo of us, alarm clock and books/magazines) but also so different in the choice of reading material we have there. 

TUESDAY

Tuesday October 28, 2014

I want to remember that I love to come home and see the light through the entry. I love to come home when he is already there.

There is something special about coming home and knowing that someone is waiting for me. I’m feeling safe and it shows me that I am not alone. The first thing I do, when I open the door is saying “hello” and asking him how his day was. The same two things each and every day. 

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday October 29, 2014

I want to remember that I love to cook.

Every evening I’m standing in the kitchen to cook something for our dinner. I love the time I spend alone in the kitchen. It helps me to calm down after a busy day at work and I can go through the whole day again with my thoughts. It also helps to just focus on prepping our dinner and not thinking about anything else. Or I make plans in my head about things I want to do after dinner. Cooking helps organizing my thoughts. 

THURSDAY

Thursday, October 30, 2014

I want to remember how our evening routine looks like.

Our evening routine includes several things. When we both get home one of the first things we do is starting our computers. Then it’s time for dinner prep which takes around 30 to 45 minutes. We eat dinner together every day and try to make the dishes right afterwards. Then starts the fun part. Doing projects, being online, knitting, talking, watching TV and sometimes we take a walk or eat dessert. 

FRIDAY

Friday October 31, 2014

I want to remember our weekly trip to the grocery store.

Every Friday we buy our weekly groceries. We don’t really like that but it has to be done. To treat ourselves we first get a coffee and than do our shopping. We always go prepared in the store. We always only buy the things on the list we made. This way we make sure to not spend too much money or buy things we don’t really need. We take turns in paying our groceries. One week it’s on me, one week it’s on him. 

Week In The Life™ 2015 is happening next week (August 17th). For more information about Week In The Life™ check out my projects page and pre-order your kit that makes it easy to focus on capturing and celebrating your words and photos with a fun, story-focused intentional embellishments. Week In The Life™ 2015 will begin August 17th if you'd like to record along with me during the same week. If you want to dive even deeper you can also check out my archive of past Week In The Life™ blog posts. 

Family Camping 2015

Ah, family camping. 

I'm a fan of repetition in design as well as in life. 

Repetition in life is called tradition. 

Our location is the same (outside Olympia, Washington on some timber land that my brother's company owns) and many of the people are the same from year to year. This group was started by my brother and sister-in-law and some of their friends and usually includes my cousin Rob (the best storyteller and all-around creative genius) and his family along with an extended collection of my brother's friends. Some stay out there all three nights and some come just for the day. This year Rob organized an art show for the kids to draw pictures of Shakey the Bear - a family camping legend who brings treats to well-behaved campers. 

This year also marked the first that the adults were officially and completely outnumbered by the kids. There were so many babies! Simon was in heaven - he loves babies. 

Each family is responsible for one meal. I had Sunday breakfast this year and ended up doing a dry cereal bar that included purchasing a whole bunch of fun kids cereals (and bringing way too much home too). 

This was also the hottest Family Camping adventure to date. We spent a lot of time in the water to stay cool which not a single person complained about. This year one family brought some kayaks and another brought a big inflatable floating thing and I brought a couple water chairs. Water time was definitely a highlight this year. 

It's one of my favorite places to take photos. Being outside all day long is an awesome opportunity to capture light at just the right moments. I shot most of these photos with my DSLR and a few with my iPhone 6+.

Looking at this photo of Anna and Lucy and friend Hannah made me go back in my archives to find this one of them just a couple of years ago: 

And then there's this one from this year: 

Which totally made me look for this one from 2011: 

Right before our very eyes. 

My cousin Rob, my brother John, and my longtime friend Paolo. 

Simon and Auntie Liz and baby Olive. 

Sweet Jane. 

Story time. The stuff legends are made of - these kids will remember this stuff forever. 

The morning hike up into the woods. 

Some of our crazy crew. 

Shake leaves these awesome notes around from time to time and the kids follow the clues to find goodies such as drawing materials, glow necklaces, and other treats. 

The suit is from JCrew. My sister had it first and I loved it on her so I got one for myself. 

Paolo and Anna out in the kayak. 

Baby Olive. 

The kids art show. 

Freeman. He is rad. 

See past Family Camping posts here: 2011, 2012, 2014.

Give Sunday | 31

This year, in honor of my 2015
One Little Word® "give," I'm sharing a hand-drawn quote each Sunday here on my blog.

Click here to read my initial post and download the #givesunday word art title and checklist for helping you to give a little something today. You can also view all the past #givesunday quotes via the archives. 

Click here to download the #givesunday 31 quote. Please note: If you are reading this post via email you need to click through to the actual blog post to download the file. 

You're invited to join me. What will you
give today?

Have a wonderful Sunday. 

31 More Things | Registration Open

Registration is now open for 31 More Things - the follow-up to 31 Things (which first ran in 2012 and is now available in a self-paced format).

31 More Things begins September 1, 2015 and will run for 31 days (you'll have access after the fact of course as well just as you do with all my other workshops so you can come back to the content at any time). Each day you'll receive an email reminder to click over to the classroom to view the new prompt. Each prompt begins with a single word (plus a couple of phrases this time) to spark a story. Included with the prompt are a daily writing tip, suggestions on how to go deeper, and the encouragement to tell more. Some of the topics include: home, passion, color, cook, paper, and mess. 

I'll be combining these new stories in my original 31 Things 12 inch x 12 inch album. Each story will have a home on a 6 inch x 12 inch page (templates provided in class for either full digital scrapbooking or for writing and printing via journal templates sized to fit) and you can choose to add two together to create a full 12 inch x 12 inch page (that's my plan as you'll see below). You also have the option of simply use the prompts as jumping off points for blog posts, personal journaling, Project Life® inserts, etc.

I know someone will ask if they have to participate every single day. Definitely not - but it's one way to approach the workshop as an opportunity for a daily writing practice. One way to tackle the workshop is to work only on the writing each day and make that the focus during the 31 days, leaving the actual building of the album for the end (or for when you have more time to bring a bunch of pages together). There will be a number of people who do it at their own pace, working their way through the materials as time permits. Do what works best for you - keeping in mid that the way to develop your writing voice is to practice writing.

For those of you who might want to purchase both 31 Things and 31 More Things we have a bundle option available. You can check that out here.  

This time we're also offering a simple kit to go along with the workshop. Included in the kit are 31 grey title strips, 31+ 6-inch strips of washi tape (6 sheets with the same colors and patterns repeated which looks really nice in the album), and a 3 inch x 4 inch alphabet stamp set. 

31 More Things will include the printable strips and digital layered templates and journal templates for Word and Photoshop just like the original 31 Things. 

In addition to the kit I'm using a few strips of pattern paper to go along the bottom this time and some Grey Flannel Memento Luxe Ink. 

I'm currently working my way through the prompts and I'm loving the process of simply responding to each one through the process of finding/taking a photo, writing out the story, and then bringing it together simply with just a few supplies. 

This workshop is an awesome opportunity to focus on practicing your writing skills and is a great way to develop a daily or more regular writing practice. 

31 Things is recommended but not required before taking 31 More Things. 

Let's tell more stories together! Hope to see you in class. 

What Stories Will You Tell?

I've been thinking a whole heck of a lot lately about words.

It's not really something new, but something that keeps popping up as I work through current projects, plan future ones, and think about what matters most to me. 

With Week In The Life™ coming up in the next couple of weeks I thought this would be a good time for a little pep-talk when it comes to including actual words in your projects. Last year one of my main Week In The Life™ goals was to simply include more words. I did just that (mainly by making time at the end of each day to write it all out in the form of a blog post) and I love, love, love the result. I'm planning to include that same emphasis on the words again this year. 

I remember, many years ago, teaching a class to scrapbook retailers at a trade show. The whole "meat" of my presentation was that we, as people working in this scrapbooking/memory keeping industry, need to not only teach people how to work with the products, we need to teach them how to tell stories with words.

Writing your stories transcends products. It transcends trends. It's an activity that lives on long beyond foam stamps (still love) and mists and stickers and layout sizes and owls and pineapples.

You can add words to scrapbook layouts whether you use a ton of product or just a little, whether you use Project Life® or traditional layouts or digital pages or an art journal. There is room for words on your projects. 

I think most of us scrapbook because we have something to say and something to celebrate and something to learn about ourselves in the process. We say it through our photos, through the products we select, through the way we craft stuff together, and through the words we choose.

The thing about writing is it doesn't have to be perfect. Repeat that to yourself again and again. It doesn't have to be grammatically correct. It doesn't have to happen in paragraphs. It simply needs to come from your heart. 

Tell me more. Tell me the reason why. Tell my why this photo is meaningful to you. Tell me something I can't know by looking at the photos. Tell me why you are taking the time to record this moment, this day, this period of time, this photo. Tell me what and who you're thankful for and who makes you laugh best of all.     

Sometimes it might be messy and sometimes it might be pointed and sharp. Sometimes it's conversational and easy. Sometimes it's super clear and other times we might need to work through it a couple times to make our intentions clear. Sometimes it's a list of words, or paragraphs or a single word that encapsulates the whole thing.

I think we're often afraid to put those words down because they are the most personal piece of the combination of elements. We fear judgement, we fear getting it wrong, we fear it not mattering. We leave it to the last thing in our process of memory keeping and then don't do it at all. 

You can do this.

Write how you feel. Write what you love. Write what you see. Write what you hear. Write how you've changed and write how you're still the same. Write about that juicy piece of fruit and Thanksgiving and that awesome bargain you got yesterday. Write about what hurts and what heals. Write using that awesome combination I talk about again and again of both facts & feelings. 

As most of you know, I'm someone who includes both long and short stories in my memory keeping adventures. It's just what I do. But I've also been practicing and embracing and working to simplify and get to the heart of the matter for a long time. I like the balance of the two because sometimes I want to tell a long story and other times I just want to add a bit more beyond what you might see in the photo. 

Truth be told, it's the longer stories paired with a photo or two and an embellishment or two that captivate me most and give me the most long-term happiness.

You can do this.

All that my friends, to encourage you to include a few more words in your projects. Put the words first. Think about your Grandparents or parents or someone you love and imagine what you wish you knew about one week in their lives. Let those details guide you in telling your own story today. Start with an extra sentence or sentiment here and there. Add a list next time. Start with some facts and then add some feelings. For Week In The Life™, tell me the mundane stuff and the stuff that makes your life your life. 

Let's tell stories together. 

Celebrating Memories Of Week In The Life™ | Pepper Creations

Today I'm sharing #WITLmemories from Pepper Creations. 

#WITLmemories is all about sharing the Week In The Life™ love. It's about re-visitng our past projects (to reflect and learn and get inspired), sharing ways of telling the story of our daily lives, and creating a community of people around this popular project to support and encourage one another. 

You're invited to share your own personal favorite 
#WITLmemories via Instagram, Facebook or your blog. What do you love about the project? What do your past albums mean to you now? Feel free to share a link to your blog post in the comments below. 

Here's a look at Pepper's past projects:

MONDAY

Monday 20th October 2014

4pm - We dragged SH along to meet A and WJ at Novena. They went to buy KFC while me and YJ waited for them at the busstop. We took the train and on the train we took lots of selfies and sang songs together. I admire how well WJ and SH can sing :) and hearing them sing makes me feel happy.

6pm At Duke's Bakery, where we sampled alot of bread. Due to SH's influence, I now feel that their bread are really soft and chewy. My favourite ones are yam, potato, hokkaido red bean bun (which I bought eventually).

TUESDAY

Tuesday 21st October 2014

7.30am - Prepared myself to attend the training session. My kind neighbour parents, kindly volunteer to fetch me and J to the MRT station since we both has to attent the session...

12nn Lunch break. Still feeling full from the breakfast, we decide to only order some vege from the vegetarian stall. I wanted to grab a cup of coffee and went to Bravery which is unfortunately closed. So my poor friends have to walk furtherdown with me to CSHH for the coffee, but it's totally worth the walk! 

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday 22 October 2014

1pm - I had lunch and watched "I Hear Your Voice" together with my sister. In every show, I try to learn something. Soo Ha had been through alot, which makes him a mature character. He said this "I accept all of your evil thoughts, in future, no matter which side of you I see, I will never be disappointed. Therefore, you need not hide..." Very sweet indeed .

2pm - Sister's friends came. I started watching photoshop video tutorial on Vimeo. It is very time consuming and I realise I spend the entire day on photoshop tutorial and watching drama and editing photos. Time spent with the computer flies pass so quickly and unknowingly.

THURSDAY

23 October 2014 Thursday

9am - Woke up late and took a quick shower. Changed to an outfit I like and went off to a cafe. Thomson has been a place I frequent since there are direct buses. Going to work in cafes has been a norm for me now. 

FRIDAY

24th October 2014 Friday

10.30am - The last lesson with Dr Ho ended. The 7 of us decided to take a picture with him after the lesson but he was not in his office. Eventually we went off to a cafe to prepare for our Calculus test.

At around 2.30pm SH and JS arrive as well. I enjoyed discussing Maths questions with these people. I also enjoy explaining coffee to them. SH ordered Macchiato and was shocked to be served with a tiny cup with espresso and a little cream on top. I even draw diagram to explain the types of coffee to them. We definitely had lots of fun! 

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