Thursday, 27 February 2014

20 Best Nail Art

Here are some highlights from my 'Nails' board on Pinterest
I do not own these images

Please follow my board on Pinterest! Or you can follow any of my other blogs here. And if you see some great nails, let me know! Or recommend a blog/pinterest board/tumblr/instagram etc that has great nail art or even your own!
Also I changed to of the fonts on my blog. I tried to create my own blog, logo, title, banner thing but that just didn't work out so maybe one day I'll learn how to make one or more likely I'll get someone to make one for me.

Jody

Monday, 24 February 2014

Monday Fashion Sketches #11

Hi guys,

Today's designs are a bit different from the usual.
Yes, it's pretty obvious, they're not in colour. This was an experiment in trying to free-hand draw rather than using the pattern pieces. I think it's nice to try free-hand once in a while. I find I can let loose and not worry about getting the lines perfect and I can just experiment and freely express the kind of shapes and textures I want.
So here it is, I hope you like it.

We're almost at present-day designs now so I'll have to start actually drawing every week now :)

Jody

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Melinda Young Jewellery Workshop

Book for Melinda Young's workshop at the Botanical Gardens!
Aborescence – neckpiece by Melinda Young
All the information is in the link but basically it's a full day workshop at the Botanical Gardens making lovely jewellery from natural materials i.e. gumnuts, wood etc. with the lovely contemporary jeweller, Melinda Young! Morning tea and lunch is included. Bookings are essential. It'll be a great day and even if you can't come, please spread the word around so it doesn't have to be cancelled because it would be a real shame if that were the case. By the way I'm pretty sure it is meant to be for adults.

You can visit Mel on her blog, website, facebook page or instagram. I'm not exactly sure where you can see her work right now but lots more information in the links!

Thank you!

Jody

Red Fox Blog - The Tumblr Blog

Hi guys,

I've started Tumblr :) I started a blog a while ago just to see what it was all about but I didn't really understand it. I tried again a while later and posted about 5 photos but then couldn't find any blog I wanted to follow and I didn't find it that fun so I stopped. Well I've tried again and now have over 250 photos, hooray! I don't know why I decided to try it out again. Maybe just because I heard other people using it and I wanted to be included ;) But anyway, I've got it now so I would really appreciate it if you went over there and have a look at my Tumblr blog. I can't really find blogs I like through the 'Find blogs' tab, but I've found it very useful to look for hashtags and go from there. Also please follow my friend's blog driven-loud. She posts a lot of One Direction photos but also lots of other beautiful things.

Here are a few pictures from my blog
 I do not own these images


And don't forget about following me on Twitter, Pinterest and Bloglovin'.

Yours truly,
Jody

Monday, 17 February 2014

Monday Fashion Sketches #10

The design on the left was an experiment with coloured pens. The right hand design is a casual and modern outfit for young adults.
The overalls kind of failed because I couldn't really see the lines and I'm not sure if the colours are right but I the intended affect was for it to be cute and colourful. I think the one on the right was meant to be more sophisticated.

Jody

Monday, 10 February 2014

Monday Fashion Sketches #9

Yeah, the one on the right is definitely not a favourite of mine although I do like the sunglasses. The one on the left is kind of a girly playsuit.
The one on the left is a modern, casual, summer outfit whereas the on the right is kind of retro

Jody

Saturday, 8 February 2014

Stop Wildlife Crime

Wildlife crime is now the most urgent threat to three of the world's most best-loved species - elephants, rhinos and tigers.
You can help by supporting rangers who work tirelessly to protect endangered species like tigers, elephants and rhinos, which are targeted by poachers for the illegal wildlife trade. Backing rangers ensures they are properly equipped, trained and compensated. Rangers serve as forest guards, eco guards and field enforcement officers. However they often earn very little and they may go without receiving their salary or seeing their family for some months. Rangers are often at the crossfire of wildlife crime and often have to face dangerous gangs of armed poachers. Every four days, a wildlife ranger is killed in the line of duty. Please help these rangers serving on the front line to protect these beautiful animals.
Please back a ranger, sign the pledge and spread the word so that you and everyone else can make informed decisions before buying animal or plant products. Or simply send a card to show them how much you appreciate what they do!

Find out more at Stop Wildlife Crime. And after reading these facts, how could you not donate?
Extracted and edited from http://worldwildlife.org/
I do not own these images

Jody

LUSH products

My goodness I'm so so sorry I'm a terrible person. I may have led you into thinking that I've changed my ways and will be posting more often but I did warn you that it would be harder once school started but that's no excuse I know.

So last Sunday I went to LUSH and spent ages in there looking and smelling every product I could. That was my first real good look at LUSH as I had no time limit and wanted to make sure I was getting the products I wanted the most. I ended up getting two ballistic bath bombs and two 100gms soaps. I've already used one of the soaps but the rest are still beautifully wrapped and you won't get to see what's inside until I use them. But you can always look them up on the LUSH website.

So here is my LUSH load.
So I already used the Porridge Soap and it smells scrumptious. This is what 100g grams looks like. Not very much for $6.50 I know but the soap is creamy and silky. It's a bit rough applying it though - because of the bits of porridge and I definitely wouldn't recommend it if you're shaving but in terms of smell, it's one of the only ones I really liked and I would definitely recommend it. Also if you're wondering whether the porridge bits block your drain, I asked the girl in the shop the same question and she said that, from experience that had never happened to her, and it hasn't happened to be so far so that's good. The porridge bits are quite small anyway so you should be fine.
The Miranda Soap is also one of the only three soap smells (that they had in that shop) that I like and it smells really nice and gentle but still strong enough to have an effect. Obviously I haven't used it yet as it's still in it's lovely Lush Fighting Against Animal Testing paper. I think this would be good as a shower soap.
I was pleasantly surprised at the smell of this Honey Bee Bath Ballistic. The smell is simple, light and soothing.
Smells amazing, looks amazing. Its the Phoenix Rising Bath Ballistic

The 3rd favourite smelling soap that I didn't buy was the Godmother Soap which I was also pleasantly surprised to have liked but it is an extremely strong smelling soap so if you do get it (or if I do) I would definitely use it as a hand soap.
Although I recommend these products, I am definitely not saying you should order them online without smelling them first. Only buy online if you've used/smelled the product first because I found that a lot of the things that I thought would smell nice didn't appeal to me and a lot of the products that seemed uninteresting were actually some of the ones I bought and liked. Besides everyone likes different smells and what I might like, you may not. I am simple giving you descriptions of what the product is like and what I like.

That's all for now. I really want to try to post more but we'll just see how it goes. I don't really read books and I'm terrible at deciding whether I like movies or not and why so there probably won't be many reviews although I will try. I am seeing Saving Mr Banks tomorrow with my grandparents before it ends so I hope that it will be good. I'm no good at writing stories either; short or long.

Anyways, ta ta for now,
Jody

Monday, 3 February 2014

Monday Fashion Sketches #8

There are only 3 for you today as there is an uneven number
You may notice that the costume on the left is heavily based on the Italian Carnevale character Arlecchino but I like it as kind of a fun carnival/circus type dress.

Jody