Monday, 6 January 2014

Monday Fashion Sketches

Hi guys,

I've decided to make the fashion sketches a weekly thing (I'm serious this time) on Monday. I hope you like them!

Oh and in November my 'My Style Studio Extra Stuff' came through and so I've had new designs and textures to work with! You won't see them for a few weeks though as we are still catching up on my older designs.

The one on the left looks a bit strange because I didn't know what hair to give her and then I forgot about it and when I realized it was too late because I had already gone over in pen.
The one on the right is one of my favourites. It's like a 70's or 80's (I don't really know) jumpsuit thing with some modern jewellery and bright colours. The one on the left looks a bit strange because I had to hand draw the cap and it's not very good.

Another four designs next week!

Jody

Sunday, 5 January 2014

The Body Shop

Heeelllooo guuuyyss,

Phew, I am so tired. First of all because I went to bed at midnight and I woke up at about 9:45. Now, it doesn't matter what time I wake up, I will always be tired after going to bed late. And after going to bed this late for a quite a while now, I'm just so tired and it is killing me. But also I'm kind of exhausted right now because I've just been shopping for hours. But I did get something out of it though. I went to The Body Shop with my mum and she had a $50 gift voucher which expires in February. So she allowed me to use some of it with her. I would've had to spend less of my own money if she didn't decide to get a facial cream thingy at the end but oh well. Today I discovered that my new favourite flavour from the Body Shop is Brazil Nut. It, is, the best! If you do not know what I'm talking about, get your ass over to the Body Shop right now and take a wiff of it because my two top flavours from the Body Shop has changed from being Coconut and Vanilla to Brazil Nut and Coconut. So today, I got a Brazil Nut Shower Cream which smells heavenly and a Coconut Body Mist.

They also had a Body Mist in Brazil Nut which again, smelt amazing. But the body mists costs $23.95 each and I already had a the shower cream in brazil nut so I didn't get it. But as soon as the shower cream runs out I'm buying it in a body mist! By the way the shower cream was $12.95 and if you don't know the difference between a shower cream and a shower gel, the cream is a little bit more moisturizing but you use it for the same purposes.

Afterwards we did a bit more looking around and we stopped at the house of Target and of course, I spent all my time in the beauty section. I wanted to get some Burt's Bees products but ended up not getting any (typical) I did like the look of this $10 value pack though which had a hand and cuticle cream thing - which was recommended on Wonderful You which is why I was looking for it - and a Beeswax lip balm. It also came in the Refreshing Grapefruit Lip Balm which I really wanted to know what that smelt like but unfortunately there are no testers for the lip balms :( so I ended up just admiring them and trying on the tinted lip balm which when I put it on, stung my lips because it had peppermint in it which was unfortunate because I really loved the colour. Oh and plus, I don't really need a hand and cuticle cream. I'm a teenager not an old woman, my hands and nails are fine (apart from the horrible red stain that hasn't come off from the cheap red nail polish I bought for Christmas).
 Sometimes I wish I had a little girl to buy things for - is that weird?


Admiring the nail polish (as always)
This looked so amazing but when I thought about it there was only one I really wanted (the one on the far left). But it was $5!! That's $1 a bottle!
These also looked delicious but I already have a 3 pack of sorbet coloured nail polish which I think I've mentioned in a previous post.

The Triple Shine on the right is exactly like the one in Beauty Attitude:Seeing Stars but it was $10 and I don't usually pay for more than $7 for a bottle of nail polish :) especially of a bottle that small (it looks big but it's actually quite small, it's just the lid makes up for half the bottle). So yeah that was two new ranges I hadn't seen before; the Nicole by O.P.I and the Triple Shine by Sally Hansen. The Nicole by O.P.I had a funny shape to it but it had some really nice colours and that was $12.95 each.

I used a new app - Pic Stitch - to create the layout of those photos. You have to make a few in-app purchases to get all the features but it doesn't cost that much and you can even create your own layout. Unfortunately I didn't have enough money left on my account to get the 'Borders Pack' so the as you can see the border is a bit thick. But so far, so good.

Jody

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Nature Photography

After three days of constant blogging and staring at my computer screen, I finally got out of the house today and walked for an hour :O (amazing I know). So I took my camera along with me and got some naturely shots. I've edited some of them (not very well though) and some I've put intense effects on.

 On pretty much every plant I saw of these, there were all green leaves and just one single orange leaf.
 Mangrove, after mangrove, after mangrove...
 Morning Glory... Such a pretty coloured flower for a destructive weed...

 Some black & white photos...

So yeah there you have it. If you have any tips on editing photos or photography in general, or if you can recommend any good programs or apps for editing photos, let me know in the comments.


Also I thought I'd just throw this in randomly as well,
After our walk we popped into Harris Farms and got these. The packet says Dried Mango but it's actually candied. So it's very sweet. You can either eat like that or you can chop it up into little pieces and make a trail mix with it. The bitterness of the nuts will offset the sweetness of the mango. So if you see these in your local grocery store or fresh food market, pick up a packet of Dried Mango Slices or maybe Dried Paw Paw Slices and mix them up with some sultanas and mixed nuts. Perfect for snaking on!

Jody

Frozen Review

Hi there guys, so I thought I would do a movie review since I've never done one of those before.
I must say the reason I've never done it was because I'm actually a bit nervous. I've never done a movie review before not even in school - how weird is that? - but I'm going to try now because I think it would be good to get some practice, and besides, how hard can it be?

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Frozen

Movie Review


Frozen is Disney's latest animation film Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Starring
Kristen Bell as Anna, Josh Gad as Kristoff, Idina Menzel as Elsa and Josh Gad as Olaf. 

Like all Disney films, it has comedy and adventure wrapped up in a family musical. The jokes are quirky and cute (perfect for giggly kids or adults with child's humor) and the plot is simple and fun with a little bit of a twist ending with a serendipity that reminds of The Princess and the Frog. 

However the dialogue lacks in some areas where the story is going smoothly but seems to be cut short by dialogue that seems unrelated or doesn't fit in.

When I think of Disney films, music is one of the main areas that I find important. Everyone wants a Disney movie with a songs (or at least song) they can remember. And in any movie I find, the soundtrack makes the movie. But in Disney's 'Frozen' the songs lack their usual Disney charm and timelessness. Again, the lyrics in the songs sometimes take away from the general flow and catchiness of the song and seem unrelated. *Spoilers* For example when the song "Let it Go" ends with "the cold never bothered me anyway". And Anna says the line "in the first time in forever" too many times which made it irritating every time you heard it and it seems like half the song is composed of this one line. Also the beginning song of "Vuelie (feat. Cantus)" was annoying and didn't quite seem to fit in with the theme. I can hear what effect they're trying to make but it just wasn't quite right. Same with "Frozen Heart", the effect was obvious but the song seemed kinda cheesy. The songs definitely take away hugely from the movie as it is a musical. However Olaf's song "In Summer" is funny and cute and Idina Menzel is a great singer as I already know from listening to my "Wicked" CD.

The story did go smoothly though and didn't seem too slow or too fast. I think Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee made the story flow seamlessly from scene to scene and the graphics and look of the characters as well as their outfits was enjoyable for the audience to watch. However they didn't really grasp the 3D effect to their advantage. If I'm going to pay extra to see a movie in 3D I want to remember that I watched in 3D. However during the film I forgot it was in 3D most of the time as they did not exactly use it to their advantage and so it doesn't really make much difference whether you watch it in 3D or not.

The message of the story wasn't quite clear to me. I think the moral might have been something like "love conquers all" but I really don't know. But it is a childrens film so I guess 'love' was just a theme in general.

I know this film got high reviews previously and it got a high rating of 8.1 on IMDb but I definitely don't think it deserved that as the music was such a let down. I guess I would rate it.......6.7

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Well I hope that was useful to you, I will try to write more movie reviews and hopefully I will get better :)

Jody 

Photo App examples

 Hello,
Yesterday I signed up for Bloglovin so now you can follow my blog there!

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

The other day I gave you a review on my favourite photo apps well today I'm going to show you some photos I've edited with my favourite ones.

I added the effects to these photos using Camera+

On these ones I used Bokehful (some were also edited in Camera+ as you may notice)
 You can change the colours...
 You can change the shape...
 You can change the intensity...

Some of these were later edited with Rhonna Designs
As you can see I'm not very good at using this app


And on these I used Font Candy+

Well I hope that gave you a good idea of what the apps do and don't forget to follow me on twitter, pinterest or bloglovin now!

Jody