DIY Notebook Idea!

  Hey guys! I was drawing in my sketchbook today, which btw I've been doing a lot recently :) I love it! However, when I closed it, I noticed how boring it was because I just bought it from Office Depot and it didn't have a special theme or anything. So I decided to make my own!

I didn't have an exact idea of what I wanted it to look like, but I knew what kind of colors I wanted, which was... PASTELS! I don't know why, but I've loved pastels so much recently.

  Something I also knew I wanted was for it to be simple but still super cute! I absolutely hate it when I, or others, try to make things cute, but end up going overboard and put too much on one thing. I think it looks a lot better if there's just one accessory or theme, whatever, at least on that page, unless you want to make a collage.

  Anyways, I chose my favorite colors out of some scrapbook paper I have, which were a light shade of pink and mint green! I thought that if there was more pink, then it would look more girly, while if there were more of the green, it would be sort of tomboyish. So, I put the green on top of the pink, but more pink.

  I actually would've stopped there, but I just hated... I don't know! I just though I could add more! I remembered that my mom had brought home some origami paper from Japan a few years ago, but we didn't use it at all, and if we did, we epically failed and just put the paper back! I figured that at least some of the paper would have some kind of cute designs, so I thought I could use them since the scrapbook paper I used was plain!

  There were a lot of colors, but I chose a blue paper, not just because I liked it out of others, but also because it was light enough, yet it wasn't too close to the same colors as the pink or green I already used. I just used the blue to separate the green and pink.

  If I had used the blue all the way across then I probably would have added more somewhere else, but I kind of failed at cutting strips of it equally thick. I knew that I would add an accessory eventually, so why not then? And what's more original than a strawberry? Hehe~

  Instead of printing, I thought it'd look good to use the different colors of the origami paper to make the strawberry, especially since the different colors also had different patterns. I drew the shapes I wanted on the side of the paper that would be glued down, cut it out, glued them together, then glued it to the sketchbook! It was kind of hard the cut out and glue the leaf part of the strawberry, but it was worth it because I LOVE how it turned out!

The last thing I did was cut the corners! All I wanted to do was round the ends, so I just sketched out where to cut and did it! I thought I could maybe add some text, but I didn't want to cut it out- so I think later Ill find a white sharpie or something and just write my name(Maybe in different languages muahaha).

Anyways, that was it! I really enjoyed doing it, so I think I'll probably do something similar for my school notebooks :D I saved the paper I didn't use, too!

I really love how it turned out!

Thanks for reading! Bye! ~Mare

Trying to Learn Languages!

  Hello~ So if you didn't know, which Im guessing you don't, but might had assumed, I only speak English! I've been trying to learn Tagalog mostly, but Im also learning a little Spanish since it'll be one of my classes for sophomore year!

  I think it'd be cool to learn other languages, but Tagalog is hard enough :,D I thought I'd learn it since my mom is from the Philippines though.

  So far Im just learning from a couple books that I got from the library, but I want to get a workbook so it'd be like what I do in English class at school! 

  If I get used to it, I want to learn a bunch of different languages, like Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. Since a lot of things Im interested use those languages... *sigh* I probably won't though :P However, when I'm bored, I'll randomly open some language apps on my iPod and try to remember some Hangeul and Hiragana... ITS SO HARD THOUGH. I've only remembered a few vowels in Hangeul in a few weeks and I've barely learned the vowels in Hiragana even though I've been studying it even longer than Hangeul(it's so much easier than hiragana since it's simple lines instead of squigley and curved things OTL)

  That's it LOL Byeeee~

-Mare

I Got a Youtube!

Click here to go to my channel!

Hey everyone! It's pretty awkward, but I thought I'd try making a youtube channel to try out ranting to my camera(lol) and just vlogs when I hang out with my friends and stuff... yeah...

I've posted two videos of me talking to the camera, but I'm pretty awkward and you can't hear me at all xD not just because I was so awkward that I talked really quiet, but also because the audio on my camera isn't very good... But I'll improve everything somehow over time!

This could keep me from writing blog posts, I thought, but I also thought of different ways I could post different things on both here and my channel! On my channel, I'll be posting rants and vlogs, but on here I'll be posting more of things like reviews(Like the dokidokipostbox post), reactions, and things that I think could possibly offend people(LOL IM SORRY)

I really love watching people on youtube, so I also enjoy making my own videos, even if it does seem weird right now :P I think this can become something I enjoy more and more while I work more on it!

It's probably a waste of time but it'd be really cool if I were to get more views and it'd make me super happy :) Thanks everyone!

-Mare