Life as Daisy

So many things going on at school right now! Today I finally finished my Science research assignment - took me ages. To relax a little, I let out my inner creativity :) Here are the results.

                       

Inspired by Marc Jacobs' perfume, 'Daisy'

I painted this cover red a few months ago and found it boring ever since... so I redecorated it with some magazine cut-outs

I would really like to know what you guys think of them :) 

Wonderland

Yesterday, surprisingly but not so unexpectedly, I received a gorgeous handmade Alice in Wonderland postcard from Rin at paperedthoughts. On the front is a a picture from the cartoon, with a quote from the original book below, "But it wasn't easy for a girl who was filled with imagination and curiosity to listen to dull history lessons". On the back is a quote from Tyler Knott Gregson, handwritten by Rin. Such beautiful words and penmanship, aren't they?

"Salvation lies in the strangest of place and finds us at the strangest times. Bravery is knowing that it is ok to hurt wen we accept the salvation placed before us, its ok to be afraid and it is ok to tremble. Do not fear the fall when it is the leaping that will set you free."

And today I went to Alexander the Great exhibition at Australian Museum with school. So many treasures displayed in there! It was such a wonderful experience. I've always loved visiting museum, not to mention those special exhibits. There's just so much to learn about.

Also this evening, I'll have a kind of big dinner with my family and their workmates to celebrate Chinese New Year. Hope I'll get red pockets ;)

**Check out my Stationary Addicts Anonymous participation post at paperlovestory.

January overview and today's buys

Hellooo guys! Sorry for not posting because school starts and eeeeez busy. But I finally manage some time to share pieces in my life these days.

Firstly a couple of January stuff. An amazing bowl of soup my mother made. There were pickles, beefs and mushrooms in it. Tasted sooooo good! Yeah, my mother is such a good cook.

Secondly, my 2013 good things jar! Not as pretty as those I've seen and I'd rather call it a small bottle hehe. It's actually recycled from the pickles bottle yeah! I'm being green :) I've put quite a few 'good things happened in 2013' notes in it, such as 'getting an iPhone5', signing up for tennis lessons and receiving snail mails from a friend in China!

Good things jar

Mails from my friend, Jessy

And then there's today where I got all the stuff I ordered online - yipeee!

Lovely mini notebook

Old keys

Black gel pens - lovely patterns aren't they?

Pastel colors masking tapes, expression stickers for journaling & round stickers for sealing envelopes

How about you guys? Did you guys buy any lovely things lately? xx

Last day of holidays | Bags love

Eeeeeps. So today is the last day of holidays and school tomorrow! I saw from the weather report that there'll be storm - really bad luck for me right? Putting an umbrella in our school's backpack is really tough because the schoolbag is quite small. I feel so nervous yet excited for tomorrow though.

Anyway today I spent my day at home exploring Pinterest and stuff. My mother went shopping in City. I've always wanted a small backpack for shopping or travel and she knew that. So when she saw a large variety of this kind of bags in Equip, she immediately messaged me on WeChat, sending the pictures to me and asking which one I liked. The ones above were my favorites and I had a hard time choosing. But finally, I actually chose one I didn't really like moments ago. There're lots of colorful little flowers on it and I adore it even more when my mother brought it home! Yay :D

And I spent the rest of the afternoon drinking orange juice, eating Smiths chips while watching The Vampire Diaries.

Anyone like me who's going to start their school very soon, or even right away tomorrow? I hope you guys are having a wonderful day.

Australia Day | shopping

Happy Australia Day everyone!

I had a pleasant day at China Town today. 

The first pic above is a bus from Sydney Bus Museum driving in the street! There were lots of them. Different colors but all vintage. The second pic is from REVIEW OUTLET. They have seriously the best formal dresses. Third one is a poster outside TYPO. Lovely design, isn't it? And the last one was my lunch, noodles! Very delicious.

My pretty incomes are a Britain flag tank at Jayjays and a Cath Kidston print iPhone5 case at the market.

I'm very obsessed with floral prints lately. And for the record, I don't think this is the real labeel coz it only cost me 10 bucks. I love it though.

By the way, I purchased an app called Vscocam few days earlier and I'm so addicted to it! All these photos were edited by using this app. I recommend it to anyone who likes their pics to be vintage and lovely.

Lastly a drink from Easyway. There were even puddings in them.

I'm really glad that I spent this day out instead of tweeting and tumblr blogging. Taking pictures while shopping was great joy, so was putting them all together. I think I almost forgot to enjoy life and actually take pictures of what's happening instead of making out something pretty.

So how did you spend your Australia Day, Aussies? Or, how do you guys usually spend National Day in your country? :)

life lately

Interesting how I've never taken the bus ride here in Sydney but today I finally did it! (shall I cross it out from my bucket list? lol) 

It's funny how the bus literally stopped every... like 200m, but only when people push the red button where it says "STOP" and the bus driver would know someone want to get off at the next stop and he'll stop the bus. The bus went by many interesting shops.

And about what I was doing the morning... I went to watch The Perks of Being A Wallflower!! I sobbed so hard during the movie - this movie is just BRILLIANT AND SERIOUSLY THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR! LOVE IT! As amazing as the book, which I read earlier this year. Favorite line: We accept the love we think we deserve. And Ezra did such an AMAZING job playing Patrick!

shopping spree + inspiration saturday

Pouring rain this morning but it has been a lovely sunny day. Dad drove Mum and I to Westfield Bondi Junction store. There was a huge sale there since I guess we've entered December, Xmas month! I did a tiny shopping spree at Typo, the stationary store. This is a picture of what I've purchased.

I also bought a Eiffel Tower stamp with a black stamp pad. These cost like $37 AUD in all. I especially love the journals, which was buy one get one free. I got a green and a purple. Probably will use them next year as a... journal, yeah. And... I didn't expect to find these tapes in the store!! Ohmygod I'm so obsessed with them already.

And taking this opportunity, I'm sharing a pic that's been inspiring me a lot lately. It's from Ziedarling (one of her old posts I know, but have been stalking her recently).

She doodled out the calendar on white paper and sticked them onto her lined journal with washi tape. Turned out adorable didn't it? Then here are my ideas inspired by it. Not necessary to buy a "2013 diary" but simply a lined journal where we can form our own templates in it. For example, doodling out calendars in our very own styles, or printing out to-do lists to glue on the journal. Plus some decorations like stickers and tapes... it'd be even better than some expensive diaries! I think I will do something like this to my Typo journal in 2013.

Enjoy your weekends! x

I found my herbarium from 2008

It still looks great though 4 years has past by. *This is a filtered Instagram photo.