Notebook Decoration Ideas!

Hello! Today I'm going to show you my notebooks. I know this is a bit late because most people have already gone back to school, but I'm only going back Monday (wish me luck), so I thought I'd show you anyway.

So I got these multicoulered notebooks (by Oxford), gave each a theme, drew the picture and stuck it to the first page.

• The Outsiders

This Summer I finally read and saw The Outsiders and to say that I liked it is an understatement so I dedicated a whole book to it by doing the title and the its most famous quote in black (as well as a silhouette - you'll be seeing lots of those here) and loads of quotes in gold and silver. In gold is the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay".

• Music

 

Just some of my favourite music artists. 

• Disney

 

Disney was big part of my childhood (even though that wasn't that long ago :P) and I continue to love so it's only natural that it had its own page. 

• Harry Potter

 
If you didn't know already I really love Harry Potter so there's really no explanation needed here...

• 80's Movies

Another big part of my life are movies! In this case 80's movies, my favourite kind. I'm actually a bit obsessed with 80's culture at the moment (as well as 50's and 60's but that's a whole other thing), I may have a problem.
Anyway, here I put some silhouettes, some movie titles and Emma Stone's character in "Easy A" speach, about 80's movies.
I excluded The Outsiders.

• TV Shows

Here I just put some logos and quotes of TV Shows I've seen and others I want to see... I'm working on it.

• Favourite Movies

More movies! Excluding 80's and Disney ones, these are some which I like best.

• Favourite Books

Who doesn't love books, am I rigth? Unfortunately many people. But I think I make up for them. This notebook I just filled with quotes from some of my favourite books!  
 
So those were them! I hope you liked this and maybe it even gave some inspiration! Some of these were inspired by pictures that I found on the internet (Disney and Harry Potter), so if you want those just ask me; or if you want any of the silhouettes or logos! 
See you soon!

-Maria

How To Make: Wander Garland

Hello! So today I am going to be showing you how to make a very simple, but very nice garland!
 

First of all you will need:
-a pencil
-a rubber
-scissors
-a ruller
-metallic pens (I ended up only using silver because the gold ran out :P)
-black cardboard (an A4 sheet is enough, unless you want to make your letters bigger)
-tape
-a holepuncher
-and, finally, some twine (but wool'll do)

1st Step
Take your A4 sheet and devide it in three parts horizontally and vertically. 
Cut them out and you'll end up with something like this:

(moreless 7x9,9 cm)

2nd Step
Now you'll trace the middle of the rectangle (vertically), and from one of the bottoms measure 2cm.
Join that dot with the corners, like this:

And cut throug those diagonal lines.

3rd Step
Now you have nine cards all cut and you can choose what to write on them. I wrote wander (you know like on the quote), so I only needed 8 of those cards, but obviously you can write whatever you want.
Anyway, I wanted to use pretty calligraphy, but I'm not very good at that, so I went on Picmonkey and used the "Rye" font to make this:

Now, you can either recreate it in your card, or you can go to a little bit of trouble, make the image bigger, print it, cut it and outline it onto your card. Either way, after you've done that you'll just have to fill the letters with your metallic pen of choice and you'll be done.


4st Step
For the other two cards I made a chevron patern.
Firstly, you will divide the halves that you made in step two, so that you have 4 vertical lines at the same distance from eachother.
Now you'll have to make some dots:

(the dark pink ones are distanced 1,5cm from each other, and the blue ones are distances 2cm)

Afterwords just unite them and fill the lines, once again, with your metallic pen of choice. Then you can erase the lines.

5ft (and final) Step
So now you have these 8 pretty pieces

and you just have to "punch" a hole in their top middle, put the string through,

 

and stick to your wall using tape!

PS: To get the cards to point forward, put some tape on their back to (to glue the string to the paper).


That is it! I hope you liked this idea, I'm not the most creative person but I think it looks good! I also hope the instructions were clear enough for you to understand, but if you have any questions just ask me; and if you do decide to do this please let me know!

-Maria

Long Time, No See... | My Holliday 2015

Or as Jim Chapman puts it: "Looooong time, no blog!"

Hello again! As you may or may not have noticed, there weren't any posts on this blog on the past month of August (which I'm terribly sorry about). That's because this was my month of holliday. 

School ended in the middle of June, but, because both my parents are teachers, they only have holliday in August, that's why this is the month I go away.

Anyway, this month I made quite of bit of travelling so I thought I'd show some of it. I won't into much detail and I'll just show you a couple of photographs, but rest assured that I will try to post more regularly here. Maybe not on a certain day though, just when I have something worth blogging (or at least mildly interesting) to show you. I think it will be better that way.

Here are some pictures:

 The Cathedral of Burgos...

 

A very pretty sunset I saw in Vivier - Sur - Mer

 On my way to Mount Saint Michel...

 "Umconditional Surrender" - Seward Johnson

the statue version of the picture "V - J Day in Times Square" (taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt), in "Caen Memorial"








 

 The beautiful city of Brugges, which was the destination of the journey...

In Brussels:

  

The Grand Place

 And a mural dedicated to the belgian comic book "Tintin"...

 The Atom...

Two Monuments dedicated to portuguese soldiers who died in WW1 (a statue and a graveyard)





 


The next big city I went to was Paris and you cannot not fall in love with it...

The famous bookstore "Shakespeare and Company"...

 The Notre Dame...

This was the last place I properly stopped at as I spent the rest of them driving back home so the photos end here...

I also went to Algarve for four days (because I hadn't gone to the beach this year) and I had a lovely time there, but didn't take any proper photos so this is the end of the post.
I guess I just wanted to tell you what I've been up to and that I'm going to start blogging again.
See you soon!

-Maria