Studio Projects 2015!

Hey everyone!

So if you didn't know I am in University for Studio Art and last semester I took a sculpting course which was pretty cool so I wanted to share some of the projects I did!

This was the first project that we completed and it was a module assignment. So basically making something out a lot of the same item, in this case I used popsicle sticks. For this I was looking at fractals as my inspiration and I ended up making triangles and gluing them together and placed them in this spiralling pattern

     

The second project that we did was this cardboard project which we had to make a smaller item to our height. I chose to make my Polaroid camera to my height so  I had to measure out every little piece of the camera and times everything until it stood to my height. Though it doesn't seem like anything amazing this took me about 25 hours to make if not more. I was quite happy with how this turned out especially the lens, that was probably the best part of it.

This was probably my favourite project out of the whole semester. For this we had to make or own head out of foam and plasticine and make it life sized. So we had to measure out all of the proper dimensions and  spend a lot of time looking at our faces. It was so weird noticing parts of the face that people don't normally realize, like the areas that curve in just slightly on your cheeks. I mean it was really odd to have had this face for you know 20 years and not know everything about it.

This was our final project and we had to create a soft sculpture.  I used balloons and stockings for mine and it was quite the long process. At first I had a completely different idea but it ended up not working out so I cam up with this instead. Obviously it is an abstract piece that I wanted to represent organic figures so yeah, I was really happy with how it turned out.

So that is what I spent most of my semester doing! I probably spent about 15 hours on average a week outside of class on these projects so studio consumed my life the last few months. I know that these pieces are not anything amazing but this was my fist time doing sculpture and I had fun so it was a good time. 

Take care! xxx

Roommates 101

Hey everyone!

I hope you have all had a fantastic weekend! Last week was quite a stressful week for me because of school so I ended up going home to my mom's house on Thursday to destress a bit. I finished up a few assignments, and too celebrate and relax a bit I treated myself to a few face masks and a nice relaxing bath. I have to say this weekend helped me so much and though I do still have a big project due this week, I am nowhere near as stressed out.

However, I am not going to dwell on me stressing but talk about roommates. As most of you know I am filming videos more often for my YouTube channel and for this video I gave advice on how to be a good roommate. I currently have 4 roommates and I feel as if i kinda know at least some of the in's and out's of being a roommate. 

I hope you all enjoyed this video, I had quite a fun time making and I am really excited for my upcoming videos! Let me know some videos you want to see or suggestions of how I can improve my video making skills :)

Take care! xxx

Top 5 Christmas Songs!

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Can you believe that there is only 10 days until Christmas!? December is going by so fast and I have barely started my Christmas shopping. I know, not good. However I still have enough days to get it all done, so it's fine. I also finished finals last week which I am super happy about. I know that other universities still have exams going on this week, but mine usually tends to end earlier for some reason. So if you are still writing finals, good luck and I'm sure all of you will do great! 

However if you are not quite as excited for Christmas as I am, get ready to be! I always find that listening to Christmas music gets me into the festive spirit. So I have made a list of my top 5 Christmas songs  that get me into the Christmas spirit. Listen to them, I have a whole playlist on my Spotify look up under Christmas Jams under my user emmylalonde. 

Top 5 Christmas Songs!

1. Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio

2. I'll bBe Home For Christmas - Michael Bublé

3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Christina Aguilera

4. Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass - All Time Low

5. Mary, Did You Know - Pentatonix

Let me know if any of these songs are apart of your favourite Christmas songs, if they aren't let me know what yours are! I will be filming a five facts about me video and it will be going up by this Sunday so be ready for that!

Take care! xxx

Miracle Man for Your Brows!

Hey everyone!

My week of stress if finally over! I have finished all of my midterms and some of my large assignments which were due last friday so now I am FREE! Well up until finals I guess. Anyways with the stressful week I had last week I kind of let somethings get out of control, including my eyebrows. We all have those weeks when our brows become a much lower priority and last week was that week for me.

However I was able to tidy up and correct my brows this weekend with the help of my wonderful Tweezerman tweezers. Tweezerman is simply fantastic and amazing, they are without a doubt the best tweezers you could possibly own. You know when you have a pair of tweezers that just can't seem to get all the fine and shorter hairs? Well when using Tweezerman tweezers you can get all the the nuisance strands of hair that you want gone. Plus they come in cute designs and a nice little case so they are perfect.

I honestly love mine so much, I bought mine I think around the beginning August and I will now and forever stick with Tweezerman. They are a pretty reasonable price, I think mine were around $28.00 so they seem a bit pricy but they are definitely worth it! You can get them from your local Target ( that's where I got mine), or you can go to Sephora, or your local beauty product retailer.

Anyways, that is it for today. I just wanted to share how amazing these are with all of you!

Take care! xxx

A Good Way To End The Week!

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So because this was the first week back to school I wanted to make todays post into something lighthearted and fun. I had my first day back to university yesterday and I have to say that it went really well! I only had one class this week because I only have one class on thursdays and my Fridays are free so it was kind of a nice way to get back into the grove of school. 

Even though I have been lucky enough to have an easy first week of school I know some of you may not have been that lucky. So that is why I chose this video from POPSUGAR Girl's Guide. If you like cute videos, celebrity gossip videos, cooking videos, and just about everything and more  you will love this YouTube channel! Personally I like the Top That show and their cooking videos so be sure to check those out if that kind of thing interests you!

Thats really it for today, I didn't want to make it too long incase your brain has had too much information intake for the week! Let me know what you are most looking forward to during this year of school! I'm most looking forward to becoming more close to my roommates!

Take care! xxx

Back to School!

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In honor of school starting next week I thought this was a very fitting video. You may have seen this cute and funny family a few months  ago in a video called #XMAS JAMMIES. Well this family is back and there video is just as good if not better than there #XMAS JAMMIES video. This is The Holderness family and they make amazing family videos on YouTube and if you have not seen them yet, you need to get on that.

This is a parody of Sir Mix A Lot's Baby Got Back, and it is perfection. It is the perfect way to lighten the mood to the start of the school year, and can possibly make you excited to go back. I know that I am actually quite excited to get back into a regular schedule and I'm really excited for some of the classes I chose to take for this semester! 

I know that going back to school isn't exciting for everyone, but this year try to enjoy it and maybe make a new friend or two. Don't just spend your days hating school, do something to make it enjoyable for you.

Take care! xxx

Getting Organized!

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As I said on Monday this is all about getting organized! School has started for some of you already but I have until September 4th until University starts up for me! So lately I have been collecting books and things that will help me get organized for school. During the school year I will be working a part time job, but I also plan to put up 3ish blog posts a week and Starting mid September I will be making either weekly or bi-weekly videos (I haven't decided yet.)

Now this is the calendar, or planner that I got from Target. This  is more of a "everything I am doing is going into this". This a year long planner and it has sections for each month where there is a page of the whole month and than the next pages are more detailed areas  for each day with an area to write down more details of what is going on during a specific day. I use this to write down the days that I'm working, blog ideas for certain days, and any events or plans that I have. I have been using this for most of my summer and it has been so helpful!

Sorry for the really bad photo's of these ( I haven't 

painted yet and my walls don't seem to be straight!)

Anyways with all that I will be doing during the school year I need to be very organized if I want to be able to do all the things I want to do. So my first step in getting organized was to buy a calendar. As simple as that sounds it is actually a very helpful resource and my monthly calendar is one that I got last September from my Universities Bookstore. It is a dry erase calendar and it is a two sided calendar. The side that I use is just the single month calendar but on the other side is a four month calendar  which is where my second calendar comes in handy! Yes, I have more than one calendar... Anyways on my one month calendar I put my plans for the month, and assignments and quizzes for schools that are due. My four month calendar I also got last year but this was a free dry erase calendar that I got during my frosh week. For this calendar I put due dates for all of my assignments so at all times I can see when things are going to be due and plan out when I should do them. My second calendar isn't very detailed but I usually put enough to know what class and assignment is due.

Onto notes and things! For my school notes it depends on the class for me decide how I want to take my notes. For most of my classes I type notes up on my laptop during lectures, but there is still a few classes that I like to write hand written notes. Anyways, I have Five Star binders for the classes that I like to write out the lecture notes, and usually for my typed notes I have one word document for each class with bold lettering for the lecture title and date and then my notes below that.

Now since I plan to still blog as much as I have been and I want to be making videos frequently I bought a cute little  Be Happy notebook  from Chapters to carry around with me. In this I write blog ideas, video ideas, and just little things that I need to remember or how I'm feeling in one moment. It is basically going to be a notebook filled with everything and anything.

Also, as I explained in my last post I bought this adorable Hedgehog Desk Tidy and I am definitely obsessed with it! I also bought a cute P.S. post it note pad to use with it. I bought both items from Chapters and they were both very affordable! The Hedgehog Desk Tidy was around $8.99 and the P.S. post it note pad was $3.00! I love these and it will really help me remember things when I'm usually forgetting everything! (I do have a full post about the Hedgehog Desk tidy if you are interested in reading that!)

Anyways I hope this is helpful for some of you who are really wanting to get organized! If you have any tips or tricks please let me know because I want to be as organized as I can!

Take care!

Cute Hedgehog Organizer!

Hey everyone! 

Today I want to share with you the cutest desk organizer that I have found! I was in Chapters as one does when the go to buy books, and as I was waiting in the checkout line, my eyes spotted the most adorable thing ever! Now I do have an extreme want for a hedgehog but do to my landlord not wanting us to have pets, this is my stand-in hedgehog for now.

It is from a brand called Paladone and it is their Hedgehog Desk Tidy.Since school is starting very soon I have been gathering organizational things so that this year I will be super organized with assignments, reading, blog things, and videos. So when I saw this, I knew that I had to get it. I will be using it to prop up little reminder notes while I'm at my desk working. I know last year I slacked in organization which ended up with me doing assignments last minute, That will not be happening this year!   

So with my Hedgehog Desk Tidy I will stay more on track this year. Along with this I have bought a few more organizational things, and I will be posting that on Wednesday. I just thought that this cute little desk ornament deserved it;s own post! If you have any tips or tricks with organization please let me know because I want to do all I can to get my life organized! 

Take care! xxx 

Starbucks Obsessed!

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So today is going to be an ultimate "white girl" blog entry. Yes, I am confessing that I have an addiction to Starbucks. Now I am from Canada so until a few years ago Starbucks wasn't in every city like it is today so up until a couple of years ago I had never had anything from Starbucks, all I knew about it was that it was pretty expensive. Until that wonderful(ish) summer.

 A couple summers ago I went to summer school to get into an advanced English course to be able to go to university. It was not fun because it was a full day of school but all we did was one single course, so by the end of that summer I did not want to be in another English class for quite awhile. Anyways in front of the school there was a Starbucks and for the first time while attending summer school I had my first drink from Starbucks. 

It doesn't look so pretty now but I can promise you that before the whip cream melted it looked very nice with cinnamon sprinkled on top! 

The first drink I had was a Mocha Coconut Frappuccino which was my favourite drink for a long time.... until they got rid of it. Now, if anything I would get a Caramel Macchiato either hot or iced depending on the weather. Lately though I have been getting their Cinnamon Dolce Latte, which is so incredibly delicious! I only tried this for the first time about two weeks ago and I have had a ridiculous amount since then. It is like drinking liquid Fall as weird as that sounds. It's pretty close to their Pumpkin Spice Latte... only it doesn't have the pumpkin taste. Anyways it is so good, and I feel like curling up and watching movies while I drink it like's a cool day of fall and all you want is a nice warm drink, you know?  Or is it just me? Anyways, it is super delicious and if you have not had it yet do it... or not because you might become addicted like me.

Anyways, I hope all of you have had a fantastic weekend and if you are a Starbucks addict like me let me know so I know I'm not alone. :)

Take care! xxx

Procrastination

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Today I wanted to talk about something that I have problems dealing with especially in school. Procrastination. I have such a hard time starting an assignment early no matter how important the assignment is. I’ll begin to start it, but end up on the internet, usually on YouTube and say to myself “one video, and then I will start.” Only that never happens. I end up getting sucked into the internet vortex for 2 hours and then just give up on even trying to do my assignment. I will usually end up doing my assignment either the day before it’s due, or the day of. I have a problem. I don’t know exactly when this problem started but I’m pretty sure it has gotten worse since I have been in university.

I don’t know how to get out of the habit of procrastinating, and I am sure I am not the only one with this problem. It is almost the end of my first year in university so there is no sense in fixing it right now, but for my second year my procrastination issues is something that I want to fix. I don’t know if I will be able to do it because I know that habits are hard to break, but if I can at least stop doing things completely last minute than I will be a bit happier.

If anyone else has issues with procrastination let me know! Also, if you were a procrastinator and were able to conquer it please let me know how you did it, because I am in desperate need of fixing this problem!

I though this was a fitting image.

Take care! xxx

Volunteering!

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So this afternoon I volunteered for an event at my school, which I had to say was a pretty awesome experience. It was for previous studio art majors who are considering my university to get their masters in fine arts. It was awesome to see the work of the current students at my university both in undergraduate programs and in the masters program. It made me realize that art was really something that I want to get into, and will for sure be pursuing as a career choice. It also made me realize other areas of work that I would like to get into besides just photography, like metal work and print making.

There was also a fantastic lecture given by Roberta Smith who is an art critic. I have never really head much about the critic side of art so it was very interesting to hear her view of things. Mostly though I spent my time outside making sure people knew where to go and answer any questions that they had.

For volunteering for this event all who volunteered got a gift bag, which I was unaware of, but was so mice of them. We all received basically the same things, small variations of some of the objects but all were very awesome. 

So this is what I got in my gift bag:

So this is the envelope that it all came in. Each envelop was decorated differently than all the rest.

A thank you card from all the artists featured in the open studios.

Two packets of hot chocolate.

One of artist Jon Sasaki's "I'VE PAID MY DUES" multiples.

A print of work done by current MFA student Denise Higginson.

Two issues of Border Crossings.

This was a fantastic and much appreciated gift bag that I find absolutely amazing that each of the volunteers were given. I had an amazing time and loved getting to see what students at my university can produce. This event made me love my school even more that I did before. I guess that is all for now, any questions about this or anything I received let me know!  

Take care! xxx

Decision Making

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As I said in my last entry I am in university right now and I will be finishing my first year in just over a month. Since beginning university in September I have realized a few very important things that I thought should be shared to people going into university or college next year. Now I know that this time of year applicants are receiving acceptance letters from the schools that they applied to, and some maybe receiving letters with not so good news. The thing you need to know is that if you still haven’t received anything as of now it is okay, do not worry! I didn't receive my acceptance letter to my university until about mid-March, and some like a few of my friends didn't receive their acceptance until late April. So do not panic if you haven’t received any or all replies yet.

The other thing you need to not do is go with the first school that sent a reply. It may be your first choice but wait until you receive all of the schools replies before making your final choice, it is always good to make sure with what you feel is the best option for you. With this, also make sure to visit the schools before making your final decision because the school may seem nice on their website, but you’ll never truly know until you see it in person.

Also when picking schools make sure that you are making decisions based off of yourself, not your friends or even family, because you are the one that will be attending said school. My two closes friends are both going to two different schools and we still talk all the time and we see each other pretty often, so make sure that you are choosing the school for you, not for anyone else.

My last tip of advice for when applying and choosing schools is make sure that you are choosing the program that you want to take. If you are unsure of what you want to do that take an undeclared major for first year, you don’t have to make a final decision until you experience some of the classes in university. From my personal experience I applied to a program that I felt was the more appropriate one and I’m not happy with what I choose, but I am also in the process of changing my major into what I really want to be doing. So if you wind up not liking the program you chose talk to someone about switching into your desired program.

Anyways, I hope that this can help some of you who are struggling with what to do in the stressful times of deciding what to do for university or college. If you have any questions feel free to ask me, I’ll answer in my next entry if I get any.

I'm very luck to have such a beautiful campus!

Thanks!

Have a great day! xxx

P.s. I have decided that I will  be making entries every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, if that information interests any one!