The ball is now in five days. I have my jewellery, my dress and my shoes. So far it has cost me $300, and I still need to buy my ticket ( roughly $50). The sad thing is that I am doing it the cheap way, other girls are spending up to $1000. I'm saving by not getting a fake tan, having my sister do my make-up and doing my own hair and nails.

 I didn't end up finding a date, but I'm completely fine with that, three of my friends and I are group, which will be good because it means that I won't have pictures with a random that I don't even know.

Now all I need to do is learn how to dance after only going to one ball room lesson, and break in my shoes.

Have an amazing day:)

Does classical music really help with study?

I think that most high school students have heard that listening to classical music will help concentration and study. Today my English teacher was talking about it, so I decided to test the Theory.

How does this work?
Firstly there are different types of brain waves:
  -Alpha waves which are normally present just before you go to sleep or are really relaxed.
  -Beta waves which are generally associated with normal thinking.
  -Theta waves.
  -Delta waves.
  -Gamma waves.

People generally are more creative and focused when alpha waves are present.

The connection is that classical music encourages the presence of alpha waves, hence the theory of classical music being good for study. As I was writing this I listened to Clair De Lune and did not get distracted once, so maybe it will help with focus, but if it doesn't I'll just be more culturally aware, which would be a good thing.

Have an amazing day :)

Just really Creepy.

I was recently reading a list of  Creepy things that kids say on reddit.com and thought all of those kids must be really stuffed up to say these things, until I remembered that my mum told my mum that I said creepy things all the time when I was little. When I had just turned two I told my mum and one of my Aunties that my imaginary friend 'Nebulizer' (I was quite badly asthmatic until I was 14) had died in a fire in a red brick house and now she was my friend. Apparently I gave a lot of detail and really scared them.

I was reminded of this today when I was putting my two year old niece into her onesie pajamas and she told me "I want to take your eyeballs out Aunty" She then started talking about putting them on her ears. I was wearing pearl stud earrings and she couldn't find the right words to explain what she wanted. She just wanted to borrow my earrings even though her ears aren't pierced. It kind of creeped me out for the two seconds before she started to play with my earrings and I realised what she was talking about.

My sister has pet chickens and a couple of days ago she told me that she wanted to eat a chicken. For a split second I assumed that she wanted to eat her pet before I realised that we eat chicken all the time.

Shes still not as creepy as me, but I'm sure that in time she will get there.

Have an amazing day :)

It is amazing how much busier I am this year in comparison with last year. In the past two weeks I have had one English internal, two biology internals, a five credit history internal and a six credit classics internal.

 My ball dress finally arrived last week and is absolutely perfect in every way, although my friend ordered hers at the same time to get cheaper postage and it is way too long.

I signed up for English scholarship yesterday so I'll have to study even harder in English to make sure that it isn't just a huge waist of my time.

Have an awesome week :)

So, today we had a class trip to the University of Otago open day, which was awesome.

I had to get up at 4:50am because the bus left at 6, but, although none of us had gotten no sleep, we talked the whole way there (Three hours in a bus).

It took 45 minutes to get to my first lecture but after that it was amazing. I attended three lectures all together. English and classics were my favorites.For classics we had my current teachers old lecturer, who is absolutely crazy, but I've found that the best teachers are the ones that are pretty much insane.

Have an amazing week :)

DIY book pillow tutorial

So last week I was on pinterest and i come across this adorable picture of pillow shaped books.

 

I soon decided that I had to have some, so I made them, but I couldn't find a tutorial online, so I made the pattern myself.

For the front/back cover and lining used an A4 sized piece of paper, the spine is around 1cm longer and can be almost any width. The pages opposite the spine are the same as the spine but 3cm shorter, and the other pattern piece for the pages is the length of the shorter side of the A4 but 1.5 cm shorter.

You can make your own pattern for this quite easily because it is just a lot of rectangles.

You will need a few different fabrics for this.

1. Cut it out

2. Print or draw any details on the front cover. I stenciled the deathly hallows on my front cover.

 3. Attach lining to the front and back covers

4.Add any more details, like titles or borders.

 

5.Sew the spine to the covers.

 

6.Then attach the 'pages'.

 

This is what it should look like after you attach them to both the front and back covers.Make sure that you leave a little bit open.

 

7.Stuff the pillow.

 

8.Sew up the opening that was left open to stuff it.

 

Here are some (really bad) pictures of the final product and Alice in wonderland. :)

 

Have an amazing day :)

It has been such a busy month. I have completed one internal in stats (Merit!!) and I am in the middle of three others (Biology, English and History). The schedule for dance lessons for the ball are up and according to my calculations it is now only 75 days away.

All of the SGHS year thirteens (The thirteens of '13) are going to Dunedin to see the uni on the thirteenth of may!! I can't wait.

Also the first set of school holidays are about to start, which means a Harry Potter movie marathon, lots of books and even more study.

Have an amazing week ;)