I've always loved the keep calm parodies, and now the time has come to create some. There was so many ways to get it on your wall, but my preferred way would be to have it in a picture frame, something like this. I love Profile's frame, but they're a bit pricey. So an alternative would be going around to op shops, they have those antique looking frame at the fraction of the price. That will happen after exams, but at the moment Big W & Target (in Australia) are having 50% selected frame starting tomorrow (June 7th). Also Big W 11x14 Enlargement Prints are $1.00 (save $12.84) till Wednesday next week. I'm using Manish's prints, they seem about print quality, will report back tomorrow.

This concept would make fantastic and very affordable gifts, providing that you find the frames. And the best part is that you can personalize it with colour and what it actually says. E.g. for the coffee addict lover "Keep Calm and Drink Coffee" or Dr Who Fan "Keep Calm and Don't Blink".



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This week is SWOTVAC. What does that mean? To me with a business background: strengths, weakness, threats, opportunities... I'm lost. Fernando says it means 'Study w/o teachers "vacation"'. :P Not sure what's happened but there isn't much study going on, just a lot of avoidance... The dr says it's the stress that's getting to me.


Anyway this week was slept mostly asleep, on Monday I had coffee at KK, entered a colouring-in competition and we had revision classes. On the way back I bought some ribbon samples. Went to the dentist on Tuesday, two fillings (one a replacement) then went to the city to pick up a mannequin, on the train we saw a cute guy, but didn't talk to him, still under anesthetic and couldn't talk. :P Wed & Thu was spent asleep.



Friday we met with the new therapist, and bought some art stuff. The glue and glitter were $2 each, yarn 80c, crown $3 and all the scrapbooking stuff and two notebooks were $1 each. The crown (not pictured), the top part is perfect for creating the template for the Q of Hearts crown. I'll make a replica in gold as well. Yarn, I don't knit, but it would be great to use a ribbon for tying up presents wrapped in brown kraft paper.


Recently in the past couple months I've been painting my nails weekly during event lectures, and as a result my nails have gotten an orange-ish stain/glow to it. Even though I use base... A lady at Priceline recommended I get Cutex's Nail Whitener. It's about $10 at Priceline ($6.50 at Chem. Warehouse) and it's a base and whitener in one. And I think it works, I have it on at the moment and you can't see the stains. It's more of a pearly translucent white then solid. Going to not paint my nails till uni resumes to avoid stains for now.

Not sure what the deal is with long nails, and why girls like them so much. But I prefer my short nails, it doesn't gather as much dirt under them and I can play the piano and violin without scratching anything, and I don't hurt myself or risk broken nails in sport. I may not be able to do a french mani or decorate the tops, but it's worth it when you weigh the frustration of nails getting in the way of life.


In the later part of the week I received tickets to the Good Food & Wine Show, Australia's largest consumer food and wine exhibition. Won them through a contest, 47 entered, 3 wins, 6.38% of scoring tickets. We went on Saturday, jas (who has a better knowledge of cooking, and did a full-time cooking course) and I, and we tried lots of things, bought candy (me), showbags (him, there was no chocolate in it...) and saw a cooking demo by Maggie Beer (who jas was very keen to see). There'll be a full post on it later in the week. Tickets thanks to Thanh of I Eat Therefore I Am, a food blogger takes takes amazing pictures, and reviews more of the moderate-higher priced restaurants.


This week I learnt not to have plans, full day plans, for both days of the weekend, as my health doesn't allow it. I missed work today :( which I was looking forwards to, an annual event - the event, not working that is. AH has a massive sale on, but from the discussion all the accessories were tangled and there were children running around destroying everything. As it's a warehouse sale, anything goes, unlike the boutique, no children and food allowed. The worse scenario is a child with a ice cream cone, 2 or more scoops, near expensive ($100+) clothing. 

I love these silhouette, Victorian antique style things. We'll probably end up having them on our wedding stationary. They're wonderful as they're so simple in concept but the the options are limitless in terms of scrapbooking paper to use. Note that these are a bit on the small side though, 15cm x 10cms.


Clearitonline is a fantastic place to buy brands on sale, free shipping if you spend over a certain amount too I think. Delivery & Service is a hit/miss according to forum discussions. I scored a Alannah Hill coat today for a great price, considering the design and quality. A month or so ago I got the Once Upon A Time Coat in black for $500 - on sale at the boutique. On clearance sale I was very lucky to get it in red/cherry for only $125, there was only one left in my size. At the moment they only have the dark green ones left in the smaller sizes. 



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The other day we went to Bloom's Sale and bought some stuff, one of the two items both Emily and myself bought was the Nail Polish Remover Pads. Make-up pads soaked in nail polish remover. There are 30-something of them in a container priced at $3, RRP $7.20 from their website. 

My first encounter with these np remover pads was a few of years ago, ms hoh called me into her office, gave me a couple of the pads and I completely freaked out, because I really did think she was going to stab me with a needle! You know how they clean your skin before giving you immunizations. It turns out she just wanted me take off the nail polish XD. Since then I've been seeing them at various store including jewellery/bag shops oddly. 

Bloom's pads smell almost pleasant, compared to the normal nail polish remover, it smells lemony. But do they work? It depends on how much nail polish you have on exactly. Emily with one layer of colour, no top/base, could easier remove the polish from all 10 nails just two pads. I on the other hand had 4+ coats on (base, colour, colour, top), and found it quite difficult to remove, though did eventually, with two pads. It was not fun and took much longer, compared to the bottle of nail polish remover I normally use. And with glitter polish, it was a no go. Like in the description it says 'gentle', it's too gentle to remove glitter.  

Recommended? Yes for convenience e.g. travel. and if you only wear 1-2 layers, and no glitter. Perhaps it's another one of those try once things. But if like me you use 4+ coats (base, colour, colour, top), it's too much effort and too slow. With the bottle, the np comes off on contact, rather than lots of rubbing involved.

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