Quilling 101

I discover this amazing blog - All things paper. Of the things I love most about it, is the quilling. It's easy-ish and amazing.  There are tutorials at All things paper and a starter at Makezine.com. I've also been doing sone embossing, so look out for a tutorial on that soon ;)

         An example of quilling from makezine.com

Blog challenge

A writing challenge is a great way for your readers to get to know you, or that's what they say anyway. I looked through a couple, and they all asked things like: discuss your relationship, or how it feels to be single, etc ect. Ummm maybe not....

I found this one on a friends blog, so i'm going to give it ago. 

I have been blogging everyday, as I'm on summer break right now, but not with a guide line.

Omg, in a week or two i'm going on holiday! My sister and I are visiting my cousins, who live right on the beach! So excited! Yes, the challenge thingamabob will be postponed during that period. 

Hello, 2014

In just 4 hours and 42 minutes, it is new years day here in the NZ. Lets mark all the main points of each month.

January - Worst summer holidays I've ever had. They were boring and tedious. 

February- My first time back at school after 2 1/2 years.

March- settling in a making 'firm' friends with some girls. 

April- Having a fall out with those girls- I don't know what I said/did. 

May- Making close friends with a group of girls. These became my five best friends.

June & July - I think this was when I joined a sports exchange, playing soccer in a team with these really horrible girls. My billet was to sick to come down to stay, which was gutting. 

August- Choose the school I was going to change to next year.

September- Went to Wellington for a nation competition I was entered in. My team and I had be in a extension since term one working on this. (We were Team A, out 5 or 6 teams) We came third in our division :(

October & November- Got involved back stage in my school production, made some great friends, and had fun.

December- Winding down from the year, avoiding anyone expect my five besties, and being a bit withdraw from activities.

This year has to be the most challenging year of my life. I made many good friends, and fell out with some. Got fit, had some laughs. Found out what its like to be in a large school. Really went out of my comfort zone.

But really, this is year never to be forgoten. 

Cloud coat/key hanger

Brownie in a mug

Don't forget - self raising flour is used, so and 1/4 tsp for baking powder if using plain flower.

I added icing sugar instead of ice cream - yum yum || Found this on twitter from this person ||

Heres mine, soz about the bad photo:

Give - nah, we'd rather ruin it.

I was in the back car park of our local Rebel Sports, waiting for my parents to finish shopping for sports clothes. I was so bored. After about ten minutes of waiting, two ladies came out. One had a large amount of bubble wrap, which she dropped everywhere, and then had to chase around the car park. The other had a trolley, full with those really big umbrellas you put over outside tables, and some cardboard tubes. She threw all the tubes out, any other junk in the bottom of her trolley. 

By this time the bubble wrap lady had gone inside. The remaining lady was pulling out the umbrellas of her trolley. These were brand new, no use, but hadn't sold. Maybe there was a little something wrong with them. Still usable. As I watched, she pulled out a craft knife, opened the umbrellas and slashed them, tearing the fabric. Wreaking them. I was horrified! What kind of shop would rather ruin something beyond repair, than give it away to a second hand shop, or sell it for $10 or $20. They are so stuck to the principal that you must sell at the price they want, or not sell it at all. Disgusted and shocked.

Bucket list 2014 - top 5

So I have made my bucket list and posted it. But I was thinking, one plain list is soooo boring, so I thought i'd post my top five, and reasons why.

1. Make myself a new wardrobe. Omg, I love new things!! New things, shinny things, nice smelling things...they are to die for! Everything in shops theses days are short, tiny, low necked or open backed. With a few exceptions of course. And also, you never know when sewing can come in handy. (And somethings you can make are super cute) :)
2. Keep a journal. When I'm older, I want to be able to look back on my life, and read about what I did (and also have my memories stored safely). I'm not that good a keeping a journal...I have tried but I just forget, don't have anything to write about etc.
3. Take heaps of photos. I love looking at photos of me. Not in a vain way! I just like looking at how I looked once, and what I used to do. And photos can be a real laugh sometimes. The memory thing again really.
4. Make lots of new friends. I'm going to a new school next year and I only have three close friends (and a sibling) that are going there. THREE!!! My friend situation has only been worse once, when it was zero friends at a new school. 
5. Have an awsum 2014. Everything. In general. Sports. School. Grades. Friends. Completing my bucket list. Just everything really.

Who likes my new signature??

First Impressions

This blogpost is about....

Yep, thats right. Please tell you've heard of them. For me, it's one of those band names I just know. And have always known. I only really knew their song Yellow, and my mother and singing 'And it was alllll yellowwwww', did not make me want to listen or like this song. I always thought....

A week or two ago, my sister played me their song Paradise  & Princess of China (ft Rihanna). Omg, it was love at first sight. Well more for Paradise, I'm not so sure about Princess of China. My sis and I bought both these songs, and I think my family wishes we hadn't. (I'm sure you can guess why ;)

So yes, first impressions or what you have alway thought, 

can't always be right. Or in my case, up to date. 

This is why this post is called....

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy new year Mazie.

All pictures except no.1 are made by me, so no stealing. Please.

Bucket list 2014

Summer reading program

Write

Paint

Keep a journal

Visit Grandparents and cousins 

Go fishing

Origami Dress Tutorial

I fell in love with these gorgeous dresses a bit ago, and I thought I'd share them with you. I have tried a few different ways of doing this, and this way is the simplest. Please comment if confused, and I'll be more than happy to help.

Mondays musings

Harry Potter 30 day Challenge

 

1. Deathly Hallows
2. Severus Snape
3. Luna Lovegood
4. Sirius Black
5. Bellatrix Lestange
6. Lupin
7. Oliver Wood

Mystical

I was looking through my iPhoto, and found some lovely photos.

My second fav. The smoke, the fire, the grass, the trees.  

Not quite as good as below. Tell me which one is your fav!

Grass and smoke. Taken lying down.

You can get some really get pic from down here. Join me one day.

Anti-bucket list

With 2014 just around the corner, all the rage is of course, a bucket list. Here in the NZ, and I'm not sure about other countries, we have a thing called New Year's Resolutions. Just things you want to do, but often they can be things that you think you should do, like:
Read 20 books if you don't read much, because you've never been a big reader.
With a bucket list it's more like:
Sleep on the trampoline, or redecorate your room.

Who we are- Switchfoot

Who we are- Switchfoot.
OMG this song is just...OMG. I love it. I first heard on Life Fm (radio) and didn't like it that much. I have to admit, when I was younger is despised Switchfoot's music, and even now, I have to listen to it a bit, and let it grow on me. The lyrics aren't as good as they usually are, but this was for the (OMG) movie. I didn't really like the music video, it seemed...to be like, bitsy? Yea, in some places it just seemed to be them having fun, and then in other places, them really connecting with the lyrics of the song. Maybe it's just me.
Tell me what you think, and otherwise enjoy!

Mazie's summer wardrobe wants

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9, 10, 15 do not have links.
Made with polyvore

Liebster Award

I was nominated by the Wild Horse over at her blog Opal Swirls.  ☕

Rules of the Liebster award: 

-Link back to the blogger who tagged you 

-Answer the 10 questions (s)he asks me

-Nominate 10 other bloggers at the maximum

-Let those Nominees know they were tagged

Grumpy teachers

Lets get straight onto the topic: Grumpy teachers. At my school, teachers are, like always away or on relief. (What about us? We haven’t had a single teacher only day and it’s third term holidays!!) We had this really grumpy reliever in term one that wouldn’t let us use dictionaries and thesauruses for our writing. And in term two there was one that wouldn’t tell me if I had any spelling mistakes, she just say: “go fix it”. Go fix what??? Then this guy teacher who said: “ I’d rather play games with you, but your teacher has set you stuff to do.” Well duh. And then he’d get mad if we talked, and would read all our work out real loud, so the whole class could hear. And then he was like to me about my writing “This make no sense!!” When the task was to use 10 certain words in a paragraph, and two of the words were: pilot and production. Doesn’t it make sense that it was supposed to be was report about a production, staring a pilot. He was the worst. Wait, not as bad as the teacher that want us to explain how everything was done, and then told us that we were all wrong. Were’s the logic in that?!? We had this one two days ago who got mad at these two friends for choosing the same topic for there writing. There were only four topics. Gosh. And then she got mad at them again for whispering about their writing, when these other three girls were talking about something total unrelated, and real loudly. Then she got mad because one of them was sticking his feet out the side of his desk. OMG much!

Luckily its holidays now, so no school for two weeks. YAY! 

#10ThingsBeforeChristmas -no.10

Tweet #10ThingsBeforeChristmas

Well, I have done one. 

1. Cook 1 meal for my family.

2. Cook 1 meal for my family.

3. Cook 1 meal for my family.

4. Cook 1 meal for my family.

5. Cook 1 meal for my family.

6. Cook 1 meal for my family.

7. Cook 1 meal for my family.

8. Cook 1 meal for my family.

9. Cook 1 meal for my family.

10. Cook 1 meal for my family.

                              Here's a photo.

Top left: mussel, crumbed. Top right: coleslaw. Bottom: Garlic bread. 

What I did:

For Mussels:

Boiled mussels until the shells opened. Cooled them. Took out there tongues and beards. Soaked them in egg and bread crumbs. Left for 30 minutes. Fried in oil.

For Coleslaw:

Put cabbage and carrot in food processor, and cut it all up. Put in bowl. Put mayonnaise, tomato sauce, lemon juice. No.2 and 3 are optional. Mixed in.

For Garlic Bread: Got french stick. Cut slits in bread, not all the way through. Put Garlic, mixed into soft butter, in the slits. Cooked in oven, while wrapped in foil, until crisp.

10 things before Christmas

Tweet #10ThingsBeforeChristmas

1. Take 10 awesome photos
2. Make 10 new friends
3. Do 10 inspiring blogposts
4. Make/buy 10 new items of summer clothing
5. Randomly compliment 10 people
6. Read 10 great books
7. Write 10 'How To' and blog them
8. Write in my diary 10 times
9. Add 10 new cute things to my room
10. Make 10 meals for my family