Sins of my mind.

Well sorry for lack of posts lately. The other day I got a new computer and when I went to go on my old one to get all the files, the old one stuffed up. I think the old one knew it was being replaced...

Anyway, my dad and I spent all night trying to fix it and eventually got everything off and I have spent the past few days putting the files on the new fancy one and downloading old programs I used to have.

This internet is old and soo annoying. I also don't have microsoft office. I have one called OpenOffice which is a lamer version - grrr.

On Friday my school had a grade 9 art exhibition and it was fuun. I have a ton of pictures to show you.

Anyways... I am catching up on everyone's recent blogs and I am enjoying myself for some reason.

Today I miss out on an applied art class (graffiti art) - This class is on a weekend so we have time to spray paint a mural in our school and the dude helping us can only do it on a weekend. He is a cool street artist from around here. I have soccer slap bang in the middle of it.

Yesterday I got my hair trimmed and it looks much better really straight, haha. School photos on Tuesday - Gasp. I also bought a cobalt pair of tights and the fifth book in the IT girl series - Lucky - which I have already finished.

Better be off. Byeee.
G

Today I bought the fourth book in the IT girl series and I am obsessed with Gossip Girl now.

I also got some art stuff and I have a heap o' h/w.

Betta go. Cyaa
G (I'm just gonna say that from now on because it is easier coming up with something new each time - kudos to Gossip Girl)

Merry Easter.

Today I had my uncle, aunt and one of my cousins, Bec, over today for Easter Monday lunch. It was pretty fun. I wore this...

White skinny jeans - Supre $20; Red clown blouse - Challans $10 (sale, originally $150); Grey singlet - K-mart $10; Yellow nail polish - Ice Accessories (present).

Yesterday I got a book, Lock & Key by Sarah Dessen, instead of chocolate. I've already read it and it is sooo good. All of Dessen's books are great. They have a strong family story and strong boy-girl relationship story through each book. They are all really great. Recommended.

I have three of her other books and I love her very muchly. Here they are...

Hope you had a good Easter. xx

*rolls off*
Gemmmma.

I need to read something. I have gone back to re-reading all of my interesting books. I have a pretty good memory so I remember it all which kind of ruins the fun and excitement of reading. (listen to me, 'fun & excitement of reading'.)

I have the first three books from the seven series set of 'The IT Girl'. It is by the author of Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar. She is a great author. She is brilliant at building up suspence. She also writes like a teenager and mentions modern clothes and brands and places so much you just feel so young and free and 'into' everything when you read it.

Anyways, I bought the second one ages ago and really enjoyed it so I went out and bought the first one then, other than glancing for it in the 'teenage fiction' section of any bookstore, I haven't thought of it much since. However, with my recent obsession with Gossip Girl and specifically Jenny Humphrey (a character in Gossip Girl and the main character of The IT Girl), I saw the series (recovered) in Melbourne and I bought the next one in the series - Reckless.

Reckless is more a build up book for the others. Well, I guess I see it like that because I read it in a few hours. The books are about the 'it' crowd at an expensive boarding school in America featuring partying, drinking, boys and clothes. Any-ho, I'm reading Reckless now.

I guess I recommend all of these but I guess I kind of recommend everything I post about.

I haven't done much today, just, as I told you before, finished reading the fifth and sixth books of the 'Tomorrow' series.

Just now however, I painted my nails yellow for tomorrow and the holidays - we can't have nail polish on at school (I don't know why, what harm will it do? Might we *gasp* express ourselves???). I found out I have this awesome pink-orange nail polish as well which I am sooo using next time. Haha - talking about nail polish colour.

Anyway..... I shall go now. Farewell, sleep well.

Gem-gem.

First off, I took photos of my bookshelf. I thought I'd show you that. I got a bit bored...

I bought this mohair bucket hat on Friday at David Jones for $40. I love it because it reminds me of Burberry Spring 2009. It's so stylish and fits my head perfectly. Yay. Celebration.

I bought these black gloves from the Basement in Myer's for $25 along with the cream ones in the other blog. They are really comfortable and keep you warm. They are pretty awesome. I got them on Thursday and Aelia (my sister) bought a pair too.

These are the gloves i got that I was wearing in the photos before. I saw them and knew I had to buy them :)

I love reading atm and I bought one of these and my mum paid for one. They were both $17 from Dymocks. I have two more books by Sarah Dessen, author of This Lullaby, called The Truth About Forever and Just Listen. She is a great author. Reckless is the third book in The IT Girl series (I have the first two books already) out of six/seven. Cecily von Ziegesar also wrote the Gossip Girl series and this series features Jenny Humphrey as one of the main characters (also in Gossip Girl). I got these on Thursday and read them while I was away. Highly recommended. They are great.

Here are 3 badges that my mum bought for me, for a dollar each, at Smiggle. They are so cute and there were just so many choices there. I love badges, haha. My friend, Eilish, has so many awesome ones and I have no idea how she finds any in Tasmania. I have never seen any badges sold anywhere here, haha. Well, I guess I don't look much.

Oh My Gosh, Oh My Gosh. This fan is amazing! It was at an expensive costume store called Antons. And I mean EXPENSIVE. They sell amazing suits that are made out of amazing fabric. There is also amazing old-fashioned pieces that you can't find anywhere. (I will talk about Antons more later.) They also have heaps of collectables all around the store and it is just so home-y. Anyway.... This fan was on one of the shelves for $12!!!! They had a few other colours (black & gold, black (mine), white, pink, black & green, black & white) but I only had enough money for one and black goes with almost anything. OMG. It is freaking AMAZING!

I also bought stockings because they can go with so much and I have seen some amazing ones on TV shows like Gossip Girl and Skins. I got the red ones ($15.50) and the black patterned ones I wore in the other photos ($18) at Socks Club in Melbourne Central. The tartan ones are rather horrid but I didn't buy them and wasn't there when my Mum bought them for me. They were $22 at some random place. They don't go with much and they look like something a school would make you wear. But oh-well.

There were some beautiful stockings I saw in an Alannah Hill store but that was on the last day and I didn't have any money. Gosh I love Alannah Hill. Some were knee-high socks that were black then has a thick rim of another colour. The fabric was beautiful and look great when you wear them (one of the sales women had a pair on). There was also a pair of knee-high socks that were black striped with silver glitter. Yaaay.

On the last day my mum and I went to Job Warehouse full of fabric and my Mum bought me all of this fabric. It was $307. Such a bargain. These first ones are silk. They are normally $40 a metre. We got the red one (4 metres) for $40 (WOAH!) and the Blue one (2 metres) for around $30. OMG. I am gonna make a waistcoat out of each like some of the ones with suits at Antons. I am obsessed.

There is around 4 metres of grey fabric which I am gonna make a suit skirt out of. It's gonna be sweeet. The blue one is a light taffeta that I had to get to make a skirt (because it stays stiff wonderfully) when I was looking at all of the taffeta for my competition dress (explain later). The white stuff is cotton and can be dyed very easily. It is so old and an amazing bargain. We got nine freaking metres of it for $17. It would be worth around $100. OMG!

The black one with the fine whited dotted stripe through it is amazing. It's quite thick and very cheap. We got around 10 metres I think. It feels about that much. The suit is gonna be amazing. The greeny-blue taffeta (12 metres) was around $50 and is going to be the dress I make. Can't wait to see how it turns out :)

This last wool is worth so much money. It is unbelieveable. However. It used to be self lined and after the twenty years it has been sitting there, it has slowly fallen off so now the back has got glue over it which should wash off. It is going to look amazing as a suit. You can't see it now but it will. We got all of it (around 7-12 metres) for about $60 which is excellent. (If the glue doesn't come off then we will have to try and do something for that because if we don't then it comes off and will stick to all my other clothes & fabric and ruin that.) Amazing!

All of this is sooooooooo kool. I spent so much time shopping. No joke. Around 30-40 hours. SO at least I got some amazing stuff out of it. It was so much fun even though I'm usually not very into shopping; well honestly, I wasn't that into it then either. It was so rewarding.

Farewelllll. Gemmma.

Tomorrow, When The War Began by John Marsden. I read it yesterday and had borrowed it from my friend over the weekend. She has the rest of the 'Tomorrow' series. It is really good. I recommend it.

From Thursday - Monday (2nd -6th) I will be in Melbourne doing Melbourne things so I can't post but I will come back with many buys and many a photo. I will post over the next few days but then I'm off into the sky, over the Bass Strait. Yaaay,.

Anyway, I still encourage you to check out Gossip Girl, I am obsessed and sooo can't wait till the first season comes out on the 25th of April. I have to see it. Hmmmm.

*waves* Farewell
Jester