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31 Day Blog Challenge: Day 10

2013-11-18T09:53:42Z

10. What's your best physical feature
I'm going to go with my hair, because it's easily manipulated. If I want it to be curly, it will be curly. If I want it to be straight, it will be straight. If I cared about doing my hair more, it would be the greatest thing ever. As is, I enjoy wearing a bun day in and out, and that's probably not going to change any time soon. It's practical, classy, and off my face 100% of the time, just the way I like it.

On an unrelated to this challenge note, I'm seeking book recommendations. Anything goes, but if it helps I've just finished the most recent book in this series, and prior to that devoured the Divergent Trilogy. The iBook store (is that even what it's called) suggested The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, so if anyone has any thoughts on this book it would be welcomed. Though I am open to any and all suggestions!

01. Introduction & recent photo
02. 20 facts about you
03. Your favorite quote
04. What are you afraid of
05. 10 songs you love right now
06. Your 5 senses right now
07. Your pet hates
08. What's in your handbag
09. What are your worst habits
10. What's your best physical feature
11. List 15 of your favorite things
12. What's inside your fridge
13. What is your earliest memory
14. If you won the lottery...
15. Timeline of your day
16. What's at the top of your bucket list
17. What is your most proud moment
18. The meaning behind your blog name
19. What do you collect
20. A difficult time in your life
21. Your favorite foods
22. The best thing that happened this year
23. Your dream job
24. Your favorite childhood book
25. Your 5 favorite blogs
26. An old photo of you
27. Post your favorite recipe
28. What are you looking forward to
29. Where have you travelled
30. What's in your makeup bag
31. Why do you blog

Hair!Porn Battle

2013-09-07T11:45:30Z

Hair!Porn Battle

So incandescent & I got to talking at the awesome friending meme about a shared love of Hair!Porn caps, and the lovely nottiem mentioned how awesome a battle would be that focused on fantastic ladies and their hair, and it definitely made me think that such a thing needs to happen.

If anyone else is interested in participating, let me know! We're aiming to have a mixture of chosen caps and technical themes, with a maximum icon submission of something between 10-12 icons, and I have every intention for this to be a low key, fun kind of thing.

Participants:
1. raiindust: Cap | Muted Coloring
2. marcasite: Cap | Bold/Vibrant Coloring - SUBMITTED
3. the_silverdoe: Cap | Obscure Crop - SUBMITTED
4. ofthesea: Cap | Chiaroscuro
5. holidaylights: Cap | Visible Texture Use - SUBMITTED
6. nottiem: Cap | Text Use
7. incandescent: Cap | Far Crop - SUBMITTED
8. applepips16: Cap | Negative Space - SUBMITTED
9. ohgollygeedamn - SUBMITTED
10. thyla87 - SUBMITTED

[curiosity killed the muse]

2013-01-13T20:49:25Z

01. JANUARY
Activity: i c e c r e a m p a l e t t e s
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) lanieveria

Technique: t w o t o n e c o l o u r
Two colours, both alike (or not) in dignity, where the icon lay clean.

Textures | Fonts | Palettes

02. FEBRUARY
Activity: i n s p i r a t i o n a l t h e m e s
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) the7days

Technique: p a s t e l
Softly focus your colours; draw back from vibrancy.

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03. MARCH
Activity: s o s i m p l e , y e t s o c o m p l e x
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) tasteislife

Technique: r e m o v e d b a c k g r o u n d
Use removed backgrounds to create composition.

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04. APRIL
Activity: a p l h a b e t s o u p
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) turbo_rumble

Technique: c l o s e c r o p
Challenge yourself; create composition around close crops.

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05. MAY
Activity: c o c k t a i l p a r t y
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) tmfaction

Technique: b l o c k i n g
Utilize blocking at some stage in your icons this month.

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06. JUNE
Activity: l i g h t & d a r k
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) theskilltester

Technique: t e x t
Explore the use of text in your icons.

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07. JULY
Activity: a v e r y m u s i c a l a c t i v i t y
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) magicmachine

Technique: b l e n d i n g
Take on blending; see where you go.

Textures | Fonts | Palettes

08. AUGUST
Activity: d i y
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) 20inspirations

Technique: g e o m e t r i c
Icons can come in all shapes after all.

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09. SEPTEMBER
Activity: r e m e m b e r o u r n a m e s
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) thetenthgate

Technique: n e g a t i v e s p a c e
Space; the final frontier. See where it takes you.

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10. OCTOBER
Activity: t r i c k o r t r e a t
Borrow inspiration from here & here. (c) inspired20in20

Technique: m i n i m a l i s m
Less is more; see where less leads.

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11. NOVEMBER
Activity: w o n d e r o u s w o r d b a t t l e
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) wonderous_stuff

Technique: m o n o c h r o m a t i c
Single serves of colour, tasty yet tricky.

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12. DECEMBER
Activity: t h e b e g i n n i n g o f t h e e n d
Borrow inspiration from here. (c) trope_overdosed

Technique: v i b r a n t
Bold & beautiful; let the vibrancy shine.

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Friends Cut

2012-11-08T06:09:47Z

I've done a small friends cut of generally inactive journals, however if you were accidentally included or still active and wish to be re-added please let me know.

Alternatively, if you'd like to use this opportunity to remove me from your friends list, no hard feelings will come of it, and it's been lovely to (probably quite pathetically on my part) know you ♥

- Locked -

2008-11-10T09:45:48Z

Friends Only

little j. jessica. jess. dotti. little effy cooper.
28. ~~uni student~~. graduate: ba arts (english literature).

About Me
currently: teaching my way through all the classrooms in all the hunter.
all around contradiction in terms.
Fangirling = 30%
IRL = 70%

Graphics
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