College Monday

As usual on Mondays today was my terrible 9 till 5 college day. I did lots to my axolotl doll (which is good because the little guy is due in on Friday! I'm gonna miss him) and took kanken photos with my kanken friend (yo Eliot I'm not actually sure how to spell your name?).

Today has a song and the song is Vulture by Micachu. My mum bought me this CD along with my beautiful Kanken for my birthday knowing I liked it and listening to the songs on her bassy speakers is like listening to them all new all over again. I originally found her (them? sometimes?) when my friend Lily sent me a link to the song Lips, and they are one of the few bands I could listen to turned up loud enough to annoy the neighbours.

Birthday + Kanken

Today was my seventeenth birthday and I feel so old and like I should be much more organised at this point, but it has been so so lovely, I really could not have asked for a better day. I got some amazing things (which I will be sure to post about sometime!) and spent the afternoon with my family, my boyfriend, and very briefly a friend (yo Eddie!) popped round too and it was 100% good vibes.

Honestly I will probably be posting about this for the rest of the week so here are a very few photos from today before I go to sleep. In fact, I might leave more birthday-y photos to tomorrow and have today as appreciation for the beautiful new Kanken my mum bought me. (and bubblegum!)

Also here is a terrible selfie because I've been doing my hair in rag curls lately and it is brilliant. I look sad but I promise I am v happy.

My Kanken is a classic size in warm yellow. I had a hard time choosing between that and navy blue but I'm really happy with the choice I made.

Definitely a great start to being 17. -Julia

VIP Visitor

Today we had a very, very important visitor. Here they are pictured posing in my garden.

To celebrate I made a salad for my very spoiled guinea pig (they're both being so spoiled at the moment). Next on how my camera is edging closer and closer to death;

Babbies. That's all I got for today but I'm loving how it's getting warmer and warmer outside. Mmm, summery vibes. -Julia

Garden

Today was mostly college work but I feel like it's getting a bit repetitive doing so many posts about my axolotl doll so here are some garden pictures from earlier. It was reaaally warm today, almost muggy but nice later on.

And a bonus picture of Margot and Caramel in this huge run I've constructed from parts of two different cages and a playpen thingy and the side of a pond. Babbas.

Short post today because really nothing particularly interesting happened at all. Best blog post ever. -Julia

Axolotl Progress 02: He stands!

My posts are getting later and less great because I'm coming up to a big big college deadline in about 10 days, but they should get better again after that for sure. My axolotl project doll is now standing and although there was a minor problem with the lower jaw falling off I'm at least 7% sure that it's fixable. At least.

I wore this shirt which I really love and even attempted an outfit post but the photography was a little off and the way I was standing made it look kind of square and frumpy when it is actually v nice in real life. This is all I'm posting of that terrible session.

This evening I watched Parks and Rec with bae which is always lovely. Hope you all had nice days too. -Julia

Extra Double Post

Last night I was so off and tired that by the time I got into bed and realised I'd forgotten to post I was past uploading photos so I decided to do a kind of double post today to make up for it ye?

Today I was off college (as I keep saying I am totally off at the moment). Yesterday afternoon I was mildly productive though and sewed some little pouches for mine and my brother's guinea pigs. They seemed to approve after some initial confusion about if the pouches were to be sat on or sat in.

Below see Margot (my absolute Queen, 50% bumblebee), and my brother's ginger baby Caramel.

Slightly less aesthetic-y today but guinea pigs are very important. Today I did get one pretty photo actually, the sky was nice this evening.

I'm listening to this Petit Biscuit playlist right now! It's really chill. Not my playlist, just one I found on youtube.

-Julia

Deadlines

My terrible news for today is that I have no news. I had 9 till 5 at college and it was grey outside and I was sleepy the whole day. Here's a photo from yesterday to say sorry for the lack of photos today! Tomorrow if I'm feeling productive I'll make something for the guinea pigs, I think. Hm. Looming deadlines kill me inside.

Hope you're all getting through whichever form of educational torture you're probably going through right now. I think it's important to remember that even if you fail it isn't the end of the world, however unlikely failing actually is. Woah, motivational.

-Julia