2015

2014 has come and nearly gone
365 days into this year
And now there are only hours left until 2015,
How will you choose to spend it?















New years eve is always so bitter sweet it's like another year is over and acts as a reminder that your getting older and the school work is getting harder, yet it also serves as a chance for a new beginning and a better year.






New years resolutions don't really work for me as i'm not really sure what i would like to do 'better' and aren't one of those people who writes and comes up with a list every year but this year i have
two.








1. To be happier

This has to be one of the most cliche New Years resolutions ever but now i think about it i have worded it wrong i don't just want to be happier i want to be more positive. I'm not really an optomistic person and everytime i think of positivity it reminds me of camp last year when the instructor kept repeating 'positive vibes' over 1000 times and when he stopped this other girl started doing it and well... It wasn't a very positive experience. That's my problem with being positive i love to complain 😳 maybe i should add not complaining to the growing non-existing list on New years resolutions.






2. To stop worrying



When i'm not complaining i seem to be worrying about something no matter how little and insignificant it is, i seem to have at least 5 worrys a day and now i am already worrying about problems that could happen next year: what if none of my friends are in my classes? What if the work becomes so hard i have to spend all my free time studying? Ok they are some of the more common ones that i feel comfortable putting on my blog others are either too weird or too personal.






So that is my now existing new years resolution list. I hope you enjoy the rest of the last day of the year and especially tonight. I'm probably going to spend it in the surf with my cousins here on the Gold Coast and maybe we might go and watch the fireworks.

This is my last post for 2014, i can't wait to blog again next year. It might be a while though because i'm spending the first day of next year at Wet n wild. Hope to write for you again soon!

Christmas

Merry Belated Christmas! Yes i know it was days ago but the last couple of days have been so eventful that i haven't had a chance to blog and i only just realised that you can write blog posts on ipads.




So anyway Christmas really didn't feel like Christmas this year, i think it was because of the fact that pretty much every Christmas eve since i was about 5 we would go to my aunt's house for a Christmas eve street party where most of my family was and we would stay there overnight, but this year we went to my grandparent's house.





On Christmas morning i woke up at 4:50 but for some reason it was so dark it felt like it was on 1 am, everyone else in the house was asleep so i decided to watch youtube videos of kids opening there Christmas presents here is one of them.

Then around 8 o clock when everyone was awake i opened all my presents. I got some amazing stuff that i wanted including:




As i have previously mentioned i love minions! I think i might use this next year.









I also really love hello kitty, my dad picked the shirt on the left and my mum picked the shirt on the right.







This is probably my favourite present i am obsessed with these games and can't wait to play this!

I also got a mini air hockey table, some perfume and a handbag.
After we finished opening all our presents we prepared lunch. I have never seen so much food there was ham, turkey, chicken and pavlova and ice cream for dessert. We also had Bon bons and i ended up with about three of those metal puzzle things and a portable chess set.





I spent longer trying to put the pieces back together than i did taking them apart.

We then played the logo boardgame that my aunt got me for Christmas. My dad and my aunt were extremely competitive and my dad kept arguing that my aunt cheated when she won.






My parents and i then drove to the beach where i got to spend an 1 1/2 hours in the surf failing at bodysurfing by the time we returned it was time to get dinner ready. That night after my aunt had left i decided to watch a Christmas movie to keep me in the mood and ended up watching A Christmas tree miracle which is both the most depressing and inspiring Christmas movie I have ever watched. This post is already really long so i won't do a full review but have started writing one that i might post some other time that fully does it justice. In short it follows a year in the life of a family of which is rich until the father loses his job and after getting kicked out of their house end up moving in with a kind old tree farmer who gives his Christmas trees away for free to spread the Christmas spirit.




I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and are having great holidays wherever in the world you are!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Can you believe there is less than 10 days till Christmas?

This is how I feel:

The evidence of Christmas is everywhere from music playing in the shops to the lights on the houses and also in my house.

I assembled and painted this house a couple of years ago.

This is my beside table I have used the smaller ornaments that I have to decorate my tiny tree.

This advent calendar is reusable and has a small wooden ornament behind each door :)

 and finally...

I couldn't find a santa hat so these glasses had to do!

On a different note the other day this blog reached a 1000 page views and my instagram account 200 followers! I know these are all small milestones but I appreciate all of my views and followers and never imagined getting even a 100 page views!

Filling empty space with words

Have you ever been walking with someone and instantly their is silence you think of something to say yet no words come out? How would you react?

When faced with this situation I freak out and start going off trying to fill the silence with words. It usually starts with " It's really cold today," or " I'm so tired," and then I think of anything I could possibly say because I find it necessary to have a conversation going all the time or else I seem boring or awkward to talk to.

Before this year I never used to question not saying anything I cannot remember if it happened or how frequently it happened but now I know it happens everyday and I always blame myself for not thinking up something to talk about or not having anything interesting to talk about.

But is it just me and it doesn't really matter at all?

The greatest test of friendship is to sit or walk for an hour with a friend and not say a word yet not tire from each others company. 

This quote was written in my Religion classroom (until someone changed it to sit on a friend). This made me realise that perhaps I am overthinking in these situations, if they didn't want to walk with me to class surely they would just walk away. Perhaps silence is more meaningful than saying words with no meaning?

I couldn't come up with anything good to write about... so here is a video of cute puppies

As the title suggests I am lacking ideas, I have tried several ideas but none of them seemed to work so I decided to check instagram where I found this video.

Puppies in Disney costumes accompanied by epic music, what more could you ask for? Ok, maybe a proper blog post about something meaningful again I apologise once I come up with an idea I'll write one.

This video was made by Oh my Disney, Disney's blog which features news, quizzes, gifs, videos and lots of Disney related stuff that I was frequently on while I was supposed to be studying.

This video also reminds me of some of the videos done by The Pet Collective who use cats to recreate Disney and other movies and Tv shows while little kids tell the stories.
Here is their Tangled video.

So I hope you enjoyed this (pointless) post on Disney and cute animals.

Hope you have a nice day,

Tshi1

Inspiring songs

First of all I'm so sorry for not posting in two weeks i have just finished my final assessments for this year and have had so many commitments during the last week so haven't had the chance to post.
I have not posted in two weeks! This is just a short post that I had the idea for while listening to Unwritten ( my current favourite song) and realised how most of my favourite songs have inspiring lyrics.



5. Let it go
If you haven't heard of this song by now you must have been living under a rock for the last year( like my dad who heard it for the first time last week) and I know what your thinking Frozen is sooo old and annoying now but apart from having a tune that constantly keeps getting stuck in your head and constantly reminds you of building ice castles.It has a strong message about being true to yourself no matter what other people think and letting go of the past. I'm not obsessed with Frozen but somehow it just keeps making its way into my posts.

4. The climb


Another slightly Disney song which is from the forgotten days of Miley Cyrus when she was best known for playing a teen pop star leading a double live from the movie about being down to Earth and remembering where you come from. This song for some reason always reminds me of assessments and how sometimes I do really well in some subjects and others not so well but is about the broader theme of resilience using a mountain analogy (ok now it sounds like I'm analysing the songs) and that lifes a climb... but the view is great.

3. Roar

I was personally disappointed when Roar didn't win song of the year last year because again this is one of my favorite songs despite the fact that it reminds me of the plague (because my cousin did a parody for school).

There is so much meaning and techniques used in this song ( when I looked it up I found worksheets on analyzing its lyrics) but on a simple level it is simple, relatable and powerful, not to mention catchy.




2. Brave

Earlier this year I was obsessed with this song and would listen to it on repeat several times a day. Why? I think it was because at the moment I always seem to feel insecure when I'm with people about not saying what they want to hear when I listen to this song I feel like it is speaking directly to me.

1. Unwritten

This is my favourite song at the song at the moment I absolutely love it and I don't know why. I first heard it two years ago when they played it at my school for the year 12's final day. It takes a different perspective on how your future is unwritten and you are undefined even by the actions you have done in the past. 

So that's my list! I will try to be posting as often as possible from now on especially since I finish school at the end of next week. 

Minion movie trailer

First of all I'm soooo sorry for not posting in a long time I have been really busy with assignments and tests so have neglected my blog lately. On the bright side only 4 more weeks of school left for this year.

As I mentioned in my earlier post The top 5 cutest and funniest non-human sidekicks I love minions! So, I was more than excited to hear that the adorable creatures are getting there own spin-off movie in less than a year!

Here is the official trailer that was released a couple of days ago.

The official synopsis reads as follows:

The Minions, breakout stars from "Despicable Me," are presented in an origin story that showcases their unpredictable personality and physicality, and pairs them with equally memorable human characters. As it turns out, Minions have existed since the beginning of time. They have evolved from single (yellow) cell organisms into the familiar beings we know, and they live for a collective purpose: to seek out and serve the most despicable master they can find. Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock will lead the voice cast of the human characters as Scarlett Overkill, the world's reigning super-villain of the 1960s.

I normally don't get obsessed over upcoming movies but I really can't wait to see how this movie turns out. Part of me is worried about what will happen if it doesn't live up to expectation, but if it is done right this will strengthen the minion brand and fan-base. I'm interested to find out how much of the movie is made up of showing the minions with their various 'masters' in the trailer and their time spent in Antartica being 'depressed' which is completely ironic because the last thing anyone thinks of when they think of minions is depression.

From the trailer the main minions identified are Kevin, Stuart and Bob who are off on an adventure to find the biggest baddest villan to serve that leads them to New York in the year 1968 which the trailer points out is 42 years B.G which will ultimately take them to Scarlet Overkill ( Sandra Bullock) who unfortunately did not feature in the trailer and whose character design has yet to be released.

So in conclusion I'm really excited for this movie, unfortunately it doesn't get released until boxing day next year here in Australia however hopefully it will be worth the wait.

What's a movie that you just can't wait to be released? Feel free to comment below

Change... Is it good or bad?

"Its funny how day by day, nothing changes. But when you look back, everything is different"- CS Lewis

It's a simple fact of life: Change will happen whether we want it to or not.

Over the course of this year so much has changed in terms of my friendships. I thought I was going to be good friends with this girl for a long time but this year something changed and now she no longer talks to me. At first, I refused to believe that this was the case. I was certain that by the beginning of term 2 things would go back to the way they were last year. They did go back to the way they were occasionally, but for no longer than a week. Then things got really bad recently, stuff happened (sorry about being vague but its really personal) that confirmed that we may never be friends again. Some days I accept this fact, other nights I cry myself to sleep wondering what I did wrong. Its now October and even those this happened in February I am still not completely over it and may still not be for some time.

 However, this quote sums up exactly what happened. Yes, I lost a good friend and I'm still struggling to accept this fact but during this time I have formed new friendships and strengthened old ones with other friends. I'm learning who are my real friends and who I can trust. I still haven't completely figured this out but I know that next year things might completely change again, but this time I'll be prepared.

i don't normally write such personal things on this blog but I felt like I had to write this down because I have had a hard time explaining this to people in real life.

On a happier note I would like to thank all my friends who have put up with all of my complaining and listened when I have been upset. I don't know how I would've coped without you. :)

Camping

I would like to start this post off by apologizing for not posting in such a long time. The reason for this is that I went camping down the coast with my family. I wanted to take lots of pictures to share with you but unfortunately my phone ran out of space so i wasn't able to take as many as I had hoped.

We spent two nights camping in a tent at a caravan park  that was close by the beach at a town called Boyd town.

The beach was only a short walk and both nights we walked along the beach to a nearby hotel and drank hot chocolates.

We found this fire when walking back from the hotel on the first night at first we thought it was an orange light in the distance. 

On the last day we went to a shop in a nearby town called Milton because I won a $30 voucher for one of their stalls at their scarecrow festival earlier this year with which I bought these.








On a sadder note school holidays in the ACT finish at the end of this week:(  so I will be posting even less frequently.

Instagram account

Hi everyone,

I have started an instagram account dedicated to this blog under the username 365paperdolls feel free to follow to see pictures that may/may not connect to the posts on this blog.

Because this post is so short I have decided to include the answers to my frozen trivia, just in case you have forgotten the questions I have put them here as well.

Q1. Which of the following songs was originally going to be cut from the movie?


A.  The Frozen Heart
B. Do you want to build a snowman?
C. Fixer-upper
D. Vuelie

Q2. Which of the following characters will not be in Once Upon A Time?
A. Hans
B. Pabbie
C. Olaf
D. Sven

Q3. Before voicing Elsa,  Idina Menzel featured in another Disney Movie
Was she
A. The voice of a character
B. Acting as the character
Trick question she was both. She voiced/ played Nancy in Enchanted.

Q4. What song made the writers rethink Elsa's status as a villain?
A. For the first time in Forever
B. Do you Want to Build a Snowman
C, For the first time in Forever reprise
D. Let it go

Q5. When is the short Frozen Fever being released?
A. Summer 2015
B. Autumn 2016
C. Winter 2016
D. Spring 2015

Spring list

At this point in the Southern Hemisphere we are going into (natural) Spring! The weather is warming up, the cherry blossoms are coming out and school finished yesterday so I decided to come up with a list of activities I plan to do in the holidays and Spring more in general.

1. Drawing
I'm terrible at drawing but I am determined to get better and draw anyway. Lately I have found lots of inspiration on Instagram particularly of Disney fanart accounts and I would like to be able to draw ( obviously not to the standard of some of those accounts) but something to an extent which you would be able to make out what it is actually supposed to be. If I am successful I will post pictures.

2. Floriade
Floriade is a flower festival held in Canberra ( which I will be posting more on later in the week) its hard to explain because it is about more than just the flowers, there are shops, roaming entertainment and other activities and best of all its free! I plan to go a couple of times throughout the holidays.

3. Write
As I have said before at some point in the future I would like to have a career that involves writing, so I would like to get some practice not just writing stories but also experimenting with other forms of writing like script writing and song writing. On top of that I will also try to post as often as possible on this blog in the next two weeks. I also have an English creative due the first week of next term so my holidays will definitely be filled with lots of writing!

4.  Craft
I'm not quite sure what type of craft exactly but whatever I can find the resources to do and can figure out how to do. Last holidays I tried making miniature food items with my cousin out of clay and I was ok at that so I would like to try something unique. If you have any suggestions feel free to comment.

5. Cupcake/cake decorating
I have made a few batches of cupcakes recently but haven't had the time and resources to actually decorate them. The last time I decorated cupcakes was for the RSPCA cupcake day last month and the last time I decorated a cake was for a show in February.

6. Photography
By photography I mean taking photos using my iphone not a fancy camera. I have a talent of taking the worst pictures using my phone. I may not have the best camera but I would still like to attempt to take good pictures which hopefully I can incorporate in future posts.

7.  Spend more time with my dog.
 Over the Winter I have neglected spending time playing with my dog and only really spent time with her at night but with the weather warming up I can hopefully spend more time with her outside.

Image taken by Canberra Pet care

8. Bike rides
I haven't ridden my bike sadly for all of this Winter so I hope to ride my bike down to my local lake which is lined with deciduous trees which in Spring are full of peach blossoms which makes the atmosphere very nice.

Picture from clipart

9. Dance
I have learnt so many different dance routines over the last term that I would like to just dance without a purpose without having to do set steps. We also have a task where we have to come up with a dance based on a musical ( my group is doing Matilda) next term so I will try and come up with some ideas for that.

This picture is kind of  misleading because I'm not actually allowed to use my pointe shoes ( its a long story).

10. Juggling
Another one of my hobbies and I got inspired by watching some street jugglers last night to try new tricks and juggling different stuff like clubs. At the moment I can only juggle three balls and two in one hand.  I know that these tricks can take ages to master but when I first learnt how to juggle I was so determined that I spent about three hours straight throwing three balls up and only catching them half of the time. I don't think I have ever been so determined to accomplish something in my life (which is kinda sad). Along with this I would also like to practice some more magic tricks, I have several kits of different stuff (which I haven't touched in years).

What are you planning to do this Spring/ Autumn/ fall?

Blog under maintenance

Hi again,

Sorry it has been a while I have been so busy with assessments lately that i have been finding it hard to have time to post ( I will be posting my Liebster award sometime in the next couple of weeks). On top of these assessments I have also had a dance performance, a music performance and Tournament of the Minds so it has been a busy couple of weeks. Term 3 of school finishes at the end of next week so i plan to spend some of my holidays working on my blog and improving it.

Which brings me to my next point, my current design of my blog is basic and lacks originality so during this time I will be experimenting to create something more interesting and unique which reflects the overall style of my blog. I have come to this decision after looking through many blogs and seeing that most appear to have personalized buttons ( I still don't know how to make these so if you have any suggestions for what my blog should look like or how to actually make a blog feel free to comment) and widgets and themes that have a personal flare. As some of you might be aware I have also been having formatting issues that I have been trying to fix (I have taken note of your suggestions and have started using chrome).

If you have any suggestions and ideas about how to improve my blog feel free to leave a comment :)

Sorry for the boring post I promise more interesting posts are to come.

Tshi1

Does anyone know how to fix formatting issues

Sorry, like the title suggests this isn't a very exciting post so feel free to skip it, but I would really appreciate some help if you know anything about Blogger and how to fix the issues I have been experiencing.


Basically I have been experiencing several issues including the following:


1. Whenever I try to upload photos the screen freezes and I have to close the page down


2. Some of my pictures are disappearing when I edit pages yet seem to move when I attempt to click on things with my mouse.


3. I have been getting some rather weird spacing which DOESN'T appear when I edit the page.


Your Help would be really appreciated so please comment if you know anything about these issues.


Thanks,
P.S now that I have finished most of my assessment I promise I will attempt to post more.

Winter (Summer) rewind

Hey sorry that it's been a long time since I have posted anything I've had a stressful couple of weeks.


So I'm sure a lot of you have heard of the Summer rewind to mark the end of Summer in the Northern hemisphere, but due to living in Australia and Spring starting here instead I'm doing the Winter rewind.
Thanks J from The Journeys' of my beating Heart for nominating this!!!!



The rules include:
1. Thank the person(s) who tagged you.

2. Post about five to eight things that you did over the summer or upcoming in your summer schedule!* Pictures are optional.

4. Answer the ten summer/fall questions given to you.

6. Tag 5 or more bloggers and tell them by commenting on their blog.

5. Ask ten new summer/fall related questions.

7. Share the banner above when you publish the post and credit the photo and the tag origin (http://theworldthroughmywindowsill.blogspot.com/). 

Things I did this Winter:

1. I went on a plane by myself for the first time! I went to the Gold Coast to visit my cousins and we went to some of the theme parks, watched Harry Potter movies, made paper mache (for absolutely no reason), made miniature clay charms and even got to swim at the Beach (and it wasn't freezing)!


2. I participated in Tournament of Minds an Australian competition done in Teams and my team made it to the regional final for language literature which is in two weeks!

3. I completed the KUMON English programme. Not exactly the most exciting thing, but I started in December last year and managed to finish by the end of August which makes me feel like I achieved

something.
4. I made lots of cakes. I even decorated some as dogs and sold them for RSPCA cake day

5.  I wore my two onesies a lot. One of them is Hello Kitty and the other one is a minion one.

The questions I was set:
1.What is your greatest achievement over the winter ?
Probably completing the KUMON English programme.

2) Sneakers or Flats?

3) Do you tan or burn?
Burn... unfortunately I have extremely pale skin so have never tanned :(

4) Cycling or strolling?
It depends... I like to walk around my local lake juggling sometimes when I just want to relax but I also sometimes enjoy cycling when I feel like spending some energy.

5) What is something you've learnt over the winter?
To Never ask your parents for help on studying/ an assignment on a topic they know a lot about, I learnt this mainly through my friend who learnt the hard way when asking her dad about how the immune system worked. He told her that it would take 5 years to explain (and he was not kidding).

6) Favourite song ?
"Shake it off" by Taylor Swift

7)Most embarrassing thing that happened to you over winter ?

 The other day when the principal made a speech about how everyone was individual. She demonstrated this by saying a series of statements including " sit down if you like swimming" or have a brother. When their were about 8 people including myself still standing she said I don't know what your names are but sit down if your name is Sara which caused a lot of people around me to stare at me as I sat down. I found it ironic and funny more than embarrassing but it is the only thing I can remember.

8) What do you look forward to doing the next winter ?

Next Winter is so far away instead I am focusing on Spring which includes Floriade which is Australia's flower festival which has lots of stalls and activities.

9)How much have you read over the Summer?

Not that much except To Kill A Mockingbird for school.

10) What is the favourite picture you took this summer/ fall/ winter/ autumn ?

I took this picture here on a beach on the Gold Coast and had to write "Do you wanna build a snowman several times before actually getting a nice picture. I haven't taken that many interesting pictures lately and I suppose I love the good memories it brings me and the irony ( who doesn't make snowmen on the beach?)

Sorry for the bad image quality.

I nominate:
http://strawberriegirl.blogspot.com.au/?m=1
http://littlepandacrafts.blogspot.com.au/
http://lifeasyounglady.blogspot.com.au/
http://scribblesbyella.blogspot.com.au/
http://whaleadventures.blogspot.com.au/
http://obsessed-with-music.blogspot.com.au/
http://wecantlivewithoutbooks.blogspot.com.au/

And my questions are:

1.What was your most memorable moment during Summer/ Winter?
2. What was your favourite movie you watched over the Summer/Winter?

3. Where would you have liked to spent your Summer/Winter?

4. Do you prefer beaches or snow?
5. How much did you read over Summer/Winter what were some of the books you read?
6. What are some of the main activities you did during the Summer/Winter?
7. If you could do this Summer/ Winter over what would you change?

8. If someone asked you about your Summer/Winter what are 5 words you would use to describe your time?

9. Would you rather have Summer during June-August ( Northern Hemisphere) or December- Feburary ( Southern hemisphere)?

10. What sports did you play over the Summer/ Winter?