Art Cards Are Finally Here!

Hey Everyone :)

How are you all doing today? So I have been waiting to upload this video for awhile but I never got the chance to until today - Yay! :D This video is me drawing an art card. I know what you all are thinking? What's an Art Card? Aren't they the same thing as Artist Trading Cards? The answer to the second question is no they are not. Now for what Art Cards are. I'm about to tell you so do read on and I hope you like it!

Who like hauls? I do! Here's a mini one for you lovelies!

Hey Everyone! :D

Hope everyone is doing well. So recently I've been collecting a lot arts and craft materials and thought that I share my little mini haul with you all! It's a mixture of things that I got yesterday and some things from months ago online.

Let's Paint a Mountain Landscape in Acrylics!

Hey Everyone!! :)

If you haven't already noticed I uploaded the YouTube video for that mountain blog!! Yes you can go and check it out on my YouTube channel!

Please note that the video is in pictures however I am narrating through it so that you can all understand how to paint it. I apologise for not filming it. I would love to but I don't have a video camera and I use my phone but it doesn't have enough space. So I decided to just leave it as a picture video. I hope it's ok, one day I will buy a camera and make better videos! :) But for now it's good to start from the bottom and start with something simple as well.

Upload Success!

Hey Everyone! :D

I have finally uploaded my first clay video!! I'm so excited to show it to you all! I really hope you enjoy it!!

Click me to view

Let me know what you think!

Take care Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

January 2015 news and updates

Hey Everyone!! :D

I am like SUPER excited because of a few things as follows:

1) I have an IPhone 5 so now I can take good quality pictures!! Not the ones from my IPod because they weren't in such good quality but I still love it! I will still be using my IPod because it was a gift so I would always cherish it. But i will be taking pictures with my new phone. Also I am still trying to get used to it so hopefully I will be more active.

2) I have got all the supplies needed to start my own clay work! I am really excited about it and I can't wait to share with you my new crafts I have already made my first piece a few days ago - I haven't painted it but I will still show you what it looks like at the end of this post.

3) I have a lot of art supplies and things that I want start work on so I will be bringing you some of my artwork!

4) Now that I have an IPhone I can record clearly too so I'll be using my phone as a substitute of a camera :)

5) Also I have a clear IPhone case so I will show you how I make pattern paper and cut them to fit my phone case. Which I am excited to share as well!

6) I will be doing a lot of filming in the next coming week with my craft work like clay, making your own pattern paper and phone cases, charms (more in the future) drawing, painting, writing tips and much much more!!

So now that we done the updates check out my first ever creation below and tell me what you think. Just to let you know I used pottery clay to try it out and I think it was really great I will be using other types of clay in the future (I just can't afford the one I really want to work with - polymer clay. One of the reason being that I don't have all the equipment e.g. A toaster over, the clay itself, gloss finish or Matt finish.)

Also one last thing the current clay I am using called NewClayand  I planning to buy the varnish for it in the future so for now the pieces that I make would be painted only :)

Even though the finished product looks amazing it was my piece I made using my clay so I am very proud of it. Even though it broke I will glue the pieces together and still paint them. :)

I also made these two piece just a ball and a diamond which I will also be painting as well.

Hope like it so far and I would have many more to come. I apologise for the late post but I really want to work on preparing for this.

I will be making the video for my creation and the painting of them tomorrow. I will post pictures of the finished pieces of my first creations after I paint them tomorrow too. 

They will all be il up on my blog, Instagram and Twitter.

Hope you all are doing great I will talk with you all tomorrow (hopefully) and you should soon see a video of my clay work tomorrow too! I can't wait!! :D

Take care and think positive Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Watercolour Painting! Step-by-Step Tutorial and Writing Event Information.

This Post Includes: A tutorial on how to make a watercolour rose painting. Writing Discussion.

Hey Everyone! :D

So as the title suggests I did a watercolour painting yesterday! I wanted to share it all with you so I decided to do so. I will break down what I've done and explain the pictures to you clearly. After I do so, I will talk to you all about the writing event (or you can just skip all the artsy stuff and go right to the bottomg of the page where I will discuss my writing part to you all! Lets get started :D

So this is the A4 sized Daler Rowney watercolour paper that I used for the painting. I bought this from the artstore but it arrived a two-three weeks later because it was out of stock. The weight of the paper is as shown - 300 g/m2 New Grain. It is a very heavy weighted paper and it's absorbent to the water. This kind of paper requires a lot of water which is very good!

Below is two pictures of the sketch I did of a rose painting. I used two google images pictures and merged them into one and created my own design the main rose was from here and the other small rose buds are from here. To sketch a rose is quite simple. Just follow the outlines of a plain drawing and make your own changes to them as you see fit.

Also I bought my first ever watercolour paints. I've always had watercolour pencils, but no watercolour paints or paper. Which is why this project was really fun for me! This is the Winsor & Newton set of pocket watercolour set. I showed on my precious post some of the arts and craft that I got this was one of them. I was really excited to use them and decided to use them for the painting. I really spent a lot on my arts supply. Honestly saying, you don't need such expensive supplies but I wanted to because I wanted to spoil myself a little. :)

As you can see below I haven't used this set at all until yesterday:

First step: I used Alizerin Crimson mixed with a little bit of Lemon Yellow to add a small and light background to the roses. This gave it a peachy pink effect. As for the background I used Sap Green with a little bit of Lemon Yellow to give it a nice greeny affect.

Step Two: Once the background dries, (Note: this did not take long to dry because the paper absorbed a lot of the water really fast), I used the Alizerin Crimson and a dab of Lemon Yellow and painted with the thick paint the darker outlines of the petals where the shadow would form.

Step Three:  Get rid of the excess paint from the brush on the paint pallette. Then dip the brush into water and dap the excess water onto some tissue. Use the brush to pull out the paint from the dark edges until if it fill the petal. Make sure to know where your light and dark sources are.

Note: Step two and three would be easier to carry out if you use a small, thin round brush rather than a flat brush.

Step Four: You should have something that looks like this:

Step Five: Make sure to do step two and three on the other roses and the rose buds. To have something that looks like this:

Step Six: To finish by completing the leaves, start off by using the Sap Green, and painting in the veins of the leaves. After they are sort of dried, add a little bit of Lemon Yellow to the sap green making a lighter green to paint in the rest of the leaves.

Step Seven (optional): I wanted to make my background a little intense so the rose would really pop out of it. To do so I used the Lemon Yellow with a little but of Sap Green towards the centre of the drawing background giving it a lighter green effect. Then using the Sap Green I darkened the rest of the background to really give the leafy green affect.

Step Eight: Once it is dried make sure to sign it and date it :)

The finished watercolour painting should look like this: Or something similar depending on how you did yours.

Thank you for reading this I hope you all enjoyed this tutorial of watercolour painting step by step.
End of Tutorial.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Writing Event Discussion Read Below: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ok so as you all know that I am working on my novel. Yes, I am still working on it. It's going to be a very long process as my mind is exploding with so many new ideas. Sometimes I want to take a break from my own writing and work on something else, which is absolutely fine.

If you feel like you need some inspiration I would suggest you go to Cowrite.Net It's a great place to really open your creative juice and also participate in some writing too. You don't have to be a pro at writing (I'm not as you can see), and the community is very friendly. Once you click that link, you will be taken to the introduction page where it outlines how the website works. I will explain below how it works so you all can get a gist of it. *Declaimer: I have not been paid or told to advertise this website I am doing this of my own accord as I genuinely like the website a lot.*

Brief explaination of how the site works:
1) You will be taken to the Introduction page.
2) You would be given a generated user (which you will see on the left panel of the page, near sign up and login. It will also be shown on the Global chat - on the top right panel of the page)
3) Sign up Process is easy, just enter a username and password and that's it!
4) Once you are logged in (or are just there as a guest) you can participate in current writing tournaments, start your own tournaments, start your own story or even participate in other stories!
5) The way it works is you type in a sentence (in the centre panel noted as the main story interface) live, and people can vote on the sentence (as well as you can vote on others too) and the one with the most vote in the given amount of time would be selected in that story! (If there are two sentences with the same number of votes then it will randomly select a sentence.)
6) Once you are in a story you would see below the global chat the title of the story you are currently on a chat box for it. It will show you who else is online in this story and also the participants.

If you want more understanding speak to @malie129 and he would be able to help you out! You can find him on the site and of course on twitter! :D

Here are a few that I have participated in, this includes tournaments and general story and a demo to understand the gist of it:

My Story: Expect the Unexpected
SunDec21st Tournament
My First Writing and Demo Story

Also every 9pm (GMT) I will be trying to participate in the 9pm tournament :D Hope to you see you there! https://cowrite.net/x?sid=HSMPT3R

Also if you do check out hte website I mentioned, be sure to let them know that Tarana or TaranaBstar sent you there! Thank you! :D

I hope this was a very insightful and useful post stay tuned for more!

That's all for today, happy holidays and have a lovely new year!

Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

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Creative flow coming through!

 Hey Everyone! :D

So I wanted to this a little earlier but I couldn't. I occupied my time with something else. Here is a list of things that I bought and/or had delievered to my house! The first picture is the most recent and things I bought.

As you can see from this picture, I bought a large size canvas, a mini bath set (to pamper myself) Some coloured bubble wrapped envelopes and a loom beads maker which I am sooo excited to make!

These are some things I ordered from ebay to start making air dry clay #charms I got one necklace 6 bracelets and the rolling pin for clays. Still waiting on my blades and eye pins! :D

The picture below shows some of the art supply delivery that I got. The A4 water colour paper was out of stock so it was delievered a little late.

Oil paint set! I can't wait to use them!! I'm sooo excited to try them out. These are the really expensive and quality ones so they are really really good! 

These are some of the other supplies I ordered. Terpentine (two bottles of it) white gesso. 3 canvas board, 2 in the same size. And last but not least two different branded air dry clay! :D

So these are the things that I bought from the artstore.co.uk I love it!! :D I am extremely excited to use my supplies and I can't wait to get started on making my charms!

I will talk to you about more updates tomorrow.
Take care and think positive

Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Overcame one obstacle two to go!

Hey Everyone!! :D

So like the title suggests, I have just been through one obstacle and would face another two more soon. One of the obstacle would be tomorrow, it's not really an obstacle just more of a result in waiting. Which if it turns out to be a positive then I have officially past this obstacle, and if not well then I'd have to readjust my life for the next year again. I know what you're all thinking, what on earth is this obstacle she's going on about? Well I would tell you all but first I would like to overcome it and see the result (hence waiting for tomorrow) then I can spill it out all to you as to why I'm not as active as usual. The second obstacle may take a few weeks to take affect but I don't want it to become too much of a stress so I'll just tell you all about that soon (soon meaning proabably tomorrow as well).



Ok now enough about the obstacles and on to some good and exciting news!! So when I told you all I ordered some art supplies on Black Friday, it was finally delivered to me last week Friday!! :D I was soo excited but I had to contain my excite because of the recent happenings in my life. However now that they are over (sort of) I should be able to talk to you all about it.

Now, I order really good and quality acrylic paints, and watercolours and some water colour papers. I noticed that I don't have watercolour paints or papars so I ordered them, I do however have watercolour pencils so I didn't splurge any money on that. I bought mini canvases and other board canvases. I also bought oils paint, the good quality one, I'm a pretty fast learner, so once I observe something I pretty much obsorb everything I can (in most cases) so I'm currently learning about that too. I also bought Turpentine to thin and clean my brushes and oil paints with them. I've done some research on Turpentine and found that you should use it in a well ventalated area and to be careful on using it as it is toxic. Finally, that last thing I bought was AIR DRY CLAY!!!!! I've been overly excited to work with clay!! I know Sculpey is a good baking clay but I wanted to start off with air dry clay. I bought two different brands so I would be using them soon I'm just overly excited with it!! I really can't wait to get stuck in to it. I just need to order a blade and rolling pin for it and I'm good to go because I already have the tools that I bought over a year ago so I'm really excited for it a lot!! :D

I shall show you the pictures of what I got but in my next post as I can't go on typing too much and need to rest up (and calm my hype) and just research and learn more about arts and crafts! :D Please do look forward to upcoming creativity I'll be working on a lot (slowly but surely). Also I apologise for my rambling but I wanted to keep you all updated on my happenings and missed telling you all about things.

Also my creative writing is sort of on a hold because I need to do some Islamic research to see what I can add to my story content without it clashing with the Islamic rulings. So don't worry I shall be on board with it soon (most probably next year - I'M SO SORRY!) but I do really want to put a lot of effort into it and because of my health I can't strain myself too much.

Well I think that's all for now, I will chat to you all in my next post (likely tomorrow) and keep you all updated. Sorry for not making this as positive as I hoped but I shall end on a positive note! Work hard and the result will be a fruiteful success, you may not see it directly dig a little deeper and search for the hidden message because I can almost say for certain it would always end in something good. Take care and think positive Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Opportunities Await!

Hey everyone! :D

So it's been a few days since my last blog post and I thought to myself I should start to blog again. I wanted to post for you yesterday but I didn't - it slipped my mind completely. So I thought I would do so today.



Firstly, I wanted to say that I am really excited about this course that I am taking. I enjoy learning new things and this is something too. Learning Adobe illustrator will help me construct a foundation on my digital art side of things. It's such a versertile opportunity and I feel like I'm learning a lot now as well. The class is on every Tuesday evening and I love what I'm learning. Hopefully when I become better at the digital art I can create different avenues for clients. I'm feeling excited and optimistic about it.

Secondly, I have been doing my writing recently, but it's not anything new it's more like I'm trying to catch up on what I have not written. Then I can continue from where I left off. I love writing, as you all are probably aware. I aspire to be a good author in the future, I'm still hoping for this dream and feel like I can begin to take a step towards this goal.

Thirdly, I am currently still reading the book I've been obsessing about and I love it so much!!! I'm a hopeless romantic and that's why I love the romantic aspect of things a lot along side comedy as well! I mean who doesn't like a good laugh?

Finally, I did some artwork that I'd like to share with you all and one of them gave me an idea for Art Cards (which I haven't forgotten) so that should be coming to you all very soon!! :D

This completes the last few days worth of blogging. I hope this was interesting, and I hope you like my artwork!

Take Care and think positive TaranaBstar A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox (I know I didn't write this on my last post so I added it on here now lol I'll try and remember to add this).

Creative Inspiration

Hey Everyone! :D

So I've been watching a lot of crafting and art videos. I was watching one on water colour pencils, I don't have branded water colour pencils or water colour papers. Which I've improvised with my non branded water colour pencils and a sketch book that I use.



I think I really think it came out alot better than I thought! I'll show it to you so let me know what you think of it! :D

So what do you think? I did rip a bit of the paper you can see at the bottom left side. But that's ok because the overall picture still came out really good :)














I've been watching a lot of crafting videos today too, I should be starting on my Art Cards soon :) I shall show you the end results of one when I'm done making them.

That's it for today, take care everyone and think positive Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

200th post Part 2 of 2

Hey Everyone :D

Note: This is part 2 of 2 in the 200th post! Hope you enjoy :) If you would like to read part 1 please click here

So here is part 2. Now let me tell you what I've been up to (hehe sort of rhymed lol). Firstly, I've been so engrossed in wattpad reading books and just LOVE it some much. I have a guilty pleasure on reading reverse harem books/mangas and so on. I love the romance and drama in the books especially those that are reverse harem (search it up if you don't know what I'm talking about). Now as a Muslim I know these kinds of things is Haram so I'm not going to promote it and I don't write stories like that either I just read about them. So don't be thinking I have lost my faith in my religion or anything I'm still strong rooted and still learning.



So I joined Wattpad, which is a place where you can read books and stories online by many authors. I'm sure I told you all how I was engrossed in a story completely. Well I recently started another series and pretty much up to date with the series and craving for more (secret indulgent in mind I love reverse harem so it's along those lines) but it's not updated and the next book comes out well tomorrow so the book that I want to read is a book before and I haven't read yet because it's not available yet (online I mean, I couldn't find it in the libraries near me so I'm going for online). So this author actually does cheat sheets and behind the scenes and answers questions of the readers and much more. One of the sneak peak she showed how her thought process was working and how she does her writing. She took a screen shot of her current writing work and I thought to myself I want to know what programme she is using because it's very organised and I can do a lot. So I found out it was Microsoft OneNote! One of the best programmes ever!! You can literally click anywhere and start typing and it would or input an image or draw literally very precise and convience. So I decided to start using it and here is a screen shot of my work at the moment:

If you look closely at the image you can see that I started using this on 2nd October 2014 and also if you follow my writing blog you would also know that I have already started on chapters 1-7 and working on my 8th chapter. Which I actually wrote quite a lot but I would continue it as soon as I come up to date with the other tabs. On the left side of the tabs you can see names of other stories - which I am collabing with others and I thought this would make everything so much more organised and motivates me to actually do more writing which I have been. I love using this programme. (Also I have not been paid to advertise this programme this is just from my opinion and personal experience). So that's what I've been doing with my writing side (that's for those of you who were curious to know and follow my writing blog).

Moving on last Satuday I went out and met with my friends because it's been a LONG time since I've seen them and well when I did I was really happy because I was able to catch up with them and it was nice. My friend and I all exchanged gifts as well because we were expecting to gifts (well I know I was so I wanted to do the same) and my other didn't forgot to bring her gifts for us but she said she would post it to us so I'll show them when they arrive. So anyway me and my friend went to order while my other friend stayed behind to watch over her son (who is adorable by the way!).

They guy that took my order was really nice and friendly, so I gave him my order while I went over towards the drink when I got there me and my friend just started talking. When we arrived to our table, my other friend went to order and told us to keep an eye on her son which we did and we started talking and playing.

Which I then thought was a good time to give my friend her gift, I gave her a mini canvas, a mint green candle set with a ceramic candle holder plate and of course some Maultesers. Which then I was surprsied with the gifts my friend gave me. I wasn't expecting anything spectacular or big but she gave me two gifts which was wrapped (I love opening presents I mean who doesn't?).

She bought me a sketching set, a sketch pad and a canvas! :D I LOOOOVE it so much!! I'm like super eager to start on my drawing too.

Then like about few minutes (literally) my order came! I was so shocked and my friend was asking me how come my order came and hers didn't which was what I was thinking and then I thought to myself I think that the guy liked me lol. But anyways this is what I order, a chicken burger with chips and of course the bottomless drink.

 

Here is what my friend ordered and her son as well got some food too <3

After that I order some desert, frozen yogurt and BOTTOMLESS too!!!! I loved it sooo much I enjoyed the amount I had I the fact that it was bottomless meant I could have as much as I wanted (which I did!!) Oh the joy I felt!! I loved it!

So when I came home my friend put up a picture of what she did with the mini canvas. She made a foot print of her nephews feet and hung it up it's sooo adorable and was soo cute!! Afterwards I has to stay home for a good week to recover from the event because I was in a lot of aches and pains. Then on Monday (two days after the outing) I wanted to paint on the canvas my friend bought me and so I did with the help of Youtube and this was my result:



Honestly saying I think I'm improving a lot more on my artwork and soon I would get it to the stage of perfection (in my eyes) and feel that satisfaction. There would've been a few things I would change in this painting, firstly I would use a lot less highlights on the clouds and make sure the sun's light really reflected and the reflection on the water too. But i was out of paint nearly so I need to stock up on my acrylics!

Then a few days ago I felt really creative and wanted to draw so I started merging many drawings and practices of them all into one. And I created this: (started on 23/10/14 and actually worked and completed the next day but it really took less then a day).

The drawing may not be clear because of the photo but it's actually a lot more darker than it looks.

And so now that I have catched you all up in my current life happening let me tell you a little about my health. Previously I mentioned I went to see a private doctor and so the results helped me out a lot more than I expected. I'm feeling a lot better and I can move around a lot better but it's still not 100% but it's getting there. I have hospital appointment coming up soon with the pain clinic and I'm looking forward to the outcome of that. Hopefully, I would be able to work even if it is part time and I'm hoping to improve on it by attending the pain clinic.

Well let me see what else should I tell you all? Oh yeah, I've also recently been taking a short course in Adobe Illustrator which is helping me in my graphical art. I really enjoy the class! It's fun to learn about the programme and I'm enjoying it a lot. I started this programme at the beginning of October and missed one lesson because I joined late. I will also be starting a sewing class in the beginning of November too so I'm looking forward to that. I love learning in general! :D

Umm well I think that's about it. Now let me talk about updates here and there:
Other blog news:
Firstly, I'm taking a break in writing on my writing blog for now because there's a lot of things I need to work on and like I mentioned upbove I'll be using OneNote to progress. However I should be still posting poems here and there.

Secondly, my gaming blog would also be on hold because I don't want to do too much at the same time but I should be taking it slow. Everything would continue but at a really slow pace. So my Youtube channel will be on hold as well.

General news for this blog:
So in this blog, I shall update you all with my life again regularly, and I'll try and keep it limited and not make it soo long like these two post have been. I would like to say I want to blog daily but I know if I say it then it won't happen because I don't think I would be able to blog daily, but regularly I can manage :D

Also when I went to meet with my friends, I bought two packs of cards and one pack of pastel paper. I came up with a great way to use them. I'm going to create, what I called, #ArtCards (Art Cards). All you do is create small drawing, painting, inking etc. on a certain size card and you can collect so many. The only thing you can't draw is people and animal (for religion reasons of course) and then you can distribute them online (by selling your #ArtCards in packs that people can buy and collect. There would be themed cards (such as special occasion, seasons, food, etc.) and limited edition cards and much much more! You can start it at your home with cards or even paper in the size of cards you desire! I'm going to be creating some soon and I'll share it with you all.

That's all I have to update you all on. I hope you enjoyed this, I'm sorry for taking so long but like I said I had many things happening that I wanted to share and it was keeping me busy. I like writing long posts but I know many would not be able to spend that time to read it, but I appreciate those who do. I'll try and keep it limited like I did with my Ramadan Diaries so don't worry.

I shall talk to you all soon, until next time take care and think positive Tarana A beaming star shining with postivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Happy 1 year and 2 days anniversary!! :)

Heey everyone!! :D

Ok I know I've said I'll be doing a lot, and I did say I'll be making some changes to this blog (which I haven't given up on yet it will be done soon) so bare with me please. Also, given from the title, it's now my 1 year and 2 days anniversary since I've made this blog!! ^^ I'm really happy, I still remembered how I used to get 1 view or so in my blog and I felt extrememly happy! :)

Even now it's nice to know how as soon as I post something it automatically recieves a few views and I owe it all to you! So thank you so much!! :D It means the world to me to know that I'm able to be a part of your life even in the most smallest way possible, I really appreciate each and every view and person :)




If you head on over to my Expressive writing you will see my recent post :) I've posted the post just before writing this post and it's on a song I wrote :P I NEVER write songs or ever recorded myself doing one (I didn't record this by the way). I just randomly thought of this and I wanted to write it down and to be honest I'm actually happy at how it turned out. There is a reason why I wrote this song but I prefer not to say :P and I know most poeple would assume things from reading the lyrics but I still won't tell you if it's right or wrong :P So please check it out it's called I love you

Click to read the song

Also I've started to do my collab writing work with people so make sure to check that out over at my expressive writing blog. I'm really enjoying it and it's very interesting what others come up with I hope to do more over time :)

Ok well I hope you all are doing well and are always thinking positively. My healthis pretty much the same still but anytime there is sunlight I go out in the sun and enjoy the sunshine :) Although I got a little sunburnt but I'm still good :) I just hope that my health will get better soon though! :)

Take care and stay positive Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Gosh that was too long of a break!

Hey Everyone! :)

How you all been? I know I know, it's been so long since I've posted, but I've been ill, distracted and just simply wasn't able to do so. However, the good news is that I've done some artwork over the month of Feurary, and also this month so I'm not completely MIA. Unfortunately the changes I was hoping to make to my blog are still undergoing and would be done, I really hope, soon. Lastly, I have an announcement to make but I'll keep it until the end so look out for that :) Or just scroll right down and read the message because I know some of you will :P So lets get to the describing of all the pictures and photos I've taken shall we? :P

Ok this picture I have to admit I didn't like it at first because I thought it wasn't coming out the way I wanted it to. However, now that I look back at it I actually really love it a lot :P I also used my gold and silver markers that I bought and got a little excited with them (you'll see why in the next picture) (picture on: 3/2/14).

As you can tell I was having fun with my markers lol after I did my rose up there  I decided that I wanted to do some doodling of any sort using my markers so this was just me exploring in my mind. I actually had a lot of things I was thinking about but didn't express to much though. (Picture done on 3/2/14).

Ok this was when I really wanted to express positivity and optimism because some people I know were being really down and negative so I wanted to share with them something positive. I also thought that I might as well share it with you all too so here it is. The message reads 'A positive thought, is a colourful thought, think of one a day, to help your life be, full of of colourful ideas.' I really hope this helps you all out if you ever feel sad or depressed. I used collage of different colours gluing it together and using, of course, my metallic markers, to present this. It was a really fun artsy project, I think it would be even fun if anyone had a chance of making their own one themselves. (This picture was done at: Background: 3/2/14 and message 4/2/14).

This was a time when my youngest sister, big sister and mum went to the market and they bought me a few things! It was so sweet of them, just like this tiramisu it was a heavenly delight and so good!

My youngest sister bought me this candle set. It was so sweet of her to buy me one I felt truly loved that day! :D I still haven't used it yet though :P But I shall do at one point ;)





















Ok this was soooo sweet of my friend! :D She really made me smile! This was a postcard from my friend who went on a holiday and I was completely surprised! :O I felt so loved and so happy to get it. When it arrive my mum said to me I received a letter I was asking her is it from the council or something related to health? She said it's a card. I was so confused and when I saw it I was like oh who sent me a postcard? I read the whole thing and it was from my friend!!! I was sooo surprised and happy! I felt sooo loved and it really made my day so much! :D Thanks Roseanne of you're reading this ;) I'm really happy that you had such a wonderful time.

This was my second attempt at the rose :P I love this one too, it actually reminded me of the other rose I did as well. I think they are both really good :) This was again one of the picture that I didn't like at first because it wasn't exactly how I visualised it but I think it came out good. I'm satisfied with the end result still.  (Picture done on 9/2//14)

I really enjoyed making those inspirational and positive messages and I think it's nice to no how to encourage it. I really hope this helps people becaue it's always nice to know if it helps someone. The message 'Don't surround yourself with the negative, surround yourself with positive and BLOOM <3' I hope this helps people in some way I truly hope that it does. I really in this too, I hope that people will take something from this. Also I was doing this while I was getting some sun outside of my house as you know I need it for the vitamin D so I'm getting all the sunlight I can get :P (Picture done on 5/3/14)

This was another drawing that I did, I really like this one a lot because I always wanted to do really well with rocks and pathways, this was my main focus on this. Even though I know there is always room for improvement I still like this one a lot!! :D This was also done outside too :) I really enjoyed doing this one a lot :) (Picture done on 12/3/14)

This was my latest artwork and I'm really happy at how it turned out. I really wanted random flowers and and blooms but having like a tangled loop going over it! :) I really enjoyed doing this too. I hope you all like it I really like this one a lot. (picture: flowers on 12/3/14 & thorns and branches 13/3/14)

Well now it's time for the final thing that I was holding back :) If you're all following me on my expressive writing blog you all would know this. But if not well then let me tell you about it!!! I started a collab writing with a friend of mine, her name is Leah, she's an amazing girl and I'm glad I met her. We started a writing collab together and well I've just finished the first chapter so let me present it to you:

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We decided to make it a chapter by chapter writing. Of course discussing the details of it with each other and presenting the chapter and then if we both agree then I upload it to my writing blog. If you enjoy it please let me know! :)

Also follow me on twitter and instagram and my other blogs too!! :D Take care everyone and always think positive! Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Artventure

Hey everyone! :D 

Like I said I'm going to make it a creative day today and I did! I ended up drawing a forest of trees an it was my first attempt!! :D I really like it and I think it didn't come out as bad as I thought it would ;) here's the picture:

I hope you all like it!! :D it's a really nice feeling being able to make a fulfilling and productive day :) I think you should all give it a try :) take care Tarana A beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

Hello world!!! :D

Hey everyone! :D

Ok so I didn't plan this but I ended up practicing my drawing more specifically on trees!! And pretty satisfied with the outcome of it!! It's like the saying goes practice makes perfect!!

I think it's a special so I didn't expect it to be it the way it came out but I'll share you a creative work even though I wasn't expecting too! Hope you like it all

Hope you all like it take care Tarana a beaming star shining with positivity for the world to embrace xoxox

The belated winter and new year special

Hey everyone,

So I thought I'll share with you all the pictures that I took of the drawings. Hope you like them and again really sorry for not doing it sooner.

Also I thought I'd remind you all that I'll be focusing on my health and will be just blogging about daily happenings or so :) anyways enjoy the pictures :)

These pictures are all on the winter special:

This one is for another snowflake:

This was the end picture of my winter special: Doodle It ~ snowflakes

For the new year I drew this 2014 picture I hope you like it :)

Well anyways I hope you liked this. Like I said I'm gonna prioritise my health more than anything right now so I apologise for not giving any creative stuff although I had planned quite a lot but its important to take care of your health though :) a beaming star shining with positive for the world to embrace xoxox