What if Wednesday

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I DO loves me some coffee!!

* * * Starbucks: you are like my hero. * * * 

Random pics for fun:

Above three pics sourced from Mind Morsel

brogues n shoes

I have been slowly sifting through all the photos on my phone and camera card (which was lost for almost a week * well done self *). I was looking for some pics to play around with a few photo editing things I want to try and I have realised that I have a lot of pictures of my feet... esp when Im wearing these little brogues. haha. Here is my feet for all of indieBerries land to see:

When I edit pics I usually run photoshop actions over them or play with tutorials that i've scavenged the internet for :)  You can download a whole bunch of free photoshop actions from Deviant art, Paint the Moon and MaybeMej. There are also some Photoshop Actions online stores that offer free trials like Totally Rad Actions. Once you have downloaded some of the actions you just open up photoshop go to your actions toolbar and on the right hand-side drop down menu you can click "load actions" and upload the actions that you have downloaded. Then you just open up your picture and run/play the action over it. Simple :)

If you're feeling a little more.. ahem... fancy, you can try out some photoshop tutorials. There are a few that I like - such as this one on The Daybook and this one on Pugly Pixel and this cross-processing one on Tutorial blog. (Actually, I have created my own actions from these tutorials by "recording" my moves in photoshop and then saving them as an Action. I would only recommend this after you've gotten the hang of the tutorial :) The Pioneer Woman and Bower Power blogs are also a super useful for photoshop Actions and tutorials.

Also, there is an awesome website called Rollip- which you can use to generate cool filters and effects on your photos and it does all the work for you. (ten points to that.)

Wow - did you get through all that mumbo-jumbo? Are your fingers falling off from clicking-death? Do you hate me for the obnoxious link-frenzy? I'm sorry. I got carried away :)

*peace*

Convos with kids

Conversations with Korean kids:

Me to 5 year old Korean kid: What's your name?
Kid: SHARK!
Me: Shark? Your name is Shark?
Kid: OK TEACHER!! ... and... teacher... I like cheese!
Me: ...um..... HIGH FIVE!

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Me (teaching banking vocab): When we put money...
(Interupting Korean kid): "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
Me: ... ok...ok...very funny... When we put money IN the bank we say "deposit" So when we take money OUT the bank we say...
Korean Kid: OUTDEPOSIT!
Me: yeah. good try.

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Me (teaching environmental issues - showing a picture of a hunter and a tiger skin): What can you see in this picture? What animal is it?
Korean Kid:... um..well... teacher (makes slitting motion over neck).. that is a die-ger.
Me:.... mmm... yip... you're right. absolutely.

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Me to 12 year old Korean kid: How old are you?
Kid: I am twenty!
Me: Don't you mean...
Kid: Oh! teacher! Sorry!! Sorry!! I make mistake!! ...I am.... twen-teen
Me: Got it.

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And my favourite conversations...

yip.

 it just happens.

7 things

7 awesome things I've seen this week

1. A wild deer come out of NO-where and attack a child in the middle of the street. No one was hurt and it was simultaneously ridiculous and HILARIOUS.
2. A 4 year old kid collect 7 ladybugs and put them into a box. super cute.
3. A Korean kid's shirt with the words "it's good for use your stretchy fingers" what?
4. Beautiful sunflowers on the walk to get kimbap
5. A Korean man in gym practising his swimming technique. On the floor mat. Just full-on swimming. Minus the water. 
6. People at my workplace dressed as Cinderella, Snow White and some gyspy-thing in the spirit of Halloween...a few weeks early. 
7. Some old pictures on my hard-drive of epic photo-scavenger hunt which I had forgotten to blog about...which I can't wait to do! :)

* Happy Sunday *

I hope it's lazy and wonderful.

it's vogue.

In London, we made our way up to Bath and of course went to see the Roman Bath House. There was also a new "Fashion Museum" which I wanted to see.

Boys in general do not like fashion museums much:

yes. yes, you will.

And then we entered the fashion museum which was really just a massive teenage girly-chick hangout.

(just kidding, thanks for the patience warra. boys LOVE to look at vintage wedding dresses right? right.)

A few snaps from the Fashion Museum

that's me in a corset. not a plasticine model. it's hard to tell, i know.

bag lady

Last week or so Natalie Roos posted a blog post titled "what's in your bag?" and tagged some people on twitter to get involved mainly to have a nosy little peek into other girls bags...

I decided to do a triple whammy of bags -

1. the everyday lady bag.

2. the laptop bag.

3. the camera bag. 

I bought this bag in Ilsan, South Korea - I also bought the two similar bags as gifts for my Mom and Aunt in South Africa. This bag is the perfect size for me and the colour goes with everything. During the purchasing of this bag - Me and two friends were asked to be filmed for some Korean TV show about being a foreigner in Korea. (It's not an unusual occurrence.)

The Contents:

1. Notebook - sent in a package from my friend Angie from Canada
2. Korean bank card
3. Big heart ring
4. Gum. (essential.)
5. Book - What is the what? - by Dave Eggars
6. Disposable travel cards that I keep meaning to refund. But then i forget.
7. T-money card - used for all buses and subways around Seoul.
8. Leather and gold chain wrist-wrap bracelet.
9. Labello lip-ice and Lancome juicy tube. (I always lose lip-ice)
10. Coffee sachet. (funny story... we actually bought coffee sachets from a 24 hour convenience store in Seoul because we wanted the paper cups that they come with. Just so that we could drink the "fancy" bottle of "Family Mart" red wine whilst sitting on the plastic chairs and tables outside the store. yip.)
11. Gorgeous leather pen holder from my friend Laura - stocked with multiple pens and pencils.
12. Turquoise headband.
13. Eggshell shimmer stick from Skinfood. Works so beautifully as a highlighter and as a bronzy/creamy eyeshadow.
14. Hairband. (not too good with wearing my hair down. [in the literal sense i mean. Figuratively - i'm ok. see #10] )
15. Pair of black sunglasses that I bought on the streets of Seoul. (purchase may or may not have had something to do with aforementioned bottle of wine.)
16. Pair of sunglasses I was previously wearing that day.
17. Receipts and Korean money
18. Camera keychain I bought
19. Mini bottle of perfume
20. Tomatoes and almonds. For snacking purposes.
21. Mini Polaroid pic of the girls out for lunch.
22. Travel stickers and stationery I bought
23. Starbucks cup holder - which I hoard collect to use when I make "up-cycled" books and things.
24. Random spoon. (?)
25. Emirates flight menu. (used as a bookmark)
26. Cereal hand moisturising cream.
27. Starbucks card.
28. Nintendo Game boy. Just kidding, that's my iPhone. i know.

Let me just state the obvious and say that this bag is awesome. It has some kind of giant alien lumo green eye and the words say "DON'T GLARE AT MY LAPTOP BAG." (Definitely made in Korea).

The Contents:

1. Portable hard-drive
2. Hard drive cover.
3. Apple care box
4. Employee leave form. (I'm planning on being "sick" soon. ahem.)
5. Pretty writing paper
6. Adapter plug
7. Scribbles and layout ideas for a Wedding Stationery Set I am currently working on.
8. Lonely planet book on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos - busy planning an epic trip there for 5 weeks in December/January. (WOOPLA!)
9. The account details and money amounts that I had to transfer to the travel agent and Airlines. (UN-WOOPLA!)
10. Laptop bag. Did you miss it?
11. Earrings given to me by a co-teacher.
12. Purse - so that I can buy snacks when i have to take my laptop with me to the office.
13. Pens. (always gotta have them pens.)
14. Bracelets. (I can't draw my cartoons with my bracelets on. It messes with my mojo.)
15. Wacom drawing tablet and pen that I use to make my cartoons.
16. My precious.

This bag is amazeballs. But really. I got mine for my birthday from my lovely mom and dad.
And now you can get them in South Africa from Camera Couture.  They stock a range of beautiful ladies (and men's) designer handbags that are actually camera bags with padding and support for expensive camera equipment. And you can adjust the padding inside to fit your needs. They are awesome because instead of packing your big ugly black camera bag and lugging it around with you - you can pack it all into a really pretty "handbag" and not look like the Italian Mafia every time you want to take your camera's out for a ride.

(pic taken with iPhone -because the real camera is in the picture.)

Contents

1. 50mm f/1.8 Canon Lens
2. Lomography film 400 ISO
3. Korean wons
4. Random camera instructions
5. Instax mini polaroid refills
6. Lomography bag with Diana F+ adapter pieces
7. Small sketchbook
8. Canon 60D Camera
9. Diana F+ flash
10. Spool
11. SD card in case
12. OH LABELLO! THERE YOU ARE!! TWO OF YOU!!!
13.  Diana F+ adapter back (to convert 120mm film to 35mm film)
14. Diana F+
15. Super Slim Wide Angle Film Camera given to me by Dominique
16. Silica gel -DO NOT EAT.
17. Matches from Zebrano - a bar/club in London
18. Camera Case
19. Instax camera case
20. indieBerries business cards that i had printed from Moo cards
21. Instax instant camera
22. Battery
23. Action Sampler Camera. (Takes four pictures in one)
24. Canvas bag with cellophane papers to put over the Diana Flash to give it a colour pop.
    

Wow and that all fits in that lovely turquoise joy! haha Seriously though - really awesome for anyone who has camera equipment and there are a whole bunch of styles and colours too.

You can check more of the bags at Camera Couture.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far and for poking around in my bags. haha. (today I have bags under my EYES for staying up to finish this post. lol i crack myself up.)

(labels and graphic elements from Pugly Pixel.)