Journal Prompt 28, 29 & 30 - Last Pages! :(

Journal Prompt 28: What are you most looking forward to? This can be something tomorrow, in a month, a year, or way into the future :)

I've been wanting to get married since like forever. I know I'm only 21 and it sounds really insane, but hey, a girl can dream right? Can't wait for this day to come!

Journal Prompt 29: Today I want you to write a letter to either your past self, or your future self. What are some things that you wish you would have known in the past? What are some things that you want to remember in the future? Write yourself a love letter today!!

I decided to wrote to my future self, reminding me to always be optimistic and to not forget the things that make me happy despite being so caught up in everything. It's also a letter that reflects the goals I wish to have already achieved by then.

Journal Prompt 30: What did you do this week that moved you closer to reaching your goals?

I managed to convince myself to run, in order to stick to my goal of having a healthy lifestyle! Boy, was I glad when I completed the run. It made me feel so healthy and so much slimmer. :P

I can't believe it's over! 30 days of journalling was totally awesome. Thank God, Janel has decided to come up with another Journal Challenge (Journalling For A Cause). Hopefully, I can take part in this new challenge! Join me, it's definitely gonna be fun! :)

Journal Prompts 24, 25, 26 & 27

I've been really busy with exams and assignments the past few days. I finally managed to sit down and catch up with my journal prompts today. It's gonna end soon! Boo Hoo Hoo~

Journal Prompt 24: What is your most favorite place in the world? Is it a country, a town, a room, a secret place that no one else knows about? I know you have one, I want to see it!!

It definitely has to be my room. It's the one and only place that I feel completely safe and relaxed. It's where I can engage in my favourite activity - sleeping, blog and create things. It's where I can let go of all my emotions and not be afraid of being judged. My room's my safe haven.

Journal Prompt 25: I want you to think about your day today. If you had to describe to me in one word, or one short phrase what would it be?? Us this phrase or word repeatedly on your page, trying out new fonts :)

I need food every few hours and this was the day where my schedule doesn't allow for it to happen, so I was constantly feeling hungry. That's the highlight of my day. (don't judge me, food's a HUGE part of my life!)

Journal Prompt 26: Today you are going to write out your favorite recipe!! This can be written, illustrated, cut and pasted, something. It is always really good to document these small little pieces of your life. Don't you think?

I don't really know how to cook though I would love to learn. This recipe was just something that I came up with, using whatever I found in the refrigerator. Turns out to be yummy! :D

Journal Prompt 27: If you could change one thing, what would it be. This could be something about yourself, your situation, your city, your country, the world...anything!!

I had a change of Chinese name when I was young, after seeing a fortune teller. To this day, I still wish I didn't have to change it because I really prefer my original Chinese name. :(

Journal Prompt 22 & 23

Journal Prompt 22: Today I want to know what your favorite holiday is!! There are soooo many holidays out there and the cool thing is that they differ depending on where you live, your family, and your religion. Teach me all about your favorite holiday and why it's your favorite :)

I love Chinese New Year! We get to wear new clothes, shoes and everything new, get red pockets containing moneys, feast on new year goodies and most importantly, enjoy great family bonding time when we visit each other. That's also when I invite my ethnic friends over for a feel of the Chinese traditional holiday. :)

Journal Prompt 23: Today I want you to fill an entire page in your journal with one of the elements of art. As an art teacher, I have to talk about all of the elements of art...daily.

Here they are:
1. Line
2. Color
3. Shape
4. Space
5. Texture
6. Form

I chose to make this simple and drew my favourite shape all over! Yes, I love stars, more than hearts, which explains my blog's title!

Journal Prompt 19, 20 & 21

Journal Prompt 19: Today I want you to create a "guide to your city." What are the must-see things that you would want a visitor to experience in your city. This can guide can be for your city, town, or state. I am really excited to see these and to maybe even use them in my future when traveling!! Have fun with this!!!

I chose to feature the different ethnic places of Singapore because I think that's what we're known for, a multi-racial and multi-religion country. Of course, not to forget, the famous symbolic Mr Merlion. I think something that cannot be missed when you visit Singapore is our FOOD! Yummy!

Journal Prompt 20: Here is the age old question, what is in your bag?? This has always been a great photo prompt that i have seen all over the blog world. Today, you are going to write about the contents of YOUR bag, or illustrate it, or take a picture of it, whatever :D

I has so much fun doing this prompt! :)

Journal Prompt 21: What is your most favorite quote? A quote that inspires you, or your mantra. I literally have 4 journals from college filled with quotes that inspire me and make me smile. Today is the day to share your inspiring words with your friends :)

Whenever I'm feeling down, at loss or worried about the situation, I will find peace in reading this verse, knowing that God has His plans and that I'm well-protected, that I'm in the situation because it's planned for, not by accident.

Only 8 prompts left! I wish this will last longer, I'm having so much fun. It's something I look forward to everyday!

Journal Prompt 18 & Derek Redmond (1992 Olympics)

Journal Prompt 18: Music is one of my most favorite things ever!! It translates emotions that I can't even imagine putting into words. I love it. Today I want you to create a playlist of some kind. It can be your summer playlist, your July playlist, songs from your wedding day, or favorite songs of all time :) This one will be another fun one to look at down the road :)

 

I've chosen to feature songs that have special meanings to me. This prompt brings back lots of wonderful memories. :)

The said video of Derek Redmond's 400m run in the 1992 Olympics. Watch it, and be inspired. He has shown the true spirit of Olympics, of perseverance and courage, of completing a race despite the circumstances. Brings tears to my eyes each time I watch this.  

Journal Prompt 17 & New Haircut!

After reading about Lindsay's visit to the hairsalon, I finally pluck up the courage to get a trim, and I kinda like the way it turned out. No more messy and untamed hair that's constantly bugging me, at least for now! Today's journal prompt ties in with my new haircut, so I'm gonna draw about it. Perfect timing for a prompt like this. :)

Journal Prompt 17: Today you are going to illustrate a day. It can be today, it can be yesterday, it can be a significant event that you have had in your life :) Use pictures, labels, words, doodle, sketches, anything you want, to describe your day! This is a cute one. Enjoy!

Sayang fell asleep while waiting for me to get my hair cut. Haha!

& now...the actual look!

I like how it's much neater and yet I am able to maintain my previous hair length. Hooray for a successful happy visit to the hairsalon! :D

Journal Prompt 16

Journal Prompt 16: Short, sweet, and straight to the point :) What are you wearing today? Write it, doodle it, cut it out of a magazine, whatever!

Mr Hockey Bean & Journal Pages!

After weeks of waiting, I finally got this cute hockey plushie from Mr Bean! Isn't it just so adorable? :)

Now, onto my journal pages!

Journal Prompt 13: Silly insecurities....we all have them unfortunately. If you don't, you are my hero :) Today I want you to document your insecurities, face them, write them down, reflect on them, and get them out of your system. Somewhere on your page I want you to write "BUT..." This will lead in to tomorrow's prompt :) This is definitely not a fun prompt but it's kind of necessary in order to move past them.

I have lots of insecurities that I'm trying hard to work on. It sure took me some courage to be able to share about them. I'm kinda afraid of what others will think about me once they find out about these.  

Journal Prompt 14: Ok, now that we have all of the yucky insecurities out of our system, I want us to completely focus ONLY on the things that make you the amazing person that you are. What are the qualities that you possess that make you so wonderful? Don't be shy and don't be modest either on this one :)

Sure feels good to be writing about amazing qualities that I possess. Notice that I've set this page to be a contrast of the previous one, with the use of sunshine, to counter the dark and stormy rain. :)

Journal Prompt 15: Today I would like you to brainstorm some goals for the upcoming month. A short list of goals that will be attainable to accomplish in one month.

I simply love hockey! :D

I'm officially halfway through the 30 Day Journal Challenge and I'm really enjoying it! I'm rather proud of the fact that I'm on track. It's so much fun to just doodle and pen down my thoughts. I feel so accomplished each time I complete a page! :)

Journal Pages 10, 11 & 12

So I've realised that I've not been blogging as frequent as before. That's just because I'm busy catching up with...'GLEE'! I know I'm a bit late to only discover it now but it's totally addictive. I love all the songs they've performed! I may get that 'GLEE' soundtrack soon!

(via weheartit)

So now, on to my journal pages...

Journal Prompt 10: This prompt is all about collections. I am such a collector. I have too many collections but I love them all. I am definitely the type who moves on though to new collection depending on my mood and the seasons in my life. What do you collect? If anything. Do you collect buttons, clothes, shoes, friends, parking tickets, whatever!! Illustrate your collections. This will be fun to look back on someday and see how your collections have grown or have moved on :)

I'm not that much of a collector now that I'm a little tight on finances. Occasionally, I give in to temptations of Pooh stuff and stationery though. I'm trying to work on my needs instead of wants for the time being. There will be a time when I can spend again, hopefully! :)

Journal Prompt 11: Hello friends. Today is another one of my favorite pages. And speaking of favorites, this is a page all about your faves!!

We are going to list your favorites in each of these four categories:

* TV shows

* Music

* Food

* Splurges

Journal Prompt 12: Journal 12 is all about trends. Whether you consider yourself "trendy" or not, I bet there are a few trends that you find yourself gravitating to. If not, you can create a page of trends that you think are lame too, it's up to you :)

Over the years, I've came to understand that I don't have to follow trends, especially not blindly. If I feel comfortable and happy with what I'm wearing, then I'll naturally be confident of myself. Of course, there will be moments when I feel bad about myself but hey! I'm gonna push that away and start working on being secured in who I am. I encourage you to do that too, you'll learn to love yourself more! :D

Journal Challenge Day 9

Journal Prompt 9: Choose another person who is very significant in your life right now. It can definitely be the same person that we wrote about on day 3, but I chose to do someone different. Anyway, this prompt is going to be all about those wonderful adjectives, and typography. Describe your special person with as many words as you can fit. For each word, try to use a different font or writing style. This is a great way to practice fun typography!

I completed my journal page early today! I had so much fun coming up with different fonts and words to describe my Sayang. He's appearing a lot in my journal pages. :)

P.S. He's being so sweeet in his smses today, made me feel so loved and happy even though I won't get to see him until tomorrow (I hope!). I can't wait to see him, so blessed!  

Journal Pages 7 & 8

Journal Prompt 7: Today is an easy one... How are you feeling today? Sometimes it's really good to reflect on your feelings and try to figure out why you are feeling a certain way.

It was Fathers' Day yesterday and we were out for the whole day. A great time for family bonding, felt so blessed! This page pretty much summed up the day. :) 

 
Prompt 8:
Today, I want you to illustrate an "inside joke." I want this to be a page that only you and a few other people would get. Inside jokes are always fun (well, when you are apart of them I guess).
I have a journal page from my first year in college where I filled the entire page with inside jokes. Ummmm....I only "get" like two of them :) I have no clue what the other ones even mean anymore. Isn't that crazy?
Easy enough :)

It wouldn't be an inside joke if I explain much about this page right? ;P

I love how it turned out though, first time with the colour pencils!

Colour Challenge: Rainbow/Multi (&greys &whites); Journal Challenge Day 6

It's the last day of colour challenge! Boo Hoo Hoo! I really love this challenge because it teaches me to appreciate the different colours in my everyday life, and take time to slowly take in all the beautiful things that I will usually take for granted because they're always beside me. Thanks Cat, for coming up with this! :)

I didn't manage to capture a lot today but I would say these are good enough because they're just so charming~

stripes are so common nowadays, there's about 2 in every 10 people that I see wearing them. Sayang calls them zebras (sorry, no offence!). This is a giordano advertisement by the way.

wall mural in the mall, of my favourite sports brand, ADIDAS!

this Yeo's drink advertisement is too cute to resist! It's amusing how the dwarves chose the drink over Snow White. ;P

my journal page for the day! I chose to use more colours today, to incorporate into the colour challenge. The watch was inspired by a cool Adidas watch that I saw, which also has a mini calculator on the watchface itself. It's simpler today because I only wrote in tasks that have the highest importance right now, thus the bombs and the tick-tocks, reminding me that time is RUNNING OUT!

Journal Prompt Number 6:
It's time...
It's definitely time to do something. It may be a new season for you in your life, or a time to make some goals, or it may just be time to relax (because it's Saturday right?).
Draw something that represents the word time and then make a list of things that you need to do at this time in your life, or day, or week :)

Journal Challenge Day 5

Journal Prompt Number 5:

We are all obviously bloggers right, or else you wouldn't be here :) Even if you don't have a blog, I know that you read them.

This page is dedicated to your favorite blogs!! What are they? Are there any blogs that you can't go a day without checking?

There's lots of blogs that I enjoy reading but there's one out there that I will always check for updates. That special blog is Lindsay's! It all started when I can't help but think of her each time I see pandas (She's obsessed with them!) and I emailed her once with photos of pandas. We began to interact from there and now, she's my penpal! I'm so blessed to have found a friend all the way in US!

Journal Challenge Day 3 & 4

More journal pages! It's so fulfilling to be able to complete my pages and be back on track again. :)

Journal Prompt Number Three: It's always nice to share with someone why you love them. Today, I want you to draw a picture, doodle, sketch, of a person who you love, or admire. Then, write that person a letter telling them why they mean so much to you!

In view of the upcoming Father's Day, I chose the journal subject to be my dad. Dads are more likely to be undervalued than Mums and yet they don't complain most of the time. They just give endlessly, without expecting anything in return. I'm gonna take a HUGE step and show this page to my dad on Father's Day! :D

Journal Prompt Number 4: What does your heart look like? It can be literal, it can be symbolic, it can be broken and need fixing...anything!

My concept for this page is more like a mindmap, but I kept it simple by drawing symbolic things representing different loves that keeps me motivated every single day. :D

Journal Challenge Day 2

Journal Prompt Number 2: What is the BEST part of your day?

Is it working out?

Is it "quitting time" at work?

Is it dinner with the fam?

What is it?

You can write about it, draw it, sketch it, doodle it, anything you like!

It's a pretty simple prompt today and I was so excited to have completed it! At the end of the day, I will always look forward to talking with Sayang over the phone, discussing about our plans for the next day, sharing about the day (whether it was spent together or apart). I will feel really down if we don't talk before I go to sleep, especially if the day was spent apart. It's like a must-have every night. :)

I can't wait for the next prompt! This is getting so addictive!

Journal Challenge Day 1

As you may have noticed, there's a new blog button on the right panel of my blog that states 'I have accepted the 30 day journal challenge'. That's right! I've accepted more challenges on top of Creative Boot Camp and Colour Challenge Week. I'm actually using these opportunities to expand my creativity. I'm predicting that it will take up quite a bit of time and be overwhelming at times, but I'm gonna challenge myself to follow through with all the projects! Of course, family time and quality time with people outside of blogging world cannot be neglected and have to take priority before these! :)

For this challenge, I'm using a journal that's given to me by a friend as a birthday gift. I absolutely adore her cover design for me, so inspiring! Today's all about introduction of myself. I'm not totally satisfied with my work but I guess this will do for now. I'm still a bit raw. It will definitely gets better as days go by, I hope! :)

inspiring journal cover (done by Sharina)

Journal Prompt Number 1: Create a full page design introducing yourself :) Highlight your name many times in the midst of your design.

I've coloured the sunflower because I want to remind myself to always be cheerful, and to look at the bright side of life! It's my favourite flower too~