I’m going to see this as a new start for eselle and for me to start fresh. This year has been poor for me blogging and web design wise, I’ve just had no motivation to blog throughout the year and I’ve distanced myself away from the blogging group, I’ve therefore found myself with an abandoned website which is just slowly rotting away. I constantly keep wanting to make this website into a portfolio for the sake of university applications; it would make me look better and more interesting, yet I’ve failed to motivate myself. Therefore, this year I pledge to make myself work harder for this site, I’m happy to use this site as an identity of myself to allow me to express myself through blogging. I’ve decided to have a slight change of blog style, I’ve never been much of a writing person, my grammar and spelling suck, plus my words just don’t make sense or bore people I bet, so I’ve chosen to make this into a photoblog. Whenever I’ve taken a photo of just anything, I’ll upload it to this blog, I may or may not add text about the photo, I guess that’ll depend on my mood.

As a new year starts, it always gives us a chance to look back at the year that just went by. Sure enough, no year is perfect but it annoys me when people say that they wish 2012 doesn’t suck like 2011 did. I enjoyed 2011, it was a good year for me.

First off, I gained grades which I never thought I would gain, which earned me a computer which I’ve been wanting for about 3 years, I felt as if it was well deserved and that my imac wasn’t just given to me, I earned it with hard revision and focused exams.

Then prom happened, after seeing the past 4 proms before my own, it was finally my turn. It was a beautiful night which I will always remember and the people I spent it with really did make it worth it. I believe UK proms are different from the proms in the US, we only have 1 prom and that’s basically happens when we leave senior school and then we never have a prom again, so basically, I’ll never have another prom. After I had left senior school, I probably took the biggest risk I could have taken by choosing a college were I know no one. Although, it was a risk, it was the best risk I could have taken, comparing college to school, I love it.

Although I’ve been listening to kpop since January 2009, it has defiantly become a huge part of my life this year. I listen to it so much now, that my itunes is probably 99.7% korean music, I’m proud of that, I’m happy with the fact that I would much prefer to listen to music I don’t understand to music which I do. However, I just never thought it would take over my life as much as it has, I love that now I enjoy checking up on what my favourite artists and bands are doing, see their recent photoshoots, marking on my calendar when they’re releasing a new album, reading their interviews, whereas before I wouldn’t care and just listen to the music. Even now, I spend money on their albums just because I feel that the effort they put into their music is always well deserved and as I fan it’s nice to give something back by doing this.

Then the fact that my favourite band may have hit rock bottom to only turn around and reach the top, I’m unable to express how proud I am. I never thought Big Bang would win an EMA, but they did.

I should make resolutions, but I only want one: to make 2012 out-beat the awesomeness of 2011.

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012.

I understand that it has been a while since I’ve blogged, I do have a valid excuse with the current happenings at college, but basically things have become pretty hectic in the way that I’m making my first dress. Baring in mind that I did GCSE textiles and I have never made any fashion garment, so I’ve only really made wall hangings or panels. This is kind of a huge step for me and I never thought that I’d be set the challenge to make a fashion garment for our college fashion show.

So far, it’s been about 3 weeks since we got set the task and I’ve designed my dress (which I would display but I suppose it would be nice to leave it as a surprise), and pretty much completed my corset. Now I just need to set work in making the skirt and then creating some nice accessorises.

I guess this will be the majority of my blogs for the next few weeks, my official deadline is December 12th, and I really hope my dress will be ready in time and that I hit no problems at all.