Selfies, Animals, Food, Journals

The past few weeks have been really fun! Over thanksgiving break, Madeline and I went to this little animal farm where you can feed the animals and took at lot selfies with the animals. I've also been working in my journal a lot, so I'm posting photos of that too. I went through finals week last week which was INCREDIBLY stressful, but I do have a few cool projects to share! Keep your eye out for those in upcoming posts. 

(Three days until my birthday!!! And my family got a tree!! Holiday season is happening!)

 sMOOch

Madeline taking selfies with this goat, who tried to eat her phone

notes from class that I thought looked really pretty

this goat tried to eat my sleeve!

Madeline took these of me...I'm obsessed with this dress, but I kinda hate the pattern/colours so I think I'm gonna try to recreate it next semester!

Left: Drawing of myself--I thought I looked like this emoji that day cause I had a bunch of blush on and I was smiling//Right: actual lines made when I was running on an elliptical at the Y, put the journal on the stand and held the pen loosely as I ran

I found this selfie on my computer that I never posted anywhere and I  love it and can't believe I didn't post it anywhere. 

I found these photos at the East Bay Center for Creative Reuse and the colours are so beautiful?? and they happened to go with this other angsty/stressed entry I'd made earlier 

drawing I did of Zach (in the photo he has a kiss mark on his cheek), there are glasses inside his head when you pull up. 

we matched!

We saw puppies at this adoption event and they let us hold themmmm

Selfies with all the animals (the goat was really into it)

The little thing attached with a string is an envelope

illustration I did for this post of Tessa's

journal entry from when I went to the CCA Holiday Fair and held puppies and got burgers at The Smokehouse with Zach

Drawing of my friends Maren and Emma as animals (Mouse//Cat)

xoxo
Maya

Old Endings, New Beginnings

 I made this post for The Pulp Zine originally, but on The Pulp Zine, when you click to enlarge the gifs, they stop moving! And apparently there's no way to change that which is a major bummer, but here they are in order here!

The theme of TPZ this month is change, so this is a sort of narrative about the transition from this summer to the beginning of college. Going from being with my friends all the time who know me really well to a room full of strangers who don't know me. Going from a place where people know my personality, my quirks, my ~thing~, already, to a place where no one knows or gets my ~thing~. I've had a hard time with it (as I've posted about before).

 

xoxo
Maya

drive thru see thru

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Hello lovelies!

I'm posting so soon after my last post?! I know..it's shocking. I also have another post coming up very soon. And another one half formulated in my head...so...PRODUCTION IS HAPPENING FINALLY. I think this is probably mostly because having people home makes me take a lot of photos, and because of Thanksgiving a lot of my friends are home.  I actually had a really nice Thanksgiving (despite the fact that obviously I do not support where the holiday came from, my family celebrates it). My mom had a big dinner at our house (which we never do) and made a million dishes of amazing food and deserts (most of which we are still eating for leftovers, so...score!?) 

Now we're beginning the holiday season that I absolutely LOVE: CHRSITMAS & MY BIRTHDAY!?!>!>!>!>!??!??!?!? I am excited for aproximately 387,876,584,093 reasons. 1. my friends are coming home!!!! 2. I love buying people gifts, especially when I have ideas for them!!  3. shopping a lot for gifts/myself 4. colder weather and cute people layering 4. cozy things like hot cocoa or hot mochas 5. I love peppermint bark 6. also all chocolate 7. MOST OBVIOUSLY MY BIRTHDAY!!!! I'm a big birthday person. I just love my birthday. I don't know why because I don't do anything that fun or crazy. I guess I just love the attention. (no surprises there)

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As I was talking about in my October AF post, I've been really into sheer stuff lately. Ever since I found this striped American Apparel bralette literally on the ground (??), I've been obsessed with wearing sheer stuff over it. I only have four photos of the outfit I wore, all of which I've turned into artistic gifs (which I absolutely love tbh??), but I've fleshed this post out with photos of new clothes and journal pages etc. 

Left: journal entry/drawing thing that I did before my sewing class. It happened to match the cutting mat I was drawing on!//Right: A photo I took for this The Pulp Zine post about new clothes. I paired my new clothes with a journal entry I'd done that happened to match them. (I have gingivitis (tmi??), hence the bloody gums in the drawing) 

Left: Another photo for that same post:obsessed with the cut of this new dress//Right: A photocollage I did two summers ago when I was in Europe. Background is a photo of the coolest fitted sheet ever, feet photos are of my feet, mosaic/broken plates thing is from wrapping paper my grandma designed, strawberries are from our English friends' garden, and the main photo is a painting I did over photo of Hollie

This one seriously took forever. Getting it to be a loop took a lot of tries haha....

Left: a selfie from when I did my makeup to look like I was cold from snow and added freckles to be adorable//Right: the same TPZ post as the above two

Left: Photoshop collage from a good day when Zach and I hung out//Right: In progress journal page AKA me cutting out a lot of butterflies

This is another photocollage from over the summer when I was in Europe. I just found them in a folder on my computer and rememnbered how cool they were. These aren't done in photoshop, I made them on my phone/my dad's ipad when we didn't have any Wifi or cell service and I got bored. These are all photos from my phone; the background is from when we went to see the William Morris exibit, the cactuses are a watercolour I did in Italy, the strawberries are from our English friends garden, and The drawing of the girl is something I did right before I left of my friend Natalie. 

This is my new header! About time; my TEEN WITCH header has been up far past the time I changed my blog URL. 

Hope you're all having a lovely week--if you're heading into finals week, stay healthy, get enough sleep, love you all, sending good vibes your way <3 <3 

xoxoxo 

Maya 

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If you're interested in my last post and are wondering about what's going on in Ferguson, I URGE you to keep paying attention, keep reading news (from all sides), keep looking rumours that you hear up to decide if they are true. I'm also updating a decent amount on my tumblr. And plenty of other people are staying woke as well; check out anyone I reblog Ferguson posts from, and you can see their posts as well. For those of you that don't have a tumblr, I'll be reblogging (posting) updates under my #staywoke tag, which I have not started yet, but will be here. 

Lastly, I just saw this post today, which I thought was really incredible. Definitely watch it if you have a minute.