Carraway

And suddenly it begins to show: the naked truth revealing itself from a billowing cloud of silken white smoke. A web of people and circumstances all connected with strings no thicker than a hair, or a sliver of moonlight, dew drops huge and heavy on their lengths and the wind a gushing force threatening to tear it all apart.

I realize that I, once again, am on the outside, looking in.

UPCYCLE CHALLENGE: The School Skirt

Hey hey hey, it's Grad season again. (Maybe I shouldn't say "again". It is, after all, my first and last time graduating High School.)

Now, here in the Philippines, a lot of High Schools require uniforms, whether private or not. Just recently my schoolmates found a very interesting piece of Topshop clothing that looks exactly like our uniform's skirt. This got me to thinking: so we aren't very far from being fashown, after all.

My friends/batchmates Corinne and Riva thought about modifying our own school uniforms so that they could be more wearable in public and less harmful to space in our house and the environment. I (used to) have at least four in my closet - one for each weekday, plus a couple of spares from previous years. The material, to be quite honest, is pretty hot and heavy (excuse my language) and isn't your usual casual, go-to kind of cloth. More on that in another post.

This post, however, is about promoting a project - something of a collaboration by girls who DIY not only from our school but from other schools as well.

According to Wikipedia,

Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

My first ever Upcycle Challenge focuses on, as you might've deduced from before, school skirts and how versatile they can actually be. Make your school proud and flaunt just how resourceful and creative people from your alma mater come from!

Here's the poster I came up with:

I'm itching to see not only my batchmates' entries but also anyone else who'd like to take up the challenge.

If you want to join this Upcycle Challenge, comment with a link to your blog/Instagram/tweet/etc. post and I'll include it in my UC:TSS master post some time in April, when I'll expect a couple of entries already up. :)

P.S. I'm probably going to keep just one uniform intact, for posterity's sake. Hihi.

Home Sweet Bed.

Here I am, running on five hours of sleep, pondering the last three days and two nights that passed by. I just came back from my Fourth Year retreat. I won't expound on much, since this is one of those things you will definitely have to experience to really understand.

This was, by far, the strangest, most emotionally exhausting, fun, scary, crazy, spontaneous, amazing retreat I have ever been to. And I can't expect any less from my section. Coming into school on Tuesday, I really don't know what to expect. There were so many things that had been thrown out in the open for everyone to devour that I'm both scared and excited to see how much these three days and two nights changed all 40 + 11 of us, plus our Homeroom Teacher.

This is just a feelings post. I can't put into words just how thankful and tired and blessed I am to be in such a family. I can finally say that I've caught up with life in this class and, even though I'm back to the old ways of reevaluating everything that had happened, rethinking about how stupid I must've looked at this particular point in time, or regretting the things I wasn't able to say or do, I'm not going to let any of that take my mind away from how perfect it was.

Oh, and I still can't get over how I'm going to UPD. :) Ahihi. Thank you, Lord! <3

Because You Saved My Life Once (A Bullets Blog)

Light Outside by Wakey! Wakey!

(mood music)

FIRST THINGS FIRST

Life Update: My school duties are piling up on me and I haven't even worked on some of my personal projects in a while, save for the PBBY-Alcala. However, things that have happened to me so far include passing the ACET, being able to reserve 10 tickets to D'Wonder Twins of Boac on Feb. 15, and finally finishing my PBBY-Alcala entry. I'm also going to Graphika Manila, which I will definitely blog about.

I confess I haven't been blogging in a while due to the fact that I really have nothing in my life remarkable enough to blog about on its own, except for the cloth. By the way, I'm not going with a full printed dress as before. :)

Anyway here is the more complete life update.