Tia Talks

I’ve always loved drawing and spend a lot of time doodling in my free time when bored. Sometimes I decide to work on bigger drawings which usually end up taking hours of work to get perfect! I usually like to imitate cartoon drawings or other cute pictures I find online, drawing my own version to compare with the original. Recently I’ve made drawings of The Simpsons family, Mabel and Dipper from Gravity Falls and my favourite drawing of all, Pikachu!

I decided to draw The Simpsons because I thought it would be pretty challenging to do cartoon drawings of but the end result turned out really well and later I coloured them with new pens which I got for christmas with brush tips making it very nice to do strokes with. I drew Mabel and Dipper a very long time ago and at the time I had just finished watching the final episode so decided to draw them as they were on my mind at the time, then recently my mum found the drawing on top of our fridge and loved it so I decided to finish colouring it in.

My Pikachu drawing was probably the longest I’ve ever spent on a single picture as it started as a simple little doodle which I decided to re-draw on a bigger sheet of paper then later decided I wanted to enlarge it and paint it onto a canvas. For enlarging the drawing I used something called “The Grid Method” which is where you take a smaller picture draw a measured grid over it then when re-drawing it you redraw the grid at a bigger scale (e.g 6cm blocks up to 12cm) and draw each grid segment one at a time; in the end I think the canvas painting turned out brilliantly!

I don’t usually like to paint all my drawings because it means I have to get out all the equipment and then spend time cleaning up everything when done.. but with drawing I can just sit with pencils and paper and start drawing!

What about you? Do you enjoy drawing or painting, do you have any to share? Leave a comment below or share your own blogs and I can check them out!

I love pancake day and have been looking forward to it for weeks; as were my brothers! I really wanted pancakes this morning but my mum was at work so it wasn’t worth the hassle so I had to wait until I came home from school. Once I got home in the afternoon I was excited to have some pancakes made from the specially bought pancake mix mum had bought for the day and had lemon juice and sauces ready for them too. Our family isn’t religious but we still mildly celebrate pancake day just for the pancakes 😜 We all love pancakes but never really ever have them other than today.

Me and mum made the first pancakes together without my brothers but they didn’t turn out right not tasting good so we decided to make our own pancake mix like we usually do instead of using the shop bought one. The first pancake I made was cooking amazingly until I tried to flip it and it ended up landing straight on the floor.. (whoops) The next pancake came out successfully and I decided to add some whipped cream on it which mum recently bought fresh, so grabbed some from the fridge and added it. Apparently I had grabbed the wrong bottle though and I ended up spraying a mushy mouldy mess onto the plate! The cream I grabbed was months out of date!

Now that I had already ruined 2 pancakes I was determined to make the next one work! This time when I tried to flip it the pancake slipped out of the pan and fell onto the stove and burnt.. At this point I was fed up of trying but I had one last go but forgot to add any oil into the pan this time and the pancake got completely stuck and burnt again.. (At this point I gave up)

Later in the night my brother Sean came home from work and decided to have pancakes as a desert after dinner as mum wanted to use up the rest of the premade pancake mix, but nobody else really liked them either; they ended up being crispy on the outside but raw and mushy on the inside. A few pancakes didn’t turn out too badly and were eaten but next year we’ll be only making our own pancakes mix for sure!

Sadly the pancake treats didn’t turn out how we expected this year but hopefully next year we can try again, we’ll just need a better pan and just make our own mix! Did you have pancakes today? Share your stories in the comments below!

Today was the first day back to school for me after a week holiday which seemed to fly by so quick! During the holidays me and my brother Sean worked together to setup this blog and I’ve been sticking with my goal of making daily posts which I’m really proud of, I also celebrated my other brothers birthday and finished a big Geography report for school with drawings and print outs which I think turned out really good. During last week I also visited the hairdressers to get my hair re-styled and went on a trip into the local town centre with a friend to do some shopping!

I’m glad to be back at school though, today my tutor gave out new timetables and because it was Monday we finished an hour earlier than usual so the day went by so fast! When I got home I heard that my brother Sean’s car had a puncture and had to get it fixed but luckily he got home safe! Otherwise nothing much happened today but I’m pretty tired so I’ve just spent the night watching Youtube!

Thanks to all my readers so far today I hit over 200 unique visitors, I hope you all found something enjoyable to read!

 

Back when I was in year 7 of school I was kinda athletic (not >.<) and for some reason I was selected to be on the athletics team where we would spend the day competing against other schools for a day in several different competitions to cover for other people which had dropped out.. However at least I wasn’t alone as my friend Brooke was there with me. I did hurdles, relay and shot-put but none of them went well and we ended up losing them all.

The hurdles was a huge embarrassment as I knocked down 3 of them and finished in last place! At the time everyone seemed to be supporting until the next few days where people wouldn’t stop talking about it. 😢 In the shot-put I didn’t do well either but wasn’t as bad.. and after the disaster that was hurdles I just wanted to get it over and done with. The last event of the day was the relay race, but I ended up being really confused because I couldn’t hear the person in charge so I ended up standing in the wrong place and again we didn’t win. The events were fun though as I was with my friends Brooke, Holly and Nimah.

During the events after the shot-put I wanted to check my phone to see the time however when I checked my bag for the phone it was missing! I thought I might’ve left it in my hoodie but the only problem was that everyone’s hoodie looked the same and were mixed together so anyone could’ve taken mine! I checked the hoodie near my bag but it wasn’t there at this point I knew I had lost my phone! My friends tried calling it but I knew it would’ve been on silent mode and we tried asking around but nobody had seen it. 😭

Brooke let me borrow her phone to call my mum and tell her what had happened where she told me not to worry and we would sort it once I got home. I was so sad because I loved my little Samsung galaxy s3 mini, but my mum is so nice that she later got me a Samsung galaxy s5 neo on contract! I still miss my old phone though as it had so many memories via photos and videos stored onto it! (Plus I had completed so many colour switch levels 😠)

Ever lost something important to you? Share your stories in the comments or send me a pingback and I’ll be happy to comment with you!