It's uni break, why not bake?

The title says that Luna and I were baking. (Ly is currently in her exam periods, wish her luck!) Yes, we baked today and we decided to post this up tonight before we sleep. Hehe.

So, we decided a while ago, perhaps a month ago, to bake during the uni winter holidays. Taking advantage to be creative and innovative! We challenged ourselves to make a rainbow layered cake. I'm sure we all have seen those awesome and successfully made cakes on the internet, books, magazine etc. that's why we chose it.

We started at 1PM and finished making the cake around 7:30PM. It took us 6 hours to make this cake, patiently waiting to bake each layer, cleaning up, deciding what to do next and how we were going to do it. A good way to use your brain during break.

Making this cake was messy and time consuming, nonetheless worth every single moment of our effort and time. Luna and I, as well as our extra helper (thank you, you know who you are when you read this!) were so happy that we successfully did it! Ticking this off our holiday-to-do list!

If you bloggers/readers want to know how to make a rainbow cake, just type into google 'rainbow cake recipe' and all sorts will pop up! Challenge yourself today, be creative and inventive!

Here are the photographs showing our progression throughout this whole day.

We walk great distances to get to where we are in life

Hello folks!

Sorry for being absent for almost three weeks! We did mention we had a shoot on the 6th of May and we've edited the photographs. However time has been constraint for me (Marie) due to uni work -- it's hard to juggle everything and trying to get this post up ASAP. *sad face*

Anyway, during these three weeks, we've been planning projects and experimenting with Adobe Photoshop. We were also preparing for the recent shoot we just did too. Quite hectic going to places, trying to plan before the actual date. Also bought a new lens! Now our cameras are twins!

Enough of that, let's move on to the day and some sweet and innocent photographs of our dear friend, Alexandra. Alexandra is another friend of ours from school, and it was really fun working with her. The theme of the shoot was Life and Strength, personally chosen by Alex herself. We also had Alex pick the location and she chose Royal National Park, Watamolla. A really nice and relaxing location South Coast of Sydney. Although it took us more than an hour to get there (due to wrong turns) it was all worth the travel.

It took us less than 2 hours to make these props that we later gave to Alex to keep.

The water at the beach was so blue. Could not resist to take pictures of it. If you guys ever come to Watamolla, you'll love it here! 

Also, throughout those three weeks, we had to help Alex to pick out outfits for the shoot. So it resulted in a white dress and a red one also. Luckily, it took less than 2 hours to pick out dresses. 

Now moving on, finally~~

Surrounded by beauty

Hey guys!

We've mentioned in yesterday's post that we would be posting up a recent shoot fairly soon -- well, fairly soon was very soon. So, Luna and I had a shoot on the 22nd of April, which was only two days ago! So, we worked very quickly to edit photos and discussed with our client with what photos are best to present here. 

The shoot had taken place at Hyde Park in the city and Pitt St Mall Westfields. The park is very residential, so we had to be aware of our surroundings. We thought the day was not going to be good, but the sun came out nice and bright.

Moving on, our client Yaeun (make sure to check out her blog by clicking on her name) was ready and set and we were too by the time we've met up. Being that this is our third, second for Luna, shoot it is giving a good experience with different type of individuals. It is a good way in helping making decisions -- we didn't know where to start and how to start but we eventually rolled in.

We started off at Hyde Park first where Yaeun is wearing a nice green blouse with a aqua skater skirt.

Why not post something whilst buried under paper?

I decided to post one of my projects I did back in January that I did as a birthday present for one of my friends whom known for 12 years. So, during the time, my friend and I were discussing themes to present that I will try to portray within the area I lived in. It was both for our convenience since it was a humid day and it was too tiring to go out to the city for it.

So, I gave the choice of picking whatever outfit my friend would like to wear, however she hated me for this because she had so many choices to choose from. We had several themes we wanted to portray but we only got through four which were lonesome child, sexy, elegant and sporty. I decided to sum up it all up in Young, Wild and Free. 

Since it was a humid day and it rained that day, the sun came out beautifully but the humidity was killing us, but my friend had to change her outfit  a couple of times so she most likely had it worse off more than I did. Enough of me waffling on, here are the photographs. 

Here and there.

My first semester at uni is just around the corner, meaning posting on this blog will take me a while. These days I've been a bit lazy to do anything since I've been wanting to rest and have a bit of fun before I start uni. I will eventually post up one of my projects that I did just under a month ago, though and perhaps some of the fun stuff I've done over the 6 months.

Whilst waiting and if you have instagram, why not take a peek?
instagram: shizukachuu

Here are a few photographs I have posted on instagram:

www.instagram.com/shizukachuu

Adieu!
Marie

Valentine's Day project.

So, as mentioned before in my previous post -- I was working on a project. The post title says it.

Sometime near the end of January, I was talking to a friend telling them I wanted to make roses for the group and it resulted in making 230 roses in 8 days time. I started on the 4th of February and finished on the 12th. I didn't think I would make it but I guess I was being tenacious and consistent the whole way, along with some unwanted but enjoyable distractions.


My materials were assorted coloured origami paper (that can be bought from daiso or online), as well as some A4 coloured paper that I happened to have, garden wire and small metal/aluminium buckets. Since I was making for about 10 people, I had to buy ten buckets, more than 150 sheets of origami paper and two 50 metres garden wire. Roughly under $50 I'd say.

I barely asked for help in this, especially because the ones I would usually ask were the ones who I was giving the roses to.

So, I trialed and and error'ed before to see how many roses I would need and it turns out 23 roses fits. The origami size paper was the best size to work with since I was trying to work with A4 size square and they were too big.