22 Slow on the uptake

Source:  intoxicatedteenagers

So I know I've been posting a lot more inspiration than updates recently. This week we had our first art lesson back and I spent the entire time listening to music and cutting out castle shapes from my tissue paper! One thing I found out, for some colours the sheet of paper is just enough so I may have to make some trips to Art Friend soon... (sigh! it's quite far from my house) 

It's sufficient for now, though, so hopefully in the next week I can start pasting stuff on. I am not very sure if I should paste it first or construct some kind of firm structure (using chopsticks??) inside the lantern first to stabilize it. Foundation, or decoration? 

Also, the lanterns are wayyy troublesome to bring to school. I brought two to be safe the other day, and one got torn. I think it was by my art folio cos I put it into the same bag and it has buttons and a flap so that might've gotten caught. Either that or I've been too flippant banging the bag everywhere and letting my lanterns get into all kinds of scrapes.

I am such a bad lantern owner!

You should've seen the way the Thai airport staff look at me when I carry the lanterns in. When I first bought them they actually stopped me to ask if they were khom fai, because they were scared I'd brought the fuel cells (used to lift the lanterns up into the sky) along and (probably) planned to set the plane on fire. (Thankfully my mother had the sense to leave them at home.) On the second time during my June trip I brought them again and managed to sneak into the checking area without the security officers at the front stopping me, because it's embarrassing when you look like a thirteen year old and are mistaken for a terrorist.

Anyhoo, tomorrow is Youth Day Funfair! Have fun, everybody! We're selling handmade notebooks and keychains (which are REALLY PRETTY) (I want to buy the ones I made myself, I'm emotionally attached now), but in my time off I hope someone's doing nail polish. Last year I painted rainbow nails for the first time and my ballet teacher nearly had my head. Something subtle this time, then.