Teddy's South Korean Adventures

 

So for Christmas last year I went to South Korea to visit my sister and I brought my Teddy along my constant companion for the majority of my life. Here are some of the highlights of our trip. We were only there for a week but we got to see three cities; Seoul, Gangneung, and Dae Jeon.

Chang Gyeong Chung Palace (in Seoul)

Gangneung (Pine City)

Ojukheon (in Gangneung)

He's a small bear so he likes to climb trees to get a better view of things. 

 

Then it started snowing and being a typical Southern Californian bear, he immediately ran out to play and take advantage of a photo op. He should have packed his scarf and hat like I told him too.

Apologies and Goals

So I started this blog as something to keep me busy while unemployed and looking for work as a recent college graduate. Then lo and behold I got a job about a month after starting this blog. My original goal was to update 2-3 times a month on whatever caught my fancy but as you can see that hasn't happened. My current goal is update whenever I finish a project be it sewing, drawing, knitting, or whatever else I might be interested in. Now that I have settled in somewhat in my new job I hope that I can devote some more time to this blog because I don't want this site to turn into one of those ghost town blogs I keep running across and wish that the author would write new posts. Anyway onto some business.

Since this will be my first blog post of the year I might as well start with some goals.

1. Write more often.
2. Improve my drawing and other art hobbies. (and hopefully post some of the results)
3. Keep on learning. 

So far I am on track with my second and third resolution. I have signed up for some local art classes and things seem to be going well. I can already see improvement in my drawing. Three has been fairly easy because I have been taking classes at Coursera and Duolingo. Coursera is a site that offers a number of college courses, while Duolingo is a language learning site; both of which are free. I haven't been using either of them for very long but my experiences with both have been overwhelmingly positive.

I'll try to keep this up and maybe in time I'll fall into a nice pattern when I'm updating 2-3 times a month like I planned.

Wish me luck and I know it's almost three weeks late but I wish for everyone to have a happy new year.

Yosemite Adventures

Here's a little comic I made about some happenings on my most recent trip to Yosemite National Park. It's a very crude comic that I made very quickly for my sister and I got lazy towards the end. I was planning to redo it in colored pencils to make it neater and cleaner but again laziness took over. I might redo it in the future to clean up the boxes, calligraphy and improve the drawing but that might not be for awhile.

And so it begins

I've been wanting to write a blog for a while now but always put it off because I don't think anyone would be interested in what I have to say. I've kept a written journal for years and thought that starting blog would take away from that, too. Today, though, I finally decided that it doesn't have to.  I'm tired of writing for myself; it's time for an audience.

I still don't believe that anyone is interested in what I write but it can't hurt to put my thoughts down on screen. I don't know what this blog will be but I do want to use this place for is documenting my various crafts and hobbies.

With any luck, I'll keep this up and it'll be interesting at the very least.