I just marathoned the first two books of this series and finished them last month. This is my first Tessa Dare book/s and I'm loving it a loooot. I'm not a big fan of historical romance but Tessa Dare slowly changing my mind on that.

( what i'm currently reading / about to read )

Definitely continuing this series now that I'm free from schoolwork.

( what i've been up to )

FINALS IS OVER AND SO IS THE FIRST SEMESTER, AND I'M BACK HOME FOR CHRISTMAS BREAK. I knew I said I was starting to balance blogging and school but as finals were approaching, it got harder and harder and from then on, I told myself to focus on school and give it my undivided attention because the blog can wait. My studies was my priority and I couldn't risk any distraction. Heck, I haven't even read a book since last month. I've been running on 2-3 hours of sleep almost everyday because of plates and well, here are some of them and that really got me so busy:

• a zine (worth 14 pages of illustrations in pen and ink ONLY)
• an ad series (where we chose what product we'll advertise and create a story series for it)
• a creative brief with a design rationale for the ad series

• a movie poster (where our classmates are the models so we gotta do the whole photoshoot thing)
• multiple photoshoots for photography lmaooo
• a human rights poster (where we had to use gouache and recently, I HATE gouache)
• creating a magazine layout (this was actually fun to do but it was time-consuming)
• recreating a poorly-designed billboard
• recreating a product ad from a specific year into a modern one (choices were from the 20's-90's and we picked the 90's)
• recreating a post-impressionist artist's painting (for this one, I picked Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhône)
• figure drawings.... yeah

Those are just some by the way. My mind's so fogged the past few days that I hardly remember the other half of the things I did. All I'm grateful for is that now, I can sleep-sleep.

Oh and I recently received some of my grades (my major subjects, in particular) this week and let's just say I'm very proud of it *heart eyes while sobbing emoji* I HARDLY SLEPT AND ATE FOR THESE GRADES AND EVEN THOUGH THAT'S VERY UNHEALTHY (please don't do this, please eat, rest/sleep, and hydrate.. please please please) BUT MY HARD WORK AND MENTAL BREAKDOWNS ARE PAYING OFF.


( what i'm currently watching / about to watch / just watched )

FINALLY WATCHED FROZEN II AND MY EYES ARE CRYING BECAUSE OF THE HIGH DEFINITION VISUALS. I have so much respect for the animators and other creatives who worked tirelessly over animated films because this job is not easy. It takes up so much time and patience and I just *cries* I'm actually not a big fan of Frozen but I never miss a Disney movie so... here I am. Also, I just renewed my Netflix subscription now that I'm currently on Christmas break and the first thing I want to marathon is Anne with an E. Sad that this got cancelled after its 3rd season but I still want to watch this Anne of Green Gables adaptation. The cinematography and color palette LOOK GORGEOUS. I'm a sucker for these things as I am for book covers.


( what i'm currently listening )

As I'm writing this post, I'm currently having a music session with my mom and we're listening to this. Mom and I always listen to some throwback love songs every night when I'm home. We started this just this year where I'm on my laptop doing whatever and she's on her phone doing whatever with music playing in the background. It's kinda our thing now.

I hope you're all doing good :)