Day ehmm, let's start with 1 again

Back to school! My -hopefully last- year of university has started today, our new home has been settled in (sort of) and life is structured again, including alarm clocks and breakfast on the train. Ánd including having time for drawing during travelling back home, huzzah! Today's drawing is only slightly inspired by todays coffee-requiring lectures beginning before nine and ending around five, in a new building where the coffee machines had not yet been installed. Muhaha, I had the foresight to bring my thermos jug along.

Day 24 - recipes ring binder

To gain control over my ever expanding, scattered-everywhere recipe collection, I finally bought an A5 ring binder to '...bring them all and in the darkness bind them'. Ahem. The black cover was not of my choice, but apparently A5 binders are quite rare so this was the only one I could find. As it looked boring and I kept confusing the front and back cover, a paper cover was swiftly made and doodled upon. Yay, problem solved.

Day 23 - another notebook cover

Over the past year I've been leading a rather sedentary life with no exercise and lots of stress, which has led to my body becoming weaker and, uh, 'expanding' somewhat. Time to get back in shape, and this notebook is for keeping track of all that.

Day 22 - dummy cover

Okay, once again I'm cheating here as this was made weeks ago, but I'm very busy at the moment so surely you'll forgive me, right? Anyway, the cover of my second dummy was inspired by art nouveau lines as I've always really liked the style. Using a white gel pen on a black surface really gives a cool effect don't you think?

Day 21 - notebook covers

This holiday will probably be my last eight-weeks-long, no-obligations, I-can-do-whatever-I-want holiday as from next year onward I will be having a job (at least I hope so). Which means less vacation time and only taking weeks off if we have made holiday plans. This holiday, I want to get the most out of my time and do a loooot of things. To aid my mind in keeping track of all of this, and because it's just fun, I bought a stack of tiny notebooks, three of which have an assigned purpose now: moving plans, holiday travel plans, and overall goals for these two months.

My goals for the coming months are among other:
- travelling through the United Kingdom (which we planned to do as soon as J. would graduate, which he did just last month, whoooooooo!)
- doing some major home cleanup, following a year of household neglect ;)
- moving into our new home mid August
- learning SolidWorks and Rhino (3D modelling software)
- catch up on mechanics, manufacturing techniques, calculus and other subjects that I didn't have during my Bachelor's
- daily drawing practise
- setting up a webdesign service (I really need more income next year)
- meeting up with friends and family (finally!)
- getting fitter by having at least two ours of daily activity: walking, cycling, working out, or shopping for all I care, I really need to move after a year of leading a sedentary life with lots of stress and zero exercise
- and last but not least, going on a short hiking vacation in South-Limburg: far enough for hills, beautiful nature and the feeling of being away, but close enough to arrange a pick-up just in case ;)

So, yeah. As you can see, some planning here is justified, if not severely needed ;).