Ahhh! So today's topic is to share 10 of your favourite quotes! I've always been a massive lover of quotes, with ones from books, shows, lyrics and whatever else I can somehow relate to one so this may be a little hard for me just to pick 10 but I will try!

List your 10 Favourite Quotes

1. "Feck perfuction" - James Victore

Definitely one for the days when nothing seems to be going right.

2. "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton

I just really like this. I've found that this year my art has sparked something inside me that has cause me to find something more about myself but also given me a sense of calm while doing it.

3. "You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life" - Austin Kleon

So true. IF you think life is bad to you then you'll never get over it.

4. "If you want creative workers give them enough time to play" - John Cleese

I'm not in the working part of the Creative Industries yet but this is so true! How can you be exciting without doing exciting things!?

5. "Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle" - Jon Acuff

I really need to start remembering this one more...

6. "We're the authors of our lives" - Set It Off

Because it doesn't matter what folk say to you, it is your life and your decisions

7. "The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life." - Jessica Hische

Hell to the yes!

8. "It might not be my weekend but it's going to be my year" - All Time Low

Forever the optimist. 

9. "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin

Why you should always have books around you

10. "The things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow" - James Victore

And it will make all the haters extremely jealous! 

So that's some of my favourite quotes, if you're interested to find more I like then you can have a nosy at my two Pinterest boards here and here (the second is more poetry). Anyway, comment below with some of your favourite quotes too! 

For this weeks quote I feel it's very fitting for everything that has gone on this week and will go on to next week. With Christmas only being a few days ago and young children everywhere believing in the magic of Santa Clause. And then people all believing in the stories of things such as Doctor Who and Harry Potter. It kind of feels a bit silly not to try and relate this weeks quote to all this.

This time of the year is always magical. Even the simplest things like the way light flickers on snow. its magical. I'll admit, the past few years Christmas hasn't been the same kind of 'magic' it used to be when I was a kid. But that's growing up I suppose. But the magic is always there. And it's always beautiful. And you always need to just keep believing.

This weeks design for weekly words is inspired by illustrator and painted Oana Befort. I really loved the style of her water coloured paintings of flowers. You should definitely go check out her designs! The quote inspiration for this week has just been something that's been on my mind  lately. 

Since completing my App Design, I've been in a bit of a creative rut, not a good thing since I've got another design brief to complete for Monday! So I've had a hard past few weeks try to do this. However, I need to just keep experimenting and doing other pieces of art to try and get my creativity back up to speed.

So I hope you like the design below, to sort of 'develop' my skills and such more, some day I might try and do a water colour version of it soon. I've not used water colour properly since being in Secondary School doing my higher art (like a year and a half ago!). So I quite want to practice with it more.

The font I used to create this design is A Gentle Touch by Vanessa Bays.

This weeks motivational words are "Do something amazing", whether that be something like running a marathon, helping out a friend or just creating some awesome work! Just do it! 

This weeks quote stemmed from a design I seen through pinterest that you can see here. I have started using pinterest a lot more since being back at college so follow me on it for some little bits of inspiration! I have also had to create a blog using tumblr for college purposes, but since I already used tumblr before hand I just slightly recreated my tumblr page so that it would be a bit more fitting for the purposes.

To follow me on pinterest you can do so here and to follow me at my tumblr blog follow me here

Now on to the actual designs! As many of you may know, I can be very indecisive at times. So once again, this week has more than one final design! The reason being for this is because of me being indecisive again but also because when I started asking friends which designs they liked best I suddenly realised- and it was pointed out to me- that the collection of designs I sent them created a 'traffic light' like effect.

I hope you enjoy these designs and please let me know below in the comments which one is your favourite colour way of the design! 

This weeks design has been created using the font Windsor Hand designed by Skyhaven. 

In August, my boyfriend- Darren and his family went on a day trip to Livingston and in one shop- The Works- I bought quite a few things! I've also been buying a few other little things from Car Boot Sales and using vouchers I've still not used from my birthday. 

Another thing I bought from Waterstones this month was these cute little pegs. I've been wanting to update my room and want to have heaps of photos stuck up and I thought these would be a really cute way to hang them. I decided to decorate a couple of them with the Heart and Clouds pegs I bought from Paperchase as well. It definitely gives them a bit more character!

I got these also in The Works. I hadn't read or heard anything about these books but they sounded great from what I read on the back. I spent £5 on the 3 books because they were on a deal! So cheap!!

This week motivational quote for "Weekly Words" are "try something new". 

The reason for the quote being this one this week (and not just because I came across it while reading through a blog earlier in the week) is because recently, I've been thrown into the deep end of having to try something new. With starting a new job, I've had to learn a lot about how to use tills and the lottery machines and stuff like that. I also took a dive in with this competition a while ago of illustrating some characters for a children's book someone was making. Doing that was quite different to what I had done before because I really need to think of how I was going to keep a consistent style of the character throughout the different extracts of the book. However, not to my surprise the author went with another designer. Although it did put me down a bit, I realised that I've only been studying graphic design/illustration for about a year and still have a lot to learn. 

I'm also going to try and make myself go out there and try new things because generally I am really bad at doing that. Seriously I am probably the most fussiest eater you will ever meet! 

So hopefully I've inspired someone to go out there and trying something new, whether it is just something like a new food or to the more extreme- jumping out of a plane. Please do tell me if I have inspired you! It would mean a lot to me if I have.