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Had an idea to draw my route as I travel around NZ. Will be interesting to see how this turns out at the end of the trip!

11th-13th May: Auckland 13th May-present: Kerikeri, Bay of Islands

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Um, hi! So this was one major reason for my hiatus. I'm travelling New Zealand on a working holiday visa (arrived about 10 days ago) and all the travel preparation and planning for the trip took up most of my post-work time that I didn't really have the energy or inspiration to doodle. 

But yeah, I'm here now, in New Zealand! I don't know how frequently I'll be posting my doodles, but if you're interested to see photos, you can also find me  on my travel blog.

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Keep Calm and Play Spelltower!

This has been sitting in my picture gallery for sometime and I keep forgetting to post it! Anyways, this is a little ode to my favourite game *finally* being released on Android!

It was a pretty monumental moment of my life when I saw the little icon appear in the Play Store. That morning, I was one giddy, happy kid. The feeling was better than many recent Christmasses put together, I tell ya. 

(Yes Angelyn, you can stop rolling your eyes now)

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"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."

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Day 35 8th March 2013 Dear doodle project, I'm sorely sorry for neglecting you of late. Life has been busy. That's not a good excuse but yeah. :(

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Day 32 21st Feb 2013 “Success is not final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill Failure is not fatal. I really like that.

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Day 33 22nd Feb 2013

Never.

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Day 31 20th Feb 2013 "When in doubt, leave it out" Quote about design from the February issue of Monocle.

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Day 30 19th Feb 2013

“It always seems impossible until its done” - Nelson Mandela

Still gleaning positive quotes from @BearGrylls twitter. Hoho… looking at the way I’m going with this project, a year of doodles seems rather impossible.

Oh wells, one step at the time!

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Day 29 15th Feb 2013 Food for thought. Via @BearGrylls “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” (https://twitter.com/BearGrylls/status/301663974020239361)

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Day 28 One I did a few days back, but forgot to upload. CNY - chinese new year. Inspired by when we played with sparkers during reunion dinner. http://schnappets.tumblr.com/post/42775871905/sparkler-time

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Day 27 14th Feb 2013 Life is not a competition. Everyone should win.

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Day 26 10th Feb 2013

Lyrics from "How Excellent Your Name Is" by Peter Jacobs (originally from Psalm 8 of course)

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Day 25 9th Feb 2013 Happy Chinese New Year!

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Day 24 7th Feb 2013 Having fun with contrasty bright colours. This probably does not go with the whole romantic feel of the Anne of Green Gables books, but hey... its nice just to do things a bit differently sometimes :)

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Day 23 3rd Feb 2013 I’d been wanting to doodle this quote since watching the LOTR marathon in January. I can never get over how the ending of LOTR always makes my heart ache…. Frodo, Gandalf and the elves leaving for the Grey Havens… the whole adventure ended… and the music with Annie Lennox’s haunting voice. There are no words to describe the feeling.