Week 3 - Carry On Only

Hello everyone,

My long awaited return I know. For my millions of screaming fans and readers. The past 2 ish weeks has been pretty busy. Included in various domestic travel and assignments at uni coupled with a long weekend and too much work for once.

Uni is progressing, I simultaneously feel like I have a handle on it and also not at all. Because I am doing my thesis this year it is really hard to keep a handle on my progress sometimes because a lot of it is self guided study and learning. The one subject that I do have weekly lectures for and tutorials I also feel behind in so that is great.

Something I need to do that I know will help me is to almost write a list of everything and be able to physically see it in front of me. Even moreso then having a digital version I simply cannot comprehend it. For the past 4 years I have been buying physical diaries and I feel like I get so much out of it then a digital planner. I bought all those iPad hoo haa digital notebooks and my brain cannot simply comprehend it. So analogue it is.

2 weeks ago I did in fact go to the formula 1 which is always a fun experience, I am a ferrari girl so it was a great weekend for me, more importantly there was a MECCA stand and I won free eyeshadow which was honestly a huge score in my books. We travelled to Melbourne with only carry - on, something I frequented whilst travelling around Europe and omg it cemented my love for not having the check luggage and just wandering off the plane when it lands. Unless it is something specific I refuse to ever check luggage ever again, we did however, have to smuggle our computers down our pants on the way home to be under the weight limit.

The Easter long weekend was last week and I felt not as productive as I had liked to have been but I had a nice easter sunday with my grandma and family. My grandma’s place is really lovely. We played a bunch of games and had a lovely chat, but the swans lost which was a downer to the day. When I hope to have my own place and family I hope to a be games house and we can all sit together and play cards.

Yesterday though we had a bbq with my friends in the park and that was always good because my friends James brought his mini coal fired bbq which made all the meat and haloumi taste excellent. As a friend group we have really progressed from going to the pub for drinks to having bbqs at each others houses which shows our excellent maturity .

I have personally, been feeling a bit more anxiety in my self recently, I think it is a combination of feeling a little bit out of control in my life and also in a transition period from uni life to adult life, and trying to figure out the things that I want for my future and what and who and how I can picture myself there. And I understand I am only 22 and nothing honestly really matters, but I am applying for jobs and opportunities and it is something that is in the back of my mind and playing on my anxiety a bit.

I am off to Brisbane this week to see friends from exchange and I am sure I will have things to say about that next week. Until then :)

Sarah

Week 2 - Kinda not really

Hello I am still here,

I am still learning to get into the swing of writing content and it isn’t something that comes naturally to me. As much as I try I am really bad at keeping habits, hence the challenge of me starting this blog.

A whole debacle of my current life is uni and transferring into honours. I was late transferring into is and it meant that I was behind on subjects and lectures and content and it was a whole logistical nightmare. But I am very slowly trying to get back up to date and hopefully it will work out not too bad. I am a tad behind on assignments - lacking the motivation to a lot of them. I feel a bit academically burnt out but I have no reason to be so it is a real debacle.

I have also had quite a few things on recently - nothing major but enough that I have un packed bags on the floor and my makeup is constantly in its bag. I kind of want to invest in a good makeup bag but I am currently in budget mode.

Speaking of spending I am off the rocker. When I was overseas I was pretty conscious of my spending. But now I am back in Sydney I have pretty much lost the plot and have been spending well beyond my means. It is a mixture of both thinking I was going to get paid for work earlier than I was going to. And also just like spending too much money on things I do not need simply. I have tried to combat this by starting a budget on Excel. I have tried to do this in the past but it was way too intensive and not like feasible with my inability to stay on task.

Something minor but exciting is I seem to have gotten a pretty good skin care routine down pat. My acne has been at bay pretty much since I have gotten home from exchange. I don’t know whether it is a mixture of like, being 22 and finally stopped going through puberty or I have finally found a routine that works for me. Regardless, here is a photo of my current routine.

On the left is my morning routine. On the top is the Estee Lauder DayWear. I wear this on days I wear makeup because it always makes my foundation sit nicely. Underneath it is the Glow Recipe Plum Plump moisturiser - I wear this on days I don’t wear makeup first thing. I used to also use the Paula’s Choice Vitamin C Serum but I have run out and keep forgetting to buy more. Then next obviously sunscreen.

At night (I don’t use all of these at once) I either use the Medik8 retinol, the exfoliant or the nothing at all, I am using the retinol I will use the Ren eye cream and otherwise I will use the retinol eye cream.

Anyway. I do like using new products, which I have a backlog of currently. Quite a few moisturisers in particular that I am trying to get through - mainly using them on my body has they have broken me out in the past.

Hopefully, this time next update I have successfully completed my uni assignment. I am dreading it but hopefully it isn’t too painful.

Love Sarah x

Week 1 - Welcome

Welcome!

Hello to any potential readers, viewers, those having a geez to my new blog that for some reason I have created. My name is Sarah and here is a platform for me to word vomit any minor thought that I have ever had.

I don’t think I am a particularly good, or well-versed writer. I actually got below the national average in my year 9 NAPLAN spelling test so I think that says a lot about my English skills. I am not sure how long I will even keep this going as I am very good at having passion projects for about 4 weeks and then never touching them again. Although at least now I can successfully embroider flowers, play the ukulele and demonstrate other niche and useless hobbies.

I want this space to be somewhere I can share my thoughts, life events and interests that pop into my life, and have an electronic version of them that even if no one else sees them, I can look back and reflect on in my own time. I am not perfect and I this will not be a wellness clean girl tomato girl makeup tutorial as I am actually a somewhat emotional and mentally turbulent individual. If I manage to proof read it before I post it, that will be a positive feat.

If that is something that still interests you then best wishes, join me on my journey to figure out what I am meant to do as a 22 year old woman.

I decided to name this blog “Maketh Woman” for a couple of reasons. One I thought it sounded interesting lol, marketing is key ahah. Also, I feel like in society and social media today there are so many labels and niche’s and descriptions of who I am meant to be, am I a clean girl, strawberry girl, glazed donut nail girl? I have no idea. Sometimes I feel lost and confused about who I am actually meant to be, what are my values, passions, interests. So this blog will be a platform of trying to figure that out. Or maybe I am never going to figure it out, maybe I am not supposed to and nothing matters and everything is a simulation lol.

So join me or don’t it doesn’t actually change much, but I do like validation so it would be lovely if you did.

I wish you a lovely week and I will be back next week with a Monthly update and the next weeks tidbit.

Cheers,

Sarah x

The image above (the post profile) is one that I took on my film camera in the Scottish Highlands, near Ben Nevis. I have recently returned from a semester exchange and I am sure I will probably talk more about it.