Hey TGs!
 
If any of you have the latest Total Girl mag, you'll know all my fave things about my mum! On Sunday my sister and I woke up sooo early and cooked a baked breakfast that I found on this website ages ago.

We carried it up to Mum on a tray with some flowers from our garden, a napkin and a knife and fork. It didn't look as nice as the pictures, but she was really pleased! Dad wasn't though - he was annoyed that we woke him up early, LOL. Sorry Dad!

Mum, if you're reading this, thanks so much for being so wonderful! You always listen to my problems, all my besties love you and your pancakes are seriously the best thing in the world!


School is going well, except... well can I tell you guys something? We're doing a new maths topic at the moment and it's really hard. 

When I try and do my homework after school, it takes me ages to work out how to get the answers. I feel like everyone else understands straight away. :-(

Do you guys have any advice? You always seem to know what to say!

Love
Jessie xx

Hi TGs!
 
I can't believe that school has started again. I'm meant to be doing a pile of homework, but instead I'm writing to you girls! I wish school projects were as fun as blogging.


School holidays were so cool. I didn't go anywhere or anything, but I saw my besties loads and got everything done that I wanted, like my Autumn project! 

Cassie came over and we had a blast, she introduced me to Ellie Goulding and the new Justin Timberlake song - now I'm really into them too. I took photos of my walls covered in their new posters - remind me to post the pic here!

I blogged all about my mum in Total Girl magazine this month (it's the one with Selena on the cover) because Mother's Day is coming up really soon. What are you going to do for your mum?

I have to say a huge thank you to you girls, you actually did me a huge favour and probably didn't even know it! I asked TG's Alex (have you read her amaze entertainment blogs?) to put a poll up on the website to help me decide which Winter sport to choose. Most of you said gymnastics, so I'm going to give it a go! I'm not super flexible or anything, but I LOVE trying new things. Watch this space!

How were your holidays?

I read ALL of your comments, thank you sooo much!

Love
Jessie xx

Happy New Year TGs!

Just a few days in and I already feel like 2012 is going to be a great year! Not only has it so far been filled with sunshine, friends and family, I've also made really exciting New Year's resolutions. I made sure to write them here down so I won't forget them:

1. Spend more time with Cotton - I'm aiming for two walks a day!

2. Do more charity work.

3. Make a new friend.

So now I've told you mine, it's your turn to share your resolutions. Write to me in the comments box below!


Oh, and I'm lovin' this awesome duo by Stan Walker and Jess Mauboy at the moment.

Hey TGs!

So you know the Summer Holidays are well and truly over when you start scheduling homework into your daily dairy! Yep, it was back at school this week, and even though I'm sad the holidays are finished, I'm pretty excited about starting a new year too.

One of the things I like most about the whole back-to-school thing is how fresh everything feels. New classes, new teachers and new stationery always put a smile on everyone's face. It's also great time of year to meet new people, like my new friend, Angie... welcome to our school Angie!

Phew, do I feel on top of the world right now or what!? The teachers at school always talk about how great sport can make you feel, and now I know what they're on about!


After spending a full week at sports camp, I can now say I've tried sprints, hurdles, shot put and loads more. And guess what? Even though some sports can seem scary at first, once you have a go they can be really rewarding. 

I've learnt that sport is not always about coming first, but trying your hardest and achieving bests. So much fun!

Now I'm off to soak my sore muscles in the bath!

Love and long-jump
Jessie xx

Hi everyone!

How have you all been? I've been great!

Cass and Angie discovered they have tons in common and have become great friends. Which is great because I don't feel like I'm stuck in between two awesome friendships. Now we are all really good friends and it feels like the whole group is a perfect fit!

I'm really greatful to have such awesome friends, they all bring something fun and unique in to my life, I hope you guys have this too. Remember your friends should treat you with respect and make you happy, not put you down or be a negative influence to your life.

That being said, remember to give this in return to have a good balance in your friendship! Well enough of my Dr Phil talk hahaha!

Matt and Zach also found out that it was Pillow Fight Day sometime this month so we've been having pillow fights as much as possible this month, they even proclaimed it Pillow Fight Month!

It's pretty funny because when we're not at each other's houses we've all bought smaller pillows to carry in our school bags to have on-the-go pillow fights! Our teachers are not in the slightest bit impressed, we've even been in trouble about this a couple of times, but it's all in good fun!

Love and pillow fights!
Jessie xx

 

Hi guys!

Hope you're all doing fab! I've been getting loads of emails of TGs wanting to know a little more about me, so here it is! A list of all my favourite things.

Remember to keep sending me emails to include in my blog in the magazine. Catch me on totalgirl@pacificmags.com.au with the subject heading 'Jessie's Space'.

My favourite...

• Food: Cupcakes!
• Drink: Milkshakes
• Ice Cream Flavour: Cookies and Cream
• Colour: Purple at the moment, it always changes!
• Hangout: The shopping centre
• Charity: RSPCA, I'm a total animal lover!
• Way to spend my weekend: With my fabulous friends
• Song: One Thing by One Direction. I'm still in my 1D fan phase!
• Band: One Direction of course!
• Singer: Katy Perry
• Movie: I loved the take on Snow White in Mirror Mirror
• TV Show: iCarly. I'm a huge Miranda Cosgrove fan!
• Cupcake topping: Pink icing with sprinkles
• Holiday Destination: A tropical island
• Celeb: Selena Gomez
• Celeb Crush: Louis from One Direction
• Season: Summer, because it reminds me of school holidays spent with my friends.
• Day of the week: Monday, back to school to see everyone I didn't get to catch up with over the weekend.
• Thing to wear: Scarves in every colour, they really help to brighten up those chilly, winter days!

Hey TGs!

I know it's been a while since the concert but I cannot get over how good the One Direction concert was! Did any of you go? I went with Angie and Molly which was great because they're just as excited about the boy's concert as I was.

On the lead up to the concert we listened to their songs non-stop and I tried collecting as many posters as possible to put up on my wall. We even made posters for the concert to hold up in the air!

 

On the day there were so many people there waiting in line but we were lucky enough to beat the majority of the crowd and got there early enough to score a spot near the front of the stage.

The concert has to be one of the best I've ever seen. I could even swear that Niall looked me in the eyes when he sung the lyrics "That's what makes you beautiful"... Or that could have just been my imagination, but hey! A girl can dream right? We even tried to wait for them afterwards at the back gate of the venue so they could sign our posters but unfortunately they zipped off in their fancy van before we got a chance. Molly says the boys were waving from inside the van though which is really sweet.

I can't wait until they come back to Oz!

Has anyone got tickets to the 2013 concert?

xoxo
Jessie

Hey guys!

OMTG have I told you guys about the AWESOME costume party that Cass had? It was so much fun! We all dressed up as superheroes and after brainstorming for a week, Cass, Molly and I decided to dress up as The Powerpuff Girls!

We had a hard time deciding who was going to be which Powerpuff Girl because we all wanted to be Bubbles! In the end, Molly and I decided that Cass should be Bubbles since it was her sleepover. So I got to dress up as Blossom and Molly was Buttercup!

We even went to the trouble of making our costumes, the girls in the TG office were great with giving us ideas of what we could use to make the costumes which was great! After working hard on the costumes we had a ball at Cass's party, we ate loads of lollies and danced to my current fave song which is Do It Like That by Ricki-Lee. She's so awesome!

I can't wait for the next party, I hope that it's another costume one, I think I'd like to try dressing like Katy Perry. A celeb theme would be awesome!

See you next time!
Jessie

Hey TGs!

OMTG I have been sooo excited about the new Total Girl website - I have been dying to tell you all about it!

TG Editor Amanda swore me to secrecy - all I knew was that the best girl's mag ever was getting a new site that would work on my iPhone and Mum and Dad's iPad too!

I'll be blogging just as much (if not more!) and of course you can still see Jessie's Space in the mag.

Send me a comment with your thoughts about the site, and make sure you get the June issue of Total Girl (with Ariana Grande on the cover), I went horse riding and it was AMAZING.


Love
Jessie xx

PS I haven't had time to copy all of my old blogs over yet, but I will! In the mean time, I copied my faves, like the time I went to One Direction!

Hi TGs

Happy Friday! It's my fave day of the week after Saturday!

Have you guys downloaded the new TG app on your iPods or iPads? Did you see anyone familiar on it? *hint hint* hehe!

Yep I was asked to help TG with this app and it was sooo much fun. I'm pretty lucky that TG let me help them on so many cool projects.

But enough about me, how has your week been? I've been a busy bee this week because I had to do a speech on a native Australian animal. I chose the Koala because they are really cute! I was pretty nervous but after I did it I wanted to do it all over again. Hopefully I get a good mark for it.

 

Anyways here are five of my fave things that have happened this week.

1. Cass and Zach introduced me to the show Adventure Time. It's sooo random and yet so hilarious!

2. Mum made mini muffins for school lunches this week. YUM!

3. I bought a pretty pink nail polish with my pocket money.

4. Cotton made a new friend called Buttons on Tuesday.

5. Mum got tickets to go and see Monsters University this weekend and said I could bring a friend. Yay!

 

What are your Friday faves?

Love and movies
Jessie!

P.S. Here's how you download the app:

1. Get your folks' permission.
2. On your iPad, iPhone or iPod, search in the App Store (iPhone Apps) for 'Total Girl'.
3. Select 'Total Girl'
4. Press FREE > INSTALL APP
5. Yay!

Hey TGs,

It's the school holidays! Yay! I'm sooo excited! I love school, but I also love having some time to relax and do fun things. My BFFs and I spent the last week of school organising what we would do every day of the holidays, but we forgot to ask for permission and when we finally did our parents said it was important to spend some time with our siblings and them too, so we can't spend every day together. That's okay though because I'm pretty excited to spend some quality time with Cotton. This morning he came into my room and jumped on my bed and licked my face until I woke up! He's so cheeky! We're going on a big walk today, but because it's so cold we really have to rug up. It's pretty great actually because I get to put all the fashion tips I learned at TGHQ into practice. Here are a few things I learned.

Layers are lovely
Lattitia, the amazing fashion stylist at Total Girl taught me that you don't need to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe for the cooler months, simply wear a pair of pretty patterned stockings or leggings under your fave summer dress. Add a cardigan and jacket over it and you're good to go.

Plastic fantastic
The girls at TGHQ love gumboots, so rather than wearing normal shoes when it's wet weather, get out your pair of gumboots and keep your feet dry. Mum just got me a pair of really pretty red polka dot ones! They're sooo cute!

More is more
It's cold out so before you run out of the house, don't forget to pop on a scarf, gloves, and a beanie to complete your winter outfit.

 

Hey TGs,

It's Jessie here, how are you guys all going on your first week back at school? Today was my first day back and it was pretty full on. It felt like we had to catch up on all the work we would have done had we not gone on school holidays. I have loads of homework to do tonight but I thought that I'd update you all before really knuckling down.

 

It was really nice seeing everyone back at school, even though we'd seen each other a few times throughout the holidays it was all of us back together again. It's pretty awesome! Jane told us all about her holiday with her dad and step-mum to New Zealand. They went skiiing and snowboarding! How fun! 

Catherine spent half her holidays at a sports camp. She made lots of new friends, which is really awesome. I think the camp really brought her out of her shell. 

The rest of us spent our holidays at home. I think it's pretty cool to go away on holidays but it's also not too bad to stay at home because you get to catch up on all the awesome stuff you don't get around to when you're at school. For example, I read sooo many books, in fact I went through my collection of EJ12 books and then read loads of TG magazines too. Holly and I had loads of DVD nights and watched so many movies, it's so fun. I even tried and tested some recipes I found in my old TG magazines. I have to say, my cooking is improving by the day.

How was your first day back at school?

Xoxo

Jessie

Hey TGs,

You know I looove shopping but I had the worst adventure on Thursday night!

Holly and I both needed new school bags and she was being sooo grumpy. It felt like we were at the shops for such a long time and I just wanted to get home and update my blog.

Holly took forever deciding between a purple backpack and a pink backpack. I was feeling sooo frustrated and knew I was about to snap! I had to walk away at one point, so I checked out some clothes on the other side of the shop. In the end I decided to be a good, patient sister though and helped her make the decision. I got a totally adorbs blue backpack!

I can’t wait to show my friends at school tomorrow! After the backpack drama Mum still had to do the grocery shopping, but she let us have lollipops which was OK. 

TTYL
Jessie
xoxo

PS I saw your comment Jess, thanks! TG's email address is: totalgirl@pacificmags.com.au!

 

Hey TGs,

Guess what? After dinner on Thursday night, Mum said I could have a sleepover on Friday if my friends were free! I quickly called Katie and Molly (I'm allowed to call before 8:00pm) and they were all available.

It was sooo much fun! They came home from school with me on Friday and we baked cupcakes with Holly and Mum. 

Later on we watched some movies (and scoffed our cupcakes!), and then we did manicures on each other. I tried to do TG Beauty Guru Claire's candy nailpolish and it looked pretty good.

After that we all got into our pajamas and listened to some of our favourite songs! We came up with a few new dances and all talked about how much we love the new One Direction song! We all ended up giggling so much that Dad came and told us we had to be quiet! LOL!


In the morning Mum made us a big yummy breakfast of pancakes and I said goodbye to the girls! It was such an awesome night and I hope to have another sleepover with my BFFs ASAP! Do you have any awesome sleepover stories?

TTYL
Jessie
xoxo

Hey TGs,

I've had such a terrible week. I had a HUGE argument with Angie because she's been acting really weird. It all started on Monday when we were at school. She and Brenda walked into school together, that was sooo weird because Angie and Brenda never hang out.

In class Cass asked her about it and she said that Brenda was pretty cool and had invited her to the movies that weekend. I found it sooo hard to believe that someone as sweet as Angie could get along with Brenda who is so mean-spirited. She never has anything nice to say about anyone and yet she's one of the popular girls at school.

Anyways, by Wednesday we had all noticed that Angie had stopped having lunch with us and was now sitting with Brenda and the cool girls. Molly even said that she was avoiding her during science class! How rude!

Yesterday I was on my way to the tuck shop and bumped into Angie and asked her if she'd like to come over after school to play with Cotton and she said she would love to. So later that day I waited and waited at home with Cotton and eventually I got sick of waiting and took Cotton to the park myself.

On the way home, I saw Angie and Brenda hanging out at the local park. I was furious! My bestie had totally stood me up! When I got home I burst into tears! Mum told me it was okay for Angie to make new friends but I feel so betrayed that she would do that to me.

Have any of you girls ever gone through this? 

I really don't want our friendship to end but I don't know how to make her see that we're her real friends and we miss her.

Sorry for bumming everyone out with this post, I just thought I would ask for some advice.

Hugs,
Jessie

Hi guys,

Thanks so much for all your wonderful comments and advice about my sitch with Angie. It's been super helpful. Since my last blog, things have gotten a bit better. It's been so tough but it's also really great to have your support and the support of my friends and family.

Cass, Jane and Molly have been super supportive and have been hanging out with me after school and Catherine came with me a couple of times to walk Cotton. It's good to know your friends will be there for you when you need them.

As for Angie, she's still being hanging out with Brenda and her friends. I'm not really angry at her anymore I'm more upset to lose a friend but hopefully we can sort things out soon. 

It sounds like heaps of you guys have had similar stuff happen to you too. I hope it's getting sorted out!

Anyways I've got to go help Mum make dinner.

Talk soon!
Jessie

Hi guys,

Yay! It's the weekend! What are you guys getting up to?

I have a busy weekend. I'm volunteering at the animal shelter on Saturday and then helping Mum make some cupcakes because she has some of her friends coming over. That would normally be really boring but one of her friends happens to be Molly's mum! So Molly gets to come over and hang out with me. I have the afternoon planned. We're going to do the quizzes from TG mag and then we're going to give each other manicures cause she got some really pretty nail polish the other week.


On Sunday Dad wants to take us girls fishing, which I'm pretty excited about because one of my hidden talents is that I'm great at fishing! Last time we went I caught a really big fish, it was sooo big that Dad had to help me reel it in. I hope that I catch a bigger fish this time around!

We're taking Dad's big boat out and making a day of it. The best part is that we get to get fish and chips for lunch, yum! I can't wait! It's going to be an awesome day!

Hope you guys have an awesome weekend! What are you up to?

Xoxo
Jessie

Hey TGs

I am SO excited today,

1. Because it's Friday, and
2. There's an ah-mazing party tomorrow!

Hi guys

Okay I know I only blogged on Friday, but I just couldn't wait to tell you all about Jess' birthday. If you want to know how to have an awesome party - just read this blog!

Everyone was talking about the party at school on Friday, which is one of the cool things about inviting everyone - you can all get excited together!

On Saturday I woke up super early. I tried watching Saturday Disney for a while but I just couldn't sit still, so I took Cotton for a walk with my Dad.

By that time Mum was up and made her delish pancakes for breakky. I helped her clean-up afterwards and then got ready for the party. It was sooo warm (Spring is finally here!) that I decided to wear my yellow sundress.

I was one of the first people to arrive, so I helped Jess and her Mum decorate her birthday cake, and by the time that was done Cass and Molly were there and the party really started! 

Lucky Jess has a huge backyard, 'cos the whole class was there. There weren't any strict games or anything, but there was loads of things to do. There was a lolly buffet (we spent lots of time there, LOL) and a games area (I came second in this super funny balloon game where you have to push a balloon through a hoop with only your nose!) and picnic blankets on the ground if you just wanted to chill out.

I chatted to a girl called Maya for a while, and she was really nice. She's been in my class all year, but we've never really talked 'cos she's in a different group to me. She also has a dog and a little sister, so we had loads in common! We said that maybe we'd take our dogs to the park one day and hang out.

When Mum arrived to pick me up, I didn't want to go! 

If you're reading this, happy birthday Jess! Awesome party.

Love and birthday cake
Jessie