All I want for Christmas is...I already have it

In the form of my lovely boyfriend Timothy, what an absolute babe <3
I've spent Christmas with him and his family and its been lovely. Was really nice to wake up together and sit in our pyjamas :3 He got me some amazing presents and the Stitch plush I've wanted for 2 years! :D and a lovely lovely card (L) He really liked everything I got him :D phew! Its just been a really nice day and I'm blogging from my new phone, who's been named Hobson and we're watching telly and I just feel all warrrrrrm :$ More later :3

Lovely things

Today I went into Leeds to help Becca with her photography project at the Corn Exchange, then had a good look round the Reetsweet craft event that's on there this weekend and then a few shops in town. I've bought a few things today (including some Christmas presents which I can't post on here for obvious reasons!)

I'd been looking for a nice, reasonably priced photo frame for a while and came across this one at the arts market in the middle of town. Only a fiver and it's made really nicely, photo fits perfect and I love it!

Got this arty mag from the Reetsweet event and it's got some really good work in it so I'm going to have a good flick through it later and maybe scan some stuff in, there were a few more but I liked this one best :)

Lovely lovely mittens! I've been wanting a pair of these sort of gloves/mittens for YEARS now, looking at them in Accessorize year after year but never finding the perfect pair, and on the off chance I went into JOY on my way for the bus and found these beauties, I bloody love them! Can't wait to wear them, happy days!

Awesome cards made by Sophie Wilson (http://www.etsy.com/shop/sophiewilsondesign) bought from Reetsweet. They're so great that I had to get one of each in preparation for peoples birthdays, or just for my own amusement...

Bookmark made by Sophie Wilson (http://www.etsy.com/shop/sophiewilsondesign)
Speaks for itself really, fabby fab!

Birilliant!

Good haul today, really need to get on with my Christmas shopping tho, ordered a few things on amazon tonight and made lists and things so I am finally getting organised and somewhere with it! Phew! Gonna go make stir fry and tidy my room and stuff now, maybe watch Wayne's World later, boom!

Drawing my eyebrows on and drinking coffee...who am I?!

This was me before I went out to Sacha's yesterday. I've been trying to grow my hair and it seems to finally be getting somewhere, very very slowly, so i'm very very happy :) I've also discovered the joys of drawing my eyebrows on to make them a little bit darker which I'd been wanting to try for ages but was too scared and now I can't not draw them on at least a little bit :') Also, finally caved and started drinking coffee, I don't even know who I am anymore! But it tastes good...



Also, my phone broke a few weeks ago (sob sob!) so I had to get a very very very cheap replacement to keep me going (Tim lives too far away now!) and it is so very ugly so today I bought some lovely stickers from Paperchase to make it look nice, very happy with the result even if the photo is terrible. Beaut!

p's and q's

'Send and receive'.

 5 different quick projects over 5 weeks.

Week 1- create a piece of communication and find out if it is successful.
I created 3 typographic posters on Illustrator on the subject of manners (complete pet hate when people have bad/no manners). Helvetica for simplicity and calm, neutral colours for the block backgrounds. Really fancy making some screenprints of these, especially 'manners don't cost a penny' which seemed to have the best response when I posted the designs online.

My favourite kind of teepee, my ATP!

Lovely Alex/other wifeface/ATP has come for the weekend and this makes me very very happy because I haven't seen her in like 3 months and I loves her and such! Tonight we've had tuna pasta and drawn and listened to music and it's been lovely :D Missed her!

More links that may cause me to part with money, and time...

http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.dontwakemeup.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42506263@N06/sets/72157623113022048/

http://rejectedbycovered.blogspot.com/

http://www.martinolsson.co.uk/
http://mombcomics.com/category/mombcast/
http://sathollgordon.blogspot.com/
http://dumpylittlerobot.com/
http://jackfallows.com/
http://crumpettime.blogspot.com/ and http://www.etsy.com/shop/crumpettimecomics
http://thismeanswaugh.blogspot.com/
http://gillhatcher.tumblr.com/
http://teamgirlcomic.tumblr.com/
http://www.orfulcomics.co.uk/
http://thewhatnottree.com/and http://www.etsy.com/shop/echogreens
http://hellomynameisjane.co.uk/
http://www.privatestudycomic.co.uk/
http://thepeckhaminvalids.com/
http://andrewtunney.com/ and http://andrewtunney.tumblr.com/

phew!

I would have done a lovely post on the Thought Bubble comic con but I couldn't afford a ticket...

However, Alex went and she has just arrived back with lots of goodies and prints/posters that she's bought :)

Going to post a few links off business cards she's brought back so I'm going to post them on here so I can find them again later :')

http://www.couk.bigcartel.com/
http://mildperilmedia.co.uk/Mild_Peril_Media_Home.html
http://www.deanbeattie.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kriski
http://misterhope.com/

cute :)

love your birds nest!

Poster that I will be screenprinting tomorrow at uni. Made using InDesign and good old Helvetica. Will get a picture of the finished result, wish me luck! 

So many faces!

I ordered some photos from Snapfish.com so that I could do my photo wall, they came today so I spent just over and hour blasting some music and getting photos of the people I love on my wall. Definitely going to order some more soon though!

So many faces! They're all keeping me company, it's great :)

ooh arty

 

I drew a ring using continuous line drawing a while back before my uni interview, and ended up using it for some of my uni work the other day, edited it up a bit but here it is. Will be putting more work on soon. 

I want your brains!

Zombie prom!
On Saturday we all went to Fab Cafe (a sci-fi club) for zombie prom, it was amazing! First time I've dressed up properly in ages (apart from geek night last week) and I absolutely loved it! Spent ages getting ready which was really fun, and got lots of funny looks in town :')
Here are some of the best photos :D

We ran into some other zombie in mcdonalds :')

Been out quite a few nights the past couple of weeks, and they've all been awesome! Had uni everyday too which has been fun trying to balance everything but it's all been good. Had a typography workshop today and we're making a zine tomorrow.

Sadly I'm not very well though, have tonsillitis and flu D: Happy right now with a cuppa soup and some strepsils, waiting for Becca to arrive for tuna pasta and films, awesome! Zzzzz....

Hello viscom!

I moved out last Thursday into my student accommodation in Leeds. I'm sharing with 6 other people, all on creative courses. I like to think I've made it my own:

I couldn't quite capture how it looks properly, just an excuse for people to come and see it I suppose! Yay!

Lots of other things have happened too, i'm not very good at updating this or doing it very well and stuff but here we go anyway :')
. Frankie moved to London and I was (and still am) very sad
. I started uni on Monday so that's just been all go, bonding activities and bowling and freshers and stuff :')
. Tim's moving in 2 days so that's making me very very sad seeing as I haven't seen him this week because of uni :(

I feel a bit lonely living here, but hopefully that will stop soon :)

Squidge.

My lovely squidge <3

She sells sea shells by the sea shore...

Me and Tim went to the seaside on Saturday for the day in the car which was really nice :) We had so much food! I made tuna sandwiches for the drive there, which we had with doritos, then we had donuts and ice cream (which was amaaazing!) and then fish and chips on the drive home, phew!

We walked on the beach and did the generic writing in the sand stuff and then Tim piggy-backed me running all the way down to the sea, I couldn't stop laughing :') Went and said hello to my Grandad who lives near there too which was great because I hadn't seen him in aaaaages, and they have a parrot :'D

I also bought a new typewriter and got a new fluffy trapper hat which Tim paid for half of :$$$

It's so fluffy!! <3

 We were so tired out from all the walking we did and we literally collapsed when we got back :') Awesome day, want to do it again, because we didn't get to go in the amusements :'( waah.

The next day we went out for a meal with my Dad and stepmum (who Tim's never met). We went to a place in Harrogate called 'Banyan' and had awesome burgers and cocktails so I was very happy :D

and we've just spent the past 2 days snuggled up in bed watching films, now I'm at home missing him but it's not long before I see him again because I need to see him before I go to Leeds fest at the Weekend (just for the Saturday).

I start uni in less than 3 weeks, it's safe to say I'm terrified. But I have bought all of my flat things....#winning!

Ciao!

Apricat.

Adorable fuzz. end of. 

Hit me up!

I also joined a new website recommended to me by my college tutor. It's called HitRECord and I'm really enjoying using it. It gives creative people the opportunity to showcase their work and collaborate with fellow creatives, as well as allowing people to 'recommend' and comment on the work you upload. It's run by Joseph Gordon-Levitt which is really cool and I'm getting more and more inspired by it every time I log in!

http://www.hitrecord.org/users/abcDerrian

check meowt! :3

And finally, this is what I look like these days

hi hello hi

Life update

Busy busy!
Since I last posted I've done quite a few things which has kept me away from updating!

MagalufOn the 17th July I went to Magaluf in Spain for a week with Tim and some friends which was really nice :)

Sadly I didn't take too many photos but here are a small selection: 

I definitely only packed the essentials...

We went to a western water park which was awesome! Water slides are one of my favourite things ever! We also find one of the best pizza places ever, you can have literally anything on it in the weirdest combinations :') Have now discovered that tuna, bacon, sweetcorn and extra cheese go stupidly well together. It makes me very sad to come back to England and not be able to have frozen cocktails anymore, slush puppies are another one of my favourite things so having a stupid amount of alcoholic flavours to choose from was amazing :D

I was disappointed in myself for being too short to go in the hotels pool and just have fun, it was just too deep! I had to tread water constantly :') But it was a lovely pool all the same. The apartments we stayed in were nice too and we could see the water park from our balcony!

Aah, I know I'll have missed loads out, but such fun!

York

tourist shot

A few days ago I went to York for a couple of days to stay at Frankie's new house, since she moved there from Bradford whilst I was on holiday (I knew she was going obviously). The house is amazing, and York is so lovely and pretty, I'm definitely going to start going more. On the Thursday we went into York centre and had ice cream from Millie's cookies, I made an absolute mess of myself, but it tasted so good!

Then we went back to Frankie's and made fajitas which tasted so good! Had a good catchup with Frankie's mum which was really nice and she lent me a couple of design books which is awesome of her :D Gonna make some of the felt things that are in the book this week to keep me busy, eeyah! Then we watched 'Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' which is one of the best films I've ever seen! Wow, my head hurt after that! The next day we went into York centre again and I bought a lovely necklace with an acorn on it and a gorgeous silver ring from Pia which has 'be happy' engraved into it. It's beautiful, Frankie says I need it to look at when I'm sad, it's true, but it's a beautiful ring. Also, found this HUGE Stitch plush in the Disney store, want it! I need to add to my Stitch collection....

I got the bus back to Wetherby just after 5 to meet Tim to come back to mine :)

Hello Kitty collection

Also, Magaluf helped to feed my Hello Kitty habit, I didn't get all the pictures off my camera yet but here is a photo of all the stuff I bought together:

2 x Pez dispensers (one from boyf <3)
1 x very awesome beaker!
2 x candy watch things
3 x phone charm + candy
1 x box of cookies
1 x pack of biscuits
1 x engraved lighter

and and and I bought a lovely Hello Kitty plush cushion in Leeds yesterday, photo soon!

Weekend with Tim

Friday night - made chicken burgers with chips and watched tv

Saturday - did a 'big shop' at Morrissons and then watched 'Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind', had chicken kievs for tea and watched tv

Sunday - went to Leeds, did a bit of shopping, went to see the new Harry Potter film (AWESOME!) then came home and had mini pizza and chips for tea and watched Mock the week :D

Monday (today/tonight) - Currently updating blog(s) and general social networks, planning some creative things for me to do this week, Tim is now awake and watching Top Gear, I'm going to make us some lunch soon, we might watch Hot Fuzz and some other films, and then tonight I'm going to cook him dinner and be all romantic and such :) <3

Phew! I need a cup of tea after all that! Vanilla Redbush here I come!