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Saturday, 30 April 2011

It's blue yo.

I'm sorry that I seem to have given up on my blog but I really haven't, I've just been trying to keep very very busy and having lots and lots of fun, yes :) IT'S BEEN AWESOME <3

on an even better note...
I GOT INTO VISUAL COMMUNICATION AT LEEDS ART SO I CAN ACTUALLY GO TO UNI THIS YEAR!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

I will update properly one day...promise.

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

I'm still alive.

I haven't updated in such a long time. A lot of things have happened, and I'm not ready for sharing. So have a photo of me taken by Alex whilst squirrel stalkin' at Roundhay Park earlier today instead.

Friday, 11 February 2011

Fineliner work

As promised, some more college work. These are a couple of experiments for my self portrait from our book brief at the end of the first year. I've scanned them in from my sketchbook and enlarged them to A3 size to put into my portfolio for my uni interview. They're very simple, but I like them :) (Click to enlarge)

Experiment

Original drawing + final book page image

Yes. It's Frankie's birthday today so we've had a nice morning with her opening presents and cake and things. I stayed up until 3 this morning trying to do my work, and got up again at quarter to 6 so I'm officially deaded, and still nowhere near finishing my deadline. We're going out in Leeds tonight for it too. Ouch. Back to work, byee! x

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Tick tock

Experimenting, not only with the subject of the photograph but the way people on another blogging site that I use will respond to the style. I'll explain properly later. The top was originally a t-shirt which I cut the sleeves and sides off to make a dress style vest, the necklace was bought for me for my 18th.

'No minute gone comes ever back again'

Hi hi hi hi hi :)

I feel like over the past few posts I've just been more like a picture blog and that's not what I want, but I do enjoy giving visual aids to what I'm talking about, but there will be more text based posts coming soon :)

Since I last posted I haven't really done much apart from go to college and work on the advertising briefs that we're doing, as well as panic about the 5 birthdays I need to buy for this month! Eeeeek. It's Nat's birthday on Monday so I'm thinking about what to get her all weekend then I'm going to get it on either Sunday or Monday morning before I see her, because the weather yesterday was so ridiculous that I couldn't even walk round town to go shopping :( Got blown about everytime we left college and saw a few people go completely over, whoops.

Mike's at work for the next few hours so I took the opportunity to take a few photos of one of my birthday cupcakes (I've still got so much cake and cupcakes left, eep!). I think they turned out quite nicely, but they're just quick snapshots.

Yummy!

I also think it might be good for me to start noting down important dates and events on here, as well as in my diary, so I'm going start that now too.

Dates and events to remember:
7th Feb - Nat's birthday
11th Feb - Frankie's birthday + night out + college deadline
13th Feb - 'Handmade 5' event which 'Lily Bones' (our jewellery) will be selling at
14th Feb - Valentines day
23rd Feb - Dad's birthday
I also need to buy for my Nana's birthday on the 1st March and Mike's Mum's on the 3rd.

Stuff to do over the Feb half term:
work on illustrations for handmade book for portfolio

work on animation and/or photography brief(s)
going for afternoon tea with Mike's Mum :D
have a huge clear out at home

I'm sure I'll need to add to both those lists very soon but that'll do for now.

I'm going to a Rob Ryan exhibition and talk up at the uni building of our college on the 25th.

I'm really excited about it; his work is so beautiful and it's going to be so lovely to be able to hear him talk about his work and what inspires him :) Here is some of his work, they are all cut painstakingly out of paper by hand, amazing:

wow.

I think it's time for a cup of tea now, and I'll post again either later tonight or tomorrow, bai <3

Sunday, 30 January 2011

You got any ID love? YES ACTUALLY!

Hello!
I haven't updated in a while because it was my 18th birthday on Wednesday and I've been really really busy doing lots of nice things and trying to drag it out for as long as possible :') I've got lots of pictures and things to show you so be prepared for a very long post. I'll be updating with more work very very soon though <3

On Wednesday I had college so I got up at 6 to get in for 9 and came out of my room to discover lots of '18' banners and balloons and some presents, cards and some of the cutest handmade cupcakes I have ever seen! (My entire birthday seemed to be cupcake based, with lots of cupcakes, cupcake presents and cupcake cards). I got some lovely presents from Becca and Nat (I got presents from Rae too but she had an interview at a far away place on my actual birthday, as did Frankie, sad face). At lunch Adam and I went to Wetherspoons and had a good laugh pretending we were on a date because there was only 2 of us; I had a chicken and bacon panini and chips, and shared a pitcher of 'purple rain' with Adam and then half a glass of 'green-eyed monster', lovely! Then back to college where Mike's mum had sent him with a gorgeous Hello Kitty cake for me to share with the other 2nd years, it was so lovely I didn't want to cut it :( Here's the only photo I got, nom nom nom.

After college we went back to Mike's to get ready to go out for a meal with my Dad, Step-mum and Mike's parents at Brown's in Leeds. When we got back Mike made me go upstairs until I was allowed to come down and when I did on the table there was a Playstation cake that Mike's mum had made me (!!!) and some lovely presents from both Mike and his Mum and Dad, including a 'reader e-book' and a gorgeous Cath Kidston purse. (I'm going to take pictures of all my presents for a different post tomorrow or later in the week so you can see them then, rather than me trying to explain). It was so lovely, just that hour or so was one of the best bits of my birthday because it was so simple and happy :) (Yes, I enjoyed all of my birthday, but that was very relaxing and family-ish)

After we'd sat down and had a cup of tea we got ready and went into Leeds for our meal. It was really nice and atmospheric and there was a piano player, which was a nice change from really rowdy cafes and pubs with chavvy CDs on :') The people at Browns were lovely and had tied balloons to my chair and brought me a complimentary champagne cocktail which I thought was really sweet. Mike and I both ordered these really exciting sounding burgers (his was wild boar!) which were delicious! After we'd eaten my Dad gave me my present, which was a pretty Thomas Sabo charm bracelet which is made from a sort of plaited leather, I love it! Mike and I shared a chocolate brownie with ice-cream afterwards which was so nice, then we sat and chatted for a while then went our separate ways and straight to bed, phew!

On Friday I went out for a meal with the girls (Frankie, Rae, Alex, Nat, Becca and Megan) to Wagamamas after a couple of drinks at Wetherspoons which was really nice because it was such a change, we never really do anything like that but I think we should try make it a regular thing form now on :D I had Yaki Soba, which is noodles with egg, chicken, shrimps, onions, green and red peppers, beansprouts and spring onions, garnished with mixed sesame seeds, fried shallots and pickled ginger. Best. Thing. Ever. (apart from cheese) :') After everyone else had left Alex and I went back to Wetherspoons and had a pitcher of 'blue lagoon'.

On Saturday night we went out round Leeds (Me, Mike, Frankie, Chris, Alex, Adam, Megan, Kate and Joe) which was fuuuuuuuuun :D I had lots of pretty cocktails and went to quite a few different places, including the Cockpit where we had a good sing-along and a dance and it was awesome :) Slept at Adam and Alex's, full on crashed on the sofa from pure tiredness with achey feet and came home to a not-so-surprise party with family this afternoon :')

A selection of some of the hilarious photos that were taken :') I'll do a post soon on my presents, as well as some better pictures of what I wore to all these lovely things I've been doing. This has been a very long post, congratulations if you have reached the end :')

Hasta la vista! <3

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

If you don't know that I like Hello Kitty then you are broken.

As promised, the photographs of everything Hello Kitty that I could find in my room, this is about 3/4 of the stuff, when I find the rest I'll photograph them too :)