Many exciting things are happening at the moment!! The art college is having a craft sale (presumably spanning all campuses) and my friend and I will hopefully be selling our wares! :D Soooo so excited and ecstatic! We'll be selling our OWN artwork and crafts to the public, and hopefully publicising ourselves to future clients/customers *_*
We're planning on selling some of our hand-made accessories and trinkets, as well as original artwork and such.
If our stuff goes down well, I'm hoping to set up a shop on Etsy.com ^_^ sooo exciting- it's like we're entrepreneurs x)

Lenny decided to be evil/adorable and sit on my work, so I took some photos of him! ( Read more... )

 I have come to the conclusion that the world would be a much better place if there was role reversal ballroom dancing with men in spangly dresses and women in suits. Quite dissapointed that I cannot find any actual evidence of this other than in my imagination.  Now, If I ran Strictly come dancing...

Nothing much to report- art college has started and it's fun fun fun! It's been ages since I posted up any art, so here ya go! ( more under here! )

(WANT TO REQUEST SOME ART? :3 -------------> CLICK )

Well, I've just returned from camping in lovely ol' Edinburgh... In our not so lovely ol'  tent,  which has developed some sort of fungal inner-lining disease and is just gross and smells of coconut  Dx  ... But aside from that, it was fun! (And we had street performers living in the tents next to us! 8D)

  This time we mainly went to see comedy things at the Free Fringe and didn't see that much street performance, but the Royal Mile was so crazy with tourists and show-pimping people this year that it didn't seem worth it... Although we did see a few things in the evening when it wasn't so crowded............And I am so sure I saw that guy from Whose Line Is It Anyway in the audience! I'm so sure it was him! um, I can't remember his name... the lanky Amercan one IDK... but it was him!

Seeing the comedy was fun, especially the free stuff in pubs. And we saw a few famous faces perform too, like Clive Anderson and Marcus Brigstocke, but the best part was seening Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler... who were both adorable and hilarous x)

In other news I got my A level results recently: A-Graphic Design, B-Fine Art, C-English Language. YAY!  
I celebrated the occasion by going out and buying three sketchbooks x)
(and was also disgusted to see that WH Smiths now sells cigarettes behind the counter like in some horrid newsagents or something. Eugh.) 


And now it's only a few days until art school starts! Let the next chapter of life commence!


(lol I just noticed they used my crappy question for the Livejournal Writer's Block x) Aw you guyzz~)

- The vintage toy section of etsy.com
- Old Barbie TV adverts
- Reminiscing about  childhod
- Curse of Monkey Island
- Watching old tv intros on Youtube and Retrojunk


GAHHHHR NOSTALGIA!!!


*dies*

Oh my goodness, I am so in love with Etsy.com! So many beautiful things! So many talented craftspeople! so much I want NEED to OWN! 

I recently made an account (Nyaoran) and now I am too obsessed! @_@ I'm starting to think it'd be pretty cool to set up a little shop of my own... 

I NEED MORE MONEY WHEN WILL I GET A JOB D:<

O MAN today was the last day of college for me... EVER! |D Haha oh gosh, it was just sortof a normal day as if it was nothing x) But in English the teacher gave out sweeties and put on the radio while we worked which was nice, but apart from that it was sortof an anticlimax to the year... x) Oh well!


LOOKING FOREWARD TO SUMMER SOOO MUCH!! After the exams are over, I have so many plans and ideas for stuff I want to try out! STOP-MOTION PROJECT YEAH! >8D

I WANT TO BUY WOOL!!!!

I have spent the last two mornings watching the entire second series of Flight of the Conchords... now I feel saaaaaaaaaaad :C O man, I really love those guys, I remember back in the day when they just did the occasional stint on radio 2 comedy shows, and now, they're like big shots! ;_; Gahhr inspiriiinggg!! I really wish them the best of luck for the future, and hope this is not the last we hear of them, which I am sure it is not. <3

On a different note- GAHRRRRRRR EUROVISION!!! I found myself getting more and more frustrated as the night progressed. Why is it that the acts I like never do well? And why was everyone voting for that stupid manchild thing from Norway??!! Oh that's it I give up! I am not watching it next year!!


NOW I AM GOING TO WORK ON MY CV!!

OMG, No more A-level art... EVER!! D:



Saw Coraline in 3D yesterday- very impressed C: I love how everything was made by hand- even the characters' jumpers had to be hand-knitted with teeny tiny little knitting needles, which is just adorable x) And I liked the little details such as the little drops of rain on the windowpane and the little rusty keys being rustled around in a draw. I would love to have a little hand-made Coraline dolls house or something like that!

Up looks fun! As does Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.



Meh... not too sure about The princess and the Frog... sure it's 2D animation and all, but... I dunno, it looks like it's gonna be bad... Nevertheless, I'll probrably end up seeing it anyway x)

Oh man just finished the first 6hrs of my 15-hour Graphics Exam. :[ Hmm, the day in itself was quite stress-fee, which is ironically making me feel stressed, as I'm getting this paranoid feeling that I'm not working hard enough.

Today was so pretty! all the blossom has fallen of the trees, so it looks like its been snowing pink snow! And then it started to rain which, mixed with the blossom made everything smell really fragrant.

Nyuuuhu we had to give the new computer back because the lady who sold it to us was stupid and lied to us about the software we were paying for (or she got something wrong, idk) Oh well, back to the drawing board, I guess. I need suggestions for a good reliable computer model, preferably PC. As you can all probably tell, I fail tremendously at technology. D:


ALSO!:

Hahaha I was rooting around all the old photos stored on my computer and found my cat being a big fatty x)

Heehee oh Stella, you podgy old thing.

Lah-di-da-di-dah... I've been making a lot of craft-based things recently, mostly out of papier-mache, and I'm not sure why really.

( So far, I've made some storage-barrel thingies and a creepy-ass mask. )


In other news, I now have an iMac! My pa bought it for me 2nd hand, for when I start uni, but at the moment it's living upstairs in my brother's old room. I'm just sortof getting used to it... I have always been a PC person so everything is very new and scary to me o_o; and now I need to get mac versions of everything I usually use on my pc x|

Woo, felt like showin' off some stuff from my previous Graphic Design project.

In this project we were given full reign of everything and basically told to come up with our own work brief, which was really fun as I got to do anything I wanted to x)


I chose to design the costumes for a (fictitious!) stage adaption of Alice in Wonderland, giving it a Japanese visual spin- Which meant I got to combine my love of costume design with my equal love of the Japanese visual style- AND got to re-obsess myself with Alice in Wonderland! YAY! (Today I made little "eat me" fairy cakes like in the story x3)

I like my Mad Hatter costume design the best x)


( Here's the rest and some other stuff... )

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are a creative person with a great imagination. You enjoy living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close to you. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

Bah, I'm in a lazy quiz-doing mood this afternoon. I found this one via sonia_leong and decided to give it a go. Hmm, I think the results it gave me were quite accurate, but not 100% :\

HARHARHAR COLLEGE IS MAKING MY BRAIN EXPLODE. D: please be summer already!


Okay, so I have found a new fashion trend that is even dorkier than Crocs/forehead bands. I give you:

LEATHER LEGGING.

Now, I don't know about you, but to me they just look like rubber-hose trousers. Like scuba suit bottoms or something. Which just looks retarded. And they probrably chafe like hell too D:
And how the hell are you supposed to get these damn things on? Isn't leather supposed to be really un-stretchy? You'd probrably have to cut yourself out of them afterwards. Gahr, people are just stupid.


Also: I am currently obsessed with old black and white photographs from the olden days. Man, people had style back then.
This picture cheered me up considerably.D'AWWW, this guy (Rostand) is just so adorable!! He's like one of those sneaky Victorian-style villains in cartoons D: Maybe one day I shall draw him.

Yay the Academy Awards are on tonight!
I hope they give the best film award to Slumdog Millionaire.

This is my favourite song from the film's soundtrack:

Yesterday I had my art college admission interview- and they gave me a place!!
The interview itself was quite hassle free and the staff are all super-nice, but I felt really odd afterwards and I'm not sure why x_x;;
And the cool thing is that the art college itself is literally 4 minutes away from my house! Wow, I've been walking past it probably ever since I could walk, and now I'll be going there! My childhood wish has finally been fulfilled! ^^
So, from September I will be officially a full-time FD art student!


And in Fine art today we finally got to do oil painting, which turns out is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I thought they would just be like acrylic but with turps, but no I was deceived! Dx
Well, my first attempt was very sucky indeed, but after a bit of practice and calming down I got the hang of it, and now the thing I'm working on looks a bit less sucky x)


And out of nowhere today it snowed!! Snow that lay!! And then some silly person inadvertently threw an unravelled condom at me on the college bus home, which was less enthralling x_x;;

Stolen from binsybaby and salamandersoup and probably a load of other people too x)

1. Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life you're curious about.
2. Leave your requests as comments to this entry. One request per person.
3. Please look at the previous requests as to not do repeats.
4. I'll snap the pictures and post them.

Yay okay this looks fun and I get to use my super-cute new camera x3
Feel free to be as random/stupid as you want with these, I'm in a goofy mood x)

Waah, I usually love the winter, but now feel just a bit sick of it all and wish Summer would hurry up and arrive >:( I'm sick of walking home in the dark and getting colds, I just want to go to the beach and run around in shorts in the sunshine! :c

In other news I've managed to get myself hooked on Gossip girl after watching episode 1 via On Demand on a whim last night... and now I'm 3/4 through the first series x_x; I like it and yet it annoys me- the actors don't really reflect the ages they're supposed to be portraying.


EDIT: WHYYYYYYYYY ARE THERE GIRLS WALKING AROUND OUTSIDE IN TINY LITTLE HOTPANTS IN THIS WEATHER????!!!!!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME IT'S FREAKIN ZERO DEGREES OUTSIDE!!!! Dx