eternal sunshine.

today has been a rather up and down day. in fact, the whole week has been.

i had school this morning which was utterly pointless, but on the plus side it was the last time i will ever have to wear that hideous polyester jumper. rejoicing time!

the rest of the week has been pretty good, i spent most of the time watching glastonbury. which i have to say was bloody amazing, i so wish i could've been there! the best act for me was most definitely bruce springsteen - i actually stayed up to watch his entire performance & he was so good! seriously, that man can play some serious tunage. and it does help that he's pretty damn hot (yes, even for a 59 year old).

anyway, after school i went home & watched one tree hill & gilmore girls (which i must say i am rather addicted to). finally, FINALLY, i can use the phrase i saw on scrubs that i have been waiting to use for absolutely aaaages: i am so mad at lorelai i can't even talk right now.

if you watch either (or both) programmes you will understand. if not, tough luck.
http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/item/mad-lorelai-jr-jersey-tshirt/107611048

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i also listened to some of my dad's records (jimi hendrix, david bowie & elvis costello) & played a bit of guitar. i've started learning my pieces for grade 1 but it's a bit tedious at the mo, because a) i am crap and b) it's a tad tiring playing the same things over and over again. my theory book came in the post today though so that's something.

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while watching hollyoaks, i made a necklace (as is my general thing to do when bored). i found a picture in the tv guide the other day (yes i know, i am so sophisticated) of a still from my favourite film of all time: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. if you haven't seen this film you won't get the "meet me in montauk" reference. and the only thing i say to that is watch the film! believe me it is worth is, michel gondry is a really amazing director & the story is just beautiful.

sir paul.

it is the 67th birthday of sir james paul mccartney & the 16th birthday of a friend of mine today, so i felt that was worthy of a blog entry.

also, i am veryyyyy excited!

i'm off to liverpool at some point in the summer to go on a beatles experience.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

mother & i are possibly going on beatles day (10th july), which is a charity event in liverpool where they basically do loads of beatley type things for charity. you can even buy mop top wigs.

i think we're going to stay in the hard day's night hotel and we're going on one of the beatles tours - which are actually called magical mystery tours!

aaahh i really cannot wait :)

above us only sky.

i made some jewellery today.

it's not really unusual for me to do this, i mean, it is kind of hopefully going to be my future career, but i have had hardly any spare time lately because of my ridiculous GCSEs that are going on at the moment.

anyways, today i made 2 pairs of earrings, a ring, a badge & a necklace.

the earrings were really just rearranging other earrings, & the ring & badge were repair jobs, but i really love the necklace i made.

there's a bit of a story behind it actually.

the jigsaw piece is from an art exhibition i went to see at the baltic flour mill by yoko ono (between the sky and my head). i've never been too big a fan of conceptual art, but i did really love that exhibition. yoko ono really is a good artist, she can draw as well as do installations. besides, art is about more than just drawing anyway.

it just reminded me of the lyrics to imagine (which i really think is a beautiful song, even with its strongly communist connotations) & has really inspired me for a whole jewellery range kind of thing about, well, sky. i guess that sounds a bit stupid, but inspiration is inspiration!

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imagine there's no heaven,

it's easy if you try.

no hell below us,

above us only sky.

beatlemania.

saw this on tv today and screamed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBDOolcs9g

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

i am quite excited for this, even though i don't have an xbox.

john, paul, george & ringo immortalised (more than they are already, if that's at all possible) in computer game form.

the graphics look pretty awesome too, but i bet the singings hard. especially with the three-part harmonies those guys were so fond of.

eeek! i seriously cannot wait for this to come out.

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/

vintage reclaimed skirt.

mother made me a lovely skirt t'other day.

i bought the skirt back in march at a vintage fair for the not-very-princely sum of £4 & at the weekend we altered it.

we put a purple waistband on, changed the buttons & made it a tad shorter.

i really reaaally love it :)