gilded cage

hellooooo!

just a smidgeon of a post today i'm afraid, as i have much art homework/psychology revision/guitar practice to be doing.

basically, i just wanted to tell you about my friend's new jewellery website which she has just set up. her business is called dolls & molls & you can visit her website here. before, she was just selling it at vintage fairs but now she has decided to branch out a tad - you can also become a fan on facebook here.

in my opinion, her jewellery is lovely (she sells homewares & purses etc too), here is one of the necklaces i have bought from her in the past, which you can also purchase off her website here.

see now, isn't that sweet?
i have also bought a lovely turquoise shoe necklace from her in the past, but i don't think it's available any more sadly.
it's a shame this is such a short post, but i always find out i run out of inspiration when i go back to school - that & the fact i have so much work to do! hopefully at the weekend i will have some more to post (:
for now, i will leave you with my playlist of today;
simple twist of fate - bob dylan
thunder road - bruce springsteen
superstition - stevie wonder
get ready - the temptations
hurtful - erik hassle
all you need is love - the beatles
no woman, no cry - bob marley
shark in the water - vv brown.

oh, PS this is my 111th post, how i love palindromes! (:

acrylic love

psychology revison is driving me up the wall, so i thought i'd take a break & post about my lovely new set of acrylics (:

*cue heavenly angelic chorus*

aren't they beauuuuuuutiful?
i bought these in the sale yesterday, which was wonderful because they are normally rather expensive. i feel so artisty now, with my little collection of art supplies growing & growing! i can't wait to start painting with them, i actually adooooore acrylic paint - so much so that i've forgotten what it's like to paint with anything else!
i do feel a little odd about calling myself an "artist" though, sometimes i don't feel like i deserve that title. people often tell me i'm a creative, arty person, but i always feel shy about using the word artist in case people think i'm not good enough or that i'm being pretentious. in the future, i hope i can use that word without feeling embarrassed or like it doesn't belong to me.

a chain of flowers

had a massive excursion to hobbycraft today (an arts & crafts store) & bought many many things.

i was also supposed to be shopping for presents for two friends as well, but i just wandered round for ages in lots of different shops & couldn't find a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g that suited them. major frustration attack.

anyway, back to the creativeness.

i bought this bag from a charity shop a while back (and posted about it here), but it was without a strap & while clutches are all sorts of elegant, they just aren't my thing. therefore, i decided to add my own strap to it, and with a smidgeon of chain & ribbon from hobbycraft later...

et voila!
i haven't quite figured out how to attach yet, i may have to enlist mother's help for that.
a few recent purchases of mine;

i bought these bows off ebay last week for about £2 combined & they have just arrived, awfully sweet don't you think?

gosh, more hair accessories!
i do have quite an obsession with hair bands & bows & things i must say.
these were wonderfully cheap in the dorothy perkins sale, the purple flowered one was £1.50 & the gold bow one was only £1.

the flower is made of lovely silky material, it has a wonderfully opulent feel.

and the bow has very small sequins.

gold isn't normally my colour, but i absolutely ADORE big bows, & for some reason i thought this had a kind of alice-in-wonderland feel to it, so obviously i had to buy it.

baby, we were born to run.

things that made me smile today.

getting a B on my english essay.

learning funny numbers in german.

wearing the bruce springsteen tshirt i bought at the weekend, then getting to school & finding out that my friend (who i bought the tshirt with) was also wearing it!

throwing playing cards around.
my art teacher liking my final piece idea (:
having another friend back at school.
being amused at the way tennessee williams died.
finding i have a new follower *wave*
mucking about in spanish & translating insults & obscure beatles lyrics.
walking home from the doctors in the dark & the snow listening to belle & sebastian & feeling like i was in an achingly lovely indie film.

reading my emails & finding i've be invited to help out at a jewellery & vintage fair.
watching notting hill with my momma.
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i hope you've all had things that make you smile today (:

braveheart

my god i've been bored today.

i really should have done some schoolwork but i just did not have the energy. oh, and did i mention i'm the laziest person on earth?

so instead i listened to some records & played dress-up to try & diffuse the boredom.

this is the tartan shirt i posted about yesterday;

i actually love it!

i have a bit of a thing for oversized shirts, and it's a men's XL so it fits the bill perfectly. it is quite weird doing the buttons up though, 'cause men & women's buttons do up the opposite way (there's an intriguing fact for you).
i've received mixed reviews about the shirt so far.

my brother said i looked like an ice road trucker, then an old scottish man, then an idiot.

whereas my mother said it was very charlotte, which i'm going to take as a compliment.

& the father identified it as royal stuart tartan (um, yeah, we're scottish).

personally i think it would go better with a blue belt, but i don't have one of those so i had to settle for my thin little red one.

i put a spell on you

FINALLY got around to seeing this today:

nowhere boy,

best

film

ever!
to those who haven't heard of it, it's a biopic of john lennon (one of my heroes :) focusing mainly on his childhood, which was pretty traumatic.

(awww man, the edge of the picture got cut off. daayyyym)

i won't spoil the film, but you should totally go & see it. especially if you're a beatles fan, 'cause it really helps to understand why john lennon was the way he was.
oh and also, aaron johnson (the dude who plays john lennon) is a total babe!

"it's my buddy holly look"
you're damn right it is!

i went to see it with my friends kate & joanna which was lovely, i don't think there's ever been more squealing in the tyneside cinema! there were a few inaccuracies in it i must say, but i, as a truly devoted beatles fan, resisted the urge to point them out.

the picture above is from one of my favourite scenes, where the quarrymen (the first draft of the beatles) were recording in spite of all the danger - the now infamous session.

i think i'm going to have to buy the dvd. and the soundtrack. and the cardboard cutout from the cinema, which i have a photo of me & kate standing next to.

actually, i may ring the cinema & ask if i can buy it. that wouldn't be too much would it?

OH. aaaaaaaaaand we saw our head teacher there, most hilarious thing ever! tres awkward, although i'm fairly sure he had no clue who we were.

after the film, we went shopping for a friend's birthday present (we got her a jewellery box between us) & i bought a hairband, some flowers for my hair & i pretty damn awesome tshirt which i'll post pictures of sharpish, as well as the tartan shirt i bought from ebay which arrived this morning.

:)