freak out in a moonage daydream

hey guys!

last night i went to a friend's 18th birthday party at the local pub which was a pretty good night! it was my brother's birthday yesterday too so we had roast chicken for dinner & then a triple layer chocolate cake which my mum made - it was so good, but far too chocolatey for me!

for the party, i wore my new lace skirt which mother & i have been making for the past week;

i really love it! and i'm also pretty proud that i managed to do quite a bit of the work for it. my mum is much more experienced than me at dressmaking and because lace is really tricky to sew she did the final stitching together of everything!

shirt - vv brown concert, skirt - homemade, tights - ebay, necklace - h&m kids, lace bow - gift.

this is such an awkward pose!

as it is a very girly skirt, i wanted to wear it quite casual. preferrably i would have liked to wear it with a smiths or a clash tshirt, but my hours of endless searching on ebay for a nice yet affordable one of each those has been pretty fruitless.

i have decided that lace is pretty much my favourite fabric ever.

most of the pictures of me from the party are blurred mugshots or of me in full dad dancing mode, so here are some feet in the snow (:

something in the way she moves

for my art project, i've been doing a bit of sewing & textiles work this week. i quite like it actually, i've been thinking about doing textiles at uni for a while now (although that may not happen with the rising tuition fees, curse you cameron!) & it sounds silly, but i never actually realise how much i love fabrics & sewing until i get back to doing it again.

the photographs aren't fantastic quality, but here they are;

materials; assorted fabric scraps, an old tablecloth, black felt, embroidery thread, beads & film strips.

the original photograph (which i took)

materials; assorted fabric scraps, white & brown felt, pink satin, watercolour & acrylic paints, embroidery thread & an old tablecloth.

the original photograph, which i haven't quite emulated but i am really pleased with my version (:

i don't know if anyone likes reading about my arty exploits, but i do quite like keeping my own record of them on here.

ps, is anyone as pissed off as me about beatles week on xfactor? urgh, sorry but it really does anger me when talent show contestants sing those kind of songs without having any attachment or respect for the artist. especially as simon cowell organised the whole hideous affair.

if you like my arty business, you can also enter my giveaway for a necklace here, which would be lovely.

new lace sleeves

as promised, here is an update of my arty goings-on.

to practise making the curtain for my final piece, i've done a few sewing trials with lace flowers & netting. i bought supplies at the weekend, and got waaay too much - why must i always get flustered in fabric shops & buy far too much?! now it seems i have enough netting to make a pair of full size curtains.

i couldn't find any flower motifs, which originally was a bit disappointing, but i found some lace/ribbon with flowery patterns which i'm really pleased with.

i've been playing about with different designs, trying to recreate a real "net curtain" feel. this was the first pattern i did, basically i was just working out how to actually sew things to netting!

i quite like this pattern, but i think it might be a bit dull. and it doesn't quite have the ethereal effect i'm going for.

i'm sorry for the terrible photo quality by the way, the focus on my camera is a bit dodgy since i dropped it & the netting was obviously always going to be tricky to photograph.

i think this is one of my favourite designs so far, it's exactly the cutesy, but not too cutesy, feel that i wanted.

if that makes any sense at all.

i think i'm going to combine this one with the one below;

although i don't want it to be a repeated pattern type thing, i think it would look better if it was a bit more scattered about.

well, not scattered exactly. but something along those lines.

this is my pencil drawing of my friend charlotte squashed against a window, from the photograph i posted a few days ago. i stuck it in my art sketchbook a while ago as part of the "experimenting with techiniques" stage, so i'm going to photocopy & trace it for my final piece. which i guess is sort of cheating, but it is my own drawing.

i'm actually really proud of it, i think it's one of the best things i've ever drawn.

& i apologise for the egotistical nature of that above statement.