Wedding fabulous

The groom's pale blue suit looked naff, but 14 bridesmaids is vair extravagant which is chic, and the veil was stunning. It the veil i want.

Family Fun

Took some photos which ended up coming out quite well today... was initially very annoyed because the normal camera has run out of battery so I was using an old one and couldn’t find the manual settings (?) However, they ended up as sort of fuzzy, polaroidesque action shots of my beautiful baby sister on the death slide. Check her fab blonde hair which she wants to DYE BROWN. 

She fell off taking this one and refused to get back on. Fair enough...before rushing to her aid everyone gathered around to see if it was a good shot. Which it is. Xx

 And here’s me having a go, I appologise for my mother who cannot be trusted with an action shot that would actually include my head. Never mind.

Fashionable Reads

In the run up to my a-level English literature exam I promised myself that I would never read anything ever again, not even road signs, and become completely illiterate. I was so panicked by the exam that even now, over a month later I woke this morning from a nightmare about not being able to answer the question or even having been taught any poetry (which is silly, I was very prepared). Well since the exam is over I have started reading again, because it turns out that I DO remember why I took English Lit in the first place- I enjoy books.

Which is why I was so gutted when I read "fashionable reads" and discovered that it is nothing to do with reading, but about purses that look like books. Instead of being an insightful article about the literature which is inspiring the great and the good at fashion week, it was more about looking intelligent and picking books that can potentially fit in keys and lipstick, I can see no other reason for the choice of "War and Peace". They are, admittedly, quite beautiful. And they have chosen some good ones to turn into arm-candy, and have inspired me to perhaps try my hand at turning an old chickletty type book into a clever secret-gun-in-the-library type bag. Its the only way Tolstoy will avoid being re-cycled.

In the mean time I have been re-reading some old favourites by some FAB authors. I have a beautiful 1940s copy of “Northanger Abbey”, the best of the Austen’s and by far the most readable. Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is better than the film, and doesn’t take long to read because its only about 100 pages. Neil Gaiman is my favourite author ever, and “American Gods” is one of those books which is better every time you read it, I just finished it for the sixth time. And Harlan Coban’s “Miracle Cure” is trashy but entertaining, it kept me up 'till half one reading in order to reach the dénouement.

The Metal Bralette

Long time no blog. I guess I haven’t really got into the swing of it, and there is a distinct lack of fashion or art in my world at the moment, having finished the art A level and focussing so hard on trying for the A* in History of Art (and at least a C in English). This has all meant that I haven’t been up to the art block in a while and done anything fun, though yesterday I did go up and do some monotypes which illustrate an outfit that I designed and modelled. It will go up when I can get it scanned. In the mean time I have not been making any outrageous fashion statements because I have been in school uniform all week, and slouching around in jeans and tees for the rest of my life, though honestly haven’t even made the time to change into normal clothes because I am revising hard!

Anyway, there is one rather fab thing I modelled the other day, designed by Laura Precious (who, I have just realised has featured in all my blogs so far). These photos are in a prime display all over the school...the headmaster made some awkward backhanded compliment about them the other day which has been giving me a good chuckle. I have managed to convince Laura that she wants to make me some metal boobs in this style if I give her a bra to attach it all to... no idea how I will wear it yet but it should be REALLY FUN.

This might be my favorite photo of myself ever. Laura P is a legend.

Lacey Eyes

This is the medical term for when you have been doing minute free-embroidery on dissolving fabric to make enough lace in time for my deadline. If you’ve ever embroider tiny circles for hours you will understand. When you stop you start seeing spots all over the place and can’t really focus on things far away. Anyway, here are some details of the lace, will post the final pictures from the shoot once I’ve had a bit of an editing fest. 

Dressing Up & Getting Carried Away

This wasn’t a planned photo shoot or collaboration, so I appologise for bad lighting and a lack of hair or make-up. Laura Precious (her real name) wanted me to model her metal bra and in preparation for that later and much better planned shoot, asked me to try it on. Which I did. Then I got carried away and tried on her snake-print blazer and my otoshiana tunnel skirt. These were the coolest of the bunch, hope you enjoy.

Absolutely dying to create monotype prints of these silhouettes. Shame my A-levels are getting in the way. For now.

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