Under, Over

Firstly, thankyou to the people who left me lovely comments on my last post. I'm glad I'm not alone in finding art school hard, and I'm not going to rush into anything right away. Tonight however, I wanted to share something I've been having some fun with over the last couple of weeks - weaving. 

I did some large scale "Fine-Art" weavings for my A Levels, what seems like forever ago, but this is the first time I've sat down to make detailed work on a small, homemade loom.

I constructed my loom out of an old frame, some tacks, yarn and a ruler. It's not perfect, but it works fine. I'm still working on how to change colours mid-row and how to make shapes, but it's fun and fiddly and I'm enjoying it.

I hope you're having a nice weekend! I'm going on an Easter Egg hunt tomorrow with some work friends and my boyfriend is home on Monday. The longest week ever is nearly over!
A ♥

New Year, New Journal Peeks

My jiffy-bag-journal is one of my favourite long-term projects. I add pages as I go, meaning it's never half finished (like everything other sketchbook or journal I start). It's made of leftovers and scraps and tickets, all stuck together with masking tape and pritt stick. It's good for emptying the brain. 

Please remember, this is a journal and any thoughts and emotions expressed are mine and they're personal. I mainly write my journal on bad days, days that I don't like to blog about - no one's life is a fairytale, after all.

A ♥

Art School: Sketchbook Peeks

Good evening! I wanted to share some pages from a little self directed sketchbook I put together for art school last term - I looked at windows - a topic I've wanted to study for a while. These scans are not the greatest quality, so I apologise for that! 

Stained glass window at Ally Pally, this is my favourite of these images.

Back to school on Tuesday! I'm not sure my brain is ready to learn things…
A ♥

Art School: Sketchbook Peek

These are a few scans from one of my art school sketchbooks - this was a self directed project, I (obviously) chose to look at windows. I spent a lot of time out in the cold, drawing architecture, and today it's being graded. 

Victoria & Albert museum.

Ally Pally.

Brick lane.

There's not long till the end of term now - which I'm pretty excited about - I have really enjoyed my first term at art school, but it's exhausting!

A ♥

Journal Peeks

It's been a while since I've shared any of my journal pages - and I've been adding pages to my current journal like crazy recently - I'm a big fan of documenting and getting feelings out of my head and on to paper and all the changes that have been happening here lately have been a catalyst for that.

For anyone interested, I make my own journals from jiffy bigs (padded envelopes) cut open along one side and unstuck at the top and bottom. The pages are constructed from modified birthday cards, envelopes, fliers, scrap paper, either masking taped, stitched, glued or stapled into the fold of the jiffy bag, creating a book that I can add pages to, as and when I need to.

"…reality is sometimes better than my imagination."

It's mainly text-filled, I have heaps of sketchbooks full of drawings and doodles - this is just a place for me to keep my thoughts.

It's mainly filled with reminders of what makes life good and small, scrawled moments of terror and panic. Diaries, don't you just love them?! ;) 

Feel free to comment, but please remember these are my thoughts and emotions, try not to judge them too harshly.

A ♥

The Knitting and Stitching Show 2012

Back in October, Harriet and I made a last minute decision to go to the annual knit and stitch show at London's Alexandra Palace. Neither of us had been before, and we were both overwhelmed by the amount of textile creativity on display.

There was something for everyone - knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, quilters...

Seeing the knitted garments really inspired me! I want to make this jumper for myself.

The knitted model villages were a serious highlight. 

Some seriously beautiful things - miraculously, I managed not to spend a fortune. I bought some pretty new sock yarn, and some fleece. Harriet bought a massive one-ball-equals-a-jumper ball of yarn, which was pretty spectacular! I love knitting, unfortunately, what with everything else that's going on at the moment, I don't have much time for it. Serious sadface.

A ♥