Stress

Oh the annoyance.

I just seem to be going through a phase at the moment where one thing after the other goes wrong.  I haven’t had a properly working boiler since the beginning of December.  And it hasn’t worked at all for a week and a half.  And the oven broke (but it now fixed).  And last night my macbook broke.  The hard-drives gone.  And my phone has stopped charging properly.  So it didn’t charge overnight and I missed my first lecture, because my housemate didn’t think to wake me up til 5 minutes after we should have left.  And I leapt out of bed to throw everything in a bag and do my makeup and things on the way (even though I’m going out somewhere nice tonight so wanted to make an effort)  and smacked my foot on the corner of the drawer (it still hurts).  So I decided it was futile and told my housemate to just go on without me.  So I spent time getting ready, and my makeup still looks rubbish.  So I came in and managed to book an appointment at the Genius Bar on Regent St for Thurs afternoon.  Which is good except I need to do a load of work for my design selection on Thursday and now can’t print anything off.  And its going to need to be sent off to be fixed.  And I’ll have to pay for it as I’m out of warrantee. 

God I’m in such a terrible mood.  But I’m now sat in college on a computer here.  Got a seminar session in an hour, but I’ve no idea what its on because I missed the lecture.  Oh the annoyance.

Hopefully the day can only get better.  Fingers crossed.

Apologies for the rant.  I needed to vent.

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January Sales

I’ve pretty much avoided the sales so far.  I absolutely hate sale shopping.  Its just too stressful, and I just can’t be bothered to sift through rails and rails of rubbish in the hope of finding one gem, in my size, at a decent price.

Now saying that, I’ve bought a couple of things.  A beautiful top from Karen Millen, a store that is beautifully peaceful even in sale time.  I don’t have the energy to get it out and photograph it, which is terrible blogging I know.  It was way out of my price range, but it was just one of those items where you try it on, and there is just no question, you have to have it.  I wore it on New Year and managed not to ruin it, and am still absolutely in love with it.

I also bought a pair of black flat boots from Office, which can be seen in the previous post.  Remarkable practical for me.  I had eyed them up earlier in the season, but wasn’t convinced enough about them.  Then when I saw them in the sale I just decided to go for them, and I’m really glad I did.  But those are the only things I’ve bought.

Actually that’s not strictly true.  They are the only fashion items I’ve bought.  No, this January sale has been seriously DVD focussed.  I’ve bought 9.  Oops.  I can’t resist.  Now I’ve only spent £40 on them, so they’ve been absolute bargains.  But it is terrible.  Especially when I already have a lot of DVD’s that I’ve never watched!  And I really need to do work not watch DVD’s.

Oh well.  Sometimes theses things just have to be done.

 

Top (l-r):  Sleepy Hollow, Green Street, Edward Scissorhands, The Devil Wears Prada, Reservoir Dogs

Bottom (l-r): Layer Cake, Donnie Darko, O, Flight Of The Concords: Complete Series One 

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An Outfit Fit To Present

I had to present my jacket that I made before Christmas to Amoosi yesterday.  Which all went very well.  I’m down to the final 6 people.  And we’ll find out if I’ve won a prize or if they want me to work with them or something as soon as they’ve agreed all that kind of thing with uni.  So thats quite exciting.

As I was going to be speaking to industry people rather than just teachers I thought I’d make a bit of an effort with my clothes rather than wearing the same pair of jeans for the fifth day in a row.  Plus I wanted to wear my new leggings. So I put on a dress to make a bit of effort.  I quite liked the outfit, casual but not scruffy, so I thought I’d share it with you…

Apologies for the picture being a bit blurry.  In fact it was not the focus that was the problem.  I looked at the lens after taking these and there was so much dirt on it, it was near opaque!  New Years was a rather hectic evening, I think my camera bore the brunt of it!

 

Shoes, sale purchase from Office; leggings, American Apparel; dress, Zara;  cardigan, bought by my mother in France; belt, Ebay.

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Apologies

I apologise if every blog I write is then posted about 5 or 6 times, with few if any adjustments.  For some reason the WordPress editor isn’t saving my formatting so every time I publish it is just appears as a large block of text rather than in paragraphs.  I’ve no idea why.  But it’s getting very annoying!x 

Skins

I was a big fan of the first series of Skins (if you aren’t from the UK and have no idea what I’m talking about then you can find out more about it here, and recommend that you do).  It follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, looking at all sorts of trouble they get into and various things that happen around them.  I have to say that while it is obviously exaggerated to make a good story, its a pretty good portrayal of a lot of teenagers lives in the UK today. Issues they deal with. Things they get up to.  That and it’s thoroughly enjoyable. 

It caught everyone’s attention last year with some very cool adverts, which were basically all the characters running wild at the kind of house party every teenager dreams about experiencing, while The Gossip’s Standing In The Way of Control plays over the top (incidentally making the song a huge hit).  And now they are doing it again. I heard mention of the new advert for the second series on Radio 1 today and I had to check it out on youtube.  Oh my good God.  It is amazing. 

Again its a house party type sequence.  But it’s so dark, it’s left me desperate to see the new series (so it works!), mainly because I want to know if it is going to be as dark as the advert suggests.  One of things that made Skins Series 1 so great was its balance of emotion and humour, so I do hope that they manage to hold on to that. 

Visually this new one is much more decadent, set in a falling apart house, wearing fantastic clothes, with dark lighting, and with lots of dark makeup being dragged down faces by tears, it looks wonderful.

So here it is, I warn you now so no one gets upset, though not shocking or explicit in my view, there are ’scenes of a sexual nature’, this is the uncut version, and as youtube put a warning on it, I thought I should too… enjoy… 

 

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Happy New Year

Well the time between Christmas and New Year just disappeared.  I didn’t get round to writing a few blogs about 2007.  I didn’t see several people I said I would.  I didn’t make my coat.  I certainly didn’t get started on my work for my new project.  And yet I don’t think I was that busy, it just went way too fast!

I hope you all had a great New Year.  My celebrations were manic.  I threw a dinner party, where everyone had to bring a dish, with the rule that it had to be home made.  It went really well, and as expected descended into chaos after midnight, with some of us deciding to go on a jaunt round my hometown and get up to mischief, while the others played Guitar Hero on the wii for hours and hours.  I think the last people went to bed at about 8am.  A great night.

Well, I am very proud of some of the things I did this year.  Getting a first for a project was obviously a highlight, and being chosen to present my jacket to Amoosi next week (eek) is obviously very exciting.  I think during this last project I lost my motivation a little and I need to refocus for this next project, especially as it is something I’m not particularly inspired by, as if I don’t regiment myself a little more then I will probably slip behind, which would be bad.

Now I also want to try and motivate myself to blog more regularly, but the problem with that is that I’m not allowed to talk about my next project in any detail, as I have signed a contract to keep it private.  So I shall have to make an effort to comment on things that are going on, or processes generally.  That’s if I manage to step up my blogging. 

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