Its My Birthday.

How dedicated am I to actually write a blog on my birthday ?! or maybe I just feel a tinchy bit guilty about not blogging very well at the moment. So here are a few photographs of random things that I have done today... I made my own cake with the help of Hayley and another picture of what my little car says to me <3

WELL WELL WELL

Hello, It has been a while and my excuse is that I have been working 29hours over the past 3 days. Not gunna lie I am shattered!. Here is a quick update for you... I'm 19 on Sunday (N) the Skirt is is slow progress... mainly because I am so terrified that I will be getting it wrong so wont actually touch it... but I will be eventually. I have been doing a little bit of research into my idea. Not too much just some places FMP ect. I don't have anything that I can currently upload right now other than a recent picture of my cat Custard... 

 

We Need More Piggys!

I was thinking that I hadn't blogged a micro pig in a while so here is yet another piggy.... awwwwh

Bargain...

Got my chair sorted for our next project. For the bargain price of £3 from a local dump. And after all its not about what it looks like now its about what it could look like. I am quite excited to get going with doing a chair again with a totally different project title. It is now half term so I have a week to finish off my skirt and I will hopefully have enough fabric to actually make it... The burning process was very time consuming but worth it in the end and I still haven't figured out how I'm going to attach the lace to my skirt.

♥

I just realised that the love of my life has not been talked about on my blog. Professor Green is my babe! He is amazing and I love him!

EXPERIMENTS

BURN BURN BURN.... here are some pictures of my experimentation with the blow torch, we are still trying to figure out how to burn lengths of fabric instead of small bits but it is a little bit tricky as it is so delicate. But is all about the trial and error so the more you go at it the more likely it is going to work. Off to buy more washers tomorrow! I haven't got as many photographs of the final experimentation pieces as I thought so I will take better photos of the final outcomes at a later date.

HERE THEY ARE

So I have finally got my photographs off Oliver, and now you can see actual photos of the mood board. Today I had a nightmare day trying to make a toile of my skirt.. I wasn't feeling brilliant anyway and it just added to my agginess!! But in the end I gave up with actually using my paper pattern I had lovingly made and measured and decided to fit the toile to my body instead... this has sort of worked but now I am at a loss as to how I am going to make the pieces for my actual skirt.... Oh well here is my first post of the evening of my photographs.

WELL WELL WELL..

I am currently watching glee and totally loving it, I am also at the same time trying to make a decent fashion illustration.. and I'm not going to lie it is quite annoying! On the plus side I got my fabric on Friday and I am going to get burning it all tomorrow! I have attempted to create a skirt pattern but it is totally not working so I am giving up until tomorrow on that. My plans for this evening are as follows 1. Finish some fashion illustrations 2. I need to get an early night 3. Pack my bag ready for tomorrow as I know I will end up forgetting something otherwise. 4. Try to get better... its ANNOYING me. Now back to college work. I wont forget my sd card tomorrow!!!

I found this on http://pallinad.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html

gives you an idea of what burning fabric can turn into.

It feels a little bit like I need to post more of my work on here..

Still haven't got round to getting my photos so I have resorted to taking a photography on my phone of my mood board! Slightly lame I know but it gives people an idea and I will eventually get round to uploading the actual images..... soon enough.

I am getting a bit carried away with researching for my BLACK skirt project, I have been looking at architecture in fashion and trying to come up with ideas to transfer techniques onto fabric. Fabric shopping tomorrow then will be experimenting on Monday with the blow torch and washers and metal.... I was even told today then I may be able to use chemicals on fabric to burn a pattern into things, but it is still a matter of sorting this out. Feeling positive and upbeat about pattern cutting tomorrow but it is a little bit daunting! Anyway I am off now and I must must must get some decent images of my experiments as well as some fashion illustrations that I am in the process of making.

(N)

the picture says it all really ..... can't wait to get hold of a lighter and burn these fabrics!!! I plan to take lots of photos and things of me burning away. I am going fabric shopping on Friday and plan to experiment all weekend!! Then hopefully on Monday make a lot more final decisions. I am dedicating this weekend to construction and experimentation. I am going to buy some synthetic fabrics as well as some natural fibres blah blah I am bored of writing now and need to head to the gym so will be a bit chirpier tomorrow.