NYE-E

This is how I spent New Years Eve eve....amongst balloons, a homemade cave, pin the tail on the donkey and silly things and too much wine. Now for actual new years..ill be surrounded by rasta's and trombones in the West Indian Centre in Leeds!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Collars

On trend or not (Im most often not), I want to wear collars. Buttoned up, fancy, nice collars.

Theres many around, Ive picked up a few nice shirts recently from Wrexham/Chester Charity shops and Leeds city Market, Il post them up soon.

But here a few nice, simple collars Ive found in Topshop. With a soft autumnal/spring palette with browns..my favourite

Topshop.co.uk

Drugs to Jewels?

Pete Doherty, Musician, Artist, Designer? Ive seen his blood splattered paintings but didnt know his obvious creative flare stretched to Jewellery! Together with luxury jewellery designer Hannah Martin, Pete has launched a collaborative jewellery line yesterday at Joseph, consisting of 15 pieces. 

" The line brings together his love of antiques and obsession with trinkets, in a 15-piece collection of cufflinks, rings, pins, chains and watch fobs that are vintage-inspired, but with a modern twist."

Interesting! And they look good too. Although Ive never been on for a man in jewellry, but pete can pretty much pull off anything..

 

Photos from The Telegraph Online

Hazlenut syrup

So Christmas day has been and gone, it was good, usually family...silence, and talk of neighbours, extensions, WEATHER, doctors, priice of gas...blabla. Food is always my highlight, however after becoming a lazy student a huge roast only half an hour after reluctantly dragging myself out of bed was not so appealing! (heating up the left overs 3 times in the afternoon however was more my cup of tea) I actually think my highlight of the festive season was 'The only was is Essexmas' and 'The Royle Family'! Bloody amazing. 

Now im in Boxing Day mode, im going to put up all of the stock (mountain biking clothing and accessories) i have for ebay, and maybe a couple of extra earners for myself including my 4 year old guitar which has probably had a weeks worth of play. Then hopefully I can treat myself to a lovely new laptop...got a lot of work to do...

 

to spruce?

lack of posting means im at home, ie. the very uninspiring village of Llandegla. It is very pretty here though, like a christmas card. However, i am a scrooge this year! Literally nothing will get me excited about Christmas.

Although wrexham isn't good for much...it does have good Charity shops. Had a quick rummage today and bought a couple of things. Going to wear the shirt tonight, i have a feeling it looks like the old tesco/bhs uniform..i hope im wrong. along with a velvet skirt and my new lil boooties, ha. they hurt my feet but it's worth it

puppy eyes

down in the woods

Finally finished our bomber jacket for Garment Tech! Lorna, Sarah, Becky and I have made this black cotton bomber, faux fur lapel and hood lining, detachable hood, diagonal zip, leather trim...

Took some photos of Chris modeling it down in the woods yesterday, here y'go..

make a cape sunday

So this weekend i made myself a cape! I bought the material etc ages ago but just didnt get round to it til now. Im really quite pleased with it! I used my friends cape as a template, so it didnt take that long.

Big hood (maybe a little too big)

Floral hood lining

Brown leather buttons

Marroon fleece lining

Yohji

Really like this design from Yohji Yamamoto – My Dear Bomb, might have to steal the idea for a mood board or something.. 

Liar Liar

Just watching Liar Liar and have to express my love for Jim Carrey! He just has such good expressions, the outtakes from the film just look like he is the funniest guy to work with. This is my favourtie picture of him, taken by Annie Liebovitz. I went to her exhibition in Madrid last summer, love her work, and the whole story behind her pictures and her life, the exhibition was so personal it was like youd just met her personally.

Leibovitzian flair: A portrait of Jim Carrey from the exhibition “Annie Leibovitz.”

New York Times

Frankfurters

Felling a little christmassy...the german market is beaut! Funny german band, mulled wine, german beer, long sausages and nice candles and bits and thingsss, mm

squelchy shoes

Had SUCH a busy week, practically living in the library. However..two projects over and just one more to finish. In Garment Tech we've been making a bomber jacket, its pretty cool but I never thought itd be this confusing! Ive learnt so much though. Had quite a stressful day with the lining today but it should be all done and finished next week to put up a picture. For now, here are some snaps of us working.

Finished!

record breaking library session till 3am and finally my Comme des Garcons Homme Plus design colletion is finished!

Cultivated Chic - a very brief outline

My own trend adapted from WGSN, portrays a sense of adventure and curisoty, storage, practicalities, the country man and contemporary sportswear.

now off to finish m next deadline...completely on illustrator, the joys..

cosy

had quite a lazy/sightly productive saturday. Here are some snaps from our lovely house..

so little time

so busy with deadlines at the minute, so much to do! here are my inspiration and mood boards so far for my Comme des Garcons Homme Plus designing project