Inspiration Time!

Hey! So I've been meaning to post some stuff about various artists/designers that I find really interesting... this is what I've found!

Lisa Lichtenfels

Monique Jivram

Karen Rao

Fiona Hutchinson

Thats all for now!

Waiting For The Gasman

So I've not been out the house in days as I constantly seem to be waiting for the gasman to come and fix our boiler! However, it's given me some much needed rest, and my cold seems to be clearing itself up!

I'm back into the swing of things this year at uni, and I'm diving into all my projects head first and for the first time in a long time, trying to take my work seriously. I found myself looking through what I had put in my sketchbook and thinking back to last year, and being shocked at what I allow myself to submit. I saw the course as a joke, so I wasn't too serious about the work I created. This year however, the cogs have finally all turned in my head, and whilst I'm panicking about what I want to do when I've finished uni, I've given myself a kick up the backside and giving this year my best shot.

I'm super excited about starting my business elective this year! Apparently it's quite apprentice-esque! Ratting out the people that arent pulling their weight, creating advertising campaigns, designing products for competitions. Ruth, the module tutor, said we shouldn't do the course if we aren't competetive and serious about it. I think it sounds perfect for me!!! Bring on designing products, working as a team, & running our own little craft stalls! I cant wait!

 We're currently doing a plastic jewellery project in our mixed media sessions at the moment, and whilst we're still only being inducted on the machines I'm really excited to get playing around with the plastics materials and see what I can create. I've been saving allsort of plastic wrappers, and bits and bobs, and ordered myself a heat gun from amazon, so I can start melting stuff together! I've ordered some shrink plastic too! I'm so so so so excited to start playing around with it all, hopefully if I'm any good I can start making some stuff to go on my imaginary online business and sell them :-)

Anyway, enough ramblings about what I plan to do! Time to start doing them!

Em :-)

It's been a while

So I've already started forgetting to write on here! Been busy moving into my new house! Not quite as exciting as it sounds... but here are some pictures of what I've been up to!

Sausage Rolls

Coal Mining Queens

Mining Museums

Diggers

Tetris Blocks

  

Auto Queues

  

News Readers

Wombles

Bed Jumping

Belly Flopping

Knife People

  

Hide & Seek Statues

Field Posing

Rudey Statue Covering

Giant Bunnies

Chocolate Sundaes

Birthday Meals

New Bedrooms 

Strawberry Cream Cake

Hey all!

Not been up to massive amounts today! had quite a lazy morning, waiting for the Mr to pop round and help bake a cake for his grans birthday...

this is how it turned out.

 

Yummy!

Played around with my camera some more! and got new photo editing software free from google! WIN! Finally arranged some last minute plans with the Mr! We're off to the national coal mining museum tomorrow, staying at the travel lodge, then off to yorkshire sculpture park the day after - fingers crossed the weather is nice! Hopefully I'll get lots of pretty pictures to post up here! :-)

Best be off to finish packing!

First Ever Blog Post

Hey Guys, so I had a re-design, as I'm far too indecisive and couldnt decide on what look I liked best, hopefully as my experience with blogging grows so will my design skills! I bought myself a fabulous new camera today, to help with my 5 Goals I want to achieve with my blog!...

My 5 Goals.

1. To photograph more. I've already taken my first step in encouraging myself to do this with a new camera!

2. To be more positive. I've always been a glass half empty person and I hope that sharing my day with other people will tempt me to look more at the positive aspects of my day.

3. To keep track of my inspirations. I want the blog to become sort of a mindmap of my hand. To store my ideas, inspirations and aspirations.

4. To look at things in a new light. I like the idea of approaching things with curiosity and intrigue as apposed to dismissing risky ideas. I want to bring out the brave in myself. To teach myself to pluck up the courage to do steer away from 'the norm'.

5. To have fun! I want myself to enjoy this. I like my own personal space and my own time, so I'd like to think of my blog as my little hideaway for an hour everyday to look back at what I've done and take a moment to appreciate my achievements! - or others for that matter!

So today we went camera hunting. Not with spears and such, just a quick trip to argos! Then we had a cheeky little trip to Chiquitos for a little fiesta fun!

YumYumYum! Nothing like a tasty Fiesta Vegetable Wrap to fill my belly!

When I got back home I played around with some of the settings on my camera, and snapped this adorable picture of my mental kitty Daisy! (I'm sure she'll be featuring plenty in my blog!)