just realised..

how much i talk about tattoos..i'm not that obsessed really.

hi!give you a peek of one of mine ^
that's my gross swollen foot, taken by my tattoo artist :)

original design by me, which all my tattoos are, which evolved from both of these sketches. I did a fair bit of research into images of cherry blossoms, and then complied a sketch based on certain characteristics. I have also designed the swallows on my hips, a large swallow for a friend, and a set of playing cards for another friend. My designs tend to be have characteristics of typical tattoo artistry but with my own kind of twist ;)

ho ho ho! :)

loved today, even though i worked for 3 hours (but double pay, come on) and i havent seen chris or anyone else, but i love my family. and they brought me lovely things, i'll probably end up fashion showing them on here!
anyway i am v. sleepy so just a quick one to show off the vintage dress i've just purchased :) (see above) cutest thing ever :D

and these amazing tights by "tattoo socks" on etsy. im extremely impressed by the peacock feather, mostly because i want a peacock feather tattoo, and also because it would freak my mum out :) and its a gorgeous design. Anyway i hope you got everything you wanted, i'm going to sleep now as i'm working 8 hours tomorrow, and apparently going for a run with chris in the morning!

Tattoo Socks by Post

quicken the heart ♥

eeee, me and chris had our own christmas yesterday (Chris-tmas, Me-tmas)
and i am now the owner of the cutest tatty devine anchor necklace, Maximo park- Quicken the Heart, and Rant by my favourite author Chuck Palahniuk. Which has the best cover and looks like what i want to do for my Life and Death assignment, all veins and anatomy!

i am very excited about christmas, even more so to learn im only working 3 hours christmas day! and it snowed last night.

oh god i might faint with christmas enthusiasm!

a fox; you missed him.

:) phrase makes me smile everytime. We have such good times.

and i want that tee. maybe it'll have to be one of the things chris gets me for christmas :D

everyones gone out and i wish i'd gone out! i was tired and achey though. everyones gone to the great "couture" the new club, which i took the piss out of but its actually alright. so i'm staying in with mum and having a curry. not great undoubtably but i've not eaten much recently.

Wrapped all my presents, my present for chris is pretty cute of me :) but i won't say in case he reads this (which i'm pretty sure he doesn't but you never know), but i am a genius of a girlfriend. Hurry up christmas!

Pure tattoo bug at the moment. i want moreee. i'll have to try and get some nice pics of them. This photo isnt helping me these tattoos are cute!

In 15 minutes everybody will be famous

AHH why am i so rubbish at keeping up a blog :( i'm on my laptop like everyday and just forget to do this thing, and it's not like i don't enjoy writing in this thing!

Anyway since my last blog- Slade School of Art : terrifying. Me and Lily got there around half an hour before we needed to be so we had a mooch around, and it looked really great. It was all stark white and old, but the whiteness gave it this great renewed quality like someone had painted and repainted over it. I love it. We were lead up this big double staircase to a conference room.. where our dreams were shattered 35 places on the course with about 1000 applicants last year and more expected this year. gutted. i knew that London Universitys were competitive but that was kind of heart breaking. So i'm not sure whether to apply or not tbh :/ been told that i'm good enough but i mean surely a big percentage of you getting in with that many places is like..luck?

Taken in london. left; cakes in nandos. right; traflagar square, an old couple taking pictures next to the fountain.

Don't want to think about uni at the moment anyway, it's 4 days till Christmas! So excited! No idea what i'm getting of my parents and i'm yet to get my dad's present which is a bit concerning :S going to find him one today! Oh, and i already know what Chris is getting me :) he's taking me to Paris in April :D i'm so so excited, i secretly think i'm little bit french. Well my grandad did used to tell me that his Grandmother was French, but i'm not sure he wasn't just creating fairy stories to keep me amused.
I even want my next tattoo in french, it was going to be a tribute to Rene Margritte but i don't know whether it might be a little cliche artsy thing to do :/

Ceci n'est pas en vogue

edit: Oh OH and did i mention when we were at slade, were saw two of the school of saatchi contestants, Eugenie and Said! We were star struck haha in a sad art geek kind of way :) and slightly stalkled them round the school :)

This is how you spell 'HAHAHA, I've destroyed the hopes and the dreams of a generation of faux-romantics".

"You walk in from your mother's balcony, panda-eyed and freezing cold. You bury yourself in my chest to warm I notice the goosebumps on your arms, millions and whether it's because of the numbers of hours spent laid facedown on my bed listening to white noise, or, well, obviously it's not, I somehow manage to translate them from braille. The trails on your skin spoke more to me than the reams and reams of half finished novels you'd leave lying all over the place and every quotation that'd dribble from your mouth like a final, fatal livejournal entry. I know. I am wrong. I am sorry"

Hi. I was listening to this great song by Los Campesinos and it reminded me that i have a blog! kind of completely forgot. That and my course leader Graeme told me today that blogs are a great way to express yourself and keep tract on your own thoughts and concepts.
Which i could do with doing really, because whenever i think of a good path to take my art I forget it within a day or so. So it'll help me keep track better, so religious- this will be a new part of my daily routine (or lack of daily routine)

Chris brought me some polaroid film yesterday :) i was really impressed as since the close down i've been struggling to get my hands on any since they stopped making it! Looking forward to the relaunch next year and thanks to the work of www.the-impossible-project.com it looks like we might get some before that. i love love love instant film.

i love the feeling of not knowing what your going to get, of unpredictability and capturing a moment-irreversible and tangible. check out my flick for some pictures i've done with both instant and ordinary film.

Anyway, i'll have to be off because im going to check out Slade (at University College of London) tomorrow and i'm catching the train down tonight.

I'll just leave behind a polaroid i did around 2 years ago.

Breakdowns

id est- my car, my sanity and life as we know it: my brother joined the gym, which is the most ridiculous thing ever. Maybe this obsession runs in the family? He is 13 (he thinks, lol) and recently lost aload of weight which is lovely for him, im quite proud but the gym, im slightly jealous cause i can't afford to go to the gym, i have to make do with running around my village like a nutter, which i suppose would be all i'd do at a gym only on the confined space of a treadmill.

oh, my car; which i was just about to take a trip to the shops for milche has decided it doesnt want to start anymore :'( pile of junk, i have no idea why i was landed with it.

i really want to go away over half term. go to france for the weekend or something, anywhere but here to be honest.

art exam tomorrow, which im looking forward to but it's going to be so tiring. 9-5 exam and then work at

but im loving these pics by sarah larnach who does ladyhawkes album art.

beauutiful.

This is new.

So i suppose, first blog right? Never written a proper one, i don't even write a diary or anything like that really. I tend to just express what i want to say, in art. Pretentious art snob. But then it isn't subtle i suppose, it tends to be full of typography and labels which is something i'm attempting to get myself out of. Alot of things i do are far too obvious at the moment, my pictures are obvious, my photographs are superficial, even my painting becomes too precise and ends up just not having any expression in it. I've started to live through songs aswell. I know most of the Over the Lavender Bridge album (Lightspeed Champion genius) so well that i feel like i wrote it. I would kill to be able to of written that. And books, i live through those aswell. Most Palahnuik and Milan Kundera (that im reading at the moment) i talk like i was there, im the characters, im the writer and the storyline. The prologue and the interpretations. I think i needed this really, i need to finally express myself rather than everybody else i come into contact with.

i am the combined effort of everyone i've ever known.

(even that i stole)

but to a large extent i would argue that's true of everyone. nature vs nuture, i think the majority of us are nutured into our own opinions by the people we love, and the people we don't to be honest. songs i used to love of my own accord have been wrecked by shitty peoples liking of them. -oh no no no, i'm not lowering myself to his/her standards.- snob.

i think thats an issue i have where im trying so hard to break convention, my individualism becomes quite uniform. it's a shame really :) i'm living through a self convicted hedonism ("Isms" in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an "ism", they should believe in themself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles...I just believe in me."-ferris bueller).

and before i bore you to death this is isn't going to be a woe is me kind of thing. this is just me typing the contents of my brain into my computor screen.