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.