just a little something i just finished. up now at www.etsy.com/shop/bornrestless
Hello!
Had a really nice few days off work pottering about the flat and zipping to Sheffield to see some animals and friends.
Everyone knows new year resolutions are totally stupid but i sort of quietly do them every year anyway. I broke this years already.
Trying to not love and not being an idiot is harder than i had anticipated.
Still sewing, still dreaming about the wrong kind of things and still eating too many biscuits. Hopefully the next post will be more positive and less cryptic!
Today
I finished a little sewing thing and saw some pasty shaped kitchen wear in a charity shop. I visited the old lady and ate alot of oranges in an attempt to combat this cold.
Remembering September
When we arrived we took the Bart to the hostel- i remembered everything from the time before.
In SF we went to the Golden Gate Bridge, took a SIX hour walk along the coast to the park. we went to Haight Street and saw a groundhog. We ate at Wholefoods and got leered at by $5 man.
When we headed for Santa Cruz i was ready to go. We walked to Fishermans Wharf before catching two buses and a train. I ate a giant peach and drank a tonne of coffee.
The hostel at Santa Cruz was beautiful. We shared with a German guy- Sebastian, and then a girl from Portland who worked with disadvantaged teens. She was really inspiring and sweet.
We walked along the boardwalk, posed with guns and took photos in the amusement arcades. A fortune telling machine told me i need to learn to keep a secret (fair point).
We found some amazing shops and tried on medieval dresses in Moonzoom. We hung out in Hoffmans drinking coffee all day and ate burgers with tonnes of gherkins and mustard. For breakfast i had eggs with oranges.
Next we headed for Santa Barbara and the toilets with no doors. We lay on the beach and i read a book about a man who kidnapped a pregnant woman so he could photograph her (and her unborn child)at the point of death and so escape his own eventual death. He got caught.
Two men tried to chat us up in the lamest way and we were not impressed. We got sunburn real bad and missed home a bit.
When we travelled to L.A we watched the sea go by through the window and i ate a stale bagel with cream cheese.
Someone tried to kill us but Lara foiled their plan. We walked along Hollywood Blvd and felt bummed out about it all. We saw a two headed tortoise and saw pictures of car crash victims and the Manson murders. We had massive ice creams and i cut myself a fringe.
We flew to Austin. I remembered the last time i was going to Texas when i cried in the toilets and felt like everything was falling apart and i had nothing to go back to. I don't think i felt so bad this time. I always miss people in airports.
Mark met us with a big smile and a hug and we had the best time- drinking dirty lemonades, dirty dancing in gay bars and lounging around at Barton Springs.
When it was time to come home i felt kind of mixed up about it. I still feel a bit mixed up.
17th of December
Preparing things so i can keep making stuff over christmas- keeping busy for a big re-stock on Etsy next year!
Feeling inspired and reassured after reading THIS
Repeat after me- 'everything is going to be alright'
Rain
Finally got my old specs fixed so i can be all cat-eyed for christmas <3
In other vanity news i am thinking about a hair change- currently swooning over Claire Danes in My So Called Life. hmm.
xxx
New week new thing.
Buy it at - http://www.etsy.com/listing/88031386/parasite
Once i walked to uni convinced there was a wasp down my tights, and had to maintain some kind of believable calmness to my steps. Then, when i reached a toilet i had the doomy task of slowly and carefully pulling down my tights to release the nightmare- which turned out to be a sticker off my shoe.
weekend
Would be great if all weekends were 3 days long.
It went a bit like this- Derby, Hatch'd, wine, snooze, greasy spoon cafe, charity shopping, massive curry (regretted afterwards), wine and cake, snooze, beautiful train ride, Sheffield, a drive to Nine Ladies, dramatic landscapes, country pub, massive cuppa, telly-athon, sofa sleep, craft fair, coffee, busiest worst train ever back home.
Ready for more snoozing x
*octopus sounds*
'They make no sound that I know of except possible incidental sounds from strong jets of water passing in and out of the mantle (a muscular bag that stores the animal's gills and body organs). There are a couple of reports of these sounds being produced in squid, but again, they seem to be a byproduct of jetting.'
o ok
Fleas
I didnt get the job i really wanted. I called my best friend and she made me feel better like she always does.
I ate marzipan and drank wine and felt sorry for myself.
Busy making new plans...
Doggy Portraits
Digger is my friend Katie's dog. He tries to sniff my bum a lot and does a lot of slobbering, despite this i love him so.
love/hate
Each time i try and screenprint i totally hate it because it takes bloody ages and i always do it wrong and have to start again, and then i'm still there in the middle of the night getting paint all over myself and wanting to throw it all out the window and be DONE.
But then, just when i'm about to really give up and go to bed i finally get things working and i get really excited and it WORKS and suddenly i am making things that look like i want them to and then i remember the total joy that comes from persevering and winning and having a great sleep after...
Halloween
argh days when things dont work out and time feels wasted and you eat too much and feel too sick and the heating doesnt work and songs make you feel sadder than you want them to
Pennyfest 2
Pennyfest Documentary from Philip Formby on Vimeo.
So the video's DONE for Pennyfest which took place in June. Watching it back made me do some really big grins and i feel like it really captured the spirit of the day.
Loads of money was raised for an excellent cause, and i'm super proud to say i got to be part of it all. Derby is bloody great.
Can't wait for the next one!
weyoo
Really excited to be invited to exhibit work at the Village of the Damned Film Festival in Scotland this coming weekend!
http://www.villageofthedamnedfilmfest.blogspot.com/
Looks set to be a great show
-Also pleased as punch to get a stall at the Bank Street Christmas Markets
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=162441470514255
Those in Sheffield- come along!
http://www.villageofthedamnedfilmfest.blogspot.com/
Looks set to be a great show
-Also pleased as punch to get a stall at the Bank Street Christmas Markets
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=162441470514255
Those in Sheffield- come along!
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