i would be so good if i was always motivated

seriously.
like. i could be SO GOOD if i just had so much motivation. all. the. time.
but i guess that could be said of like... everyone. hmmmm.

so finally getting a move on for my summer assignment. few croquis here and there. but i really need to get down & research and put all the images together for my mood boards & everything else. BAH.
but i have knit a swatch. & i did buy some felting needles today (& broke one). & got a good start on sporadically felting my knit piece after interning.
must say. it's coming along. except it's really flaring up my sneezing with all the fluff & dust.........
but once i complete the swatch. should work for my fabric manipulation as well as for a fabric for my lost boys collection. :)
although i have to learn to cable knit........



.............did.. not.. think.. of.... that...

summer is not for play

the lost boys

i am in love with this concept&theme. seriously lucked out in picking this one out of the hat..

but i'm at a standstill as to where to take this idea in my design work.

i can go this route with this amazing photo by samuel bradley. (i'm not quite sure why i'm completely infatuated with this one. but there's something very spectacular about it, yes?) 

- slightly very sartorial but quirky

- the juxtaposition between man & nature/animals. the raw edges of it. the fur & all that.

- like sort of a proper boy who's gotten lost in the wild & in peter's adventures

orrr. i can go the militaristic, post-apocolyptic lost boy. 

- very savage you know?

- & there'd be a lot of resourceful, use-what-you-can-turn-it-into-something-else types of things going on.

on one hand i very much like the whimsical first direction... but i think i can take the second concept a lot farther.

sigh.

& this is only the first of three potential collections i must do. 

just wish i had a bit more time to work these ideas out.

off to contribute something to society now!

cheers 

december 4 a star was born.

doesn't matter what anyone says.

jay is genius personified. 

no questions no queries.

i literally laugh out loud everytime i hear venus v mars

"fell for the ponzi scheme, shawty just made-off"

honest, i didn't like that song really when i first heard it.

then i listened to the lyrics.

& i realized it was brilliant. he's got a way with words.

is it acceptable..

if i want to say 'fuck away' sometimes?





no?
yeah.. you're right, probably shouldn't.
cheers

home

paris was amazing. beautiful & exciting.

but i sure am relieved to be back in an english-speaking country.
being in paris made me realize how much i appreciate london.

being in london made me realize how much i appreciate home.

& i mean my REAL HOME.

don't get me wrong, london will always be my 2nd home. it's everything i imagined & more. i feel like somehow london, it's culture, & the accents were created simply to fit my lifestyle (haha) if that's even possible.

you know when you go on a trip? somewhere far far away. you expect to go home right after the trip, right? well that's how i felt as the 4 day trip was coming to a close. for the first time since i've been abroad, i felt the pangs of homesickness. 

not that i haven't wished i was back in the states-- but i've kind of resisted the feelings of missing home, just because there's no point in being miserable wishing i was home while being in one of the largest & most amazing cities. & wishing i was back in london when i'm back in the states.

i might as well enjoy being where i am, while i'm in it. carpe diem, right?

but. 

england doesn't have thanksgiving. 

they drive on the left side of the road.

everything is expensive.

they don't get snow until february.

everyone i really cannot live without is not here.

in short. i'll allowing myself to miss home for 5 seconds.

cheers

going to sleep in london, to wake up in paris

it's finally the start of mid-semester break here!

all of my flatmates have already departed for their vacation; the three girls i am traveling with, and myself included of course, are the last to leave the flat.. it's a bit sad in such an empty, quiet flat (typically there are 13 of us).

it's going to be a LONG bus ride, & i mean LOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG.

giving me plenty of time to sleep... ponder.... read perhaps? i'll probably just be sleeping though.

it's cheerio to london, & bonjour paris!

(for 4 days! yipeee)

sometime tomorrow i'll be sword-fighting with baguettes in front of the eiffel tower.

cheers !

adam levine. sex on legs.

that would be the definition if his name was in the webster dictionary.
but i believe the urbandictionary definition appears as 'sex on a stick'