Friday, 11 September 2009
Seventeen spleens
Bonjour mon petite pois.
Deadline. Yuck. 2 and a little days to complete 8 double pages.
End.... (this one failed)
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Sweeeeeeeeeet 16
I should get used to the facts that Tuesdays are gonna be shit days, Mondays are just too awesome to miss out on. We had more sea shantying, folk dancing, and general yeeeeeeah-ing.
Though I've never much like Tuesdays anyway, when I was young I used to not like them because thats when Elk had her swimming lessons (I think mine were Wednesday maybe, coz I was in the older group?). So I had to go with mum to the swimming pool and wait around sooooo bored for ages. I kinda miss my Monday swimming though, that was racing - used to win gold medals for front crawl. Mmm. And then Thursdays were trampolining. Friday Rainbows / Brownies / Guides... and all the rest dotted about. Army, senior section Guides, explorer Scouts... all on certain days. So I guess now my drinking and sea shanty listening and folk dancing is the new swimming. Luckily last night I did not swim, just paddled. The harbour may not be the nicest place to swim, especially not when drunk.
ANYWAY....
Yes, hangover. And like this I'll probably fail to work, so I'll write an entry on time again. The others (Silje, Vera & Vera's friend from Norway) have gone to Saint Micheals Mount today, I'm giving it a miss since the electrition is here, sorting stuff out.
BORING, BEX, THIS DRIVVEL IS BORING.
FAYE IS BACK IN A WEEK! 6 DAYS TO BE EXACT! How excellent. Falmouth is definately getting more crowded again, I think the Foundation freshers have arrived. And only 10 more days in which to complete this summer sketchbook.... as long as I don't get too distracted I should be fine, just got the back to do, and I have stuff lined up for every page so it's just a matter of drawing it all and such.
I'm pretty proud of the book, though looking back to the front it's crazy to see how the summer just flew. And now it's autumn. Thats a word I never used to be able to spell.... autumn. And beautiful. Because was a fine word to remember, because Miss Barnard taught us a way of remembering it, and wrote it on the blackboard "big elephants can always upset small elephants". She also used to tell me off for picking my nose... I like picking my nose (thats valuable information for you, right there).
Urgh, this typing stuff isn't ao easy today. I ripped the end of my finger open with a plastic bottle top. So now it's bound up in a black skull & crossbones pirate plaster. Yeeeeeah.
I swear the electrition just used our shower... I spose he was fixing the fan in there??
I should eat. But what! I want vegetables. Maybe eat the left over brocoli.... oh shush, Bex, no one wants to read about what you might eat.
On the mention of food, Silje & I made blackberry and kiwi cupcakes! Used blackberries we picking in our first bout of berry picking (we went again, this week) and then blended kiwi and a little green food colouring into the butter icing on top. Made in silicon cupcake moulds - so good.
And another mention of food is the delicious sandwich I had in Truro the other day. Brie, smoked bacon, and red onion marmalade in brown seedy bread. Perfect amount.
A trio of old women all in pink just walked down the road. Is it a special pink day, or do people just enjoy looking like oversized marshmallows?
Lets show you some stuff I have pillaged from the interwebs.
Some more of Hvass & Hannibal's work - I've luuurved lots of their work for a while now, but this piece re-caught my eye and I decided that I wanted it to be painted onto the big back wall of the living room. It would be an amazing piece to have painted there. Dream on, Bex.
Work by Rachell Sumpter. It's not all good, but this little series I do dribble over a little. Eskimos and whatnot.
Jeff Hopp yaaaay! Again, I've been stalking him on the internet for a while, some years. His work is marvellous, and much of it is all just colouring pencil sort of stuff... mad.
Anything else....
I shall throw up some links on here.
Bleeeeurgh....
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6484887 YUM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamsandwich/sets/72157606978612503/ YUM
http://www.beholder-art.com/product_detail/1702/Barnacle-1.html YUM
http://www.annafidler.com/ YUMMISH
http://www.william-lynch.co.uk/limehouse.php#images/LIMEHOUSE/forcrabwolf.jpg YUM?
http://www.richardcolmanart.com/image02.php VAGUELY YUMMY, but not quite.
Right, now I am getting fed up of typing with an abused finger, so I'm off to do some work.
And eat these fake Smarties (they're rather tasty, especially when 2 are eaten with 1 almond / brazil nut / walnut from the nut section).
And maybe play Sims 3, whilst procrastinating about doing work.
Good bye.
OH! P.S. I don't love you, but this is great:
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr
A link Faye put up on Facebook. You can find ANY colour palette.
Monday, 7 September 2009
One and five
Lets leave it for tomorrow's update, if it appears on time (doubtful, since tomorrow I shall be hit with a hangover).
Strange dream last night, complete with:
-"You stopped"
-"You flopped"
-"There is no love in this relationship".
Dear me.
SORRY BLOG! But I was never meant to be a mother, not even for a blog it seems!
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
14
Though I'm currently being distracted by Hitler.
SILJE AND VERA ARE BACK YAY. We just ate Dominoes (2 for Tuesday deal, buy 1 get 1 free... always good for smelly students like myself). With Jack Daniels BBQ sauce. Om nom nom.
Vera is mean. She's telling me to write my blog instead of watch Hitler :(
ANYWAY...
Tomorrow we're going blackberry picking, since theres quite a few in the hedgerows. Especially round Swanpool / the graveyard there, and Pendennis Head. YUMMY! I sense blackberry and apple crumble with oaty topping! Mmm.
For S&V's return, I had a baking frenzy. Marmalade muffins with creamcheese icing, cheese and poppy seed scones, spiced shortbread with lemon drizzle icing, and cappucino shortbread topped with white chocolate and a little walnut piece. Yummy.
In my making and baking spree, I also attacked the red wall in the living room (to be painted, possibly a darkish sea green colour?) with some off-white antlers.
Something I found this week was this photo on Facebook:

I really love how the makeup has been sprayed on over lace, and the bells and the colours... mmmm. The annoying bit, is that I didn't save the name or ANYTHING, so I can't tell you where I found it (except for Deviantart). If anyone (if anyone ever reads this) can tell me who, I will like it a lot.
END. I can't be bummed to write more.
The washing up is turning into a mountain.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
TURTEEN
Updating on a Tuesday again for once, blimey. I must be ill. Infact I AM ill! Hurrah! Yuck.
Yesturday I slowly got a sore throat, and felt tired, and had chills... so "uh oh" I thought, I really buggering hope it's not swiiiiineeee fluuuuuuu! So I threw a couple of paracetamol back (to try catch anything lurking) and flopped in my bed watching computer TV for a while.
Woke up this morning, yuck. Ouchy throat. When I usually get this I drink mugs of hot (but cooled down enough so I can drink it, hot stuff really does nothing for me) water mixed with a decent big blob of honey, and a large gathering of oats at the bottom. Time for throat inspection. EEEURGH! It's all swollen and red with white and YELLOW?! bits! So I took a photo and then ignored the fact that I was being imprisoned to my house to wait for a parcel (which still hasn't come) and skipped off to Tescos. It felt like freedom. Gracefully interrupted a Tescos man whilst he was busy counting a large number of things (I hope he forgot the number) and he tells me that they're totally out of paracetamol. Also, the only Strepsils they have are the big pack of "throat AND nose" ones. My nose is not blocked, thank you, but they'll do the job. Buy buy buyyyy, and some half price B&J Phish Food.... GO GO GO! Back to the imprisonment of your house. No parcel.
But yes. So I'm a bit ill. But not drasticly, and no high temperature. Phew.
Heres a picture of my throat (very attractive, yes? Look riiiight to the back. "AHHHH"):
Moving away from why I'm grumpy because of being ill...
I am also currently sulking. Sulking in a big deep green bubbling pool of JEALOUSY. Blimmin' youngest / younger siblings.
She got a brand new £100 phone, a £900 sailing trip with Tall Ships in the Baltic sea, and now she's on a boat for a week sailing with my mum. Hang on, wasn't I promised to go sailing this week, with mum? I vividly remember all the way back in June, mum offering me the place and me accepting... I GUESS IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM. Or not.
This week since God & Pamela left, I have been sitting on my arse being bored shitless and trying to get on with summer work. RANT RAVE RANT RAVE. I COULD HAVE BEEN SAILING! ON A YAUGHT! ALONG THE CORNISH COAST!!
Pah.
I 'spose mum bought me a plastic mop bucket from Trago's though. That makes it fair and equal, right?
Rant moan groan grumble.
Pah.
OOOONNNN a happier note, before I start sounding like a rambling angsty online journal of a 15 year old, SILJE AND VERA ARE BACK ON FRIDAYYY! Did I already mention that in a previous post? I DON'T CARE! 2 MORE FULL DAYS OF DOING SHIT ALL ON MY OWN AND THEN FRIDAY THEY WILL BE HEREEEEE!
And then Elk and mum with swing into Falmouth, from their lovely sailing trip and I'll get Elk drunk for 3 nights or something BUT SHUT UP WHINGING BEX! SILJE AND VERA! YAY!
I made Silje (http://www.sil-yeah.blogspot.com/) some killer cat feet, coz I found my black furry material and I remembered her cat hat with ears and she sent me lots of yummy sour sweeties from Dropsen in Norway... om nom nom.
I have indeed been on an artsy spree, mostly, anyway... vaguely avoiding my summer project, which is annoying coz I WANT to do it but I don't seem to be able to.
Instead I made the above slippers, and then finished my 3 [4 inch] pieces (but I'm going to print them out nicely). They all fit together in an upside down L shape.
Minotaur...
Kelpie...
Faun! Hurrah! The originals now sit all stuck up on my wall of works. Most of which I don't actually much like anymore... but they can live there until I find something to replace.Today I also did a quick little painting illustration for a short story called Eleanora which Loz wrote. I like the story, and I think I'm going to do more small pictures for it.
Nothing pure amazing, just gouache on brown paper and then thrown at Photoshop for colour adjustments. I made it up as I went along.http://aelwyd.deviantart.com/art/Eleanora-133381154
A link to the story.
Goodnight, you smellbags, I'm off with my computer to bed. With lots of water.
Friday, 14 August 2009
Teeeewelve
Luckily this time the weather was good when they were here (or at least, I got a little darker skinned yesturday) and now it's gone crap.
At the moment it's Falmouth Festival week, I think tonight is the last night as I have been informed that there are fireworks. I shall sit on my windowsill and watch them, should be a good enough view of the harbour from here.
The monday just gone was great. I took my visiting friend Rachel to my favouritest pub (Jacob's Ladder) just to show her where it was, and to force her to climb the 111 steps there. Wasn't expecting it to be busy, it was after all a monday and not term time... sat out in the patio and drunk our Old Rosie and such. There was a group of youngish folk (ok, 20ish) there, they had only formed a little while back and were singing sea shantys. Got talking a little with them, and may have said they could sing it all at my house any day! Ah ha ha. It'd be great, though. I thought they were wonderful. Got a number for them, as well... it could work...
From there we followed the sea shanty lot (apparently they practise at the Ladder every monday now) and went to The 'front. It seems everyone practises things on mondays, this monday there was a group of folky fishermen sorts and a little gathering of people playing small drums and fiddles and such. AND FOLK DANCING! Rachel and I got pulled into it all, so much fun, especially on top of the sea shantys at Ladder. Then we went paddling down the quay steps into the harbour. And walked home barefoot. Delicious.
I've heard that the print rooms at uni are open over the summer, which is quite highly exciting since it's a fun place to play. What I REALLY need though is to use their actual computer printer things... need to print off my [4 inch] pieces (done by hand, scanned, tweaked). Ok they are due in for October, but I'd rather like to do them now please. Going to the proper printing shop does not quite do the trick, for me.
Come on Topshop order... arrive please... I would like my red dress.
Too much money being spent, Rebecca!!!
I want these, too:
http://www.ctrlclothing.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&products_id=404
Howeverm I do not think that I have a good enough reason to spend that much on leggings... however funkehh they are.
More stuff I like...
http://listimpone.blogspot.com/Yum yum, lots of little black lined patterns and beasty beasts.
Animals on wallpaper. Nice.
http://www.catherinesanimals.com/
The ones I like theeee best are deer 1, duck 1, ostrich, sheep, sloth 1.... y'know, it's actually too hard to choose. Theres so many great ones!!
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Elf.
I'm back in Fally now, Becca left yesturday after staying here for a week.
And of course, the weather got better the day she left. Tsh!
I really don't have much to say, work wise I'm slowly slowly SLOWLY plodding on with the summer sketchbook (started to label what I'm gonna throw at each page, since a large chunk of stuff I'm actually doing seems to be from photos... whoops) but also trying to do more sketches.
Silje told me of the new Babahogs [4 inch] thing (for a bit before x-mas) so I had an urge to start that this evening. Already started the sketch of the 3rd! Whee! Perhaps I'll actually get these ones in due to the fact I'm lacking in distractions.
Anything else...? It seems that I have forgotten how to play with Photoshop, since I haven't touched it since the Macbeth project. Bah.
Today I talked to Jeremy's mum for a while, apparently she works in his antiques shop too. As does his sister.
Blergh, I want to get on with sketching. Go away blog.