My Sparkly, Twinkly Adventures....

Hello!!!Eventually I get around to writing a new entry!!Well the past few months have been incredibly intense....many sleepless nights, burning the midnight oil on a daily basis, pricking my finger way too many times to mention but finally I got there!!After being selected to show my collection on the catwalk at Graduate Fashion Week (of which the actual selection process was the most terrifying and most emotionally draining day of my life...think "x-factor" but 10 times scarier) the day Ive waited for forever finally came!!!It was most definatley worth all the blood, sweat and tears that the past few years have seen and I was delighted at how it all went!For those of you who havent heard me going on and on about the collection over the past year...Ill give you a brief round up of what it was all about....a lot of it was inspired by things that I saw and experienced whilst travelling last year...the main influences of my collection were: trailer trash, nostalgia, Japanese Street fashion, mail order briders, trinkets, charvas, caravans,working class subcultures and print design......in the end the collection was made up of jackets made from tea towels with cute cupcakes printed on, cropped rainmacs made from printed vinyl tableclothes, teamed with super sparkly holographic leggings and all accessorised with huge necklaces adorned with candy, kids plastic play food, trinkets and Russian Dollies...and of course a few Fuschia pink pom-poms! Thats it, in a nutshell!!!Had all the family and friends there and the cherry on the cake was meeting Mark Owen whilst having a pizza in Battersea afterwards!!!How random, perfect end to a perfect day!!!!
Ok, so Ill leave you with some photos from the show to check out!!!!

Oh My God!!!!!!!Tonight was the best night of my life ever!!!!The countdown of the months in anticipation of the Take That concert finally arrived!After Mam and Louise's camping expedition outside the arena for tickets all those months ago for the prize seats!!!I cant believe this day ever arrived....Ive been waiting 10 years for this!!!!For all of those who knew me back then, its hard to forget that Take That were my life...with those memorable moments such as crying whilst collapsed on the stairs prior to when I went to see them for the first time at Whitley Bay Ice rink back in '94....the tears at the year 8 disco when the dj whipped "Babe" out on the decks....my ridiculous room covered floor to ceiling of pictures, posters and clippings...and of course....the worst day of my life.....when they broke up...heartbroken....
So anyway, Ive been soooooo exited for the reunion tour...minus Robbie...and It was even more exciting that the show we were going to was the opening of the whole tour (so obviously the boys themselves would be most excited and nervous for this one too!!!)

Heres a ridiculous one of me and Louise outside the arena raring to go!!!!
So we got inside and I thought I was going to vomit as those minutes ticked closer and closer....then lights went off...the atmosphere was sooooo intense....then out came the boys on a platform slowly surrounded by smoke!!!!

Here is the enterance!!!!

So here we are 6 rows from the front....so close could see every facial expression, I couldnt believe it!As they came out I felt like I couldnt breathe, I was totally shaking, HYSTERICAL....I just couldnt believe my eyes that here were Take That and most importantly MARK OWEN literally 3 metres away from me!!!!When they came out you could just see how overwhelmed they were, they were just smiling,speachless and shaking their heads that after 10 years they stroll out onto stage and there 10,000 people just screaming!!!IT WAS A CORKER!!!!!Then suddenly Howard pipes up "Eyyyy they didnt have tits like that 10 years ago!!!"Loveddddd it!!!!

Some really cool special effects....my favourite was when they did "Relight My fire" they had the actual same costumes that they wore back in the day!!!Mark with his little horns on...Jason gyrating around in nothing but a sexy pair or sequined pants!!!There was trapeze artists, pole dancers, flame throwers and then the whole stage went up on fire.....soooooo cool!!!Loved it!!!!The final bit...the whole stage was raining!!!!Spectacular!!!!They were singing in the rain...then splashing about in it, kicking it around!!!I loved it soooooo much!!!!
Ok Im just going to throw a few pictures at you here....this is just a selection of a few from like the thousand me and lou have!!!

Hello again!!!Just thought I would give you all a rundown of the festive season!!!Well, celebrated my birthday last month!!!23, Oh My God, Im almost 30!!!!!Had 2 celebrations...a great night out with the girls down on Brick Lane where we went to '93 Feet East' followed by a bizarre olde worlde 'old man's pub' as reccomended by Aymie!Then I headed up north to Newcastle to spend Christmas with the family!

Went out once again, in Newcastle, for my birthday which was fun, lots of Cosmos and drunken escapades!The night was rounded off with us all buying way too much food from the good old 'Toon Takeaway' and turning up at Tim and Kelly's house at about 4 in the morning!!!
Below are a few of the photos for the night out!

Below is just a range of random pictures from the christmas period...including Chris caressing the pizza, me with some random charva (yes, thats what happens when you go out with Helen!!!)hmmmm 'The Street' covered in snow........

Hello!!!Well its been a while...a few months have passed since my big trip and not a single day goes by when I dont think about it and laugh at some of the crazily surreal memories I have in my head!!!Ive learnt that maybe my photos arent maybe as interesting to other people as they are too me, but hey, I shall never get bored of them!!!

Moved back to London 3 months ago to return to my final year at University after my year out!Defering my studies was the best thing I could have ever done, it has left me feeling incredibly inspired, full of ideas for my graduate collection and full of motivation for this super stressful year!Its great to be back in London, I really missed it whilst away last year, the whole lifestyle,the bright lights, my friends and doing creative stuff everyday of my life!Living in a house with 4 other people from all corners of the globe so Its cool and gives opportunities of free holidays In the future I guess!All is going great at University, got some really exciting projects going on and I always find a way to worm the travels into my work!!!In fact my deadline this week featured my multi-coloured travel journal, my waving cat from Japan and my little Buddha Figure! At the same time as studying I have been doing some freelance jewellery design which I am really enjoying and which is going really well selling in SKIRT Boutique in Newcastle! They are all twinkly encrusted with cute Russian dollies, chinese lucky fish, chrystals, sparkly hearts.....

Enjoying being able to frequent all my old haunts here in London, do lots of fantastic shopping and theres some amazing exhibitions to see right now!

So everything is good right here at the moment, Looking forward to spending Christmas In Newcastle and have a trip to Italy in a couple of weeks time planned followed by a trip to Paris In January...Pairs is for a textile conference which should be a great opportunity but havent been to Paris in a couple of years so Im really looking forward to it!Also started making plans for when I graduate...Im in need of some serious multi-cultural therapy at the end of this degree so I am heading off to India in July for a well deserved adventure and hopefully sample a bit of Nepal also if time allows it!
So for now, Merry Christmas all!!!