lunch

i found a lovely little square just up from selfridges to have my lunch in. i did get a few odd looks, sitting down with my back against the iron railings and reading a 5cm-thick book about stalin in his teens! it was lovely though, whipped out a bit of bon iver as well. i've been enjoying listening to my whole music collection alphabetically too, thanks to still not knowing how to set my iphone to shuffle, it's surprisingly fun to think "ooh i've hit p!"... or maybe i need to work less! i had leftover sausagemeat/vegetable/pesto pie... it's such a winning recipe, all you do is fry sausages, cut them up, add onions, then boil some carrots & steam any veg you like, add stock, grated cheese, a couple of spoonfuls of pesto & some flour to the onions & meat, mix then put it all together with the carrots mashed on top & some more grated cheese on top. and by the way, if you season the cheese before you melt it it's 34825 times tastier in any recipe!

matthew's drawing a very clever plan for a boat and we had quiche for dinner, with pattatine fritte made from some new potatoes i found in marble arch sainsbury's reduced to 24p, ahhh the satisfaction. he also just sold his vespa! sealed the deal tonight! so many £20 notes i have never seen.

good night!

feeling ruby

found these this morning, by rights it should have been a yellow day, since i just spent 8 hours in selfridges! bloody heck that place is a maze, at one point i ended up next to a big sign that said "anyone found in this area without a valid reason will face disciplinary action" - slightly nervy moment. also had a completely accidental wander round head office, the buying department, conference rooms, menswear and the shoe department before i managed to find the cos concession! next time i'm taking a map...

1 = unknown

2 = carven autumn/winter 2011
(incidentally, the head designer's name is guillaume (pronounced gee-em), the same as my friend at cos who's last day was very sadly saturday. he's now back in paris with his girlfriend ca!

3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 = unknown - sorry i shall try and dig them out!

8 = friels - the absolute best cider since like forever. the only place i've ever found it is in the sainsbury's in the new england quarter of brighton (right by the mainline station). it's like apple juice only so much better! and 10 apples a bottle. sorry for the dreadful photobooth photo!

pavilion

for our two week 3DDA project, we had the brief 'eat london', and in the spatial pathway (which i of course chose) the task was to create a space for a feast. i thought about birthdays - taking such a private affair and sharing it with everyone & anyone. what i was really interested in though was the crystallisation of pyrite and other gems, and carly waito's studies have been fantastic! i made solid lumps of raw plaster and used sandpaper to give them a multi faceted quality, and i also tried this in wood...



anyway, i used this method in the end to create my final model. it went a little wrong in the casting (i had to saw out the wood mould!) but it went alright eventually. i also added a cavity through to the ceiling, as well as the main area inside the structure, to give light and also a beautiful column of water when it rains. here is my final presentation...


our tutor fadi loved it! have a nice day everyone, i'm off to work for stockcheck with my lovely new necklace, white t-shirt and grey wool skirt. would rather sleep, it was katherine's 19th in clapham last night, but what can you do. (have bacon and eggs for breakfast, that's what!)


1 = carly waito

2 = from 'drawings which make themselves' by dorothea rockburne

3 = by m. lewandowski

4 = my final collage, all pictures from my tumblr

5 = unknown

2 = unknown, via procaine

8 = unknown

3 = by tat hase

peach

peach is in the air, and to honour my scrolling through the html to recolour my tumblr layout i thought i'd put my influences here, along with the colours i used. sorry for the complete lack of any recent posts, it's been very hectic here! but now thankfully i'm on a reading week, and despite the 25 hours of overtime that i'm putting in in the next 7 days, i want to share with you my inspiration from the two week 3DDA project i just did. see you soon!

oh and i got an iphone last sunday. but more on that score later!



1 = luli sanchez

2 = #ffa36c

3 = fredrik akum

4 = vivienne westwood

5 = unknown

6 = #ffeee6

7 = unknown, via when-youareastranger

8 = unknown, via daily biens

thinking of jackets

considering the colour for my jacket. to go with autumnal oranges and rusts might be slightly risky though, maybe i should just go with black! still very very tempted by bright yellow though...
hopefully soon my knitting machine will cheer up and work, i think it's sulking because i've been too busy to use it much these last few months!

1 = unknown

2 = stephane rolland

3 = unknown

4 = gustav klimt, birch forest

5 = unknown

6 = aleksandar vasiljević in shot by unknown

7 = lauren doughty

8 = unknown food photographer

9 = dries van noten autumn/winter 1992

10 = jil sander spring/summer 1996

11 = unknown

october

first mix! just a few songs i couldn't live without these past weeks, i hope you like it. good night, tomorrow i might tell you of the new hand-glazed bowl i bought at carluccio's, and share my colour inspiration for the upcoming coat, but then again i will be back at central st martins and working at cos in the evening! i'll see how i feel, matthew's cooking quiche (his pièce de résistance)

8tracks = october

download here = october

thinking of collars

i am making myself a coat! largely in frustration at not being able to find one warm enough to voyage out without a jumper, coat alone. i'm hoping to get back on good terms with my knitting machine, and if not knit the whole thing (a thicker woven outer material may be more functional) at the very least knit a fantastically warm quilted lining. i think the evolving design for this that has been floating around my head can be thanked for my current obsession with collars!
my favourite is the stella mccartney (also loving the grey) but that first streetstyle photo (if anyone knows who this is by, please let me know!) is very very on the button. the bigger, the better, i'm thinking. expect a post on colour soon, right now i'm almost glowing with the thought of yellow, a la sonia rykiel... also, i've been raaaving about the new bombay bicycle club album, matthew doesn't approve, but i adore this song so so SO much. also, 8tracks playlist on the way...


1 = streetstyle shot, source unknown

2 = miu miu worn by bambi northwood-blythe on the cover of metal no. 25

3 = miu miu autumn/winter 2011

4 = via girlmeetcity

5 = junya watanabe

6= miu miu spring/summer 2010

7 = sonia rykiel spring/summer 2012

8 = stella mccartney autumn/winter 2010
9 = chloe autumn/winter 2010

10= dior menswear spring/summer 2012

11 = unknown, via tammerijn

12= unknown, via julia