love for ryden.

can't get enough of mark ryden's work, so beautifully dark and majestic!

Bleach!

The other day i was reading about bleach salon in london and alex brownsell, it seemed really funny that all the polished vogue readers would be reading about a fundamentally grunge and rock inspired salon, where even the name and logo are no doubt inspired by nirvana's famed song. either way the look of the hair produces is anything but what is considered 'mainstream' some examples are below. my friends have always been ones to experiment with different hair colours and have fun with 'crazy colour' bottles from Nottingham market in the Victoria centre, so it seems kind of a shame that everyone will most likely be jumping on the trend sooner or later.






Inspired by the mint green colour i decided to pop a bit of pine green on my ends, it washed out really quickly though and is now a tad patchy which sucks! might go burgandy or pink next because i'm bored post uni.

NASTY PASTY

a few years ago i was looking for vintage clothing on ebay (unsuccessfully) but i happened to stumble across an ebay store called Nasty Gal Vintage, they had lots of lovely things but it being an american store, the shipping costs were steep. a couple of months ago i saw a banner on fashion toasts blog for nasty gal's website, i clicked on and to my surprise, found that they sell a lot of new and very on trent clothing mainly by american designers!
i absolutely love pretty much everything on there, in particular the following bad boys.





not forgetting jeffrey campbells beautiful lita platforms, which i have been wanting for what seems like an eternity.

mayday! mayday!

i'm definitely feeling a lot of pressure at the moment, that bastard of a final major deadline is approaching fast and i'm getting that constant groan of "you should be doing university work, not sewing/ crocheting/ watching films/ tidying your room/ shopping/ doing anything that isn't uni work" i hate that voice.
i guess now that voice is saying you should be doing university work, not blogging... but this is a quick one.
time is moving so quickly at the moment, i can't believe its may already! so to mark mayday weekend, here is an amazing song by Mayday Parade (still very much listening to standard summer pop punk)

life's a stitch.

so that last post of my embroidery was quite frankly terrible, needles (haha) to say i started again!
i spend two nights doing that instead of uni work and it's now ready to be given to liam, who i'm hoping will see the funny side rather than the insulting side of my cheeky cross stitch.
Here it is in a pretty little ikea frame!



i took a picture with the mirror effect on my photobooth so one of the images would be the correct way round! xox

subversive cross-stitch.

like a dumb ass, i left my crochet at home when i went back for easter! i miss it so i've started a new crafty hobby (source of procrastination) i've begun my subversive cross-stitch!
my first attempt isn't going great since i'm trying to make it up as i go along which makes alignment difficult...
theres only one person who would appreciate my finished product, so i'm giving it as a present to my friend liam.
it is going to read

"there's no "i" in team, but there is a "u" in c**t"
(without the stars but i censored that for the eyes of my followers)

i think he'll find it funny, i hope he will.
i'll let you know how it goes...



it looks awful so far and it's obviously backwards on my macbook image but once i finish it and add some hearts and patterns it will look AMAZING!
xo

don't be mocking the mocha

'scuse the blog title, watched about a gazillion hours of the mighty boosh this eve in order to put off doing university work... the hard work starts tomorrow. today has been a lovely day, the sun was shining and since my friend louise is back from birmingham for easter we decided to take a magical trip out to wollaton hall and deer park to have a picnic and see lions and tigers and bears, oh my!



here's a squinty louise with our yummy lemon cuppycakes!