Apologies.

I know, I know: I haven't blogged in a while. I've been without my laptop for the past week and without a phone for the last few days because of a choir camp that I went to.  Also, as is tradition whenever I go on a camp, I am now sick.  Yaaaay. This isn't much of a post but I promise I will try blog more later in the week.  In the meantime, I found this picture on Pinterest and I think it's awesome- this is exactly what I need right now.

Anybody feel like making me one of these?;)

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Andy Alcala, you're cool.

Andy Alcala is a student originally from Chicago who recreates well known paintings, such as pieces by Warhol, Monet and Pollock, by painting them onto his own face and then photographing them.  I stumbled across his work while looking for images for my art nots last term and have wanted to share them ever since. All images taken from here and here.

Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh

Untitled 1975 Jasper Johns

Impression Sunrise Claude Monet

He also posts videos of how he does the paintings on his website.

Campbells Soup Can Andy Warhol

No 31. Jackson Pollock

Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow Piet Mondrian

Girl with Balloon Bansky

Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein

Black Square Kazimir Malevich

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Shopping. Shopping. Shopping.

Now that it's the holidays I've managed to go do a bit of clothes shopping.  Except that in the end I actually bought more shoes than clothes, but I think it's forgivable.  Everything is from Mr Price.

I have another pair of brown lace ups that are similar and I wear them all the time, so I decided it was time to invest in another pair.

I don't usually wear a lot of gold but I particularly liked the combination of it with the pale green colour.

Lastly I got this shirt.

I've been looking for a denim shirt for quite some time, so when I went shopping on Monday I was determined not to leave without one.  Unfortunately, because summer is starting, shops don't have any new winter stock and so all the shirt in the ladies section at Mr Price were the odds and ends- most of them being about three sizes to big for me.  And so came plan B.  Much to the embarrassment of my younger sister I marched into the mens section and came out triumphantly with the smallest one I could find.  I actually prefer this one to the women's ones that I saw as I felt that some of them were a bit 'over decorated'.

Also, thanks to Caitlin for being such an enthusiastic photographer;) 

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Quote.

"It used to be that you were supposed to want to be the homecoming queen, but now I think people want to be more like a Zooey Deschanel."- Tavi Gevinson.

Two awesome people.

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Bubblegum princess.

Last weekend whilst looking through our dress up box in search of old bits of fabric to use as head scarves I found myself looking at old fairy and princess outfits that last fitted me around 2003.  In particular I found a pale bubblegum blue chiffon number that I can remember often strut tin aground the house in when I was five.

Here it is.

Anyway I decided that I quite liked the fabric that the bottom part of the dress was made out of, so I gave it to my gran and viola! Now it's a skirt.

Attempting to recreate the pose.

The material is super floaty and as there is lot of it when I wore it I felt like a cross between a Disney Princess and one of the girls from the movie Grease all at once

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This top belonged to my gran but recently found a new home in my cupboard.

These are some of my mom's old rings from her varsity days.

My sister helped me take these photos and, like in most things we do, we soon got distracted by the daisies in the garden and so these happened.....

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D.I.Y.

Following my evening of lounging around the house, feeding my face and watching movies, I was in a very creative mood for the rest of the weekend.  On Sunday afternoon, somewhere in between digging through the dress up box, oil paints and boxes of crayons, I came across this old printers tray.  I initially bought it, for about R5, from the SPCA to use for an art project at school but soon decided it was too small and forgot about it.  After looking at it again I decided that it was actually quite cool, and proceeded to spend the remainder of my afternoon fixing it up.

I had to clean it quite well, as it was home to a couple spiders.

Next I cut out a bunch of pictures from old magazines.

I used wallpaper glue to stick in old pages from Black Beauty.  Please don't think of me as a horrible, book-murdering person it was already broken and torn up from past projects:(  

I stuck in my collage and put the shelves back inside...

And then it was finished:D

It's now hanging on my wall and is already filled with a bunch of stuff from my dressing table.  I think this was the first time I've started and completed a project within the same day, so I'll admit I'm pretty darn proud of myself;)

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F R E E D O M

So today I can truly say that exams are over for at least another six months.  Yeaaaah.  I spent the afternoon working on my tan and look forward to a weekend of doing whatever I want.  I'm so excited for the holidays that I've even compiled a list of everything I want to do in the next few weeks and for the rest of the holidays.  A few of my holiday goals include:

1.  Baking a rainbow cake.
2.  Shopping.
3.  Reading at least two books.
4.  Sewing.
5.  Framing some stuff for my room.
6.  Seeing friends.
7.  Re-watching Grey's Anatomy and Friends from the beginning.
8.  Having my eyes tested- this is very necessary:(
9.  Learn more about my camera and get some more use out of it.
10. Finding a ukelele.
11. Learning new songs on guitar.

I'll be sure to blog about it all, but for now I think I'll curl up in bed with a cup of tea and watch the Mumford and Sons documentary I bought yesterday.  Happiness.

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