Motel Rocks Nail Art Competition.

Hello, I've made it through to the finalist's stage of the Motel Rocks Nail Art Competition! It's so exciting and would be so awesome if you could head over to the Facebook page and like my entry because it would be great to win.

I promise I'll post something interesting soon, but I've been so busy job hunting, driving and house hunting that I've not really had anything interesting to show you or to talk about. I was down in Newbury this afternoon looking at places, we saw some game changers as we were pretty dead-set on the one we're viewing tomorrow, we've got to act quickly so it's all quite intense.

I picked up some great fabric in Fabric Land today as I plan on making my own version of Elsie from A Beautiful Mess' plush fox as well as some other things. I also bought some paint to revamp an old chest, I'm in a really DIYing/crafty mood, that might give me something fun to show you.

I hope you had as good a start to your week as I have.x

Misc.

Yesterday, my new favourite film magazine, Little White Lies held a Twitter competition to win a beaut gold foil-block print of The Tree of Life by illustrator, Joe Wilson and I won one! I should definitely get round to watching The Tree of Life now, it's been on my 'films to watch list' for ages.
So, long story short, this should be making it's way to me pretty soon:

(via Church Of London on Flickr)

In other news, I have been persuaded to abandon creating a website from scratch once more due to an invite to join DPG.com. I already know a few photographers that use it and it has a really simple and easy-to-upload-and-maintain system, as well as being fairly customisable it seems like it could be right up my street. So when I have the time that's what I'll be working towards, if my domain name stops giving me minor grievance.

I also thought I would take the time to share these photos with you from the dribs and drabs that I've taken in the last few days, like I mentioned in my previous post I haven't been snapping that much, but I thought that here was as good a place as any to put them.



I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the squirrels that live down The Cut, it must be such a stressful lifestyle, living practically on a railway line and being so small.
Here is what my nails look like, I used this tutorial for the Picasso/Motel-inspired onces. I did have that design on each nail but I got a bit fidgety. Emma, the girl who does the nail art tutorials on the Motel Rocks blog also posts some really neat designs on her own blog, a great blog to visit for nail-art envy.


I start the internship tomorrow, I'm surprisingly calm, I've spent nearly all day playing The Sims 3... really.

Tonight is fireworks night.

Can't wait to at least play with sparklers.

I made these last night, for some reason the food colouring separated a bit from the buttercream, but they are delicious. I love baking - and cakes.


I must start jotting down my ideas for my next project, it's pretty good, but I'm only thinking at the moment rather than doing any actual work. I'll start tonight. It's boring doing nothing.

This afternoon, I am going to read for Project Management and sort out images for my online portfolio - which should go live once I've done this. Not necessarily in that order.. or the first one at all. But these are the two things I want to get done by the end of the week.

My seminar today was quite awesome, as good as analysing celebrity magazines/culture can be. I don't think I'll be doing my essay on it as the oriental one that's coming up in a few weeks seems more down my street but I didn't realise they were so good. I should definitely have gone to them last year.

And finally, I have entered one of three images into The Printspace Photography Competition. I'm not expecting to win and my two other images will probably be a bit better but I quite like my ice skating one even if it's not particularly insightful.

Will be doing light-painting with sparklers later. And hopefully going to Portsdown Hill for the view. Fireworks night is easily one of the best of the year.