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This is a bit rubbish but here are a couple of outfits and more things I bought this week, as well as a couple of gratuitous photographs of Dolly.

So these are the outfits I wore on Wednesday evening and Thursday. I went out on Wednesday for the first time in ages it was a bit of a shame that it was only a quiet one due to my interview the following day. These dresses are too good; great shapes and such cool patterns.

Left:
Dress: Yumi, £12.99
Belt: Primark, with another dress
Tights: Primark
Shoes: New Look, last year

Right:
Jacket: H&M, last year
Scarf: Primark, nearly 5 years ago
Dress: Yumi, £21.99
Tights: Primark
(wore with) Ankle Boots: River Island.

I got these in the Dorothy Perkins sale for £5, best £5 spent on shoes, ever! They're so comfy and so ugly, the best! ♥

I'm really liking the idea of putting neat things like greetings cards in frames. Scribbler might have a sale on and I might have popped into the one in Kensington while waiting around for my interview on Friday. They're by an illustrator called Paul Thurlby and I thought they were pretty cute. The 'Embrace' one would make a good Valentine's card but I feel it might be slightly to mushy for Moon's taste in that context and I'd prefer it for myself as a piece of art anyway. Now I know that Scribbler is far superior to Paperchase in it's card selection at the moment, I'll definitely be taking the time to browse there first.

I got around to printing out my graphic CV a whole week ahead of schedule. Which I probably knew I could do but it does wonders for motivation when you tick things off your to-do list early. The man who works at the printers in New Malden was quite nice and has asked to potentially use photographs from Malden Fortnight to display in the window. I don't know if anything will come from it but it was kind of nice. I'm to drop some business cards to him during next week.

All baby animals like to do is play.

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This morning's work.


I think I'm going to go to the printers now and get about five done to post out, they're going to be A2 size but fold into an A4 booklet. I want to at least see how it will look in print. I thought I might really need to start grabbing some attention to get going places.

This has been suggested many times through many different platforms and I hope that it doesn't some how end up too samey in comparison to others. Essentially all I've really done is fancied up a standard CV.. but I think it has potential to look quite good. I may give it another go if these end up looking crap, this is just a rough draft, a kind of experiment.

I worry that it's a bit restricting in terms of what jobs I can apply for with it, but I think I'm going to try I'm aiming for publishers and digital agencies, it's worth a shot anyway.

This week I'm working on:

I might actually have finally begun to get round to it! I've been putting it off basically because I've been so caught up in finding a job and going away. Now I can worry a bit less, I figured that I may as well and I've familiarised myself again so it shouldn't take as long as I thought it would, particularly now I've sorted the photo-side of it out.

I've also been inspired to create a 'Ruth Magazine' CV to send out to companies to grab their attention, don't know why I didn't think of this before I have fairly solid InDesign skillz.
I think I just needed to be pointed in the right direction, and that help came in the form of the 1987 edition of 'The Chris Wheal'.

0282.

I made this this afternoon and sent it to a portrait studio.
It's not a masterful attempt at graphic design but it's slightly better than any other .doc CV.

It took far to long to say not very much. It makes me realise that I don't have nearly enough experience, but it's only by applying for things that I'll gain any.