christina loves...

Polyvore loveliness

2008-12-30T12:05:00.002Z

it's been a while but I'm back with a vengence!!!

i want to share this amazing site, that i found through another blog. It's amazing, you can create all sorts of moodboards for interiors, fashion, ideas, anything, and it's collects what you want through a search engine of the internet!! sounds complicated but is tres easy....

i'll be posting some more of these asap! www.polyvore.com

Music I'm loving...

2008-09-11T19:19:00.003+01:00

I am so in love with this album called The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow. Every song is so lovely and heartfelt, and gets better every time i listen to it. Just recently Elbow won the Mercury Music Prize of 2008, which was thoroughly deserved. Amazing!!

Drawing Club

2008-09-10T20:48:00.002+01:00

I went to a drawing club on tuesday night, it was life drawing of the other people that were around you! It was really good to just sit there and for 2 hours just really get into drawing.

A lovely latte and some soggy brownie goo lovelyness helped me get into my sketching!! I've got a long way to go before they actually resemble the person i'm drawing but oh well, fun all round!

La Vie En Rose

2008-08-09T22:31:00.003+01:00

I've just watched an amazing film...La Vie En Rose, about the singer Edith Piaf and her incredible life story. The actress who played her, Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her performance, and I can say she definitely deserved it. I would recommend this...

My Perfect Outfit

2008-08-02T17:43:00.005+01:00

As a little treat to myself, i bought a lovely little outfit today!! A gorgeous black tea dress with a bow sash and some brogue style shoes in a taupe colour! I love them... perfect for tonights drinks, yeh!

Graffiti Art Exhibition near Waterloo Station

2008-07-28T22:03:00.005+01:00

I went to London on saturday and we went to an art exhibition which i had been wanting to see. It's a graffiti art exhibition in a tunnel near the waterloo station, which was a proper exhbition showing many artists work in particular Banksy, but now it's no longer and is free to the public to contribute. Some friends who had seen it before said it looked better now, more natural. Personally, i thought it all looked so good, I loved the way the general public's art was sitting next to someone so high profile as Banksy. Everywhere you look is something of interest and the details on some of the graffiti are amazing. Here's some of my faves...

I love Wall-E

2008-07-24T21:06:00.005+01:00

Went to see the new Pixar film, Wall-E. It was just soooo good, I've never felt so sorry for a little robot before, amazing imagery, clever sounds so no word were needed, just really good. You know when you come out of the cinema and you're just thinking, wow!! And you can't stop thinking about it...that's Wall-E. I saw these vintage style posters for the film, i think this works so well, for such a modern film.....

Lots of Bots...

Also a book is out called Lots of Bots, text by Kiki Thorpe and illustrated by Ben Butcher. It's a really simple and beautiful execution of parts of the film, but made out of paper, cut into shapes, lovely....

I'm back - fireplace before and after!!

2008-07-19T17:34:00.006+01:00

Ok, so I've not done a post in months, been really busy with the house and stuff, but i'm back and raring to go...

Firstly, i want to show off my lovely new fireplace, it's a white modern, art deco inspired fireplace, which looks lovely against our teal feature wall. Alot better than the hideous hole it replaced.....

More to come of the new living room, i love it!!

Off to a Polish restaurant tonight for dinner, lovely! Not sure what to expect!

My laptop's been stolen...

2008-03-20T08:56:00.002Z

Well, no posts for a while as my laptop got stolen last week, when my family's house got burgled!

what i'm loving today...

2008-03-04T21:50:00.004Z

i'm starting to look at a lot of house things at the moment, there's so much about! Urban Outfitters has a lot of cool stuff.

i want this...i'm getting it!!

2008-02-26T22:09:00.003Z

Red, Bow, Bag, all my fave things!

i love...Juno

2008-02-26T22:03:00.004Z

I went to see Juno last night, and I loved it, funny in parts and very honest in others. I did find the girl's accent a bit annoying but you get used to that, and the fact she uses language like they did in Dawson's Creek, way too clever!! But overall a really good film, well deserved it's Oscar, and not at all the "girly film" Jon said it would be! Oh yeh saw No country for old men at the weekend, very very good, total opposite of Juno.

Sugarloop

2008-02-19T19:00:00.005Z

I stumbled across this blog today and i'm loving it loads already, amazing prints in gorgeous colours, and just a good blog to read about an illustrator at work...

www.sugarloop.blogspot.com

Valentine's Brief

2008-02-19T18:46:00.003Z

I've entered a card competition for next years Valentine's... here goes...

latest shoe drawings

2008-02-11T21:02:00.001Z

coloured shoes

2008-02-11T20:03:00.000Z

Just trying out some patterns and colours. Been drawing mores of my shoes, seems to be geting harder!

my latest project

2008-02-06T21:59:00.000Z

i'm drawing every pair of shoes i own and then making a huge repeat pattern. i didn't realise how hard it is to draw shoes, i'm using this as a good exercise to practise my drawing skills!!

heart sunglasses!

2008-02-06T21:42:00.001Z

just because i love them!!

i love...Control

2008-02-06T21:35:00.000Z

Been a bit busy of late, so here's what I've been up to. I went to see Control on Monday night, i know a bit late but i didn't catch it the first time round, and as it's bafta nominated it's been repeated. I just loved everything about this film, the acting, the music, the scenes, everything! The fact a lot of the filming was done in Nottingham and my cousin was an extra in it, was an added bonus!

Tuesday night went to the theatre to see another cousin in a play called Daisy Pulls It Off! About the trials and tribulations of a girls hockey team at a posh school, very funny and my cousin Laura was great.

a few things i love...

2008-02-03T15:34:00.000Z

ok so here are a few things that i love... andy warhol, lucienne day, bows, coco chanel, rob ryan, shoes, maira kalman, daisy de villeneuve, hearts, patterns...to name but a few! I'll expand on these in time..

My Old Work...

2008-02-02T16:29:00.000Z

Here's a few examples of the work i used to do, mainly screenprinting. i love the look of all different types of printing, which i explored at uni.

The above images, are based on 50"s hair styles, influenced by popart. The methods used are mono print for the background, lino print for the hair and screen print for the faces.

The image below use similar processes, they illustrate what happens when we age...lose our teeth, lose our eye sight and dye our hair!!!

A few pages out of a book i made, looking into the trend of hand drawn images....

2008-02-02T15:45:00.000Z

Well i've finally started it! Not sure how this is going to work out. But it will consist of current projects that i'm working on and looking around at other inspirations.

After looking at many blogs such as print pattern and camilla engman's and decor8, all of which i love, i decided to do one myself!

So here goes...