Teenie Post

I think you should look at this tumbr blog http://pauldraw.tumblr.com/  My boyfriend draws the weirdest shit. It's pretty cool.

Also the fashion show tickets are on sale for Gray's School of Art Stage Four Fashion Design to display their past years work to the public! You can buy tickets here: http://graysfashion.bigcartel.com/

AND I have my portfolio up on Arts Thread. Find it through this QR code below.

Just over two weeks til hand in. My stress level is at boiling point.

Now heres a really cute Corgi:

 

Thats better :)

Trip down to Glasgow

Myself and my pal Natalie went down to Glasgow this weekend past to get the rest of our fabric for our collections. After a few hours spent rummaging about the store, we decided on the materials and headed off to the lovely willow tea rooms, made famous by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, for lunch. There was a pop up shop in an underground basement bar which we stumbled across which had a lot of vintage clothing and kitch accessories. Just the type of place we adore! We both bought rings from a lovely stall. I bought a teacup ring (pictured below) and Natalie bought a ring in the shape of a tooth. Such an odd inspiration for a ring, but it was adorable nonetheless, especially when she had an alterier motive of using it to freak out her sister who has a fear of the little nashers!

Aymee

Tights and tights and tights

I really love tights.

This morning I have spent my time going through my basket of tights, a sort of clear out I suppose. A few years ago my tights collection doubled, then tripled, and has continued to multiply to the point where I had to invest in a large basket to relocate them from the drawer they were spilling out of. It was kind of fun to find all these tights I have not seen in a very long time! I was aiming to get rid of the ones with holes that were unfixable (as of course a tiny hole can easily be stitched up and it gives me the chance to keep more! *Evil laugh*) I made three piles; intact tights, fixables and RIP (get it!). 

This obsession has had me hooked on finding more and more hosiery brands. And my long time favourite has to be Bebaroque. They are a duo based in Edinburgh that studied their degree's at the Glasgow School of Art. I adore how this brand is Scotland based as I am from Aberdeen just three hours north of Edinburgh! I now own seven Bebaroque items which I have bought from their website, eBay and also when I travelled down to Glasgow at the end of 2011 to attend their sample sale. And when I am no longer a skint student I will own many more :)

Inspiration has definitely come from Bebaroque when designing my final collection at Gray's School of Art. Their use of print, sequins, beading and embellishment really are the little qualities I find interesting when applied to garments. I gave it a go at embellishing my own tights with my own designs in accordance with my final year brief. Here are a few of my designs below:

I cannot wait to design and make some more, but I must concentrate on finishing my collection first :)

Aymee