Lucinda here again :)

Was suppose to blog yesterday on the blog rota but totally forgot so I'm blogging now!.


Well we all had to do the presentation on Tuesday to the 'Dragons' (five very scary people!).I was pretty nervous but wanted to get it out of the way quickly. Halfway through I started to relax a bit thankfully and I think it went better then I thought it was going to go.

Now we have started a new project on Spinning Tops. Can't say I'm to excited about this project but the second half with the Umbrellas seem more exciting even though I would prefer not to model the umbrella!

So far I havent actually liked any of my drawings I've done but I like this image below that I made using a Spirograph. I inverted this image on the printer and here is what it looks like. (this is A3 but my scanner is A4)

I then made this into a collage and another one of my images into one aswell.

 I think I am going to add to these maybe with the sewing machine or with some more collage.


 I also went to a firework display on Wednesday and here a few of my favourite photos.

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Heyy...I tried taking photos of the spinning top in movement, i didnt have much success as my camera is awful :) but i like the photo below just because of the colours :):)

Earrings

I've made a pair of earring useing shrinkie paper, which I think I almost burnt in the oven. :S I bought earring pendents from Elphicks, and tied them up in ribbon :) These are one of my 5 free gifts I'm going to put in my goody bag for my opening night. Abi x

Too many ideas, too little time...

Okkay. So I've realised that realistically achieving all the items I wish to make, finishing my sketchbook so there is no gaps and everything is complete....AND doing a Catalogue mock up...simply isn't achievable.

I'm basically there with everything, few touch ups on the sketchbook here and there, sort out a few bits on certain items...and those will be complete...

I will then finish sorting out my Powerpoint, and will be ready for tomorrow - which will go fine...atleast that's what i'm telling myself, it's only 5 minutes of my life after all. If I muck it up - atleast I gave it a go :)

ANYWAY.... once all that is done, there is no way I can attempt to cram in doing a catalogue mock up, my busy schedual [working on the sketchbook and other items, visiting universities etc.] teamed with bad weather when i've been free, and even worse weather today, means I can't do any location shoots... therefore, although the idea was good, I shall have to leave it. Perhaps mock up a few pages and put them in my sketchbook to show where I was going with some ideas etc. but if I attempt any more work, I won't sleep tonight..and I need my sleep! [recovered insomniac who can easily slip back into sleepless routines, right here!]

Aside from all that, have had my Personal Statement emailed back - it's SO close to being ready :D, so that's a load off my mind! Also, I visited Glamorgan University yesterday, all the way over in Cardiff...

I fell in lovee.

Glamorgan is officially top of my list, it even knocked Nottingham on Trent into second place - now THAT is an achievement!! I loved the place so much, I thought with a Welsh accent for the rest of the day... but I'm a little strange like that.

Anyway, the place is lovely, the rooms are full of windows an well lit, the facilities are great, the presentation was professional, and the tutors are full of enthusiasm...i'm excited to go to university, would love to be able to get a place there, and know what I need to do in order to stand out from the crowd, the course sounds PERFECT. Hard work, but nothing that the college course isn't preparing me for!

Jenny :)

Well I have nothing to show you on here as the majority of my work I've done this week is 3D but I have done some more bookwork looking into shops exteriors and interiors I like, and a couple of shops which I would love to change a bit to suit my shop. I also created a questionairre to ask a few people which could fall into my Yummy Mummy target market. I've created so far for my gift bag, a postcard and Ive nearly finished making my gift bag out of material I ordered earlier on in the week. Ive planned my other peices and had to change printing onto a mug as I couldnt order the paper and by the time I can (tomorrow is Pay Day) it wont get here in time for the deadline. Still have a load of work to do, panicing a bit but hopefully I will get there, going to set myself all of tomorrow to do it instead of doing housework haha

I went to Winchester School of Art yesterday though for the Open Day. I liked the Uni and the facilities there but really didnt like the course! Have booked Open Days at Southampton Solent Uni and Portsmouth Uni for next month so I hope they appeal to me more. Still thinking about a gap year and I think at the moment it will be the best thing for me, to mature a little bit more and toughen up haha I'm really looking forward to visiting both of these other Unis as their courses really interested me.

Lucinda :)

Just My Luck...

I'd written a nice long post, and pressed 'back' for it to be wiped from history...great!

Firstly, even though I know I have the correct details, Prezi WILL NOT LET ME LOGIN. Very, very frustrating... it is so much more professional then the old fashioned Powerpoint I will now have to work with...grrrr.

Anyway, was up at 7am today for a 9am art supply trip to Basingstoke :D

I bought fabric and cord to make the drawstring gift bag, beads/sequins to embroider items with, a tie (polyester not silk, but a tie nonetheless!), handkerchiefs (to embroider along with the tie), small foldable boxes (pack of 10, only need a few, the rest look real cute stacked up in my room filled with jewellery :P), ribbon, tracing paper and card for my tags, and a sketchbook for a mock up catalogue.

Has anyone seen Devil Wears Prada? They have the large book copy of the magazine before it goes to print, where everything is layed out and stuck in, covered in notes etc?  Well my magazine mock-up will be similar, only without notes and will look slightly more professional - and is to give an idea of what would be printed in the catalogue that would be sent out in the gift bags. I just couldn't get an actual professional one done as... you have to buy in bulk. And I really DON'T need 1,000 copies thank you VERY much! Ha :)

Everything is coming together :) and it's quite exciting...I'm nervous about our Dragons Den style presentation, but am ready with my smart black dress, heels and tights, and will do my best to hold myself together for those 5minutes! Can't be too hard, right?

Jenny :)

Kingston University

I haven't any arty things to post at the moment - that doesn't mean I haven't done any, I simply haven't scanned it in or photographed it, so I thought I would write about my visit to Kingston University, and post the more arty update later this week - meaning i'll blog twice, surely that's a good thing? ;)

Anyway, was up bright and early on October the 23rd (last Saturday) to catch the 8.15am train to Serbiton  (sp?) with my Mum and Dad. The journey took about an hour and I almost fell asleep! I'm not very good with mornings...

After some poor map reading we eventually found our way to Kingston University - about 20 minutes from the train station.

Unfotunately I wasn't immediately impressed...inside it was crowded and seemed dis-organised, and our first talk of the day, at 10pm, was on Student Life. The seating was rickety, the room was - in my words - 'scabby', and the presentation was amateaur. There was an interactive quality to it, with the audience having clicker pads allowing us to vote A,B or C to some questions they asked - but it made it seem like a talk show, especially as the whole thing was presented by a male in his 40s who sat in the stair isle, asking people at the front to do certain things! One woman would explain different pricings and the halls etc. while 3 students who were currently at the University would give advice.

There wasn't a single mention of Freshers and the talk was very bland.

Afterwards we headed for the Fashion talk, which I was sort of looking forward to, but after the first impression I doubted it would be any good...

I'll give the Uni some credit, the course sounded...ok. But the presenatation was worse then the one before, sat as though we were in class, the woman who overruns the whole Fashion Design course stood at the front droning on. The slideshow she flicked through would have been more interesting had she not skimmed it so quickly - making it impossible to see the work examples. A student who blogs her work showed her blog at the end, and it could have been interesting, except all I heard was 'I draw' pretty much over and over again...

Question time at the end wasn't informative at all - the woman never answered a single question properly.

Anyway, by the time it came to the tour I had made up my mind, now I know you really should look around to get a better feel of the course, and it should be the resources the University provides that I make my decision on, but having already been bored by the presentation and finding the course not overly attractive, I knew it was not a place I wanted to be, I wouldn't be happy there, and didn't like the surrounding area or the parts of the University I had seen.

We didn't attend the tour, and headed straight home. My Mum agreed with what I thought about the place, although Dad tried to find something good from it [bless him].

Anyway, Kingston just wasn't for me.

Next Saturday; Glamorgan in Wales!

Jenny :)