.. And I'm soo excited :) for the first time in a few years I'm actually in the christmassy mood, and it's so good. I can't wait for the day but I don't want it to be over too quickly :(
:D the decorations are up, the presents are all wrapped, the food has been got, it's time for the big day finally!! It's come round too quick but it's time to enjoy.
Have a very merry Christmas and look forward to blogging more in the new year think tht should be one of my resolutions.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
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The other day the all American rejects posted a video of a track from their new album. At the time I didn't think much about it but today I saw another post and thought I wud check it out.
Now I already love aar so I'm very biased but I think this song is epic and I can stop listening to it :) if anyone else likes them check this out asap u won't regret it. The song is called someday's gone and their new album I'd out next year :D enjoy
x bex x
After hours of painstaking work I finally finished my top hat, corset and couture project. :( I'm still in post deadline stress mode, so I thought I wud cheer myself up by showing you a photo from the little photoshoot we had.
Both pictures are the same and are my favourites from the lot, they were taken by my teacher and modelled by a good mate. This picture will hopefully be going into my portfolio so this is where I need some help. Which one do u prefer? The original slightly fixed one or the one with an effect? Or do u have any suggestions of something I cud do to make it look better?
I look forward to hearing your opinions :) as always
x Bex x
Above is the original image cleaned up a little and below is the edited version :)
Lately the only time i seem to post is on a tuesday, i don't kno why no i know why its cos tuesdays are so amazing.
Today was the same as any other 4 and a half hours of college spent sitting around doing nothing, today with the addition of a mini photoshoot which was pretty fun :) cant wait to share the pics.
Our photoshoot was basically so we have professional quality photos for our portfolios, being college it was never gonna be amazing, but i cant wait to see the pics :). My skeleton hat which is my embellishment for my hat took me sooo many hours to finish, and in my opinion it was worth every second.
Now its time for I'm a Celeb and thn The vampire diaries straight after and i can not wait for it, i swear i get too excited.
x Bex x
The end of a college project is always stressful, there's so much work to get done and stuff to actually finish. Deadlines are the things I hate the most I go into stress overload especially on the day :(
Atm we have 2 weeks before this dreaded day and already the stress and nerves are kicking in. So our semi major project is called the couture project and requires us to create, a corset inspired by a couture designer, a sketch book, and 2 mounted textile techniques.
This is the one I'm stressing about the most as it's gotta be good (so I won't bother telling u about our other project) and the standard is high. As it's couture I thought beads were very much in order, I'm starting to hate this decision. I have beaded for a grand estimated total of around 20+ hours it's difficult to tell as I never time myself. This time has been spent beading various different samples and pictures for my sketchbook along with one of my mounted techniques. And finally my final corset :o which is hopefully going to have a ribcage beaded onto it in the style of a rococo wall panel, sounds very complex but whn I post pics of it and my sketchbook (fingers crossed) u will kno wht I'm going on about. 
So my designer is givenchy and one dress in particular, it's a figure hugging, sheer crystal covered piece of art. The thing that I love about it most, isn't that it's just a beautiful garment, it's the attention to detail (after all it is couture) and the inspiration behind it.
It was inspired by an artist whose obsessions were religion and the human anatomy (where the ribcage idea is from). It's gotta look good!!
Soo I think I've babbled way too much well it looks alot on my tiny iPhone screen, but at least it's helping to take my mind off of beading atm it's stuck going "must finish beading" "need to bead" hopefully it will shut up and let me sleep.
Again sorry for the annoying/boring post and for any spelling or txt speak
X Bex x
It's finally Tuesday and I'm soo glad I've been waiting all week for today, and it's gone by too quickly :(
Each week is the same I just end up wishing the days away till it's Tuesday again :) Most of u probably already kno tht Tuesday's are my fav days of the week lol. Why? Well my strange obsession with the vampire diaries are the reason for this love of tuesdays, oh and that new episodes of two and a half men, how I met your mother and 90210 get posted online.
This Tuesday was the same as any other the vampire diaries and chocolate, :) oh with the added bonus of seeing In Time at the cinema before hand. If you have not been to see this then I highly recommend u go see it asap it's soo good. My new episodes will have to wait till tomorro I didn't get to squeeze them in today.
Another Tuesday well spent :) and am already counting down the days till the next one.
x Bex x
Btw sorry for any bad typos or text speak I'm using my iPhone as my laptops died :(
Of late I feel like I've abandoned my blog, wait i'm not gonna lie I have. I feel really bad but I just can't seem to bring myself to blog lately I guess I have a little slice of bloggers block. So to try and cure this I'm going to start off gently and ease into it gently. I'm sorry that this is a boring post but I'm gonna try and make it more interesting :) promise!!
X bex x
I realli wanted to post my new found music love well i didn't actually find it myself one of my friends told me abt it :) thank you btw. So without further ado i introduce to you City & Colour.
City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness
I don't really know what to say about this dude other thn he is amazing and i guess if you like acoustic style stuff thn you are bound to like him as well.
I think hes stuff is quite relaxing and quite similar to ed sheeran just with a beard.
So please check him out and let me know what you think :)
The video is from youtube, i do not own it or claim to own it.
So its finally tuesday! YAY!!
Why am i so excited?? Well theres only one answer and that is because tuesday is the vampire diaries day :)
I kno i shouldn't be so excited for a tv show or wish my week away for 1 hour of vampire awesomeness but i cant help it. Any of you out there will understand what i'm going on abt.
image from fanpop
image from fanpop
Now that i have got totally sidetracked on a non fashion related subject, and have told u most of my views on this subject other than the fact tht damon salvatore is 1 hot vampire, im gonna move on quickly.
The vampire diaries is not the onli show that seems to air on a tuesday theres also good old
How I Met Your Mother and the new series of Two And A Half Men which im realli liking.
Another reason i love tuesdays is because its two for two tuesdays at dominos the onli place to ever get pizza from. And for the first time in ages we actually have enuf money to get 1 :) i can't wait.
One of our pizzas with 3 leaflets on now i like pizza but not tht much..
In my opinion tuseday is a pretty damn good day and if anyone agrees with me or has any other reasons to add go ahead and comment below i'd love to know what days ur favourite and wht u like about them.
Have fun!! Bex xx
For the past week i've been watching my page views grow into little mountains and i know it sounds vain but i love it :)
I was quite annoyed that i've not posted this weekend i had it all planned out 60's and shopping post for sat and a sunday summary and thn start the week again on monday. But i've not managed any of tht :(
so im gonna catch up a little today with 2 posts maybe 3 if i can find tht much to tlk abt.
On sat night instead of going all out halloween (which i wanted to do) i went back to the 60's :) it was a pretty good night and everyone made an effort to get dressed up, including me. I didn't think i would take it so seriously but i did try and go all out without spending too much money.
My answer was charity shops, primark and my wardrobe.
I finally managed to get an okay pic of my glass lantern in action, it still doesn't show it off well but its the best i could get from my phone. Our collection is slowly growing as everyone wants to make 1 and they are so easy to make and look fab on a cold night.
As its friday i wanted to post something interesting and cool today. It's taken me forever to come up with some thing, the 2 things i finally came up with were either photo friday or photo playlist. I've chosen to do the photo playlist idea as ive not seen it on any other blogs and i love music :) so here goes nothing ...
Panic At The Disco - Let's Kill Tonight
Bruno Mars - It Will Rain
Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
Linkin Park - Iridescent
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Every Avenue - Tell Me I'm A Wreck
Gym Class Heroes - Stereo Hearts ft. Adam Levine
Ed Sheeran - Lego House
... i hope you have enjoyed this post and having a little look into my taste of mucic :)
All of these images were taken by me from youtube videos, i do not claim to own either the videos or the songs.
So i thought it was about time i posted something other than nails and here we are....sitting around all day feeling ill and watching daytime tv finally payed off, whilst watching the alan titchmarsh show a nice 5min D.I.Y piece came on featuring 2 really quick and easy autumn makes. The first one (and my favourite) was a little tea light holder made out of an old jam jar covered in autumn leaves and tissue paper. I knew straight away that this was something i wanted to make and it looked soo easy. After hunting around in the kitchen and the recycling bin for any empty glass that we could attack with PVA and tissue paper, to create the wonderful pieces of art. Instead of using autumn leaves which needed to be collected and pressed i used feathers which in my view look prettier.
Things you will need
. Old jar . PVA glue . Paintbrush . Feathers or leaves . Tissue paper torn into pieces .
What to do
- Once you have your glass jars is clean them and remove all labels if you haven't already done so.
- Its better to do this in sections so coat part of the jar in PVA glue and lay the feather or leaf onto it.
- Make your way round the jar glueing sections & laying on your feathers or leaves, don't forget the bottom!!
- When your happy with it carefully paint the fathers with glue & cover with a piece of tissue paper.
- Continue to do this all the way around the jar until the whole thing is covered including the base.
- Finally coat the whole thing in a layer of glue turn upside down and leave to dry.
- Voila a pretty little lantern perfect for a night of relaxing.
Hope you enjoyed this little D.I.Y please go easy on me its the 1st ever one i've wrote. If you have a go at this please feel free to send me any pics i'd love to see your creations :)
Bex
it was abt time, and as im coming down with the flu i thought i needed something bright to cheer me up, que bright watermelon nails.. So after a painfull half hour of nail painting, and messing abt with water based paints (nightmare) these are the final results. Unfortunatly i onli have 1 hand finished as they took forever, cocktail sticks are only good for spots not tips and lines.. and don't even get me started on water based paints! Heehee but even though only 1 hand is done and i got in a mess i do love the final outcome and am gonna try to finish the other hand or get my little sister to do em for me :) 
...... When i went shopping the other day i spotted this cute little jewellary stall, in our high street, full of all sorts of different things. Out of all the sparkles and shimmering jewellary the thing that caught my eye was an apple pendant, simple and rather plain in comparison to the glitter. For some reason it just stood out and shouted "Buy me", but i ignored its shouts and pleas and went home empty handed. Every so often i kept thinking about it and thought that it would be gone when i went back.
But alas a few days ago whn i went shopping it was still there :) it was fate lol i just cudn't resist it and bought it straight away no if's or but's. After a little googling i found that this necklace was originally from topshop :)
As i was going i spotted a ring that looked like st pauls it's amazing i just hope its still there when i go shopping on friday :) fingers crossed.
After seeing soo many amazing pictures of glitter nails i decided to have a go at doin mine, Much to my little sisters delight she is kinda obsessed with nail varnish. So out come the huge box of nail varnish, and after spending forever raiding the hobby cupboard for glitter we cud finally begin. Kate chose the pink and purple glitter with a base coat of dark pink/purple.
I chose my favourite lilac colour and covered them in 2 different types of shimmery clear glitter.
The results were pretty good for a first attempt even if we did get in a huge mess, and I defiantly think we will be trying it again :D
Trying to form a relationsship with blogging is proving to be difficult, i've spent the last half an hour staring at a blank white page not knowing what to say.
An introduction perhaps, maybe thats too formal, a simple hi, or is that too simple!!!
I've come to the conclusion too just sit a little while longer and maybe the answer will just come to me, doubt it will work tho
Here it goes!
Hi there everyone, anyone, someone, i'm rebecca well i prefer bex :) im a 20yr old 2nd yr student studying fashion at college :( I love history and clothes
.... ..... i dont know wht else to say now ....
think im going to just start a new post lol im not getting on too well with this one.
