You should've got out of the red In the red you're better off dead Deader than the red dead sea

What's that sound? Oh its only Rosie screaming silently that she doesn't understand what she's doing on this planet earth! But don't worry, that's just something every young existentialist goes through time to time.

Yeah so I'm going a bit mad at the moment, just the stress of doing what I've found out is a freaking crazy full on degree. If anyone tells you Fashion is an easy choice for a course they're lying it's a lie don't ever trust them again. I honestly get so annoyed when I see smarmy Buzzfeed articles about how students spend all day doing nothing, wasting their student loan and going in twice a week for an hour long lecture. I wish I could spend my day doing nothing! 

My week is so jam packed I have three days of full on tutorials/workshop/practical lessons and the other two are are always packed as well, It's so fast moving I'm onto my third sketchbook already and It's only been two weeks! Despite the monumental workload, I'm still really loving it and getting to live in such a lovely city is the most amazing thing, I realised earlier that I haven't cried since I moved here and that's such a huge thing for me. 

On the downside I caught a bad case of Fresher's Flu, so much so that my mum had to come pick me up over the weekend because I was too ill to catch a train. Despite being ill it was heavenly to sit at home with a cat on my lap while someone else provided proper home cooked food. And to have acess to a printer and scanner so I could finally get in some scans of my journal that I've been working through in the very precious spare moments I have nothing to do, usually as I'm waiting for some other piece of work to dry.

From a really weird dream I had on my first night of university that freaked me out proper.

xxx

Rosie

Teach me how to love you like I wrote And say it like I mean it when I don't

Well it's been a while.

The past week and a half has both flown by and dragged in the wrong ways, moving out was stressful and consisted of me shoving everything i thought I'd need into random bags and freaking out that I'd forgotten chargers or cables or shoes. Moving in to uni meant creating lots of mess and realizing that I've left most of my clothes, pillows and lamp at home and that I need all of those things. Living alone has meant wandering to the shops all the time to buy one thing then returning to my flat and realizing I had to buy something else as well. It also means hours of little to do and distracting myself with films and tv shows till late into the night. Freshers has been fairly tame but meant getting drunk way too easily and dancing on bars, meeting random people who will walk you home or invite you to their flat party for free beer and *gross alert* throwing up grapes in the sink the morning of induction week. 

I will probably do something big and proper about moving out and being in uni but I've been super busy but not doing anything interesting or blog worthy to write about. I'm also trying really hard to get things sorted for Factory Girl, Pages are being finished and people have been sending me in really cool articles and illustrations and photographs and I'm so pumped up for it to be finalized. 

There's still plenty of time to submit work - anything from photography, writing or artwork is greatly appreciated! Here are some of the images I've been working with.

xxx

Rosie

Cool Thrifty/Aesthetic Youtube Channels

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I get kinda bummed with youtube sometimes, because I like fashion and clothes and style but hate the 'fashion + beauty community' on youtube. Well its not that I hate them or their videos it just brings me down when the majority of fashion related content is a pretty little white girl holding up a huge bag of shopping that she probably spend £100+ on with twinkly music and cutesy font. I don't like sponsored videos (although I understand the reasons behind making them) I don't like 'back to school hauls' and 'mid summer favourites ' and 'I decided to buy these basic t-shirts in five different colours for only £8 each!'

I don't like them because the message behind them feels like 'buy this clothing/make up/miscellaneous and you can be like me and have my cute happy expensive Instagram filtered life' and if you cant drop £50 on one outfit....then you can't be a beauty vlogger. I doubt any of them do it spitefully but most vloggers tend to have a lot of privilege (rich families to support them) or a certain marketability that propelled them into fame *cough*Zoella*cough* 

But there's a shining light of fashion vloggers taking a different route going to thrift and charity shops, looking for second hand cheaper alternatives to give inspiration and relief from 'here buy this £15 stripey t-shirt and look just like me!' So lets all say no to blind consumerism and go hunting for cute second hand fashion!

Rachel Cobb

Showing off her almost entirely thrifted wardrobe with cool editing and music tastes in thrifted look books and haul videos. I love her dancing and dedication to the 80's sitcom kid look and video tips on wearing what you want

Lauren Rose

Lauren departed youtube some time last year but like many others I still check her channel with crossed fingers looking for a new video but end up binge watching her old styling and thrift videos. She has a cute 60's/70's hippie nostalgic style and the bleached bangs of Cherie Currie and gives great cult film recommendations. 

EMPOWA

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I first saw Ashely's heelying video which is like the coolest concept to me, because really who doesn't want to skate round town in cool outfits pulling rad tricks? But then I stayed for the amazing outfit video's and off the scale editing skills.

DietBlonde

While not strictly a 'thrift' channel Heather has the best DIY fashion videos, going beyond some of the 30 minute videos on how to diy a pair of cut offs - like do you really need that long to learn how to draw a puffy paint heart on the ass of you shorts? - also puffy paint?!? - As a fashion student most of the DIYs are based on looks she's seen on the catwalk or magazine editorials and are cool ways to jazz up that old thrifted t-shirt or jeans.

And last but by no means least

the glorious Rian Phin

She's so positive and cute and like if a piece of modern art came to life and started dancing! I love her diy videos and get real jelly of her thrift hauls because how does one girl find so much American Apparel stuff in a second hand store?

So I hope you like these links and get all jazzed up to go and find cute second hand clothes and not fall into the trap of consumerism!

xxx
Rosie

Sometimes all I need Is the air that I breathe

Recently I've been scared - not scared just nervous to the point of scared - about leaving home, I move away in less than a week and I have spent it panic buying food with my mum, cuddling with my cats, stockpiling books and records I want to take with me and drawing relentlessly in my new journal to avoid thinking about it.

I get the feeling that maybe I've wasted this summer, I should have done exciting things and made memories like all the kids in the movies before they leave for college, but instead I spent most of it curled in my bed watching tv shows and drawing. I really shouldn't feel bad - it's not like its a particularly foreign concept, most teens - especially with society's emphasis on 'the past was amazing! the youth of today are wasting their lives!' -  probably wish they could have bunked off school like Ferris Bueller did or have stood up to there bully or had that special moment at prom. I think movies really screw with your expectations, because even movies that focus on 'finding the beautiful in the mundane' still have the characters doing exciting things - sneaking out after dark, running away with the bad kids, seeing their favourite band live - never does a character just spendn an evening alone watching a film without it seeming like their 'missing out on something great'

It was my friends 20th birthday yesterday (well actually it was her party - today is her b-day) and it was weird celebrating the end of someone's teen years. I turn 20 in a few months and I'm so not ready, I still feel like I missed out on so much as a kid, there's so many supposed 'milestones' I still have to reach that I just want to lie and say I'm eighteen again.

At her party we just chilled and decorated cake's, chatted and laughed and watched The Truman Show, which kind of brought up my thoughts about movies. It's weird to watch the film now, with the easy access to everyone's lives and the mass marketability of everything. It must have been mad to watch back when it first came out, when the idea of reality tv was just beginning and people argued over invasion of privacy.

This has been an unexpectedly somber post but I plan to try and come back with some lighter topics before I leave

xxx

Rosie

Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman I was a hoarder but girl that was back then

I finally got it finished! I've been putting off completing this photo diary for the past week for three reasons -

no.1 to escape the pain and torture of trying to deal with our incredibly temperamental printer that wont accept the connection between any computer other than my mothers

no.2 the fear that I would muck it up and resent the whole thing

no.3 I've been in a state of fear that yes I'm actually moving away to uni in the second week of Septembers for weeks of freshers and new people and lot of alcohol.

But I finally got it done! It was actually quite fun and a relieving way to spend an afternoon or two just looking over my holiday snaps and collaging. It was also a huge relief to be working on something I actually wanted to do rather than for uni or thinking about the dreaded packing. 

I was inspired mostly by this photo diary I found on Rookie and I really like the idea of journaling through your holiday/week/month/whatever (even if I did this when I got back) it feels very satisfying to work through it so periodically. This diary is made of a lot of watercolours, fairly incomprehensible ramblings and notes and bits of paper I picked up over the few days I was in Edinburgh.

the flight up was very late on Friday night

Saturday our first day in Edingbrugh and my third time visiting the comedy festival there

Sunday a busy bee of a day

Monday the day I had to take some time for myself

a photo of me in the plant/phone booth and a better look at the page

 

Tuesday and our last day in which we sandwiched in as much as possible

I'm also being a busy little bumble bee taking photos and moving forward with my zine Factory Girl - submissions are still open as at the moment I have yet to write anything so any text, poems or stories are very much appreciated

xxx

Rosie

I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees

I just got over my exhaustion from my holiday to Edinburgh for the comedy festival with my friends and have now entered a post Scotland slump, which includes listening solely to Belle and Sebastian on repeat and wishing I had got into Glasgow School of Art for my degree just so I could be close to the beautiful city. I'm planning to do a little photo diary/journal piece on Edingbrugh in the future with all the photos and little bits and bobs I picked up during the trip so that should be coming late but over the course of the trip I got really inspired and have hopefully (fingers crossed) got back into a productive excited making phase so I wanted to do a quick inspo post of the things that have resonated in my mind.

Hannah Murray and Emily Browning in God Help The Girl 

(there's going to be a lot of God Help The Girl even though I know it was set in Glasgow not Edinburgh but that feel of being quaint and quirky but not in an annoying way transcended over the country)

found on tumblr here

From Art Hippy's etsy shop



Andy Warhol's Polaroid

God Help The Girl again



Co - Resort 2016 x


Too Much Sun patch from Rose Hound Apparel



From jelloadventures



Found on tumblr




Screencaps of Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me that I found on Tumblr which is on my end of the summer to-watch list.



Bobo from We Are The Best aka me on the bus from Edinburgh to Dalkieth where we were staying

xxxx
Rosie