Inspo - Down With Love

I found the film Down With Love at the charity shop for like 50p and I was drawn in by a young Ewan Mcgregor in a 60's suit. And then I actually read the plot on the back cover and omg this is the perfect film you will ever see.

It's set in New York in the 1960s and has a fab cast of mr Mcgregor, Rene Zellwegger, Sarah Paulson before she got all american horror story, loads of people from early noughties snl and Niles from Fraiser. Its kinda a really corny love story and pokes fun at the really oversimplified plots of 60s romcom but Zellweger play a really cool feminist author who is like as complex as Amy from Gone girl and Mcgregor is this playboy dude who doesn't have the cliche 'heart o gold' thing but isnt a raging slutshamer as he could have been. And its so adorable and stupid but also really important and you should all watch it. 

But did I also mention it has some of the cutest clothes ever 

Like this is just her work out gear and its a two piece gingham shorts/dasiy dukes combo

Pink is her signature colour, as you can tell, and they even have it on the chocolate.

'Down with love. Up with chocolate!'

Did you say fabulous evening gowns?

Gingham everywhere please.

Also bff tip, wear a dress that matches your bbf's coat and vise versa for extra friend points.

Also my fave outfit because who doesn't want to have an all white everything, including office space and turban?

xxx

Rosie

It's the time of the season when love runs high

Title from Time of The Season by The Zombies

Happy New Year!

I hope 2015 brings you waves of positivity and good vibes and you become the celestial beauty you are meant to be. My kinda resolutions, that aren't new years resolutions because I think that puts too much pressure to get them done, are to be positive in myself, continue on the artistic road, hopefully get into the dream university, take better photos and drink more water

Journal page with my 2015 stream of consciousness + a drawing from the photo I keep in my pencil tin.

New years has been pretty stressful, I'd nearly finished my uni application only to be told that my tutors weren't going to get back to be until after the 6th which sucks. I also went round to my friends house the night before nye for a midnight dinner party which ended with us drinking and listening to Suck It And See on her record player (one of my fave AM albums) and talking and watching films till five in the morning. And then I had friends round for nye and we drank even more and watched stupid films and I was so tired I fell asleep during Jurassic park and just woke up intime to watch the fireworks at midnight. I'm currently recovering on the sofa with journals to fill and Mary Poppins on the tv.

 The sunsets have been ridiculous recently, I feel like I'm in a postcard for a tropical get-away instead of cold South Wales

The gloves I embroidered for my friends Christmas present, it has and Arctic Monkeys lyric stitched on the right.

I was feeling bored and the need to create hit one night and I dressed up as your cryin girl with eyeliner tears and drawn on freckles

I love this one but I hate the grubby mirror and the radiator is once again the bane of my selfies.

Some crappy edits of the ones I took on my webcam

My journal page on the cryin selfies + poetry about romancing in the 21st centuary

Crappy photoshop edit of what I wore to go clubbing on the 22nd of december, it was really weird as everyone had come back from uni and I saw the guy I used to have a pretty big flame for.

xxx

Rosie

Goodbye to this dead town, until the ice begins to thaw.

Slightly depressing lyric from my winter jam ~ Farewell To The Fairground ~ White Lies

Well Christmas is over, so long Yorkshire puddings and having wrapping paper everywhere, I've had a fab time drinking, eating, drinking, opening presents, drinking and watching crappy but heartwarming Christmas films and drinking. 

Yes, there was a fairly shocking amount of brandy/cava cocktails and strawberry cider involved in this years festivities honestly it made the whole thing go smoother.

~ This is not me promoting alcoholism btws ~ 

So to cool down after a stressful day of uni applications (I put down my final choices!) I'm sat in bed after an amazing bath, eating cheese cubes and looking at Dawn Porter and Chris O'Dowd's instagrams as they are my fave couple at the mo. 

I've also been doing lots of journal pages that I'll scan in and put up later, I really got into it all of a sudden and am nearly 2/3rds done with my most recent sketchbook.

The same goes for using my film camera, I put in some black and white film and had it with me for most of christmas day, lugging it round during our Christmas walk and annoying my family as they were eating. 

 I felt like Morrisey with the big coat and the scarf and the camera.

coat~topshop

scarf~river island

badge~david bowie exhibit at the V&A

My brother, mum, younger brother and grandma looking like they could be in an indie music video together.

Me looking awkward in front of the ocean and a weird knobbly tree

Selfie soaking up the rays while my family looked at the abandoned house behind us

Our Christmas tree, its kinda weirdly shaped but its still cute.

~ a vegetarians christmas in wales ~ 

A small collection of some of the things my family bought me, Rookie yearbook 3, Swim Deep and Tom Odell albums, watercolor paints, gold hoop earrings and a bralet type top from topshop.

I did get a lot more stuff and although this sounds super ungrateful, for the first time it was all stuff I actually want and need which is a good thing as I'm usually given crap that I don't need or use ever.

All in all its been a good christmas, and a fairly good year, but I can't wait to move on to next year

xxx

Rosie

Visual Inspiration. Wet's Music Video

I mentioned it in my playlist but I just wanted to draw attention to how beautiful the music video for Wet's Don't Wanna Be Your Girl. It's all spangly wonderful woodland nonsense and it makes me want to make home videos of me running through forests and swimming in muddy lakes.

This is more of a visual inspiration board so I would just scroll down and let the visuals wash over you.

xxx

Rosie

I tried to swim to the side but my feet got caught in the middle and I thought I'd seen the light but oh no.

Right now I'm totally freaking out about applying to uni's and writing personal statements and trying to figure out what grade i got for modual 3 in art??? So I'm trying to de-stress by putting up some journal pages, i finished my first big one while I was recovering from a virus on the sofa with the sickbucket (ew) and I went back and re-did some of the pages which was fun.

Peachy sketchdump with designs for the doll I have to make for uni, a business card sent by Alyssa and a kinda crappy life drawing I copied from an old sketch.

The last page of my journal, all about my main man Egon Sheile, also that quote was suposed to be by him but I got confused and wrote 'primordial entity' instead of 'primordially eternal' lol

A colouring in of a previously really dull drawing, its supposed to look like these, and a weirdly proportioned ink drawing of an angel. Or maybe that's what angel's look like.

My kinda favourite page, I did the drawing last year and have been waiting to put it somewhere and I was watching Nowhere Boy while completing it and I love the retro vibe of the whole thing.

A selfie page, filled with pictures from my phone/instagram, and a mismatch page of a design for uni, some collage stuff and an emulsion selfie of me.

+ + Feeling Blue + + and a page about my new fave french film, La Jetee, which is this fab 1960s sifi film that is just a montage of photos with narration but is just so good. You can watch it here but its in french and I cant seem to find an english translation so you may have to read the plot sumarry on wiki along side it to understand whats happening.

An embroidered mess on Cara's face with stitched and painted designs.

 I've shown this page before but now I've added colour to the drawing and it looks so much better.

The first page I started on in my new journal, its a kinda stupid sketch of a guy who sat in front of me in a lecture ages ago, I found the drawing in my note book and decided to stick in the little writings that came on the packaging of a ring set.

xxx
Rosie