Merry Christmas

It isn't even officially the Christmas sales yet and I've already showered myself with gifts. But all shopping done between now and 4th January will be in the name of the VAt increase due, so of course it's all been justified.



P.S.

rant about the weather

I was about the question to laws of geography as to how it was possible that practially every county AROUND North London gets snow, but the county of Hertfordshire gets forgotten. And when it finally arrives, it arrives at the most inconvienient of times: whilst I am out buying presents. With the thought of me driving on black ice giving nearly giving my parents a heart attack I was forced to put my present buying on hiatus and drive through the blizzard home. Therefore, having still not bought presents for half of my family I will be forced to brave the manic streets of London 2 days before Christmas (if weather permits).

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Inside

As we speak, I am browsing the vast world wide web room furnishings, having been inspired by rooms on apartmenttherapy.com, (which cannot be a good thing for my hard drive which struggles to keep up with my excessive collection of photos as it is). It makes me desperate to buy a cosy flat that will act as my blank canvas and the furniture my paint (somewhere in between I will have to marry some ridiculously rich man who will fund my hideous need for material goods).

12 days to go

As Christmas looms, we finally decorated our tree yesterday. And I, being the self proclaimed glory hogger, chose these baubles, which hang loud and proud on our tree. Due to laziness and general disorganisation during the build up to Christmas, our family normally resort to the practically vintage, optic fibre tree and the effort we make for Christmas decorations is minimal to say the least. But this year I figured we should make an effort and handpicked the decorations and lights!

P.S. this makes me laffffff

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What a stressful few days it has been! University applications should not been this hard, and yet it is driving me to the brink of insanity. My first of two interviews was today, I headed into London with an A1 portfolio; and to those contemplating a purchase of said portfolios - don't do it, some cardboard and gaffa tape will adaquately serve the purpose at a miniscule fraction of the price, and you will save yourself the embarassment of taking out 3 people by the simple act of turning around. Although I do believe my biceps have trippled in size since this morning by merely lugging the thing around. I've realised how much time I spend feeling sorry for myself, I need to stop wallowing in self pity.

After Monday though life will be good again.

Heart of a Pig

ACNE HYBRIA

so sculptural and lovely.

Anticipation 2010

Whilst chassé-ing around in Selfridges, fantasising about being able to do my weekly shopping there and drooling over the Givenchy Nightingale today, I stumbled across the Anticipation Exhibition 2010. The white, open space called out to me, and I entered. Inside was a collection of paintings, photographs and sculptures from "London's Best Emerging Artists". And I was pleasantly surprised by the stuff they had inside; some of the artists were really impressive, and I would urge anyone visiting London to have a look! Below are some of the artists I saw:

Noemia Goudal








Robert Dowling




Joanna Slusarczyk

The Social Network looks like a good film

Thought half term has begun, I am yet to appreciate the bliss of a true lie in. Over the last two weeks, I have: sent off my UCAS form, visited Kingston University, planned summer 2011 and put a load of stuff up on ebay.

1. Sending off your UCAS form is possibly one of life's biggest anti-climaxes. There is no congratulations or even acknowledgement of the hours you spent slaving away at the bain of my life that was my personal statement!

2. I visited Kingston University for my Art Foundation - and it exceeded my expectations and I loved it! The place and building is lovely and not the first thing that comes to mind in terms of London universities. There's even a river!

3. A while back, the prospect of interrailing became bleaker and bleaker. However, we have managed to find four of us willing to venture to Eastern Europe for 2 weeks! After some serious googling, we decided Budapest and Croatia are strong contenders of interrailing destinations 2K11. Besides that, the places Nice, Marbella, Barcelona, Malia, Zante and Faro were thrown around, which makes me wishes it was summer already!

4. My less than desirable account balance of £1.66 has lead me to the conclusion that I need more money. After calculating the possibility of winning the Euro Millions, and discovering statistics that lead me to believe it is not the most plausible of options; I returned to ebay.

I have recently found myself drooling at net a porter; convieniently it happens to be my 18th birthday in approximately 2 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours and 16 minutes. On the topic of drooling, it happens every time Aiden Grimshaw is singing on The X Factor.

I am going to order some Domino's now. Bye!

minimal

I like nude; this means that finally my wardrobe is branching out into other colours of the spectrum, yes beyond the dark realms of grey and black and navy.

Zara's online shop means my life is now complete. H&M have also finally got an online shop (in the UK) but it is such an anticlimax after a year of anticipation.

Atrial Flutter

Today, I bought a lovely typewriter in Oxfam, much to my mother's disapproval (this gives me a total of 4 typewriters in my house, half of which are merely collecting dust). This subconcious typewriter collecting is proving to be an expensive affair, and it has come to the time where I have to pick my least favorite and part with it for some cash. Anyway, this one comes in a cute little leather case and after some background research, I found out it was designed by the late Marcello Nizzoli in 1949.



I recently visited the Polly Morgan exhibition on at the moment at The Haunch of Venison Gallery. It is amazing. She finds roadkill and other dead animals and preserves them using taxidermy methods, and creates these beautiful sculptures out of them. I realise it sounds incredibly grim but they just look amazing.

Day 1

School has officially begun again, and I quiver at the thought of having to permanently set my alarm for 7am. On the weekend, I went to the Tate Britain but regretfully didn't have the chance to look at the newer exhibitions (poor decision to prioritise shopping). But I completely fell in love with the Chelsea School of Art, the building and the area is so lovely. Yes, it is possible that I have deluded myself into thinking that I will be living in the Victorian townhouses sometime soon... which most certainly won't be the case! University decision making has come all too soon, I can't decide what to do on the weekend, let alone my life.

Here is Maria with her newly bought and beloved fur headwrap:


Besos

Reading 2010

I have just about caught up on sleep from Reading Festival! It was an incredible few days, depite having gum for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There was amazing music, among them being Frank Turner, Blink 182, The Libertines, Dizzie, Delphic and Klaxons; but really Mumford & Sons did it for me.

Cloudy

I'm looking forward to Reading, not so much to tomorrow though.

Coming soon

The Mulberry Alexa, I'll get saving then.

new photos on flickr