These are some of the only half decent shots that came out of my first roll of film taken on my diana. I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get more shots, but I guess that comes with learning something new. The other colour film was ruined by a guard at the airport who opened it at security! Anyway, I really want to persevere with the diana, but I'm contemplating getting a diana mini so the film and processing is a bit cheaper, just until I get the hang of it : )
I'm giving blood today, and this was the most appropriate image I could find! It's a scrap of screen print I found ageees ago. Very fitting for the occasion I think. 
I picked this up the other day, isn't it gorgeous? lovely soft leather cover and beautiful borders inside. AND I actually have every intention of reading it.
I know it's excessively silly but I came across this the other day, which I think I made notlong after coming to uni. I have no idea why I made it or what it was meant to be for, but it's been sitting in a pencil case ever since. I feel like I could make something out of this...
I was in need of some serious cheering up this last weekend, blame it on the winter blues : (
With torrential rain, gale force winds, perpetual cold and darkness I have to admit winter is certainly here! Which means that my favourite season is now over for another year : (
Very miserable sea side weather of late. Torrential drizzle, wind and perpetual cold! Ugh!
It's so cold in our house that I've actually been forced to go into the university computer room to do work because for the last few days I haven't been able to feel my hands and I'm worried I might have to have my fingers amputated. Oh the luxury of money to be able to put the central heating on...
I'm still looking for poetry to use for my last project, which is going to have to be an 'ongoing' project (like all the other projects I haven't managed to get finished on time...)
I haven't really been posting thing with themes, but given the day today I thought I would post this. At 11am I'll be observing 2 mins silence for all the people who have given their lives in wars since 1914, and it's something I feel really strongly about, something that people should remember. Anyway, I'm not sure if this is really appropriate or not, but it's a page from a school atlas from 1941, as you can see from the German flag, we were still at war. I just think it's interesting to look at that and think about how much the world has changed in the last 100 years or so.
Winter is here! I went to London for the day yesterday to look at venues for our degree show. After coming home pretty tired and feeling a bit lazy I didn't end up doing all that much work. I just rifled around my room for more things for our mum project, and came across this, which I cross stitched last christmas with the intention of doing lots of them and making them into cards. Seeing as this took me a couple of hours, I quickly abandoned that idea!
Toby said last night 'wouldn't it be cool to travel round the Uk like a gentleman?' by which he meant in a cool car and wearing dapper clothes (and money being no object). If only...
There's a lovely new shop in Brighton called Utility which sells lots of lovely (and reasonably priced) goodies for kitchen/bathroom etc. Lots of lovely screen printed things and letterpress cards and vintage storage. I got this food order pad for only 95p.
I'm doing a project in Uni called Subvert the Familiar and I've been looking at people's attitudes towards poetry. I haven't entirely formulated my ideas but I've been reading a lot of poetry as a result. This is just something I was playing around with the other day with my old typewriter. I'm was just typing up a whole load of Larkin's poems on old revision cards and things to get this library aesthetic (he was a librarian). I might hide some in the library.
More lovely old book covers, bought for only 50p! There are so many places in Brighton that charge extortionate amounts of money for anything old or 'vintage' and 'retro', which I think is a little unfair to us skint students! Anyhow, the good thing about going back home to good old Guildford is that people don't really value things like this so much, so I can pick things up in a car boot sale for next to nothing. A few weeks ago I got 10 Roald Dahl books for only £2. Happy days!
I went home for my Grandma's 80th (!) birthday at the weekend. It was such a lovely day, so nice to be with all my family in one room! Anyway, she was using these old paper napkins and I just had to steal a few to put on here. They belonged to my great grandmother, another relic from god only knows when. She was a bit of a hoarder and when she dies, my grandparents had quite a time clearing out her house. I remember I also got a retro pack of tissues at the time, with a psychedelic flower pattern on it!
