Today I made another vlog,  I basically chat about a lot of different things including things I've learnt whilst preparing to move - would be amazing if you guys could all watch and subscribe to my channel.



See you all soon!

IT'S MY 100TH POST! Didn't that come around fast? Also, I surpassed 8000 views last night, I want to extend a massive thank you to everyone who reads my blog and -internet hugs-.

 For my textiles AS Level I have designed and made a bag (click here to see the bag) and shirt and a corset.  I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on my corset as I've just finished it, I was lucky enough to be able to put it up in the window of Ella Riley's sweet shop in Bridgend - if you're ever in the area you should definitely pop in, the shop and the owners are lovely!

As I said at the beginning, thank you all for your continued support of my blog - and please let me know your thoughts on my corset!

I've seen on a number of other blogs that people have really regular posts like 'MAKE UP MONDAY' or something like that and I've come to the decision that I want one too.  SO after much deliberation and one too many lie-ins over the Easter holidays meaning I'm still awake at stupid o'clock I decided on this.  It's a little more personal than the rest of my posts, and kind of keeps you all up to date on what's going on. Let's not mess around, here goes.

....TAH DAAAAAAAH

My trusty disco pants served me well on Saturday!

This week has been the last week of the Easter holidays and I did more or less absolutely nothing.  It felt good.  I spent the majority of the first half of the week waking up gone midday, trying to revise, ending up online shopping, trying to revise again then playing a board game with my sister.  Very much eat, sleep, repeat.  As I spoke about in my vlog  I went for a meal at Frankie and Benny's on Monday for my friends Emilie and Dayna's birthdays which was lovely, I gave up meat for lent so I thouroughly enjoyed my Buffalo Wings and New Yorker Burger.  On Tuesday I was supposed to go to a gathering at Libby's but she was ill -sad face- but she's all good now!  Instead I went over Charlotte's.   On Wednesday SHOCK HORROR I had to go into school for textiles coursework completion.  In textiles this year we've had a portfolio style approach to the coursework, which is 50% of our final grade. We've been given three small projects - a bag, a shirt and a corset.  Now for those among you who don't do Textiles or a DT subject and assume that it is easy, you my friends, are very, painfully wrong.  I think people saying 

• 'Textiles is so easy'
• 'Why are you acting like it's so much work'
• 'How can you even have a textiles exam'
• 'What do you mean textiles theory'

And the like is the most annoying thing.  I'm not going to launch into full on rant, but you get where I'm coming from.  I also went in on Thursday but didn't actually do anything other than a flow of manufacture due to the high concentration of GCSE students who's deadline is closer than ours (meaning on Thursday, them > us).  

 I've also spent the week nursing my new rook piercing with salt water every chance I get, I seem to have bad luck when it comes to infections in piercing so I'm trying to prove I can learn from my mistake and so far, so good.  

On Saturday I (woke up at 7:30!!!!!!) started back after two weeks off from The Performance House where I work as a Student Tutor to get on with auditions for the year 7-9, or Midi's production of Beauty and the Beast which I am SO excited for! Although I'd never worked with the majority of the group so I was rather nervous about meeting them all for the first time, I've been teaching with The Performance House since January 2012 but always with the younger group.  However of course they made me feel right at home!  Then I stayed on for my own class, and after we had planned to have an after show gathering from West Side Story at the beach but it rained, as it always does in Wales, so it got called off so I went on to stay over my friend Molly's.  

And now here we are, it's Sunday.  I'm revising, I'm doing coursework, I'm generally chilling and it's feeling great.  How is your Sunday? What are we thinking about this post?

p.s. I've recently had lots of views from Germany, so hello my German friends! Please say hello!

p.p.s. I think I like writing in italics now

Around this time last year I was in the middle of making my GCSE textiles piece, so I thought I'd show you all while stressing over my AS corset!  My brief was to design and make a 'special events garment' based on another culture, I chose a waistcoat (for a TV show final, like American Idol) based on the USA.  I only really chose a waistcoat because I knew it was fairly simple to put together meaning I could focus on the décor! I used Ashish Gupta as inspiration.  

I did a layered frill around the collar, studding, buttons, patchwork, printing, piping, an epaulette, and a belt! 

I lined the waistcoat with my fabric left over from the frills, I was so lucky to have so much left!  The centre is printed with images from Barack Obama's first presidential campaign.

The buckle here is taken from an old belt of my own!

I hope you like it - I'd love to hear your opinions or what you're making for textiles!

now playing - breezeblocks/alt-J - you and i/lady gaga - drops of jupiter/train - lolita/lana del rey

Hey! So for the first part of my textiles AS Level I've made a Henry Holland and Amy Winehouse inspired bag. I chose Henry Holland because he is one of my favourite British designers, he's so fresh, modern and different, i chose Amy Winehouse as well be as to me she was one of the most talented singers to come out of Britain, and she is still one of my favourite artists. Any feedback you could possibly send me would be amazing as for my evaluation I want to a number of different media platforms. I promise to get writing regularly soon!

Thank you!
Ellie x

For Textiles AS Level you look at a lot of different art movements from the 20th century, this week we looked at a few an I've done further research into an interesting one, Art Deco.