Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Monday Mood Board: Creams, Golds & Whites

Row 1: . by Anne Acaso, CUTMR-26 by Toronto Craft Alert, Glowing by Gigjae
Row 2: Racing Pigeons by Library Man, Nuevo Estilo via Dress, Design & Decor
Row 3: Boutons-detail by Dodi Doune, Spirit Week by Jordan Tiberio, Numo052005 by Loose Tooth

Final back logged mood board for today, and we have a plethora of creamy golds and whites to go along with our snow day.

Only seems appropriate to end with a snow inspired board, without the need for snow.

Hope everyone had a good day, snowed in or not.

Em x
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Listening: Ryan Adams - Answering Bell

Monday Mood Board: Green with Envy

Row 1: Untitled by Marija Strajnic, la lalala la la la by Ambur D.
Row 2: The Princess & The Pea by Roxanne Parker, Interior by Rachel Whiting,
About the End of Childhood by Marie Hochhaus
Row 3: Untitled by Poppy Cockburn, Pears by Suzette McGrath

Still no plough. Louise & I have been up collecting more grit from the bin up the road and the snow got in my wellies...I don't like having snow in my wellies!

I also can't remember why I had a pale green mood board...I think it was to do with thinking about redecorating my bedroom, but decided it was costly and ultimately pointless. Plus I couldn't think of a colour which could trump the pink it currently is anyway. Penultimate board, then bed methinks. Need to be up early to try and dig out the rest of the drive and hopefully get out of Blair long enough to do a proper shop & get something for dad for his birthday! Fingers crossed!

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Listening: Biffy Clyro - Many of Horrors

Monday Mood Board: I Can See A Slight Muted Rainbow

Row 1: Untitled by Rahee Nerurkar, I Can See A Rainbow by Cassia Beck, A Fairytale Family by Mario Testino
Row 2: Untitled by Cassia Beck, The Longest Day by Lieke Romeijn

Shopping done, gritting done, more grit to get and the plough is apparently arriving tomorrow first thing...keep all your finger crossed that they decide not to push all the snow up our drive like they did last year! Or I'll be out there all day clearing it again.

A muted & slight floral rainbow for another of todays mood boards, mostly inspired by the Mario Testino & Cassia Beck photographs from above...

...and as an extra just to make you laugh. Snow + rainbow + cat =

Nothing Like a Cat with a Rainbow Snowcone To Make It All Worthwhile via Bullet-proof Glace

Hehehe...love it!

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Listening: The Bees - Punchbag

Monday Mood Board: Autumnal Greys 2010

Row 1: Bridesmaid Dress by Sarah Seven, Grey Pumpkins via Lynn Goldfinger Abram
Row 2: Beauties Cottage by Helen Musselwhite, Untitled by Nikolinelr
Row 3: SHED & jewellery by Artemis Russell

While I don't tend to follow trends, occasionally one will catch my eye and this year one has. Guess what it is? Yep. Greys.

This is partly due to the fact that grey is probably my most frequently worn colour, one I'm told i do actually suit and I'm obsessed with Nail Inc. London, a brand which names every colour after a different London street and has embraced the Autumn/Winter grey trend.

Aren't pretty in their monochromeness? I think my nail varnish obsession of November may have subsided now luckily or I might be tempted by these, but all my nails have broken, split and been gnarled back down to the quick. I wish I had stronger nails, or never started biting them - a habit which I am also grossed out by - because they're very weak now and never stay long very long...and usually when I've managed I either ruin them by being in and out of a washing up bowl every two minutes or by filing, polishing & chipping them down in the workshop.

Incidentally, we aren't mentioning the workshop at the moment, I've not been in for months and I think I'll cry & have another flip out if I talk about it. Designers block is really getting ridiculous and making me even more hermit like, so if you're one of my friends from school or uni & haven't heard from me in months, please, please don't write me off, I really just don't know what to say to anyone without feeling like a desperate loser.

Doesn't explain how I can write in on my blog however.

More mood boards to come, I'm off down the shops in the snow...fun!

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Listening: Regina Spektor - 20 Years of Snow

Monday Mood Board: The Masks We Wear

Row 1: CatBand-120 by Kyle Johnson, Burning Bright by photopunx2, Undergrounds by Adenomay
Row 2: Mison Michel by Karl Lagelfeld via Outi Pyy

I had planned a week of pumpkins and costumes and Halloween related magic leading up to Sunday the 30th, but time was against me, so for the first of the backlogged mood boards, we have masks and because the first mask I remember was a cheapy cat one, we have lots of animal inspired masks.

I particularly love the Mison Michel animal ears as photographed by Karl Lagelfeld, aren't they gorgeous? And I guess they're not really masks, but I'm in a lacy mood at the moment. Speaking of which, I picked up my great grans lace pillow a couple of Sundays back and I've still not had the courage to remove my granny grans last piece of lace from it. I might also recover the roller & sides etc to make it a little tidier and more me, which gran has suggested - though again it feels weird. It was my great grandmothers after all and she was still using it into her 90's (she died aged 99 only a few months away from her hundredth year.

Feels lovely to be gifted & trusted with such an heirloom.

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Listening: Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent

Monday Mood Board: Winter Whites



Row 1: Sister Winter by Simon Filip, Revelry by Beesknees67
Row 3: Pt. 13 by 5letters, Winter Fairy Tale by Loretablog

Plus side: snow is pretty; snow is cold; snow feels Christmassy; snow makes people feel & look (even only briefly) like children again; snow makes everything look more beautiful; romantic interludes in films without doubt happen in the snow; snow gives us an excuse to stay inside, with a warm drink and a film, under the duvet, without guilt...

Downside: snow causes chaos; snow causes damage and snow makes the council hate cul-de-sacs even more than normal; snow may bring a little business to this Glenshee adjacent town, but it also kills small businesses until the plows have been around; snow turns into slush and slush is just horrible; slush turns to ice and ice makes you slip, hurt yourself and makes you cold...

...snow is without a doubt, much, much better when you're a kid!

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Listening: Clayhill - Please, Please, Please (Let Me Get What I Want)

Snow's like Marmite...


You either love it or hate it. Normally I love a bit of snow...a bit being the important word. But this is taking the biscuit. Five or six inches of snow over night causes a lot of problems. It's not like we're isolated where we live, but the car is most definitely snowed in, so there's a lack of essentials in the house, the parents are walking back and forth to work and the council hates cul-de-sacs. The added bonus is it's dads birthday on Thursday and my sisters & I only have half his present & mum has pretty much nothing. So unless we can find something amazing in Tesco, or the council get their butts up the roads today (and don't push the whole streets snow into our drive) dad's not having a birthday.

That said, it's not like I'm working at the minute, though we were supposed to be installing windows this week in Carnoustie & Broughty Ferry & finishing Blair's (we did it on Friday, a day long marathon without stopping - thus explaining no pictures). So work is out, therefore when someone's ready to go we're trekking to the shops.

Anyway, apparently I've been rubbish again and totally neglected the old blog! I have no defence, I've not been horribly busy since I posted last and I've not been making anything other than knitted goodies for the window which I shall hopefully be blogging when I get down to town to take photos and to finish it. However, for one reason or another, I've been uncharacteristically spending very little time on my computer, which given over the past couple of years I've been glued to it because of studying/research reasons is a nice change.

The little sis and I have been spending the past few of weeks either making new pieces for the mushaboom window or trying to finish all the components for not only Blair's window, but the Ferry's and Carnoustie before this weekend. Which amazingly we did *touch wood* remarkably ahead of for a change, but the snow's scuppered us.

Being able to sit and do this has been very nice, especially as on Tuesday last week, when going out to refill a birdfeeder in the garden, I slipped on the stairs on the deck and have hurt my back again. Ballet pumps, wet leaves and slippery wooden deck equals a slow motion fall and a sore bum. Great way to start the week and this was before the snow! I was also over in Carnoustie at the end of last week and the window isn't going to be quite as straight forward as I'd hoped, so when we get over it might need an on the spot rethink.

In relation to the Christmas windows, I bet it will be a complete anti-climax now! It'll teach me to bang on about something for months, but at least there will be three rather than two to show.

Anyway, I think I owe you some decent blogging, including 6 mood boards (including this Mondays which after digging the drive I was a bit knackered to finish), some pictures from an artist I love and adore and more of my ramblings over a bunch of post I've yet to post. I'm even planning a series for over Christmas so I don't go abandoning the few of you who actually don't mind the nonsense I spout.

Which is lucky as I lost one of my very few followers today - so to those of you who stick around waiting for me to get your act together, I love and adore you and you are some of my favourite people.

Right, so today we shall be posting non-monday mood boards.

Loves! x
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