Dreamy as Puberty

yummy hats and fascinators on women at the recent Royal Ascot 09.

this black crochet lace hat won at the inaugural ‘Who Wants To Be A Millin-aire.’ Roman is a professional milliner from London.

there’s just nothing you cannot put on a hat

I’d love to do something like this, Karl Lagerfeld designed ballet costumes for the English National Ballet’s tribute season to the legendary French ballet company the Ballets Russes. (L-R: Dying Swan costume, ballet dancer Elena in Chanel haute couture seen in Harper’s Bazaar June issue.)

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pretty although the feathers around the neck is a bit awkward and i don’t LOVE how the bodice makes her look thick and ungraceful.

The Guardian’s Judith Mackrell called the tutu “the one fake note” of the opening night. It was, she said, “conceived with cavalier disregard for the ballerina’s working body – the line of the neck broken by an egregious, fluffy ruff, the waistline broken by a too-high skirt.

I agree….

local divers dressed as mermaids in a tank at the Manila Ocean Park

The first perfume by Van Cleef & Arpels, Feerie. How dreamy is this bottle, with the fairy on a twig. It smells wonderful, too. If I were to be a perfume, this scent would come nearest. I heard the first whif was a bit too sweet for some, but I love it like it is, it gives way to a more woody smell after a while and the trail is just pure fantasy.. The real bottle doesn’t look as good as I expected it to be though, the metal-looking twig is just plastic. But I got to take home a tester and a discount card for it at the Fabric anniversay, and speaking of which, the entry and photos for that will come soon.. Just collecting the good pictures! =)

Never stop dreaming…

Arabesque en Pointe

So we all got our sculptures back today. Some of them came back broken or off their cracked bases. They had to be tested for durability I think.. Mine was okay. But Ms. Tabo asked me to take it home so I can make it a bit less wobbly.. I think it’s gna be included in the exhibit.. lol. We had the midterms today for Design Fundamentals.. And despite the generally crappy day that this is, I feel good about that exam. I’m not gna get the perfect score, because I left this one number blank, which is pretty daft of me because what I hesitated to write there turned out to be correct when I checked after the exam. I’ll probably get 1or 2 mistakes.

Sitting with Pervs

So I was at the library *trying* to read Belinda by Anne Rice since my next class starts in 30 more mins and I was really tired. People started sitting at my table one by one.. People from some of my classes and people I know around school.. It got a bit noisy but I didn’t mind that much.. Then I caught one guy saying he likes squishing (take note: squishing) big butts. And we were like, “Dude you’ll never get a girlfriend if you keep talking like that.” And he was like, “Yeah well Im sorry I’m just deprived.” We can see why. Then the same guy switched topics and started talking about his friend who draws himself masturbating and I was like, that is so ugh and so wrong. Lol. I had to leave.. Lol.

Oh and I’m almost done with my wire sculpture… yippee.. Pctures down there.. It’s all bronze wires. I used just that and crafting pliers and my hands.. Hee. It’s still a bit wobbly.. i have to strengthen the leg.. and I have to make her a tutu.. A tutu is that frilly skirt ballerinas wear.. made of tulle usually. So how does it lok? SHould it stay that way or should I spray aint it with something? Like white? or black? what?


And this is what I’ve done to some of the leftover bronze wires.. a weird ring.. thing.. Lol. Im trying to make earrings that match and maybe a bracelet too.. hee. There’s some more wire leftover. I used up almost the whole roll.. a roll is around 1 kilo. Lol. That’s why I’m having a hard time making it stand on that one leg alone.. It’s really heavy… Anyway..

Really sleepy so… Oh, I’ll fix the link part of this journal tomorrow morning.. to whom it may concern.. thanks guys.

Darn Wire Sculpture

It’s for my Design Fundamentals class.. So I made these two study sketches of what I’d like to make a wire sculpture on and the prof got to approve one of them, she of course chose the harder one. It looked so simple to me so I was like all right, lets see what happens.

So the approved one has the signature.. Excuse the drawings: we were only given 10 minutes to think of two ideas AND sketch them, too. And I already got a roll of gague 24 brass wire.. And started on it (of which picture I will not show) And it’s difficult.. Lol. It won’t stand. I did it wrong.. I twisted the wires so much, it’s acting like a big spring: all wobbly and not stiff at all.

I’m gna try fixing it or I’ll have to make an entirely new one.. Who would’ve thought it’s so complicated? Lol.. I certainly didnt.

Oh yeah.. There’s something unbelievable but incredibly true that happened yesterday when we got our Business Maths’ pre-midterm exams back: I. Got. The. Perfect. Score. Lol.. 100 items out of 100. Can you believe it? I can’t believe it.. I mean hello, it’s Maths..

I wna watch Lady In the Water.. But the trailer sorta creeped out my Aunt so I might not watch it with her.. Lol. I’ll look for someone to drag with me..

Yesterday afternoon I was left at the shop all alone with this couple and they started asking me questions in Visayan (a dialect here) and for a moment there, I just stood and stared at them.. Lol. But I was really thinking fast and quick, aqbout how I was gna tell them I don’t know the prices without offending them and trying to decide which language to use: Tagalog or English since I can’t speak Visayan at all. And so I finally vomited the words.. in English and they got flustered for a bit, too.. Lol. So I ran outside to the other office to get Jopie, one of the girls at the store who was making a draft for the invitations the couple was ordering and sorta made her panic. And then the phone rang. So I had to answer that, too. And thank goodness I could catch some words from the called like “time” “store” “opens” so.. I told her when the store opens tomorrow (it’s the same every day anyway and Thank God for “tag-lish” or “bisaya-lish”?). And that was over.. And then the phone rang again. And I could NOT understand at all what the person was saying so I asked her to speak either in Tagalog or English.. Lol. I seriously hate it when the phone rings and it’s just me there.. My heart literally jumps because I just know I wouldn’t understand the caller.

I just read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It’s a surprising book. It’s a story being told by a girl who was murdered when she was 14 and she tells it in her heaven. In that book, each of us has a different kind of heaven after life, depending on our desires. It’s just really well written. I especially loved how it starts:

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Suzie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.

I gobbled it up. I’m a sucker for really good books. And magazines. Speaking of which, Mega’s late…