weekend starts with a trip to brighton

hey ladddddddddds ;)

yesterday, we had an amzing trip to brighton to see make 11, which is a craft fair. i loved it and all the work well so well made and original too. my favourite artists were lara sparks, betty pepper and ros lymer. here is lara sparks website and her little show at the exhibtion.

www.larasparks-embroidery.co.uk

so after having a lloving time looking around and wishing i had more money, we went shopping in brighton and also went to the beach which was very cold but a good day!

 pretty umbrella's outside a show...that'll be going in my sketchbook :)

ugly bird huh? lauren loved them and has about 100 photos of pidgeons!

 chocolate cake nomnom =this is my wedding cake :)

umbrella necklace, i wanted to buy this! but since i am poor i might laser cut and make my own

 more ugly birds ;)

 yes my amazing photograpghy skills of a abandoned boat

 me and jassie...jassie is the fat one btw

 sun set behind the burnt down pier

okay so this is really long post but last photos...these are my photoshop umbrella patterns..

this one is meant to be the other way round so you can read the writing! bumbershoot is american for umbrella

 LOTS OF LOVE
VIKIIIII XXX

BROLLYYYYYY

so i have been researching into umbrella's which is actually quite interesting, well, more interesting than wasps and spinning tops! i am just learning about the contruction of the umbrella and looking at the first brolly shop in london which looks sooo coooll and vintage, i wanna go to it :) its called James Smith & Sons and was opened in 1830.

next time i go to london i am getting a funky brolly from this shop :D

also whilst researching umbrellaaaaa's, i came across umbrella boutique which look very elegant and sophiscated, just like me NOT ;) but i like their wedding brolly's and i klike the background of their website. and suprise suprise they have a blog too, check it out the wedding photos are beautiful on here...

http://www.umbrellaboutique.co.uk/blog/

and last but not least...
AAAAAAHHHHH PORTFOLIO'S START IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS OH MY GOD!!! AND THEN UCAS APPLICATION AND I AM SO NOT READY FOR THIS!!!

oh AND actually last thing... this is nothing to do with art but i  am starting a new sprt today called vaulting which i am so excited about!! hopefully soon i will look like this...

 well thats the plan!

much love

viki xx

so lets get started

its come to that time at the end of the project like it always does where you are in a manic rush to finish everything. saturday morning, sitting on my bed with a laptop and sketchbook, still in my onsie, listening to jls, with the dog :) however i am looking forard to designing my umbrella! this spinning top project i seem to have done loaaads of photography, which ois fine as i really enjoy it, but my sketchbook seems to be full if pictures! Gayle keeps telling me she'll soon be ripping up my book for portfolio's, which even the thought of makes me feel sick, my work is not at a good eough standard yet. however i carry on powering on! 

here are some of my photoshop images from the joyful spinning tops..

 and i few of my fave unedited images..

<3