Flux and Flow

Life has just been so hectic of late that blogging and updating has become secondary on my list of priorities to coursework. It is really at the centre of my life right now as I become fully immersed in my research and concept development and neglect leisurely activities, although house-keeping this blog is an important part of my design process and a way to express my methods and ideas.

Here's my week in images:

1. New favourite - such a delicate little gold horseshoe necklace.
2. New additions to this sunglass-mad person's collection!
3. Frequent inspiration visit in the rose garden.
4. Working diligently away like a little rabbit digging his hole!
5. Obsessed with gold items - two additions to my wardrobe - a gold Minkpink a-line skirt I picke dup at a local vintage shop and a Keepsake Trust in Me Lamé skater skirt from Birdcage Boutique , so beautiful, I don't much care if people stare at me like I am an alien on the street! Life is far too short to be modest always.
6. T2 was busy busy busy on Saturday, with their Happy Hour free gift promo! I bought my regular 8 pack mix of tea varieties and received this box of lovely Ruby Red Rosehip tea! It sounds delightful and I am excited to try it!

Here is also some of the concept work I've been working on for the Poster for Tomorrow competition, centered around the theme of "A Home for Everyone" and the British Journal of Aesthetics cover design, focused on Form & Function. I am playing around with ideas of refraction/reflection, light prisms and crystals/gemstones for the BJA and looking at using the less than < symbol are symbolism for the dehumanisation and caricature-representation of homeless people in the public domain.

To those reading this, I hope you have/had a lovely day. x

Inure

I'm just going to do a little quick update of my week as my weekly post, as I have been so under pressure this week and I'm in need of some time away from the computer to focus on reducing my stress and doing some more uni work, which is the most important thing to be right now. I'll be back sometime this week to post some more, though!

Here's my week in images:

1. I am an avid collector of flower hairclips and crowns, I just love them so much.
2.Two new basic shirts from Princess Polly, the white one is by Finders Keepers and the black is Minkpink, the white one I almost happened to ruin in the wash (silly me!) with the classic case of red mixing with white! Luckily, I managed to revive it to it's original white colour from the patchy pink it was - thank-you RIT Dye Remover, you are a godsend!
3. Finding flowers to make studies of at the Botanic Gardens.
4. A few more additions to my accessories collection (it is quite extensive) - I am quite fond of delicate, simple and little jewelry these days, it seems.
5. Random fun at the supermarket whilst doing the weekly food shopping with my sister - these scrubbing brushes resembled us so we thought we'd take a photo of them.
6. Reading back issues of Lula whenever I have the chance!

Oh, and here is a new mix I made based off of my favourite film, Picnic at Hanging Rock. I just love it so much, I can't even explain why or describe it - I think it might be due to its pacing and the way the shots are set, they are just really dreamy, hazy, slow and almost lazy, much like the feelings of summer.

Insouciance in a Bucolic Setting from bambisvalentine on 8tracks Radio.

Flowery Language

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Flowery. Address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language , fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity.
Flowery - flow·er·y (flou-r)
adj. flow·er·i·er, flow·er·i·est
1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of flowers: a flowery perfume.
2. Abounding in or covered with flowers.
3. Full of ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished: a flowery speech.
4. abounding in flowers
5. decorated with flowers or floral patterns
6. like or suggestive of flowers a flowery scent
7. (Literature / Rhetoric) (of language or style) elaborate; ornate
flower·i·ness n.
[ˈflaʊərɪ]

I am a habitual user of flowery language, I just can't help it. I adore the English language in all its complexities and finesse, like an intricately woven silk fabric that gleams white gold in the brightest rays of sunlight. I love flowers too, every single type of flower is beautiful in its way and I love visiting Botanic Gardens just to see the vast array of flower species that inhabit the terrain. Something I'd like to start is flower pressing, because I think the permanence of the flower as retained in a book or in a special album is much like creating a tactile memory that encompasses different senses, particularly scent.

English has evolved and reemerged as a new and improved butterfly of expression, speech, writing and thought throughout the history of its existence; each new century words are added and changed, continuing the metamorphosis of the language as a whole into a complex and overbearing conglomeration of letters.

Reading and writing letters is a lovely past-time, which I also wish to take up again. I once regularly kept correspondence with childhood friends when I had moved interstate. It was a wonderful and exciting feeling that gives you butterflies when you hear a letter has arrived in the mailbox for you. I quite miss that feeling. I might even consider taking up pen pals, as this is something I've been thinking of trying when I was younger too, but never quite got around to doing anything about it. Even if there are mistakes in the letter writing or it is messy, blotchy and hurried in some areas, I think this adds to the charm and thought put into the letter; the person has considered how they fill the page with the particular words they choose to group together, the heady scent of the ink can still be smelled on the paper from the writing and the paper may smell of a specific scent that is used to associate with that person - it's so personal. There's something just so tactile and evocative about reading letters - the pen used, the paper and envelopes written on and sealed carefully and well as the stamps chosen - there's obviously a great deal more love and effort put into them, which is why I really miss this old fashioned way of communication in the 21st century (however, I cannot deny my love of the digital age and everything it has offered me, either).

When I think of words, I never really consider them as just random letters organised in such a fashion that create something with meaning. When I peruse the Oxford Dictionary for a particular English word, I sometimes like to imagine the words as part of a giant alphabet soup and I am fishing for the right combination of letters as I flick through the pages, looking for each corresponding letter in the word as each letter follows the last. Sometimes I just enjoy throwing the book gently into the air and seeing which page it lands on, whereupon I read through the various meanings and pronunciations of each word on that spread page. I love reading, I love writing, I love letters, I love thesauruses and dictionaries and I love words. I love the English language.

1. Feeling nostalgic over looking through childhood photographs of myself. I had style!
2. A self portrait, for my future website which I am in the process of building.
3. Summer fruits combined with Greek yogurt and natural organic honey make for a nice dinner. Fruit salad, yummy yummy!
4. Drawing lovely looking male models with perfect hair and perfect clothing. I wish all boys dressed lovely like this regularly, instead of in jeans hanging off their posteriors.
5. Beautiful, beautiful wedges I purchased online for only $30 + free shipping! They sparkle like golden fragments of citrine gemstones in the bright light and feel like I am walking on light fluffy marshmallows.
6. A lovely little visitor happened upon my doorstep in his mother's cozy pouch - a little joey kangaroo.

Also, here is another playlist for you all to enjoy while you day-dream, drink cups of tea, study or eat cake. It is focused on the beauty of the English countryside and being an anglophile. There are many instrumental pieces from period films which I just adore the scores of. ♡

Anglophilic Tendencies from bambisvalentine on 8tracks Radio.

Until next post my lovelies,

Unfinished Sketches

Just a quick update of what I'm working on at the moment.

❀ Wedding from the 60's/70's, Unknown ❀

❀ Virgina Woolf ❀

❀ Karen Elson ❀

❀ Lana Del Rey ❀

❀ Self-Portrait ❀

❀ Jane Birkin ❀



And here's another playlist for you, I'm so into making super long playlists at the moment, I think I need to try and curb my addiction because it's so time-consuming! I've been listening to a lot of period film soundtracks lately and that's really helping me to get inspired and do things. I'm also in the process of trying to teach myself my heritage language, Ukrainian! So far, I'm not doing so poorly but I only know the basics really, such as yes and okay. I am learning through audio tapes as well as dictionaries and the alphabetical pronunciation lists, so hopefully I can one day speak the language fluently. x

❀ ✿ ❁ ✾ ✽ ❃ ❋ (for Beatrix Potter) from bambisvalentine on 8tracks Radio.