Well!

I really am not so good at keeping up with this am I? I have (kind of) got yet another excuse; We have had loads of visitors so I have been kept busy seeing them, helping out in the kitchen, looking after small, over excited children etc etc. Also, my Dads other children stayed for a few nights and EVERYONE has wanted to use the computer. If wasn't dull though, and I have enjoyed seeing everybody again after what is literally years - in the case of my half-brother, about 10!

I suppose my other excuse is, as you can see, having re-done my blog. Yippee! I am very pleased, although there is too much pink. I have nothing against pink, but there is a little too much. The header still wont work though which is driving me nuts. If anyone can help please, please comment! I know nothing about HTML and stuff so am really stuck about what to do.

Ok, excuses aside, I shall begin today's blog.

One quick thing before I start my main drivel and you fall asleep. I have new nail varnish! It is called 'Coral Romance' and is a lovely dark coraly-red. It is nothing like the colour they have put on the website but I think is the one in the picture. I love it so incredibly much but my nails have all broken and I am mourning them, so it is not the time for bright colours.


I have been in a fit of 'creativity' recently, after rediscovering that I have a massive box of little bags of seed beads in many.many different colours. I then set to work finding all the wire, pliers, thread, elastic, other beadas and little metal finding that I had lying around. When I was a couple of years younger I bough a whole load of beads, some metal findings and nicked my mums pliers (they suffice) and made loads of jewellry. Mainly earrings for my mum and step-mum as I did not have pierced ears.

Then the workload (at school) started and I didn't have the time. Now, after re-finding them I have vowed to put some time aside to continue my jewellry making as I happen to be OK at it. I started by making about a thousand elasticated bead bracelets, a necklace for my mum and a charm bracelet for myself. I will post photos when I can. I didn't bring the stuff with me to my Dad's (where I am now) but Jan (my step mum) told me she had a whole load of 'supplies' she didn't want any more. I was estatic! I now have enough wire, headpins and earring hooks to last me well into the next century, providing I dont want more than one pair of earrings a day. Aaaanway, the long and long of it is I have spent a hunge amount of time looking stuff up on the internet and you should be facing incredible amounts of photos when I get back home to nick my mums camera.

Finally

This is a REAL post. I promise. Well, ish anyway.

First of all I am going to ramble on a bit about various new trends that I love. Then I shall squel excitedly about supposedly trivial things such as new nail polish etc.

There's this fierce, punky, black, grunge, leather thing going on all over the place which I really like. I loved the Roberto Cavalli a/w collection with all the different textures to stop the black being boring. First two photos; Roberto Cavalli a/w 09. Second two; Julien Macdonald a/w 09. I thought both were gorgeous and I want the whole lot.

Something else that seems to be an on-going thing across several shows was a kind of 80's thing but glammed up. So big shoulders with jewel colours and sequins teamed with structured and tailored items. And more black, but not so much of it. I, as ever, adore the Dolce and Gabbana ads in magazines. I think they are in fact works of art. But I think that this one, especially, is divine. Completely unwearable, but divine. Image; part of the D&G a/w 09 ad campaign.

Apologies

So sorry It has been two weeks! Right, I am going to make my excuses here. Week one: Computer got a virus (thanks very much, annoying brother) and we weren't allowed to use it. I rang up my dad, computer fixing man, and got instructions off him and managed to fix it on the morning I left so had no time to anything. Yes, I left. For Lyme Regis for a week. This meant I had, you guessed it, no computer access for yet another week as we could not find the internet cafe. Anyway, That is why I haven't posted for a week and I am sorry to say this isn't going to be a proper post either as I have a lot of sleep to catch up on and... more packing. But do not fear, I am going to my dads where he as an even faster internet connection so will post lots there.

Hugs,

Sylvie xx