Can't wait to finish this assignment!

As part of my graphic design course, I have to design a 6-page book which tells a story from my cultural heritage and includes a symbol of that culture throughout. I chose the Tragic Love Tale of Tristan and Iseult, a Cornish legend (Mom's sure I've got some Cornish in there...mixed with the Dutch, British, French Huguenot, Belgian..) and a Celtic loveknot as my symbol.

Here's a snippet of the watercolour page in progress. It shows Iseult reaching out to Tristan as she finds him washed up on shore after a shipwreck.

Random colour combo #1

I love the vintage, nautical feel of this pic.
Red bag, navy + white + gold rope Vinnies scarf, $7 canvas shoes.

Sigh

Would love to get married in the one on the right (Vera Wang)...

As much as I love gorgeous satin wedding dresses, I think I'm more of a 'flowy chiffon' kinda gal.
And I'm thinking an off-white with vintage-looking green will be perfect. Plus it's mine and Tom's favourite colours mixed together :)

Look what arrived today!

I always get so excited when my new scrapbooking supplies arrive from Scrapboxx. Can't wait to get stuck in this afternoon and finish off some layouts.

Tie dress

trashion: art, jewelry, fashion and objects for the home from used, thrown-out, found & repurposed elements

I found a link to this amazing dress + tutorials on the stitchlounge blog. So ornate looking, yet made from old ties and a crochet tablecloth! Wish my dad had lots of old ties...

Thursday Creative Challenge

Seeing as I have Thursdays off college, I'm thinking of using this time to do all those craft projects that are building up in my head.

I was hoping to do catch up on some scrapbooking today, but since my new supplies haven't arrived yet, I thought I'd do a quick trip round the garden and take some photos seeing as it's such a beautiful autumn day. As you can see, we don't have a very big/interesting garden...
















Tomatoes that Mom's growing. We had the first of the crop the other day and it was so much sweeter and richer than those from the supermarket

















This closeup of a fern leaf makes it look gorgeous, but in truth our tree ferns look scraggly and their spores get everywhere




















The gum tree I can hear swishing in the breeze outside the study (filtered with the Photocopy filter from Virtual Photographer)



































Camellias?

So I finally decided to create a blog...

Hi! I'm Meg and I finally decided to create my own blog after seeing so many other great ones out there. It seems like every day lately has started with going into my long list of bookmarked blogs and immersing myself in the images, articles and snippets of daily life.

So I decided I'd have a go at it and try to do at least one new post everyday. This will be a challenge as I'm one of those people who often don't finish what they start, but I'm hoping to break that habit now.

A bit about me...I'm 18 and a first-year graphic design student at Billy Blue College. It's been a lot of work so far, but I'm loving all the challenges they throw at us! I also do casual work 4 days a week as a kitchenhand at an aged care facility. At the moment I live with my parents and younger sister in Sydney, and love going up to Brisbane to visit my lovely boyfriend Tom. Yip, long distance relationship, but it's been 6 months and so far so good :) I love to scrapbook, buy craft supplies and clothes, sew a few recycled fashion pieces, eat great food, read interesting books and go out with the girls!

Feel free to leave comments and links to your own blogs so I can grow my ever-expanding list!

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