Isn’t this one of the most beautiful doors you’ve seen. This is why I love walking around the side streets of London. I am also pretty fond of buildings (i’m sure you can tell from my pictures).

finding old treasures

cleaning out harddisk..

stars, dust and rust.

very much should be catching some snoozies right now but here i am still pumped from an adequately salty bowl of kimchi fried rice and swedish pear cidar flicking through my old pictures.. this is a huge panel from a market stall at goldhawk road market. makes for interesting texturage so into the scrapbook ya go!

foooood glorious foood

there was a mini food market at covent garden today. my oh my the food. what really caught my eye was these maaahuusiiiive muffins.. ahh they look so perfect and cussiony soft. the second picture is just a nice packaging idea. a shame it was folded card though. anyways.. more research for food project!!

work hard.

my tutor suggested that I should make my merry way to tottenham court road to check out home furnishing stores for my latest project. absolutely knackered. my parents came to visit so they tagged along. didn’t find much inspiration but thankfully we did find these delicious om noms!

.. and its still going.

despite not sleeping well, it was a joy to not be woken up by lorries and people on their phones on their way to work. i remember saying as a passing thought, imagine.. if everyone in london, instead of wearing black wore white.. what a sight that would be, well lovely to see that the grey is now white. snow snow snow.  what a better time to lie to yourself and start playing christmas choons. London and very much of england has been hit with the worst (best!) snow in 20 years. most of london transport is down.. ALL buses are down. Although there are people are complaining, its a great time for london to slow down. it feels like a public holiday, for once london doesn’t have this relentless pace, its great to see people out and about just taking it easy and throwing snowballs. 

for all the years i have spent here in the UK (all 20 of them) I have always anticipated snow whenever it comes, hopeing that it falls by the truck load so that we’d be snowed in. the perfect excuse to stay at home. and finally after 20 years of waiting (although a bit late) i rejoiced at the msg on black board. UNI IS CLOSED!! whoohoo!! ive just returned home from sending the lovely jen home. unfortunately its a bit lonely and quiet here now, no one to share the snow with but its been a lovely few days, a break that i really really needed. 

off to toast my feet, catch up on sleep, clean house for parents arrival, defrost very smelly fridge (don’t know whats been in there), wash dishes, do clothes, write essay..  oh my..

yesterday is a backdoor excuse

 

read whatever you like into that.
preparing my portfolio.. spending hours looking through my badly organised folders each with a different piece of work from different projects in no logical order whatsoever...
came across these pics i took while stying with a friend.. a bit different from my usual i guess..
dont understand how wordpress formats text... sorry about the inconsistancy.

a few things from london

a few pictures i took before i left london.. i wandered around piccadily and leicester sq ..

.. sort of a funny poster… looks like the guy on the left is trying to kick a slightly giant sized coward running up a wall..

..yes children thats right!! soo many fluffies they’re falling out of the lorry mwahahahaha  pleasant dreams children…

just a few things before i dash off..

…chiswick

been cooking a lot lately.. a bit of russian beetroot soup and at the bottom some christmassy ginger and cranberry biccies… looks a bit like ice cream..

wondered around Angel with a friend.. we stumbled upon this lovely little shop.. nigerian fabrics made into waistcoats.. the textures are lovely and they sold strips of fabric too.. will definately be returning at somepoint..

even though im a bit strapped for cash couldn’t not buy this… its a cute little house thing.. with potpourri that no longer smells… a fiver from an antiqueshop.. just another novelty to add to my collections..

dan came to visit me. he brought me this .. a childrens book… ‘yeah.. i got you this because i knew you like korean things..’. the piggy illustrations are so cute…

seen two shows recently .. monkey and wicked.. monkey as amazing as it was was slightly dissappointing.. monke could have been so much more awesome and a much better fighter.. loved the back up fighters… lovely martial arts stuffs.. Wicked was amazing.. i love elphaba and kerry ellis completely stole the show.. amazing.

wip… a nice bargain i found today. the glass is cheap but the glass goes straight down rather than some weird bottle neck.. purrfect.. more to come on this..

just an advert that i thought was very clever.. its perhaps everything an advert is not supposed to be but it does the job and the writing is witty.. its a great series of ads!

this is so random.. in the sainsburies in Angel theres a slice it yourself bread machine.. nice! im going to go back and take it for a spin!

good morning south side

ahh what a weekend.. terribly knackered. went out this morning to bid shin bye byes.. and what a better time to catch the cold winter sky in the ideal place, canary wharf. The last five were from saturday .. just a few things that caught my eye.. the greenwich station looks very different.. would fit in hong kong perfectly.. anyways.. three sequential late nights and very little sleep has left my brain completely fried… otherwise i would be on ramble mode.. more pictures tomorrow that will conclude this crazy weeekend!!