Retro Summer Dress

I had some spare time over the past two days, so I decided to make a dress from a vintage pattern I have, Simplicity 3769. I used some lovely hawaiian - palm tree print poplin and made the sash of a plain drill. I wanted a light, simple summer dress, and also to see if the pattern worked to use for a more expensive project later in the year. This is how it turned out!


The pattern - Mine was a size 14, Bust 34.





I'm really pleased with it! :) And check out my funky retro hairstyle. Pretty nifty for something i did in ten minutes! ;D

Love Hat

Today I was inspired by Audrey Kitching's post here http://audrey.buzznet.com/user/journal/6674161/diy-topshop-heart-hat/
Making a Valentines themed fascinator / hat.
Here's a photo of mine!



I think it would be fun to make lots of different ones in different colours and shapes. :)

Out in Perth

Satan's Advocate, Maggie Snatcher and I (Trans Em) did an interview about Perth Roller Derby with Amy from Out in Perth which hits stands today! So, if you're around and you see one, grab it, and check us out. Here's some sexy pics of us to get you inspired to skate!
for more info head to www.perthrollerderby.com.au or email enquiries@perthrollerderby.com.au

I'm Alive!

So I'm back from work experience, and it was great, and freezing and snowing! Such a novelty for me.
I've been feeling very creative and inspired recently and so I've made a few things including a silver dress and a Indian headress (Inspired by Audrey Kitching). So far I only have a decent photo of the headdress, but I'm wearing the silver dress this weekend so I should get a sweet photo of that for you soon! Anyways, headdress. Love it or Hate it? I love it, but my friends yesterday thought it was lame. What do you think?

Yummy Marshmellows!!! :P

Leaving the Country!

Tomorrow I bail on you all and run off for funtimes and work exoperience in the land of freezing - also known as Dublin and London. I'll try to be blogging as much as possible about my trip but I'll probably be busy and not have enough money to buy internet. I feel really silly for only getting 20Euro a day to survive on, but mum and dad were really angry that I wanted more and that the exchange rate was shitty (.58) so I guess I'll be starving myself to try and get internet! I'll hopefully at least have photos up on a flickr account which I'll link to here.

Hope to be talking to you soon!

Emma

Website of Win

This weeks website of win is

Very Demotivational

. We all know what demotivational posters are: Humerous offtakes of those sill motivational posters that hang around work and school. Usuall sayign something like "Hang in there!" With an adorable picture of a kitten. Well these are just damn funny. Check it out. Its pretty new, so theres only two pages worth but OH! It will get big very very fast I think. I've selected a few of my favourites, for your viewing pleasure.

My thoughts on Twilight.

Okay, so I've been avoiding watching Twilight for a while. Since the whole thing started, really. Mainly because I am NOT a big fan of Robert Patternson or Fake Accents, both of which feature quite a lot in this film. But with New Moon coming out, and everyone going nuts, I thought, maybe I'm being a wanker, and a Anne Rice purist, and maybe I should give it a go. So I did.

First of all, the damn film makes no sence. If I was a girl at high school and some weird guy had eyes that changed colour and he covered his nose because I stunk so bad, and then tried to change out of that class, I wouldn't be in love with him. I wouldn't even talk to him. If he then saved my life by being super human, I would want to get as far away from freak boy as possible. But stupid Bella is a dumbass. Anyways, apart from the whole film, these are a few things I found stupid:
- Vampires sparkling. I mean, he's meant to be a demon killing machine, not a dancer in the pride parade.
- Captain obvious "I'm a warewolf". Anyone with half a brain could see it. Suspence fail.
- The vampires go to school. I don't know about you, but if I was a vampire, I wouldn't put up with that shit. Okay, so they justify it by saying "the younger we are when we start, the longer we can stay in one place." Cool, fine, whatever, why dont you just all go and live in the mountains or some crap? You don't eat people anyways. ALSO. If the smell of blood throws vampires into some crazy frenzy, how do you think they manage with so many teenage girls? Seriously. How could they even go anywhere in any sort of crowd? GAH
- The blonde vampire was a terrible actor, and a terrible character.
- Why didn't Bella just buy the stupid book off Amazon.com? it was right there! Idiot.
- Climbing trees and running fast = as bad as Crouching Tiger. But less funny, because the filmmakers obviously thought it looked great. Spend less money on getting a British guy to sound American, just get a goddamn American (Zac Efron or some other crap "teenage heartthrob".) And spend your money on making shit look good damnit!

Okay, just to clarify, I'm not being mean because its different from Anne Rice. I liked Underworld, Hellsing and even Blade. I dont like this because it's made for 12 year olds (and sad middle aged people like this woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFG9lXc2upQ). Sure, I would have loved this book if I was 13. But I'm not quite sure why (or how) people my age can like this sorry piece of trash. Seriously.

In short: Twilight? More like Twi-LAME