FINALLY OVER!

Yesterday was my last day at College! It was very short, involving me taking some photos and doing little finishing touches to my Exhibition space! I would like to apologise for the lack of posts recently, but now I am finished I have all the time in the world to blog! You won't be able to get rid of me! All I have got to do for College now is the fashion show next week :/ Quite scared at the thought of having to walk in my shoes :( I can't even get any practise in them as they are locked away at College in my exhibition space! Here is what has kept me so occupied over the past weeks...

My SHOES!!!!

Last Monday I also did a photo shoot with my collection. It was quite an interesting experience, involving lasers, UV lights and a smoke machine...

So that's it for the FMP! I have still got the sewing bug however and I've got a few dresses to make for myself, will keep you updated!

Hmmm apart from that I don't really know what to do with myself...? I am on my first free day and I feel a bit bored :P I really don't know how to relax!

hmmmm

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The blocks of wood are looking more like shoes!

So, you saw the other day what my carved wooden shoes were looking like!
 I took them into College with the hope of using a band saw to cut the foot shape out (basically let the machine do all the work for me)! I was told that the shoes were too high and the wood was too thick to cut on a machine D: So for most of this week I have been furiously sawing them by hand to get them looking more like shoes...

I have started to sand down the right one. That is why they look different...

I have been looking at United Nude's shoes for design inspiration...

Want these the most! Swap?

I am bricking it about wearing mine down the catwalk at our end of year fashion show! I have already fallen over EPICLY in them :/

Speaking of the fashion show, I have kinda shot-gunned this song for my 2 minutes (or so...?) of the fashion show...

I have only decided on 1 final design so far and I need 3 by Friday :/...

The above pictures are a mash-up of my 1st final design!

I want to cut the triangles out of mirrored acrylic. I worked out (by cutting out lots of card triangles) that I will need about 75 triangles to make the top! When I told the technician this....Well as you can imagine she was not happy, so I have got to re-size them so that I only need 40 max!

Card mock up...

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SHOES!

Here are the beginnings of my carved wood shoes...

They don't look much, but they will (hopefully) get better...

My block of wood (Oak)! This will be a pair of shoes soon...

My pair of shoes (sort of)...

This is as far as I have got today, so I still need to curve everything to make them not so blocky, and sand them down :/...And cut a lot off, as the width is about a 3rd more than it should be!

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FMP

This has been a trying week :( Anyway here is how my final major project is progressing...

Bad photo :( Sorry...

Embroidering and burning fabric...

Felting

The design for the shoes I want to carve...

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LONDON!

Had a really busy trip to London with some friends on Thursday :) Mainly for Final Major Project research! We visited 4 museums and then had 6 hours in Oxford street! Spent WAAAAY too much money but i'm trying to forget about that :/

First we went to the Huntarian museum to look at the pickled body parts! I didn't get any photos because we weren't allowed :( And i'm too much of a goody goody to break rules like that! :(

Then we went to the Natural History Museum....

I also took some bird photos for my friend who is studying birds for her FMP!...

...Then we went to the V&A for 5 minutes and walked straight out, because they have got rid of the fashion section !!!! Outrage!! So we went to the Science Museum, which had also got rid of the fashion technology section :O They had lots of space ships though...

I am also going to Intech (the science place) on Tuesday and to London again on Thursday to visit Cyberdog for some futuristic fashion inspiration  :P

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