Art Assignment - My Parody of The Persistence of Memory

Hi guys,

So not yesterday but the Sunday before I started the practical part of my art assigment. Which was to take a surrrealist painting and change it. So I took The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali and changed it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here it is:

At first I got the idea from the stopwatch with the ants on it. I thought, ants, ants eat food, food, it look like pizza. Then I looked at the rest of the stopwatches, and I thought they kind of looked like those soggy cheesy pizzas you see on TV. So I decided to just make all of the stopwatches pizzas. When I looked at the that white, drapey thing, for some reason I just thought it looked like the shape of a couch. Well, the top bit anyway. So yeah that was pretty much my inspiration. I tried to make the box thing in the corner look more like my desk, so I added a notepad and I changed the tree into those little wooden mannequin things. I'm glad I could finally use my pastels that I got for my birthday a while ago. Although I have no doubt someone has already thought of this kind of appropriation, I'm still proud of my work and I hope I've done as well in the theory part! :/

Development Stages...

The End Result

Well I hope you like that, sorry if the images take a really long time to load ;D If the fonts on the blog don't load properly just refresh the page and it should fix itself up. I need to start doing less posts with photos in it I think :)
Also, I'm sorry there hasn't been any fashion sketches for weeks, I'm not sure whether to keep going with that or not. I do want to but as you know recently i just haven't had time but I might start it back up again next week but I don't want to get your hopes up just in case nothing happens.

Jody

Day 7 of WIHS!

Hi guys!

So today was the last day of WIHS. With my dad's donation of $20 which I'll have to put on tomorrow, I will have raised $1000!!! I also have done a total of 76,957 steps! You can still donate up to the 30th of April so that's good otherwise I would've had to put on my dad's $20 tonight and that was just not going to work out.

Today I did 10,485 steps. I planned on doing extra but by the afternoon I got lazy (I'm ashamed to say) and so finished off my last steps at about 8:30pm by walking around the courtyard and the park...

Jody

CARE WIHS Day 5 and 6

Here are the photos from yesterday and today. Yesterday I did 10,352 steps and today I did 10,388. This morning my pedometer wasn't working and it was only registering about half of the steps I took. By the afternoon it had fixed itself up again but i hope it doesn't stuff up again!

Day 5

Fungi

Suzie will always help me get my ten thousand steps!

Day 6

We went to Spotlight at Birkenhead point today because I needed to get pattern and fabric for Textiles. So anyway, we passed Cotton On and these were having a Nothing Over $10 sale so we went in and I ended up getting these comfortable, comfy pants!

I am loving Instagram's new contrast button, it give a great effect!

So tomorrow is the last day from Walk In Her Shoes and I'm going to try and do extra for it! Also, so far I've raised $969!!
Be awesome, and I'll try and fit in another post soon. Most of the assignments are done I've just one more to do and quite a bit of homework. More good news, my aunt's workshop will be going ahead! So hooray! It's next Saturday at the Botanic gardens so it should be a good day! Also, I can't wait for the Easter show this year! I'm going with my cousins this year (as I have been for several years) and I've set myself the challenge of going on every ride my cousin does, so I really hope she doesn't choose anything too bad!

Until next time,

Jody

CARE WIHS Day 3 and 4

Sorry guys but I really am super busy. I didn't have time to write yesterday so here's pics from yesterday and today of my Walk In Her Shoes progress.

Day Three: 12,839 steps

 Day Four: 10,400 steps.

I'll do some more posts when I'm not so busy, but for now, that's all.

Jody

WIHS Day 2

Hi guys!

Today was the second day of Walk In Her Shoes. Arrrggghhh! So much to do this week! So many assignments due and then WIHS on top of that. Oh well, I'll just have to work productively and time manage (like that has ever happened).

Today was tricky because I had school sport for half the day and for sport I do ice-skating. So after ice-skating I had to walk around and around and up and down the shopping center until I got to about 7337 steps. Unfortunately, the more time I spend in and around shops the more likely I am to buy things. After having a good sniff around The Body Shop I got these two soaps; Brazil nut and Coconut, mmmmmm.... So yeah that happened...

Anyway after dinner I went for a walk with my dad and got up to 12,325 steps! Hooray!
So yeah guys don't forget you can still sponsor me and you can follow me on Twitter for updates but hopefully you will get daily updates this week right here.

Hope you are all reaching your goal today!

Jody

Walk In Her Shoes has begun!

Oh my goodness, two weeks without fashion designs, it's atrocious I know. But I've been really busy lately as I've had so many assignments and assessments coming up. I still have lots to do. On top of that there's still the regular homework I have to do every week. So anyway, it's been a rough couple of weeks. If you follow me on twitter I will be posting regular photos this week; tracking my WIHS progress :) and I will probably be posting it here too.

So today was the first day, it's not too late to sponsor me by the way if you haven't already! Just click here and follow the steps to helping women and girls in developing countries live a fuller life!

Today my shoulders were killing me because for the past few weeks I've been carrying so much weight on my shoulders and putting so much staring on them that now I can't even touch one of my shoulders without it hurting. I tried putting as little as I could in my bag so that I wouldn't be carrying so much weight walking around. Anyway I made it through the day and after some pacing on the balcony I made it to ten thousand steps. I did some more afterwards so in the end the total was 11,410 steps, which, according to CARE's 'step to km converter' is 8.69km.

So yeah, wish me luck! I hope you all have a wonderful week hopefully you don't have masses of school work to do like me and hopefully you aren't spending your time writing blog posts and doing other non productive stuff when you should be doing something school/work related like me!

Jody

Kikki K

I've just started discovering the beauty of Kikki K. I've always known it's expensive, so I've never really bothered to look around at what was in there. But I went in today and they had some pretty cute things. In fact I even bought something for my cousin. Anyway when I got home I looked up the website. And now it's getting ridiculous. If only you could see the number of tabs open at the moment.

First of all I bought my cousin this sweet little iPad Mini cover.

Front

Back

It has two little pockets designed for pens and things

I really like it and so I'm hoping my cousin will too! In fact I want for my iPad too! Here are some of the other things I loved the look of from the Kikki K website

One thing I love is there cute little stickers. How sweet are these sticker and gift tag kits with those adorable and beautiful designs.

Gel Stickers 2pk: Sweet

Above: DIY Sticker Book: Dreaming. Below: DIY Sticker Book: Under The Sea and Sticker Sheet 2pk: Under The Sea

DIY Sticker Book: Uppsala and Gel Sticker 2pk: Uppsala

I just love 'em all!
Two last things I want to show you.

1. These sweet little magnetic bookmarks in their new Under The Sea range.

2. This 'My Organiser' which I want the minute I move into a new life. So someone, please give me this as a new home present ;) That's a while off though.

Still Kikki K is so expensive so I'm only going there for gifts :)

Jody

Coolest Short Hairstyles

This the second post I've done on short hairstyles. Like the last post, this is a collection of images I have collected from Tumblr and Pinterest. Oh and one of them is from the Cotton On website. Enjoy!

I do not own these images

Jody

Red Carpet Highlights

Hey guys,
So yesterday I said I'd give you some of the Red Carpet highlights, even though it may be pointless now I'd just like to share anyway. Last night the internet was bursting with images, captions, photobombing, gifs and pizza celebrating the 86th Academy Awards. '12 Years A Slave' won for best film, Cate Blanchett won Best Leading Actress for her role in 'Blue Jasmine', Mathew McConaughey won Best Leading Actor for 'Dallas Buyers Club', Lupita Nyong'o won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in '12 Years A Slave' and Jared Leto won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for 'Dallas Buyers Club'. 'Gravity' won for Best Cinematography and Best Directing, 'Great Gatsby' won for Best Costume Design and of course, 'Frozen' won for Best Animated Feature (like nobody saw that coming *rolls eyes*). The only movie I have seen out of all of those is Frozen and although it wasn't bad, I definitely don't think it deserved to win an Oscar.

Last night Tumblr was filled with stunning images and hilarious gifs of Emma Watson, Amy Adams and Lupita Nyong'o all looking fantastic, Benedict Cumberpatch getting a little too excited and photo-bombing every photo possible, Ellen ordering pizzas, Brad Pitt handing out plates, Jennifer Lawrence yet again tripping, Leonardo DiCaprio breaking into tears and John Travolta's inability to pronounce names- it sounded like quite a night!

One of the stars of the show was Lupita Nyong'o looking charming and beautiful in that dress. She looks like a princess, literally, I can't stop thinking of the Princess and the Frog. I don't mean for that to be offensive of course she looks lovely. And the way the dress moves is just so nice. Everyone was so happy to hear that she won and they all adored her speech, even Benedict Cumberpatch cried.

Although I just love Lupita Nyong'o swishy blue dress, I have to say, Amy Adams scored a win with her elegant dark blue that just fits to her body beautifully. I can't say she could've done better because it was spot on. The hip flaps are a little strange but the lines of this dress are what make it perfect.

Penelope Cruz actually looked decent in comparison to the last time I saw a photo of her in a shocking dress at the opening night of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The colours go well on her the Giambattista Valli gown is elegant and swishy without being too ordinary or too outrageous. I do love her, she's a beautiful woman, and last night with her hair in a bun and those Chopard jewels she really looked beautiful.

For once I actually liked Anne Hathaway's hair. Ever since she got that pixie cut I thought it didn't really suit her and it looked strange. but it's grown out a bit and I like it. I also like the metallic-embellished black Gucci gown she wore. Although this isn't perfect, it's not bad and the shape and colours suit her well. I'm just not sure about the bodice part. But otherwise, the dress suits her well and it makes a statement but isn't too showy.

Emma Watson was one of my favourites. I think she ties with Amy Adams, but just look at how stunning she looks in that dress! And the lipstick was perfect too. I like the flowyness of the dress and how it makes her look taller. And my gosh she's not a little girl anymore! I haven't seen her in a while but she's almost a full adult now! Maybe not quite, she's still a young-un in my heart.

And last of all, I thought Jennifer Garner looked quite pretty in that sparkly, tinsel-y dress. Not my absolute favourites, but still quite pretty for quite a boring colour. It wasn't quite nude which was good because I don't like nudes. They're kind of boring and just kind of blend in.

Images from oscars.go.com/red-carpet and dailymail.co.uk

What were your favourite things about this year's Oscars? Was it the host? The outfits? The winners? Or the hilarious captions that came afterwards? :)

Jody