Assessment Funk.

Had my assessment today; It went okay. My model was brilliant. The tutors told me things that I already knew. Here's a little taste of what I've done:




The feedback was constructive and quite helpful, but I still managed to come out of it feeling strangely dejected. Ah well, there's no time to let my moods slow me down. After I had my presentation, I modeled for Cassidy and then ran off to the library to find out some more things to inform my final collection.

There are elements that I'd quite like to keep from this little collection and there are things I'd like to add as well. I think I'll go down a more deconstructed path where my fabrics look more worn down and lived in, I think.

Here be some cool things I've been looking up today!

Some sexy post-apocalyptic stuff by graduate Jessica Darwin.

Banging shoes from McQueen from last season. Love the heel.

Mother of London. Now those designs are sick. (good sick, not bad sick o'course)

Going down the apocalyptic root. Totally. Should be fun, yeah?

Whoa-hoooa. A Month down the line

See how easy it is to get swamped with work and life? SEE?! Absolutely swamped and quite drained and all we had to do was one outfit. One. Just one stupid outfit. It really puts everything into perspective when you get your new brief for the real thing.

Life's been like a whirlwind of crap lately. We had terrible news last week about one of our coursemates causing our assessment to be postponed and a serious funk went around uni. No one went in really and when they did, the mood was off. Just nuts really...but I managed to have Thanksgiving to kind of cheer the mood up a bit. I cooked and cooked and I managed to feed a good bunch of people. They seemed to enjoy it as well so that was brilliant. Should have dinner parties more often. I had another Thanksgiving as well on Saturday which was even more of a success because I fed even more people and made a good chunk of money (which I won't be able to use because away it goes to rent...)

Anyhoozle, it's been difficult getting back into the swing of things. I keep wishing for snow because I got my first taste of first snowfall of the season on Saturday. Stacey and I were properly excited and kept staring out the window going "It's snowing! .....It's still snowing! ....It's snowing more! ....It stopped >:( " It snowed this morning too. It was so exciting!!

Ahem, now back to this whole fashiony side of my life again. I finished my jacket and annihilated my trousers, but together it looks quite nice. I managed to fit the outfit to my good buddy Horigan and it looked quite nice to be honest. Toile that is...I haven't had a chance to try the final thing on him yet, and I wont find out until tomorrow as well. I don't know if he can make it in time or if it will snow even. Please please snow! I'm ready for this assessment but at the same time I just want it to be over and done with. Totally tired of seeing everything I've worked on in the past 2 months. Lame.

Now to consume some more mulled wine and sort out the research for my final collection. At the minute Stacey, Slawa and I are sorting out a critical path so there is no way any of us will fall behind over the next few months. I will be so organized that it will hurt me. Promise.

RIP Melissa Smith. Love and miss you, girl. This year's for you!